Recently when I was feeling down I binged through rewatching loads of Dan Olson videos.

at first i thought you meant "good sick" as a way to emphasize how good it is (e.g. "that's sick bro") lol

if he ever releases any of his alleged 58 novels i'll buy it in a heartbeat lol

action button is good sick content

I really like how he has this kind of ridiculous pretentious-type of persona but then also the moments of earnestness, he walks the line very well imo. helps that he's also a good writer when it comes to the bigbrain smartwords stuff too obv

I am like pretty close to wanting to start learning Japanese just to play Tokimeki Memorial.

i'm watching this now and i'm honestly considering using tokimeki memorial as a way to improve my japanese literacy lmao. and by "now" i mean over the course of this week

I have the fannish itch to share it yet I don't know who would be interested in it. A marvelous thing that is impenetrable by design without being least bit pretentious.

Yup! Apparently there are multiple vids being done in parallel so we should be seeing more content more often in the coming next 11 months at least! Not that Tim has anything to apologize for.

it's coming tonight!!!

I am obsessed with his tokimeki memorial video I've gotten a few friends to watch it even though it's 6 hours long

Is the new one still Cyberpunk? I feel like I remember him saying it'd be out, like, last January lmao. no shame, his shit is good, I'm sure it takes a ton of work

Hey thanks for noticing and telling me - however late, I still fixed the link. Amps are a true pestilence of modern internet.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bypk/cookie-clicker-wasnt-meant-to-be-fun-why-is-it-so-popular-8-years-later?

Non-amp link.

For a supposedly meaningless game, it had such a delightfully bonkers narrative that really ends up being more memorable than the vast majority of game stories.

grandmapocalypse

Dang I just bought that like a month ago. P fun

control is one of my favorite games of the past few years

what an epic megagame

dang I'm sad I missed this

I will buy this and then probably never use any of them thank you

i don't know if i'm ever actually going to make a game but spritestack looks extremely interesting to me

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Oh yea! I skimmed the article to the end originally and I realize I came off as more negative than I intended lol

I appreciate the input the author has too. For historical appreciation of videogames, I really think it's important people know that emulation and media like these restorations aren't true to the source.

E.g. I love Shovel Knight and The Messenger and all the modern pixel-art aesthetic but they aren't replicating the real look of pixels blasted onto a CRT. I have a strong memory of being surprised by the realism of the hand in SNES clue. The dithering looks different when it's a tad fuzzy. I know this is a lukewarm take but I'm excited for if indie devs experimentally regress in technology, and are releasing experimental games for specialized hardware with shitty displays (or whatnot). Like Panic's 'PlayDate' with a monochrome display and a hand-crank.

i think i agree fully with this set of tweets i saw about how someone felt about this article: https://twitter.com/afewbruises/status/1359228036659355651

Did you read to the end?

This is the first I heard of this trend and I'm binging these once I'm out of this meeting. I see what the author is going for but I am excited nonetheless