Gyokuyoutama

Saw an add for Canva targeted towards teachers.  The tagline was something like "it will work so well, it's like a hack for your class."
 
I don't know if this is a horrible or brilliant slogan at this time.

Out of 96 entries (it was 98 or so before a few got disqualified), my dumb OC game got around 35th place on Joel's gamejam.
 
What the shit? I honestly didn't expect it to go above 60th.
Seriously, its just a walking sim with a bunch of my OCs and a lousy plot tying it together.
 

What still amuses me is how some AI image generators are still plagued by the yellow tint due the sheer amount of Ghibli prompts causing the results to infect the sample pool.

So, about that Joel Frenjam 2 game.
I guess I did it.
 
It really sucks. Its my first time overall using GODOT.
And there is no pause button, so alt-f4, lmao.
 
Now I have a feeling of regret.
Why the fuck did I do this?
 
...
I had some fun though.

Oh my god finally, I can stack dogs on PC

Cave Story+ on Steam is being updated with the console version features.
 

I'm thinking of making a dumb game for that Joel's Gamejam.
Anyone wants a cameo? Send me a design with some dialogue and I'll try to make an npc or something.

Welcome back to 2009.
 
 

Welcome back to 2009.
 
 

Welcome back to 2009.
 
 

Welcome back to 2009.
 
 

Loud obnoxious love live fan here, and I'm excited for both the Hasu no Sora Movie and the anime that was just announced for next year! It totally won't confuse people if it gets localised since there's three (secretly four if you count the extra novel) years of stuff that happened before that is not officially adapted! I guess that's not unheard of for anime adaptions though.
 
I swear to god I was going to find an example not in a franchise I'm locked in for already but my usual anime watching routine is checking a bunch of episode 1s the first week of the season so I usually only find stuff when it's already started

People often say shows are "ahead of their time" just because they are still relevant.  Ex. a corporation screws someone over in a 1960's show and people say "wow, how could they guess that corporations are screwing people over in 2026? It's ahead of its time!"
 
But I would say that the forgotten 90's Chris Elliot sitcom is actually ahead of its time.  That is, the style of humor used in it would not come into its own until decades later.  This really came into clear view at the end of the episode "1977 2000" where Chris uses "Time Juice" to travel through time and mess things up.  At the end of the episode he tries to fix things one last time by drinking the last of his time juice, only to realize that he drank from the wrong bottle.  The camera then zooms into the label "JUICE THAT MAKES YOU EXPLODE"
 

 
and so of course he explodes, ending the episode.
 
The "that that makes you do thing" meme only got popular online around the mid 10's, along with similar memes like "bone hurting juice."  I might be missing something, but Get A Life is the only time I've seen this sort of thing pre-2015, and it came out in 1992.  There's a variety of other jokes in the show that feel like dank internet humor (before most people even used the internet) but this is the most blatant example of it.

People often say shows are "ahead of their time" just because they are still relevant.  Ex. a corporation screws someone over in a 1960's show and people say "wow, how could they guess that corporations are screwing people over in 2026? It's ahead of its time!"
 
But I would say that the forgotten 90's Chris Elliot sitcom is actually ahead of its time.  That is, the style of humor used in it would not come into its own until decades later.  This really came into clear view at the end of the episode "1977 2000" where Chris uses "Time Juice" to travel through time and mess things up.  At the end of the episode he tries to fix things one last time by drinking the last of his time juice, only to realize that he drank from the wrong bottle.  The camera then zooms into the label "JUICE THAT MAKES YOU EXPLODE"
 

 
and so of course he explodes, ending the episode.
 
The "that that makes you do thing" meme only got popular online around the mid 10's, along with similar memes like "bone hurting juice."  I might be missing something, but Get A Life is the only time I've seen this sort of thing pre-2015, and it came out in 1992.  There's a variety of other jokes in the show that feel like dank internet humor (before most people even used the internet) but this is the most blatant example of it.

People often say shows are "ahead of their time" just because they are still relevant.  Ex. a corporation screws someone over in a 1960's show and people say "wow, how could they guess that corporations are screwing people over in 2026? It's ahead of its time!"
 
But I would say that the forgotten 90's Chris Elliot sitcom is actually ahead of its time.  That is, the style of humor used in it would not come into its own until decades later.  This really came into clear view at the end of the episode "1977 2000" where Chris uses "Time Juice" to travel through time and mess things up.  At the end of the episode he tries to fix things one last time by drinking the last of his time juice, only to realize that he drank from the wrong bottle.  The camera then zooms into the label "JUICE THAT MAKES YOU EXPLODE"
 

 
and so of course he explodes, ending the episode.
 
The "that that makes you do thing" meme only got popular online around the mid 10's, along with similar memes like "bone hurting juice."  I might be missing something, but Get A Life is the only time I've seen this sort of thing pre-2015, and it came out in 1992.  There's a variety of other jokes in the show that feel like dank internet humor (before most people even used the internet) but this is the most blatant example of it.

Recently played The Citadel, then played through it again on the harder difficulty since I enjoyed it so much. It's funny because apart from maybe one or two boss fights the difficulty didn't change anything for me, you were basically always at full armor or you fucked up and got one-burst'd by enemies anyway. I guess the difference from medium to hard is that in medium it took two enemies laying into you to kill you from full, whereas it only took one in hard. I guess the thing is that you have such good awareness that you can basically kill most enemies before they get a chance to shoot you outside of situations where you're dropped into an arena with a lot at once, so for the majority of the time the only thing the harder difficulty impacts is the lower spawn rate of items. But since enemies can be taken out efficiently that wasn't really a problem either.
 
There are optional difficulty settings that up enemy awareness, health, and aggressiveness though. If you play with those maxed (the default difficulty settings don't change those settings no matter if you play easy, medium, or hard, so they're kind of a secret extra difficulty level above hard) then I think the game actually becomes really fucking hard. Will have to give it a try sometime.

Next Fest is still ongoing but I went through some demos this weekend and I wanna blab about them before they fade from my mind:
Data Center: This is every bit as terribly jank as I thought it'd be, but it was funny. I got the hand cart stuck in the data center hallway and made it impossible to efficiently move equipment. I didn't really expect anything technical but it was more simplified than I thought it'd be. Fate/Trigger: Anime PUBG. It's a pretty competently made game, but doesn't really go head and shoulders beyond the genre. Has a serious "characters blab too much" and also a "characters do not have enough unique voice lines" issue which is a bad combination to have. Also padding lobbies with bots, unless console players are literally that bad at the game (I refuse to believe they are). Vehicles, as usual, kind of ruin the game due to completely dominating teamfights with their massive health pools. The shooting is pretty nice. Apparently in this playtest they upped damage for everything and it feels a bit too lethal. Gal Vs Village: Like twenty minutes of gameplay tops and extremely barebones but has an endearingly scrappy nature to it. There's not even a y axis on the mouse! The actual shooting, dash, and melee feel pretty good despite how janky everything looks. The dash and melee feel a bit anachronistic with how retro everything else is but it's pretty fun. Also the spreadshot MG's design is fucked up. There's even an AMV embedded in the game's main menu... which is weird. Cicadamata: Neon White clone with more terrible visual filter crap everywhere. Despite the visuals it seems fairly well put together, you jump around real fast to collect things then get out of the level. Enemies often have secondary functions as mobility tools which is pretty common for the genre. I question how they made everything so intentionally blocky but then went out of their way to give the robot MC design a round ass that you see every end of level screen. Marathon Server Slam™: Having recently played Marathon 2- actually let's not pretend there's any attempt at a throughline with this game, I mainly played because I was bored and someone asked me to try it. Uh.... It sure is a tarkov clone? I do not get the appeal of this genre at all tbh, it's like a marriage of the unfun parts of BR games (looting, incentives to ignore fighting, etc) with even more menuing downtime added between every match. The presentation is unique and the graphics are pretty interesting. I liked the atmosphere of the first area. The "heroes" design looked fucking terrible across the board but it may be intentional with the "more marketable Cruelty Squad" aesthetic they seem to be approaching. I'd say I liked the gunplay but it all feels really sluggish, like the game is at half speed for everything, maybe it gets better if you're kitted with high tier gear but there ain't no way I'm grinding stuff out just to approach an appropriate level of responsiveness in an FPS game. If you've found any fun shooter demos in next fest I've not said above let me know so I can try them too :DDD

Man I miss RightStufAnime.
 
EDIT: I thought I was in the anime thread, but whatever, sentiment still stands.  I miss that store.
 
Who knew that one storefront was holding up sane distribution of anime, manga and light novels for the entire country.

Lately I just purchase games by smell.
 
That is, I look at the art style, the marketing, and what gameplay features it has and let my subconscious make a snap judgement about whether I should play it or not.
 
Sorry, my subconscious said no on this one.  And since it's my subconscious, I literally cannot elaborate.

I really appreciate that cats is at least polite with his greeting. What a standup guy.
 
Every time I watch this video I see "The Little AleInn" sign edit and I'm like "oh hey I've been there!" and I never rememeber that it's in the video 

It was 25 years ago today that the legendary All Your Base video hit Newgrounds.
 
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/11940
 
Yeah, it existed before that, being posted to random sites as flash videos were at the time, but we can't date the actual creation so this is good enough.
 
In honor of this anniversary, what is your favorite line from the intro?
 
(Also this is a place for general Zero Wing discussion or ancient Newgrounds discussion, I guess.)

I've literally been watching this at least five times a day:
 
 
And now I've tricked at least a handful of you into watching it as well.
 
Julls for the Jull Jhrone.

my fuwamoco tshirt is pretty fire tbh