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pang

@birthbydrip.neocities.org

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pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

it doesn't seem like curiouscat or askfm or anything are around anymore, so I'm gonna pose the question here: what are some questions you have for me or topics you'd like to see me cover on my blog? I'd like some material for shorter essays, since my own always balloon out of proportion lol

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

was about as easy as I thought, and this run would've been one of my best hardest difficulty runs too! maybe I'll come back for the true expert/hardest 1all but I'm content to leave it at this for now youtu.be/lUVG7BlARak

youtu.beElevator Action 1-ALL [Difficult]YouTube video by pang
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considering moving a difficulty level down for the elevator action 1all just to shelve it for a bit and thank god for the original operator's manual mame's name for the difficulty: normal 😬 makes it sound not that impressive manual's name for the difficulty: difficult 🙂‍↕️ just right...

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Ephemeral Enigmas
@ephemeralenigmas.bsky.social

New blog post time! This week's game is Night Creatures, a TurboGrafx-16 horror action game that's a little like Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. High stakes and very limited resources make this quite a harrowing game to route, but if it was less janky, it'd honestly be really cool: #blog #gaming

ephemeralenigmascom.wordpress.comNight CreaturesThere’s inherent fun in mastering this game and being able to route it by memory, but the whole thing is cut down by good ol’ nebulous “game feel” because it just never controls as tightly as it sh…
pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

considering moving a difficulty level down for the elevator action 1all just to shelve it for a bit and thank god for the original operator's manual mame's name for the difficulty: normal 😬 makes it sound not that impressive manual's name for the difficulty: difficult 🙂‍↕️ just right...

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

the actual issue with arcade difficulty/on-boarding/etc. is that TAP doesn't have a ~60-hour clear mode, so we're stuck talking about arcade games through the lens of final fight all the time instead

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

real life turned on in a good way recently (esp with music stuff) which is great but I haven't posted on the blog in a hot second 😭 like hopefully I'll get one out tomorrow but I dunno what's coming down the pipe after that

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

I've been trying to force myself to practice a splatterhouse clear but frankly I haven't been getting a lot of enjoyment out of the memorization-heavy stuff. like it's fine in small doses but I haven't really put the hours in (practicing elevator action hasn't helped)

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Maddison Baek
@maddisonbaek.bsky.social

store.steampowered.com/app/2109060/... Oh yeah, it's on sale with a 50% price cut again. Why? It's fucking Halloween season, my people! Go and kill some demons!

store.steampowered.comSave 50% on Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest on SteamMagenta Horizon is a fast-paced 2D action platformer with challenging spectacle fighter inspired combat. Playing as a Reaper of the twisted purgatorial afterlife, push your skills to the limit to dest...

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@julietstmoon.bsky.social

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⛧Juliet St. Moon☽@julietstmoon.bsky.social

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pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

this has been such a restorative thing because these are songs specifically made to sloppily play off the top of your head after no practice... some of the best ever at that, in fact

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Rex Zakel
@rexzakel.bsky.social

rexzakel.neocities.org/about/ i did it and pretty lazily. A lot of oomfs use this hugo theme so i wanted to use something else to be different but i didnt find anything as good so this will do for now. The Wilds article doesn't chug anymore at least. now i just gotta think of something new to write

rexzakel.neocities.orgZakel's Tomb - About Me!
Rex Zakel@rexzakel.bsky.social

i will force myself to actually make my own website sometime before the end of the year 😤 but for now i put my writing into a shitty wordpress blog rexzakel.wordpress.com

rexzakel.wordpress.comRex Zakel's BlogA place to dump my thoughts on things. I primarily talk about video games

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JetSetKyoro
@jetsetkyoro.bsky.social

Wanna hear me and some buds talk about a really cool game for the Dreamcast? 👇

pang@birthbydrip.neocities.org

we've got another regen episode for you to match the season... I sat down with @redletterday95.bsky.social @reynhester.bsky.social and @jetsetkyoro.bsky.social to look back another dreamcast classic: the inimitable ILLBLEED. give it a listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFtV...

youtube.comDo We Have the Heart to Play Illbleed? - REGEN #006YouTube video by Regen Podcast
pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

finally sat down for some elevator action attempts after a dry week and my amd gpu is completely shitting the bed when I try to record in obs 😔 it's over

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

I fulfilled my "one rpg per year" rule... I finally gave saga a proper chance and ended up really enjoying it. it's choppy, but it emphasizes the tapestry of little stories that the game is comprised of, whether the grand narratives of the main worlds or the small sojourns in the tower. link below!

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Ephemeral Enigmas
@ephemeralenigmas.bsky.social

New blog post time! This week's game is Musya: The Classic Japanese Tale of Horror, an atmospheric action platformer with a bit of a misleading name. It's a slow-paced game that doesn't ease players in, but if you like beating the odds, there's satisfaction in learning its tricks: #blog #gaming

ephemeralenigmascom.wordpress.comMusya: The Classic Japanese Tale of HorrorMusya is living proof that your perception of a game can and will change the more you play it. If you really put your mind towards understanding a game, that is absolutely an inevitability. You may…

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LAKESPIRIT
@lakespirit.love

lakespirit.love/posts/2026-1... NEW REVIEW!! BEAT, HEART, BEAT i was provided a review copy for this game!! neat!! amazing opportunity, never thought i'd get an opportunity like that, but inspiring so anti-cynically really likeable rhythm game, decided to focus on its central cultural influences :3

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

feel bad for this lady who posted an ig reel saying "when I'm having a bad day but feel Geordie Greep thinks I'm cool" with a screenshot of him sliding into her dms... she posted it like a week before the allegations dropped lol

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

there's a ps5 fork of pcsx2 that works with real discs now and it's revealing how many people had no idea that baked-in backwards compatibility would be possible. like no wonder they were able to axe the features without seismic backlash

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

a lot of it is bcs 1) trophy integration would be difficult (which is a ridiculous self-made issue) and 2) the quality standards would be rather high... but honestly it makes the shitty 360 backwards compat for og xbox look better, bcs they were fine with it running horribly just to have it at all

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

it had been a couple years since I had really been a productivity beast (middle of '24 we had a major grant wrapping up and I was in the trenches for months) and I'm glad I was able to pull it out again for my dissertation back in April, but now it's probably another year of just getting by...

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

been driving my gf's gti a lot recently since my fit is in the shop, and I always want to go home and play gt3 or colin mcrae 2 while I'm driving it... and then get out of the car and totally forget about it

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

obliged to mention that I had already made the anti-ps2 era turn...

pang@birthbydrip.neocities.org

this is a big reason why I was dropping ps1>ps2 takes recently. plenty of fascinating, unique titles on the latter but also a heightened amount of post-dmc generic action-adventure titles

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

ps1 games still feel like they're all making fundamental concepts from scratch, ps2 games (esp post-dmc) end up remixing a lot of familiar forms or directly continuing ps1-era franchises/concepts. gcn library was overrated and xbox is barren

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

obv still a banner era for plenty of games but ever since I started diving into pre-90s stuff to bone up for the podcast, I haven't been able to wrench myself out of those games

pang
@birthbydrip.neocities.org

accidentally saved a bad state over my splatterhouse lvl 5 save slot, put in a new credit to make a new save and accidentally loaded the bad save, finally put in a new credit and saved a good save, only to go back to the title screen, attempt to load the good save, and end up saving over it again

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Ephemeral Enigmas
@ephemeralenigmas.bsky.social

New blog post time! This week's game is Battle Monsters, a fighting game that sometimes gets mistaken as a "Mortal Kombat clone", but is actually much different and far more interesting. Silly characters, grimy aesthetics, and even a bit of platforming made this a pleasant surprise: #blog #gaming

ephemeralenigmascom.wordpress.comBattle MonstersI’m often a sucker for a janky fighting game, but I gotta say, Battle Monsters impressed me! It’s jank, for sure, but there’s a lot more going on under the hood than at first glance. Once you reali…