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embryon.bsky.social
Professional editor and arcade romanticist in Chicago. Digital explorer. 🗺️ Train fan. 🚆 Audiophile. 🎧 I post mostly about video games and gay shit. 🏳️‍🌈 he/him
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There’s no place I’d rather be 🎶

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born to frolic, forced to resolve comments in google docs

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Screaming this from the rooftops

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Submerged city sketch, panzer dragoon

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Another interview for me this week - I talked to FFXIV's battle director and scenario team about bringing Vana'diel to the game, how they decided what to bring from FFXI, and taking a dive into the design philosophy of alliance raids. www.inverse.com/gaming/final...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

We don’t talk enough about the guy flashing his nipples on the Apretude commercial that airs during Drag Race

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Caught up on the Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising 2.0 commemorative stream. Lotsa great updates: Sandalphon, new Survival Mode, Grand Bruise changes, character rebalancing, increased level cap, 2P online training, UI tweaks, new rewards... And we'll be able to make crews! Who wants to squad up? #GBVSR

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Hey, so maybe fuck this guy.

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Piczle Cross: Rune Factory is out today! Even though my company isn’t publishing it, I was brought on to rewrite the tutorial text in Livia’s voice. It was fun to revisit Rigbarth after a few years away. Happy puzzling! store.steampowered.com/app/3134280/...

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Oh, man. I used to watch this show with my mom. Would never have expected it to return in 2025. I’m normally somewhat dismissive of these sort of nostalgiacore revival games, but this is a pretty hot slice of pepperoni! It’s like a Zelda II–Goemon mashup. Something to keep an eye on.

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Phil Spencer that's not how games preservation works, that's not how any of this works: aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...

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Booked my trip with @tophr.org to Midwest Gaming Classic in April! Milwaukee being a quick $19 Amtrak ride away made it an easy sell. This’ll be my first time going. Anyone else headed there?

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Inspired by an article about junior developers who can't actually code, I wrote about my own job in tech, human curiosity, and how the work is the point.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

No more emotional spiraling today. Only stylish spiraling. 🌀 (Thanks for listening to me vent, friends.)

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

brb, re-learning how to play Magic the Gathering for the first time in 20+ years just so I have something else to get mad at instead

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I feel like we’re all trapped in a soundproof box, pounding on the glass, screaming ourselves hoarse that we don’t want this. We don’t want *any* of this. genAI is an injection of poison into the beating heart of art, and it’s being administered with a Cheshire Cat smile.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I am skin-boilingly angry. These soulless ghouls killing people's livelihoods can eat shit.

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I wrote about all the monsters Final Fantasy 1 "borrowed" from D&D, and how the series has largely dropped or obfuscated many of these, even if some (notably the Mindflayer) have endured, IP be damned. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/final-f...

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Final Fantasy IV The After Years 17th anniversary illustration by Rika Okazaki. The game recently released on Apple Arcade.

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started watching Dandadan

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