obviously also doesn't include the 8.5m grind in rayforce or any other score/speedrun project done this year.

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hate it when this happens

mml3, yes, but also battlezone 3 and freespace 3. Careful what you wish for though because we finally got a tribes 3 a couple years ago and it's, uh, unfinished for lack of a better word.

dressing up as the Galileo atmospheric probe for Halloween

both games are pretty well-liked imo (certainly I like them both quite a bit). This is just normal in-group vs out-group stuff where the crossover hit doesn't fully align with the community consensus

I don't miss the work of foodservice even a little bit (and I miss a Cook's pay even less) but holy shit do you ever get to *know* your coworkers in a kitchen way beyond any other industry I've seen

Both of these would be learn-by-doing because I'm a lazy bastard who doesn't make tutorials but I humbly submit Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt and Front Mission Gun Hazard as fun-ass speedgames that are alternately very short (under 20 minutes) and somewhat long (just under 3 hours)

You could do worse than Ikaruga as a starting point for scoreplaying, to be honest! It may be a perfectionism trap for compulsive optimizers but the scoring is really intuitive, easy to practice and not as punishing of chain breaks as something like Dodonpachi.

trying to capture the spirit of your LRT there

tragically, treasure never actually made a good shmup

(translator's note: "good shmup" means "in the poster's personal top 10 of all time")