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Mason

@finalmasonry.bsky.social

Home arcade rat. Beat ’em up disciple. 1 coin crusader.

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Boghog@boghogstg.bsky.social · 2d ago

One of the many consequences of ppl not having a proper mental timeline of arcade games is that they miss the fact that arcades had a sort of "retro revival" wave of their own in the 90s via stuff like Namco's Arrangement games, Gradius 4, etc. similar to what we got with Megaman 9

Dumple@dumple.bsky.social · 3d ago

1cc #916: Captain Commando. Played for the 2026 Summer Yolympics - although my clear came a day too late to count for the tournament. A very fun, colorful and cartoonish game. Not so difficult once you know some of the tricks, like the throw loop on the final boss.

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Boghog@boghogstg.bsky.social · 3d ago

Been getting this type of stuff done, hopefully between all the character moveset demos I won't have to make much of a beat em up fundies tutorial

Boghog@boghogstg.bsky.social · 3d ago

Depends on whether or not the games invalide credit feeding like via Final Fight's 1cc ending, CAVE's 2nd loops/TLBs or score resets/leaderboard disqualification. So usually no but sometimes yes

Herbert@xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 6d ago

the opportunity cost of enjoying one hobby being that you can't spend that time on a different hobby is so fucked up, someone needs to fix that so I can have infinite hobby time.

Boghog@boghogstg.bsky.social · 6d ago

It makes people think about game skill as something more like talent, it makes them doubt their own ability to improve and stops them from engaging with games they might have otherwise, or on the other end it makes ppl over-focus on carryover skills and become entitled to getting *those* tested

Boghog@boghogstg.bsky.social · 6d ago

One of the most consistently damaging thought patterns among players is treating skill level as static and games as exams rather than something more like instruments. You walk in with whatever skills you had, you get tested & graded and you walk out. It leads to *a lot* of negative trends

Boghog@boghogstg.bsky.social · last wk.

Gamers will be like "play the ACTUAL GAME not the main campaign" and point you to a shitty side mode that was made in an hour on lunch break or a random cheevo

Celestio@celestiox.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just got back to back 1CC’s for Easy and Normal in Wild Guns Reloaded! (I’ll just upload the Hard clear cos the difference between these modes isn’t substantial)

‘All Clear’ screen after a 1CC of Wild Guns Reloaded.
👑TTTTTsd👑@tttttsd.bsky.social · 2w ago

In playing so much final fight I’ve come to the conclusion that a fantastic arcade title isn’t really adjacent to it being intuitive or easy to 1cc but rather how much it makes that gradient of improvement really clear and how much credits that ends up costing you

👑TTTTTsd👑@tttttsd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Learned that if you get Andore to line up with you at the top of the Z Axis he gives up using the charge attack more often than not which broke my brain. It doesn't outright prevent it but it adds so much consistency to this enemy. I tested this across multiple stages

Boghog@boghogstg.bsky.social · 2w ago

People who view lowering execution barriers as a way to create intentionality need to consider the other side of the coin - execution requirements, at least up to a certain point, is a way to build intentionality & avoid making things too intuitive & thus automatic

Willa Harlow Ross@willaharlowross.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just made it to stage 4 of FINAL FIGHT on one credit (and played it for the first time). Holy cow, big strides in progress the last few days. Once I get that double Andore fight more consistent and figure out how to control those big crowds better stage 3's really not gonna be too big of a problem.