give me them crazy huge eyelashes

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there's another game i remember existing on RealArcade but i always forget what it was called

it was like this puzzle/RTS hybrid that took place on mars or something, and you had to place these gray tetromino-like wall pieces to surround your guys to keep them safe from attacking aliens or something. i think it had scoring based on how many people you saved at once before the inner part of the wall gets obstructed

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here's amanda i guess

e: i straight up just got http://www.notepad.org/ is this a joke

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now that we can have bigger text i think these itty bitty buttons could stand to be bigger/more prominent:



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My BB Bunny - many bunnies
Hook's Hollands - many more bunnies
Bini the Bunny - a bunny trained to act in skits
風船モコちゃんねる - chinchillas and a bird and another bunny
foxalbiazul - fops

insaneintherainmusic - lots of good vgm covers
Bulby - lots of good chiptune demakes/covers
Loedr - same as above

videogamedunkey - some idiot plays video games
ProZD - voice actor with a lot of shitposty videos
hbomberguy - funny nerd boy

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i've been playing Minecraft with another community and some Among Us with them on the side.

some goofy minecraft clips:

safe and automatic iron golem farm
fire protection being overpowered
villagers not having any shit

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i used to have a real aversion to mirrors until i got myself into things like shaving to make myself look less like a corpse, while also getting a grip on in-person social anxiety in general

i still don't make many silly faces but every so often i'll give myself a deadpan stare and be like "bitch." and see how long i can avoid cracking a smile

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just had a weird one i can barely remember where some lady - who i will dub Katelyn on a whim - had this itty bitty daughter who was born with the spirit of some deity which made her susceptible to causing an apocalypse under some unknown/forgotten condition. whatever condition it was, it was eventually met, and a large swath of humanity was wiped out while the rest were turned into Pokemon

:-I

the dream proceeds in a very PMD-like fasion, but a bit darker. Katelyn is now a depressed Gardevoir who joins up with some band of survivors. she presumes that her immediate family is all dead, and her mind wanders while everyone else is figuring out what happened and where to go from here

there is a Gengar among them who i will refer to as Bud. he is unlike the Gengar you might remember from PMD1; more of a stoic and pragmatic meta-knight archetype. anyway, he makes an effort to get Katelyn to open up more and focus on what's important, but she won't budge and this only serves to frustrate the both of them

this eventually escalates to a point where Katelyn and a few of her sympathizers are infighting with the rest of the group while Bud just falls silent. to his dismay, it is eventually decided that Katelyn and company will part ways from everyone else

in the last and foggiest part of the dream i'm seeing Katelyn's supporters follow her over to some inconspicuous pile of rubble. she beckons toward it and out comes this itty bitty Kirlia she had been keeping a secret from everyone else. that's when Bud shows up and catches them off guard. Katelyn clutches her daughter as if believing that Bud knew the truth and would kill a child to prevent another apocalypse, but then her daughter is like 'daddy?' or something and oh my what a twist! none of her family died at all!

and they all lived happily ever after or something??? i probably woke up before there was any real conclusion tbh

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any metroid game but you start with all the items and have to put them back in their place without getting stuck

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i recently played Dicey Dungeons to completion. it's extremely good

now i am on a Petal Crash kick, which is also extremely good and cute

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this is a nice theme tbh

this year was not very unkind to me personally but i hope the rest of the world can stop having a normal one soon

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i finished a game called Monster Sanctuary recently and it was pretty great! it would be reductive to compare it to Pokemon or Dragon Quest Monsters because it has too many strengths of its own, but it is somewhere near them in concept i suppose

every monster has a skill tree that makes them all viable for some purpose or another, and the game is designed so that you'll organically find synergies that you can build a team with. and you'll probably want to, because enemy levels scale by your own and the difficulty can ramp up very quickly if you don't take the time to sort out your team composition. there are still a few monsters who may seem overly important due to their versatility (namely Caraglow and Sutsune) but i found myself depending on them less and less as i thought more about synergies between all 3 monsters on my front line

basically it's a monster RPG that isn't perpetually trapped in the 90s and it's fun and refreshing to play

apart from that, i've just been playing around with this AI Dungeon game. it's effectively an AI that makes up fiction based on the user's input. you can establish a setting or scenario and direct the AI's output as much or as little as you see fit. like, in addition to being able to edit the story text directly, you can reroll the latest AI output or undo to an earlier point in the story if a certain plot element isn't working out

with that said, i sometimes have trouble getting it to organically remember the specifics of the character i'm playing as, so the AI tends to lose track of my character's name, pronouns, race, etc. despite these things being laid out in the AI memory field

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all of my other gripes with modern web design are negligible compared to infinite scrolling

what a great fucking way to bloat memory usage and then guarantee you lose your place when the page inevitably has to be refreshed

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unfortunately you've only narrowed the possibilities down to like a few thousand, as you may as well be describing The Legend of Zelda or its sequel. but here are a few other NES games off the top of my head that may fit the bill:

Crystalis
Adventures of Lolo
Nightshade
Clash at Demonhead
Magic of Scheherazade
Willow
Gremlins 2
Ys
Faria
Arkista's Ring
Grand Master

i'm not very well-versed in the Sega side of the era, so if it turns out to be some obscure Sega game i probably wouldn't have played it

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shortly after the Wii U was announced, i had an idea pop in my head for a hybrid console that was made up of simplified modular input/output components that you could snap together yourself and play however you wanted. if this sounds a lot like the Nintendo Switch, well, it's just an easy conclusion to draw from looking at Nintendo's history of weird hardware gimmicks

anyway, my idea was a little more freeform. the controller components would come in two varieties:

face components could be linked together freely, and consist of individual things like d-pads, joysticks, ABXY, touch screens, trackballs, fight sticks, and whatever else one might want to play a game with. since these components likely vary in size, there would probably have to be some kind of grid-based form factor where they can plug in together neatly to form stable controllers

side components attach in the same way as face components but are the "dead ends" so to speak. these consist of things like grips, shoulder buttons, infrared sensors, wireless adapters, AC adapters, battery compartments, USB ports, and so on

the main flaw of this design is that the more flexible the components are, the more connectors you have to manufacture for each one. like even going with bare minimum triangular face components, they would need to be able to interface in three directions, and if they're a larger component they might need to have multiple ports on each side, and every port must be able to distribute a large variety of information (whether it's from input, USB, HDMI, etc.) freely between the components. i'm not much of a hardware geek but in the foreseeable future i can only see this level of flexibility culminating in something that's extremely expensive, extremely fragile, and extremely inaccessible to all but the techiest of bros

the Nintendo Switch is a pretty sweet compromise

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