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norm.likes.games
My first post resurrecting my gaming blog over at offprint is about finally beating one of the first video games I ever played. https://norm.likes.games/a/3mx3hlwtu2423-i-finally-beat-dr-chaos
pckt.blog
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graze.social
π³ midterms.graze.social is @graze.social's most ambitious project to date. And as of today, it's live. Let's take a look at what the next 27 days will look like π§΅
nromdotcom.cloud
Sometimes I worry that I'm putting my little @mu.social companion in danger by viewing certain posts. Sorry, little guy! π
nromdotcom.cloud
Dr. Chaos finally off the backlog after 30-ish years.
nromdotcom.cloud
Yeah I was surprised `likes.games` was available for registration a few days ago. I guess domain speculators must be having a hard time keeping up with the explosion of gTLDs or something. I almost feel like it's my civic duty to run a PDS or something to offer these up as handles to the people.
nromdotcom.cloud
Secretly, all of this is running up to me relaunching my games-focused blog using @offprint.app over at norm.likes.games. I've already migrated over my existing content, but I know I'll have plenty to say about Dr. Chaos once I've finished it, so that seems like a fitting re-launch post.
nromdotcom.cloud
And if you're looking for a video where someone quietly and methodically maps out a bunch of rooms and learns how to play a somewhat-obtuse NES game, you could do worse than my streams of Dr. Chaos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujom...
nromdotcom.cloud
If you're looking for a powerfully average NES game with some interesting ideas that @jeffgerstmann.com once called "no Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu," you could do worse than Dr. Chaos.
nromdotcom.cloud
I've been streaming Dr. Chaos for the NES recently. This is one of the first games I remember playing and has never been far from my thoughts (despite forgetting if it was even a real game for 30 years). Pumped to be playing it for real, now that I'm not 7 years old and know how to play games.
nromdotcom.cloud
Holy shit did anyone watch this Banonkey Town documentary? Obviously I feel for anyone who lost money or loved ones to a con artist claiming to be channeling God. But the tonal whiplash of frequent cuts to "she had us working long hours building Banonkey Town" and a clip of a shitty mobile game.
nromdotcom.cloud
For real, though. I think this is a complicated area ethically and morally, but the absolute worst thing we can do is continue to let billionaires run off with ball. I don't use LLMs in my personal projects. But the second Linux support lands in cocore, I'm putting my Framework on the network.
nromdotcom.cloud
Real talk, I get that this whole thing is like 20% of the point of the Network Test and why it runs for a whole weekend. So I ain't mad.
nromdotcom.cloud
Well, what do we have here? You must be a new arrival. Let me guess. The Duskbloods Network Test, right? Well, you're not the first. But there's no game server here. You'd have done better to rot in bed...But, too late now.
nromdotcom.cloud
Yeah, seems most retro RPGs are locked up with a couple companies who Blaze hasn't cracked yet. I was hopeful with SNK that we'd get a console collection with Crystalis, but so far it's all arcade. Maybe some day Square-Enix will come to the table and it'll rain RPGs, but it hasn't happened yet.