I've never played a Devil May Cry game because I assumed it was a "you have to be good at combos" game but turns out you can play on easy! Who knew?!
I'm sat here playing Devil May Cry 5 and it's so camp and over the top I LOVE IT!
The cover image for The Strange Scaffold Cool Things Club. It features the Strange Scaffold Logo, which is a cube held up by, surprisingly, some scaffolding that adds a strange connection to the shape. The cube is now made of wood with moss and small planets growing on it. A sleeping rabbit sits on the top right corner, while a cute little bird looks down from the top left. A fox sits in the bottom left, smiling. There are also the logos for Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and Amazon Music.
The text art the top of this square says "This Month..." and features pictures representing the Cool Things discussed on the show this month. Top left you see the poster for the Netflix show The Devil's Plan, which shows multiple contenstants looking towards the camera as dice fall around them. To the right of that is a screenshot from the Kairosoft game Dream Town Story, which features a pixel art city and a piece of text that says "James Shan got a treasure! They now have 58!". Below that is the album cover for Ziltoid the Omniscient, which features a Skeksis like creature wearing a cape, holding a cup of coffee and pointing a finger to the air as if he is making a point. This is drawn like a comic book. And to the left of that is a screenshot from the anime May I Ask For One Final Thing? This image features a person in a red dress, wearing studded leather gloves, punching a suited man in the face. People behind them are shocked but this guy totally deserves it.
Episode 8 of The Strange Scaffold Cool Things Club, our podcast, is OUT NOW!
This month @writnelson.bsky.social, Candace and @chrisslight.bsky.social are joined by @composerkirk.bsky.social to discuss
👹 The Devil's Game
☕ Ziltoid The Omniscient
🧤 May I Ask For One Final Thing?
🏙️ Kairosoft Games
I had to read it twice but fuck me, this is wonderful!
Google, mate, I gave up caring about my birthday beyond "I'm so old" years ago. If I tried to "start the celebration" I'm unlikely to do it in the middle of a shared work document.
"Maybe we can change the wording on this to "oh wow, Chris, it's your birthday next week?! We should do something!""
It really is "the special sauce" that both of us can bring to any work place.
Oh god yeah, the idea that we could make a whole system was like "oh there would never be the time"
The Sound of a Generation.
I was in a meeting with @wilsonmj.bsky.social, seven years ago in a break room, where a bunch of us got together with the idea "hey, Meow Wolf D&D would be cool. Maybe that?" and Michael has carried that torch to this day.
Go check it out!
I was just about to reply with a "and for the folks watching at home, we first had a meeting about this seven years ago! Art takes TIME!"
From the break room in the old rentals building meeting of "hey, Meow Wolf D&D?" to now and I still think it's an amazing idea. Can't wait!
Working on the next Strange Scaffold Newsletter (which you can subscribe to over on strangescaffold.com) reminded me that in the last one (written by the amazing @christapaolucci.com) I wrote segment that it made sense for me to make this image.
Put the clothes horse away! Assure the dryer part of the washer dryer that it's entering its holidays because...
It's the First Full Wash On The Line Day for the washing line, people!
100% buying it. I've already headbutted a dwarf to impress an orc and I'm having an amazing time!
Oh fuck this is very good...
This game could not get a better write up! Downloading NOW!
See this is where I know I'm not doing it right by turning all voice chat off, that's like, the thing of these games! I've just never been an open chat person so it's a terrifying world of silence for me!
I hid in a toilet until I was Found. I don't think I can live the extraction life as a solo player.
Finally getting to play some Next Fest demos (recommendations very welcome) and currently enjoying Outbound.
Tiny "Jalopy is one of my favourite games" quibbles aside (I'd love to do things like turn the campers headlights off) it's pretty nice!
"Roadberries" sure sounds like a euphemism, mind.
Fuck this. Both Eurogamer and Outside Xbox are doing brilliant work.
See this tracks in that I've never really enjoyed a Zelda other than Breath of the Wild.
I was gonna say don't force yourself if you don't enjoy it but it took me three starts to get into the Horizon games and now Forbidden West is an all timer for me.
A capture of a Steam Review for Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator. Text reads... "Recommended. 4.5 hrs on record. Posted 18 February Short that f***ing baby. Short it. FEEL BLISS UPONG ITS ENDLESS FAILURE. LAMENT ITS SUCCESS. THIS IS YOUR PURPOSE.
Some Steam reviews for Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator are unhinged in a very in-universe way.
(For real, thank you all so much, every review helps more folks see the game and still make a huge difference for developers)
The Killing Stone is OUT NOW in Early Access
🃏 Occult Card Battler
👺 17th Century Occult Horror Mystery
📖 Modern and 17th Century English
🎙️ Starring @emmagregoryvoice.bsky.social & @voiceofobrien.bsky.social
Can you beat the Devil at his own game?
store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/
A screenshot from the game The Killing Stone. It features two language selections, Modern and Period English. The lexicon of the dialogue changes, along with basic sentence structure.
ok this language option in The Killing Stone is really neat and honestly a point of replayability for me.
Today is the day of days. The Killing Stone has released in Early Access on Steam!
The Svangårds await your arrival in Våkenatt where they rot under the weight of a dark inheritance. Are you ready? Do you have what it takes to beat the Devil?
store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...
I feel like each year I'm just waiting for it to have been long enough!
The Killing Stone releases in Early Access this Wednesday, February 18. Tell your deck-builder friends, your odd associates, your word nerds and gothic horror fans to get ready, it's almost time to beat the devil.
Wishlist on Steam and join the countdown. store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...
PVP is optional (I think both parties have to shoot at each other) but there are rewards. You'll become wanted and the whole map can see you. I remember it being fun but I've not encountered it.
It feels like a community that really wants you to stick around play the game they love.
There are lots of boxes dotted around (you can make your own at your camp) that are simply donation boxes aimed at higher players.
Visiting someone's camp I found lots of machines I could just take things from. Is this stealing? No! I was assured it's deliberate and they want you to have them.
I got a power armour frame, stimpacks, a nifty hat and a friendly wave from them as I left.
This is incredibly common in my experience. People see I'm a low level character (now 31 seeing an average of 500) and wave, then drop a little bag of gifts on the floor.
Fallout 76, a game with systems designed to encourage self reliance and PVP, is an incredibly sharing and peaceful community.
I started a new character, my 2020 run lost to a Bethesda launcher, and as soon as I left the vault found three high level characters waiting to greet and give gifts.
If the developers themselves are Of Note I'd say yes. Otherwise I'd say probably wait for a game.
