Moby

Decided to give BPM a try.

Holy fucking shit, why is this game so hard? The default difficulty is "Easy" but its still insane! There are two harder settings that I just dread having to play.

Rooms even at the first level sometimes have like 10 enemies so it gets hard to pay attention to everything at once, your health is extremely small (100 hp, but they could just say its 4 because each hit takes AT LEAST 25 hp), you have only 4 passive slots and they only accept one item kind.

Almost every room has a shrine to increase your stats, but they sometimes get replaced by chests or other less desired interactable stuff, so if that happens is one less stat up and you REALLY need them, specially range.

The furthest I got so far was level 6, mostly due luck because of items that regenerated health and lots of range ups, but BOTH TIMES I died because the game decided fun was over and made the level do double damage, then spawn a bunch of shield enemies and suicidal bombers. The suicidal ones deal 100 FUCKING DAMAGE, which is an instant kill if you didn't had luck with HP ups or anything that generate shields.

The shield guys sometimes died fast, sometimes they kept tanking damage for a whole minute, even if I kept shooting them in the head or the back. And you can't sidestep their attacks, oh no, you HAVE to dodge, and if you dodge a beat too late that is 50 damage for you, friendo.

Soundtrack is good. But I am starting to get annoyed because its rather repetitive.

This AI smokes some serious crack. I did get Bowsette from Bowser + Pornhub, so some stuff makes sense at least.

2 hours ago, Rynjin said:

I thought it was pretty fun. I'm also gonna be honest, some of the complaints don't really track with my experience; I've never needed to repair a gun before I'm ready to craft the next gun anyway. Same with the food meter, which is automated anyway  with the feed bag. Honestly it sounds like you might have been playing on an online server where somebody tweaked a few values to make the game "more hardcore".

 

Armor repair sucks cock though, especially on hats.

I am playing on my own map, all I changed was increasing stamina, exp and health regen on Palbox.

I'm ok with the hunger mechanic and the feed bag, I just feel it drains a bit too fast on attacks. Just a few attacks from my Bushi shouldn't drain half of their hunger meter, and he doesn't has any bad traits to make it so.

Meanwhile, Pals that attack passively like my Dazzi don't drain hunger.

The thing about repairing weapons is more because I had uncommon ones that require ancient parts (also because getting ore is a bitch since you can't automate that). After using my crossbow for a while, I try to repair it when it reaches 50% durability, and that alone costs 2 ancient parts.

Also, I am probably handcapping myself because I have no idea if the Fire/Poison variations of the bow and crossbow do more flat damage, since I had that uncommon. Why do you even have to research a new crossbow to fire the same arrow but on fire anyway?

It took me a while to learn that shields meant "equipable recharging FPS shields" and not "placeable shield domes"

Decided to try out Palworld. Its a clickbait game.

Not terrible, its your average survival crafting with base building, pretty much a bit of Ark and a bit of Rimworld. Really needs some updates though.

There is a serious lack of balance between gathering and consuming. Leaving your Pals out or making them attack drains their hunger WAY too fast, I had a Pal in a fight with a full meter, and a few seconds later he had less than half.

Armor and items have durability, which is by far my most disliked mechanic in a game. There is no option to disable durability in your world, so you are often gathering stuff just to repair the stuff you used to gather.

Upgraded armor requires rare items that you can only find defeating bosses, but armor can break in a few hits because it apparently decreases 1 point of durability per 1 point of damage.

You are already having to gather ore, coal, charcoal, sulfur and other stuff to make a gun and bullets, but you also have to bother with fixing the gun very often with the cost being as high as the crafting cost.

It tries to do what Rimworld does, but the AI is completely braindead.

I had to redesign my base TWICE because Pals kept getting stuck or teleporting into somewhere they couldn't get down. I saw some Pals getting stuck on an OPEN AREA, because they somehow walked outside the base area and their AI went haywire, wiggling back and forth on the edge of the base. I saw a fire Pal getting stuck because it couldn't light up a torch, even if it was RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM.

I witnessed some Pals pick up a rock, walk a few meters, drop the rock, walk back, stop, walk back to the rock they just dropped, walk towards a chest, drop the rock again, walk back, walk to the rock, pick it up, drop it in the chest, ONLY TO PICK IT OFF THAT CHEST THEY JUST PUT TO BRING IT TO ANOTHER CHEST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BASE.

There are no work order or priorities, so you can't make a Pal only do one kind of job, they do everything they can and keep stopping to cycle between all their jobs.

Also, there is no slavery. Yes, you can capture humans, but not only they are far harder to capture, they suck as workforce since they are limited to creating items at a slow speed. You can't even force humans or Pals to do stuff, if they are annoyed, they stop doing tasks until they feel better.

That trailer with the weapon assembly line and crying creatures? All fake. The assembly line is just another crafting bench.

Overall, needs to cook more.

Even if you say the chances are a million to one, people will gamble because they believe they will be that one eventually.

Today I saw a real life Karen. You know, the "I wanna speak to your manager" kind of woman.

I was in line to get a milk shake and in front of me there was this 50 to 60 years old woman. I thought she was going to just buy an ice cream or something, but then she said she wanted... to complain. Oh boy.

From what I understood, she tried to buy an ice cream on the stand near the entrance of the shopping, but they were closing since it was already 10PM. By the shopping rules, all stores other than the Food Court and cinema start to close at 10PM.

So the clerk told her she should go to the food court and buy an ice cream at the restaurant, as they were closed.

Apparently that was unforgivable, because she JUST wanted an ice cream, and she had to walk ALL THE WAY to the food court (2 minutes walk) for it. Then when she gets there, she gets in line to complain about that clerk. Her face said it all, she just wanted to complain and try to get the gratification of being "right" and "superior" after being denied something.

She kept repeating to the clerk of the restaurant that she wanted to speak with someone about the other clerk, but they would all look at her with a "this bitch for real" face while trying (and failing) to suppress a smirk.

The manager gets there, hears her and basically goes "but what is the actual problem here?". ALL THIS WHILE MORE PEOPLE ARE WAITING IN LINE BY THE WAY.

Then the manager has to go get this clerk to hear what she has to say, so she can gently tell her to fuck off explain to the Karen that the clerk didn't do nothing wrong. While the clerk didn't get there, they finally move the Karen aside so more people can make their orders already.

Lady, I never met you and don't even know who you are. But I really hope you step on a really filthy rain puddle with socks on.

I think the only 2000's era FPS that stuck on my mind was Urban Chaos on the PS2.

I actually enjoyed the riot shield gameplay. It was developed by Rocksteady, and it seems it was their first game. And the only one before they started to suck DC dong.

I actually never saw any gameplay of that game, all I know about it is the yellow helmet cover and that it was a "Halo killer".

The "discourse" only once again shows that Twitter is an infinitely small percentage of the internet and the idiots that live in there have no weight on a game success. See also: Hogwarts.

This year I set a few challenges for myself:

1. Use all these sketch books
2. Learn how to use ink pens
3. Improve anotomy
4. Learn how to draw hands
5. Use more pose references
6. 50 OCs

Rochelle:

Aura:

Void:

Robunny:

Penny:

Silvia:

Aurora:

Carmen:

Red:

Gray:

Lisa:

Alessandra:

NEW: Urban Bird (Becky)

NEW: Queen (Unnamed)

NEW: Ghost Girl I saw in a dream once (Unnamed)

NEW: Super Hero Bunny (Unnamed)

NEW: Ninja Lizard (Unnamed)

NEW: Paralysis Demon I saw from food poisoning

Some jar of fruit:

Taking another look at my library, I remembered of a few that I played in 2023, but they were just a blurred memory.

Aren't Evangelions just outworldly big meaty beings with a fabricated exoskeleton controlled by humans in a port in the spine?

Kinda like Titans are big meaty beings that can equip or generate exoskeletons and are controlled by humans from the spine.

Is Attack on Titan and Evangelion mecha?

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/awesome-games-done-quick-2024

Bayonetta, Borderlands 2 GOTY, Celeste, Bloodstained, Sprawl, Astalon, Sonic Adventure 2 + DLC.

$10.

10 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

But not the music.

Look, I know Funky Uncle's tracks are great, but every other song I heard were just terrible rap/hip-hop/yelling with distorted effects.

Maybe I just got unlucky and didn't got the good tracks.

Played Jet Set Radio for the first time.

REALLY tried to like it, but I started to get really angry with the controls.

Turning is really stiff, you take too long to build speed, jumping is delayed and incredibly inaccurate (the direction depends of the camera, and its always moving), moves come out at random, some rails have this huge hitbox that causes you to grind when you don't want, some rails have a hit box way too small so you keep jumping over them, there are only two voice lines per character ("Yeah!") and the soundtrack is mostly bad.

I got past two levels and decided to try to get the sprays, but I just couldn't get a few of them because you need to be WAY too precise to reach them and the controls just don't help.

You need to get the perfect speed, then try to hit a rail diagonally so you can grind in one direction, then jump at the right moment so you reach the next rail without overshooting, then do another precise jump and hope you had enough speed for your jump to get enough height to reach the spray.

After like 40 tries, listening to some trash hip hop, hearing the same "Yeah!" over and over, always missing the jump because the camera turned a bit when I jumped or because I missed just a bit of speed, I gave up, said "fuck this" and uninstalled.

Fucking hell, Tony Hawk already had good controls to avoid this mess and Tony Hawk 2 came in the same year. Why are the controls so bad? Did Dreamcast/Sega fans really had to endure this?

Ubisoft's Legend Of Zelda is 90% off.

20 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

Took me forever to find this video again, so I am preserving this important bit of TF2 history:

Holy fucking shit, I was looking around for that teleporter glitch weeks ago and never managed to find a single stance of it.

I knew it was named after some creature, but I couldn't find anything about "TF2 Medusa teleporter glitch"

Shut up! (sick backflip) HA HA HA HA H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H- BITCH!

From the stuff I played (not released) in the year, in no particular order of goods and bads:

Backlog (AKA games I should be playing instead of cycling through the same 3):

38 minutes ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

non-streamer game/non hyped

My Twitch recommendations were mostly Dave The Diver on the first two months it was released.

Either way, Steam Awards were and always will be just a popularity contest. I hoped they would add something to balance the votes based on the number of initial nominations, but they never bothered.

That is why we got shit like Not-Fifa on GOTY, Gorilla Tag on VR, Red Dead/Dota/Rust on Labor of Love, Outlast/Harry Potter on Best Steam Deck, Starfield on Best Gameplay, Overwatch (lol) on Game You Suck, Last of Us on Soundtrack and some chinese dating game on Best Story

2 minutes ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

Actually screw this game awards talk.

 

HORN OF THE ABYSS DROPPED WITH FACTORY.

 

NOT A DRILL. FACTORY IS REAL.

 

FHEROES 2 UPDATED TO MAKE THE AI NOT BRAINDEAD

 

IT'S HAPPENING. HEROES NEVER DIE.

I saw a post about this on some subreddit, is it a big deal?

(I own all Heroes of Might and Magic game on GOG but only played a bit of 1)

A game that didn't receive any updates for the last 3 years.

A game that is just Fallout 4 with less features, which already had less features than New Vegas, with most of the new gameplay copied from No Man's Sky.

Fuck off.

I think that the animated Disney movies that still hold up today are:

- Robin Hood

- Aladdin

- Goofy Movie

- Mulan, for the most part

- Emperor's New Groove

- Atlantis

- Lilo & Stitch

- Incredibles

- WALL-E

- Toy Story 2

I did enjoy others like Toy Story 1, Brother Bear, Treasure Planet, Monsters Inc., but these are not something I would sit to rewatch.

The Nightmare Before Christmas and Book of Life are also good, but these aren't Disney (yet)

28 minutes ago, A 1970 Corvette said:

I had a really quick dream a few days ago about my shower water turning to blood and instead of being a horrifying experience I was just annoyed that my dad seemed to blame me for it happening, and that I had to run out into the rain to get it all off of me.

 

Somehow I thought of the rain, which is a rare occurrence out here, but not that we have a swimming pool that would be a much faster way to clean off. Maybe I didn't want to get the water all bloody.

Or maybe that washing yourself with treated pool water would be just as bad.

Had a dream where I was walking around town (a weird, distorted and bigger version of my city) when one of the straps of my flip-flops snapped.

Luckily, I found one of my aunts and she gave me a ride to a nearby store. On the way, I saw this big store that was some sort of school for 3D Modeling/Printing.

I arrive at the store and look for a new flops, but I can't make my order on this ultra-technological machine because this tall guy keeps cutting the line and shoving me back. I get fed up and shove my elbow deep into his stomach.

I decide to look around the store, but the store gets robbed like 3 times, with the security always running off to catch the thief. There is a big fight between security and this long haired, shirtless guy wearing just a white shorts and white sneakers.

I leave the store and end up finding my grandma and Meatwad from ATHF. They start to speak about Jesus and I end up waking up because I was almost sure I was having a stroke at that point.

Its been a while, but I remember I had some weapons from the SPUF people. Checking my inventory, I have:

Soda Popper gifted by Guy.

Mad Milk gifted by Nitzan (RIP)

Winger gifted by Nitzan (RIP)

Boston Basher gifted by Janobi

Battalion's Backup gifted by Nitzan (RIP)

Disciplinary Action gifted by Silent

Enforcer gifted by Silent

Your Eternal Reward gifted by someone who probably isn't from SPUF (ender chris, probably just a random)

Untradable Scotsman's Stove Pipe gifted by ??? (It says 'Shanghai', but it WAS someone from SPUF, but I don't remember who it was)

Idea Tube gifted by Nitzan (RIP)

Physician's Mask crafted by Huff

Surgeon's Stethoscope crafted by Buddha

Couvre Corner crafted by Binary

Swagman's Swatter crafted by Binary

Familiar Fez crafted by Nitzan (RIP)

The ones with my name are

Weapons:

Unarmed Combat

Candy Cane

Three-Rune Blade

Strange Cow Mangler

Righteous Bison

Nostromo Napalmer

Loose Cannon

Apoco-Fists

Quackenbirdt (I remember DuelJay wanted to buy this from me because it was "themed")

Wanga Prick

Sharp Dresser

Freedom Staff

Cosmetics: