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Severance (2022)

CrossCode remains one of my all time favorites

Screenshot of the home page of YsLink

I am VERY excited to announce the launch of YsLink (ys-link.net), a brand new Ys fan site.

Find information about games and characters, as well as interactive maps and timelines. If you're a huge #Falcom fan or a #JRPG enthusiast who's never dipped their toe in, now's a great time to be playing Ys!

Scopely acquires Pokémon Go developer Niantic's game catalog - Vooks Pokémon Gone?

This bodes... poorly. Scopely's Monopoly Go game is one of the most predatory mobile games out there.

www.vooks.net/scopely-acqu...

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him.

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

Final Fantasy adventures combine in 1994! Now for your new AV Famicom (released the year prior): the chance to enjoy Final Fantasy I & II on one sleek cart. Its arrival heralded by this live-action commercial.

Bonus trivia: the AV Fami/HVC-101 would be in production until 2003.

#VideoBytes

this is also my take for video games

Ys: Memories of Celceta (2012) A bustling town deep in the frontier at the foot of an endless sea of trees... It is into this wild and untamed setting that a young man collapses, memories gone and only his name to guide him. Beref...

Put some thoughts up on @backloggd.com for Ys: Memories of Celceta. A really competent Vita game that has stuck with me more than I thought it would.

backloggd.com/games/ys-mem...

This was a great overview, and it has absolutely started tipping me towards the "hype" side of things

Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure ...

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www.democracynow.org/2025/2/28/in...

Vita has been my most played hand-held outside of Switch. I hadn’t touched mine in a while since I recently also got a 3DS, but playing Ys: Celceta on there (plus occasional bouts of Shovel Knight) has been a genuine treat

Trump Administration Moves to End New York’s Congestion Pricing Tolls (Gift Article) The transportation secretary said he would revoke federal approval for the program, citing the cost to motorists; the Metropolitan Transportation Authority quickly filed a lawsuit to stop the move.

NY was ready for this, they’ve already filed in court to fight it.

The Admin didn’t even give a timeline for when they will revoke the approval.

Hochul said “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. We’ll see you in court.”

Tolling is gonna continue until the courts decide.

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.

You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.

My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

Thanks a ton!

@jackgyarwood.bsky.social about how long did it take to finish? Thanks for this review!

Ms Casey from the TV show Severance

Your outie has spent more than 400 hours playing the critically acclaimed MMORPG final fantasy XIV, with an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning --

Hochul to Meet With City Leaders to Discuss the ‘Path Forward’ for Mayor After four top aides to Mayor Eric Adams resigned, calls for him to step down are growing.

To combat the general feeling of helplessness, I've tried to get more involved in my local politics. It's nice to see that pressure from NYC constituents against Adams is leading somewhere (for the moment) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/n...

From the MicromobilityNYC community on Reddit: Enormous crowd takes over downtown to fight back against fascism, call for the removal of Eric Adams Explore this post and more from the MicromobilityNYC community

Some good coverage of the NYC anti-fascist protests in Union Square today: www.reddit.com/r/Micromobil...

Please see my previous reskeet for why there are red flags with this project with its use of GenAI and a couple of other things, but yeah, old style text adventures are one things that have never gone away. And there are more graphical IF/visual novels than ever.

ifdb.org#games

PS Vita showing the Ys IV start screen

Next up in my story path playthrough of the entire Ys series is Ys IV: Memories of Celceta. A very good excuse to bring out my Vita for the first time since my Japan trip!

Ys X: Nordics (2023) Ys X: Nordics is a brand-new adventure set in the northern sea Obelia Bay, featuring young adventurer Adol Christin as the protagonist. Please look forward to this latest title in the Ys series, from ...

Wrapped up Ys X: Nordics today, a game which I very much enjoyed but also felt like a weaker imitation of Ys VIII. Thoughts over on Backloggd:

backloggd.com/games/ys-x-n...

Please register in NYC if you haven’t already.

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Gambling on Sports YouTube video by Extranet Shaquille

As I've learned more in my master's program about gamification being co-opted by gambling sectors, I'm more appreciative of videos like this that really lay out in incontrovertibly clear terms how predatory that whole ecosystem is. Worth a watch.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZvX...

Official Taiwanese poster for "Nausicaa" (in cinemas there on March 6).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fuR...

This is really neat

Paging @girldm.com

Continuing to practice segments and cut time off my Ys I Complete run. Happy to have so readily cleared 50 minutes already. Need to still work on my Y&O/Dark Fact double whammy boss fight.

She's a beaut

Just pouring over the notes from that #FFXIV Live Letter. Holy cow, 7.2 is gonna be a hell of a good patch.