the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@chr i just want to say thank you for being basically the only person we've ever seen CW that

the emoji ones are even worse than actual photos but for some reason no one thinks they need to be CW'd
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we have now finished all the postgame puzzles in opus magnum

This game is good! I like how the postgame stuff gives you a bit of extra worldbuilding and even hints at what happened after the main story's finale

we do still have the bonus puzzles to do, did a few of those but not even close to all of them
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a round robin tournament, for determining which robin is the roundest
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some of these postgame bonus puzzles in opus magnum are *hard*

feeling quite accomplished for finishing this latest one at all, let alone with any efficiency
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otters!
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we have discovered that adding some za'atar to wendy's fries is Pretty Tasty
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the haber process is neat because the guy who invented it was a nazi inventing it to make chemical weapons, and i bet he would really hate knowing that the production method that has his name attached to it is now completely integral to farming--by inventing the haber process with the intent of killing people, he indirectly led to saving the lives of countless of the people he hated
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turns out opus magnum has new bonus postgame puzzles since the last time we played (or maybe last time we just stopped after beating the main story ones)

these are hard, but neat. has some new mechanics
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oh no, chirality....
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@avie I found an old solution we had to Mist of Incapacitation that i like a lot better than the one we showed you the other day, thought you might like to see it too
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something i really like about the community here is how it's completely acceptable for someone who needs money to just ask for it, and people who have money to spare can send some to them

that kind of culture of helping people out is a really good thing
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It feels like a lot of people are really attached to where they live, and we're... kinda not? some of that might be because we spent our childhood moving every six to seven years, but a lot of it is we've never really had any local friends, all our socializing has always been online

which i guess is why we were perfectly willing to pack up and move from alabama to oregon on approximately one-month notice when we got a job, but it also means we kinda tend to assume others would be too
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actually, thinking about that 2600, i'm curious: what games on it should we keep an eye out for if we visit a used game store or something? Just curious if there are any that are particularly good (not concerned with collectibility)

We were surprised by how good Phoenix and Defender were
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@xenon like I said earlier, it only really caught on in southeast asia. it's probably known in nearby places that do a lot of trade with SEA too, like australia, south asia, and east asia. i expect they may also have some market penetration in other tropical climates like south america and parts of africa, though?I don't know
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also we discovered that our dad's atari is apparently a really rare model, one of the "heavy sixers" (the physically heavier of two models that had six switches on the front; this is the first model that was made) with a label that says "made in taiwan" (they were only made in taiwan for a few months, and not in large volume as they were switching over to the light sixer design that was made in hong kong) to the point that there are people on collectors' forums saying they don't exist
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and a pretty fun space-invaders-like
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we have one we'd never played before called Phoenix that, it turns out, is actually *ridiculously* impressive for a 2600's hardware
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while our parents were visiting recently we got out the atari 2600 and played a couple games with our dad (it was his atari when he was a kid and he thoroughly beat us at all of them despite not having played in probably over thirty years), and it has me kinda wanting to try streaming some atari games but: how the *fuck* do you video capture the output when it's RF only? this was well before any TV had any input other than twin-lead RF for an antenna
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