"They say every file a human has personally created has an indelible touch of humanity in them." *holds up a text file by the dog-ear* "I'm not sure where it is, though. Maybe if you look real close, the individual bytes are more neurotic or something."
Place air fryer on bench
Plug in air fryer
Crank air fryer timer knob
Switch on air fryer to preheat
Wait 10 seconds
Yank open air fryer drawer in case a borrower is inside
Close air fryer drawer
Saw a post pointing out that a good proportion of Derek Yu's games in UFO 50 involve time/resource-limited exploration loops (Porgy, Pilot Quest, Golfaria, arguably Mortol II) which is something I hadn't noticed and is funny to think about. All those games are Golfarialikes.
I LOVE it when I'm listening to my MOD playlist, some melancholic chiptune comes on, I think "hang on, this rules", then tab over and discover its name is
https://selectbutton.net/t/games-you-played-today-winning-eleven/15393/182 – Incredible troll games (see "Yum Yum Town" and "Magic Quest", in order)
Saw someone on my timeline waxing hyperbole about the "Kensington Pride mango", and I'm here to soberly report that they're completely right. It is a fruit that cannot be overpraised, and the brief few months per year when it is available remind you what it is to live.
Have you ever won a game of Netrunner so undeservedly that you feel physically ill, and your only solace is repeating the FGC mantra of wisdom, "We take those"
BRB, gotta invent a new environment exploration game sub-sub-subgenre combining "metroidbrainia" and "microvania" into what I am calling "microbrainia". It will have one gigantic world-spanning, mind-blowing puzzle which takes 5 minutes to solve.
As a big fan of 868-HACK back in the day, I'm here to say with authority that you gotta check this out
https://x.com/smestorp/status/1859574381770396087Investigating new frontiers beyond the two classic existentially creepy science-fiction images of "a floating brain" and "a floating fetus". Currently at "a floating brain with an umbilical cord".
Everyone looks down on Coach Z from Homestar Runner, as a character design, but to his credit he did unironically drop bars in that loading screen montage cartoon.
Can we as a society rename the Gila monster to something less edgy? I propose calling it the Gila friend
Interesting to discover Bluesky does NOT have the quirky Twitter thing of making kanji, hanzi, and almost all other non-Latin-1 characters take up 2 letters in the character count, for "balance". That always felt unnecessary to me. Just let CJK speakers write essays, who cares
*starting to sweat as no one has tweeted on X fullstop com in over 4 hours because they've all left* I gotta follow way more people with zero situational awareness
Imagining a first-person game where you play as one of those birds that have to waggle their heads back and forth when they walk forward because their depth perception is so bad – with an extreme FOV camera that moves forward in large, rhythmic jolts.
I regret to announce that the Cohost data export feature contains all your posts and names of all your followers, but NOT your likes. Fortunately, I've been able to extract all of them manually, so now there's a safe crevice for classics like this on my HD
https://cohost.org/evanonline/post/7253368-when-i-was-playing-m*me trying to explain Cohost Dot Org to anyone else without making it sound like the most unserious web app ever* No, they really cared. They let your avatar be shaped like a squircle, which is a new shape they invented
The Australian flag looks like someone used AI generation to extend the UK flag down and right
Thinking about how Super Mario Land 2 had secret levels that, when completed, did absolutely nothing except add ghosts or flowers to the background of the world map.
https://www.tumblr.com/tomb-of-madeline/766864538685636608/synthetic-snow-a-comic-about-a-futuristic-ski – This neat comic from a ShortBox sale a few years ago is now free to read… I really liked its vividness and range back in the day.
🖐️STOOOOPPPPPP!!!🖐️
This is a "The Pit" (1982, AW Electronics) pit stop!
Unless you want your gamer cred to be confiscated, you MUST screen-record yourself playing one life of The Pit (1982, AW Electronics) in MAME, and post the results!
Going into the webdev laboratory (i.e. pressed F12) to see how color-mix() in CSS works with getComputedStyle(). Can it simply get you the fully computed colour? It seems: yes, it can! But it's in the format of the color model you mixed with.
If you're making a mod called "Kaizo UFO 50", you have to do all 50 games. Rules are rules. Kaizo Party House has guests that remove stars. Kaizo Block Koala has levels that are the same size as the level select map.
Just watched Netrunner world championships, and if my lose condition was my opponent hitting 3 out of a specific 6 cards from my 44-card deck, and I sat down to play Loser's Finals, and then my opponent hit three by turn 2, I would probably not react as well as that player did.
Playing a game of Netrunner as a control runner is making me realise in high resolution that I maybe don't have the constitution to play control decks. Even when I'm miles ahead, I'm still sweating up a typhoon, waiting for the other shoe to shoot me in the foot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVlS6393yD0 – Been messing around with score attacks of Pochi & Nyaa, which are technically also speedruns because all the big points are tied up in time bonuses. Check out the ending in this one (at 4:50)
I just checked, and the video above is still the Mooncat two-player world record.
You know what? Eff it. *applies weakness and resistance for benched Pokémon*
Saw it mentioned on a forum about how unlikely it is that a game company literally named themselves "SUCCESS Corporation" and then both released videogames and survived to the present with no karmic punishment
OK everyone. It's time for a serious poll, and you can tell it's serious because I have to manually post this to all three sites.
Which of these do you find harder to read:
Modern life is about wanting to mute someone on one of the microblogs because they crosspost to all three, so you don't have to read the same posts 3 times, but if you do you won't see their reblogs, but none of the sites have "mute user /except/ reblogs" because that's bananas,
Playing the last stage of Kero Blaster zangyou mode is nice, not only because it has a fun unique setting unlike the rest of the game, but also showing that a game with a subdued, middle-aged melancholic tone can still get a flashy true last boss in the style of Ballos.
Today in casual relaxing with Puyo Puyo
English Touhou players pronouncing acronyms of game titles like "WBaWC" (Wily Beast and Weakest Creature) like a word will never get old. It's like that one Big Bird song from Sesame Street.
Imagining if UFO 50 had a game with basic networking to download "bones files" (as in NetHack) from other players, and the server it connects to from an in-game list is a "2024 server" made by the "recovery team", as a way for the present-day framing story to enter the past.
One thing I'm always sad about is that the "collecting a star with 0 A-presses by desynching the attract mode" idea (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0emgkIEobI) never came to anything because all the relevant stars can now be collected 0x in-game. Petscop could have become real 1 year earlier.
Leons LOVE having to click away from "Top" to "Latest" on Bluesky every single time they do a text search because specifying which results tab to use isn't part of the URL
I've spent the last several days listening to the Petscop soundtrack, which honestly says a lot about the Petscop soundtrack given that only like 5 of its tracks aren't just low-fi horror ambience.
Groundbreaking theory that when you're placed in the rebirthing machine in Petscop, you emerge in the intro stage of Anodyne 2: Return To Dust
(Speaking of which… I feel like this one line in the second-last video is the only point where the tone veered a little too much into Hussie-style audience ribbing, versus its typical straight-facedness.)
On a more culturally relevant level, the heavy use of mysteries involving unintuitive game mechanisms reminds me of the first 3 Homestuck acts, in terms of piecing together slightly abstract symbols and systems, figuring out who the major characters even are, and so forth.
Funny to say, but what Petscop reminds me of the most is Adam Cadre's Shrapnel (text game), in the sense of presenting a familiar fantasy exterior (Zork 1) inside of which is an interior about more grounded domestic abuse, split into non-linear scenes with unnerving hard cuts.
https://dukope.itch.io/moida-mansion – #IPlayed this game. Very charming… would have done numbers and then some just a decade ago.
Despite first appearances, it actually does make it relatively easy by giving you lots of concrete numbers and labels to line up - names and familial connections of characters, specific dates, totals of collected game pieces to sort the found-footage with.
I hate to say it, but I really am getting enjoyment out of tediously scrubbing back and forth in all these video files for hours on end, and putting the pieces together.
The big-picture story is not at all mindblowing, but it's still satisfying in itself to bring it into focus.
The way the latter third heavily revolves around game demo recordings is funny to me in that A) it demonstrates that any serial artwork eventually becomes about the tools and circumstances of its creation, and B) it really did find a way to change into a found footage series
Watching Petscop primarily makes me think "wow, gamer horror YouTubers are going to be chasing this high for years and years, huh"
