A bunch of conservatives overdosing NSAIDS and living in pain because they believe acetaminophin will do something they think is bad is hilarious On the other hand, they will also withhold a safe pain med from their children over complete nonsense. So hard to get good schadenfreude these days

The boss theme popped up in my playlist and reminded me: the penultimate boss of the Law route in SMT V: Vengeance is cool as fuck In the most edge-lord way possible, of course, just like the rest of the game youtu.be/ydPwlpnq4KY?...

Maybe they're going to stop holding it in one of the most expensive cities in one of the most dangerous-to-visit countries on earth! Or maybe people are getting fed up with providing hundreds of hours of free expert labor to donate to a for-profit company

I made some process/implementation videos to help some folks out, in case anyone is interested!

Anyone have a good beginner guide for setting up a home media server? Search results are all over the place and have a bad signal-to-noise ratio Somebody on reddit posted this as a good “beginner” setup 🤨

This is so grotesque

Kinda funny that Savage Beastfly has one of the simplest attack patterns of any boss I’ve fought so far, but it is also the hardest by quite a lot. Like 15-20 attempts in, 3x as many as Moorwing took me, and still going xD

Ummm

I just think it's really cute that humans anthropomorphize everything and may take care of literally any given creature as a pet. like, if we came across a wild species of rat that would randomly adopt local bugs and snakes and take care of them, we'd be IN LOVE, right? that's humans! wow!

A lot of broken clocks right at the same time, weird Someone found a strong enough microscope to get the world's first glimpse of archconservatives' principles

I can't tell if the tactical stuff will be fun to play from the snippets I'm seeing in trailers but there is a lot of really cool-looking shit happening in this game Definitely gonna try this shit out

Here is my grenade— Er, _contribution_ to the difficulty discourse

What do you call UI that’s non-diegetic within the game-within-a-game context but IS diegetic to the real life player diegetic-non-diegetic UI is a menace to UX taxonomists everywhere

This is interesting. I always thought those parts sucked and shouldn't have been there. However I feel even more strongly that remakes should not be making creative calls of this magnitude.

I think if you liked Utena you should try Land of the Lustrous If you liked Sailor Moon you should try Utena And, well, simply everyone should try Sailor Moon.

He wants to play so bad (I gave in and played with him for like 20 minutes right after this, lol)

The "make sure you have real experiences" advice is old hat of course, always good advice, but I've never heard someone articulate this idea that it also causes one to enjoy playing games more. It seems intuitively obvious when stated, but just not something I'd really spent time considering before

I sorely wished that this had had a second season.

If you want an enjoyable TV escape, @paigeedits.bsky.social and I are loving “Bon Appetite, Your Majesty” right now. A period Kdrama about a Michelin star French chef woman getting cast back to the time of a Joseon tyrant who also happens to be an infamous gourmet.

This controller is such a huge improvement over the Switch Pro controller I was using before. D-Pad feels much better to me. Satisfying mechanical feedback on shoulders and face buttons. Solid feel. Very happy with it. This’ll be my new go-to for D-pad games. (8bitdo Pro 3)

We should probably be legally mandating independent editorial control for any publication that claims to be news

Army of Two (2008)

Brasil continuing to be the definition of cool

Every sport would be improved by level design Right now every sport except, like, golf (ew) is the equivalent of playing [all-Fox, Final Destination, no items], know what I mean? I want more takeshi's castle in my sports

I think the low max health, frequent healing that recharges by damaging enemies… is an absolutely brilliant change to the formula from HK. It means that you’re constantly feeling tension, because you’re never THAT safe. But ALSO you can always recover if you just play well for a few moments.

I thought Moorwing was an awesome boss. Every time I lost it was because I got greedy. It was easy to tell what was happening. The second phase was a pretty fluid evolution from the first, with well-telegraphed phases. Took me… 7-8 tries. Felt amazing when I beat it.

I had previously in the past disabled autoplay Apparently the dumbfucks at Bsky defaulted it back to on at some point. So don't assume it's off even if you have in fact turned it off before Settings -> Content & Media -> Autoplay Videos & gifs -> Uncheck

Silksong reaffirming the fact that blade attacks clashing off of each other is cool as hell

Maybe this will be the Miyamoto retirement announcement. Poetic to do it on SMB’s 40th anniversary right? The man is 72. I suspect it’ll be after the Zelda movie though

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Hell yeah. I was lucky to get to contribute a few small write-ups to this one, for Super Metroid and Super Mario World. The first two editions were gorgeous, so excited to get my hands on this final one.

Very excited to get my 7th health mask in Silksong, lol With most boss attacks so far doing 2 HP, going from 5 to 6 still means dying after three hits. Odd numbers are the magic tipping point FOR NOW.

Ponder Mortality in the Maze

There's an interview with a somewhat disgruntled animator who worked on the Zelda CD-i games, the man is a legend, I had to make a highlight image My masterpiece

Love seeing how much contempt the "leaders" of our industry have for expertise, every day Impossible to respect a creative leadership team that thinks this is the right way to go. Why do all the people in charge of games hate games, and hate the people that make them? Baffling shit

I've put way more hours into Etrian Odyssey than Silksong over the last few days xD Though that's partially because EO is easier to play in small bursts or with distractions. I've never been able to get into 1st-person dungeon crawls, despite their huge important to the medium. Until now

He has to be in my lap while i work because the mean cat kicked him out of his bed This creates some difficulties vis-a-vis, uh, arm logistics

I wonder how many people are experiencing Silksong as their first Metroidvania right now. I'm preeeetty sure it has escaped the usual demo, and a lot of people are going to be experiencing something new. A lot of them will not like it because it's still a pretty niche genre. But we'll see converts

Yeah. D-pad is absolutely superior. You want crisp delineation between the cardinal directions to pull off directional attacks and platforming, and you want to be able to give fast input.

"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see

The swap away from The Wind Waker's style to Twilight Princess's realistic one, as a result of fan feedback, has some interesting historical nuance. It has the same root cause as the DS and the Wii: Satoru Iwata's worries about global market conditions #Zelda #TheWindWaker #TwilightPrincess

my brain wouldn't stop screaming until i doodled this, here you go

When I saw the layoff meeting on my calendar at Bungie, I immediately grabbed my coworker and spent 2hrs showing him the system I was making, that I knew he'd have to finish. I almost felt more bad for him than myself. I saw only crunch in his future, since that train wasn't gonna slow down Almost

I already thought this song was cool as fuck even _before_ I knew it came in a flash of high speed inspiration for a guy riding a sleek Japanese motorcyle (presumably) youtu.be/mMvKDRCBQBM

HAH, right before he made Ace Attorney he was the DINO CRISIS guy, incredible range He should combine the two

huhhhh That's pretty damn cool

"A"s are a measure of artist casualties per square meter of game world It is logarithmic

These look like Hive runes We could make city-specific arcane symbol sets this way

What am I doing Why did I start Etrian Odyssey at midnight the night before Silksong comes out

Secret of Evermore is so interesting. - EP was the Lode Runner designer - Composer went on to Elder Scrolls (though is a real piece of shit, turns out) - Design lead has a special thanks in Super Metroid credits Folks from the team went on to work on Metroid Prime, Rocket League, Destiny, way more