welcome! been watching your videos for a couple of months. really enjoy your channel!!
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Enjoy the D&D! If youāre DMing, then donāt forget that everyone is there for a good time, and itās alright to make mistakes!
I ran a Halloween oneshot on Saturday and it was a total blast. I was quite rusty and a bit nervous, so I always tell myself to just chill and have fun with it.
Thanks for pointing me that direction! Shared a piece over there. Hopefully people like the kind of stuff I enjoy drawing.
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welcome!!
seconding (or maybe thirding) julietteās videos, very well done
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Hi IC, Iām nate. Been listening for a couple years now. Iām relatively active in some actionbutton Discord threads, where I learned about this podcast. Wanted to show support for the show and check out the forums a bit, so here I am!
Between work and family, I donāt have as much time to actually play video games as I once did, but enjoying consuming media about them and pondering about them still. I probably spend more time customizing and modifying hardware and playing with software tools than actually playing games 
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The most fun I have gaming these days is from playing games with my daughter, or playing weird games/rom hacks on the mister.
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hi, i was thinkin i was actually playing in attract mode so a mod kindly told me to get some coins & insert credit here
well, i selected the 36/m/cali pixie type dude. he gets + str buff when heās holding the guitar and my usual strategy is to spam extra joy on the boss. this is a link to some game covers from almost 10 years ago. i was planning on doing snake eater and the SH3 theme also back then.
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Welcome!! I am loving seeing all the new faces on the forum!
@nate this place loves its MISTers ā feel free to drop any reccs that your kids liked for the other cool parents at the Insert Credit Jr topic!
@thelonius.punk you arenāt lying about being a guitaroo man! Weāve got a whole thread to share stuff you made and you can also post your stuff in our video game covers thread!!
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Hello! Iāve been digging around the internet looking for a message board to participate in and figured I would give this one a shot. Also starting to listen to the podcast. Been gaming for 30 years, primarily play on PC now coupled with the Steam Deck and pumped for the Switch 2 to be announced so I can be excited for a console again!
I love RPGs, action adventure games, rhythm games and open world occasionally.
My top five are:
- Resident Evil 2 ('98)
- Mega Man X
- Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
- Dark Souls Remastered
- Earthbound
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Welcome! Thatās a rock-solid list. Iām pretty sure each game has itās own respective thread, but Iāll shout out the Megaten thread because itās a cool thread that could use more cool people. I can tell youāre cool because Strange Journey and Soul Hackers are the ones the cool kids always like.
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Thank you, Iāll definitely check it out! Soul Hackers is my favorite game on the 3DS lol
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Hey welcome, Iām new too and have a similar vibe, I think. Quick question though, have you played Mother? If so did you use a guide?
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Hi! Yes Iāve played all three Mother games, and yes, I think I did have to use a guide for Mother. I generally try not to use a guide unless I am really stuck or trying to complete something and need a push in the right direction.
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Iām the same way. The last time I used a guide was my friend telling me what to do in Silent Hill 2 over the phone like that MTV Fear show. Lol. I am super stuck in a Mother 1 labyrinth and I suspect I got somewhere too early. Iām sure you can guess which part. Should i use a guide or stay stuck?
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Same exact place I got stuck. I would say use a guide, rip off the band-aid and get on with a fantastic game.
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Thank you so much!
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Fuck yeah, you spell Sean the same and right way too!
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A little reminder that you can introduce yourself here if youāre new to the forum - which quite a few people are. So welcome, say hello and share something or four cool about you!
Happy posting =)
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Hi all, Iām Oscar. I live in Australia, and try my best to spend my time making music and games. Iām an absolute glut for videogame history and love learning about as many games as I can. My profile picture is the aussie golfer from Neo Turf Masters (Neo Geo Pocket Colour) cause he looks a lot like me lol.
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But donāt feel pressured to. I never introduced myself in this thread, and I lead a full, productive life.
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Hi! Itās me, Ash. Guess since I am an official member of the crew now I should formally introduce myself. Yall have gotten a pretty good idea of who I am over the handful of times Iāve been on the show: monsterfucker, fanfiction writer, horny video game journalist extrodinaire. The broad strokes. While the monsterfucker appellation is relatively recent, the other two are directly related to each other and in that exact order. As I mentioned briefly during this weekās podcast after being deeply unhappy with my life and career, I decided to pursue writing about video games as I felt writing was the only real marketable talent I had that inspired any passion in me (something I learned through decades of writing fanfic.)
I went to school in Indiana. Purdue University. I didnāt handle college very well because of ADHD / Autism spectrum disorder ā something that wasnāt diagnosed in me until maybe 2 years ago (because of the general underdiagnosis of those disorders in the Black community especially women.) The anxiety that manifested because I went from being at the top of my class at a rigorous high school to barely being able to function in college meant that I had to leave Purdue on academic suspension. I didnāt have words for what was wrong with me and the general attitudes in the Black community (especially with Boomers because my mother was born in 1960) at the time meant that when I did get kicked out of college it was attributed to some sort of character defect instead of a mental one. I was shipped off to live with my Dad until my academic suspension was over when I was supposed to return. But, in the pain and embarrassment of essentially being told to āfuck offā by my mom, I did not return.
And thatās how I wound up in Ohio. I finished school at Cleveland State University with a degree in History. I did a stint in City Year (an Americorps program, think Teach For America) in the middle of that which made me want to be a high school teacher. Though teaching is a noble profession, signing up for it consigns your life to poverty wages and I struggled a lot during school and didnāt want that for myself in life. All during this time, I met the person who was my first husband. After finishing school, I got a job working at the US HQ of a Canadian engineering company. It was a good, stable job, with good pay, and benefits. Essentially the perfect job for someone either later in life or someone with little schooling who has a family to provide and care for. It was a place you go where you do nothing of note or interest that will take care of you until you die/retire. And I felt that every day I worked there. Then I would go home to a partner who ascribed to nothing more than the four walls of our shitty one bedroom apartment and meals of literally Hot Ham Water (and rice) from Arrested Development.
Around 2016, that life became untenable to me. Trump became president and life got a little Sunday Scary. I figured (as I said during the podcast) if I was to die right now, I could not do it having done so little with my life. So I blew everything to smithereens. I got a divorce. I moved out with nothing but my corgi Ein and my PS4 and turned to writing.
I taught myself how freelancing worked, started pitching to places and very slowly but surely started building the chops Iād need to get a full time job. I used to write regularly for gamepedia.com which eventually became subsumed by fandom.com. I used to write weekly recaps of the first season of the Overwatch Leauge when I thought a specialization in esports would be what would help me get/keep a job at a time when video game journalist jobs were hard to come by let alone keep (IMAGINE THAT LMAO!) I also used to freelance for Minecraft.com making a princely ass sum of like $250-300 per post. (Seriously, they threw money at me, it was great.) All that parlayed into getting a full-time position at Kotaku after at least 2 or 3 applications/interviews over the years. Forgot to add: after about a year with them, a former G/O colleague who worked for Gizmodo asked me if Iād like to work with her at The Verge and after hemming and hawing about it (I really didnāt want to leave because I thought working at a non-Kotaku place wouldnāt let me write the way I want to with all my weird, horny proclivities) I said yes and thatās where Iāve been for 3 years now.
All while this was happening, I met my now current husband Travis (who I am aware I talk about a lot on the podcast and Iāll try to reign that in a little better). We met in 2018 and got married in 2022. We bought a house in Akron and a week ago we got a new corgi puppy that I named after my favorite historical animal Alexander the Greatās horse Bucephalus or simply Bu. And thatās it. Thatās all the Ashley lore you get right now. If you improve your social links by liking and subscribing to the podcast wherever fine podcast products are sold you may get more. Orā¦you can just ask here, on Discord/Twitter/Blusky @adashtra.
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