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Oh boy! One of those videogame itches that I've had for some time was defeating all bosses of Towerfall's Dark World expansion in Legendary difficulty. Every weekend we got together with a bunch of friends to attempt to progress through the expansion's "adventure" mode - 4 worlds of challenges each finished with a fun (in a masochist way) boss. We managed ...

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Hello! Let’s all tread together the treacherous path of the final day of the work week joined by some great music!

Legacy

With reports/rumors that Konami is stopping AAA console game development (except for their soccer game, PES) I started thinking back to their great days, when seeing the Konami logo in a game meant that it was very likely that the game was good and/or fun. I mean, I bet that at least ...

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Boy, what do I write about? It's not writer's block, though. I have a lot of ideas swirling right now but I can't articulate any of them. Or maybe it is a form of block... how should I know? I am no writer! I'm just a guy sharing thoughts on the internet.

See? I make no sense.

Kept you waiting, huh?

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I apologize for the misleading title, but lately I've been reading novels online. Specifically, I've been reading translations of web novels from Korea/China, which has apparently become a thing people do now.

These translated web novels are pretty different from almost any kind of book I’ve come across. They rigorously stick to the bare bones heroic journey. The authors have no apparent goals beyond telling the story (e.g. they aren’t telling the story to make a point about ...

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This week the PS1 turned 20 years old. What's crazy for the people old enough to have played/owned the PS1 (or rather a PlayStation) when it was the new hotness is that there are probably people reading this right now that weren't even born then. It's that old. The first time that these people played FF7 might have been on a iPhone. Gross.

Back then the Xbox was still just a twinkle in Bill Gates' eye and SEGA was still making ...