valerie

engagement brain is a horrible rot.

the ultimate recession indicator

I put my games up on sale on itch and Steam to… celebrate? I don’t know if that’s the right word, but you can grab some RPGs for cheaper than usual.

my favorite works are the ones where you can easily tell the creator(s) were incredibly frustrated nobody had done that idea before them

they should make real roguelikes like nethack instead actually

MHGU on PC with multiplayer synced small monsters would fix the world...

they're also explicitly outright banning multiple games, many of them from queer creators i follow.

lol

that new [insert fighting game here] season pass is looking super cool!!!

"I'm in Love with the Villainess" and it's spinoff/retelling "She's so Cheeky for a Commoner" are complete, most of what's translated for "The Executioner and her Way of Life", the first volume of "Adachi and Shimamura", and the first 3/4 translated volumes of "ROLL OVER AND DIE"

i will find you

genuinely can't imagine being a yuri fan that exclusively watches anime adaptations, you basically get like 1/8th of a story and there's a good chance the anime butchers it anyways.

go pick up those light novels and read em, some of them even have English audiobook versions now

gonna start a rehabilitation program to get yuri artists help for their gambling addictions so they can learn to draw art of non-gacha game girls that aren't the literal personifications of rampant consumerism & capitalism

its literally my heater during the winter lmfao

summer means capping some games to 60 fps to reduce my GPU temps so my room isn't boiling hot

:)

not yet they don't

slay the princess is a perfectly written game for people who search for "five nights at freddy's ending explained" on google

oh yeah even with the quirks it's 100% worth it and much better than how i played it on 3DS originally: playing as Lest for 70% of the game and then changing my skin to Frey once i unlocked it (and then getting misgendered by everyone anyways lol)

the lesbian mod for RF4 is not perfect since its functionally just copy/pasting Frey over Lest and then rewriting the dialogue* but it does acknowledge how annoying some of the quirks are lol

*there is also a hex edit method that fixes some of the quirks but introduces a ton of others

i hate that you're right. i've bought too many of these cursed things in the past few years, after my latest one broke i bought razer's g502 clone (basilisk) in the hopes it will last longer

they don't happen often enough that you feel the need to bait them out when you could just keep doing damage otherwise, but Burst Counters are also not trivial to pull off, the frame timing for a lot of them is very tight.

nioh 2 is a good example of how to implement Enemy Attack Tells and Perfect Dodge/Parries without making the entire combat revolve around them. only Big Attacks have the indicator and these attacks will often Fuck You Up, are Unblockable and often difficult to dodge unless you Burst Counter it

I Am Begging Game Developers To Stop Making Every Game's Combat System The Exact Same Generic Shit

every enemy also has an EXTREMELY obvious attack indicator so there isn't even like, a challenge to it? you just hit dodge when the tell shows up and there you go, insta kill every enemy with zero difficulty. i got to the first boss on hard mode and i literally one shot it with a special move lol

playing RF4 and getting more annoyed at the combat in the newest rune factory game. new rune factory's combat is designed to annoy me because the most Optimal way to fight Every Enemy in that game is to wait for an attack and then perfect dodge because it just freezes enemies in time for 15 seconds

all of the farming and crafting shit got super streamlined/simplified and replaced with a shallow town building mechanic. some people might like it, i hate it.

new rune factory sucks, installed lesbian mod for rune factory 4 instead

anyways this is true in real life also: