BluesM18A1

My cat on a couch covered in a blanket with the FIREBLU texture from Doom on it.

would you join her on the FIREBLU couch?

Pirate Software? yeah I do that all the time. Quite often it's the only choice for playing games that are out of print. Not like the developers would see my dime if I bought a used physical copy anyways.

It's obvious in hindsight, but that's when I figured out that your control over the pace comes from your ability to predict enemy patterns and use that knowledge to play more aggressively.
That these games still reward learning, but don't demand you play perfectly as long as you can survive.

Eventually I figured out that you're supposed to play way more defensively, and Thunder Force IV's focus on tanky enemies with telegraphed attack patterns helped me get into the habit far more than, say, Gradius's hordes of small targets. (Cont.)

What bothered me the most about the shootemup genre while I was trying to get into it was that unlike platformers, you don't have much control over the pace which you go through a level. Not many chances for a mental breather, and one small lapse in concentration can kill you instantly. (Cont.)

I'm pretty sure this game has a sort of dynamic difficulty system too which I don't ever see talked about. Like I was playing on Easy but after I started playing too well on a later run, I noticed some boss's projectiles got faster.

Trying to fix the fact that I'm pure ass at shootemups. After sifting through dozens of games I think Thunder Force IV is my best teacher. Drop dead gorgeous game but also clicks with me the most with how it paces its obstacles in the early-game.

A VCR combo CRT television showing the game ActRaiser

Digging inside a multi-thousand volt miniature particle accelerator was one of the scariest things I had to do, but my CRT is back from being dead for a year! All it needed was a replacement for one transistor that shorted. I think I can carry out electronics repairs with a lot more confidence now.

Since I'm working at a PC all the time I figured these vertical mice that's supposed to be easier on your wrists is a good investment. Did not dissapoint. Very comfortable + clicking feels like you're pulling the trigger on the joystick of a mech so FPS games feel way more immersive lol.

I can only guess they changed it because bright neon red and green are strange colors for the overalls but come on that's lame. These are cartoon characters, fuck realism. Even the Super Mario Bros. Super Show picked red and green overalls for the live action segments.

Mario & Luigi as seen in the Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) manual

Call me crazy but I vastly prefer the blue shirt+red/green overalls palette for the Mario bros. Since red and green are their defining colors, it makes more sense for the overalls (the most prominent piece of clothing besides the hat) should be red/green while the shirt is blue for an accent color.

As I was working on the rest of the first lineup of enemies, I found there's a lot of duplicate code or very similar code that needs to be shared/refactored. I'm finding myself having to think outside the box with object composition more than I ever have before. Anything in the name of efficiency.

Realizing the Wii is about as old now as was the NES when James Rolfe started AVGN

Grappling hook was literally the first thing I had in mind when making my game.

I need some very broad and aggressive block lists to keep AI slop off my feed. Anyone know where to search for these?

My parents had to confront the superintendent with a lawyer. Expulsion was kept off my record, but I still decided exiling myself and doing online homeschooling was for the best going forward. Not like I had any friends there anyways.

To set the record straight I never would have hurt anyone, but I also never got along with most people in that school because of severe trust issues. I was also extremely prone to nervous breakdowns, so that whole concoction made me kind of scary to be around, I could only guess. (cont.)

so this is how I find out animated GIFs don't work properly on bluesky....

Making particle effects is so funny to me like WTF do you mean I can use the same stupid ink blot I made with a Krita brush and it can turn into all these different smoke and flame patterns?

Needing to write a list that breaks big tasks into smaller steps so I don't get stuck in analysis paralysis, while also hating that it makes me feel like I'm doing monotonous busywork.

AuDHD makes it really fucking hard to stay productive.

If you see this, post a picture from your device without explanation

As I like to say, when you try to appeal to everybody, you end up appealing to nobody.

LRTs: yeah it's that same shit I keep seeing out of JP devs. Sakurai probably isn't committing to using GenAI himself, but just passively accepting that it's something that improves efficiency in game development still sits wrong with me, because it pretty provably doesn't!

My japanese literacy isn't great but if we're being generous, he's humoring it as an act of desperation some studios may take while not making any comment about its validity as a substitute for human creativity.
Whatever it is, it reeks.

the bite of '87

It's not just because they betray the characters' personalities in the source material, they also have just plain awful and cringeworthy dialogue writing you'd expect out of the average middle schooler

People liked the Castlevania netflix show until season 3 dropped the ball and Nocturne was even less liked by fans of the games for a variety of reasons.

"I hope you get a terminal illness" is too weak as an insult.
"I hope Adi Shankar makes a show about your favorite video game" is much scarier and more likely at this point.

How was it?

Roland TD-7 percussion sound module and accompanying electronic drum kit

My dad needed to move more things out of storage so I now have an electronic drum kit in my custody. (I've already been taking a lot of his old music gear).
Playing drums is way harder than it looks, as it turns out. Takes a lot of work to get your feet to play ball with what your hands are doing.