Shining Force 2 tonight. POSSIBLY finishing it out? I'm not sure. We've only got a couple more battles, but Shining Force endgames are traditionally a pain in the ass for me and I usually take a second run-up to clear the endgame hurdle. WELL WE'LL FIND OUT! 9:30 PM Eastern, the usual place.

Some Dreamcast love. ♥️

i love drawing moogles like this mix of toy, person, and animal. love to give them oddly thick ears. it's also always fun drawing like, animal-like eyes with huge irises or colored sclera.

Recently I grabbed a copy of Rare Replay because I made a dark pact with an idiot drunkard and I re-discovered something: I really love Jetpac, the 1983 single-screen shooter. I kinda want to just sit around and play it for a while. It'll keep my mind off the heat. Live now. www.twitch.tv/xyzzysqrl/

It's too hot to work today

In the classic PS2 pachinko RPG PachiPara 13, you graduate high school with no job prospects in a stagnant economy with blatant wealth inequality. Trapped in poverty, you live in a shed in a back yard with three roommates and your only income is gambling, the lynchpin of the entire financial system.

Three of the coolest movies of all time are the Utena Movie, Speed Racer, and Redline and all of them are about the transformative power of both anime and a car going so fast it shatters the fabric of reality.

Hi, it's Kawaiikochans. It's certainly "Kentucky Route Zero," deshou?

More Shining Force 2 tonight. Last night I gave my favorite characters shiny new mithril gear to help them bop the bads even easier, creating an economic system where only the rich get richer and it becomes harder for unequipped underleveled characters to catch up. Capitalism ho! 9:30 PM Eastern.

I think microwaves should have an "I'm feeling lucky" button that picks a random time and locks the door

Sometimes I'm sad for no apparent reason. Then sometimes I'm sad for a VERY apparent reason (hongry)

This was gonna just be a warmup sketch but I ended up locking in a bit more. While chatting with a friend today, I realized I need this reminder now and then.

Like no part of me is going "In a perfect world, we'd bring back physical media!" it's "in a perfect world, we'd kill DRM"

I just hit ignore on a game on Steam I was interested in because the AI disclosure said "AI was not used in the game in any way, it was only used to create the store banner image" and I'll do it again, and I'm not alone. We're not normalizing this shit.

We're back into Shining Force 2, and I am informed that tonight we will enter a gacha period, in which we draw random weapons and reset until we get the correct good ones, at which point I guess we never play the game again because we won. Something like that. It'll be fun! 9:30 PM Eastern.

Literally any game can have more favorable discussion surrounding it when we stop rewarding creators who will shit on anything for clicks and views This doesn't make the games better, but it makes the gaming space better. I'm not delusional, I know FF7 is a better game, but I love the Quest lol

I keep imaging if people talked about comedy the way they talk about horny art. “Oh, this movie could have been good but they ruined it by adding in all these unnecessary jokes” “you can tell the author just wrote it this way because he was feeling funny” “this is just chuckleslop”

We're back to Pokemon Emerald Seaglass tonight at 9:30 PM Eastern and it's really starting to show that I've never actually finished RSE before, isn't it? I kinda thought there was a gym in Fallarbor Town. Apparently there isn't! Oops. Uh... well, surely we'll find one if we wander hard enough!

Even in the 90s, Bioware/Black Isle knew that there were between 18 and 66 genders. We've lost so much to time.

"Okay so first thing, we just want the achievements so go into Cheats and turn on Infinite Lives, these games are basically unplayable without that." Disapproval +50

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

Ask anyone who grew up with a Dendy or a Terminator or a Polystation if lack of access to the latest expensive hardware stopped them getting into games

Today I learned about "Bishoujou Starscream" and why does she look like she's going to bully me into losing at Street Fighter 2 for two hours and then paying for her pizza at Sbarro's? www.kotobukiya.co.jp/en/product/d...

We are back to Pokemon Emerald Seaglass tonight! And it's really more like... Emerald See All These Pokemon You Could Be Using And Have Choice Paralysis. Glass. I keep wanting to sit down and just completely refactor my team. Still, anything's viable, tonight at 9:30 PM Eastern.

The Mysterious Cities of Gold The Interesting Cities of Silver The Questionable Cities of Bronze The Participating City of Concord

To me, this is peak Mickey.

More Shining Force 2 tonight. We've ignited the giant dirt bird and flown home to Giant Pit Island, where demons come out of the landscape and try to kill you, and now we must face our old rival/friend, Scott "Weird Eye Beams" Summers. Everything I just said is true, I lie. 9:30 PM Eastern.

Well. I successfully got out of the apartment and successfully grabbed a copy of Rare Replay, only to find it won't load in my XBX. So... I bought it digitally anyway. sigh. facedesk. AT LEAST I GOT OUT FOR A WHILE??

The group gets a third new player and roadtrips across the country to the main part of the campaign, but what sticks out in their gaming stories are the few months the game was about winning over locals in this one village, training them like in The Seven Samurai, and defeating an evil local baron.

An Arcane Trickster Rogue splits the party big time and forces a solo adventure based around some kind of homegrown tower defense bullshit while the rest of the group tries to figure out how to pick him up again.

You know what? Life goals. I gotta aim for this.

Thinking again about the best answer ever given to any question on any website

Headed to bed, but I leave you with a piece for PC Gamer on End Of Starchild! It's free! Play it! Due to Reasons (good ones, I assure - details as soon as I can give them) this might be the last thing I write for PC Gamer for a long while. I figure this is a pretty good note to sign off with, huh?

Hi. Almost decided not to stream tonight but... I dunno. I have some depression issues right now and admittedly Shining Force 2 isn't HELPING but maybe if I sit and grind for a while I'll either feel better or decide to knock off early and watch the Chipmunks Adventure film from '87? Let's find out.

After @pandamonium.bsky.social created this song using Stadler I can't look at Pebble Beach the same every again.

9:30 PM Eastern, Shining Force II, we continue attempting to figure out where to be. Y'know, this has been a weird game so far. I kind of prefer the shuttle-directly-to-battle style of the first game and the Gaidens? Exploration is fine but there doesn't feel much point to exploring here. Ah well.

Greetings, six film screenwriters unsuccessfully attempting to figure out why people watched The Hair Bear Bunch. Take a break and come watch Shining Force 2 instead. Our heroes had just all promoted early, probably dooming me to failure in the endgame, but we gotta GET there first. 9:30 PM Eastern.

For people to experience Wonder they have to have room to wonder first. To walk into a room they can solve, not understand it, and leave. To miss 9 out of 10 cool secrets. To feel that it's worth trying to silly thing because there's so much they don't understand already, why NOT try it?

To everyone who welcomed me to Bluesky and every one who has followed me, thank a lot! Here's another Klonoa with his outfit from the cancelled movie. (I might have taken some artistic liberties with this one haha~) #風のクロノア #klonoa

man I had forgotten the FF13 series is basically bait for me - stupid fuckass pretty - plots that barrel roll into an immelmann loop - stupid fuckass battle system that tells you nothing about advanced tactics - pink hair - dressup - monster collecting - secretly tri-ace - liam o'brian is there

While I did take last night and this off streaming... Future games such as these may affect YOU... in the future.

"The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam" is a great rule to have against AI content

Happy 30th birthday, Quake, you really are the Genghis Khan of video games

I've been meaning to write this one for a while now and I think we are overdue a nice, positive story. I want to talk about the value of video game gimmick accounts I put a few of them in a list, to give you an easy overview Sharing is caring etc 💜 medium.com/@daavpuke/gi...

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In my lowest and poorest little Caesar was there. I might’ve had nothing. But I always had a $5 hot and ready pizza.

analysis, Mr. Spock

Going to do more demos at 9:30 PM Eastern, the last night I'm doing demos. And folks, I was gonna be like "I want to spend Sunday finishing the excellent Akiba Lost demo, only to wake up and find that it's completely "can't-publish-this" copyright blocked on Youtube. Super pissed off about that.