good morning

a thing that makes Random Encounter Discourse™ funky is that some people who hate random encounters prefer other methods of encountering enemies in RPGs, while others think the regular fights in RPGs are a waste of time in general, and that's largely two different conversations

everyone else at epic games when tim sweeney has an idea

"We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor https://bit.ly/4hMHbi5

i didn't realise that song made it to DDR in any capacity i always associate it with the cancelled dancegame version of neon fm

"AI could take over and self-replicate to smart home devices!" mythos and sol trying to run on a smart fridge with a 800mhz cpu and 512mb ram:

We need to bring Ricky back for a modern Zelda game 🦘

when i see people say "quality of life" i have to hold back every bone in my body from sephiroth posting

i have a disease where commonly used terms and expression like "artificial difficulty" "aged well" "respects the players time" "quality of life" "player expression" etc. make me break out in hives

oh yea something like that would make sense. they like their pac-man world stuff what with the remakes and all. i mean orson just showed up in the last one so it'd track

i firmly believe if they do this shtick it'll be the central gimmick of like one episode where like, kinky is the bus driver, and they have to try and find a way to not call him that

snack breaks has like weirdly good ball knowledge for what it is so i'm kinda not expecting it to do this (substantially and lastingly at least, and not just an episode gimmick) because it would have to be like, Somebody. doesn't feel like the kind of show where they'd just make one up

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of The Simple 1500 Series," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn THEフォース・オブ・ジュライ into THE フォース・オブ・シット.

god goroawase is such a fun form of wordplay to me. i see it an outsized amount because of my interest in like primarily japanese-developed arcade gaming but it's very fun spotting the company name or something nestled into wherever it can reasonably fit as an applicable number

now this is truly a namco museum...