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@vysetron.pixeldie.com

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he's a weird games writer pixeldie.com or https://backloggd.com/u/Vysetron for more words bylines at BoardGameGeek, Fortress Ameritrash/There Will Be Games, Team Dignitas, and elsewhere

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 2h

Twelve Minutes is inspiring in a way, you can have the worst fucking ideas imaginable and still successfully bring them to life with contributions from top tier talent despite all good sense or taste

D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 3h

*it's awful but in a way that will leave you in awe

**literally, it thinks it's a rock opera

D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 3h

I've played so much crap on various beats but fine, self imposed pain only

tabletop: Nacho Pile, not just bc it's awful, but bc it's nigh plagiarised and a horrid version of a better game

digital: rather than go for a bad IP game might I recommend* Of Bird and Cage? it may not work, but it rocks**

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 16h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 1d

I've gone so far down the "hey this'd make a good CoC oneshot" rabbithole that my most recent was inspired by Felvidek and Police Squad, only more lethal. the lies I tell myself will only get bigger

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 2d

first clear of THL in the books

it takes an incredibly, unfathomably confident team to effectively make a 25 hour prologue and end it that way

probably not gonna update this thread that much since I am steeped in spoilers at this point, but the fact that I'm still excited should speak volumes

a screenshot of the Day 100 slide from The Hundred Line

D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 2d

we like it! it's a lot more like the ol' Chessex edition (light on art) but what they opted to include is quite good and last I checked you can get it for pretty cheap

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 2d

dude I paid sixteen whole dollars for it (with the exp) and as far as I can tell it's complete, I feel like I won the nerd lottery

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 2d

if I'd only found this I would have been satisfied! it's a great production

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 2d

I'm not normally one to say "hey check out this stuff I bought" but I don't know if I've ever thrifted board games so well before

a stack of board games on top of a gaudy halloween tablecloth

Milton Bradley Liar's Dice
Big City
Wiz-War 8th edition w/ Malefic Curses (!!!)

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 2d

I used to be a lot better, but I'll take leaving a "who the hell is D" at a new arcade and an excited "oh hey, you cleared it!" from the venue operator

D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 2d

sega blue skies never leave your brain

1st place on the leaderboard, name is just D

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 3d

counterpoint: persona 2

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 3d

about 90 days in and I can't share much for screenshots on account of spoilers, but boy this game's combat is solid

A screenshot from The Hundred Line. Shouma is firing a gigantic beam from the chest of his mech. A shitload of enemies in front of him are all taking 10 damage. This is a small numbers game - 10 is impressive I swear.

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 3d

nah it's really short, and the more engine-buildy monsters can sometimes feel cut off at the knees if they don't get off to a rocket start

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 5d

why else would anyone admit to playing a sonic game publicly

D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 5d

I'm so sorry man, hoping for a quick turnaround. best wishes to you and yours

D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 6d

between a better edition of my literal favorite board game and Hot Streak, I'm convinced that CMYK has spent the last while developing and producing games tailored exclusively to my sensibilities

D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 6d

If you told me a few years ago that I'd have an opportunity to review a new edition of Magical Athlete, I'd have called you a liar.

If you followed up by telling me it was from @cmyk.games and was perfect in every discernible way, I'd have asked who put you up to this.

pixeldie.com/2025/10/08/m...

Magical Athlete – Review

Excitedly crouched at the starting line.

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 7d

never change Kodaka fanbase

an achievement from The Hundred Line for celebrating day 69

69% of players have this achievement

technically 69.1% but come on

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 8d

also I don't know if I can heap enough praise on the localizers for taking on this massive, daunting project so successfully

there are a lot of westernizations, turns of phrase, references, etc. and they work way more often than they don't. I'm impressed!

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 8d

70-something days in and it's so glaringly obvious that we have a traitor that is making barely any effort to hide it. they're just scheming in broad daylight, machinations naked for all to see, blatant mackies

it kinda sucks but my hope is that it's an intentional lead-in to the mega route split

D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 10d

good catch! my mistake

D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 10d

I just wanted an excuse to show you that the only pipo gif I found in tenor is subbed in spanish

a computer generated image of a pipe with the words não me abandone pipo below it

Alt: overblood gif of the pipo death scene, but subtitled in spanish não me abandone pipo pipoooooooooo!

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D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 10d

the party has been expanded and we are still working with a 1 real character : 2 one-note goobers ratio

I don't...hate them all? there's one in particular (the one with the mask) who's intolerably shit, but that's obviously on purpose and I suspect they'll change their tune a bit

D @vysetron.pixeldie.com · 10d

by all means give me an excuse to become an internet hermit who only emerges to post a fully formed idea then vanish into the mountains