Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

While nosing through my Steam collection, I realized I had bought and never played The Yawhg (https://store.steampowered.com/app/269030/The_Yawhg/) several years ago. So I booted it up.

After a slightly mediocre first run (“mediocre” involving animate furniture, eldritch horrors, and at least one grisly murder), I accidentally rolled a vampire and a werewolf that fight crime and save the town together.

Huh.

@Oasus@snouts.online Huh, it kind of does. Once seen, cannot be unseen.

I also initially thought this meant something else, but I totally see it now.

@mawr Aaaaaa, it even uses the Animal Crossing rolling log effect! I love it.

@mawr I'm rooting for you, Mawr! I'll also be doing this in due time, so I'll be very interested in your journey along the way. ❤️

@Oasus@snouts.online And yeah, this seed tho. Between this and fetch quest seed yesterday, these flags really deliver. :D

@Oasus@snouts.online Thanks, just wondering. I’ll have to drop by their Discord sometime to ask.

Also, thank you for volunteering on speedgaming. They do really great work.

@Oasus@snouts.online I’m not on Z1 rando’s Discord, but dumb question: does anyone other than me use Voice Attack to do ZHelper annotation? Seeing mouse and hotkey annotation into brackets and elite 8 surprises me a bit.

Also, nice seed.

@Felthry @Oneironott USB-sea (ottr)

The other sprites from the four streamers shown being Link, Zelda (who is saving Link), and the protagonist from Crystalis.

Someone made a Yoshi sprite for Zelda 2 randomizer. It replaces Link’s sword strike with a Yoshi tongue animation. And I think that is one of the best things I’ve seen today.

... and then I got to spend an extra 20 minutes manually fixing Slack’s dark theme on my machine again, because Slack.

Apple: *bugfixes, performance enhancements, all these zanny new productivity-assisting multitouch gestures I will never even use*
Me: *yawn*
Apple: And we added a dark theme.
Me: *SLAMS THAT UPDATE BUTTON*

@mawr (I may have been seriously thinking of how to make this for awhile, now.)

@mawr I think my question would be how to make that into a gameplay loop. There are quite a few options, ranging from elements drawn from Animal Crossing, Tamagotchi, Neko Atsumi, Pokemon-amie, or even match 3 and bullet hell (ie, Undertale pacifist).

I think the reason conflict is so readily used in Stories is it’s easy to communicate. I think if I were going to do this, I’d use a befriending system like Undertale’s framed as resolution to MH-style combat?

@JulieSqveakaroo @xurnami Yeah, if those were using G+ social networking features (as opposed to login), those will break.

Which is probably for the better, considering.

@xurnami @JulieSqveakaroo This. Even though apps claim to “login with Google+”, it’s the same exact mechanism used to log into your Google account and won’t be going away.

All they’re doing is killing the social network they stapled to their identity service. The identity service will remain.

@mawr This perfectly articulates why business people scare me. Until we are more than numbers to toy with without accountability, this is going to continue to happen.

Also, I contest that it’s even true for money at a bank, given the creative accounting and surge in white collar crime in the naughts that we still haven’t recovered from.

Which I guess is a good reminder to be skeptical about what personal data to give corporations, even ones with relatively good data handling hygiene at the time.

Oh hey, Google+ is shutting down after it was shown to be exactly the privacy and accountability tar pit I was concerned about. And oh cool, people that provided their “real name” and real info had their data scraped by parties unknown, too.

I totally did not see that coming at all. </s>

(As a reminder, I work for a Google competitor, so opinions my own. None of these observations are based on privileged info.)

Speedrunners: Here are all of the ways I figured out how to break each of these and look amazing. I will now clip into the fifth plane and end the campaign before it even begins.

All DMs ever: *sigh*