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I thought this story of how Texas has destroyed their women's health infrastructure because they want to destroy Planned Parenthood was really interesting.

It's a good game for me to play when I'm half-way watching a movie or show with my wife. It doesn't demand a lot of attention and I find the flavor of the text intriguing for the same types of reasons I enjoy Porpentine's writing (super dense and evocative of surreal circumstances). So I kinda develop a plan in port, aim my ship, keep glancing over and pause it if anything interesting is happening on the television. Reading the same narrative over and over becomes less of a problem once you get used to where and when the new text will appear. It would be really nice if the text changed every time you revisited a port, but ... you know, it's whatevs. I think I like this game for the same reasons that other people like idle-games.

I think we should wait a week before the next tournament. I had a lot of fun playing Sorcerer's Lair this week, but I could see these tournaments becoming encumbering if there is always a tournament happening. I don't really want to wait more than a week though because I had so much fun playing last week; I'm really looking forward to doing this again. That said, we need to figure out how to nominate and/or chose tables because Sorcerer's Lair is the only free one. Of course no one is obligated to participate every week, but if we figure this out together we have a better chance of attracting more participants. Also tell me if I'm being too bossy.

I'm going to cram Blender during the month of February and I'm going to make progress-reports here to motivate me and show me that I am actually making progress. I think I'll do an entry every week. Right now I've successfully made, animated, and imported a model into Unity. Goals for the week of February 1st 2016: This week I'm going to concentrate on learning how to paint UVs and properly import the results into Blender.

I still can't get Choir of Angles to download. But I was able to put Sixty Second Smash City into a collection and then download it through the itch.io desktop app. I can't do the same for Choir of Angles because it doesn't allow me to put it into a collection. I notice that dib's provided link includes "secret" in the link-address, maybe this is related to the issue? Anyways, Sixty Second Smash City was novel. I read the game as cyberpunk due to the car's design and its abilities. There is something that interests me about the slight but sudden loss of momentum matched with the low bit-rate collision-sound, and the deflection of the car. I think a lot of games are centered around collision in some way; this game makes me think there is a lot of potential in aiming for qualities besides fidelity and/or good-feel when tuning the way impacts play out.

I enjoy Bad Castle a lot. The compositions do a great job of evoking a fantastic adventure. The lighting-effect you managed within FlickGame's limitations (when approaching the castle) was notable btw.

I'm done, I'm just uploading to the Scratch website which is a slightly different process when using the desktop editor. Edit: Ok, here it is: Champ Thinks of Nums.

I'm going to start now. I was going to play y'alls first but I am having difficulty downloading them. I think it might be one of those problems which will solve itself if I wait a little while (2 hours for instance). edit: 50 minutes in, this is going well, I need to stop playing my game and add stuff.

I don't have one either. I'm hoping that just looking at some of the default Scratch sprites will inspire me. This could go poorly. That'll be fine.

Not that I'm aware of. Do you have one in mind?

I watched 3 twitch-streamers last night and I think they were all in the Dark Zone. On all three channels they were aimlessly roaming around city blocks looking for smaller groups of other players that they could pick fights with, assumably to get their stuff, but I didn't see them getting stuff. Is there more going on in the beta? I admittedly have no concept of what people are going to do in this game besides wht I just described above.

Sweet. It's gonna get all nuuuped up in here. I have to go to work in 30 min, so I won't be making my game til after I get home and have dinner.

The Jam is today. Find two hours (or so) and make a game. Late is fine, less than two hours is fine, more than two hours is fine (but part of the idea of a two hour jam is to limit scope. Maybe your game doesn't need that extra feature. Maybe it's kinda cool that it breaks like that). When you are finished, post the game here. If you have any questions or difficulties post here or contact me on Twitter @cafefiction. If you don't want to make an Idle Thumbs account, then tell me on Twitter and I'll post the link for you.

I'm checking out Twitch streams and this seems really directionless.

I was just scrolling through the topics and read this as "Farcry Pinball" for a moment. The super skillshot could be no-scoping an eagle.

Thanks for this list. I'm surprised I haven't heard of the Magic Puzzle Quest. Also I'm interested in the Choice Of games, but it would be a lot easier to pick one if they had a free chapter to see if I respond well to the writing style.

The pacing takes some getting used to and at first you might expect new text to pop up more frequently than it will. -Returning to your port of origin will reduce your terror-level to 50.

This tutorial was useful to me. I'm gearing up to binge on Blender for a bit. I just need to push myself for a while until I get familiar enough with it to bang something out when I need to.

Cm0nster's savory crepes tasted fine, but they were somehow lacking. I felt that the sauce was much, much more mild than ranch-dressing (which is what I would prefer). I suspect that this dish would benefit from a nice cheese, but I'm not sure which one.

@Dewar Don't take my fanfic too seriously. I'm just spending some of my time with the table developing a narrative. I'd love to hear whether or not it rings true for you and feel free to add to it. @Trip Hazard Congrats on getting to wizard-mode! That's an accomplishment.

I'm starting to consider the possibility that Whisper is actually one of the girl's (we will call her Kat) multiple-personalities (perhaps just an imaginary friend or role acted out by the Kat). Her twin brother has accepted that he has two sisters (Kat and Whisper) as long as he can remember and he depends on the existence of Whisper for certain tasks such as closing the gates of the Void (perhaps boredom or responsibilities that are viewed as meaningless). I think the Sorcerer's Lair may actually be a former insane-asylum that they wander for funsies looking for shiny stones. The sorcerer is just a personification of the voice of adult-authority which they assume they are in opposition to as they wander the grounds without permission. The tree interferes with Whisper somehow.

It's really interesting to hear these details. ...also, I think Whisper may have drowned because she is wearing a sailor-outfit.

You pretty much win as far as I'm concerned (unless anyone can get the ball in a more interesting place). Your timing-difficultly might be a latency-issue. I don't know if this would be worth your effort, but some people have a lot of success reducing the "pre-rendered frames" in their graphics card settings. On Nvidia cards, you go into the Nvidia control-panel ->3d Settings ->manage 3d settings -> Select Pinball FX2 in the programs drop-down -> Then set "Maximum pre-rendered frames" to a lower setting if your shots are late and a higher setting if they are early. I have mine set to "1". Also I just improved my high-score. I now have 423,235,755. I managed to do two wizard-modes. During the second I had 8 pieces of obsidian resulting in earnings of around 140,000,000 in the second wizard-mode alone. I also found out what rescuing Whisper does; you get another piece of obsidian right before wizard-mode if you free her.

I got 152,809,580 this morning. That was one wizard-mode (a.k.a. "Midnight Madness") with two pieces of obsidian. I got two pieces after that though. Interestingly, I didn't rescue Whisper during the beginning of the wizard-mode, and I totally thought that was necessary to start Midnight Madness until this morning. Now I'm curious about what rescuing Whisper does. I also found out that locking all three balls during the sorcerer's multi-ball (the one where the balls get locked in that little dish that the little man is holding) will reward you a piece of obsidian. This was also the first time I noticed that you can increase the jackpot value of that multi-ball. I think the bumpers increase it. My jackpot value was around 1.5 million which is no insignificant amount since I did that multi-ball twice. I'm not sure if the increased jackpot-value is shared between the other multi-ball modes.