There was a narrow window for me and jRPGs(I know there is some argument over this term being used to other Japanese RPGs, but as a wRPG hater I only mean this as a term of endearment). From barely being able to parse Final Fantasy 1 by the end of the NES's life, to burning out on jRPGs on Xenogears. I tried to play Final Fantasy IX after that, but by that point I was burnt out and broken.

By the time, Final Fantasy 5 was available as a part of the PSX Final Fantasy Anthology(Trul...

Blogging as I go has definitely left me without games for a year end wrap up. How fortunate for me that my friend Ash put a paid copy of UFO 50 in front of my steam library, destroying my next month and giving me more games to talk about than I've had in years.

Mossmouth's incredible collection of games, framed as a recovered and cracked archival anthology for a fictional computer system(the LX-III), overachieves in every way. UFO 50 could be half as good, with none of the best games I'm going...

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I saw this done a few places and tried to do it myself, but most of the solutions were too complicated. Not in terms of code, but just... dependencies, and build systems, and whatever. I wanted something dirt simple that someone could embed on a neocities page if they wanted, and modify without the need of setting anything complicated up.

So this is a simple script where you pass in a thread as an at:// prot...

I hate the term Backtracking.

I can't stop people for using it. I can't even blame them for using it. It's an insidious term, coined by my generation, in the early days of gaming. Because of its age, it's almost inescapable. With its age, it also carries a lot of baggage... Assumptions from an older time. These assumptions weren't ever correct, but they've grown increasingly more misguided as time has passed.

Backtracking is a term that's almost always said with contempt. Even when peop...