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A game about the food service industry. Either you're a short order cook in a busy diner or you have to manage a five-star restaurant. Is there any game about cooking that doesn't abstract it to Cooking Mama levels?

No, that's how you do it.

How the hell do you enter the desert temple? I think I can see it on the map, but there's nowhere for me to click.

This was such a generous Daily. It's too bad I bought a really shitty third party controller to play today, because it's horrible D-Pad ran ended up making me spike myself.

Please, AsianMan, it's "That's what he/she/they/ze/one/hir/sie/co/ey said".

Oh man, we clearly live in the worst alternate universe if the Boogerman Kickstarter happens before the Give Patrick Suitcases Full Of Hundred Dollar Bills Kickstarter.

As someone who's at least as interested in the history of video games as playing them, I think Let's Plays could be incredible archives for future history. It's a shame that most of them are done by people who are painfully unfunny and have no interest in actually documenting how the game is making them feel. If more Let's Plays were like Spelunky Explorer's Club Daily Challenge videos, where people simply verbalize their thought process at any given moment, I'd probably watch more. Then again, outside of Thumbs streams, I don't really know of any good Let's Play people, I tend to just go with whatever's on the first page of YouTube searches. If there is in fact a huge culture around specific game streamers, I imagine they're probably good at it.

And the person I date has a gender identity that isn't even listed there. Gender spectrum! So big!

In which I replace Spelunky's music with my favorite rap music to combat crippling depression, and then a vampire ruins my day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRoWPitY-OU harder than the lyrics on the Holy Grail

Seeing the runtime of Chris's 10/22 run, I guessed he too died in the death trap, but the truth is way funnier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5wTI6SoXBa4

And 10/22, in which I deftly dodge the infamous death trap.

In keeping with my tendency to turn my Daily Challenges into more of a personal diary podcast, my runs for the 20th and 21st have a guest, and we do not talk about Spelunky.

I ended up doing what I do a lot, which is die immediately after spending most of my money at the black market.

Oh man, we clearly live in the worst alternate universe if the Boogerman Kickstarter happens before the Earthworm Jim Kickstarter.

I actually just accidentally left the game on. Going into it now! But I have a secret weapon... EDIT: Welp, my controller just died, so nevermind. Unless Gamestop is still open I have to go back to the keyboard AKA die immediately.

Yeah, all that shit is gross. Lot of TERF's are really aggressive about it, often harassing transwomen online. Depressing.

On my run for 10/22 I mused that it was such an easy seed, and wondered how everyone else was doing with a Daily that was so generous with gold. TURNS OUT. Then, with my demise, I invented a perpetual pain machine. Because Spelunky.

Give me Aero the Acrobat or give me death.

Shouldn't this work?

It really is great.

What's your avatar? There's a lot of JMBs on Steam.

Must see Halloween movies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBWuChbzdu4 (Really, any Roger Corman produced Edgar Allen Poe adaptation will do, but this one is my favorite.)

The most deliciously gay (though sadly, mostly unfunny) Halloween special ever! Featuring Margaret Hamilton in full Wicked Witch of the West get-up, introducing Kiss. Plus a lot of trucker jokes because it's 1976 and for some reason truckers were a thing.

Yeah, I got a wired 360 controller specifically to play the original Spelunky. But it turns out it also makes Super Meat Boy waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better.