pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 6h1, I think 2 is still a relatively unusual clear in our sphere 110
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 6hstrong temptation to post the get a load of my sweet 3x3 meme replaced with final fight, metal slug, garegga, etc. and add the caption "we are dangerously close to someone posting this unironically, and the only way you can get ahead of it is by playing crazy taxi" 4100
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 6hfirst off, congrats on moving out! and if you'd like some help setting up something with hugo (site generator), lmk 000
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 6hat the 20 hour mark in elevator action hardest and it's occurring to me that I did exactly what I didn't want to do lol (dive into another longer 1cc) 050
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 9htrying writing a paragraph a day... though I accidentally wrote two paragraphs today lol 070
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 10hcaught up on this earlier this year and was patiently waiting for about a volume and a half of chapters to get translated and now it's about to end all of the sudden 😭 anime adaptation early next year for those interested tho 050
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 05/10/2026definitely agreed, and something I need to explore further (along with daytona 2) 010
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 04/10/2026birthbydrip.neocities.org/reviews/illb...birthbydrip.neocities.orgbirthbydrip - Illbleed 053
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 04/10/2026october means it's time to tuck into some horror games, I'm kicking it off with the dreamcast's late-era theme park oddity Illbleed. the trap detection is much less robust than it initially appears, but the designers thankfully hedge on it, focusing on bizarre setpieces instead. link below! 12310
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 04/10/2026which in a lot of cases is nbd: it's good to have scaffolding levels of clear difficulty in an arcade game imo, but then there's also not much you're getting out of a rhythm game if you "clear" it by playing three songs on a credit for a fighting game if you 1cc vs cpu mode with one broken move 010
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 04/10/2026yea exactly, like the currently climate around 1ccs is to get people to engage at all with them (which is a good thing), but to make that newcomer-friendly there hasn't been much of a conversation on whether certain 1ccs "matter more" than others 110
Reposted by pangCass (makes games) @cassmakesgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026New Blog Post: Why I Love Unfair Traps in Arcade Games People usually dislike hard memo traps in arcade games, or at best think they're "not that bad". I love them, though, and I think arcade games would be worse without them. Here's why: duckberet.com/blog/i-like-... (game: Violent Storm) 16217103
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 04/10/2026nex machina veteran or master would be perfect for that tbh (I've only ever done experienced 1cc) 000
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 04/10/2026also would help establish equivalency when a traditional 1cc doesn't cut it, since putting a literal credit into iidx and finishing a session is very different than clearing final fight on a single credit 060
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 04/10/2026like final fight, garegga, and tap are shoe-ins. other genres it's harder (like maybe 5th or 6th dan for iidx? 7th if the safari is considered an essential rite of passage). dunno for racing either... maybe daytona expert? and fgc is hard bcs skill isn't demonstrated via clears 3110
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 04/10/2026it would take forever to reach a consensus but it would be cool to have a list of like, prestige clears/achievements to have across arcade genres. not necessarily the hardest shit but stuff that demonstrates a high level of interest and fundamental skill in a given genre 3150
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 04/10/2026also every log/review you've seen me make for a iidx game I never made it past 11s and in some cases not even 10s 😂 so you're fine to just drop it whenever 010
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 04/10/2026I don't really view the games as individual entities, it's sorta like seasons of a live service game. so engage as much as you like and then tap out imo 110
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 04/10/2026he really does drop insane knowledge in youtube comments that like 10 people ever see 😭 010
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 04/10/2026it was truly, truly abysmal lol, made me go back to the original to see if it still held up (it definitely did, thankfully 040
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 03/10/2026was literally just telling @lorddarias.bsky.social about this game yesterday lol, treasure's secret best beat-em-up! 061
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 03/10/2026illbleed really is the missing ktp game: preoccupation with violence, interacting with the artifice of the game space, giving characters a name with a -man suffix... 051
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 03/10/2026I'm not playing anything at all arcade-wise atm so it's sorta wishful thinking... needed a break from elevator action because I was tilting too much 030
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 03/10/2026on the other hand several people I know have crossed the $40k barrier, so while I still have a pretty nice buffer I know eventually someone is gonna come out of the woodwork and encroach on my score 😂 and I wanna get ahead of that 130
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 03/10/2026what's nice is that the next big improvement (optimizing score on the granny pickup) is something you do in the first 10 minutes so I can reset early and then get at least over $70k relatively quickly. but that's still gonna be a 75+ minute run 😭 130
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 03/10/2026the prospect of going back to crazy taxi to push towards $100k is looming and I'm dreading it a bit. the idea that I used to play two 90 minute sessions every day (once in the morning, once in the evening) is so insane to me now. purely a product of my grad school schedule lol 2110
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 03/10/2026congrats! are you thinking of going for crazy license? 100
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 02/10/2026next time you reply here, you come heavy (pds analysis on your site) or not at all... 040
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 02/10/2026it's funny bcs playing illbleed rn I've mostly been surprised by how much less outside of the survival horror box it is than I thought it would be (although it's still cool in its own right) 110
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 02/10/2026... I play a jrpg," and I definitely fall in the latter camp lol. I enjoy them here or there but I've played enough to know that it's excruciatingly rare that one of these combat systems will actually elevate the overall conceptual experience for a 10+ hour runtime 140
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 02/10/2026by this point I'm willing to play every rpg at 2x speed and then grade on a curve. there's two paths you can go down in this critical sphere: "jrpgs are the worst genre ever and I hate them" or "wizardry-derivative combat is a flawed textural form but I don't need to relitigate that every time... 140
Reposted by pangLAKESPIRIT @lakespirit.love · 02/10/2026lakespirit.love/posts/2026-1... NEW ARTICLE!! STREETS OF RAGE 2, FINAL FIGHT, THE FLOOR, THE CEILING LETS TALK BEAT EM UP FUNDAMENTALS i establish a basis thru the latter, and get into the nuances thru the former. its a long one!! intended to inspire curiosity 138454
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 02/10/2026I'm playing saga at 2x speed and briefly had the original thought so you're in good company 😂 020
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 02/10/2026*playing jrpg at x2 speed* why are the random encounters so frequent in this game?? 8502
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 02/10/2026yeah just off of the LCs it was pretty clearly higher acceleration.. fov aside 110
Reposted by panghelena @yagihimesama.bsky.social · 02/10/2026[no audio] not quite empirical evidence but i just wanted to get some more footage of wallstuck gena on the naomi version. might try the steam version sometime soon but i feel it'll handle almost identically to dreamcast 172
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 02/10/2026I have my FIL's modded psx from the Philippines and instead of playing it upside-down to make ff8's battle loads not take 45 seconds each I switched to mister. so maybe part of my soul is missing... dreamcast is different though 020
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 01/10/2026I think the idea is that it was released in a sort of gossipy way, which I get. but also people using the messenger being a red scare fan or whatever to discredit the crime when there's documentary evidence is pretty insane 230
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 01/10/2026this is good to know, I'll need to load it up on flycast and feel out the changes 110
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 01/10/2026luckily gdemu knockoffs are cheap but I sorta wanted to wait until official ones came back... if they ever do (haven't checked recently) 110
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 01/10/2026we're at the point with my dreamcast now where I'm having to warm up the laser for 5 minutes or so before it'll read anything 😔 I should've hopped on gdemu 3180
pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 30/09/2026on one hand that's the kind of snappy article hook that would turn some heads in the spaces that care about it but also like... why use their methods lol 020
