This is the crushing nail in the coffin with the situation for me as well. The relevant rules state the event should not be sanctioned. 'what if someone was terrible enough to a marginalized group to make them never even try to sign up' is not a get out of jail free card for discrimination!

As I know a number of people I interact with adjacent to games, gamers, tournament series, and trans rights, I am retweeting this regarding what's going on in Tournament Pinball in the last week. Surprise, it's transphobia that the TO and sanctioning org are shitting the bed on.

🔥 23rd Anniversary 🔥 Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter was released in Japan on PlayStation 2 on this day! Here's an action-packed cutscene where Ryu first encounters and saves Nina from a rogue Cyclops genic. Stay tuned. We've got something fun to share for the anniversary!

It's gotten a lot harder for me to stream lately for reasons, but one of them is that it's so much harder for me now, emotionally, to stream into the void. I don't know how to resolve that.

I checked out Million Depth, I think on @moomanibe.bsky.social mentioning it having a demo a couple months back, and I'm liking where it's at. Also its gummi-ship resonance-of-fate-esque weapon/shield crafting is a lot. The progress carried from the demo too. store.steampowered.com/app/2555950/...

I wish I believed I was in a world where I could be neither too much, nor not enough. Where when I showed people my jagged edges, they didn't take it as proof I wasn't worth knowing to start with. Even 12 points better on the depression battery, I still can't see it. Love the song though.

Closed the book on Wizardry V SNES today. Last boss was a chump compared to everything else I had to fight to get ready for surviving the pre-last-boss encounters, including the superboss loop I had to do 4 times thanks to Retroachievements. I saw people saying V was a real shift, and it was.

Fuck that term, it's not good, read the article.

So I decided to pick up Wizardry 5 (SNES) and I have to say, while it is still a big pile of bullshit like any wizardry, it has done numerous things which are significant leaps forward in terms of its game mechanics and design. It has a 'memo' feature that has all NPC speech you've seen.

"...this is about the most Falcom-y thing Falcom ever Falcom’d..." Beautiful, feature-rich, and still a PC Engine exclusive, The Legendof Xanadu is a charming RPG: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2020/07/13/a...

I'll be more clear: Every large US-based logistics operation largely (or only) exists because of government subsidy, often military related. The people who have a vested interest in lying to you about that, AKA, republicans, should make you suspicious.

There's an old parable of 'why should we care about prejudical jokes' because even if 99% of people think it's in poor taste but keeps silent, the 1% nazi thinks you're on their team don't let the nazis think you are on their team if you can help it

10/10 take. No notes.

not always, actually. fat and thin people need food. chosen food, tasty food, food nutritious for your particular body, food of plenty. a dearth of food does not always cause weight loss. i've studied fatness for over 4 decades. glib comments about fatness are often wrong.

It has been a month, and Retroachievements still has the line that it functions as an archival platform in its code of conduct. That statement is false on its face, and continues to need to be corrected. 'Archival' is not the secret codeword for 'content neutral', and RA is not content neutral.

I have had this problem before with personal/professional account blends. It really blows. On Twitter I made a dummy account that just followed the people who had me blocked, which I still needed to follow the professional activities, and made it a column in tweetdeck, but that is terrible!

Alright, that's credits on Wizardry 3, so I've completed the SNES Wizardry 1-2-3 release. It was an interesting experience. You could see the game devs learning as the games went on, and while the first game has a standard big bad, the 2nd and 3rd are quest chains with no 'end boss'.

So a very interesting thing about Wizardry 3 is that they took the training wheels off: there's not a level 1 murphy's ghost scenario. You do have to engage with the game a little more both to get started, and to increase your levels.

An interesting note about Wizardry 2: based on dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/NESM... ) the NES manual indicated the existence of a secret optional boss that involves going on a long optional path on the final floor (the 'final boss' of Wizardry 2 is a puzzle, not a fight.) An early RPG superboss!

Wizardry 2 down. As an early instance of carrying characters between games, the whole character carry over thing is more drawback than benefit, as flavorful as it is. (May be SNES version specific.) The quest is significantly expanded, despite only being a 6 floor dungeon instead of a 10.

In hollywood in the 80s-00s, every time media did well with a female lead, it was dismissed, an aberration, a black swan, just fangirls, no crossover appeal. Women watched male leads in various media just fine, no need for anything else. This sort of motivated reasoning is a common trap.

I want to pull this out and turn it against Magic: the Gathering for a moment, and the Universes Beyond push. The thing I think of when I see Fox say this is what have become to be called 'hat sets': a Magic set where the set's conception seems more about the coat of paint.

A gun person I know always thought the Cheney shot a friend hunting was dumb, because they were in a hunting scenario where you were supposed to stay in specific areas for safety's sake and the guy didn't. Anyway, they are both dead now.

I'm always sad wheen speedrun marathon volunteer opportunities are closed by the time you know if your run was accepted. I know it's a me thing, not an everyone thing, but once I know I'm going, I would probably be happy to help out! And travelling only to volunteer would be really hard on me!

Holy shit. @shmuplations.bsky.social translated a massive thread of old tweets from Hideo Yoshizawa that goes deep into the NES Ninja Gaiden's development, including finally confirming the Castlevania influence shmuplations.com/ninjagaiden/

The Running Man got in! Oh darn, I need to find amiga hardware now maybe...

The NRG series continues to do an excellent job, much like SCG as its predecessor, of passively making the case that WotC organized play could be doing so, so, SO much more. The amount of resources WotC could point at Magic organized play is quite high. They just... would rather not.

On the wizardry report, it took me less playtime to to rescue my characters and then proceed not to use them. They had some gear improvement, but now they're the backup squad because the second squad I built more powerfully. My ninja could become good any time now, though, that'd be nice.

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." -Anatole France

And there's the eventual dagger: On the last floor, an enemy which decided to do more damage than you can actually reasonably have HP. 12 hours of playtime resting as 6 corpses on the last level. Can't get back there w/o doing everything again. Will have to think about restarting.

The ending of EBA still fucking hits, even when I'm only watching it. #gdqueer

So I'm playing Wizardry 1 due to thinking about how many games inspired by the wizardry tradition I play, from Hydlide to Dragon Quarter to Soulslikes. If it weren't for murphy's ghost, I'm not sure how playable this game would be (opinion not fully formed), but with it, it's a complete grindfest.

I just bought my 2nd secret lair proper, for Aloy. Why? Because it was still available today when I had the time to consider it and an ad reminded me of it with a picture of Aloy. I thought, 'huh, stuff is still available?' and it was. A shame that no lessons can be learned from this user journey.

I did something last night that caused me significant anxiety that I was unable to put aside until well into today. Maybe that's normal for some people, but for me, that is incredibly abnormal. Put on the list of things I have to deal with to be 12 points better on the depression array, I guess.

My 'niche favorite' movie is The Long Kiss Goodnight. Geena Davis playing a bit against type and Samuel L Jackson playing very on type in a spy thriller that pulls off a number of things a lot of media fails to do.

As regards powergaming: Hopefully this clears things up.

Earlier today I mentioned the JP love of Wizardry games, because it really is such a fundamental piece of understanding a large segment of japanese RPG development, but I didn't realize just how many JP-first spinoffs the series had! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardr...

Dark Souls New Game+es are a little weird to me, structurally. Replay the game except the bosses are harder and you will likely not significantly increase your capabilities in the process because nothing is new or better. It's just boss rush challenge mode tacked onto the end of a build game.

For gamers who aren't in game dev, you should know that we are in one of the worst periods in game dev history in terms of industry stability and the reason you're not seeing that play out through products is because the average development window of games is 3-7 years so it hasn't reached you yet.

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

This game is absolutely worth your time and money. Six to one.

I know a lot of tech people aren't seeing the pressure the Trump admin is causintg regarding DEI and funding as hitting them the same way universities, basic science, or state level orgs are, but this is a meaningful example of how toxic the US Government under Trump is.

This Rollercoaster Tycoon video is an actual work of emotionally-gripping mad genius

Hey, @gavinverhey.bsky.social so, opinion on hybrid mana: After thought, I think the Phyrexian flip cards, with an off-color phyrexian mana cost to turn to the backside, make it clear that the color identity argument of 'how did the designers intend it to be used' don't work

I am standing in a masons lodge engaged in one of the large few living RP campaigns in the world, a community of less than a few hundred. The last two weekends have been so different in terms of the spaces and interaction. I still want to be practicing Dragon Quarter.

A major part of Back to the Future is that Marty manages to dig himself out of a patriarchal family bad habit of not being able to resist a challenge to his manhood: chicken/yellow immediately stops him. it's not subtle. we see the outcome in the future: enasculated and bitter, and he escapes it

"I myself ain't much for flying. But Dog seems to enjoy it a lot. That's all that really matters." Done in Procreate #columbo #megaman

Sikhs have been feeding anyone who shows up for free once a day or more for about five and a half centuries. Gudwaras by definition have industrial kitchens for the purpose.

I am over 9 hours into Unfair Flips, tens of thousands of flips, and haven't seen the true ending. I love that this game exists, because people don't deal with the true implications of probability. Even when everyone starts from an even point, the results of a probabilistic process are not even.

Tokyo Xtreme Racer: fun game to play! Tokyo Xtreme Racer achievement set: monstrous. 1) Return to garage 364 times (will not happen by the time you get the true ending, NG+ resets this count) 2) Get 100 BAD names (will not happen by the time you get the true ending)