anyone have a solution for the constant, intermittent frame drops that have kept happening to me ever since i got on win11?

well this works for now lol

my execution is bad in every game so i looked for an easy, relatively consistent combo. i still drop the c1 link all the time...

i havent tried it yet, but i think it shouldve been accessible from the start without having to clear the game first. i'll be giving it a shot when i get a chance later on

maybe i should get a backloggd and write something long form instead of rambling here while leaving out tons of information

but idk i read a review of an unrelated game where someone said there should be a checkpoint before every arena and i guess this is just the state of gamers and the industry these days. god forbid you feel even a crumb of stakes. a crumb of steaks

the game couldve been truly something special if they had really pushed their combat system (which is very good!) and your resources to their extremes instead of letting you refresh everything between every arena

the tools are all there but the encounter design just refuses to give you interesting/difficult enemy combinations until the final level. deep into the game they were still throwing one bot at me at a time that i could lock down infinitely before it got to atk a single time

it's got all the hallmarks of AAA as well: terrible character handling via movement momentum (which can be "justified" via the theme of moving around in a fatass space suit), one of the most infuriating mantles ive ever tried, and a difficulty curve making the whole damn game a tutorial

as refreshing as it is for 2026, at the end of the day it's still a AAA game. if your primary concern is getting a large amount of novel content for the price point, i think pragmata has you covered. you're gonna have stuff to do for a while, and i think you'll have fun doing it

credits rolled on pragmata, and i did some post-game content.

my overall thoughts are: its a well-made game that showed so much promise early on and underdelivered on all of it by the end. i cant help but wonder how much the encounter design was nerfed internally by ppl who thought it was too hard

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Hyper Bun Buster: Rocket Hammer Action's demo is out now!

A top-down arcade bump action game about a bunny girl who uses her hammer to hit enemies into other enemies, now playable in your browser (and as a download!)

ctmatthews.itch.io/hyper-bun-bu...

this is literally the reason i play more dbo than fe. i know the fe adjustments are really good but the game is already long enough and they just force a boring intro on you. the only flaw of fe but it puts me over since i want to attempt full runs

one of these days ill have enough time to fully grind out the 1ccs i want... but on the other hand it's kinda nice to have games i can always come back to and make small incremental improvements in. if no new games came out, a bunch of my favorite games i think could last me the rest of my life

Rindaman skidding to a halt to read that sign behind him that says... Fu* You???

CROWS: THE BATTLE ACTION FOR SEGASATURN
ATHENA CO 1997
SEGA SATURN

theres not a lot that my favorite websites have in common but i think the one most outstanding feature all of them have is that they work

theres not a lot that my favorite websites have in common but i think the one most outstanding feature all of them have is that they work

made some dumb mistakes here and still need to optimize but im making progress routing appli. i used to dislike this stage but after learning it, its become one of my favorites. i love a boss that i can throw

I hate this fucking game

i feel like the design of iframe dodge rolls as a system mechanic has evolved to take this role. its simplified and i dont agree with it, but players do actually understand it as the punishable movement option that is meant to be used deliberately

excerpt from the shmups wiki: "The bonuses are 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, 16000, 32000, 655371. Due to a bug, the bonus index is incremented twice by accident, so you only see 1000, 4000, 16000, 655371. Due to yet another bug, the bonus index is incorrectly capped at 6 (classical off-by-one due to confusing max bounds and array element count), exposing the beginning of a different data table as the final bonus amount (leading to the last bonus being worth 655371) Messages by trap15 on July 2nd, 2022, STG Rev 2020 Discord server"

tangentially i do really love this game, even with its bugs. the bomb bonus scoring is so scuffed it wraps back around to being beautiful imo

and of course the soundtrack is top top tier

crop of a screenshot from soukyugurentai, showing many enemy ships with their turrets pointed in the player's direction. due to the overhead perspective, the turrets look like googly eyes

one of those ships with googly eye turrets but with lock on reticles over the turrets and the body of the ship, giving it the appearance of a funny face

shoutouts to the googly eye turrets on those ships from soukyugurentai

im looking forward to god bun / bun hand

"sans undertale" means "without undertale" so yeah

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here

he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor

and still, they threw him out

and you know what? they did it by voting

don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

its genuinely really cool to me that i can still miss things happening even in my industry. honestly feel a bit relieved learning that i'm not as Online as i thought i was lol

oh, hm. i totally missed that. thanks for pointing that out

Thank you everyone again!
Labyrinth.os v1.0 is ready:
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Okay so you might see this video with the audio muted. Now imagine how the music must sound like. I urge you to unmute and listen to what it's actually like because I guarantee you you're not prepared for it.

youtu.be/BdeHqesLx4s?... I like Godard's point in this (weirdly tense) interview about art being inseparable for economics. People pretend the stuff they like is free from economy (or more broadly. power) but Pollock was funded by the CIA, Michelangelo by the Pope.