Rob "Xemu" Fermier

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

Yep - the gameplay and the music was just mindblowing to me at the time, and I still love that sense of exploration + action + vibe in games I play today.

Soundtrack still holds up super well today too

Looking back at that "real" 9 games I just posted, damn, what kind of a weird freaky kid was I, to love a game about nuclear energy regulation while still in elementary school?

I would have put Shandalar, I think, but couldn't find it.

A lot of guesswork on string subsets!

All those different aliens in SC2 were so memorable and creative, they are all still burned into my brain.

My "real" 9 games that made me, as in the 9 games that influenced me the most, the earliest:

- Shamus
- Colossal Cave
- Star Trek (IBM)
- Pinball Construction Set
- Adventure (2600)
- Adv Civilization (AH board game)
- Energy Czar
- Pol/Econ (BBS)
- Divine Right (BG)

(GTA 3 was more influential on me than San Andreas, but isn't in their database? Similarly I think I'd say Atelier Rorona was the most important one to me but they only had a weird subset of the Atelier series)

9 games: Ultima 4, Star Control 2, Imperialism, The Bard's Tale, Magic: the Gathering, GTA San Andreas, Dark Souls, Factorio, Atelier Sophie

There are easily 99, it not 999 games that made me, and this wildly under-represents the console games I've played, but sure, I'll play:

Love it. Really videogames are new enough, culturally speaking, that it still feels novel to be celebrating more the role they play throughout our lives, our families, our history.

Woman on the phone: "Greece is sending ships to Cyprus to defend it against Persian attacks" Guy looking at the calendar from "...ber 2020" to 499 BC

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This looks very cool, instant purchase.

Obviously the deckbuilder roguelike energy is kind of somewhere else right now, but it's crazy to me - who follows this genre deeply and plays a ton of similar games on Steam - that I never discovered this via Steam.

It is nice to see “Nintendo suing…” and it is not an individual this time, but the US government as a whole.

Like yes—get it, Pikachu.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

Yo! It's #GamingNewsRecap Day!

This week in video games, Xbox officially teased its next console, Highguard announced that it's shutting down and Jason Schreier reported that Sony is pulling back with its PC strategy.

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AMFV was so wildly ahead of its time.

I think Starfleet Academy and Strange New Worlds both are getting more seasons (or at least might be?).

I sure do miss Lower Decks though.

Tim Walz: “Noem should probably get used to spending more time in Minnesota.”

(And he doesn’t mean visiting. He means find a lawyer. Lesson to ALL of this regime!)

folks, you did not see my 9 games coming

BTW I absolutely love that this acct lets you filter out (via Bluesky's excellent tagging support) which games you want to filter out for spoilers.

Slay the Spire 2's concurrent Steam players just hit 179,456, the highest ever for any roguelike.

When StS1 first launched back in 2017, it had 193 concurrent players.

That's a 92,982% increase, meaning StS3 is on track to hit 166,861,777 concurrent players by 2035. 💪

This is why people get frustrated with the Democratic party, and by extension the US political project.

If no Democrats had joined the Republicans on this vote, it would have passed. But 4 did join them.

As Ken said, there's always just enough votes every time.

a learned co-conspirator just perfectly phrased it thus: "the horrors of giving the angry vibrating crystals agency in an adversarial environment"

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dont speak to me of the old magic

The takeaway from the success of Iron Lung isn't to fund YouTubers making sci-fi movies about games.

The secret is that Markiplier is a creative person who made something that excited him.

This is also the secret sauce behind Sinners.

There is no repeatable trend. Fund creative people. The end

It's obviously great on the merits that Noem is out.

But I think the fact that it is a tangible, high profile, piercing of Trump's already-tattered "aura of invincibility" is going to be even more important.

There's blood in the water, does Kash Patel actually start doing his job now, or nah?

I relate to Dark Souls a lot cause I’ve also hungout at a bonfire with a bunch of weirdos

It's so nice having Senators that are actually good.