Utterly Mad

Still hoping for a lead on Vietnamese Crystal. Meanwhile, still got that Metroidf 2 remake zipped up somewhere, because no telling w hen it might get fucked in the ass by Nintendo.

And meanwhile in DF...played a reptile man, bringing with me a pair of fellow scalybutts. We're on a pilgrimage from our humble village to a human settlement on the other corner of the continent, purging any lair we find along the way.

Our first hunt went just fine, shanking a feral ogress to death and making gear from her bones and skull. Also handed off some feral ogre tooth and nail darts to the blowgunner. Then we had a lair with a...treant. "A towering creature formed of living wood, single-minded in its hatred of industry and artifice. Not even the elves are safe from its wrath."

Slew the bastard without issue, but my blowgunner ally was badly mauled, missing her entire left arm and leg. Dlostayrbin soon bled to death. A pyre we built, for her and the three other corpses the treant left laying in the wild around it.

Then a dire wolf arrived, apparently attracted by the pyre. It was slain as well, and soon we struck our next lair. I ordered my remaining ally to wait outside, so if needed I could lure it outside and ensure he doesn't join the fight until after the beast is hobbled. It was a lesser dragon, and I managed to slay it easily on my own.

The real boss is the pool of lava to the right of the door.

What is the DEAL with this room? First you need super missile for the door. Then the wall inside it needs a power bomb. Then the wall behind THAT is a speed booster wall. But there's not enough space to get a run-up, so you apparently have to do some shinespark magic by getting speed in the room before it. So you have to somehow get speed up in the first room, store it long enough to reach the second room, lay a power bomb (fucking power bomb blocks aren't one-time-only), then shinespark through the second wall.

Not even a power bomb or energy tank is worth this level of insanity.

Flying clam things. Fucking bane of my existance. Being able to fry them right through their flappy shell wing things, now that i have the plasma beam? Glorious.

That sounds fucking fantastic

The banjo games were good.
cept nuts and bolts. Not that it's shitty, just that it really shouldn't be a banjo game.

They introduced a new mechanic to salem a couple days ago.

Hypothermia. One of the veteran players pissed off one of the developers by exploiting a flaw in the system (the current season hadn't updated it's temp due to the timing of the patch) to make a bunch of capes and criticizing the system, so the developer in question dropped the server temperature as low as it would go. Many noobs died, but the above pictured gent was rescued by the efforts of another player and I. It's actually a decent system, as long as you can get some shoes on your feet before the cold takes you. Shoes make a big difference.

Meanwhile in Dwarf Fortress, I'm trying to figure out how to resolve a developing conflict between humans and amphibian men.

Thunder dome is the only solution.