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After enough instances of #SteamNextFest and other events where the Browse All Games list re-shuffles every time I revisit the page and there are tons of repeats across sub-genres, I finally made a bookmarklet to help skim past the ones I've already looked at. cney.stream/tools/steam-...

Trying to get to a few more #SteamNextFest demos this afternoon, as I suspect I may not have the chance tomorrow and Wednesday watch.cney.stream

I managed to try 20 #SteamNextFest demos this week, and I still have 11 installed that I either started and want to finish, or haven't even tried yet. I'll get to them eventually, but my stream schedule next Mon-Fri will be unpredictable, and any streams I do will be in the afternoon US ET.

This would seem to largely defeat the point of running an alternate streaming platform that isn't Twitch. (Also good lord that near-nonexistent text contrast.)

Let's see if I can get through maybe two and a half more demos on this final day of #SteamNextFest watch.cney.stream

I have managed to catch up with the #SteamNextFest demos I've played so far. I still have more to play and a couple to try to finish, so this page and the related playlist will be receiving more updates in the coming weeks (I may be short on time next week). cney.stream/reviews/2026...

It's #SteamNextFest weekend which means it's time for FPS demos watch.cney.stream

I still have a bunch of assorted demos installed to check out; let's see what we can get through tonight. (I'm saving the first-person stuff for the weekend afternoons.) watch.cney.stream

Quote posting this as well w/ the UserVoice link. Be vocal. Be loud. And don't let up for a second to this cuckcoding chuds. twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...

I already had "treats PC consumers as criminals" and "embraces genAI in game dev" on my list of reasons to never give Capcom any money. Guess now I'm adding "threatens legal action for taking their fighting game seriously"

It's shmup night during #SteamNextFest, and I have downloaded 4 shmup demos to look at watch.cney.stream

Night 3 of #SteamNextFest. I've added a couple of games to my list based on seeing stuff others have run across. watch.cney.stream

Time for night two of #SteamNextFest, starting with a demo for a sequel to a game that's been sitting in my library unplayed, whoops. Here's hoping this kicks me into maybe prioritizing that one... watch.cney.stream

Somehow it felt like I didn't find much digging through #SteamNextFest yet I downloaded 20 demos and easily have a dozen more I could download if time permits. (I already struck a couple.) Anyway let's play some demos watch.cney.stream

Add "the _developer_ spells it 'rougelite'" to the list of reasons I immediately close a Next Fest browser tab

Can definitely say I've once again seen at least one title that I definitely saw 2 Next Fests ago, in this event... I thought that allegedly wasn't supposed to be allowed anymore?? (Wasn't a bad demo, either)

There's a certain game demo in this Next Fest event that I was already kinda meh on because it's got soulslike elements, but now I am _extremely sus_ on it as well, because speedrun dot com blasted an email to I guess literally everyone on the site about a speedrun competition for that demo

Just in time for #SteamNextFest, I've updated my Steam Event Collapser bookmarklet to add a button to iterate through games in the Browse All Games list and automatically collapse any that have AI disclosures. Because no one wants to waste time weeding those out. cney.stream/tools/steam-... #NoAI

After finishing Fat Controller's rc* maps yesteday, I started up another set of old Quake maps I stumbled across, lfsp*, which seem to form most or all of an episode. Hoping to finish those today. watch.cney.stream

I stumbled upon @jitspoe.bsky.social playing Ontranto last night (one of my favorite early Quake paks) and he mentioned some even earlier Fat Controller maps I somehow haven't played, so that's what I'm looking at today. watch.cney.stream

Trizeal attempts again, maybe Steel Empire if I feel I have time watch.cney.stream

I like how at least twice this week I've gone to work on my bookmarklet to help browse Steam events faster, and then Steam has a normal one and stops loading anything, so I have to stop working on it Well whatever, in this case it's shmup time I suppose

Based. My only regret is they missed the opportunity to say "It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and friends don't let friends give money to Microsoft"

Currently there are 423 games with the tag "bullet hell" in the press preview page for the upcoming Next Fest. 135 of them have AI disclosures. Sigh. (Keep in mind that tag gets applied liberally, e.g. to survivors-likes)

My dude, that doesn't look like "gaps" in knowledge, that looks like a fucking chasm

I think I have a non-zero chance of actually really finishing Ys V for PS2 today. watch.cney.stream

Been working on a small but likely very-time-saving update to my Steam Sale Collapser bookmarklet ahead of next Next Fest... (not quite ready to publish yet, still want to do more testing first)

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

As it turns out, I have not finished Ys V for PS2. We fix that this week. watch.cney.stream

Imagine having a full dev team but then some dogshit overpaid "director" forces them to not do their jobs. You'd think Marvel/Disney/etc. might have a bone to pick with a studio completely shitting on all of the art and functionality in a project with their names on it.

There's one map remaining on the lower tier of the Quake Rooftop Jam start map, then I start looking through the upper tier watch.cney.stream

"The government claimed there was nothing they could do." You could start by doing YOUR FUCKING JOBS, you useless motherfuckers.

Getting back to the Quake Rooftops Jam, I spent an excessive amount of time on one map last Sunday and I might spend a bit more time in it today before moving on to the next one watch.cney.stream

Cool, love getting under 6 hours of sleep on a Saturday because of a cement mixer fucking terrorizing the neighborhood before 8AM

It seems likely that I finish Ys V for PS2 tonight. Question is whether or not I also bother to go looking for anything I missed. watch.cney.stream

I wasn't terribly impressed by Trizeal Remix when I first tri(zeal)ed it last week, mostly due to visual clarity concerns, but I'll give it one more try. Not sure if I'll feel up to another Steel Empire attempt this week given how long a full attempt is, but we'll see. watch.cney.stream

SLOP WATCH: The Sonic Adventure recomp is vibe coded. You can tell because they say so and also because every code comment is a 4+ line short story and people who have actually done real decomp work (SPEEPSHighway) have no clue what it's even doing despite this. gj clod i mean claude #slopwatch

lol wtf, MLB proposing to make the expanded wild card even more of a joke by allowing higher-seed teams to pick which lower-seed teams they play? The expanded wildcard is a joke to begin with, just to manufacture more bullshit for talk shows to speculate on and fill air time from July to September.

The developers were really winging it with the level design in the late-game sections of Ys V for PS2... watch.cney.stream

Still in the midst of finishing Ys V for PS2. Time to do some infiltrating. watch.cney.stream

More Quake Rooftops Jam (starting with more start map exploration because I clumsily ignored part of it) watch.cney.stream

I spent like 15 minutes looking around the Quake Rooftops Jam start map today and now as I'm cutting my VOD I'm realizing there's part of the map I totally ignored by accident Prepare for 15 more minutes exploring the start map tomorrow

Starting up the Quake Rooftops Jam, and it feels like Christmas morning, because I am already ridiculously hyped even just to explore the start map. watch.cney.stream