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7) Arknoah (Era of Myth games) what can I say, she's got the cool shark teeth, she's nothing but helpful all the time, and most importantly her theme music's awesome

Arknoah from the Era of Myth games, seen here in Atline.

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6) Columbo (Columbo) feels more than a little silly to be putting this guy on a list that so far has pretty much just been doujin eroge heroines, but he really is as entertaining as people make him out to be

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5) Yui (Succubus Academia) I mean, there's a reason I made her my icon. a very fun character in general, with an awesome gimmick that's *absolutely* worth seeing

Yui in Succubus Academia (here listed as "Occult Girl" because I haven't named her yet in this playthrough)

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4) Alma Elma (Monster Girl Quest) sexy, badass, and basically one of the best takes on a succubus around

Alma Elma from Monster Girl Quest (here seen in Paradox)

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 9h

3) Mari (Nightmare Girls, Lily Knight Saga, maybe some other Tsukinomizu Project games I haven't played yet) look, sometimes you just end up really rooting for a secondary couple, you know what I mean?

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2) Kotatsu Dragon (Zakuzaku Actors) what can I say, she's friggin' *Kotatsu Dragon*

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 9h

1) Auris (SEQUEL colony) legit one of the best character arcs I've ever seen for an RPG protagonist, and she still gets a lot of great comedy moments

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 21h

one fascinating thing this remaster does is it keeps the arte names from the original TL (so, for instance, you have Sonic Blade and Demon Hammer instead of Demon Fang and Tiger Blade) no idea why they did it that way but it is an Interesting choice

cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 22h

don't you start this too Reid, seriously why do I keep running into JRPG protagonists with silly ideas about what to eat this year

Reid in Tales of Eternia, examining a sculpture of an eagle: "Huh. Wonder if this is edible..."

Kitty-tama @kittytama.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

immediately hearing Infinity Mijinion's theme in my head as though I'd just been playing yesterday

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

also now that I think about it I should probably mention that the theme for this area's a bop cresdot.bandcamp.com/track/moonli...

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Moonlight Steps, by Cres.

from the album SUCCUBUS DESIRE ～リリスプロジェクト～オリジナルサウンドトラック

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

wasn't expecting to get thrown into a good old-fashioned maze here. at least the path to the boss is straightforward enough...

A map made in Obsidian showing a door maze in Lilith Project. Many of the rooms in the maze are identical to each other, several areas loop in on each other, none of the connections are entirely logical, and I haven't even mapped the whole thing out here.

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

fucking hell, I don't even know what to say. you've got my sympathy for sure

Cursed Jeblike Dollthing @namelesswrench.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

latest bad idea I've had: wrestling tag team named Brother Dude and Brother Jack

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'd just like to make it clear exactly *how* much this boss theme blindsided me after several hours of wandering around a gloomy abandoned research facility cresdot.bandcamp.com/track/impulse

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iMpUlSe, by Cres.

from the album SUCCUBUS DESIRE ～リリスプロジェクト～オリジナルサウンドトラック

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this was like the third or fourth time I've been through this scenario, but only the first time I knew enough Japanese to mostly understand what was going on still wowed by just how much effort went into this prologue/tutorial

The start of the credits for Lilith Project's trial mode (a short combination tutorial/self-contained prequel story).

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I am going to play the newly fan-translated Spectral Tower on the PSX. I want to climb towers. ... Also I'm apparently halfway to partner. Th-that's scary.. www.twitch.tv/fioraalmater

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

taking another shot at DQ7 and I'm immediately blindsided by a reminder of how silly the contractions in old JRPG translations could get

The status screen in Dragon Quest 7 (original) for the protagonist, who I've named Gregor. He's given the title of FisherSon, which is pretty obviously a contraction of "Fisherman's Son".

Maribel's status screen, which gives her the title of FishDghtr (presumably "Fisherman's Daughter").

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

look, obviously adventure game heroes aren't exactly the most moral people around not a lot of them *feed a random beggar methylated spirit in the first real puzzle of the game*

cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

been rewatching the Mystery of the Druids run from BBG 2023 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdZR...) fascinating to remind myself of just how horrible Halligan really is

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean, given how obvious some of the stuff Sun Tzu wrote about feels when it apparently needed to be written down...

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

one time Siembieda wrote a class that needs a *17* on a 3d6. and he's not even alone there because AD&D 2e hit paladins with that shit

cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A good way to see the issue mentioned there in action is to read Rifts books, because Kevin Siembieda can't comprehend dice probability but has sometimes employed people who do

The introduction to the Super-Spy class in Rifts Mercenaries (written by C.J. Carella, who has some understanding of normal distribution), a spy with superpowers of some sort. The minimum stat requirements (rolled 3d6 down the line) are one specific attribute at 11, one at 10, and one at 12, which is hardly guaranteed but should happen often enough.

The introduction to the Safecracker class from the same book (written by Kevin Siembieda, who has no idea how normal distribution works), a class that's supposedly about cracking safes (but doesn't have the Safecracking skill...). The stat requirements include one at 10 and two others at 14 each, which will almost never happen. Also features a rant about good-aligned safecrackers never using their powers for personal gain because we really needed that.

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There have been two occasions in my career where I had to go to war with teammates against mistaken understandings of probability. In both cases, it was because people expected large numbers of d6s to occasionally result in maximum damage. But the curves for 3d6 and 15d6 (e.g.) look like this:

Two curves showing the distribution of results across 3d6 and 15d6. At the extreme ends of the first, 3 and 18 are both 0.46% likely. On the second curve, the extremes are 15 and 90 damage, but the probability drops below 0.00% below 29 and above 76.

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the game I'm playing has healing done by this chain of miko cafes that inexplicably has locations everywhere so naturally there's one in the middle of this undersea tunnel dungeon

A door in a dungeon in Lily Knight Saga, with a sign above it for "巫女喫茶ＫＩＹＯＴＡＭＡ" ("Miko Cafe Kiyotama").

Inside the cafe in question, which looks remarkably normal for being in the middle of a dungeon (and, as the name suggests, is run entirely by miko). I'm talking to the miko at the entrance, who greets me with "いらっしゃいませ！巫女喫茶キヨタマ海底店にようこそー！" ("Welcome to Miko Cafe Kiyotama, seabed location!")

Purchasing a てんぷら串 (tempura skewer) at the cafe.

Kitty-tama @kittytama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

citation needed on certain parts of that nametag

A character in Lily Knight Saga whose dialogue nametag refers to her as "謎の鎧少女" ("Mysterious armored girl").

Her portrait clearly shows that what she's actually wearing is a rather skimpy set of hot pink bikini armor.

cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm pretty sure I'd seen Paris Chase before this but it's still one of the silliest things around #BBG2026

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(I didn't actually choose this in my real run)

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

...I'm not sure what I expected

The description for choosing 双子宮 (Gemini) as your astrological sign of choice in Lady Knight Saga (which determines weapon type, skills, and stats). The weapon type is listed as 玩具 (toy) with a red monospaced VERY HARD in parentheses after it. The description reads: "専用のスキルが存在しない、武器とは呼べない武器。その代わり装備ごとに、様々な異なる特性を保有している。" ("Lacking any particular skills, this can hardly be called a weapon. On the other hand, the available equipment has its own particular characteristics.")

The starting weapon given by choosing the aforementioned option, the 聖騎士の玩具剣 ("Holy Knight's Toy Sword"). The description reads: "玩具メーカー　『トゥインズ』製の玩具の剣【攻+1／主人公】" ("Toy sword made by the toymaker 'Twins' [Atk+1/Protagonist]")

cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

all that's missing from this picture is for the thing to be rolling coal

something something prom night pizza #BBG2026

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...I think "some variety of experience" is the right way to describe what I just witnessed

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Big Bad Game-a-thon @bigbadgameathon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

sweet mother of fuck I was not ready for just how damn *surreal* Bubsy 3D is #BBG2026

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Big Bad Game-a-thon @bigbadgameathon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Eclipse Knight Saga was a good time, and definitely a nice detour after spending the whole year before it in the femdom mines my review: cosmicspear.dreamwidth.org/30111.html

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 24/09/2026

Oh hey, just noticed that Fantasy Maiden Wars is the cheapest its been yet. An excellent, absolutely GIGANTIC Touhou strategy-RPG in the style of the Super Robot Wars series. But with no knowledge of Touhou (it starts at the same place as the recent remaster game) or SRW required. It's just good.

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

vanessa what are you doing learning something that generic this late in the-oh.

An experience screen in Eclipse Knight Saga, showing ヴァネッサ (Vanessa) learning a skill called ダブルストライク (Double Strike) at level 45.

The description of the skill in question, showing that it does 2 hits at a power of A (on a scale which has thus far gone up to S).

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cosmicspear @cosmicspear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

there's another for the "absolute goober enemy" pile

An enemy in Eclipse Knight Saga that's a giant snowman carrying one of its eyes (which appear to be actual eyeballs) in its hand and wearing a top hat with a circular saw for a brim that appears to be leaking blood. This could probably be a decent horror monster but the artstyle makes it look silly instead.