Spooky Halloween Outfit Ideas This poll is closed. |
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The guy from Hades | 37 | 7.76% | |
The priest from Faith | 22 | 4.61% | |
A Corpse from Microsoft's Graveyard | 27 | 5.66% | |
The Ouya | 62 | 13.00% | |
Google Stadia (scariest option) | 73 | 15.30% | |
Mr. Mosquito | 31 | 6.50% | |
Did someone say Bowsette? BECAUSE I AM PRETTY SURE I HEARD SOMEONE SAY BOWSETTE | 122 | 25.58% | |
Wario (nude) | 62 | 13.00% | |
Wario (formal) | 33 | 6.92% | |
Captain N | 8 | 1.68% | |
Total: | 304 votes |
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good morning chat thread
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2020 14:58 |
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 07:41 |
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Back in the before times whenever the release date for the Sonic movie (future Academy Award nominee) was announced, I made the perhaps ill-advised decision to play through Sonic Advance 1 is great! While the console games were doing their thing, this game and its successors are a homier continuation of the older 2D games, with vertically expansive stages allowing for multiple routes and the Chaos Emeralds lying hidden in optional special stages rather than featuring in the story. This time however, much like in the Game Gear games, each zone contains its own discrete special stage so you've got to do some serious hunting to find all seven and earn access to the true final boss (I only found two during my casual playthrough!). As was series tradition at that point, you can choose from multiple playable characters: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and the real star, Amy Rose. The first three broadly play like they did in previous games but have received some new moves to better differentiate them. Everyone gets basic attacks performed while standing still, Sonic can grind on rails and briefly dash in mid-air, and Knuckles can now float in water (not that there's too much of it in this game). Amy, playable for the first time in traditional 2D Sonic, can't actually spin at all and instead relies on her hammer both to attack and move around, taking inspiration from her Adventure moveset but without the speed of cold molasses. There's a learning curve to using her, but I ended up having more fun playing as her than the other three, giant-stepping and hammer-jumping through levels. While the lack of spin makes her more vulnerable to regular enemies, the extra range from her hammer means Amy can tear bosses up. Also, Advance 1 has a bumpin soundtrack even by series standards. Couple of my faves are Secret Base Act 2 and Ice Mountain Act 1. Sonic Advance 2 is good! Level design-wise you can definitely see a move toward the speed-focused "just hold right" gameplay the portable Sonics (mostly developed by Dimps at this point) would become stigmatized for, epitomized by the introduction of a basic boost mode, but, well, I haven't gotten to too many of those games yet so here it feels fresh and cool. Each act even starts with your character getting jazzed up and sprinting out the gate from a track start block, which is a frankly rad idea. Many of the 3D games will have your character begin the level running in a kinda media res manner, but something about seeing Tails or Cream psyche themselves up first adds some fun flavor. Speaking of, Advance 2 adds a new, somewhat underused friend to the franchise, Cream the Rabbit and her chao Cheese. I didn't really have any opinions regarding her whatsoever before playing these GBA games but uh she owns?? She combines Tails' flight (which she does with her ears) with long range attacks via Cheese. Like you just stand there and say sic em and Cheese bops the nearest enemy on screen. This trivializes bosses lol, but that's fine because as forums friend sharrrk pointed out, the five characters track to five different soft difficulty modes: Cream is Very Easy, Tails is Easy (flight is busted), Sonic is Normal, Knuckles is Hard (climbing and gliding aside, he's got a noticeably lower jump and not as many exclusive routes as S3&K), and Amy is Very Hard. Amy's capabilities versus bosses have been dampened a bit because, just as the levels themselves are more speed-focused, almost every boss fight is now an autoscroller! This is something the series kinda sampled in earlier entries, particularly Mushroom Hill Act 2 and Death Egg Act 2, and is an idea I'd love to see more of. The constant running just feels very appropriate to Sonic, much moreso than standing around waiting for a ball to swing over your head. Unfortunately, a big downside to this game is the special stage. I can't actually comment on the stage itself because I never found any! Entering any special stages requires you to, in one go without losing any lives, find all seven Special Rings in a given act. Unlocking the true final boss requires just beating the game with all four starting characters and finding all seven emeralds with Sonic. Unlocking Amy, a secret character for some reason, requires going further beyond and finding all seven emeralds with all four characters. I'm unashamed to say I just downloaded a completed save file! Sonic Advance 3 is, interesting. I wasn't feeling too hot on it at first because wow it kicks things off with maybe the worst first Sonic level I can remember playing! Route 99 sucks. Just an absolute boatload of blind jumps, speed traps, and rude gotchas coupled with a tediously slow stage gimmick. Once you get into the level, at least, as Advance 3 adds in hub areas for each zone with some light exploration puzzles needed before you can play any act or boss. And they're just kinda, there, padding things out between actual instances of gameplay. I suspect they were intended to facilitate practice grounds for your team of choice but there are less obtrusive means of doing so. But anyway once you get past those hurdles Advance 3 does have some cool stuff to speak of, especially the aforementioned teams! Somewhat similarly to Knuckles Chaotix, you select two playable characters at a time, a primary and a secondary, with the secondary giving some kind of ability or buff to the primary. Sonic boosts his partner's top speed, Amy gives her partner a hammer, Cream lets her partner command Cheese themself. The team mechanic is easily the coolest element of Advance 3, culminating in exactly the team-up you'd expect, and also something I'd love to see more of in the future. While later levels are still subject to some blind traps and forks (reminiscent of the GG games), they're a considerable improvement over the beginning of the game, with Ocean Base and Toy Kingdom being my highlights. Advance 3 also, notably, continues the story from Sonic Battle. Sonic Battle is a weird game and honestly not one I'd recommend to folks who aren't diehard Sonic simps (and have therefore already played it years before me), but I ended up having a great time with it anyway. It's an arena fighter that also, surprisingly, kinda functions as the Sonic franchise's take on the deckbuilder genre that was so hoppin in the early 2000s. The game is divided into episodes where you rotate which character is taking care of a weird robot Sonic finds on the beach. A fighting robot, that learns new moves from That was a whole lot of words to get to the real point of this post, which is that I really like the aesthetic and spritework of the GBA Sonic Games. Because I've been stuck at home since March, I figured now was as good a time as any to learn how to extract and animate sprite-based stuff from games I like, so have some Sonic gifs in roughly the order made.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2020 20:00 |
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also i voted for nude wario
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2020 20:01 |
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Awesome Animals posted:These sprites couldn't have been better timed. I have a use for all of them, thank you. i can't believe a contributor for the sonic wiki posts here!
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2020 20:14 |
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i just started playing resident evil 2 for Spooky Games Month but have the tv muted because my gf's playing tabletop in the other room and y'know, this fits Relax Or DIE posted:i'd really like torchlight 3 to be good, I'm always down for a new good arpg, but unfortunately the series doesn't have a strong history what's your favorite glyph and why is it the owl summon?
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2020 01:00 |
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Real hurthling! posted:Get headphones they're connected to my computer not the ps4!
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2020 01:59 |
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each of your silent hill 3 posts is slowly filling a meter labeled "my desire to give silent hill 3 another shot." perhaps after resident evil 2 and kirby's halloween adventure... Relax Or DIE posted:that one hasn't dropped yet for me, for now it's the multi-hit laser in terms of practical destructive power, dual wielding lasers is about as good as it gets
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2020 03:40 |
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Booky posted:just had sushi after quite a while today, it was Very Yummy!! 😊 the sushi place I'd frequent in the before times has something called a golden crunchy roll and i can't quite remember what actually goes in it but it's delicious and i usually get at least two plates of it FirstAidKite posted:Skies of Arcadia PC port be still my heart...
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2020 13:50 |
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Jay Rust posted:Books are better than e-readers. in addition, you can convert your dining table into a standing desk
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2020 19:01 |
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grieving for Gandalf posted:it's from Poshmark, pretty sure his wife ordered a piece of clothing and the person she ordered it from sent it to the wrong side of the country grats on your free shirt
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2020 20:23 |
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post your bookshelves/gameshelves in this thread
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2020 20:24 |
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i finished luigi's mansion 3 several days ago and very much enjoyed it but it's only now occurring to me that the final boss doesn't use the super suction mechanic introduced kinda late at all. like what the heck, such a missed opportunity!
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2020 21:58 |
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Zaphod42 posted:Happy Halloween I guess?
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2020 03:59 |
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Jay Rust posted:Here are my rankings for open world barriers: you ever think the invisible walls are caused by radiation?
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2020 13:43 |
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:Cop unions aren't unions because cops aren't workers.
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2020 19:08 |
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nobody said getting bingo would be easy...but here's one of my bookshelves and what's that in the treasure chest?
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2020 19:37 |
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this is slander
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2020 21:30 |
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I've been absolutely loving hades and ended up buying all of supergiant's other games because of it, very excited to finally try them after enjoying their soundtracks for years
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2020 21:32 |
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SeXReX posted:I love that they went with star fox and buck bumble for the references rather than, you know, Pokemon snap. us snapheads had this puppy
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 01:56 |
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yesterday i played through a very cute rom hack called Kirby's Halloween Adventure. i was expecting it to just be a simple reskin but it was a full game of entirely new levels, and good levels at that! all of the enemies have themed sprites and all of the ability cards were redrawn, some of which are quite silly
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 02:03 |
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CottonWolf posted:Perhaps a stupid question, but... as someone who works in a unionised industry and is a member of my union. Why haven’t game devs unionised? What’s stopping them? a depressing number of people don't even really know what unions are, or have accepted their terrible working conditions as just the way it is. employees who attempt to organize often must do so in secrecy out of fear for being demoted or fired. other people just don't wanna rock the boat too much. you'll also see the people who are passionate about not being treated like poo poo, well, get better jobs the store i used to work at is close to finally voting on their first union contract and i'm extremely proud of them, it's been a long and rough road. some of the people there who aren't management and are anti union are loving weird and i still cannot comprehend them
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 03:06 |
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i would say most of the game gear sonic games are at least okay, even blast, but 2 is absolute dogshit and easily the worst sonic game I've played. would not have finished it without extensive rewinding
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 13:47 |
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arrange my games on a grid in a random order so i can try to play game completion bingo
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 17:09 |
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VideoGames posted:The funniest thing about the Sony Wishlist, is once you bought something from the list, it stayed there until you removed it. the switch store does this too, i suppose it's a decent excuse to keep on top of things
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 14:17 |
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Infinitum posted:lol I just found out that when Sony redo the Playstation Store at the end of the month they're nuking your wishlist. I've got -Divinity: Original Sin 2 -Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness and the Secret Hideout -Resident Evil 3 -13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim -Eastshade -Heaven's Vault -AI: The Somnium Files -The Last Remnant Remastered -Judgment -Grow Up -Resonance of Fate -Yakuza Kiwami 2 -Armored Core -Shadow Tower -Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice -The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel -Wild Arms 3 -Eternal Ring -Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner - MARS -Resident Evil 5 -Soma -I am Bread -Flower finishing prey is one of my goals this month
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 14:53 |
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who cares about the chronological order, i wanna see some ranking and tier lists
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 19:49 |
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cheetah7071 posted:
emptyquote one of your posts about ar tonelico, those were pretty good
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 20:17 |
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much like the chat threads they were in
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 20:18 |
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my consoles, ranked: wii u switch ps4 game boy advance sp gamecube super nintendo playstation 2 game boy color 3ds n64 ds lite playstation vita game boy advance game boy pocket dreamcast wii genesis game gear nomad
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 20:26 |
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I'm okay with people deliberately bingoposting because several of the spaces are effortposts and more of those are good
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 21:07 |
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hey y'all it's friday and you know what that means baking cookies on the clock LawfulWaffle posted:Holy poo poo. I just typed up a monster of a post ranking the contents of these drawers I haven't touched in years but it got ate because I cleared my cache when logging into Imgur and clicking Post sent me to the SA login page. I feel so stupid. Literally spent like 45 minutes on it. eating a cookie and pouring one out for your lost post. that loving drawer has some good games in it at least
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 22:08 |
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Real hurthling! posted:hersheys correctly anticipated the poop emoji shape for their kisses so future generations would know to stay away please do not insinuate that any of the fine posters here would use hersheys chips
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 23:06 |
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RazzleDazzleHour posted:Square Enix are cowards for making a game where you capture final fantasy enemies pokemon-style but creating new original character that are not actual ff enemies instead of including a ton of the absolute bangers like "the dog house from FF7" you should play final fantasy 7 remake
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2020 05:33 |
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i just watched alien for the first time and now have a strong desire to play metroid fusion
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2020 22:07 |
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this year i've been trying to only play stuff i haven't before, aside from the sonic series (and I'm getting to the games i never played as a child now anyway), but i think I'm january I'll probably replay a bunch of old favorites. such as this maybe i could finally finish goemon's great adventure...
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2020 23:54 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:So have I. Hmmm maybe I've been working from home wrong? sorry buddy games finished in 2020: Donkey Kong Country (gba) Donkey Kong Country 2 (gba) Mega Man Battle Network 3 blue (gba) Mega Man Battle Network 1 (gba) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (gamecube) Mega Man Battle Network 2 (gba) Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Knuckles (genesis) [replay] Sonic Adventure DX (gamecube) Pokemon Sword (switch) Nier Automata (ps4) [replay] Sonic the Hedgehog (game gear) Fire Emblem: Three Houses [Crimson Flower] (switch) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (game gear) Sonic Blast (game gear) Sonic Chaos (game gear) Sonic Triple Trouble (game gear) Donkey Kong Country 3 (gba) Animal Crossing (switch) Yoshi's Crafted World (switch) Pokemon Colosseum (gamecube) Halo: Combat Evolved (pc) Awful Emblem Act 1 Demo (gba rom hack) Final Fantasy 7 Remake (ps4) Joe and Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics (snes) Outer Wilds (ps4) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD (wii u) Fire Emblem: The Road to Ruin (gba rom hack) Abzu (ps4) Halo 2 (pc) Gato Roboto (switch) Wishing Sarah (pc) Bomberman Jetters (gamecube) Far From Noise (pc) Ring Ring (pc) Water's Fine (pc) Nonsense at Nightfall (pc) Halo: Reach (pc) Trials of Mana (switch) Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (gamecube) [replay] Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (ps4) Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (ps4) Spyro the Dragon (ps4) Sonic Heroes (gamecube) Sonic Advance (gba) [replay] Spyro the Dragon 2 (ps4) Terraria [master mode] (pc) Tokyo Xanadu eX+ (ps4) Sonic Advance 2 (gba) Super Mario Bros (snes) Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (switch) Spyro the Dragon 3 (ps4) Super Mario Bros 3 (snes) Sonic Battle (gba) Super Mario World (snes) [replay] SMW - Peach's Adventure Demo (snes rom hack) SMW - Captain Barry's Treasure (snes rom hack) SMW - Kola Kingdom Quest (snes rom hack) Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (3DS) SMW - Luigi and the Island of Mystery (snes rom hack) Sonic Advance 3 (gba) SMW - A Halloween Walk (snes rom hack) SMW - Halloween in the Mushroom Kingdom (snes rom hack) SMW - Il Maniero Spettrale (snes rom hack) SMW - Shrine of Eternal Ice (snes rom hack) SMW - Mario Wakes Up (snes rom hack) Doom [2016] (ps4) Luigi's Mansion 3 (switch) SMW - Other World Demo (snes rom hack) Kirby's Halloween Adventure (nes rom hack) SMW - Adventure Demo (snes rom hack) currently playing: Prey Resident Evil 2 Hades Super Mario 3D All-Stars Divinity: Original Sin 2 Fire Emblem: The Four Kings Shadow the Hedgehog Super Mario World Central's Halloween Level Design Contest 2019 granted a lot of these are on the shorter side! Looper fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Oct 18, 2020 |
# ¿ Oct 18, 2020 19:48 |
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al-azad posted:I rarely play a game without watching another game. playing resident evil 2 with no audio because you're watching a stream of quest 64 on another monitor is the real hard mode, i feel
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# ¿ Oct 18, 2020 23:41 |
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Real hurthling! posted:i can't get into streaming idk why. i'll watch a highlights vid on yt but i can't just hangout and listen to donations roll in i don't watch the kinds of streams where that's a thing, but yeah i mostly watch youtube uploads of stuff because being able to rewind is key
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# ¿ Oct 18, 2020 23:48 |
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hey y'all it's monday so you know what time it is time to wait for dough to rise on the clock LawfulWaffle posted:I passed my exam. Big sigh of relief. Now I’m standing in a huge line to cast my vote hell yeah
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2020 20:13 |
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 07:41 |
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Zushio posted:Also Snowboard Kids 2. finally someone's talking some sense here the runner's up, for those curious, are kirby air ride and sonic racing transformed. mario kart 8 receives an honorable mention
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2020 23:52 |