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Yesterday my friends and I got in a terrible life-threatening car accident. While we walked away with no bodily injuries, my car is totaled. As a Behavioral Technician that travels between counties for work, reliable transportation is needed. Any donations or shares are appreciated ❤️
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October 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Yesterday my friends and I got in a terrible life-threatening car accident. While we walked away with no bodily injuries, my car is totaled. As a Behavioral Technician that travels between counties for work, reliable transportation is needed. Any donations or shares are appreciated ❤️
Hesitant to celebrate Itagaki as a person but also sad to see a creative like that go, such vision is missed today
October 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Hesitant to celebrate Itagaki as a person but also sad to see a creative like that go, such vision is missed today
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fuck it man here it is
September 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
fuck it man here it is
Slowly going through Silksong, was down on it to start but now I'm more ambivalent. For a 2025 metroidvania the combat design is excellent, and I'm getting "woah there's stuff here" moments, but I'm still disappointed in how creatively similar this is to HK for such a long and unconstrained dev time
September 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Slowly going through Silksong, was down on it to start but now I'm more ambivalent. For a 2025 metroidvania the combat design is excellent, and I'm getting "woah there's stuff here" moments, but I'm still disappointed in how creatively similar this is to HK for such a long and unconstrained dev time
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Little convo on exploration in games
September 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Little convo on exploration in games
Rain World is an alien game transported from a different timeline where they had a deep understanding of the craft itself and the sensibility to turn that towards emotional artistic ends. Its qualities and affect doesnt feel like it belongs at all in the culture of the last decade
September 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Rain World is an alien game transported from a different timeline where they had a deep understanding of the craft itself and the sensibility to turn that towards emotional artistic ends. Its qualities and affect doesnt feel like it belongs at all in the culture of the last decade
314 death on TGM2/TAP, my third 300 and second on Switch. This game is unbelievably hard but I persist, my consistency slowly creeps up
September 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
314 death on TGM2/TAP, my third 300 and second on Switch. This game is unbelievably hard but I persist, my consistency slowly creeps up
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The DRM-free version of Magenta Horizon is now available on Itch.
The DRM-free version of Magenta Horizon is now available on Itch.
Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest by Hellfire Railway Interactive (MadBaek)
Available for Windows
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August 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
maddison-baek.itch.io/magentahoriz...
The DRM-free version of Magenta Horizon is now available on Itch.
The DRM-free version of Magenta Horizon is now available on Itch.
I appreciate that IIDX (and similar games) is a fun game to learn and improve at, but also acts as a bridge to a whole scene and culture of music that's new to me. In general I'm more sensitive now to wanting games that connect me to life, the world, myself rather than simply distract from it
August 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I appreciate that IIDX (and similar games) is a fun game to learn and improve at, but also acts as a bridge to a whole scene and culture of music that's new to me. In general I'm more sensitive now to wanting games that connect me to life, the world, myself rather than simply distract from it
pang has been putting out a lot of short reads on random games, check them out if you're interested in the evaluative review style from a more informed perspective and without the Consumer Reports style cruft bsky.app/profile/birt...
finally a rhythm game review... I think this is my first one since my gigantic project diva arcade analysis. and for this one I'm covering museca, my favorite under-the-radar bemani game and one I've been grinding since it popped up at my local arcade. take a look in the link below!
July 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
pang has been putting out a lot of short reads on random games, check them out if you're interested in the evaluative review style from a more informed perspective and without the Consumer Reports style cruft bsky.app/profile/birt...
Tetris got me feeling weird, thinking about mechanically driven games. They are more sport-like in their appeal and strengths, which sits weirdly with the "artistic expression" lens I and others have used for them. If we look at lit, film, theater, etc. 1/
July 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Tetris got me feeling weird, thinking about mechanically driven games. They are more sport-like in their appeal and strengths, which sits weirdly with the "artistic expression" lens I and others have used for them. If we look at lit, film, theater, etc. 1/
"TGM2, the stacking in it, the style explored, the depth of decisionmaking to it, the complexity of interweaving game elements, almost... ehh, for me, this is one of, i suppose to use the internet term, its 'peak gaming'
July 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"TGM2, the stacking in it, the style explored, the depth of decisionmaking to it, the complexity of interweaving game elements, almost... ehh, for me, this is one of, i suppose to use the internet term, its 'peak gaming'
Random game crit take. I'm convinced that the most important skill to have is self-awareness aka sensitivity to one's own feelings. Games (other art too) are fundamentally psychological, and felt experience is the empirical evidence that will ward off rigid overintellectualized frameworks
July 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Random game crit take. I'm convinced that the most important skill to have is self-awareness aka sensitivity to one's own feelings. Games (other art too) are fundamentally psychological, and felt experience is the empirical evidence that will ward off rigid overintellectualized frameworks
Cracked S1 with 775 lines in TGM2. The journey goes on...
June 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Cracked S1 with 775 lines in TGM2. The journey goes on...
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back to q+a with a question from @lorddarias.bsky.social: what makes time limits useful? and why aren't they popular today? my answer: who says they aren't? find out more in the link below!
June 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
back to q+a with a question from @lorddarias.bsky.social: what makes time limits useful? and why aren't they popular today? my answer: who says they aren't? find out more in the link below!
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new article where I finally tackle friction... what does it actually mean? how should you use it? or should you avoid it in favor of more precise language? check it out in the link below!
June 1, 2025 at 6:43 AM
new article where I finally tackle friction... what does it actually mean? how should you use it? or should you avoid it in favor of more precise language? check it out in the link below!
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Moonlight Maelstrom Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by Maddison Baek
youtu.be
May 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Been sucked into the rhythm game vortex with Arcaea, and the hit rate on songs for Arcaea in particular is astonishingly high. There's something elemental with these games about the combination of physical dexterity/timing/pattern recognition set to music. I get it now... youtu.be/OW8pMvedAtM
USAO - Cyaegha
YouTube video by HARDCORE TANO*C
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May 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Been sucked into the rhythm game vortex with Arcaea, and the hit rate on songs for Arcaea in particular is astonishingly high. There's something elemental with these games about the combination of physical dexterity/timing/pattern recognition set to music. I get it now... youtu.be/OW8pMvedAtM
AARON GORDON IS HIM
May 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
AARON GORDON IS HIM
Russell Westbrook has had some highs and lows on Nuggets but he was huge tonight in Nuggets Clippers game 7, everyone looked exhausted and hustled with some big plays and shifted the momentum. Crazy
May 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Russell Westbrook has had some highs and lows on Nuggets but he was huge tonight in Nuggets Clippers game 7, everyone looked exhausted and hustled with some big plays and shifted the momentum. Crazy
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in tandem with our crazy taxi beach gen episode releasing, I also put together a starter guide for the routing required to get up to the game's top rank: Crazy License. if you've played before but aren't sure how to take your game to the next level, hop on this guide! link below
April 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
in tandem with our crazy taxi beach gen episode releasing, I also put together a starter guide for the routing required to get up to the game's top rank: Crazy License. if you've played before but aren't sure how to take your game to the next level, hop on this guide! link below
Beloved game which is underdiscussed for how shockingly deep its systems are. Prob our best episode in terms of adding to the commons
NEW BEACH GEN!!
EASILY THE BEST GAME WE'VE PLAYED ON THE PODCAST SO FAR AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE EPISODES WE'VE DONE... DON'T SLEEP ON CRAZY TAXI. LINK BELOW.
EASILY THE BEST GAME WE'VE PLAYED ON THE PODCAST SO FAR AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE EPISODES WE'VE DONE... DON'T SLEEP ON CRAZY TAXI. LINK BELOW.
April 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Beloved game which is underdiscussed for how shockingly deep its systems are. Prob our best episode in terms of adding to the commons
Feel like I've been mostly connecting with more arcadey/short games these past few months, haven't really played much else tbh. Been shifting that way in general but now I'm really feeling it
April 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Feel like I've been mostly connecting with more arcadey/short games these past few months, haven't really played much else tbh. Been shifting that way in general but now I'm really feeling it
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This vid is exactly why IMO it's really important to push back on the idea of "fairness" in games and just directly defend unfair design on its countless merits. Cuz the arguments in the vid aren't wrong if you adapt the fairness above all framework, it's the framework itself that sucks
April 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This vid is exactly why IMO it's really important to push back on the idea of "fairness" in games and just directly defend unfair design on its countless merits. Cuz the arguments in the vid aren't wrong if you adapt the fairness above all framework, it's the framework itself that sucks
Been exploring a new genre, some quick thoughts on a very strange and idiosyncratic modern entry. Some interesting ideas but not sure I would put serious time into it. hotpockethpe.neocities.org/reviews/seki...
Sekiro
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April 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Been exploring a new genre, some quick thoughts on a very strange and idiosyncratic modern entry. Some interesting ideas but not sure I would put serious time into it. hotpockethpe.neocities.org/reviews/seki...