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On a downswing so: Self-medicating with chocolate.

I did not expect "Simple and Clean" to be as nostalgia inducing as it is.

I love playing +R, but gooosssh I can feel the small audience and years people have been playing this game in the inconsistent ranked matchmaking. I absolutely cannot wait for Strive to come out. It's practically guaranteed to have a large (starting) audience, the rollback will extend the amount of people I can consistently play with, and it'll be relatively new for everyone, smoothing out that matchmaking experience.

The best (relative) time to get into a new fighting game is within the first two weeks, and I want to make sure I get some gooooood time in.

https://smash.gg/tournament/salem-shutdown-league-april-2021/details

For anybody looking for a GGXXAC+R (Or smash ultimate) league to participate in weekly!

Guess I should rep it if I'm volunteering in it :V

Coming 3rd in a 4-person round-robin tourney in a game I just picked up a month ago feels pretty good 😎

Gonna be messing about with streaming some Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R in about an hour!

Come hang out (and maybe get some matches???) at https://twitch.tv/gracetveit

Gosh, played my first online match of KI. I wish this game wasn't dead.

IMO, PDFs can be prettily formatted, but are a pain to read digitally, compared to somethjng like HTML.

https://abe-e-seedy.itch.io/temple-of-temptation

For the curious, here's the original release

Oops, spent a good chunk of the day transposing a new hornt CYOA story from a fav creator into Twine >.>;

Mostly because I can play it on the Switch >.>, still waiting for Chrono Trigger and other SNES JRPGS to come to the platform in some form

Gosh, FF7 has quickly become the comfort JRPG I come back to every so often

Oh good, it's getting worse

Nothin' like getting adrenaline/anxiety tremors because of feeling forced to make an executive moderation decision in a politically themed discussion channel 🙃

Agony of a Dying MMO Aside, So far I think this collection is amazing (Haven't played everything yet). As someone who owned a Namco Museum disc back in the day, the framing is *perfect*.

Thoughts on assorted titles:

- Lorn's Lure
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1417930/Lorns_Lure/

A really intriguing title that felt a *lot* like NeisancE, but not demanding the same platforming perfection

- Peeb Adventures!
https://feverdreamjohnny.itch.io/peeb-adventures-hps1-demodisk-edition

It's Eversion, but Spyro! Really cute, great movement options, would recommend.

- That Which Gave Chase
https://twitter.com/aaslakk

I'm noticing a lot of games are using the Blendo-esque quick cuts in their storytelling, and I'm for it. Not a lot here yet, but you can pet the dogs, and the atmosphere is top-notch

- The Lunar Effect
https://www.the-lunar-effect.com/

Classic horror adventure game with a classic dopey-ass main character in a haunted house. Your appreciation of this game is a 1:1 correlation with your patience for Pipe Dream.

Wow, talk about an exciting concept and premise that just completely has no empathy or engaging ideas.

I wandered into a church (after an intro that included what I chalked up to an exaggeration of edgelord bs being emulated in the 'chat window') that was said to be made in worship of a mass killer, and when I chose the dialogue option of "That's disgusting" I was told I didn't have to play.

So I didn't.

Speaking of fighting games and cool queer critters, if you are at all interested in finding or helping build a queer fighting game community I have the discord for you!

https://discord.gg/pGtfqrw

It's welcoming to folks of any skill level, from "What's a fireball?" to "I am literally SonicFox" (Please note, SonicFox is not part of the community... YET). In fact I recently found and shared a great series of videos that go into what it means to have "good fundamentals" in a fighting game, and the steps to take in order to create a gameplan from which you can improve upon and learn from!

It's a pretty fun anime fighter. Just got to wait for rollback! For now: Parsec!

So an early access fighting game was released on Itch.io the other day, and this is the character select screen:

https://monochromesoft.itch.io/heatwave

https://youtu.be/bDt90EyZnWA?t=1438