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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 15/05/2026

why did I do this Source: Dead as Disco

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 13/12/2025

Fortnite eat your heart out (Source: PEAK + bbno$ / Ironmouse / vanillamace collab event)

Two gigantic player characters dance in the ocean next to an island.

Two gigantic player characters and two gigantic green creatures dance in the ocean next to an island.

A gigantic man looks down at the player and holds his hand out towards them.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 01/12/2025

Caves of Qud has two kinds of cybernetic implants: A. A device too small for the human eye, capable of manipulating the very fabric of reality to let you warp through space at will B. Yaoi hands

An item called a "matter recompositer", which lets you teleport to a random, explored space on the map.

An item called "giant hands", which lets you wield two-handed weapons in one hand.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 26/11/2025

Caves of Qud is by far the most wet game I have ever played

A map with a large pool of salty water and dozens of map tiles filled with streaks of a multi-color slurry of other fluids like blood, slime, and brackish water.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 26/11/2025

Came back to Caves of Qud after 10 months away. First new place I visit gives me a mace that spawns friendly clockwork beetles every time I bonk someone over the head with it. It's good to be back.

A player character is shown on a top-down grid surrounded by 21 clockwork beetles.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 23/11/2025

Truly my greatest gaming achievement. (Source: Asbury Pines)

A Steam achievement titled "Snail Lord", earned for producing ten million snails.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 05/11/2025

I just beat My Friendly Neighborhood a few days ago and wanted to mess around with some of the cheats I'd unlocked during my run. Turns out starting a new game with cheats doesn't disable achievements, and accidentally triggering the ending unlocked three achievements in the funniest order possible.

Three Steam achievements for clearing the game My Friendly Neighborhood with an A rank, an S rank, and an S rank on normal or harder difficulty respectively. The icons next to each achievement spell the word "ass".

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 19/10/2025

New favorite mall activity: find pop culture stores with a graphic tee display, look for stacks of any shirt with someone's face on them, and fold the top of the stack in such a way that it deletes their nose.

A stack of t-shirts with the face of actor Pedro Pascal on them. The top two shirts are folded in such a way that his nose is missing and no space exists between his eyes and mouth.

A stack of t-shirts with the face of Lord Farquaad from the movie Shrek on them. The top two shirts are folded in such a way that his nose is missing and no space exists between his eyes and mouth.

A stack of t-shirts with the likeness of wrestlers Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Stone Cold Steve Austin on them. The top two shirts are folded in such a way that their noses are missing and no space exists between their eyes and mouths.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 01/10/2025

Slime Rancher 2 Pro Tip: If you can successfully get a Lucky Slime zapped by a bolt of lightning, it does absolutely nothing.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 30/08/2025

This game popped up in my Discovery Queue. I know train games are notorious for their ridiculous pricing and DLC practices that put EA's treatment of The Sims to shame, but having four different editions and over $3,000 in DLC when it's not even out for another month still took me by surprise.

A Steam listing for the game Train Sim World 6, launching in approximately 4 weeks. The Standard Edition costs $50, the Deluxe Edition costs $80, and the Special Edition costs $120.

The end of a list of DLC for Train Sim World 6. The button labeled "Add all DLC to Cart" has a price tag of $3,241.72.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 11/08/2025

On today's episode of #GamingWithoutContext: Game Logic (Source: Misc. A Tiny Tale)

A dialogue box showing writing from a sign that reads "It doesn't count as stealing if it's...on the ground, all over the place, right?"

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 09/08/2025

Sometimes the pursuit of completing games requires me to do terrible, terrible things (this dialogue option was tied to an achievement because @miscatinytale.bsky.social is EVIL). You'd best believe I reloaded my save file so he could go right back to happy dancing. (Source: Misc. A Tiny Tale)

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 08/08/2025

Finally made the time to start playing Misc. A Tiny Tale and I just found out that my little guy SQUEAKS when he crouch-walks. This might just be a 10/10 game already.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 04/08/2025

I lied, I attempted that challenge again. (Source: Dead as Disco Demo)

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 02/08/2025

This is my first video shitpost, please be nice

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 22/07/2025

Got the itch to play a quick round of Word Play. Took the ABC Challenge modifier card at round one for kicks (gain bonus points if your next word contains the next letter in the alphabet), and miraculously made it all the way to Z on my first attempt. God bless refresh-heavy upgrades.

A "You Win!" stats screen for a Scrabble-style game with the following stats:

Words Spelled: 29
Perks Purchased: 11
Best Word: Zones (148 points)

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 19/07/2025

We didn't win the Arima Kinen, but we made up for it by sweeping the URA Finale on our first attempt. (Source: Umamusume: Pretty Derby)

A girl with pink hair and horse-like ears looks up happily at the camera with her arm stretched out towards it. Next to her is a big "First Place" graphic showing that she won the final race of the campaign, the URA Finale Finals.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 19/07/2025

what made me think this was a good idea

An 11 by 10 grid of thumbnails of Umamusume: Pretty Derby video clips.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 19/07/2025

Dead as Disco when importing a song: "120 ~ 200 BPM for best results" Dead as Disco at 240 BPM:

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 19/07/2025

So Mabinogi added this webpage popup that tells you how many hours you've played the game (a stat that's never been fully accessible before), and uh...yeah, that makes sense. Now I just need MapleStory to do this too so I calculate exactly how much of my life Nexon has taken from me over the years.

An excerpt from a letter that reads "Thank you for spending so long with us in Erinn. I heard you have spent 4372 hours and 27 minutes in Erinn to date. It warms my heart to know how much you've always loved Erinn, and to think of you continuing your journey."

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 17/07/2025

We made it to the URA Finals after blowing all my retries in the semifinals, and Vodka decides that using her skills during the race is BORING and that it would be COOLER if she just wasted them at the last second. I guess she was right, though, because she still won and got me my third Finals win.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 16/07/2025

Pictured: the Umamusume subreddit being very normal about the upcoming Kitasan Black support card banner, which is apparently a very good card. I laugh now, but I'm probably going to dump all my free carats into it and get nothing as payback, lol.

Three posts from the Umamusume forum on the website Reddit. Each one is pretending to perform an ancient ritual of good luck by using a jumbled mess of symbols made to mimic hieroglyphs interspersed with English statements like "Kitasan Black" and "Support Card".

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 16/07/2025

Let it be known that the game really did not want her to win this career. I had to redo the qualifiers because of this, but thankfully she got first place in the runback and made it all the way through the finals. Clearly the Winning Equation cannot be stopped.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 16/07/2025

Biwa Hayahide's Winning Equation turns the eighth favorite into a first place winner and nets me my second URA Finals gold. (Source: Umamusume: Pretty Derby)

A girl with glasses and horse-like ears looks towards the camera with a slightly annoyed expression. Next to her is a big "First Place" graphic showing that she won the final race of the campaign, the URA Finale Finals.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 15/07/2025

"Aaah! A horse!", cried the horse. (Source: Umamusume: Pretty Derby)

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 14/07/2025

I'm clipping every scream and funny scream-adjacent noise I hear in Umamusume and creating a giant compilation of them to post when I finally wind down from playing. Below is a brief sample of this ridiculous endeavor. You might be wondering "Why are you doing this?", and that's a great question.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 12/07/2025

I almost cackled after hitting the fast-forward button. I know these story mode races are supposed to be easy so the story is accessible, but this was just mean. It's like putting Usain Bolt against a high school track team—and my Gold Ship is only C+ Tier! (Source: Umamusume: Pretty Derby)

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 12/07/2025

@Cygames Please let me hug my small and sad adopted part-horse child I beg of you (Source: Umamusume: Pretty Derby)

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 11/07/2025

Gold Ship all I said was for you to take the day off, why are you beating up Super Creek (Source: Umamusume: Pretty Derby)

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 11/07/2025

Gold Ship, you can just ask me to go places with you. I promise I don't need to be sacked and trundled. (Source: Umamusume: Pretty Derby)

A visual novel text log between the unnamed player character and a girl named Gold Ship.

Player says: "I hear something curious on my way home."

Gold Ship says: "Blip! Blip! Blip! We've got a bogey! I repeat: we've got a bogey! Team Golshi, deploy immediately! Roger! Let's go, Trainer! Boo-yah!"

Player says: "And with that, she promptly stuffs me into a burlap sack and trundles me off..."

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 11/07/2025

I help her get first place in the race and this is how she repays me... (Source: Umamusume: Pretty Derby)

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 10/07/2025

BAKUSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIN (Source: Umamusume: Pretty Derby)

A girl with horse-like ears laughs proudly with her head turned up towards the sky. Next to her is a big "First Place" graphic showing that she won the final race of the campaign, the URA Finale Finals.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 10/07/2025

I'm not sure what gets me more: 1. The lyrics just being the singer repeating her own name over and over 2. The singer requesting the song on the jukebox without my input 3. Her requesting only this song and doing so multiple times 4. The fact that two people are credited for composing the lyrics

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 08/07/2025

You sure about that, buddy? (Source: Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time)

Two dialog boxes from a character named Flamel. Combined, it reads:

"KA-BOOM! Ha ha ha ha! It's just a gift, unfortunately it won't explode."

A bomb with a skull and crossbones design on it. Below is a dialog box that reads "Obtained Big Ol' Bomb!"

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 06/07/2025

I can quit now, I've already won.

A girl with pink hair, pink eyes, and pink horse-like ears waves happily at the camera. A banner below her says "Bestest Prize Haru Urara".

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 28/06/2025

Going into this, I never would have thought my biggest challenges would be tracking down a randomly-generated statue and destroying a training dummy to get a piece of corn, but here we are. Full review goes up on @jagreview.com in the next few days.

A Steam achievement listing for the game "Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time" showing 100% achievement completion. Below it is an achievement called "Dream-like Fantasy Life", which is unlocked for earning all other achievements and has a 1.8% earn rate among players.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 25/06/2025

Since I had to cut the video short to fit Bluesky's 3-minute duration limit, here's a quick clip of the final seconds because A. I want to prove that the song did in fact end with an intact combo, and B. the armored guy's funny scream at the end cracked me up and I wanted to share.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 25/06/2025

I've never been good at rhythm games, but after far too many attempts, I successfully cleared a song on the @deadasdiscogame.bsky.social demo without breaking my combo. I don't think I'll be attempting that challenge again, but I'm looking forward to trying for more S-ranks in the full release.

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 24/06/2025

I am so good at video games (I do not know what I did to make this happen). (Source: Easy Delivery Co. Demo)

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 22/06/2025

It's ME (for at least the past year) (Source: Teeto Demo)

A little blue blob critter with a raindrop-shaped head and a pair of noise-cancelling headphones sits next to a large label that says "Overstimulated Michael".

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 18/06/2025

You have no idea how happy I am to finally see her again. (Source: Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time)

A girl named Yuelia stands on top of an altar. She has long white hair tied into pigtails and is wearing a long white dress with blue and gold accents. A dialog box reads "Thank you so much! I'm finally back to my regular form!"

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