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Bobbins

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I have 13 progressively harder levels. Try me if you dare.

Rob. The real Peter Molyneux 2017/2018. Writes and writes about video games. Watches tat films. Touched a computer once, sorry.

If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it. Disabled and tired.

#videogames #films #grumpiness #gamedev #games

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OH YES

Bobbins,
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I don’t think I should have huffed both Who eps in one as soon as they dropped because that’s left me all too excited for this time of the morning.

Criminy.

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Really enjoyed Rend & Tear With Tooth & Claw in the recent 2000ad issues. Dredd vs massive bear? Oh yes. Go on then.

Bobbins,
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@craiggrannell I didn’t mind it too much, felt like it was missing a page to me though.

Bobbins,
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@craiggrannell Yeah, I can appreciate that. I think I’ve huffed enough survivor films in recent months that the despondent ending was something I was expecting from the moment they drew attention to the cadet.

For me, with only half a page given over to Dredd wandering off, I don’t think it quite had the space to pull off the sort of widescreen despair to really make the sacrifice work. Cramming so much onto that one page left no room to take it in and breathe.

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Your dad got kicked out of bee club for being honey on main again.

Bobbins, to random
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Which of you buggers have a videogame related blog, channel or site I can link to from mine? Gimme those sweet, sweet URLs.

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Not that I’m counting down or anything, but… new Doctor Who next Saturday! 👍😀

Jodie Whittakers Doctor Who saying “oh brilliant”!

Bobbins,
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@psychicparrot42 Much excitement in Chez Bob too. Think the eldest might pop if it's on iPlayer late and they have to wait a bit longer.

Bobbins, to random
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Just bought the worldwide distribution rights to your dad.

Bobbins, to random
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Sorry. I have no context for the quote but in this month's Edge there's a quote from a videogame dude saying they hate achievements and what they've done to games and I don't think I've paid even the vaguest attention to them in years.

Quite enjoyed the novelty when they were invariably challenging the player to try playing in an unusual way but they don't impact the way I play a game even slightly anymore. I don't know how normal this is but I'd guess at "very"

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Then again, I'm wondering how much of me finding achievements popping to a shrug comes from how much nastier "shopping lists for engagement" stuff is just some folks idea of good game design.

Achievements seem kinda quaint in comparison to what's in your average three cards and an eternity of upgrades game.

Bobbins,
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Looking back at this thought, definitely a case of me not really being on the ball.

As pointed out to me - even in their more innocuous [relative] early state, people would still get super obsessive over achievements. Just because I've largely been fortunate enough to have a brain that switches quickly to "screw this nonsense" and can ignore them easily-ish, doesn't mean everyone else can. The kind of thought I really should default to by now!

So yes, there's that.

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Idea: Super Smash Bros but with old videogame characters who retain all the quirks from their original games.

Choose your fighter: the one with the collision box 3 times the size of the sprite, the one who dies if they fall more than their own height, the one with the fixed arc jump, the one that can't do diagonals, the one that rarely responds, the one with two frames of animation, the one with the colour clash, the one that's precisely the size of one UDG, the egg you just kick shit out of...

Bobbins, to random
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Finally, Amazon get what the gamers need.

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Reading this and you know, I don't think I've played a single game that required me to do this in, I dunno, long enough that whenever the last one was it's a dim and distant memory.

https://kotaku.com/stellar-blade-final-fantasy-last-of-us-uncharted-1851446771

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Imagine, right. You're at a black mass. Everyone is doing well at all the chanting and stuff. The chicken's been offed, it's just about time for the devil to rock up. There's a poof of smoke in the summoning circle, the devil's busy today so he's sent Barney The Dinosaur instead.

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Good morning. Brain's off to a good start today.

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Hellraiser, except the cenobites are Bungle, Zippy and George.

Bobbins,
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o no

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Fun thing about mastodon vs twitter: I've never once had someone OUTRAGED that I either made a joke or posted a basic fact because (popular comedy account) or Did You Know Gaming posted something similar before

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@SirTapTap I definitely don't miss posting some basic obvious stuff only to have a bunch of randos give it "you got this from The Internet Moocow's latest video" for half a day.

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Who was the first person to paint themselves blue and hit a binlid and what were they thinking?

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Aside from "I am totally going to paint myself blue and hit a binlid", obv.

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Starseed

Quick sketch for the morning whilst I'm thinking about Starseed. Who doesn't love dreadnaughts and lasers?

https://punchingrobots.com/starseed/

Bobbins, to random
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This entire thread. https://mastodon.social/@Craigp/112346419907121031

Bobbins,
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I often leave the cat in charge of a nuclear reactor too and honestly, it's fine. She's good at it.

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Treating myself to an awful game.

I want you to understand how awful this game is:

If you don't turn vsync on, you can't move. Framerates over 60fps cause the inputs to glitch out.

That's right, "hold RIGHT control to run" is not the worst thing about these controls.

Update: This thread GOES PLACES. 🧵

Bobbins,
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@Craigp YES!

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