Midlife Time Crisis

[alfred]

Arcade pcb collecting and learning small repairs. Which leads to opening an arcade? Although I wonder what the market will look like in 15 years.

I wish I could find that edit of that Kelly/Onion comic of the guy showing off his DVD shelf

[km]

@OneSecondBefore

obsessing over a perfect MiSTer setup

This one is a good choice, just make sure you don’t actually play a game by accident

[thecatamites]

trying to play my cards right so that when it hits i just spend the next 30 years getting obsessively into Go By Train

[Tulpa]

I played through Descent and its sequel 5 or 10 years ago, when I was trying out streaming. the game’s aren’t impossible but they are extremely unfair! There’s bullshit hitscan enemies hiding around every corner in later levels and you basically have to know where they are and destroy them before they can take aim at you or else you’ll die within seconds.

Patrick O’Brian’s books are truly delightful. The Dan Brown of naval adventure books is C.S. Forester (creator of Horatio Hornblower) not Patrick O’Brian

[muaad]

every time I open a retro game under dosbox, I will search how to rebuild the highest performance retro pc for running windows ME.

happens every month.

[rasterradio]

- YouTube

[parker]

I feel like reading the master and commander novels now

[Mothra]

Boy you ain’t kiddin’:

Class 1 (Vulcan) Driller

These lil’ bastards genuinely break the game.

Thankfully it doesn’t look like there’s any other hitscan enemies (in D1 at least). Also wouldn’t mind if there was a way to effectively dodge homing missiles beyond going through tunnels. A little boost you could use to dip to the side would be fun.

The Dan Brown of naval adventure books is C.S. Forester (creator of Horatio Hornblower) not Patrick O’Brian

[muaad]

another Midlife Time Crisis which happen a lot: I like to invite friend to play co-op games offline and very hype before play it. But we always feel not in mood after half an hour or an hour mostly.

And 30-60 days, we will repeat it.

[Brooks]

i started the first one recently, it is fun!
caveat: i am british

[Rudie]

Getting cancer and writing a top 100 seems like enough. Now if I can get the motivation to capture 200 hours of footage so I can release a video version of the top 100.

[tt_zop]

lumping hacky ole dan brown in with actual good writer patrick o’brian has got my feathers ruffled a bit, i’ll admit

anyways since i hit 40 i’ve gone down the fpga rabbit hole, funneling money into mister and mister accessories in an attempt to capture that 90s misspent youth. sometimes it works! no regrets (on the mister front at least)

i get more of a thrill out of playing Neo Geo and Sega CD on a CRT than just about anything in gaming rn, feels like i’m one of the rich kids. or have divorced parents

[Mothra]

Descent update: I have abandoned this fucking game after reaching a level that was, to Tulpa’s prophecy, truly nothing but giant rooms where homing-missiles were launched at you from all angles, and any exposure to the outside world resulted in four hitscan enemies instantly killing you. I played that level for about 30 minutes, creeping around corners to snipe away enemies, before realizing that this is absolutely not what makes Descent fun and I will not sanction this buffoonery further.

I feel good about it! Maybe I stopped playing the game as a kid because it genuinely stops being fun at this point! Closure!

I’ve now jumped to Descent II, which I’m so far enjoying greatly. It’s very fun to blowing the fuck through these levels, being as aggressive as possible. The improvements to the bombs, the shield transfer, and the afterburners are going a long way. Plus, Guide Bot!