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Well Twitter seems to legitimately be imploding now with a drastic decline of people on the timeline and news, weird glitches.., and I figure now or never. So in the thread below, are where you can find me elsewhere: I'm not gone yet, but, yeah... site is on its last legs IMO.

@sharpieSkunk I completely forgot this Prototype existed. Guessing the 3d Model just looked daft facing forward.

Idle thought: I wonder if at one point in development, the final form of Sigma in X5 faced the screen directly. Maybe had been done in pixel art before being replaced by the weird angle and non-sensical positioned 3D Rendered abomination we see here. Dunno, this fight's weird.

I think the Mega Man X DiVE Offline demo is out now.

@DrunkenDrinkie Honestly X6 might be my favourite OST in the franchise.

@Sprites_Inc I admit i do rather enjoy Gate's theme and the theme of Blaze Heatnix's stage despite it's faults

And don't get me started on the purple cube attack.

Probably my least favourite Sigma fight to be honest. Outside of Phase 1, it all feels rather half-baked. At least X6's had the excuse of the game being super-rushed and having the budget of a ham sandwich. And the best boss theme in the series.

I love him so much. Neil's dellivery is perfect. From every interaction & wildly funny "Astarion approves" that crop up. I've taken him on every Party I've built in BG3, and even abandoned a Rogue playerbuilt cause I realised what I was missing. Actually a lil concerned by it.

Knock on wood, I think the PC issues are resolved. Gonnna monitor my general energy levels. There's a bunch of stuff released over the December break I'd like to catch up on...

@themmnetwork IDK if memory is playing tricks on me, but wasn't the reason Ruby Spears went with the artstyle it did also Capcom's request. The test animation was on model, and those designs got reused for the OVA Possible I am misremembering. Too many decades and interviews to keep straight.

I heard the same thing about the EXE anime. If that's the case, I wonder why Capcom always wants Mega Man to be different from what it is when doing animation? ...and the one time they ostensibly tried to do an anime that was already henshin from the get-go, it went nowhere.

Dad's out of hospital, finally kept food down. Great! PC refuses to switch on. Student loan people are chasing me for them 'overpaying me'. Somehow. It gonna be like that, is it 2024? K, guess any plans for this week at least scuppered.

@ShawnRobare Age inappropriate films made for awesome action figures to be fair. Why else make cartoons? /s The sheer number of Aliens toys that were around (and I had several of, they were great) makes me wonder if Aliens was in for the same treatment and just didn't get past production.

Admittedly some of these sounded worse and grindier than they actually end up being. Just two stage's Golden Badnicks and then clearing out Trip's story. Heard things about her Final Boss though. I already thought the Egg Robot final boss was tediously long and uninteresting...

As crap as I think grindy achievements are, I've found they end up as perfectly mindless for when you're unwell/stressed out? and all that. (Inability to keep food down, terrible insomia, dad's not long come out of hospital, etc) Guess, Sonic Superstars is my next 100% clear.

I got better things to be angry about than a franchise that quite frankly, probably has enough titles. Doesn't help anyone and just serves to drive people off.

We got games about Making Mega Man. We got games about the making of making of Mega Man. Good Levels, side projects, fanworks taking weirdo characters no one even gave a second thought too, even strange people, myself included, remaking titles in the series.

A lot of the fan virtol is just, unhelpful. First accessiblity features are important. Gatekeeping hurts everyone. Some day you will not be able to play at the level you used to. Maybe you'll develop RSI in this digital era. Or your reactions will slow with age. And then, what.