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@spinning_bird Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Running my first game of Dune: Adventures in the Imperium this week. I got sandworms 3d printed to use as tokens / counters. Wish me luck!

Anyway, the team went on to make the Dreamcast game Death Crimson OX, which also got an arcade release as well. It, unsurprisingly, is also a lightgun game. But this one looks not only more competently made, but actually somewhat fum.

Mind-blowingly enough, the same company went on to develop […]

After the game's release in Japan, Famitsu gave it an almost record low score. It regularly placed top (or maybe bottom?) on lists of the worst games.

But the company still stood behind the game, and fans still held their vigils. For many years after release, there were fan meetups featuring […]

So apparently Crimson belongs to someone named Combat Echizen. The Mugen wiki is full of explanations of his moves there, but not much info otherwise. YouTube videos of him are hilarious.

But I'd heard that name before. In the discussions on the Angband ladder forum about what the best possible […]

Going down the rabbit hole with #FrogComPosBand references:

So I screwed up my previous run (gnome burglar) and tried a death sword, but got ambushed in the wilderness by a basilisk at lvl17. It was going so smoothly, too! I decided to try a magic eater, so I was doing some research on the […]

Well, I screwed it up.

I was feeling optimistic and fighting a behemoth in the lower reaches of the arena in #FrogComPosBand, when my heaviest attacks all missed. Well, not such a problem I thought, I'll stun him. But my staff was out of charges and he decided to summon. Okay, this isn't […]

@GamingWolf This is giving me some real Voodoo 3 vibes.

Haven't screwed it up yet!

#FrogComPosBand run is still ongoing. Ran around the Arena dungeon trying out my new lvl50 Assassinate skill. After so many failed runs, it feels extremely good to be able to one shot great when (if they're sleeping, at least).

Got a new cloak, shuffled around some […]

Made it up to lvl50 in #FrogComPosBand with my Gnome burglary rogue. Probably jinxing it by posting about it, though.

I didn't realize rogues could max out dual wielding, so halfway through lvl49 I started trying it out and despite a little drop in resistances, it got me an extra ~100 damage […]

Been getting back into #FrogComPosBand lately. Got my gnome burglar up to level 41. Playing a stealthy character is pretty interesting compared to a regular warrior type. Being able to selectively clear out enemies without waking almost anyone up is an interesting change of pace. Burglars have […]

@danielholt I getcha. That game blew me away, I will always rep for it.

@GamingWolf = anxiety!

At least for me. Due to the complexity and speed of play necessary, I always feel like I'm missing some opportunity I might not even know about, even if I'm winning.

Haven't seriously played one since Warcraft 3.

@danielholt Excellent point! I keep wanting to hack something together with a Raspberry Pi and dual touchscreens, but a used 3DS is probably cheaper and is definitely more simple to operate.

@danielholt Have you played The Witness?

@danielholt The original Celeste was in Pico-8, I believe. I played it from within the game and it was really fun.

@danielholt Anbernic RG35xxH is way less and plays way more...

Time for gaming has been at a premium lately, so I've been playing Magic Survival on my phone.

I'm still amazed that it inspired basically a whole genre of games while still not yet being at version 1.0.

@ben Hate to agree with you, but yeah. Gone are the glory days, as with most gaming media sites nowadays. If you have any alternatives, I'm all ears.

@ottomancer I don't know if you're still around on Mastodon, but I hear you have run some Dune: Adventures in the Imperium. Care to share any advice?

I'm going to try and run a Dune ttrpg with some friends of mine in the near future. I've written up a few plot hooks and scenarios but I was wondering if anyone else has any experience with the Modiphius 2d20 Dune system, or if you think there are any key moments from the books or movies you […]

@GamingWolf Oh, Dusk is so good! So many lovely curveballs thrown your way in that game. Truly delectable tension!

Been playing through Chapter 2 of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. I had the difficulty set on very low because I just don't have time to replay things. I barely have time to play such a heavy game anyway, but I wasn't using like any of my fun abilities. I fought a meaty boss monster and it […]

In today's musical shenanigans news, this track made me smirk uncontrollably:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_piwQWV1o4k

In other really interesting audio adventure news, I finally found some fantastic full albums from the early days of mashups:

https://archive.org/details/@mrfabriaa

@GamingWolf

@FullyAutomatedRPG Tom Arnold! A very under appreciated movie. So many dumb little bits that have stuck with me all these years.

"The drive B!"

"It's Lloyd." "We've been getting it wrong all this time."

So great, so stupid. I'm my own grandpa.

Been digging through Tunic lately and while being consistently fun, it does a few things exceptionally well. One, I love finding the instruction booklet pages to learn more about the world. Two, using that mechanic to obfuscate other game mechanics is a brilliant move.

But the moment to moment […]

Joystick Gates & Inserts Paradise Custom Gates & Inserts | OEM Gates & Inserts - Paradise Arcade Shop

@Sobtanian These are mainly for arcades, but some are compatible with PC/USB sticks, I think.

https://paradisearcadeshop.com/collections/joystick-gates-inserts

@Sobtanian They do make different shaped gates like this for arcade-style joysticks.

I'm trying to get into Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, but I'm running into two problems. One, it keeps crashing when I hover over too many inventory items in a row. Two, I just don't think I have enough time to do it justice. I only get 1-2 hours of unbroken gaming time a week and this is […]