I have found myself in the _most bizarre_ conundrum today my friends, where i bought a second copy of Samurai Warriors 2 for Xbox 360, because my first copy doesn't work anymore for some reason, even though the disc looks totally fine and we gave it a good clean a while ago. …
… Only to find the second copy can't be read either!!
My X360 reads every other game I've thrown at it just fine – installed games, games from the disc, original Xbox games, discs in much worse condition than these ones. And I've tried both of my copies of SW2 on a different Xbox 360 and they don't work there either.
I can't just keep buying X360 copies of SW2 until one works. And we do have the PS2 version (and Xtreme Legends) if I want to play it that badly.
But this is just _so weird._ There's nothing visually wrong with either of the discs, and as far as I can tell the other PS2-era musou games I have on X360 work fine. Very strange situation.
@zarfeblong ngl the part about poisons i half-expected to slip in a reference to "arsenic-soaked candles"
i feel like Pratchett's "Feet of Clay" itself made allusion to most of the others
I had occasion to refer to this page online today, so I took a quick photo.
"Gore, and Hazards of the Course" from Barbara Ninde Byfield's _The Glass Harmonica_. (Also reprinted as _The Book of Weird_.)
This is a strange literary treasure which really deserves to be available online somewhere.
@mavica_again like a mushroom that knows the name of god staring down some punkass who thinks a gun makes him hot shit
@gamemagprintads i look at the katakana and i think this title really should have been "Magicool" instead
...was Gosho Aoyama the character designer? I swear that kid looks like Conan Edogawa
@moshboy imagine you're minding your own business dungeon crawling through Zork or Colossal Cave or something and instead of a gentleman thief or a crusty pirate you get ambushed by a goddamn amogus and he steals all your loot
@mcc in a surprise upset, Pepe casts the deciding vote securing a critical trans rights bill
chuds across the country burn their merch in massive bonfires as a new crop of Dilbert memes ascends, all of them terrible
INTERNET RATIONALIST: Consider the following thought experiment. Imagine a hyperintelligent artificial intelligence–
ME: No
INTERNET RATIONALIST: What
ME: I am declining to imagine the hyperintelligent artificial intelligence.
INTERNET RATIONALIST:
ME: I'm thinking about birds right now
INTERNET RATIONALIST:
ME: Dozens of crows, perched atop great standing stones
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