jc denton: word on the street is people can get anything from you. vaccines. drugs. even bofa. deus ex npc: what's bofa? jc denton, pulling out gun: i'm asking the questions here.

tie fighter battle 2 remains one of the best stories that's ever been told about the imperial era of star wars. you're the dominant galactic power and you're nominally here to pacify some civil war that's been going on for generations, what's your strategy?

out of the blue with no particular trigger beyond a lengthy bus ride, took some time to appreciate In a Glass House again today. What an extraordinary album www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3t4...

Stolen from an Animorphs Facebook group.

oh hey, sweet. [oc]

almost left this 2020 banger behind on twitter so time to repost it

this may be somewhat difficult to believe, but the highly-anticipated sequel game I've been playing lately was quite good

play shoot-em-ups

Japanese STG folk have kicked off a STG stream rally for this weekend: 135 players casually challenging all manner of shooting games, from now until 23:00 Monday JP time sites.google.com/view/shootin... 🇯🇵 the schedule's not super consise, so search シューティング配信祭 on twitch, yt etc for best results

The abstract form of the parry and i-frame style of combat is the rhythm game, which we see demonstrated in Sekiro: attacks are like a rhythm pattern you learn and respond to, with timing paramount. The logical conclusion of avoidance response combat, though, is the shmup, with spacing paramount.

finally a game that captures what I've been missing in platformers since Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt

referring to metroidvanias as "hollowslop" to simultaneously piss off people who like metroidvanias, people who like hollow knight, people who want a better genre name for "metroidvania", people who are sick of the word slop being misused, and gradius fans who want to see more checkpoint recoveries

peak STG performance.....

tribes, even bad tribes, continues to be some of the most fun you can have in a team objective fps www.twitch.tv/colonelfatso...

Air Canada, union reach deal, forcing travelers to fly Air Canada again

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

It did great if short-lived damage to me in my early 20s. PUA content exploited my insecurities, sent me spiralling down a hole of performative masculinity and self-erasure. I was working out and dieting - nothing wrong with that, but it wasn't on my terms, it was rooted in inadequacy. Didn't work.

all modulations can be accomplished with a combination of planing suspended chords and Just Fucking Going For It.

here's a death you can actually mourn www.whec.com/top-news/roc...

Heads up to GDQ folks, just picked up a sore throat and runny nose. Initial covid test is negative but if we hung out in the latter days of the event it's probably worth checking for yourself

sorry but this sucks. consolidation is ruining space. we used to have lots of places to get sucked into an event horizon beyond comprehension and soon it’s just gonna be one infinitely dense point of matter. count me out

From the SGDQ album, a photo that captured the mm3 2p experience a little too well.

I lived bitch

Rayforce on stage in like 5-10 twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

Two last coins played, two clears (both kinda sketch). See you tomorrow morning

I'll never get over the fact that the single best exit I can think of in any fiction ever is from skeletor

Speedruns only (no score attacks) and nothing from my VCR era Runs learned: 15-ish Best place: 1st Worst place: 40th (MMX3 any%) Longest run (single): Gun Hazard (2:45:15) Longest run (multi): MM1-6 (3:18:07) Shortest run: Pugsley SNES (16:07) Most fun: Pugsley Least fun: MMX3 (still fun)

Consistency is still a major problem for me (lol just don't make 5 mistakes in a half-hour game, ez) but I think the gigantic PB I just got at least vindicates the effort I've been putting in, and I'm sure I'll have no regrets no matter what happens on stage.

capture card still set up for 240p from when I was testing the supergun but just got a monster pb and crossed the 8.5M line

It's alive! Barely any config required and it even works with 240p direct capture. Autofire on the box is insufficient (I need 30hz and it's like 12) so I would need to build my own auto circuit if I wanted to use this as more than a toy.

just kidding lol (I was very smart and did not order a jamma extension harness so we are not gaming just yet) Look at this absolute unit

gdq prep (not on the pcb) www.twitch.tv/colonelfatso

oops (I have ordered a supergun but it's still probably a couple months out at least, so this just sits in the box under my bed until then)

recent crank thing I started doing is get annoyed when they're called "fight sticks" and not "arcade sticks"

holy moly XWVM finally had a public release www.moddb.com/mods/xwvm

I'll never forget the moment I re-read Lucifer's Hammer as an adult after loving it as a teenager and somehow for the first time actually noticed the passage where the hero muses "at least with the apocalypse feminism is dead and we can have women as trophies again"

I finally did it. I finally got the perfect Mew photo. 🥲

What's the hardest speedrun or challenge run you've done. Not even your best, just the hardest to do. Don't be humble- let it rip

apropos of nothing, I may happen to be an upcoming jamma board owner and in the market for a quality usb-compatible supergun. Anyone with arcade purchasing experience have suggestions for brands/manufacturers?

this, but also (wrt specifically gdq and other events) -- once people have been to enough events they do tend to act in cliquish ways around the people they're familiar with, and I'm not immune to this, but I promise if you come to me with a question about my games I will be delighted to answer.

Slowly edging towards being able to clear on any arbitrary credit. Had a casual second-best score which probably could have PB'd by a hair but took unnecessary deaths on the final boss milk. Gonna have to dedicate a lengthy practice session to the boring work of getting that locked down.

lol, lmao. ate too much or something and now I'm fuckin exhausted, but I'll still watch the replay and maybe do a bit of practice after. twitch.tv/colonelfatso

I'm home, after spending a bonus couple days at RPGLB following my time at Shmup Slam 7. Feeling decently energetic today after a night's sleep in my own bed, so I think this evening I'll restream and commentate the PB I got at the arcade, then do some more practice and play a few credits.

oops, got the run one credit late. Shoulda played today instead