Choukou Senshi Changerion (1996) Episode 35

ok yeah i lined them up and attempted to recreate the edit, they're DEFINITELY the same stock bunny pic. the only parts that don't line up are its posture (as previously mentioned) and its nose, which was slightly raised in Badge Arcade (easier to see up close) i only spend time on important stuff.

I KNEW IT

But we cant go yet! there's DRAGONFRUIT!!!!! (I too had to draw the Steam sale dragon!)

With Armored Core 2 complete, we can focus in on monster collecting. I've moved Cassette Beasts to the weekdays, so today we'll be trying to figure out what we can do with the ocean (does it have a purpose?), where we can explore, looking at our quests, and having a rematch with a big dork. 9:30 PM.

Last time in Armored Core 2, we shot to the top of the arena rankings. I mean, we shot everyone above us and now we're in charge. Tonight, we're going to make a big youtube thumbnail that's like "THE LEOS KLEIN SITUATION IS CRAZY" and just sit in front of it. Or maybe shoot him too. 9:30 PM Eastern.

This feels canonical insomuch as ANYTHING Sam and Max do is canonical. I figure they pick and choose as much as we do.

7 AM Eastern/top of this hour I'm in, I'm doing a Steam Cleaning run. It's a thing where I just skim down my wishlist pruning stuff off that I've realized I never intend to buy, or whatever. Why? Why not? It's informal so I'm not posting a going-live. We're picking up from last week, 2023!

are there any more things like this

It's important to learn that you can and should feel good. Even if you can't about the world or the general future, you can feel good in yourself about yourself. You should feel good about the person you are and about what you do, with no shame or guilt. That is what you should be working for.

The arena started getting tough the tiny mech was trashed If not for the lack of entrance fees we'd run right out of cash run right out of cash Ahem. Armored Core 2's arena is whipping my non-llama ass but that's no reason to stop trying. Let's get back in there, 9:30 PM Eastern. Maybe... chainguns?

i was informed this is from the development of BioShock and it is now my favorite placeholder art of all time

This isn't actually funny, CEOs only act like this when they're afraid

Marvel Heroes (the action RPG) is back, now fan-run. Was a genuinely fun game that never found as big an audience as it deserved and got shut down because it wasn't making Infinity Moneys.

Watched 'The Wizard of Speed and Time' again tonight and... y'know, Mike Jittlov ... kind of won? Not so much Hollywood but... nowadays anyone CAN make a film with their own human hands with (what would be) studio-quality and get it on screens and out there for an audience. It's kind of heartening.

Do not keep making me post this.😤

Looking up movie anniversaries for possible articles and art-house screenings. Geez, 1986 was crazy for genre flicks. Look at this list.

Future games such as these will affect you in the future. And some DLC will affect me next weekend.

As She said: Oh. Well, then, stop.

Last night we stepped into Cassette Beasts, with all its potential collectable monsters and its many types and moves to learn. P&dora, our lost girl from the Chaos in Kanto run, has seen all this shit before. She doesn't care. She's going to the mall for a hot pretzel. Join her at 9:30 PM Eastern.

TONIGHT we play a game on stream that, at least from what I can tell, is NOT a mecha game in any way! Although it may become one, depending on what our little creechers evolve into! It's Cassette Beasts, which I am assured is "Pokemon if you beat up landlords". Hell yeah. 9:30 PM Eastern for that.

Love the gamble of "Think of your four favorite foods. Cottage cheese will certainly improve at least one of them." Way to get out the shotgun with that one, buddy.

This is how I'm introducing myself at all work and social events going forward

Phantasy Star II celebrates its 37th anniversary today, and we have two great interviews covering its development. This one comes from The World of Phantasy Star; my favorite detail is how the fiendishly complex dungeons were the result of a tryharding new employee. shmuplations.com/phantasystar...

@drewgmackie.bsky.social My buddy @spaceleech.bsky.social cracked the likely source of the merman's Japanese name.

I can't believe I never made the connection about the Darkstalker merman Rikuo's name being a play on the Gillman suit performer Ricou Browning.

man I fucked that post up SO HARD. If you saw it like six times please forget you saw it like six times.

Tonight: More Armored Core 2. Y'know, it occurs to me I have no idea how long this game is? We could be most of the way through OR have miles to go. I will say this: I will not rest until 5 Babies have won the arena. Go, Daycare Robo! Fight, Daycare Robo! See their adventures, 9:30 PM Eastern!

The *last* lost episode. We did it, folks.

I love this text post so I drew it

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Tonight, it's more Armored Core 2 as we shuffle steadily through every option in the shop and work on unlocking further options. I could never be a protagonist, I refuse to settle for a single mech when I can rebuild, retool and recycle every possible configuration, as we will do at 9:30 PM Eastern.

Today I had to read the smirking line "[author] has a sex fetish apparently" with both of my eyeballs and yeah man I hear some people are aroused by that, crazy I know Maybe there should be like a second Internet for people over 30? Maybe I need more sleep, yes, that seems more likely...

scenario-based character generation

Last night we made a start at Armored Core 2 and didn't do TOO badly. But if we really want to construct a core that'll go places and do things, we're gonna need money and that means bloodsport. Tonight I'm gonna focus in a bit on the arena and chaingun up a financial boost. 9:30 PM Eastern as ever.

I'M SORRY WHAT CONGRATS @prozdishere.bsky.social, THIS IS YOU NOW

Yasushi Nirasawa - one of the GOATs of monster design! So many of his monsters are cool head-to-toe, but he could also turn silly ideas, like this watermelon monster, into solid gold with inventive thematic design and asymmetry. Even common decorations like skulls could feel new in his hands.

at some point you just have to give up on some people if you make a text heavy game. they will complain but they're not your audience

New feature out! I decided to look at every The Game Awards showcase from the last decade and see how many games there were either canceled, had their servers shut down, or simply vanished off the face of the earth as their developers went radio silent. It's uh, a lot! raiderking.com/every-cancel...

Tonight we're headed to Mars in Armored Core 2. This was my generation of AC, I played this and was terrible at it as a kid. That was before I tackled all three PS1 Armored Core games, though. Now that I have that knowledge and experience in my pocket, what could go wrong? Find out, 9:30 PM Eastern.

It's a thought I keep coming back to, but especially this past decade, there are so many fantastic games out there that there's basically no reason to ever play something that sucks unless you like playing bad games (potentially valid) or just want to be mad for no reason (please get a new hobby).

The piranhas are why we can never have an actually productive discussion of localization online. Just stuck explaining utterly basic concepts over and over while they foam at the mouth

I'm super excited to be getting back to Armored Core (AC2 on weekdays) and I'm looking forward to seeing what's up with Cassette Beasts (weekends) but every time my wheel o' games zips right past a dozen mediocre Playstation JRPGs I feel a pang of sadness. I belong there. In the polygons and menus.

I've been getting very high-sodium about mages in Shining Force Gaiden, so it's nice that our two remaining battles are against A: the high powered archmage that's been a Problem for this entire game, and B: The end boss. Let's see if I pop a blood vessel or finish the game first! 9:30 PM Eastern.

We're back around to Shining Force: Final Conflict. When we started this game in the Paleolithic Age, humankind had barely begun to develop tool use. Here in the distant future twelve million years later it's hard to believe we've come so far. Maybe we're close to the end? Find out, 9:30 PM Eastern.

Tonight we're playing the last bit of untouched Dungeons of Hinterberg: Episode Renaud. You may remember Renaud as the dude who looks like a Belgian Christian Bale from Equilibrium. Well, this black funeral sock of a man gets an entire game mode to himself! Let's see what's in it, 9:30 PM Eastern.

yeah, it's wild - never caught it as a kid bc i was watching on a tiny tv in fullscreen but the Goblin King Sarah imagines is a pastiche of a Bowie-esque "real" matinee idol she is obsessed with, who her mom apparently fucked. In the last scene she is in the middle of taking down his clippings.

BREAKING: Depictions of smoking paraphernalia are hearby banned from all art galleries & social media platforms for encouraging tobacco consumption. This image of a pipe has been deemed fundamentally identical to an actual pipe, & in so depicting a pipe, poses a grave threat to all moral society.