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patcdr @patcdr.net · 2d

Bad idea for a documentary: track down as many of the winners of the Megaman Boss character contests as you can. Interview them about their childhood drawing techniques.

megaman.fandom.com/wiki/Boss_ch...

Boss character contest

The boss character contest (ボスキャラ募集, bosu kyara boshuu, roughly "boss character application") is a contest held by Capcom where fans send ideas for boss characters to appear in a Mega Man game. The fi...

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patcdr @patcdr.net · 4d

Made some cookies yesterday.

Chocolate chip cookies resting on a cooling rack.

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patcdr @patcdr.net · 8d

Shivers. Presented without comment.

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patcdr @patcdr.net · 9d

You're in luck! A couple years back, I set up a full mirror of both of the CYOA games on Caverns of Blood: bloodycaverns.net

Caverns of Blood Mirror

bloodycaverns.net

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patcdr @patcdr.net · 9d

Yearly reminder that you can still play complete versions of both the Caverns Game and Castle Quest from Caverns of Blood here: bloodycaverns.net

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patcdr @patcdr.net · 12d

Haven’t been pinball in’ much due to bein’ sick, but third game of Jaws went great.

Jaws pinball high scores. PATCDR is 4th with a score of 407,765,860.

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patcdr @patcdr.net · 20d

NESDev's Game Genie Game Mini-Jam sure had some cool homebrew games in it. Like this one!

patcdr @patcdr.net · 20d

THE TRUE CAUSE OF THE DINOSAURS' EXTINCTION

IT WAS THE WORK OF SHARKS!!!

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patcdr @patcdr.net · 25d

Best win I've gotten in UFO 50!

The final stage of UFO 50's Kick Club. Score 167,600, which is more than enough to cherry the game!

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patcdr @patcdr.net · 27d

I'm coming to distrust anything with too many emojis...

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patcdr @patcdr.net · Sep 22

Got bored and parsed out all the data I could find on archive.org and turned it into a nice HTML table. It looks like there's at least 99 games that got the "Approved" seal. There's also a fair few with no recommendation, which is weird.

Anyway, here's the page:

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patcdr @patcdr.net · Sep 22

If you drunkenly abuse voice modulation software, does that make it blottotune?

patcdr @patcdr.net · Sep 22

Updated to add some more info. Namely, the author of the review and the assorted bad stuff scores from their bar graphs.

Turns out, Fable is the most sinful game. Go figure.

patcdr @patcdr.net · Sep 22

Got bored and parsed out all the data I could find on archive.org and turned it into a nice HTML table. It looks like there's at least 99 games that got the "Approved" seal. There's also a fair few with no recommendation, which is weird.

Anyway, here's the page:

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patcdr @patcdr.net · Sep 21

Some people really do put in the work here.

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patcdr @patcdr.net · Sep 20

Dumb idea: hack a D&D pinball machine to use TNG Worf lines instead of the ones Michael Dorn recorded.

"Today is a good day to die" wouldn't be a bad call out for a Dragon, just saying.

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patcdr @patcdr.net · Sep 20

Definitely wasn't expecting this level of detail. Or much of anything, to be honest. I'm familiar with "outfit" as a military term, but never expected it to be closer to the base form as it is.

Thanks for looking into this.

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patcdr @patcdr.net · Sep 15

Any amateur etymologists out there? Does "fit" in the modern use come from a truncation of the word "outfit" or from the concept of how well clothes can be fitted, as if tailored for the wearer specifically?

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patcdr @patcdr.net · Sep 12

"I'll double your hand size" is one of the callouts in the X-Men pinball machine. Are there any games where suddenly doubling the number of cards you can hold would be a negative thing?

patcdr @patcdr.net · Sep 7

POWER WAFFLES!

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patcdr @patcdr.net · Aug 30

Footlong Nachos? What? That’s not remotely the correct unit of measurement!

patcdr @patcdr.net · Aug 29

Ran into an X-Men with a freshly reset high score table. There’s something hilarious about getting like 10 high scores all at once.

Also, you can farm the top three places for extra credits. It’s nice.

Stern’s X-Men pinball machine. Display reads:

Award 1 Credit

High score #1
CDR
667,783,680

patcdr @patcdr.net · Aug 27

Here's the, lightly edited--but fully annotated!-- vod: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpP8...

SMW Central Creativity Convention: Summer 2025 Survey

YouTube video by patcdr

www.youtube.com

patcdr @patcdr.net · Aug 26

Caught another shark on Jaws! Missed a photo-op, so app screenshot.

Achievement for catching a Hammerhead Shark on Jaws pinball.

patcdr @patcdr.net · Aug 25

Sadly, couldn't find any pictures of the world's biggest hoe in Dog River, Canada.