🐌🐛 artist, writer, game dev, Thing // 24, genderfluid nb 🦠🐙
🪩 3D modeler and artist for a currently unrevealed project! 🌃
WE'RE STILL WAITING TO GET TO PLAY THE NOKIA N-GAGE OR THE FUCKING VIRTUAL BOY
BUT WITH ANY LUCK, TODAY WE'LL BE NEARLY, NEARLY DONE. AND WE WILL, AS ALWAYS, SHOW OFF SOME OF THE STRANGEST, MOST BAFFLING, AND INCREDIBLE PINBALL VIDEO GAMES YOU'VE EVER SEEN
(Also, uh, i'm raising funds to help pay off medical bills from this year. So come watch if you can!!)
LARP, queer studies, and mixed martial arts? That's a party I'd like to go to
Nethack is a very old fashioned video game, but it has an interesting mechanic: the real world date on your computer affects your character’s luck in the dungeon.
“How bad can it be?”, I thought about a decade ago, loading a new game on Friday the 13th.
I took a single step.
“Your kitten has been crushed by a boulder.”
there's also code in the game to make things easier or harder, respectively, on a full and a new moon. for the most part they aren't too drastic, but the new moon does make a certain almost-instakill event much more likely. if you know, you know.
also, Friday the 13th can occur simultaneously with these moon phases, which happens infrequently enough that there's a small two-column chart on the NetHack Wiki detailing the days where Friday the 13th and a full/new moon overlap.
so, the hardest days to play NetHack are/were:
I didn't until now but now it's the only thing I can think about
Can confirm: This owns bones.
