Balina‼

It's always fun when you play the games out of order and have a moment like, "Oh, that's why that enemy has that one bafflingly precise animation; it was meant to make use of this one stage gimmick"

You'd think it would be because they don't show up in the big mirror taking up one of the walls, but based on my experience, half the damn time the hairdressers don't show up in them, either.

I think every system's writer inevitably feels like they're just "a hack" of whatever systems they drew the most inspiration from, frankly. Lancer takes a *lot* of its out-of-the-mech guts from Blades in the Dark, for example, but I don't think people mistake them for one another.

If they don't enjoy the random bunny posts what the heck did they come here for

Legitimately looked for and failed to find that precise image earlier, thank you

I keep reading that as "unraisins your brain" and thinking this is just a weird form of mind play

exorcised

okay i take back part of what i said, the zombie parts can go jump off a cliff

"Everyone you're sneaking past is underpaid, extremely tired of being here, and dumb as a bag of hammerites" was a vital part of making that game *work*.

Opening to Zero Wing with text edited to read "it is AD 2101 and there is time for Klax".

definitely know a few people that list Spike Beagle as their first fictional crush

Nah, man, you do what you gotta to take care of yourself.
If that means shouting down the parts of you that make things worse by calling them a weenie, that's what you do.

Okay hold on are you saying that you've externalized your worst impulses as coming from a tiny Vegeta in your head?
Because if so, that whips.

Oh, hm.

Given what we saw back on B058, and saw here.

You must have done some very horrible things in the margins.

Don't worry, we won't tell. 💙

Oh! We're here. <3

Info dumping is pretty hot, is the thing

*ahem*

New crone who dis

Okay you're posed like you're gonna swap it with a bag of sand or something, but we all know it's gonna be the boulder chasing you in a moment.

Queen of treasure isle on Steam Poor Windy has come to search for the treasure hidden on the island. The queens who protect the island are not afraid of her as long as she doesn't do anything unnecessary.

Literally anything I can do to help this game get more traction is worthwhile, tbh.

store.steampowered.com/app/3382070/...

The header for a Steam guide titled, "Finding Those Treasures" - "Map locations of all 100 basic treasures, along with hints."

A Steam guide header for another guide called "Finding Those Trophies"

"Finding That Equipment"

"Finding Those Hearts"

I finished writing one guide for this game (I appear to actually be the first person, period, to have written a guide for this, despite the game being over a year old), and naturally the process of researching it means that I started working on three more immediately.

Yeah, but watching him lift it is inspiring.

I love you so much, damn it.
Despite and perhaps because of nonsense like this.💙

It's true, I'll give you more cookies than you know what to do with for being that polite.

She's making this exact face!!!

I want it on record that the one in the middle was hidden behind a spoiler tag when she put it on Discord.

She has been jumpscaring me with front-facing polite Balina ever since she drew it as part of a pitch for another commission.

WOMEN!
IN!
SUITS!

I don't think I want Tammy and Roxie to be actively antagonistic with each other but this doodled its way into existence and it amused me

A pictogram of Windy tearing up a map, throwing into the garbage, and giving a thumbs-up at a fresh clean folder. There is a "👍❓" acting as confirmation.

The same image, but now all three images of Windy are looking at the camera directly and the emojis now read "👍❓❓"

Now she's staring directly at the camera, and the emojis have gone back to "👍❓", but the background has gone dark and all three copies of Windy are staring EXTRA hard at you.

Queen of Treasure Isle does not screw around with making sure you mean it when you say to delete a save file.

Maybe unsurprisingly, I couldn't stop thinking about it. So I asked @roxannarachnid.bsky.social to double-check for me, and sure enough.

What am I even supposed to do with this information!?

I appreciate that an essential detail of Aunt Fritzi's version is that both of them are wearing much bigger boots.