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tossing her in the air like uncooked pizza dough

the girl and boy reading this

man I forgot how exhausting Slay the Spire (and any good strategy game) is to play when you're still in the "learning everything" phase. finished three runs and i'm actually for-real Tired, like I just finished a up on the treadmill

the wheel of fate is turning

a screenshot of Slay the Spire 2 showing a perfect 1:0 win:lose record.

yeah, I'm a gamer.

you can't, he is protected

Logging on.

Someone put out Catholic self help books in the break room at work for people to take, so I told my boss and now they're taking to admin. Woke 2 strikes from the shadows.

Stonjourner should have been an alt evo for graveler

a geomancer and red mage in the Final Fantasy Project mod for crystal project

hanging out with third strike akuma at this shitass garden

reposting this one because it deserves more eyes on it. highlight of Nextfest so far for sure

you are my chungus
my quirky chungus
when you're not pogging
my skies are cringe

CICADAMATA" - It's got the sauce. Similar flow to Neon White - fast-paced short levels designed for speed/scores. Extremely responsive controls, extremely sick vibes. If you're at all interested in fast shooters and score attack you owe it to yourself to play this. This one's for the Freaks.

DEG - A non-linear puzzle game initially based on Minesweeper where you have to divine the rules of the puzzles via trial and error. This one is Good. It DOES get challenging fast even once you divine the various rules, so check the demo to see if it's for you. Likely has some meta stuff going on.

EverSiege - A co-op which bravely asks the question "what if MOBAs were PvE?" It also answers it with "they're still pretty bad lol." The game supports WASD but my hero piloted like a tank through molasses. I don't play LoL/DotA/etc so maybe it correctly mimics those but the gamefeel was just awful.

pleading with my cat to not beat me when he finds out his Churu are actually Friskies Lickables.

most of the skills feel written by someone who was ghost spectating elfgame.

my favorite running joke here is the Intelligence skill interrupts dialogue anytime someone mentions a spell to explain what it does, even if it's just saying a common word like "knock" or "alarm"

Esoteric Ebb - "Disco Elysium-like" where you play as a D&D Cleric trying to solve a mystery. Wears its influences on its sleeve. Probably the best DE-ish game I've played. Funny, characters are mostly cool! Nice art and there's a gay goblin Kim Kitsuragi and communist dwarves. @ferrinus.bsky.social

It definitely needs some work still, lots of early build weirdness like menus sticking around for longer than they should, but the actual gameplay is fun enough.

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Voidling Bound - Monster-raising action game where you beat up goopy aliens to collect elemental nodes to jam into your mons to evolve them to beat up more aliens, with new elemental powers. Fun seeing how the mons change as they evolve. Combat is fairly polished. Recommend!

the flower patterns look incredibly sick here

shocking no one, the vampire survivors dungeon crawler card game is Fine. it's fine. the UI is bad and there's lots of random things i dont like in the current build but it makes casino stuff happen so it's a fun demo. might buy it for $3 in 2 years or w/e.

the mod creator just released patch 4.1, which added Geomancer, a bunch of balance changes, around a dozen new mid- and late-game bosses, new equipment, and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting. it's never been a better time to play Final Fantasy Project Overhaul.

Basically a more immediately-useful defensive orb but one that isn't going to let you full block every turn in longer fights.

So assuming they're at the base value (seems to be 4), if you get hit for 6 with 0 block it will get reduced down to 2 and then the orb will disappear. if you had two orbs and got hit for 6 it would be reduced down to 0, popping both.

theory based on this card name/art: new orbs are Glass Orbs and act as a fragile shield. so Frost Orbs generate X Block every turn but maybe Glass Orbs reduce incoming non-blocked damage by X but then shatter.

this is apparently what Crystal Orbs do in a mod, iirc it's like they act as bonus focus for adjacent orbs and generate another orb slot when evoked. not a fan tbh.

the greatest minds of our generation are currently theorycrafting what Defect's new orb type does.