hugthebed2

As of currently right this instant it's not that much? But I still play Casual pretty regularly with a stack, and I have a side server group where we still get together somewhat regularly to play whacky meme maps that have come out.

There's an evil worm in my brain that is permeating in said casual group of "what if we started doing some comp pugs" too.

I miss when Uncletopia was much more alive tbh

I think outside of Child Link it looks pretty cool. I will never be unbiased as someone who has followed OoT's glitch and speedrunning scene for over 10 years now but still. I won't be buying a Switch 2 unless I can convince my sister to split the cost with me and we take turns lending it to each other whenever we trek across the state so we can experience the Donkey Kong game and maaaayyyyybe the OoT remake.

abyssguard supremacy

It's crazy how people are just willing to roll with what bad actors/hackers say. I refuse to believe any explanation for the omegaladon Valve leak this past week, and to see so many people just regurgitate what a news twitter said 1 second after it dropped is crazy to me.

Just reminds me of everyone panicking whenever a known hacker goes "OMG THERES AN RCE EXPLOIT IN TF2" and the whole community freaks out.

I'm still the same old Nitori from the Gyoku comics, asking for real valid sources...

Can't say the steam teraleak wasn't expertly distributed though, a lot of thought was put into that.

There used to be so many novice websites when .moe came out as a top level domain that are almost completely lost to time. It's not like you can just stumble on them on web archive either, and even web archive doesn't have EVERYthing from them...

I'm glad I have some of them saved locally

This song was an unexpected bamger for me about 2 years ago. Its weird cuz it's like 80% buildup but i like the end so much.

[disappointed trailing off bau bau]

I know balance for multiplayer Slay the Spire 2 probably isn't the biggest priority (they wanna prioritize fun with friends after all) but man there are some cards that are just so bonkers broken that they can completely ruin enjoyment. 

cards like this are like, minorly okay in a 2 player run (still broken considering it should make you do NO damage that turn...) but a one cost to make a party of 3 and 4 all do double damage is just so stupid and trivializes every single fight in the game.

Also just kinda annoyed how if you go 4 player that the value of cards that say "All players do X" just increase in value so much that they are almost always worth taking. I really like the multiplayer cards that target one player, or help one player only, but even on Ascension 10 I feel like you're just guaranteed to win unless you all only pick Defect (which might not even be true anymore since he recently received some cuhrazy multiplayer cards).

I hope they rebalance some of the cards that scale too well at some point, but I know they probably won't... I also really don't like getting difficulty increasing mods for games since it's a hassle for everyone involved usually.

Joshiraku was one of those shows that I was told "you wouldn't get it as an entry-level anime watcher so its not worth watching". At least the songs are good

now, for the thread topic

1 hour ago, Moby said:

Did a scraping bot army pass by?

we love LLMs

The Calender, events, and profile posts are all visible if you aren't logged in, so they can still get a small amount of scrapable data.

the AI yearns for 4/20/24

image time

from: https://x.com/notwilliam_/status/1812238807401431135/photo/1

On 5/19/2026 at 6:23 PM, A 1970 Corvette said:

There is nothing funnier as someone who looks through network logs than seeing admins mistype things. It brightens up my day every time I see them forget an IP address's octet or just fail to spell "ping" right.

 

I have no idea why it's so funny to me. I guess looking through logs which normally are so formalized that a human misspelling error wouldn't ever show up makes it stand out even more when one happens.

they'd probably die inside if they knew you were seeing that

Think a lot of stuff online has been "this is probably being recorded... but the datastream is so high that a human will never see it"

I've definitely been dissuaded from trying stuff in the off chance something I do (like try scanning my badge at work on a door i shouldn't have access to) will get flagged somewhere causing an angry email.

ffuuuuuuuuuuuuck deadlofck is too fun

People are too afraid to be told their childhood movies suck. I wonder if you know the peoples' ages.

I think the subreddit prequelmemes also did a ton to give people rose-tinted glasses 8ish years ago and onward. People remember the memed-on moments and just ignore the agonizing sideplots and other bs.

i'm sure we'll get people in 10 years defending the new trilogy in a similar way.

those are some good looking miis

Fucked up that I wanted an Azunyan mug after watching K-ON! like 12 years ago and I STILL don't have one because they just never produced more at a time I was looking.

18 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

This really bugs me more than it should.  I know that the secret page is going to be something like "congratulations! You found the bonus page!" with maybe an extra piece of art. At most it will be a tie-in to some long forgotten contest. There's not going to be any value in finding it.

 

But... it's there. Somewhere. And this is something that very well may never been documented anywhere on the internet, ever. If it has, you certainly can't find anything about it now. So I want to find it. But there's so little to go on.

This sounds sad cuz I love me some game secrets...

Based on the fact that profile statuses aren't private on this site, I wonder ifsername  people ever see it after websearching only to find random profile posts. I checked in Incognito and theres some visible older posts but its inconsistent.

i've just been thinking lately how much someone could garner about me from my username and came to the conclusion that AI scrapers are probably the only thing that have used the ArchiveTeam SPUF archive.

So thanks Archiveteam

Few things

1. Wow the new embedded youtube player is terrible.

2. That cat is gonna be so many people I knows' profile picture when it comes out.

3. The only show I've watched that wasn't a sequel recently has been "The Demon King's Daughter is Too Nice!" or whateva its called. I still wish to watch more stuff though...

It was the only non-anime show I've kept up with in probably 8+ years. I'm probably in the second boat but there's two more episodes so halfway 1st and 2nd boat.

Always been a big fan of "make your time"

I kinda wish it wasn't possible to see player numbers sometimes, cuz wow am I so sick of seeing comparisons between Deadlock (a game that got a new hero as part of a major update yesterday) and Highguard (a game with day 1 server issues [SOMETHING THAT DEADLOCK ALSO HAD YESTERDAY!!].

Like seriously Valve released a new hero yesterday and you couldn't queue Deadlock for 2-2.5 hours. At the very least you could load up solo/party hideouts and fuck around which was good enough to buy time but man did I feel like a lot of my day was wasted yesterday. (Dear game devs please let me use dev console in your games thanks)

I really don't want to go to bat for Highguard (it's average to slightly above average at best) but just seeing all the disingenuous media surrounding it (since that is what gets attention/views) is infuriating to see.

Not to say it doesn't deserve some of it- Highguard copies the HUD from Apex but only like half of the guns are somewhat fantasy looking. The AK-47 lookalike sticks out like a sore thumb. The character writing quality did not survive, and this game reeks of "Focus M", but at least its mostly ignorable. A few characters are VAs from Deadlock/Apex so they're at least pleasing to listen to, but man does it make you realize how much they squandered the writing.

Whatever, I'll give it a couple more play sessions at least. Have yet to find a hero I mesh well with. Same can't be said for mount choice (#kuma). Also seeing three separate currencies on boot was hecking epic.

I've been falling asleep at 8pm and waking up at 7amish the past few days and I hate it. Waking up at 7am for work is whatever cuz I have to, but I'm getting home and just crashing. Also waking up at that time on weekends sucks since no one is awake. 

Grumble volcano

On 1/2/2026 at 7:20 PM, Huff said:

 

Spoiler

4. Pools

This is a simple one to clear up. You know all those Youtube shorts and Tiktoks and other brainrot that focus on the wrong version of the backrooms. Like haha scary monster shit? Like this, citing one of my favorite videos on the world wide web:

 

As fucking funny this video is, it really encapsulates how the majority of people have misinterpreted what makes the Poolrooms/Backrooms so compelling. I'm in it for the aesthetics, dreamlike absurdity, weird noneuclidean geometry, and feeling of isolation and solitude. I'm pretty sure I started a thread on this very forum like a decade ago called "Loneliness in Gaming" and Raz made a little fun of me? Regardless, that love of solitude in games has remained. And Pools has scratched this itch among others. It's a straightforward and pure interpretation of the Poolrooms with no monsters or jumpscares, just droning ambience and your mind making it creepy. Add in fun Easter eggs and impressive setpeices and you've got a winner. They even added in an extra DLC chapter for free! Looking forward to more from these devs. Only gripe is that the controls and visual settings are sub-par and always feel a little oily to look at.

 

Hmm, what did I play this year...

uhhhhhhhhhh yeah pretty much the same as every year

I guess I played the second half of Ghost Trick, and that was pretty awesome. I already talked about it in January though. I've also been playing through the Ace Attorney trilogy which is also pretty cool. I've come around on Pulsar: Lost Colony after really not liking it at first when my friend asked me to buy it for his birthday to play with him but I don't know if it something I'd recommend. Risk of Rain Returns sure is risk of rain 1, bogus-feeling difficulty and everything. I haven't completed Sonic x Shadow Generations yet but I plan to once I get the new Steam Controller. It's cool but I really never liked boost sonic gameplay. ENA Dream BBQ was cool to get that itch of wanting to play Temptation Stairway but I haven't done a second runthrough yet. I've watched so much Balatro and Nubby's Number Factory gameplay this year and those have also been similarly awesome, but I gotta agree with Corv that Nubbys really lacks a ton of depth/skill that Balatro has making it much less replayable.

I guess my favorite game of the year I've played has got to be Deadlock (aaaaaaaaa a moba) but the reasons why are too complicated to really discuss. I quit it last year in November and started coming back to it around March of 2025 and haven't stopped playing since. I think way too many people that hate-play the game are trying way too hard to want to like it just because its a Valve game (they've still got it with the writing and worldbuilding), or they're just not used to playing a game where there's such high highs and low lows. They've even did some really touching surprise events for Christmas and New Years, with a bunch of new heroes (allegedly) coming in January. I wonder how well this game will do if/when it gets more casual game modes.

5 minutes ago, TheOnlyGuyEver said:

Nahhh, I'm sure it will happen. EasyGameStation knows how large of a following the game has in the west and most of the game material already exists in a translated form. Carpe Fulgur has ceased operation but the other half of CF has said that all rights for publication revert to the original developers. So really EasyGameStation could just use the original translation and hire another company to localize any new material or revised dialogue, hopefully using the original as reference. Of course, what happened is still unfortunate and it would've been nice to have the remaster done by CF as well.

 

If in worst case scenario it doesn't get officially localized, I wouldn't be surprised if the fan community does it, since again, there probably won't be that much new to write. Either way I am optimistic 

Good points. I still never played Recettear so if/when the HD localization comes out that'll be the perfect time.