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I may do this from time to time, endorsing random Steam or Switch games.

So, Dark Seal:Gate of Doom is a pretty simple but fun arcade game. For the most part it's a clone of Gauntlet, an overhead shooter with a medieval fantasy theme. The twist comes from the way that, even though only one character is a wizard, the whole cast can choose from the same pool of transformation spells once they kill enough enemies. Changing into a new form lets you temporarily run around the screen as huge sprite of some powerful being with stronger attacks. It's kinda like what a D and D game would be like if they allowed you to change into a beholder or mindflayer every now and then. You do have to be careful of certain enemies, though, since they can change you into forms that weaken you.

I'm a bit disappointed that Switch hasn't got a virtual console going yet, but I don't mind so much since the system is slowly becoming a MAME box full of arcade roms.

Oh yeah, and Gate of Doom has a playable ninja. Out of place, but kinda fun because of it.

Been messing around with Megaman 7 a bit lately. It's a little weird going back to it because I'm more familiar as a source of art for sprite comics than as an actual game.

Gonna kinda take a moment to give myself a lecture. I figure I can afford to be a little arrogant sometimes, but not all the time, so basically reminding myself not to be overly reckless.

In the interest of keeping myself relatively humble and self-aware, I'm going to take a moment to remind myself that while I have a lot of spiritual beliefs, I don't hold most of them to be absolute truth, as I believe myself to still be quite naive and ignorant. The only thing I feel that I know for sure is that souls exist, but I don't pretend to know where they come from or how they work, and the whole "souls existing" thing is based on my personal experience and not something I can prove, so I understand if people don't believe me.

Also on a more scientific note, I feel that any sufficiently advanced computer simulations of me are in fact the same person as me in every way that counts, regardless of whether or not we share the same soul. I wouldn't want those simulations to be tormented out due to my sense of quantum self preservation.

Okay! Self-lecture over. I guess that I was my equivalent of that line from that one Who song that goes "If I should swallow anything evil, put your finger down my throat."

One of the things I miss being a bigger deal from Web 1.O was chakats. It was kinda like someone tried to create the ultimate sci fi furry fandom creature and kinda succeeded on some level.

That's about all I've got for now.

I guess I may just start firing off random thoughts now and then until I get the inspiration for something more substantial.

Sometimes I get really curious or in a state of wishful thinking about discontinued food. Main thing I find myself doing when I get in that mindset is wishing "giggles" cookies would come back.

I feel pretty dumb for ever hating on Barney the Dinosaur. Maybe I'll actually watch full episodes of that show sometime.

Kind of thinking maybe I should try to write more about the whole Stepfordization/housewife stereotype transformation.

Mainly some clown/jester stuff in the near future as well.

Leaning towards people turning into porcelain dolls in frilly dresses too.

That's about it for now. Well, mostly. Having more fun with my Switch now that I finally went and adjusted the resolution to make the image clearer on my TV. Feel dumb for not doing that sooner, but at least it worked out.

Pretty much did everything in Sonic Mania, though I still need to get all the emeralds on my Tails alone run.

Signing off for real now.

Brawlout is a pretty decent furry Switch Smash clone, and I gotta give it props for basically making one of the cast members the goddess Bastet. My only real gripe is that the unlock system takes too long, forcing you to exploit glitches to get everything in a decent amount of time.

Speaking of unlocking stuff in Switch games, happy to say I unlocked all the extra characters in the Switch Double Dragon 4 port even if it took me a good while and a lot of dying. I feel like I developed a lot more patience for games for the past year or so. Gotta like a game that lets two players both play as Abobo or as double Shadow Masters.

I like the Neo Geo games and Nintendo Arcade stuff that's been put on the switch eshop but I hope virtual console comes back eventually.

Hope to start a neptunia game on steam soon. the last time i tried that, I was in the middle of that painful urinary infection, but thankfully i got meds for that, so time to try again soon.

Downloaded a steam game called "wings of vi." looks like an interesting maze focused angel game, but it's supposed to be "i wanna be the guy" levels of hard, so definitely starting at lowest difficulty.

Getting back to Brawlout for a bit, I hope the rumours that Quote from cave story will be a guest character are true, it'd be fun to play as a megaman-esque character even if hyper light drifter already sort of fills that spot.

Been having some sinus problems lately that drained my energy but it's clearing up. Probably going to be focusing on firing off random "nerdy" posts on this journal for the near future.

When I was a child, I had this notion inside me that all people were really little girls deep inside. That we were all playing a little game with each other, a game of pretend. Because while being a little girl was the best thing in the world, it took a lot of energy. So we pretended there such things as "boys" and "adults" and all sort of strange, even scary things, but we'd all return to our skirts and tea parties sooner or later.

This isn't something I hold as objective truth, mainly because I'm afraid of being bigoted towards transmen. But it's something I come back to every now and then when I can't make heads or tails of the world. Because it's one of the first things I remember feeling upon being born into this world.

So, Game Grumps went back to finish playing Sonic and the Black Knight after the ragequit a couple years ago. Small thing, but makes me kinda happy.

It kinda seems like anime is on the rise in popularity since for whatever reason the whole 2010 western animation renaissance seems to be dying down. Still, Animaniacs is coming back, so I'm cautiously optimistic about that.

I'll probably keep doing this, just firing random neurons til I think of something longer to post.

I'm kind of addicted to those Steamed Hams edits on youtube right now. XD Just putting that out there. ;)