People on Mastodon are hyping up a different article on this blog, but I find the "custom Javascript scrollbar tutorial" significantly funnier https://modem.io/blog/scrollbars/
Decided to boot this game (Moudjiya) back up and see if I can figure it out… I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of it.
Watching some Smash Bros.
Wikipedia paragraphs that instill confidence and reassurance
As I understand it, each classic Super Mario platformer has these as their core themes:
SMB1: Alice in Wonderland
SMB2: Masks (from Fuji TV's Yume Koujou event)
SMB3: Japanese mythology
SMW: Dinosaurs
SML1: Ancient civilisations
SML2: Uhhhhhhh…… every wacky idea they had left??
On my website's microblog, click these icons on each post to see their corresponding releases on each domain, if you are curious to check out any responses they may have received.
Great news!! Spurred on by certain recent events, I've now updated my hand-coded social media crossposter script to transfer posts into Bluesky as well! Now you can read my tweets in five different domains at once (four social apps + my website).
Just achieved counterstop in Balatro… epic
This explains alot
Looking up a Kirby BGM to see what its name actually is…
Turns out the reason it's called both "Fatal Blooms in Moonlight" and "Moonstruck Blossom" is because it was localised differently in two different Miiverse developer posts?
https://web.archive.org/web/20171018135910/https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAADRUqGDpvDNhg
https://web.archive.org/web/20170829071939/https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAABnUYoNFWtB9g
New blog post! https://fairysvoice.net/blog/How_to_Play_Pochi_&_Nyaa-_Forms/ It's a how-to guide for playing Pochi & Nyaa, explaining what sort of shapes are best to make and why, containing most of the know-how I've picked up from playing it for 2 years. Give it a read if you want to try the game!
The game's called Soldam because it's soldam that you hear anyone talk about it
The White King, 1 minute before battle: "This day is mine. My plans are immaculate. Every likely stratagem and attack has been accounted for. The only possibility I haven't considered is if the Black King's army has the exact same number of units as us, in the exact same formatio
As a child, I unilaterally decided that cockatoos sound exactly like what pterodactyls would sound like if they were still around. And to this day I stand by it.
The reason all videogames have secret shmup final bosses is because shmups are the "power metal" of game genres. Bombastic yet approachable, able to be dropped in anywhere for a flashy climax. Sometimes they literally play power metal over it for a double-layer effect.
LEON'S GUIDE TO 2024 INTERNET JARGON
TERM MEANING
"Sickos" Nerds
Copyright 2024 Leon Enterprises LLC
"Hope this helps!" –Leon
Late at night, all alone, going beast mode on Etymonline
Imagining a world where Netrunner came out first and all trading card games were asymmetric by default. Imagining a world where red, white, blue, black and green in MTG each had completely different decks, game rules and win conditions.
Look, it's very simple. In the absence of Romhacking Dot Net, you can just put the hacks in itch dot io, which will have no dire consequences whatsoever
The one constant impression I have about Netrunner is that, whenever I talk or think about the mechanics and in-game terminology, I always go down on my knees and tearfully thank divine providence that it isn't Another Goddamn Fricking High Fantasy Game.
When a crow caws during flight, it stops flapping its wings for like 0.8 seconds so it can caw, and I think that's cute.
Ten Million Views Video Idea: horror videogame events that "crash the game" tested to see whether they actually raised SIGSEGV or simply just called exit(1);
Reading Wikipedia
Oh ho ho ho… perhaps it is actually YOU, dear player, who is the real monkey around here…
All I'll say is that I didn't not NOT not beat Jokerless again, instead of doing literally anything else with my life.
"Think of the most specific image that comes to your mind whenever you hear the phrase "just over there". Really try and visualise it." *places hands on your shoulders* "That's where I'll wait for you. That place. Just over there."
Extra functionality that "Media Player Classic - Home Cinema" brings to the table over VLC:
• Frame-reverse
• Seamless no-delay looping of single video files
• Icon that, let's face it, doesn't look /completely/ amateurish
(The VLC functionality I want is just
• Mappable hotkeys for everything
• Always display videos at 100% resolution
• Frame-advance
• Speed controls
• Submenu to pick subtitles at will
• No "on-screen display" or on-screen UI
• Window that details what the file actually is)
FINALLY GOT MAD ENOUGH AT EXTREMELY MILD VLC UX ISSUES THAT I SWITCHED TO "Media Player Classic - Home Cinema", WHICH SOUNDS LIKE THE FAKEST APP NAME EVER BUT INEXPLICABLY CONTAINS 100% OF THE VLC FUNCTIONALITY I ACTUALLY WANT
Magic: The Gathering is a little problematic in this regard, because the big thing its games are "about" are spells and magical effects, but because the world that they affect has so little definition in comparison, the spells have little explanatory grounding as a result.
Even non-simulation videogames like orthodox JRPGs, tend to give more detail to very carefully selected mechanics: equipment, for instance, gets a lot more detail than money, the inventory, or physical health (outside of HP and status effects).
Netrunner is a good example: the mechanics relating to what the runner does in prep for runs, such as location cards, card draw events, etc., are a lot less definite than cards that are the focus of attention during runs (ICE, icebreakers, agendas, etc.). Backstory versus story.
Something I've been thinking about is how games, in particular TCGs, will have mechanics' diegetic meaning be more vague/ambiguous whenever they depict details at the periphery of the story, away from the focus of action.
I saw this comic in Pixiv of "the yuri shikigami" (https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/120200213), and immediately decided I had to make the yuri paper dolls for myself
Thinking about how there's one Unicode character that has no textual representation but _does_ have a sound representation (ASCII code 7 "BEL").
So what I'm saying is, there's existing precedent to justify adding the explosion sounds from Ace Attorney and other VNs,
Lumisa Kosugi sighing as she exits the Corridor of Blood, slowly rotates her equipped item slot until it reaches a garden hose, screws it into a nearby faucet, and then walks back in
Undertale (2015) is a game about using a jetpack while a 1960s-style robot throws cake ingredients at you
And people say there's no poetry in engineering
Tag yourself
https://fairysvoice.net/microblog/ – I've added a tag cloud to my self-hosted microblog, whose contents are mirrored on 3 social networks. I'm also in the process of adding tags to my *types into calc* 13-year Twitter backlog. ETA is some time after you forget about following up on this
*presses palms together and mutters "thank god the only character in Taisen Puzzle-Dama that's actually playable is also the one with the funkiest story mode ending music"*
Stroking chin emoji
Who would win in a fight: a thousand Mozarts, or a thousand Einsteins? Before you ask, they may only fight in parts of Europe that both visited in life, and neither side is permitted to use weapons developed after their respective deaths.
Glider PRO (1994)
Wikipedia openings that get you rubbing your hands
I kind of miss the simplicity of early Python's "batteries included" standard library, offering everything from gzip support to argv parsing… but still, with no easy upgrade path, it couldn't last… interesting to think that Perl's CPAN model (package managers) won the day…
I think there's only only other platform that has a "batteries included" approach to features… and it's the web browser DOM, which has to have basically every non-trivial application feature built in, AND every previous version of that feature, for perpetuity.
People say there's too many substitution ciphers in puzzlers like Fez or Void Stranger or Tunic nowadays. Not me. The tedium of looking up a chart to read one letter is the player's way of expressing their utterly stubborn commitment to the game. Like level-grinding, or 1CCs.
Trying to think of other small platformers with the same mysterious tone as Gimmick / Trip World that aren't Kirby's Dream Land 1… This may be shocking considering how much text it has, but my top candidate might actually be Kero Blaster.
I feel like all the sequels - 2, 3, and World - succeed at feeling like "a big adventure", but 3 and World both do so on a macro level, with the map screen and short one-note levels, whereas 2 is more "episodic", where each level is an adventure in miniature.
I feel like Super Mario Bros. 2 is the one game whose legacy was actually harmed by having Mario in it… it can only ever be compared unfavourable to both 1 and 3, even though its levels have completely different pacing and design goals.
Everyone talks about SMB3, but to me Doki Doki Panic is where Nintendo starts to break out the memorable platformer level designs… riding on a bird through 6-2, climbing up through a hollow tree in 5-3… even the little shortcuts in 1-1 and 3-1…
Land cards (and their antecedents in other "dudebasher" TCGs like Legends Of Runeterra) are interesting to think about in Netrunner terms because they are simultaneously credits, clicks, AND basic actions – bearing the weight of basically the whole game's structure.
Thinking about the Magic: The Gathering "golden trifecta" of game ideas that were vital to its success:
• The concept of a "trading card game" in general
• 5 colours, to force specific builds
• Land cards, that make games volatile (arguably useful when the card pool was small)
To me, the "golden trifecta" of Netrunner, as Richard Garfield designed it, would be:
• The asymmetry
• The basic actions (that you can always use without needing a card)
• Clicks (as a second, constant resource that loosely constrains how many actions a turn can contain)
I made one fansite in my life, for 868-HACK (https://868-hack.neocities.org/) but then, that was a game I was lightly involved in developing… if you know of any other fansites similar to this, do tell…
Revising my website's links page again (https://fairysvoice.net/links/) and it made me realise I don't have enough game fansites in my life… I've let so many of them slip away from me… Everyone recommend me fansites… preferably for the obscure games that need them…
Going to start perpetuating misinformation that the Netrunner cards are called "ICE" in reference to the definitive cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash
*thinking* If cascading SpaceX satellite debris ended up landing in Gensokyo, it would, narratively speaking, absolutely have to hit the Hakurei shrine. There's no other possible location.
Some of you may wonder how difficult it is to port an aging late-00s Javascript codebase to the new, minty-fresh 2020's class syntax. Fortunately, it's pleasantly simple.
Sigh… if only Makeship would make it possible for me to finally own a plush of *my* favourite indie game character… Reimu from Touhou Project
*actually opens Desert Golfing dot ee ecks ee and is presented with this* Uh,
I'm forcing myself off quick-play high-adrenaline games. Balatro, out. MAME, out. Actual roguelikes, out. In their place, to fill the void, to restore equilibrium to my psyche: the pure, the old reliable, the rock-steady, Desert Golfing.
Reading Wikipedia
Is this good
My review of Jokerless is that it feels a lot more "roguelike" than the other modes… builds have to be locked in from the start; the "power items" are the wax seals and certain vouchers (Telescope etc.); starting levels are very swingy; resources (cash) beget more resources.
You ever think about how Wordle got famous just in the nick of time before the window when your game could go viral from Twitter integration was slammed shut
My army at the final battle
Well, I just beat Jokerless…
Don't overthink platformer animations for simple games. You can sell a perfectly good jump using only two animation frames total.
Right now both Netrunner and Magic: The Gathering are running pro tournament streams on their companies' respective Twitch accounts, and it's a real jarring contrast of two different kinds of quality.
Lands……………
It's kind of wild to think about how Netrunner decks only allow 3 of each card name, AND random discard is a major mechanic in almost every matchup, and it still has fewer blowouts than standard MTG.
Searching for secrets in Void Stranger is like
The best thing about competitive Netrunner is that there are no mirror matches… so you can always blame the matchup : )
Magic as a narrative theme is almost always something layered on top of the physical world, whereas cyberspace can replace the physical world entirely, and any inconsistencies inside it are explicable as mere differences/simplifications compared to the real world.
One big thing about Netrunner that really helps it narratively cohere compared to MTG is how everything is "just" electronics – so for instance, it isn't a logic problem to use your battery-themed card to add power to your werewolf-themed card, because they're both just software.
It's another "Gammis - logfiles of death" day, one of those days where logs.xm is the only music you need https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=48701
Crossposting this to Cohost Dot Org and tagging it "CSS crimes"
１００ｍ🦧
７５ｍ🦧
５０ｍ🦧
２５ｍ🦧
HOW HIGH CAN YOU GET ?
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=99228 – A great unconventional track that sounds like it involves post-apoc claymation cyber-cavemen.
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=175049 – Nostalgic "chiptune-style chiptune" with pretty good melody chops.
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=200530 – Lovely celebratory synth track that makes me miss summer ._.
Trivia:
• Battler Ushiromiya was originally named that because "battler" is internal terminology for an in-combat game entity in Umineko's game engine (RPG Maker VX)
Rigged Jenga set where all the blocks are exactly the same size and it's impossible to nudge any of them out, thus forcing both players to leave the tower on their coffee table for the rest of their lives
Today I learned the Red Ring of Death wasn't even a full ring? It was only three-quarters of a circle? Even though it was called the Xbox 360?? It was only 270???
Yahaha! That's right! I'm the one rascally person in the whole world who speaks to key NPCs from unusual angles, thus forcing the player-character to slowly walk to the intended position to begin the cutscene! It's all because of me! And I'll never regret a second of it!!
Recommended For You:
• Did Undertale Invent Wholesome Games? (600 million billion trillion squillion words, est 4 millennia read)
• On the 25th Anniversary of the Term "Ludonarrative Dissonance" (800 words, est 1 hr because some of the words are hard)
• Privacy Policy (1250 wo
*suddenly rises from behind your monitor and plonks my crossed arms and manically grinning chin atop it* Using symbol emojis as UI icons in your web app??? Oh ho ho ho!!!!
What? No, I have no opinions on "The Legend of Zelda". I have never cared about that game series OR its in-universe timeline OR its gender politics in my entire life. I don't even like Nintendo games. I'm a Sega fan, and care only for its flagship high-fantasy franchise, "Puyo Pu
Someone mentioned that old favourite roguelike 868-HACK… and before I knew it, the mirror-shades were back on.
Wario Land 1 had so many cloudscape/stratosphere levels and they all looked so good ;_;
Big SMW pet peeve from childhoodean days: You can use the Star Road to advance to later worlds' entrances, but you can't get off and explore that world! The only destination you can exit at is Bowser's Castle! It's like if the Warp Zones only took you to 8-4. Yeesh!
Take a melody,
Simple as can be,
They are the modern
Stone-age family,
*game music playlist randomly hits Rouxls Kaard's theme from chapter 2 of 'Rune* Wow……… I completely forgot how much this track sucks.
…
*the FF6 Dancing Mad vox kicks in* NEVERMIND 11 OUT OF 10
True if huge
When are we getting a deckbuilding roguelike where the "deck" is actually your older brother's TCG deck that you have stolen while he's at summer camp, intending to play everyone in your neighborhood "for keeps" to win all their holofoils, despite barely understanding the rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdZKolMIl0 – Listening to the full song that was used in the '78 Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy for the first time… wow, it's like the exact midpoint between Outer Wilds and Noita.
>n
There is an invisible wall here, preventing you from traveling to an unimportant area.
>push it
The invisible wall falls over with an equally invisible thump.
>n
You trip on the edge of the fallen wall, which then prevents your face from traveling to an unimportant the ground.
If Donkey Kong Country 2 had been made only three or four years later, then there'd definitely have been a trophy for getting the KONG letters in every level, plus a trophy for hitting a prize in every strength-tester level goal, all of which would be needed for a third ending.
The four yugas
It's funny to think about how the "3-and-1" melody of Beethoven's 5th movement 3 is a counterpart to the famous 3-and-1 that opens movement 1… One is How It Started and the other is How It's Going.
In memory of Switch twitter integration, everyone post some of your favourite such tweets from over the years https://x.com/sc8I4LjG6djc26e/status/922405174508785664
I wish there were more standard social media tags for blind playthrough reactions of games. I'd love to see people's Void Stranger posts when they find the onion. *←acting like finding the onion is at all interesting or even remotely close to the high tier of the game's secrets*
If platformers were designed the way card games are designed, you'd see stuff like double-jumps that gain height the more gold you have, or ground-pounds that do x1.5 damage if you did them from a coyote time jump.
Balatro's sound effects are from Freesound dot org. They're CC0. You can just put them in your game. Currently imagining Higurashi with xmult sounds
Every triple-A game is either fantasy or sci-fi… There's only one thing to do… *everyone arounds me realises where I'm going and starts vigorously shaking their head* We have no choice… *they get out of their chairs* We need… *they run to tackle me* …to bring back steampunk–
Secret forbidden indie game trailer tech: just put "dude you spent 30 hours playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in 2006 but you 'don't feel like' trying this???" atop the game footage for 30 seconds
Welcome to my CHIRORIS☆QUEST frag vid
Pulling this one off the shelf to see if I've "still got it"…… Maybe I'm due another hour with the controls, but other than that…
Honestly, AI art solely becoming a symbol of people trying to cloyingly invoke the viewer's received preconceptions, instead of introducing new ideas, is at least convenient in making fully visible a particular discursive intent that until now required even a little concealment.
*thinking very deeply* A dialog box, in a videogame, is a primitive kind of cutscene that can only portray letters appearing sequentially.
OK, that's enough cute frogs in games. We've had fun, but it's time to swing the pendulum back. Now we need the ugliest amphibians that GPUs can conjure - riveted, mottled cane toad skin, rendered with the same affection as ancient dragon heads in AAA fantasy games.
"Swords are actually implemented as gloves that add an extra-long sixth finger while removing the other five."
Excised cutscene of Gray from Void Stranger getting a panel stuck inside the staff, and having to reach shoulder-deep into the dark orb on the end to retrieve it, only for her arm to get jammed, too, then walking back and forth, shaking it and calling "Uhh… li'l help?" to nobody
Budding, inedible joker: "Four Fingers and Shortcut are the primary jokers for Straight builds in Balatro"
Ripened, heavy joker: "Juggler and Troubadour are the primary jokers for Straight builds in Balatro"
Website update: I've updated my favourite SIDs playlist at https://fairysvoice.net/playlists/ to include a large handful of recent finds over the past year or two.
You can tune an old piano, but you can't tuna old fish new tricks
Start listening to a SID.
It's a remix of a track called "StillPlayingMario.nsf"
I search for the NSF original.
There is no original.
The Javascript of the 90s': hundreds of function() statements loaded by <script> tag
The Javascript of the 20's: hundreds of function() statements but this time they have "export" in front and the <script> tag says "module" instead of "text/javascript"
I love playing the High Voltage SID Collection on shuffle, discovering some interesting mid-2000s chiptune, and then, as soon as it finishes, immediately getting Shave And A Haircut on sawtooth wave
ESLint, in contrast to previous linters, is designed for the sort of programmer who REALLY wants to make putting a space between a function name and the parentheses to be a syntax error, because they "don't like it" – and for that level of self-servingness, it works very well.
Greatest ESLint Options of Some Time
TypeScript declining to add new runtime syntactic features over Javascript EXCEPT THE "enum" KEYWORD is still one of the more baffling design decisions. I mean, if you're going to add what is essentially syntactic sugar, couldn't you at least make if-statement brackets optional
Converting the files was pretty straightforward, too. Did the conversion take 2 hours and force me to open 60 browser tabs? Yes, but - and this is important - I've already made my peace and moved on with my life. And in the end, is that not what all manual upgrades strive to be?
Bad news, everyone. I'm actually the exact use-case that benefits from the ESLint config format change. My project has 3 different kinds of Javascript in it (TypeScript source, in-browser Javascript tests, Node scripts) and having one file that covers all of them works for me.
• No way to give layers (e.g. sketch layers) a different palette to other layers
• 90% of the built-in palettes are just flat-out bad
• Doesn't have the Clip Studio Paint poseable 3D figures [⚠️This user is NITPICKING⚠️ – Find out more ]
Current Aseprite issues:…… surprisingly few! Most I can come up with is:
• Gradient fills are baked in immediately, so if you ever want to adjust them, you need a separate layer for each + a flat layer below them to use for the replacement fill
"In 1840 […] Napoleon's body was exhumed and found to be well preserved as it had been sealed in four coffins (two of metal and two of mahogany)[…]"
*looks at the Wikipedia photos for the capital of St Helena* Now that's a SimCity challenge level
*remember's with a grocer's apostrophe that The Underside Preview 3 had Longcat as an enemy and Johnny Fiveaces as a boss* Truly, the ZeroRanger of platformers
Anomalous object of paradimensional phenomena: Makeship plush of Ip from The Underside
If NSG does ban Hoshiko (the card) to keep Standard going until April, they should make it a fun event to look forward to. Lean into the spectacle. Wait until October, then drop a 20 sec trailer. Post daily 500-word fiction leading up to the day. It'd be an anticlimax otherwise.
I'll always remember Outer Wilds for having possibly the most blatant "hidden in plain sight" secrets I've seen, in the sense of one thing that you see 5-to-20 times before you notice it's something you should investigate (not because you're ever directly told to investigate it).
Puchi Carat 🤝 Void Stranger
Launching it for the first time and then swiftly posting screenshots of the hot animal woman 12 minutes later
Balatro players calling scored chips "damage" has the same energy as board game players calling winning victory points "lethal".
More saliently, if you start from the front lobby and constantly take the highest door in each area, you'll eventually reach an area in close proximity to the final Bowser, vaguely reflecting SM64's progression. A rule-of-thumb of "upward = progress" can be of aid elsewhere, too.
B3313 may come across as and be cast as a largely unnavigable web of meaningless symbols, but in my experience there are a few pinches of internal logic.
For instance, there are no "basement-coded" areas which have exits leading downward, or which suggest further floors below.
I'll always admire The Beginner's Guide, despite its simplicity, for inspiring strange and rare thoughts and reactions from everyone who plays it.
PUCHI CARAT 2
Instruction Manual
1. Story
Flourite Aqua Berylmarine, the main character of Puchi Carat, wakes up one morning to discover that her prized Clothing Hoard has been stolen by the Kremlings, led by the kooky King K. Ro
You thinking I'm referring to Nervous Delivery, Go Go West or Bad Moon: 🙋♀️
Me, smiling contentedly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4TctM5on-Y
The Javascript Switch Statement Flowchart:
1) Notice this next block involves matching on a single variable
2) Start writing a switch block
3) Realise I have to write 'break' before every single freaking case minus 1 because this isn't Rust
4) GO-GO-GADGET ELSEIF CHAIN
5) END
SOCIETY IF THE PUCHI CARAT GBC PORT ACTUALLY HAD CHIP CONVERSIONS OF THE GOOD TRACKS INSTEAD OF JUST THE MAIN MENU AND CREDITS:
*there's no image because the Puchi Carat GBC port didn't have background images*
Person who thinks the puzzles in Void Stranger are too hard:
Person who thinks the puzzles in Void Stranger are too inconsistent:
Person who thinks all of stage 4 in ZeroRanger should have been in loop 2: "It just feels like a disappoi
A momentous shift has transpired… I used to find Aseprite unusable, until an absolute gamechanger just happened: I found a custom theme that, I kid you not, *made the UI text not look like absolute trash*… Now things are going to be different from now on…
Had another one of those warming moments when you listen to some track on one of your playlists for the first time in almost a year and suddenly think "Oh, hang on, I live in a world where this music exists. Incredible."
(This time it was Isaac Albéniz - Córdoba)
Imagining if Void Stranger's statues had randomised abilities like NetHack potions, and you had to identify them by trying various game actions on them.
Also imagining if Void Stranger had 9 different randomised collectable idols and only one had the locust idols' ability.
I have the opinion that if you want to make a postmodern NetHack successor, then you'd make a game that A) heavily involves item identification, B) heavily incentivises identifying as much of the item pool as possible to win, C) heavily minimises everything else about NetHack.
Thinking about how much of optimal NetHack earlygame play comes down to arcane item identification rituals… dipping daggers in potions, dropping rings down plugholes, scratching words on the floor with wands, kicking small rocks to check for supernatural weight…
Writing cyberpunk is easy. Give everyone robot arms, and you've solved the hologram touchscreen gorilla-arm issue. Flying cars is fixed by setting everything in space colonies. VR hacking involves fighting RPG monsters because games are the only software that actually works.
Reminiscing about older, simpler times in search results misinformation https://twitter.com/frozenpandaman/status/1122087202769362944
Pizza glue is a 90s point-and-click adventure game item.
TypeScript is blowing my mind, which is to say that it's blowing my mind that if I want to access static properties on an instance via .constructor, I can't do it because by default .constructor's type is just Function, so I have to freaking do this:
Now that early MS-DOS is open-sourced, the filenames can finally be upgraded to 8.4.
Honestly a lot of the "story" levels in Super Meat Boy (mainly the middle worlds) aren't really that great, especially when you're still starting out, and I felt like the Steam version's custom level portal was always where the "real game" began… and I guess still does…
Someone reminded me of Super Meat Boy, so inexplicably I replayed a few of my old custom levels… The concept behind this one's still great.
*suddenly remembers the MacinTalk text-to-speech voices from 1995* But why tho
Decided to check out TopatoCo dot com, the store named after a character from the webcomic "Wigu", for the first time in over a decade, and am getting a lot of thrills out of the fact you can buy Bigtop Burger merch, Oglaf books and Kate Beaton's memoir from the same shop.
You see, if the player-character in Universal Paperclips had simply invested a couple hundred dollars in some quality Balatro jokers to exponentially increase paperclip output, it would have saved a lot of time and resources in the long run.
People are doing some "challenge MTG players to evaluate Netrunner cards" content lately, but they're not fully tapping the really funky-sounding card text.
Like, how much do you fetch-cracking bird-bolters think THIS piece of nonsense is good or not
It's a little bit of a lost opportunity that Netrunner got chess cards printed in 2013 but didn't make Rook a fracter, Knight a killer and Bishop a decoder.
The symbology would have lined up so well…
Which Netrunner code gate ICE is this
When I go on the Twitter timeline and scroll down more than 2h ago it stops giving linear-ordered tweets and starts just putting in unordered For You shavings. So now the only way to actually get the tweets in order is to search "include:nativeretweets" from "People you follow".
Hot tech tip for no one but myself: if you find certain parts of Electron apps (like the dev tools console) are in black-and-white because you have high contrast mode enabled in Windows, the easy way to fix it is to add --disable-features=ForcedColors as a command line switch.
Why does the Wikipedia article for Beethoven's 5th have a Lore section. Why does the
Ethical choices in games are when a character says "Oh, s⭐️⭐️t", and if you collect the stars, their expletive will be fully exposed to all the world… Do you continue your journey, or dare pray that they might have said "soot"?
Vicrosoft Code
The illusion of free will
*changes eldenring.exe to .zip and opens it, only to find a single text file reading "You don't have the right"* Hmm, should've expected that
"You can get the source code to Balatro by just renaming the .exe to .zip and opening it" is so funny to think about. Imagining Elden Ring working like this
Super Mario 64 is usually thought of as a fairly "modern"-designed game relative to the 90s, but still, two of its level design primitives are "unmarked spots that teleport you" and "unmarked spots that display the numbers 1 to 5 when you touch them and eventually give a star".
Just you wait… I'm going to totally go Story Mode on you (have 2000% more HP than my multiplayer form and use a scripted cutscene attack at half HP)
What does it say about me as a person that my two favourite Deltarune songs are the game over theme and the theme on Deltarune Dot Com's 404 page
Ludwig van Beethoven, revered for generations as "the funny hair composer guy",
*reads Netrunner banlist post*
I do say, this makes me ponder if there are any longrunning jokes out there about good Jinteki ice, in particular regarding whether they're allowed to have it or not. Alas, as I am a pure-hearted maiden, such knowledge is far beyond my ken.
Animal Well by George Orfarm. Is this anything. Anyone
Watching the Braid TAS https://youtu.be/v-0RUv3tKso?t=405
Learning about Cricket
*tries to do the Baphomet hands but accidentally does the Chimata from Unconnected Marketeers hands*
Replaying Dicey Dungeons more makes me think Bonus Round (where you get random extra rules) has a lot more staying power than the rest of it… some of the rules are pretty fun to play around (especially the symmetrical ones) and makes me wish it was a bigger part of the game…
Umineko ending spoilers
V'z nyfb irel vagrerfgrq va ubj gur punenpgre bs Xvamb va rcf 1-4 vf zber-be-yrff erirnyrq nf ure zbpxvat cnebql bs gur gehr zna, jubfr evat vf ba ure unaq naq jubfr funqbj naq cbjre fgvyy ybbzf bire ure cflpur.
Umineko ending spoilers
Bar bs zl zbfg vagrerfgvat gnxrnjnlf bs Orngevpr'f onpxfgbel vf ubj ure zntvp naq crefbanyvgl vfa'g whfg qrevirq sebz Nef Tbrgvn, ohg zber sebz gur freinag/znfgre uvrenepul bs Ebxxrawvzn… ure hfr bs "sheavgher" naq qvfertneq sbe gur inyhr bs uhzna yvsr…
https://www.tumblr.com/pallisia/750195264804028416 – N-normal omurice…
*"who is Sandy Loam" voice* Who is Sandia Warning
Void Stranger spoiler…
V cynlrq vg fbba nsgre eryrnfr naq tbg ng yrnfg 6 raqvatf, naq vg gbbx zr hagvy n jrrx ntb gb ernyvfr gung jura gurl fnl "gur ybaryl barf ner xabjyrqtrnoyr", jung gung zrnaf vf gurl bayl trg havdhr qvnybt vs gurer vf rknpgyl 1 bafperra ng ebbz fgneg.
Paper Mario: The Thousand X Resist. Is this anything