SimplyAJ

SimplyAJ

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Lover of Video Games Old & New Lead QA @ysbryd.net [Demonschool, Love Eternal, WORLD OF HORROR] 🔴 YouTube Partner 🎮 Game Dev 📷 Photography YOUTUBE: youtube.com/SimplyAJ EMAIL: SimplyAJOfficial@gmail.com

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In 1968, Funyuns (short for FUCKING ONIONS) were invented when a factory worker accidentally added onion powder to puffed corn rings instead of cheese powder and screamed “FUCKING ONIONS!!!!”

I dunno.......

Lucy@lucyxiv.boontavista.com

I feel so out of touch with my fellow woman. nathan fielder is not fuckable. that guy is not hitting it crazy style

Alright. I 100% Belmont's Curse, and I have so many thoughts. Script writing will begin soon followed by a video on it. It was certainly a game that exists.

Do you think crime would go down if part of the sentencing was that Nathan Fielder had to come live in your house for your last 30 days of freedom and record everything?

The lack of polish in this game is... really unfortunate. THE staircase and this weird camera glitch ruins it. (Also the music tends to skip every other loading zone?)

Hey, maybe... don't do this? You represent the entire dev team, yet you treat your marketing emails like an unpopular forum post.

We went and saw this at 10:20 PM on a Sunday and there were still people reacting outloud in the theatre. Absolutely wild experience.

Sam.J@samwithoutaplan.bsky.social

Watched You Can See Everything last night and I have no one to talk to about this! Layers upon layers upon layers in this film.

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Sigmadan II Source: Akmodan II Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1) by Konami #SigmaPosting #Castlevania #SigOrTreat #SymphonyOfTheNight #SotN #PlayStation

23 items just cost us $354 at costco. Meat, Papertowels and Toiletpaper alone was $90. Yeah, the economy is doing awesome.

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The best part of marriage so far? Being free of never ending wedding content on the feed and their obsession with playing the same Lana Del Rey song.

Belmont's Curse commits one of the biggest "Metroidvania Faux Pas," not a single rewarding sequence break. Lure a bat into an alcove you need double jump for, whip up to it, enter a room with enemies that one shot you. Kill them after many tries. Reward? A chest you can't reach without double jump.

I've found a LOT of areas where the game expects a double jump, and immediately after figuring out a way to get past it, you're reward is an immediate roadblock anyway. Also all of these rooms are just treasure rooms anyway, so.... who cares? Let me get my reward for figuring out a new method!

Major gripe in Belmont's Curse: Every weapon automatically moves you forward by a LOT when you attack. Keeping / judging distance is key in a game like this. Hell, the WHIP WEAPON says "does more damage at the tip pf the whip" which is cool, except Rose takes a huge leap forward EVERY SWING.

I can't wait to make a video on Belmont's Curse. I have just so many thoughts that I need to get out.

More quick Belmont's Curse thoughts: Every area so far has the exact. Same. Enemies. Hope you love archers & skeletons, cause thats all you'll see apparently? The melodrama is hella cringey. None of these characters are FUN and there is just so much talking. So far, maps are pretty linear.

So, just to not sound like I'm endlessly bitching, I AM having fun with Belmont's Curse. I just have a lot of thoughts. It just has... so many oddities and weird design choices. I'm going to give it an honest review regardless, even if it definitely doesnt FEEL very Castlevania. Like.. at all.

Why is there like... a 3 frame startup window when you toss the cross boomerang? Doesnt feel very good to throw.

Framerate in Belmont's Curse is atrocious. I'm not normally one to bemoan framerates, but this is truly uniquely weird: Game is 60 FPS, but swinging objects are at 30? Its SUPER jarring and really noticeable. Also every cutscene randomly drops to like 30? Just pick one, 60 or 30. Both is bad.

Early thoughts of Castlevania so far: Controls definitely feel sluggish. It's hard to explain, just a weird delay or extras unneeded frames of animation? WAY too many sparkle and explosion effects on screen at any given moment. Every attack by you or an enemy glows and pulses. It's just too much.

Being a Millennial means always seeing this guy as a Homestar Runner character with a huge jaw/chin

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📢ANNOUNCEMENT TIME📢 Excited to share @sarahhana.bsky.social and I are launching JOYOUS NODE - an advisory helping indie devs market and self-publish their own games. We care deeply about the dev community, and want more studios to have the confidence to succeed on their own terms. joyousnode.com

Steamdeck, Lenovo Legion X, ROG Ally, AYN Thor, Anbernic... All you fools debating over the best handheld gaming device, when the answer was already presented to us decades ago:

Man. Castlevania Dracula X is like my holy grail game to find, and everytime I see it in the wild they're asking like $1500+ Portland Retro Game Expo is fun, but also extremely aggravating when you see what these vendors are charging now a days.

Whenever I replay MGS4 Piss brown fog everywhere: "This game sucks" Actual gameplay: "This game rules" 80% of the story + Constant character assassination: "This game sucks" Every Action Cutscene: "This game rules" BNB Corps: "This game sucks" Ocelot Fight + Graveyard Scene: "This game rules"

Not sure what it was, but got a huge boost in motivation earlier. Managed to write a script yesterday, then setup and record the entire thing tonight. Normally takes multiple hours, knocked it out in 53 minutes. Would love to be able to do that multiple times a week, or hell, once a week even.

I'll be at PRGE tomorrow, so if you see me roamin' around, feel free to say hey!

RetroGamingExpo.com@retrogamingexpo.bsky.social

261... and counting! Probably will add a few more this morning! Our massive FREEPLAY arcade opens today, Friday at noon! tinyurl.com/3a5hdpw4 #prge #prge2026 #retrogaming #arcade #pinball

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I promise you're not prepared for how cute Myla's Halloween costume is. 🔊 Sound On