Happy birthday!

Credit where it's due the Ramones fuckin nailed that one. Our brains ARE hanging upside down

I figured that in the time it'd take for me to learn to draw this I would probably forget all about it so I went ahead and posted it as words

so a longer stage would mean more time without that "reset." That may be less of a factor in an analog game that doesn't test reflexes for half an hour straight but there could be ways to simulate it with a difficulty escalation over time

I'd honestly never really considered stage length being a factor in difficulty, since these games have little downtime either way. But now that I think about it more, you're on to something, since they do tend to dial back the difficulty for a bit at the start of a stage to ramp it up again & higher

I can only really speak to shoot-em-ups, but I play a *lot* of them, and the stages are usually about the same length. If there's an exception, it's almost always the final stage or two that's longer. Sometimes you'll have one shorter-than-average stage before they get longer in the end stretch.

I gotta get on that. I'm 100% on board for any Rhea Seehorn vehicle after she killed it as my favorite character on the TV show named after my favorite character on Breaking Bad

Aleste series excepted, of course. I'm not a monster.

I guess I have spent the bulk of my life dressing like Roger Klotz