That autistic feeling when six separate people ask “how’re you going?” within twenty minutes and every time you freeze for a bit trying to work out the correct balance of honest-but-not-too-honest considering the people and the context and your mental state and you finally manage to get out some approximation of “alright”.
And then if you manage to remember to return the question after all that worry, they invariably reply the same “oh, fine!”

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**just a little bird** @numberonebug@cybre.space · Aug 24, 2020, 17:01

Aug 24, 2020, 17:01

just a little bird @numberonebug@cybre.space

if you put dragons in your game but don't have mechanics for kissing them then you're a coward who doesn't give a damn about realism

**Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz** · Aug 24, 2020, 07:39

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JP @jplebreton@mastodon.social · Aug 24, 2020, 07:39

Aug 24, 2020, 07:39

JP @jplebreton@mastodon.social

PSA: It's now possible to run homebrew on an unmodded PlayStation 2 using only a burned DVD, using this hack: https://cturt.github.io/freedvdboot.html
Using that, I was able to rescue everything off my 15 year old memory card and convert it to (the pretty-good-at-this-point emulator) PCSX2's memory card format. It's a comfort to know that all these old adventures won't be lost to time.

**Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz** @Nine@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2020, 15:53

**Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz** @Nine@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2020, 15:53

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Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz @Nine@computerfairi.es

@jplebreton ...I wonder if it would be possible to recover data off an old (failed) multipage memory card like this?

**Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz** @Nine@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2020, 15:43

**Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz** @Nine@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2020, 15:43

Aug 24, 2020, 15:43

Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz @Nine@computerfairi.es

with the blaster bomb launcher.

when everyone is still in the skyranger.

because your first action was to take one step outside with your veteran, and get missed by a low level Soldier alien with a plasmafuckinpistol.

who missed by miles with all three shots.

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**Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz** @Nine@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2020, 15:41

**Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz** @Nine@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2020, 15:41

Aug 24, 2020, 15:41

Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz @Nine@computerfairi.es

thinking back to the original UFO: Enemy Unknown/XCOM: UFO Defence and how the most dangerous foe you'd ever face was not the Ethereals, or the Crysalids, or getting mind controlled at higher levels, or all that guff
no

it was johnny rookiefingers in the back of the skyranger who has somehow gotten hold of the Blaster Bomb launcher and because an alien fired a plasma pistol past the hatch, missing everyone entirely, he does the only thing he can, and panicfires into the wall behind him.

**Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz** @Nine@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2020, 15:38

**Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz** @Nine@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2020, 15:38

Aug 24, 2020, 15:38

Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz @Nine@computerfairi.es

@Beancatte@snouts.online YTPs don't often make me giggle but this one genuinely did.

**Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz** @Nine@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2020, 15:37

**Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz** @Nine@computerfairi.es · Aug 24, 2020, 15:37

Aug 24, 2020, 15:37

Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz @Nine@computerfairi.es

@Beancatte@snouts.online *died giggling at the clip, esp. where the guy was all "what I like to do... is JACK OFF robbers, purse snatchers" ahfahahahahahfuck