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14h ago

[Official Media] "A Silent Voice" in Crunchyroll
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missingno @fedia.io 14h ago
Absolutely phenomenal film, one that resonated with my own mental health issues in a way that made me feel extremely seen.
spoilers and discussion of mental health

The visual metaphor of the Xs to represent Shoya's fear and distrust of others hit me so hard.
I went through an incident where a few people I thought I could trust, people I once considered to be my closest friends, had been saying very hurtful things about me behind my back. It set off a chain reaction of events that killed a longtime dream of mine I'd been working towards, and the lasting trauma still makes it hard to trust anyone to this day.
It was about a year after that incident that I saw this film for the first time, and I realized this is what I've felt. I see those Xs every time I second-guess whether someone is truly 'safe' to interact with, always worrying about this fear in the back of my head that anyone and everyone might secretly hate me behind my back like my so-called 'friends' did. Even when they seem friendly to my face, the X is still there when I feel like I never know if that's sincere or not. And of course the rational part of me knows it's wrong to fear everyone around me this way, surely most people are not like that, but fuck, it happened once and it could happen again.
And then you get into the way the Xs start to peel away when he makes one new friend, then more, but then he regresses and the Xs come back again, and then peel away, and then come back. And I just felt, yeah, all of this is me.

16h ago

Retro yet?

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missingno @fedia.io 16h ago

I'm sorry I didn't have a crystal ball to foresee the future more than two decades ago.

3d ago

Do you feel that use of generative AI and LLMs is ever justifiable? If so, when and where? If not, why not?

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missingno @fedia.io 3d ago

Vocaloid is a synthesizer, not AI.

6d ago

Lutris is AI slop now

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missingno @fedia.io 6d ago

If you truly believe AI is so great, own it. Trying to hide it is not a good look. It shows that they know it's something to be ashamed of.

6d ago

Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve

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missingno @fedia.io 6d ago

Attempting to rebrand the terminology to "mystery boxes" like that's gonna make it better ultimately comes across as so much shadier.

6d ago

You there! What are your Hobbies?

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missingno @fedia.io 6d ago

Riichi mahjong. Starting playing online about six years ago, started going out to play in-person two years ago. Recently took 3rd in a small online tournament, but I've yet to put up good IRL tourney results...

7d ago

Big turn-based games (RPGs, city builders, tactics, etc.) festival on Steam this week. Trailer showcase from it with 25 game announcements.

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missingno @fedia.io 7d ago

Highly recommend Mega Knockdown. It perfectly encapsulates the best part of fighting games: getting into your opponent's head by throwing rock four times in a row.

7d ago

Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor"

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missingno @fedia.io 7d ago

Games can be a lot harder to localize than any other piece of media since they're nonlinear. In many cases the localization team is just handed a raw text dump with no context of what line is from what part of the game, or even what character is speaking. Then it becomes a scavenger hunt to play through the game and find each line, but in something like a long JRPG that kind of scavenger hunt can miss a lot. It's not like how you can just read the book or watch the anime and fully cover everything.

But these days a lot of developers have started working closely with localization teams during development to help make their job easier. As they write the script, annotate it with detailed notes providing context and commentary, explanations of wordplay, cultural references, even advice directing the localizers on what you think they should do. And then stay in communication with the localization team, let them ask you questions as needed.

Good localization is hard, but I don't agree with Horii saying a loss of flavor is inevitable. Not when done right.

1w ago

Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them?

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missingno @fedia.io 1w ago

Relevant to what? I've never had a reason to care.

1w ago

Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 11]

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missingno @fedia.io 1w ago

They took a week off two weeks ago, I think they didn't want to air during the Olympics. And since the dub is on a two week delay, that has reverberated to this week.

1w ago

(Slay the Spire 2) If they replace this placeholder art, I will be upset.

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missingno @fedia.io 1w ago

All cards in StS2 do have their final art already. But we know there was a closed beta with a smaller group prior to this public EA release, so I dunno if they're sitting on older beta art that maybe they'll show us eventually.

I'm huffing copium, I know.

1w ago

(Slay the Spire 2) If they replace this placeholder art, I will be upset.

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missingno @fedia.io 1w ago

I considered including that one but I was getting too close to just linking every damn card. And it's one that requires a lot of context to get the joke, I don't know how many people reading this thread have played the original.

1w ago

(Slay the Spire 2) If they replace this placeholder art, I will be upset.

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missingno @fedia.io 1w ago

Some of my favorites: Disarm, Rampage, Double Tap, Immolate, Wraith Form, Boot Sequence, Self Repair, Meteor Strike, Protect, Fasting, Nirvana, Sands of Time, Study, Tantrum, Scrawl, Panic Button, Apparition

1w ago

(Slay the Spire 2) If they replace this placeholder art, I will be upset.

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missingno @fedia.io 1w ago

In Slay the Spire 1, clearing the True Ending with each character unlocks beta art for their card pool, and then clearing it with all characters unlocks beta art for all the colorless cards too. You can freely toggle each card individually, pick and choose your favorites. This was especially fun for Watcher, because during her development period they got the community involved to submit their own beta art.

I'm a little sad that StS2 doesn't have this, but maybe that's just because we don't have the True Ending yet (and we do know that one is coming).

1w ago

(Slay the Spire 2) If they replace this placeholder art, I will be upset.

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missingno @fedia.io 1w ago

1w ago

Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub

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missingno @fedia.io 1w ago

No idea, but I'm assuming probably not.

1w ago

Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub

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missingno @fedia.io 1w ago

Here's my whole library if you want to see everything I like. Some notable exclusives:

Super Mario Odyssey - IMO, this is right up there with 64. The game is absolutely packed, biggest in the series, and I love everything they've done with new movement techniques.
Splatoon 3 - And 2, but not like there's any reason to back to S2 now. I've never really been into shooters much, Splatoon, Kid Icarus Uprising, and TF2 are the only ones I've really liked. But I do love this game because it's so unlike ordinary shooters.
Metroid Dread - Hits all the same highs as Super, but with significantly better combat and bosses. Yes, I'm saying that makes it better than Super.
Puyo Puyo Champions - Not actually exclusive, but if you want to play this game online, JP players are all on Switch. So functionally, it might as well be exclusive.
Kirby Air Riders - I waited 22 years for this sequel. I bought a Switch 2 just to play this. And it was worth it. I'm actually blown away by how much higher this game raised the bar from the original.

2w ago

Slay the Spire 2 Launches, Immediately Shatters a Concurrent Player Record on Steam

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missingno @fedia.io 2w ago

Co-op is the major new selling point. Beyond that, the core formula hasn't changed too much, they've mostly just expanded on it with new characters, cards, enemies, etc.

But for anyone who's put a lot of time into the original, I think you'll really appreciate all the littler elements that really add up. They've had a lot of time to rethink some nitpicks with the original and learn some lessons from it.

For example, a lot of events in the first game were a binary choice of either taking something or taking nothing, in which case the event becomes an empty floor. Act 1 events in particular were often a trap. MegaCrit has talked about how StS2's events are being designed so that simply doing nothing is never an option, and I really really really like this! Just exploring all the new events is great, I'm suddenly prioritizing ?s on my paths just to see them all.

Boss relics have been replaced by a new system called Ancients. Part of me is still not sure how I feel about this, part of me is kind of excited by the fact that I don't know how to feel. The game feels very different without energy relics (mostly, there actually are a few but many runs will not see them), and that's definitely something that makes for a new and different challenge to get used to.

There's also a new mechanic where cards can receive Enchantments, either permanently or just for the duration of combat. You can come up with some very cool combos to experiment with using this system, and on the flipside the enemies that are able to negatively mess with your cards are super interesting to me.

2w ago

Slay the Spire 2 Launches, Immediately Shatters a Concurrent Player Record on Steam

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missingno @fedia.io 2w ago

When Slay the Spire 2 was announced, I was honestly skeptical of how they'd top the original. StS is the game that ruined all other roguelikes for me just for how damn polished it is.

I can confidently say StS2 has raised the bar. It's actually the smaller details that have impressed me most, like the way doing nothing is never an option at events. And enchantments are such a cool mechanic, gears are spinning in my head looking for fun things I can do with them. Equally cool when enemies can negatively enchant my cards too, new kinds of combat challenges.

I still don't know how I feel about Ancients, it's weird not having energy relics anymore. But part of me kind of likes that this is weird and different, it is by far the biggest change that makes for a totally new meta to explore. I can already tell that mastering this game will be a journey.

2w ago

Which series do you prefer, Megaman Battle Network or Megaman Zero?

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missingno @fedia.io 2w ago

As polished as Zero is, it is kinda just another Mega Man platformer. Some variations on the formula to set this subseries apart, but if you've played other subseries you know the core formula.

Whereas what made Battle Network so special is that it was a completely unique kind of game that was never seen before, and we still haven't really seen anything like it since.