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once again reading bostock's footnotes on pliny the elder and i think this is maybe the funniest way he could have ever conveyed the notion that he thinks pliny's peeled and boiled honey-vinegar-oil cucumber recipe is bad

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23 weird video game asks

Oddest game you've played?

What's a game you recall playing but cannot remember the name of?

Jankiest game you've enjoyed?

Favourite skybox?

Favourite NPC (not an npc with a quest/story, side quest/mini-story or exists as a party member but one that just exists in the world)?

Favourite mini-game?

Best "hidden in a cave behind a waterfall" prize/secret/reveal?

Favourite useless jump (i.e a game with a jump button that serves no mechanical purpose)?

Favourite Title Screen?

Favourite Game Over screen?

Most terrifying Game Over screen?

Favourite opening FMV?

What's your favourite special edition controller?

What is your favourite rendition of a fruit in a game?

Most aesthetically pleasing UI?

Favourite out-of-the-way location in a game?

What's your favourite enemy design?

What's your favourite creature design?

Most obscure secret you know of in a game?

Favourite ROMHack?

Favourite Homebrew game?

Favourite sky-reflected-in-a-body-of-water spot?

Favourite Regular/Normal Fight battle theme?

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most things players conflate as "quality of life" are just design decisions and this is the same hill as my 'stop equating approchability and accessibility in games they are not the same thing' i keep harping on about for when the topic rears its stupid head

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@officialreigenfacts reigen, how do you do it?

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whaddya mean 'moderate fire danger rating' bom?? it's overcast,13° and going to rain....?

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really underrated wigan kebab line: "so it's called a babby's yed because it looks like a baby's head? If you... if you crack it open?" "Yeah but uh... but don't do it! ☝️"

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turns out the work week goes faster when you actually have shit to do at work lmao

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I can act a little silly

but also serious. if the situation calls for it.

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sometimes you look at someone’s art and you know EXACTLY what’s going on and you’re like

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wild + roses

Tasyi, the protagonist of The Wildercourt (a graphic novel I am slowly drawing and maybe will even finish some day).

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goulstrade again. can you believe this

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you will not replace me

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