It keeps happening!
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Happy to announce that we will be collaboration with @SuperRareGames to produce a limited-run physical edition of Necrobarista - on sale from the 8th!
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If I had a nickel for every time a game I worked on came out on Nintendo Switch, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a ton, but it's cool that it's happened twice
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Idol Manager is coming to the Switch, PS4 and PS5 on August 25!
youtube.com/watch?v=2RvHPS
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Might come from a position of eliminating the baggage of "do I need to have played the other games before this spinoff?"
I'm guessing Soul Hackers 2 has a good chance of landing with the Persona 5 audience, since Soul Hackers is very much a "teenagers in urban Japan" game
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Seems like they've been getting away from "Shin Megami Tensei" branding on a lot of stuff.
Outside Japan, P3 and P4 were released as "Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3/4." But P4G was just "Persona 4 Golden" and likewise P5 was just "Persona 5," with no SMT branding.
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"Soul Hackers 2 is available for pre-purchase."
No attempt to include a more recognizable brand name like "Atlus," "Shin Megami Tensei," or "Devil Summoner" in the marketing asset.
Just "here's the sequel to a 1997 Saturn game with a 2013 3DS port." Kind of have to respect that
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DnD alignment chart teaches important lessons by presenting "lawful/chaotic" and "good/evil" as orthogonal axes
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Something I taught 13 yo: There are people who are "bad" in the sense of breaking the rules, but who are actually really nice. And there are others who obey all the rules and yet are really nasty. Sometimes the nastiest not only obey the rules, but enforce them.
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Oh, your blockchain requires "proof of work?" well I haven't received a W-2 since 2015 so
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That's not some made-up hypothetical; it is actually what I went through when asking, "Street Fighter V has 40+ characters, where can find simple starter combos for each of them?"
fan wikis were supposed to solve this problem, but they all got bought by Wikia and filled with ads
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It's incredible how broken the modern web is, with info being less accessible compared to 10+ years ago.
So much info buried under "join this discord server, find the pinned comment that links to a pastebin with URLs for 50+ google docs or .txt files hosted on someone's dropbox"
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Just got back from a second watch of #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce and I regret to inform you that it wasn't as magical this time.
During my first viewing, there were three separate moments that made me cry in the theater. On second viewing, I only cried twice.
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#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce was such a delight. Expertly-crafted genre-hopping genius.
I've never seen so much creativity packed into one movie. It does a million different things, and fits them all into one cohesive package. It really is Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.
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Another lesson from the past week:
There's a lot of value in articulating incomplete ideas. "Thinking out loud" makes the discovery process more collaborative.
It was great to spend some time in a safe context where I felt like I had permission to do this.
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Online, as in real life, there is value in being "overheard."
(There are plenty of conversations that benefit from privacy, but in the past I think I've been way too self-conscious about replying to people in public.)
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This has made me reconsider the way I use twitter.
I sometimes feel weird publicly replying to people I know on twitter. "Why not just tell them over DM?" (DMs also have no character limit, and I am someone known to "talk in paragraphs.") However...
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When your conversation is seen/overheard by other people, sometimes they join in, leading to wonderful and spontaneous interactions.
But even when they don't, a few overheard words can communicate to bystanders what you're like/what you're into, leading to future conversations
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One thing I've learned/been reminded of during my weekend in Austin is the value of having "1-on-1" conversations in a context where you can be overheard by other people. 🧵
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Disembarked the plane from Austin and someone came up to me in the terminal to say that they saw my talk about fiction
Is this what it's like to be a niche internet micro celebrity?
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In Spider-Man: No Way Home, several characters make disparaging comments about "Magic" and "Wizards"
This is a reference to gaming company Wizards of the Coast and their flagship card game Magic: The Gathering, whose business practices have drawn criticism in recent years
The only thing I remember about Persona 4 Arena is that one Mitsuru player who showed up to an event with a custom fightstick that only had 2 buttons (one for A and one for DP macro)
This rollback netcode announcement is great news for visual novel fans
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But wait, there's more!
As was announced at CEO 2021 this weekend, BlazBlue Central Fiction is getting rollback netcode, and you can be a part of the public test starting from 3pm PST TODAY!
Don’t have #BBCF? Buy it here: bit.ly/3IowWg0
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what if someone at squeenix started a subsidiary and just called it "Tokyo RPG Factory"
can you imagine
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Every time I see a headline about "Square" I have to remember that it's talking about 's payments company and not an RPG factory in Tokyo
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OnlyCans taking a page from the Frog Fractions playbook by making the second game an ARG
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Thinking about how the "MTV generation" that was teenagers during the 1980's is now a bunch of 50-year-olds
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The inciting action was me remembering that Soda Drinker Pro exists, and thinking "why Pro?"
I have no idea how the forums surface new threads; when I posted on the Soda Drinker Pro forum earlier today, I assumed I was just yelling into the digital void
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Not sure what was the inciting action, but we have a thread on @giantbomb trying to identify the "best uses of soda drinking in video game history." If you have suggestions, here's the link.
And yes, @SodaDrinkerPro is the top recommendation.
Thread: giantbomb.com/soda-drinker-p
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With the way that the product has seemingly *vanished* leaving behind absolutely no trace, I feel obliged to defensively state that I'm not taking crazy pills, this Google product totally existed, you can check the Wayback Machine if you don't believe me!
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Even more surreal is the fact the old URL for Posts on Google now gives a 404 error. Not even a "this product has been discontinued" page or a redirect like wave.google.com got, just pure nothing.
It's the most unceremonious end I could conceive of for a Google product.
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The landing page for Posts on Google is still up (makes no mention of the fact that it's being discontinued on July 20th), but I can't even find an official announcement, no coverage on major tech blogs...I find myself questioning if it ever even existed
posts.withgoogle.com
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Lamy asked what a GBA is and thought to myself, "it's not *that* old, right? In AnoHana, there are high school age characters who had Game Boy Advance SP's in their elementary school flashbacks."
Then I remembered AnoHana came out 10 years ago. GBA is 20 years old. #らみらいぶ
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As a writer, many of my biggest creative influences are rap lyricists.
It's pretty surreal to now be watching one of those artists doing a livestream and reading video game dialog that I wrote
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♡✿{{TONIGHT'S STREAM}}✿♡
First, I was the Grim Reaper. Then, I was a live-streamer.
I was also an idol.
Now, it is time for the next stage in this existence...
IDOL MANAGER
youtu.be/pjSojAEp48M
23:00 JST // 7:00am PDT// 15:00 BST
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It remains to be seen whether it will replace Civ for me, but Humankind has been out for 10 hours and everyone on my Steam friends list who owns it has already played it for >4 hours, so it clearly ticks *that* box.
I'm deeply appreciative that Polka always streams after midnight JST when playing the games I worked on, very convenient for me as a US time zone viewer
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やあああああああああああああっしゃあああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああ」
【Idol Manager】アイドルがアイドルをつくるんだよ【尾丸ポルカ/ホロライブ】 youtu.be/xvjmRmPf1jo @YouTubeより
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One last day... one last drink... one last sip. 💀☕
NECROBARISTA: FINAL POUR is now available on the Nintendo Switch eShop.
#IndieWorld #NintendoSwitch
nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo
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There's something kinda surreal yet mundane about downloading a list of Steam keys for distribution
"hello, here is a 23 kb attachment containing $20,000 worth of digital game licenses, please take good care of it"
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I've gone to the same local deli enough that the employees there now have a nickname for me ("no lettuce bro"), so now I have to find a new place to get lunch
The landing page for Posts on Google is still up (makes no mention of the fact that it's being discontinued on July 20th), but I can't even find an official announcement, no coverage on major tech blogs...I find myself questioning if it ever even existed
posts.withgoogle.com
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Roguebook (rogue-lite deckbuilder from Richard Garfield and the creators of Faeria) is an absolute delight.
It's managed to grab me in a way that Slay the Spire never quite did. Not sure if it's the hex tile-based dungeons, or the party system/characters, or the aesthetic...
One of the most fun and rewarding parts of working on Idol Manager has been getting to see how Japanese audiences have responded to the game.
Seeing the game noted for its level of cultural understanding is incredibly gratifying. I could ask for no greater compliment.😊
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I played FF1 to completion at least 5 times and have vivid memories of garland, and the lich, and vampire, and piscodemons, and matoya's cave, and the rat tail, and rosetta stone, and raising the airship in the desert, but I swear I cannot remember a thing about fighting chaos
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