Reminded how one of the most weirdly specific references in Moon Remix RPG Adventure isn't to any particular Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest game (of which there are a few) but rather that the enemy ship from Xevious shows up in one of the minigames
Final reminder (and also the first one, I guess) that if you want any effortposts from "Cohost Dot Org", you've got a couple of minutes - the website's blinking like a videogame item drop, so make sure you aren't caught walking toward nothing.
Reading about mahjong on Wikipedia and feeling both annoyed and amused that bad English translations make it appear way more highbrow than it actually is - the symbols are cast as bamboo and dragons, when originally they either meant piles of coins, or increased gambling payouts.
Just saw a post about an Uno clone on Steam called "Shedding Card", and I was hoping it would play into the pun by being cat-themed, but,
One Lok note… The game states every mechanic is playable on paper, as printed puzzles, *except* for the pushable blocks. All of those are exclusive to one videogame-themed world - which I'll admit is finally an actual meaningful use of "retro aesthetic" for a secret area.
Wall clock time is just better than regular real time. The time feels richer if it's grown fresh on the wall.
That one scene in Undertale where Papyrus sees the human and does like 50 double-takes in a row, accelerating up to 1 per frame, is only a slight parody of SNES RPG cutscenes.
Oh, I get it… he's called Geno because his blue outfit is actually made from denim /jeans/… well punned, Square
Watching a Super Mario Bros. 2 (J) speedrun and fondly remembering how the wind effect is so indistinct that as a child I thought the console was breaking. Which says something considering I was playing the Super NES version.
I just noticed the purple faces in the Mooncat title screen GOD DAMNIT
Thinking about the stylistically anachronistic tree at the surviving end of the Bayeux Tapestry that scholars suspect was edited in (along with other edits) during the 1800s
The other cool thing you can do is discover secret words, or later words in advance. You mostly do this by just dragging random lines along some of the puzzles, which is… fun? But not exactly a bolt of revelation compared to some other games' discoverable secret abilities.
Most of the whimsy in the game is in clicking on stuff in the map screens… although I'll gracefully admit that they do use a pleasant array of freesounds for this purely incidental feature.
I've been playing LOK (https://draknek.itch.io/lok-digital)… it's a word-search-like game where you can only find specific made-up words (like "LOK") that each have some magic effect on the board once found.
It's not that bad, but…
To me it's got the usual "thinky puzzle game" problem where the intended tone is playful, saccharine and child-like (the titular LOKs) but the actual artistry (like the colour scheme) is so washed-out and inert that it can only appeal to adults.
Reading Wikipedia
"Okay. I think I've found enough invisible cats to do the thing." –me playing Void Stranger out of context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PDVnD0B6t0 – To get into the spirit, I did a quick and dirty playthrough of the original 7-Day-Roguelike contest version of 868-HACK, which I still had lying around the HD.
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/michael-brough/868-back – One day left to back this sequel to one of my favourite most-played roguelikes.
Whenever I think about Cave Story's influence on Undertale, more than the mimigas or the cave itself, I think of this specific cut, from peril, into darkness, into text. This reminds me a lot of a similar cut in Cave Story during the Core, that only appears in its best end route.
OFF on the Nintendo Switch? How is that news? All switches are off/on!
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Netrunner tip: if you play the Corp, and you keep your starting hand, that signals you've got a great start… but if you mulligan, then that signals you drew lots of stealable agendas. To avoid giving away information, simply always mulligan regardless of how good your hand is.
Bluesky can never replicate early-2010s Twitter because the most popular Shakespeare quote bot's username isn't "@IAM_SHAKESPEARE" in all caps
Sees a new button in the Twitter UI
Mouses over it
Five seconds pass
Mouses off it, forever
Has any tracker mod remix of another mod ever just included a .wav recording of the original mod, as a single sample
Before you reply, I am not taking "why"-based questions at the present
Yanking open a ring-pull can of minestrone soup and hearing it make a refreshing hiss noise
You ever whip out Ravel's Jeux d'eau on your media player, sit back, and then eventually realise you seemingly haven't actually listened to all 5 minutes of it in your life
I just clicked "settings" on a game's main menu and it didn't list where all the scenes take place : (
Watching Mario Maker troll levels (source: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2324282158?t=0h45m16s)
I'm wistfully remembering getting roasted to a fine gold in the Netrunner tag on Cohost for implying that this card was better than it reads
You ever finish a game against the CPU, then look over at their board and their next piece and go "Uhhhhhhhhhhh… 🙀"
Looking up the "nude" tag on the Magic: The Gathering card art database
Having experienced five days of December 2024, I have now come up with a new game idea called "Destroy the AI-Generated Santas". It is NOT autobiographical
Anglosphere internet cultural homogenisation is when Americans don't know about giving a pinch and a punch for the first day of the month