Non-Stop Alcoholic Tea Party

johntalkstoyou: Oh. Well this is not the best of...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:12:03 -0400

Oh. Well this is not the best of news.

I’m not sure what that will necessarily change. it’s not as if the way Tumblr is run now is significantly in touch with user wants. This might result in more ads, I guess?

yaboiiiyokoi: gwathdring: Saints Row is kind of crazy. This is...

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:29:33 -0400

yaboiiiyokoi:

gwathdring:

Saints Row is kind of crazy. This is the Dubstep gun from Saints Row IV. The rest of this video is also interesting, but this was the least expected and thus most interesting part for me.

I was kinda iffy about this game, then I heard about, you know, the dubstep gun.

Holy /shit/.

That could be an entire game’s mechanic just by itself.

roughrimjob: Baby snakes appreciation post

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:18:36 -0400

roughrimjob:

Baby snakes appreciation post

shalrath: what we should be getting a multiple tag search option an actually working block option a...

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:53:56 -0400

shalrath:

what we should be getting

a multiple tag search option

an actually working block option

a fix on the tumblr video player

being able to post pictures into the caption of anything else besides a text post

what we are getting

Oh shit, we can now actually have the URLs of specific dashboard posts? Did we not have that before? Because that shit is useful.

(though I’ll agree that a multi-tag search, and filtering tag searches by type would both be very useful)

tannersturnpike: Leaked footage of Taliesin and Eliza...

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:03:30 -0400

tannersturnpike:

Leaked footage of Taliesin and Eliza in-game?
Who would have thought that this would work?!?

sosensualpascal: I was wondering. You see i’m a fairly new hunter, since i’m like only in low...

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:30:42 -0400

sosensualpascal:

I was wondering. You see i’m a fairly new hunter, since i’m like only in low quest, ans i just beat my first rathalos, the next ons will be the Barrioth. What i wanted to ask is would it be wiser to make the Djin twin blade (because the Barrioth is kinda fast) or the keep my old Valkyrie Chordmaker (i would have upgraded it but right know i cannot).

Thanks for the help!

I’m using the Vicello Unu (G) hunting horn - the one with Paralysis. Barrioth moves fast and the stun period lets you get additional hits in without blowing those precious traps.

I actually want to see if there’s a para-element Longsword or Dual Sword I can get at this stage so I can remove the tail.

godofslams: Say what you will about Battle Chip Challenge but it had really fucking cool...

Sun, 12 May 2013 06:31:26 -0400

godofslams:

Say what you will about Battle Chip Challenge but it had really fucking cool music.

Plus Kai/Turboman were ACTUALLY KINDA NEAT I wish they were used more.

Battle Chip Challenge could have been really good if it wasn’t so heavily reliant on the RNG. They had that ‘interrupt’ mechanic where you could slot a chip in mid-fight, they could have worked with that a lot more - making it a M:tG style Instant/Counter system or something.

Having Navis be more than an elemental type and a ‘free’ chip at the end of each round would be good too.

shattered-earth: Oh my precious pokemon bby, we can finally...

Sun, 12 May 2013 05:48:57 -0400

shattered-earth:

Oh my precious pokemon bby, we can finally play with darker skin :D now! I also really want her dress.

Also-also she’s transparent and will blend into your tumblr background muhuhu >:3

For real, that skirt design is pretty great. it actually has pockets. That’s a first in women’s fashion.

Video Game Music Appreciation Station Advance Wars Dual Strike...

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:09:00 -0400

Video Game Music Appreciation Station

Advance Wars Dual Strike had a really unique sound to it, and was definitely not what I was expecting then I played it (It was my first AW game!)

The match victory theme is probably the best example of the weird instrument combination it uses. Turntablism is the key factor most war games lack, IMO.

Edit: Actually, there are all kinds of neat musical style here. Lash’s theme is this upbeat 90’s Synthpop that could totally be a Freezepop b-side. The Tag CO Power theme is this bizarre salsa-tribal-rock that made me fall out my chair when I heard it the first time. The main menu music (Which I can’t seem to find a nice quality version of on Youtube) is this sweet balance of airy strings and persistent bass. I could see it fitting happily as menu music in a Tekken game (and then there’s a cute little drum break in there! Perf).

professorlatency: take 2

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:33:00 -0400

professorlatency:

take 2

Erykah Badu Interviews Kendrick Lamar

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:00:25 -0400

BADU: How do you choose chicks from backstage?
LAMAR: How do I choose chicks from backstage?
BADU: Yeah, what is the protocol?
LAMAR: I try not to. [laughs] I’m too scared. Anybody who knows me knows that I’m probably the most scared person when it comes to that because I’m so caught up in the act of sex, of something going crazy, going out of my control. I’m too paranoid.
BADU: [laughs] So you just pass?
LAMAR: I’ve got to because I’ve seen a situation where it got totally out of hand, where something seemed so innocent, and now this person has got allegations on them. It spooked me. This was before my career really started, though—before any “Kendrick Lamar.” And that right there? It changed my whole perception about certain things. I’ll always keep that in the back of my head.

BADU: So who is your asshole-checker?
LAMAR: Who is my what?
BADU: Your asshole-checker—the person in your crew or your family who let’s you know if you’re being a asshole.
LAMAR: I have two, actually. [both laugh] But the main one is a friend of mine—a lady friend who has known me since high school. She has always been someone, since day one, who has said something whenever I’m an asshole, or also if I’m doin’ something positive—but more so when I’m out of my element.

BADU: What’s your favorite cereal?
LAMAR: Fruity Pebbles. When people ask for my rider, they think I’m crazy: Fruity Pebbles, baked chicken, bottle of Hennessy, and some Polo socks.

BADU: What do you, as a man, envy about what it means to be a woman?
LAMAR: There’s just a certain knowledge instilled in a woman. There are these things that women have that men just can’t grasp: the understanding of love; the understanding of being; having a certain type of care in your heart and knowing when to be compassionate; knowing how to be a confidante…
BADU: That’s a good perspective. Something I envy that men have is that ability to grow a goatee. I think that’d be really hot on me.

tinycartridge: New Pokémon and details from X/Y You can see...

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:46:09 -0400

tinycartridge:

New Pokémon and details from X/Y

You can see four new Pokémon in this purported CoroCoro scan for the upcoming 3DS game — the ridable Grass-type Gogoat, the Electric-type lizard thing, the Normal/Flying-type bird Yayakoma, and the Fighting-type panda Yanchamu.

Serebii also notes that the game is set in the Karos region (in a location seemingly based on France), and has trainer customization features for hair and skin color.
BUY Pokemon X and Y, upcoming releases

Bolding my own.

BLACK POKÉMON HEROES, LET’S GO

neonectarine: Selling Skullgirls Characters: Episode 4 As an early disclaimer, I’m a Minette...

Sat, 11 May 2013 07:44:46 -0400

neonectarine:

Selling Skullgirls Characters: Episode 4

As an early disclaimer, I’m a Minette supporter through and through. Me and some of the others on Skullheart have tried to give a good defense for why we hope you’ll consider Minette as a serious fighter in Skullgirls: http://skullgirls.com/forums/forums/index.php?threads/lets-look-at-minette-in-a-different-light-shall-we.888/#post-30863 . It’s worth a read, and if you’d be willing to throw her a second, third, fourth, or even fifth vote even if she’s not your #1 favorite, then I’d be forever grateful and you’re wonderful people for giving a thought to others. :)

But even if you can’t find room for her, I wanted to think about other neglected characters who deserve to be given a fair shot in Skullgirls. So hopefully even if you don’t end up supporting my character, I might be able to convert a few people to yours. :) So I’m going to be covering two characters a day for the remainder of the poll, to be posted at 6 PM PST each night, to try and help you out!

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TALIESIN

Source: http://officialskullgirls.tumblr.com/ (official concept art)

The Phantom of the Circus

Taliesin may not be one of the big bads in the series, but there’s no doubt he’s an antagonist. Narcissistic and misogynistic, he’s pretty and he knows it - and he treats women like they should know it too. But he’s also one of the circus members in the direct employment of the Medici mob. Taliesin acts as an ‘enforcer’ against any of the circus folk who try to defect or refuse to serve the mob’s orders - he’s also implied to be an assassin who takes on other work too, as long as the target is pretty enough to be added to his collection. If Cerebella ever has any doubts, he could be a nasty enemy towards her - not to mention towards Feng or Hubrecht when/if they get in. A vote for Taliesin might not get you a major villain, but it sure does get you one you’d love to hate.

A Muse by any other name

A remote parasite, Muse has a symbiotic relationship with Taliesin like other parasite users in Skullgirls, which in Taliesin’s case shows up as him being a puppet character. Puppet characters control two characters at the same time - if you’ve seen Stands in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure or played anyone in Persona 4 Arena, you’re more familiar with this play style than you probably think. Taliesin would have two characters to attack and defend with, but unlike P4A, Muse wouldn’t go away if she was hit! Instead, Taliesin would take some damage, probably scaled way down, just like when Ms. Fortune’s head gets hit. It sounds more difficult than it is, and it adds a staple of modern fighting games that we just don’t have a representative of in Skullgirls right now. Not to mention, Alex Ahad himself said he’s voting for him!

Not just some spoony bard

Puppet characters tend to be, with a very small number of exceptions, the most complicated characters in a fighting game. In Blazblue and Guilty Gear, you had to hold a button and essentially manipulate two characters at once - depending on how coordinated you are or whether you play on a controller/stick, this might be exactly as hard as it sounds! But Mike Z isn’t about to make Taliesin completely inaccessible. He’s played the Arcsys games like few others, not to mention other fighters with puppeteers, and he’s learned from most of the best! One idea he threw around was that punch buttons would issue attacks from Taliesin while kicks issued attacks by Muse. That’s intuitive and simple considering their odd partnership, and if you’ve played P4A, chances are you’d be right at home with the division of buttons. So don’t worry about him being challenging, just look forward to him being awesome!

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BEATRIX

Source: http://skullgirls.com/forums/forums/index.php?threads/sois-art-thread-taking-requests.820/#post-28366 (by Skullheart’s own Soitenly!)

Stopping the Showstopper

Beatrix is an interesting character; she seems to be set up to be Cerebella’s rival the same way that Squigly is for Filia. They’re both skilled circus fighters with an interesting and unusual weapon. But where Cerebella is reluctant to do bad things for the Medicis (and innocently complies only because she believes in Vitale), Beatrix is eager to do their dirty work and eclipse Cerebella as the star of the circus. Her story would probably expand on the Circus and how/why it’s a front for the mob and it would tie alot into Cerebella’s. Would she end up becoming a villain or is she on her way already?

Sleight of Hand, Loss of Life

As a stage magician, Beatrix might have even flashier tricks than Cerebella, and hers take even more skill. Beatrix’s gameplay inspirations list some really cool sources: Ciel in Melty Blood is incredibly agile, able to flip around the screen pulling an infinite supply of huge knives from her sleeves, and Beatrix would probably be just as agile on stage. She also lists some really fun, experimental characters like Spiral (who I mentioned has cool teleports and spatial manipulations when I discussed Venus) and Hsien-ko (who essentially fights with access to hammer space. There’s a lot of really cool, really showy magic tricks Mike and Alex could draw on for her abilities and I’d love to see what she’s hiding!

Revealing the magician’s secrets

We might be finding out some of her secrets sooner than you think! Mike Z has mentioned she, Roxie, and Black Dahlia are on the list for the next ‘mechanics preview’ videos, so if he is able to do that, we might see some neat tricks from Beatrix within the next few days. Rumor has it she can “Pacman” projectiles, which seems to mean that she can absorb things flying her way in her cloak, then release it coming at the opponent from the other side like Pacman crossing from one side of the screen to another through one of those tunnels. Wouldn’t the look on Peacock’s face if you mastered that sort of timing be worth the price of admission?

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paigerlovesbooks: that painting is so scary :(

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:51:19 -0400

paigerlovesbooks:

that painting is so scary :(

godofslams: Also can we just talk about Ghost Trick’s sound track like can we just talk about how...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:44:44 -0400

godofslams:

Also can we just talk about Ghost Trick’s sound track

like can we just talk about how perfect it is.

Well sure!

Like the game’s art style, the music throws up a mixture between a high-contrast noir and a bright and modern setting. There are a lot of mysterious tracks with heavy basslines, but made using big synths instead of jazz instruments.

Ray’s theme is a good example!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31jJ-pmGuO0

And The Imprisoned likewise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62g2aAt_fGU

This soundtrack, along with Dangan Ronpa and the Zero Escape soundtracks really fit a general musical theme of ‘Electro-Mystery’ that I really dig. More of that, oh soundtrack designers of the internet. More of that.

o-8: officialskullgirls: Here are more concepts~ it’d be funny...

Fri, 10 May 2013 01:44:15 -0400

o-8:

officialskullgirls:

Here are more concepts~ it’d be funny if Taliesin made it in, then we’d have another guy character + all of the characters would have some sort of music theme to them, haha >XD

Anyway, here’s also some Ileum, I figure she could use some love + she’s actually really fun to draw / think of stuff for.

Plus we got some Roxie concepts here from Maji Omni http://majiomni.deviantart.com/

And some Feng concepts / doodles from Eyecager and Crybringer http://eyecager.tumblr.com , http://eyecager.deviantart.com/

http://crybringer.tumblr.com/ , http://thedemonmages.tumblr.com/

More to come… maybe- time permitting~

Yup @3@/

Oh man, Taliesin’s attacks are just as I pictured! I hope he gets some Jojo-esque poses too to work with his stand-like gameplay.

More Music Characters LET’S GO
(Ileum and Feng are neat too. Roxie’s cool, though I have no love for the gimmick)

jsmooth995: T-Paining Too Much: The Meme-ification of Charles...

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:40:27 -0400

jsmooth995:

T-Paining Too Much: The Meme-ification of Charles Ramsey

So many big questions to ask about Cleveland, so much to grapple with. So much that is unthinkable but needs so direly to be thought about. I feel like it’ll be a while before I can say anything intelligent about it. But in the meantime here are some thoughts about the side questions around the Charles Ramsey phenomenon.

pissedveganqueen: PLAY A GAME CALLED ZERO ESCAPE: 9 HOURS 9 PERSONS 9 DOORS DO THIS. THEN PLAY THE...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:54:57 -0400

pissedveganqueen:

PLAY A GAME CALLED ZERO ESCAPE: 9 HOURS 9 PERSONS 9 DOORS

DO THIS. THEN PLAY THE SEQUEL (ZERO ESCAPE: VIRTUE’S LAST REWARD) AND HAVE THE BAR FOR ‘DECENT VIDEO GAME WRITING’ RAISED BY THESE TWO TITLES

thedrunkenmoogle: DrunkQuest - Drinking Game Review Last August...

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:56:22 -0400

thedrunkenmoogle:

DrunkQuest - Drinking Game Review

Last August we posted about a Kickstarter fundraiser for a game called DrunkQuest. The game was successfully funded and shipped out earlier this year and we got our hands on a copy to play. Boy, what a night.

The first thing you’ll notice when you open DrunkQuest are the crazy large cards. Originally I was turned off by the size, as the cards about double the size of normal playing cards. While I thought it might be annoying to have to hold onto a big hand all night, my opinion changed in the night. The play area isn’t huge, so table space wasn’t an issue and after a few rounds the large text was still easy to read while tipsy. The size of the cards also makes them extremely hard to lose- a definite plus with a drinking game. The game also came with two plus/minus dice, which is really just a fancy coin flip. Overall, the packaging is solid and portable enough for me to throw in a bag when I take it to a friend’s. Now let’s dive into the gameplay.

Each player picks a hero card and a realm, which gives players a permanent ability that they can use by rolling a die. The heroes are colorful and fun, depicting classic RPG classes like thief or mage and throwing in a few new classes like brewmaster (my favorite). The other card decks are for monsters and items. The goal of the game is for a player to defeat enough monsters to obtain level 6.

A player encounters a monster on his or her turn by drawing them at random from the pile. Each monster has a drink value (red number), an ability, and a treasure amount (green number). To defeat the monster, the player must drink the drink value of the monster. Drinks can be determined by the team, but generally a sip of a beer or cocktail works just fine. They will then gain a level and collect their treasure from the treasure deck. Here’s where the fun, and competitive, part comes in.

Once a player draws a monster, every other player has a turn to play cards that advance the monster by adding to it’s drink value. As seen above, the Wineapple card adds three additional drinks to the monster, making it harder for the player to defeat it. If by the end of the circle the player doesn’t feel like drinking the final amount, they can pass up and not gain any levels. However, the player isn’t entirely helpless to the will of their jerk friends. Over the course of the game you’ll also gain armor and weapons to help reduce a monster’s value. There are also instant cards that can be played at any time that allow you negate a players card, steal their armor, or even force all your drinks onto another player. This makes for an incredibly fun, fast, and chaotic game. We had many rounds where players would battle it out with instant cards, adding and subtracting drink values, stealing items, and forcing each other to take drinks with cards. It felt very “you’ve activated my trap card”-esque and was very fun. Players can also choose to help each other out by splitting drinks on normal monsters, generally agreeing to split the loot gained.

Every once in a while you’ll encounter a boss monster which the whole team has to battle. These special monsters have high starting drink values and it was neat to see everyone stop trying to screw each other over and work together to slay the beast.

One negative that we experienced in the game was length. Games with 4 and 5 players took over an hour, sometimes closer to an hour and a half (which can feel around 3 hours in drunk mentality). This was largely due to instant card wars that sprung between players. There are a few especially evil cards that cause players to lose an entire level, which can really add some length to the game (It should be noted that there are other gain a level cards). While I enjoyed myself thoroughly the whole game, some people might not have the attention span for it while drunk. And trust me, you’re going to get drunk.

Players are going to drink a lot in this game. This can be a positive or a negative for some people. Personally, it was the first and last game I played on the nights we played. We went through a crazy amount of beer, as some encounters demanded up towards 20 drinks to kill a monster. If you’re going to play this game, I advise starting sober so that you remember winning. When the game labels itself as a drinking game, it totally means it. The more players you add to the game, the more you’re going to drink and the longer the game will go on.

Overall, DrunkQuest is one of the most fun times I’ve ever had with a drinking game. It’s fast paced, competitive, and really suits table top gamers who enjoy to drink with friends. The presentation and art of the cards is colorful and quirky, mixing RPG themes that players will find familiar with drinking culture. It’s regularly been requested that I bring it back to friends’ houses when my wife and I go to visit and I highly recommend it. I’m definitely looking forward to the expansion, which we will post about later today.

DrunkQuest website

As always, please play responsibly.

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Tue, 07 May 2013 15:43:38 -0400