Will we have laughter and happiness in the future? Always
Everyone took her words and ran off in totally different directions with them
I'm going to continue Eggbug's will by stealing Cohost's Legacy and using the funds to establish Poster's Heaven, a nation without a nation, where posters will always have a place
So I played The Legend of Zelda and Warios Woods on NES, checked socials later to find.... Xbox are laying off 650 employees...sigh
Theres really not much I can say about this other than its shit, the gaming industry is shit and that all the recent layoffs will straight up kill anyones desire to pursue game development as a career. So i'll just link the article and include a couple of dracula flow bits to brighten this post up.
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2024/09/xbox-is-cutting-650-more-jobs-confirms-phil-spencer-in-letter-to-employees
"Picked up a transistor down at SoCal, she had a license for that concealed carry, thotty was packin a dirty harry bitchstick, she walkin funny with that big iron by her hip. Shorty pulled a gock on me, I gave her nuts a bizarre adventure, running a dempsey roll on her sack, i'm like pussy on them yarns. Went Fist of the North Star on them balls, left her cumming troughs for a month.
We out here huffing boyass, gettin fucked up on turdghosts, got shit on my mind. Bro barely got hair on that ass, feels like i'm frenching Homer J, Simpson, going full tootsie pop on that Elmer Fudd. I'm out here chasing bussy like tom and jerry, running 90 over the speed limit on that roadkill ass. I'm clapping these cheeks like the 2011 tohoku earthquake. I'm beyond balls deep, my lower abdomen is just straight up colonising his rectal cavity, got me running a 100-meter dash on that backyard gash. I'm in deep shit in that manhole, his grandkids wont be shitting for a week."
Alright thats enough of that, lets talk about games.
So i've been partial to the Zelda series with Ocarina being my first, then Wind Waker followed by Twilight Princess, skipped Skyward and played some Breath of the wild. So last nights session looked to be a good time to try the first game out and try to play it proper.
So firsts thing first. How many kids when they first played this missed out on the cave on the first screen, ran around without a sword and died to the enemies? I'm genuinly curious because I can imagine that being more than zero.
The sword blast you start off with at full health, its definitely useful as an early ranged attack but you end up losing it as soon as you take damage which you will because it seems like nearly every enemy in the overworld attack with projectiles, and it does get real irritating from getting to one side of the map to the next just to get to where you need to go, you will take a hit or two along the way.
Now you can block the projectiles but that requires facing them and not using any item otherwise you take damage and i've ended up eating hits I figure should've been blocked.
I managed to find and beat two of the first dungeons but had trouble finding the 3rd. I instead found both the penultimate and the final dungeon instead and did not have the skills nor abilities to beat those early on. The thing about figuring out where you need to go, its usually hidden in some cave with an old man telling you something cryptic. I know this seems moot since you can just look it up online but I dont think thats a valid form of criticism, like yeah I can look up where I need to go but shouldnt I rely on the game itself to lead me subtly to where I need to progress?
Well it didnt seem to matter since I started to debate doing that since running around the overworld, trying to find that 3rd dungeon while constantly getting shot at, hering that damn theme over and over that while it is iconic, just starts to become real grating after a while, ended up leaving me with a headache.
I did not want be negative to this game but after a while, I just said forget it and switched to something else. The last 1st party game released for the NES, Warios Woods.
Its a strange idea for puzzle game, starring Toad facing off against Wario by clearing colored mobs using same colored bombs. And the controls can be a bit... finicky? You can pick up mobs and bombs or even kick them forward, if your not carrying anything you can run up a line of mobs/bombs to climb over them. Every so often birdo(who is also here for reasons) is switched out for wario who will spawn more mobs and bring the ceiling further down before leaving. I was able to make progress in game A to Round 20 before I stopped, in some cases if I end up picking up the wrong thing, it becomes a hassle to reorient myself while bombs keep raining down.
Switched to game B and made it to Round 20 again tho for Game B you can occasionally face a boss who will usually just spawn mobs and change location with you needing to clear a line above or below them to damage them. I decided to tap out when I got past midnight and fulfilled my quota.
You know? Why was Wario briefly associated with bombs? Between this game and Bomberman GB/Wario Blast, its the only time we got a glimpse at Wario during his Unabomber arc before he eventually became the microgame ceo we know him now. Food for thought I suppose.
Thank you for reading Midnight Gaming. Feel free to leave feedback or game suggestions. Anons are currently on. See you tomorrow.
With all the talk about Twitter and social media going on, I felt really inspired to do a comic about RSS feeds. This is a really barebones guide but I hope it helps you stay updated with your favourite webcomics, artists and websites.
The nice thing about RSS feeds is that almost any kind of site has one, so if you wanted you could add user feeds from tumblr, twitter, mastodon, etc. here’s some helpful guides on how to add those (1) (2)
I hope you found this little guide helpful. I’m just a simple guy who’s passionate about RSS feeds, comics and staying updated using both. Go forth and make the feed of your dreams!
Because this is seemingly relevant again!
An update is that I’m now using Feedbro as a social media alternative (while still using Feedly for webcomics).
there were at least three months in the past few years where i could only make rent because people here helped me.
I was tossed out on the street in a foreign country, at the end of winter, with the equivalent of $50 and a half-charged phone. I was sleeping when it happened, I had my pajamas on. I lost almost all of my possessions.
Cohost people gave me enough money that I could stay fed, get some changes of clothes, travel somewhere safe to sleep, and then travel back to the UK. I rationed what was left for a couple of months before I found a job.
When I was in temporary housing and my food kept getting stolen out of the communal areas, cohost people bought me a fridge. I put it in my bedroom next to the desk.
When I got my own apartment and couldn't make ends meet for the first month, cohost people gave me enough money to bridge the gap.
When I accidentally left my backpack full of groceries for like 2 minutes and it got stolen, i vented about it, and cohost people were like "that sucks, here, buy some more".
I owe my survival and my slowly improving situation to people here. It's a level of support I have never received before in my life. I doubt I will receive it again.
When I hit my lowest points financially you all were here, getting me through a few months where I never would have made it otherwise. Genuinely cannot imagine what I would have done without you all. You all were so kind you even saved two people very dear to me when I asked for help, even though they weren’t on this site.
Thank you all.
i wasn't in danger if losing my home, or transportation. just had a big bill, that would've made me go without the things that keep me in my zone. cohost gave willingly, and i cruised on through, grateful and unbothered. i can't name any other place where i would feel comfortable asking that, or where i would get that kind of support.
the people here are really somethin' else.
