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Battle for Zendikar is out, and everyone is scrambling to make a new decklist. This post will be a comprehensive guide on playing monored in standard for the next few months. We will cover planning for your meta, sideboarding, maybe-boarding, and other statistics.<br />
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You might here some talk about how RDW/Burn is gutted, but I'm here to show you that those claims are overblown. To put it bluntly, those people can't play burn in the first place. If mono red was as easy as people think, then every scrub would play it (instead, scrubs play Rhinos).<br />
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Burn lost three important cards: Lightning Strike, Searing Blood, and Eidolon of the Great Revel. Of the three, Eidolon is going to hurt the most. Searing Blood will hurt a little, and you won't miss Lightning Strike at all. Here is my decklist for this expansion, and it has already gone 4-0 at one event; this is how we do it:<br />
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4x Monastary Swiftspear<br />
4x Hangarback Walker<br />
4x Abbot of Keral Keep<br />
4x Thunderbreak Regent<br />
2-3x Chandra, Fire of Kaldesh<br />
2-3x Mage-Ring Bully<br />
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4x Fiery Impulse<br />
4x Wild Slash<br />
4x Exquisite Firecraft<br />
3x Titan's Strength<br />
3x Temur Battle Rage<br />
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21x Mountain<br />
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4x Arc Lightning<br />
2x Smash to Smithereens<br />
4x Flamewake Phoenix<br />
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Xx Rest of your Titan's Strengths, Temur Battle Rages, Chandras, Smash to Smithereens, Mage-Ring Bullies<br />
4x Roast<br />
4x Infectious Bloodlust<br />
1x Zurgo<br />
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The Thunderbreaks are your coffin nails. Keep four in the mainboard for most matches. He's that good (the same goes for Swifty, Abbot, Wild Slash, and Exquisite). Chandra, the Bully, and the Phoenixes can all be adjusted in the sideboard phases. You don't want the phoenixes if your opponent has a lot of fliers. You don't want bullies when your opponent can force you into bad combat (actually not as common as you think). You don't want Chandra when your opponent is packing too much burn or counters. I always keep at least 2 Chandras in my deck online (via Cockatrice), but at FNM I play with 3. Against a very aggressive counter deck, I might drop even more in favor of phoenixes.</div>
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Hangarback and the Bully fill the void left by Eidolon of the Great Revel. At least he finds a home in modern burn, but actually Hangarback is exactly what we want. First, he drops for 2, which the curve here really needs. Second, he can mana-sink, which means you don't need Lightning Berserker. I like Lightning Berserker, but he's very bad right now and doesn't play nice with the deck. Third, the flying tokens put extreme pressure on the opponent, and can save the game when Radiant Flames would wipe your board. Just run the fucker, it is a beast. Learn to tap him for a counter in response to stuff that would kill him and at end of turn.<br />
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The Mage-Ring Bully seems like a bad card, but he isn't. Two mana, solid 2/2, and prowess is a force to be reckoned with. His downside is only a downside if your opponent has creatures. We solve this problem with our slashes and impulses.<br />
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You can't play Abbot on Turn 2, as it is almost universally a bad move. Statistically, you want to use him to mill through more of your deck so that you draw and can use more of your cards.<br />
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Exquisite Firecraft is best saved as a finisher. Generally the rule of thumb is you don't want to be using these guys on removal, but this will depend upon the math of the board state and your intuition. Of course there are exceptions: you have to clear something like Soulfire Grandmaster, and you should do it quickly. All hope is not lost if you have to use all your Firecrafts, you just push the game into topdeck mode, hoping to pull Hangarback, Flamewake, Firecraft, or Thunderbreak.</div>
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Titan's Strength, Infectious Bloodlust, and Temur Battle Rage are all great cards even if they aren't as straightforwardly awesome as Searing Blood (which, also good for modern). I have dropped Infectious Bloodlust from my deck, but I don't think it's a bad card or choice. I just found the instant-speed combat tricks to be more useful in practical application. Play both tricks at once, on the same guy, and you swing your Bully for 14. Swifty for 12. This is turn three. Your creature is probably buff enough to survive the blocker and trample over plenty of damage. Or, if prowess will be enough to survive the block, play them on the unblocked creature.</div>
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Arc Lightning can be your savior. If they play elves, tokens, Jeski, aggro, goblins, thopters, whatever, then bring these into play. You probably have to drop a bully and some combat tricks.</div>
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Prowess lets you stack aggro damage. If you get an opening (i.e. unblocked creature) Go ahead and play Titan's Strength if the scry would be useful and you don't also have Temur Battle Rage. Those two cards are your god-combo, so don't throw away half of the set lightly. Likewise, you want to always kind of hope for a Thunderbreak swing with Temur Battle Rage.</div>
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Don't let managorger hydra suvrive at all. Same for Hangarback, Chandra, Nissa, Jace, Lilliana, anything with lifelink, etc. Really don't let anything live. Maybe a token. You might have to let elves live too, if you think they have a better elf.</div>
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Because I'm thinking of many different metas here, you'll want to tailor your deck for your own environment. For example, no one ever runs Abzan at my local game shop, so I don't even sideboard roast. If you know there are rhino decks, even a mainboarded set of 2x roasts wouldn't be out of the question.<br />
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Radiant Flames. Board wipes. Other Thunderbreak Regents. You don't want to overextend yourself to getting wiped. Similarly, sometimes it might be better to ping them a few times without your combat tricks instead of inviting the kill-spell early on. This, however, is all in the mind-reading aspect of MtG, so judge your opponent well and don't play into his/her hand.<br />
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Here is the deck I play online. At FNM I used 3 Chandras and 2 Bullies in the mainboard, anticipating being able to flip her (which happened often, leading to many wins).<br />
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4 Exquisite Firecraft<br />
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4 Wild Slash<br />
4 Fiery Impulse<br />
4 Thunderbreak Regent<br />
21 Mountain<br />
2 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh<br />
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3 Temur Battle Rage<br />
3 Mage-Ring Bully<br />
4 Hangarback Walker<br />
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SB: 2 Smash to Smithereens<br />
SB: 1 Mage-Ring Bully<br />
SB: 1 Zurgo Bellstriker<br />
SB: 1 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh<br />
SB: 4 Flamewake Phoenix<br />
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SB: 1 Temur Battle Rage<br />
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I am confidant that this amount of creatures is needed in order for the deck to go off. Two less creatures and losing a dude becomes losing the game very often. Hangarback gives us some lingering effects, which we really wanted. Hangarback is just good fun and solves many problems for us. He's also a 4-drop if we have the mana, so no longer do we just rely on topdecking a dragon. It really is perfect. Bully gives us some cheap, serious threats that also works very, very with every one of our spells.</div>
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*the red deck does not always win, but it wins a lot.8bitcityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07962550332186044964noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567207519106782296.post-39133694428314745532015-09-28T00:08:00.000-05:002015-09-28T00:12:04.889-05:00The Problem with Duck Tales<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Duck Tales is great, but it has a huge design flaw that proves glaringly obvious after years of absence--the pogo mechanic. </div>
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Before I get any further, I want my games to be tough as coffin nails, but I also want some standard of living: customizable controls, decent options, good hitboxes, etc. Duck Tales offers none of this. At the other end of the spectrum we have Super Meat Boy, an amazing game with incredible difficulty, but extreme care taken to ensure that the experience (often called "quality of life" in a game, is extremely high). In Duck Tales, the hit boxes are far too large for most things, but even this can be worked around. I'll leave the hit boxes alone for now, and get back to the point.</div>
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There is no reason to have to press down on the D-pad to activate the pogo stick. You only have to do this on the first bounce, then you can just hold B. This causes problems when you are pressing diagonal-down and the pogo stick disappears at the last minute causing you to take a hit. The only thing this does is make the game worse, if you think this adds challenge or difficulty...not sure what to say. They could have used controls similar to Castle of Illusion, just hit B in the air to start the pogo. Instead they copied Commander Keen, and the game is worse for it.</div>
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If B actually did something in the air, I could see the need to press down. But it doesn't. If B made you run, like in Super Mario, then this would make sense. But it doesn't. Again, you have to press an extra button for no reason.</div>
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I like my difficulty to come from level design, insane challenges, and precision timing. Not much of that here.</div>
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This problem is easily fixable if playing on a PC emulator, but it is a little complicated. You have to map the down arrow on your keyboard to the down arrow for your emulator, then, using Joy 2 Key assign both the down arrow on your d-pad and the B button to also activate the down arrow on the keyboard. If you did it correctly, you should be able to bounce without ever pressing down on the d-pad. This isn't without one small change: if your pogo stick misses a ledge, but only slightly, Scrooge will stick to the ledge and be ducking down. Not a huge deal.</div>
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Before you say this is cheating, just be aware that in the speedrunning/highscore community choice of controller, monitor, button mapping, control configs, etc. are all perfectly legal and fine. I consider this customizing the controls, but you might not. If you like how the game is now, then by all means, just ignore this topic. If you've ever been frustrated at the pogo stick disappearing milliseconds before you make contact with thr ground, however, then you might want to try out this trick. </div>
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If you don't like this setup, however, this is another option if you have some trigger buttons. It's much easier to activate the pogo if you map the right trigger to down as well. Now you can't say there is an advantage in mapping two buttons to the same button, and you are firmly in the realm of customizing the controls. The major downside is, of course, having to play on an emulator and not being able to use your cartridge.</div>
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It appears that the creators of the remastered version also agree with me, by the way, as it appears you do not have to press down in the new version to activate the pogo stick. </div>
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When I was five I only had a few NES games: Mario/Duck Hunt, Zelda, Friday the 13th, Karnov, Adventure Island II, and Dragon Warrior. I might like other games more than these, but somewhere deep in my subconsciousness these things are permanently etched into my brain.</div>
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So it's always fun to go back and re-explore the kingdom of Alefgard. This time I didn't even stop to take names, just grabbed all the Erdrick equipment at level 14 and then grinded my way to 20. I tried to beat the Dragonlord at 17, 18, and 19. No dice. Although certainly possible to do, it was absolutely impossible to defeat the Dragonlord without relying on at least 2 "coinflips." Essentially I was looking at something of a 25% success rate given my characters stats. I decided I'd rather spend the 30 minutes grinding from 19 to 20. If I had just done that in the first place it would have been much faster, but less fun.</div>
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If you want to complete the game quickly, you need to skip about 40% of the purchasable upgrades. As far as weapons go, avoid the bamboo pole; it's too weak and the club is better. Also avoid the Flame Sword, you do not need it; instead buy the Silver Shield as soon as you can, because you will use this for the rest of the game.</div>
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You also do not need to buy the Chain Armor or Full Plate. Instead only get Leather, Half, Magic. You could get Full Plate instead of magic armor, but I found that the extra 5000 gold was not too hard to get when fighting Goldmen and Wyverns south of Rimuldar. </div>
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These are some images of the Mandelbrot set I generated this weekend using Fractal Explorer. Although it's a great program, it relies on double math and so can only achieve precision in zooms of about 10^15, which is really terrible to be quite honest.<br />
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If anyone knows of some better software it would really help me out; I'm looking to break the 10^200 zoom barrier in Mandelbrot zooming.<br />
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Here is the gallery, hope you like it:<br />
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8bitcityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07962550332186044964noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567207519106782296.post-1278719081484229642015-04-06T13:14:00.003-05:002015-06-29T10:31:30.444-05:00Robot's Red Deck Wins, Magic: the Gathering Deck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red;">I'm going to leave this post up for the hell of it, but I no longer endorse this deck. Months of testing have led to some radical changes in how I recommend you play Red. Check back for a more recent version of rrdw soon.</span><br />
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Robot's Red Deck Wins<br />
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This deck takes advantage of super-powered red cards. Satyr Firedancer doubles the value of all 12 of your instants, Stormbreath Dragon puts preasure or outright wins the game on turn 4 with the help of Dragonlord's Servant. Thunderbreak does the same on turn 3. Rabblemaster and tokens will draw removal away from the dragons, or win the game that way. Zurgo is just a badass.<br />
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4 Lightning Strike<br />
4 Wild Slash<br />
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4 Satyr Firedancer<br />
4 Goblin Rabblemaster<br />
4 Stormbreath Dragon<br />
4 Dragonlord's Servant<br />
4 Thunderbreak Regent<br />
2 Zurgo Bellstriker<br />
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2 Dragon Fodder<br />
2 Hordeling Outburst<br />
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22 Mountain<br />
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2 Zurgo Bellstriker<br />
2 Dragon Fodder<br />
2 Hordeling Outburst<br />
4 Paragon of Fierce Defiance<br />
4 Shockmaw Dragon<br />
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8bitcityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07962550332186044964noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567207519106782296.post-62964461221690895802015-02-11T23:03:00.003-06:002015-02-11T23:53:27.186-06:00Playing Hearthstone ArenaI'm 2-2 on a hopefully epic Paladin arena run. Watch me play at twitch.tv/Robot2600<br />
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3-3 and I'm done! Stomped a few people in casual mode. Will now listen to punk music and stare at the wall for 10 hours.</div>
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Four party people and myself are taking the day off and playing through Ocarina of Time. Check out the live show of epic proportions. The resolution might be small (320x240!) and the sound quality only half of an illegal mp3 from 1997, but the fun factor is out of control!</div>
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<br />8bitcityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07962550332186044964noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567207519106782296.post-42190668659064084022014-12-12T23:01:00.001-06:002014-12-12T23:01:08.846-06:00Best Ever Mirror's Edge Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lara Craft might have huge boobs and a well-toned ass, but her games are good too! Actually, they are even better than her peppermint creams; like a Zelda game on crack, these puzzles just don't stop. Plenty of games had busty babes on the cover, and most didn't become cultural phenomenons (see: Lester the Unlikely, Wargasm</div>
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Tomb Raider Gold was the very first CD-ROM game I ever bought with my own money. I played the hell out of that game, for years. It was an amazing game. But it has been about a decade, and what if my memory is contaminated with nostalgia? I am revisiting my past and re-completing this game live on twitch. The current plan is to play through the first three entries and the new (2013) prequel. </div>
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Having seen footage of the new game on twitch, it is certainly different, but still seemed admittedly epic. Nothing, however, can quite capture the sense of space that the early TR games have. You explore gigantic areas, performing life-and-death jumps over deadly falls in every single level. You will get a real sense of exploration and isolation as you adventure through the many ruins and temple.</div>
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If you want to talk about objectification of women in video games, you'll have no shortage of material; but I don't think Lara really gets as much credit as she deserves. She is feminine without being a stereotypical "girly-girl" (pink guns?). There are (at least in the early games...) no stupid romance plots. She's not a "nice" person; she's tough. In an opening cutscene, her guide dies. She doesn't cry. She barely gives a shit, like an '80s action hero.<br />
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I'll admit to ignoring the franchise for years after seeing all the movies. The movies weren't even bad, just sort of bland in the end. I just assumed that the games wouldn't be any good, but this was an assumption based upon franchises in general. With so many iterations, I'm sure there are some problems, but I'm looking forward to seeing what I've missed so far. The "reboot" sequel is supposed to be incoming next year.</div>
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I've played (beat) through Resident Evil and Silent Hill for the first time this week, and I find myself wondering why I never played any of these games before. The only answer that makes any sense is so I could play them <i>right now</i>. Both games were intense and amazing (don't let my Silent Hill review fool you). I plan on playing at least the first 3 games in both franchises, but I don't know if some of the later Resident Evils and Silent Hills look that interesting. I'm not really into <dynasty cry="" devil="" god="" may="" of="" war="" warrior=""> games much recently. Hitting that X button gets old.</dynasty></div>
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The puzzles are rather cryptic, and although you do feel accomplished when you complete them, the game isn't really designed to be fair. This isn't a good thing. Almost every puzzle I've encountered so far has only been difficult by exploiting the fact that monsters respawn every time you go through a door. The school I am exploring has about 30 rooms connected via hallways, with the idea being that I will explore around until I find something. The respawning monsters "feature" isn't fun, or challenging, or anything really (except lazy). Resident Evil had both respawing and non-respawning enemies, and in every case the respawning enemies were a cheap, unbelievable mechanic. In that game (RE), it's not surprising that the later (rushed?) levels use this sort of mechanic, while the first 5 hours (professional review time required?) are perfectly crafted and require no respawning monsters because every encounter was interesting and unique (dog through the window, shit!).<br />
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Just let the fucking monster stay dead when I kill it. Your character sucks at everything except saving the game (bot not, apparently, his family). A child could swing the pipe (basic melee weapon of choice) with more competence. The missing daughter isn't missing, she's just 100x better at killing demons than her crippled father. She already beat the game, and you are just really slow. I understand that the player isn't supposed to be a combat-veteran, but it doesn't take Rambo to swing a blunt instrument with a little speed. T-Ballers would undoubtedly fair better in Silent Hill. You will swing the pipe so slowly, that in real life you would not even do damage to an organism.<br />
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Performing the finishing move sucks as well. Monsters stay on the ground a painfully long time, and your character doesn't like to stomp them unless positioned in an arbitrary and subtle way. All this, and you then pop into a storage room to check it out. Nothing. Back outside, the monster grabs your leg and starts gnawing at your knee. This is the standard Silent Hill experience.<br />
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I'm not being too harsh on the game (and it is a fun game), but these are some problems with the controls. Especially after playing Resident Evil this past week, in which the difficult controls add to the challenge and fun, in Silent Hill it becomes a weakness. I'm not asking for an easy game, I'm just asking for better gameplay. One idea that comes to mind would be giving the character a kick move that would knock enemies back, but leave them unharmed. Something like this would be perfect.<br />
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I will probably power through the game. Despite the shitty cheapness, I still like overcoming a challenge. The creepypasta splattered around 3-D rural Japan is excellent, and the shitty combat is fun as long as you aren't forced to refight some respawning monster 6 times ("I already DID this, let me do SOMETHING ELSE!"). Also the pistol sucks because monsters have invincibility frames after being shot, and they still walk toward you.<br />
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Areas are either foggy or light/dark. The light/dark areas are amazing, filled with high contrast camera angles that any film nerd will love. The fog, however, is too grey to look good.<br />
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This sounds like I hate Silent Hill, and I really don't. I was hoping for something that topped Resident Evil. It doesn't. But one can't just compare every game to Resident Evil; that's not really fair. As far as being scared, or isolated, or w/e in the game, I can't really say. I think it is fun to be "scared" and so I don't actually get scared of movies or games or rollercoasters. Silent Hill is a fun game. It will probably give you the fun kind of nightmares.<br />
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This is a free album published by New Retro wave. If you ever wanted to listen to noir techno, then this is the first and last place you need to go.<br />
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I started listening to this stuff because of the music from Hotline Miami features several artists in the genre. The labels are whatever your want: sometimes called synthcore, new wave (that is, without any other distinction), synth, noir, edm, '80score, etc. It's basically all of these things. It uses synthesizers. It sounds '80s and dark. Tons of artists are publishing free albums on youtube. It's all new.<br />
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This EP, Equinox, makes the perfect background music for playing the original Silent Hill. Instead of a freaky game I have a freaky '80s game in 3D. You cannot argue with that.<br />
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Thanks for reading, as always! I started the site with the intention of reviewing games that needed more attention. Five years later, I'm glad to do other stuff too, even if that means less interest in the site overall. Maybe I just want to explore the connection between video games and art without being a pretentious snob. Feelings and emotions don't make something artistic. </div>
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But generally, I think, people are too closed-minded to really think about art and adding video games to the equation only further complicates the problem. Your typical "art game" looks like a painting no matter how you move the camera, and while that's fine, that's not all art can be. Games like Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft prompt real problem solving and creativity in the mind of the user. That's infinitely more interesting than a pretty commercial and orchestral soundtrack.</div>
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So my real argument here is that the cultural difficulty facing video games is not about video games at all, but about all art in general. Humans prefer easy art that is quick to process and that which does not upset our understanding of the world (including our definition of what art is and can be). Humans, in this aspect, are much like apes for whom any change is always met with frustration and anger.</div>
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It's been years since critics could accept "pretty"/"beautiful"/"moving"/"serious"/"emotional" games as art. Society still needs to confront the artistic illiteracy enshrined at its core, and shed its limited capabilities based upon highly conservative definitions of art. How to do this? It'll probably have something to do with the internet.</div>
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Cloud Strife, a SOLDIER with a troubled past must heal the planet, and his own fractured psyche, in order to achieve victory. </div>
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In 1997, I wanted nothing more than this game. I didn't have a PlayStation, but my family had just purchased a new PC that could actually run the insane 3d. The machine was shared by all four members of my family, so I had to negotiate playtime (also I was 12). Late at night, I would sneak down the dark corridor through the center of the house, and into the computer room. With everyone sleeping, I would mute the speakers in preparation of the Windows 98 start-up chimes. The monitor remained black until everything was ready, and I would play my game for a few extra hours.</div>
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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth launches in about 18 hours or so. Check back here for the stream when it's actually out.<br />
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I've already pre-purchased the game, and I got a discount (-33%) for owning the original Isaac. If you don't have these games, now (right now) is the time to get 'em.<br />
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Until tomorrow, I'll be playing Wrath of the Lamb in preparation, as well as Organ Trail: Director's Cut, on <a href="http://twitch.tv/Robot2600">twitch.tv/Robot2600</a><br />
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The Isaac games are made by the Super Meat Boy guys (and other people). Random Zelda dungeon, these games are that exactly but better.<br />
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<br />8bitcityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07962550332186044964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567207519106782296.post-17358960340504782472014-10-06T22:58:00.000-05:002014-11-03T19:09:26.046-06:00Minecraft - Hardcore Difficulty (Gold Rolex)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Playing Minecraft on my favorite mode: hardcore difficulty. If I die, the world is deleted, so this is literally the chance of a lifetime. There is no savescumming, no nothing. World seed is "Gold Rolex," will I be able to build a castle and rule the landscape?<br />
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I watched the documentary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU">"GET LAMP"</a> last night and it made me want to play a new Interactive Fiction game. I've played a good deal of Adventure, but never really got into Zork. Today that changes.</div>
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Just got back from a week at the beach. I brought my Flashback 2 with me, and played some Pitfall and Missile Command while recovering from sun, mini-golf, and Gulf Coast fishing. However, the one game I really wanted to play the entire time was Atari Space Invaders. </div>
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<br />8bitcityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07962550332186044964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567207519106782296.post-59972436932492812322014-07-24T00:09:00.003-05:002014-07-24T00:09:23.350-05:00Unbanned from TwitchNo email or explanation, but at least I have my account back.<br />
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The entire episode remains unsettling.8bitcityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07962550332186044964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567207519106782296.post-33936965555289957012014-07-22T14:42:00.002-05:002014-07-22T14:42:33.300-05:00Robot Banned from Twitch.tvI tried to log into Twitch this morning and found out I was banned! They wouldn't tell me why, however, nor was any email sent to me explaining the reason.<br />
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A quick search online sees tons of other users getting banned for apparently no reason (likely an automated system is to blame).<br />
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I suspect that the cause is that I had been streaming "Big Easy Sleazy" (my game, see post below) and they flagged it as either copyright infringement (because it's footage of a non-finished game) or as non-gaming material (because they don't know what it is).<br />
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I've appealed their decision, but I felt like I had to make a post here because I've said a lot of good things about twitch recently, and also streamed some stuff like Crawl, ToME, Dwarf Fortress, GTA3, GTA4, and Need for Speed World. I can't really support Twitch anymore, and I strongly suspect that I'm never going to be unbanned and that I'll never hear back from them. Most others online report that this is almost always the case.<br />
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As someone who put a lot of time into developing a small subscriber base (55+ users and over 5k views in a month, thanks!) this is a drag. My time could have been better spent elsewhere. I've read several cases where people subscribed to twitch for the added features, then found their accounts banned with no explanation, no feedback, and no customer support.<br />
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This isn't exactly "breaking news" but I'll be fair to twitch. If they send me some response, I'll post it here. If they don't respond in about two weeks, I'll post a follow up. In the meantime: <span style="color: red;">be skeptical of all things twitch.tv</span>.8bitcityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07962550332186044964noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567207519106782296.post-47078148000446463662014-07-22T12:22:00.000-05:002014-07-22T12:24:37.405-05:00Big Easy Sleazy Preview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Most briefcases have a 50/50 chance of spawning in any given game -- requires risk vs reward calculations and preventing "perfect" runs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">-Permadeath if your party is wiped out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">-Randomized dungeons. But not totally random. You will face similar versions of maps, somewhat similar to Diablo 2. Some maps may only have a few versions, others have over 1024 possible configurations.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">-Huge city with at least 100 buildings you can actually enter.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">-BRIEFCASES are the Treasure Chests of Big Easy Sleazy, they can all drop any item in the game, with an equal chance of a dropping a lowly soda or the coveted Plate Armor.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Chemistry sets can be used to perform advance transmutations (i.e. turn a tooth into a skeleton or an eye into a swarm of frogs that will fight by your side). But you have to know chemistry first...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Terminals can be used by a knowledgable hacker to do everything from ordering pizza to downloading disks with permanent stat boosts which can be applied to your team.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Executive - Start with all the cold, hard cash you need. But nothing else.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Psycho - Start with a huge random selection of gear for a unique game.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Chemist - Start with knowledge of advanced transmutations and a chemistry set in your apartment.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Chef - Start with the Couteau and Apron, solid items that almost anyone can equip. Also begin with more food than you can eat and your very own soda machine.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Entomologist - Begin the game with some Mantis and Ant eggs, which you can grow into deadly soldiers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Also play as a Knight, King, Hacker, Gangster...and more!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">7 days to live</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">You only have 7 days to live in the "Big Easy." If you sleep in a bed to revive a character, you will lose a day. If all days are gone, you lose. If you clean up the city before then, you win.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Some Chemistry transmutations may require an entire day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">If you spend too much time on a computer you might waste a day playing an addicting video game!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I can't wait to show off more, I'll try to get a video of the current build up sometime soon.</span>8bitcityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07962550332186044964noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5567207519106782296.post-4081162875637802732014-07-01T03:30:00.001-05:002014-07-01T03:30:13.200-05:00What could this be?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Need for Speed World Online is a racing MMORPG. Sounds crazy, I know. It's also a Freemium (pay 2 win) game so it has to suck, right? Well I've played a few races and it seems pretty fucking fun to me. Don't worry about the pay 2 win stuff, I'm going into this game with the intention of never ever spending a cent. However, if it's fun I'll look more closely at the Need for Speed games in the future.</div>
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I'm gonna stream it for a while on Twitch if you want to check it out, hey maybe you'll even download it.</div>
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If this falls through, I'm going to go back to GTA4 tonight; I only have like 4 missions left in the main storyline.</div>
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