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The Eden Coven · 2d
tit for tat give us four specialty donuts of your scrimblos (or more whatever I'm not a cop) of your choice!
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The Lolo - Green food colored cake donut with dark blue frosting and lighter blue sprinkles. Apple pie spice flavored
The Sarah - Brown cake batter with gold frosting and black sprinkles. Maple sugar flavored.
The Rafael - Red batter with blue frosting - Red velvet flavored with the Rhapsody variant being Raspberry jelly filled, the Rondo being Chocolate filled, and the Melody being Custard filled.
The Isla - Dark brown batter with pink frosting and multicolored sprinkles - Dark chocolate with peanut butter filling
The Eden Coven · 9d
Have you gotten the chance to shoot many guns, as a gun person? I assume there's ranges. Shoot places. we dunno how it works
Funny thing actually, I've never actually fired a firearm because the noise and the concussion makes my chest feel like it's going to compress itself in and I just don't like loud sudden noises (to the point of me actually also not liking balloons)
I've fired BB guns before and airguns, but even being by a .22 was incredibly unpleasant.
The Eden Coven · 16d
If you were for some reason kidnapped by Namco and forced to make a Pac-Mom game to replace the unmentionable ex-wife, how would you do it?
Unironically, remake Pac-Man 2 and retool it to be about Pac-Mom giving Pac-Man chores to do. The more I think about it, the more this is actually more feasible than not.
The Eden Coven · 23d
What do you think is the essence of a good "dle" / Daily game?
For Dos
1) Keep it simple
For Don'ts
1) Don't make it too niche pop culture focused
2) Don't make it too regionally specific
3) Don't make it too easy
3a) But don't also make it too hard
The Eden Coven · 30d
Does lolo need to like, duck into a payphone to change to Laurel disguise? what do you do if you're being tailed...!?
Same thing with Kana becoming Ysabelle. Bathroom stalls are your friends. Also, the general rule is don't be in dragon form in the general public, so it'd be rare to be out and about in the form. It'd be something you do when you leave the house and don't change back until you get back. Kinda like the Glamour thing from Fables/The Wolf Among Us.
I haven't really thought how it looks like during the transformation but I'm thinking it would just be looking like something changed but your brain can't quite comprehend what's happening.
The Eden Coven · 1mo
Go in guns blazing, or take the stealthy approach?
Going by Payday rules in which you start stealthy, usually trip up like 75% of the way there, and then it's go guns blazing
The Eden Coven · 1mo
Any arcade game you'd love to play on the real hardware but have never had the chance?
Lucky and Wild is the gut reaction, though I would really like to play Ikari Warriors with the original controls because I never have seen it in the wild.
Scrimblo Bimblo · 1mo
Do you feel like there are people who take the 'the ZX Spectrum/Amiga/etc don't get their flowers' too far? I get it's annoying when you feel like your own memories aren't given respect in the wider conversation about videogames, but it feels like they're overcompensating on that front.
Ultimately, I think it comes down to a sense that people are more sensitive to misjudgements of history when it's their own backyard. I feel like there's a sense sometimes of "How dare you do [misgiving]! What if I did it to you?!" and then unironically just do the same thing but in reverse, which doesn't really benefit anyone making it kind of the inverse version of the Two Cakes scenario so more like the Two Bitches scenario. There's always the question I feel people need to ask, which is "Am I mad that the machine that creates misinformation exists or am I mad that I don't have the keys to it?".
I'm do think it is the case that the English retro scene is being dominated by North Americans (mostly because of sheer volume) and history has been painted through the lens of North Americans. That being said, I do think going "I'm in the UK, and there's not nearly enough Amiga or Speccy coverage" and then focusing 99% on that really helps either. I can't remember what game it was, but there was a Japanese arcade game I was looking up, and the Wikipedia article was like 90% dedicated to the Amiga port, which was kind of annoying because I wanted to know about the arcade game. There's cases like Rodland where what The Sales Curve did with it is truly interesting, but I want to know what Jaleco did first.
If we all want to be better about the history of gaming and be better Retro Gamers, we should seek out history wherever we can and promote not just the works that reflect our own personal memories. I get it's rough not having your proper time in the spotlight, but remember, once you get your share, you gotta pass it along too.
Scrimblo Bimblo · 2mo
If you got cursed into having to 1cc an arcade game in order to save your life, what would you pick?
🤔 The only one I can think of off-hand is Haunted Castle though I'm at best a 3cc for that. The only games I can think of that I can 1cc are Mega Man and Sanvein but neither are actual arcade games. The only arcade games I'm really good at are ones that don't have a Clear state...
The Eden Coven · 2mo
Imagine you're in a Forbidden Forest situation IRL. After effortlessly dispatching the hordes of bees or whatever, what kind of dance do you do
I would do the dance called "Have a heart attack and die"