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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · Oct 24

Ever wanted to play SpikeOut but had trouble setting up the emulator for it? I've made a script that all sets it up for you + adds some useful macros and integrates it into your Steam Library, so you can easily launch it via a shortcut.

github.com/GriekseEi/Gr...

P.S. ROMs not included

#spikeout

GitHub - GriekseEi/GriekseEi-RandomPowerShellScripts

Contribute to GriekseEi/GriekseEi-RandomPowerShellScripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

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K'eeg @armormodekeeg.blacksky.app · 1h

may you attain enlightenment

top half of image is text that reads:
I'm addicted to this Buddhism game. Think Duolingo, but instead of learning a language, you're becoming a Buddhism expert. It's fun, fast, and literally built by game designers and teachers. I finally feel like I'm finding some peace in my everyday life.

bottom half is two screenshots of indie shoot-em-up ZeroRanger, showcasing various spaceships and robots shooting in a two-tone green and orange color scheme

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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 4h

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Ys I ・ II (PC Engine CD) - Ruins of Moondoria

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 5h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 23h

ye, it's what most roguelites do where completing a run unlocks extra level paths and stuff
the review considered that a minor annoyance, as opposed to having to save up an extra life or enough gold to buy one to fight the true last boss, which you are only told about right before you can fight it

TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 23h

it's more an issue of where if you don't have the extra lives or gold to buy an expensive extra life when the merchant told you to, your run is basically softlocked
if you were instead told way up front, you could have saved up the money, but they deliberately tell you it very late

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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 23h

No no, the second loop stuff isn't duct-taped after your first playthrough like in GnG (a single Absolum playthrough is too long for that anyways). Like the review says it just unlocks the extra hard mode stuff for the next time that you hit New Game

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Erin: Dead and Loving It 🖤💀🖤 @woodaba.bsky.social · 1d

a small piece about a medium bugbear about an increasingly big way people talk about art.

Call(Out) and Response

If you would like milder criticism, please ask for it. I used to be a big fan of British comedian Stewart Lee. I say I used to be: I am demonstrably still a fan of his older material, particularly 'If...

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 1d

now that everyone likes beat em ups hop on ninja baseball bat man if you can

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 1d

video games can just look like this

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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 1d

For those who want to see it for themselves:
youtu.be/_SUQjbbMN20?...

Absolum: True Final Boss and Ending

YouTube video by Lord Forman

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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 1d

Spoilers for Absolum, but you actually might want to spoil yourself on this, because this is some of the worst meta-progression bait I've ever heard of

(Also a great review overall, one that's for once made from the perspective who gave beat 'em ups a deeper shot)

If you don’t believe that Absolum prioritizes the grind above all else, then I’ll have to pull out my trump card and talk about the last boss of the game. Don’t read the next paragraph if you don’t want that spoiled. Or do, honestly, because I recommend knowing this ahead of time so you don’t make the same mistake I did.

Once you complete the game once, you find out that actually you need to beat the game again to fight the real final boss. Kind of obnoxious already, but sure. I immediately started another run, but died early due to the game introducing a new extra-hard challenge that I wanted to try out. No problem, I had unlocked one extra from the progression system. I decided to carry on and actually ended up all the way at the end to fight the final boss.

Just before the fight, a merchant warned me that the boss had a fatal scream and recommended that I purchase an absurdly expensive extra life. I kind of figured that merchant was referring to some difficult to dodge attack and braced myself for it. No such luck - the final boss seemingly just instantly and unavoidably kills you at the start of the fight, so my run where I was otherwise super powerful and at full health ended right there. This more or less killed my interest in playing further.

The goal of this decision seems clear enough: the developers didn’t want you beating Absolum too fast and this insta-kill gimmick was a good way to keep you in the hamster wheel. Wouldn’t you know it, my very next permanent upgrade gave me another extra life on top of the two I had, so my next run would have definitely been the run! If I were the kind of person who got addicted to the progression system, I could easily see myself getting sucked by this bait, hook line and sinker. Sadly for Absolum, I am not that kind of person. I don’t have an addictive personality. Most of the psychological tricks that modern video games employ don’t work on me – I don’t need things to be addicted to, I want things that enrich my life or give me some personal satisfaction.

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(Three Kingdoms 1994 fansubs) Gentlemen of the Hàn @hanzhonglang.bsky.social · 1d

Yu Ji as shown in 1994 Romance of the Three Kingdoms

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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 1d

Feeling compelled to make yet another chart about all 3D melee action games, except it's about every boss fight and whether the arena it takes place on is a flat pancake

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ありす @zashikialice.bsky.social · 1d

ガーターベルトテスタ
#Fanart #GGST

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Treeman @treeman.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I build a Hemoxian model kit I realize that they're doing things in China that we can't even begin to comprehend

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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 1d

I saw some people wondering what's the deal with action game series all adding new protagonists like Viola in Bayo, Nero in DMC, and Yakumo in NG, which has more to do with the old protagonists having grown a massive movelist after 2-3 games, so you either add a new character or pull a Metroid

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CabalCrow @cabalcrow.bsky.social · 1d

BACK TO BACK! Was doing an exploration run of the 3rd ship and then - "amma just win" :)

youtu.be/5jb8UQohZ4I
#shmup #stg #ddp #doj

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CabalCrow @cabalcrow.bsky.social · 2d

Beat Daioujou with the A Laser ship as well - the hardest ship in my view. Better laser should help with bosses and big enemies, but the extra damage and speed is negligable compared to how much harder the stages become due to the lack of spread.

youtu.be/TsynL5IEe1Y?...
#shmup #stg #ddp #doj

Dodonpachi: Daioujou Black Label 1CC Type A LEINYAN

YouTube video by CabalCrow

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SIDNEY 🏳️‍⚧️ @aussieneon.bsky.social · 2d

Bisexuals F*cking love the FN P90

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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 2d

Episode somehow has more understanding and empathy of that part of living with Aspergers than practically most cable TV, so sneaking in a reference played just for soypointing to one of the most infamous instances of a "Silly Samuel" on the internet comes off like an ill-fitting discordant note

TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 2d

The ending also nails how one of the "good" endings to not knowing how to fit in is where you go from an object of ridicule to being a Terry A. Davis-style object of semi-ironic worship without you really realizing that's what's happening

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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 2d

Seeing the friends try to first help Silly Samuel by going to the Three Silly Willies show to have him learn to embrace his silliness, as I'm suddenly overcome by childhood memories where I was sent a weekend to an "autism awareness camp" to make friends with other kids "who were like me"

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TESTAMENT✙ENJOYMENT @testamentenjoyment.net · 2d

Don't know what to make of the latest Smiling Friends episode being one of the better allegories I've seen on streaming/TV of what it's like living with Aspergers in your youth amongst other people, while also sneaking in a CWC reference for no clear reason

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suzanne @binarypartitioned.space · 7d

finished elden ring and it was cool and all but I think I can safely say I'm done guessing whether a boss is gonna have a cheeky delayed follow-up on every attack string

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Max Read @maxread.info · 7d

today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

'One Battle After Another' as a car movie

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