Ms. ArmoredThirteen @ ArmoredThirteen @lemmy.ml

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Oooh, Kubo was really fun I forgot about that one. I liked it a lot

Whaaaat? I need it in my life

It's an absolute gem lol. The only secret lair I've actually gotten

Fido the fuckin zombie movie! I love zombie movies the cheesier the better

That's amazing nobody's ever seen those movies! And Sim Tower I was obsessed with that game for a long time when I was younger. Couldn't stop playing until I got everything completed and filled every empty space on the map. Fun game. I haven't heard of Sim Safari myself what was that one like?

I've been collecting rulebooks for that game for the last ten or so years. Maybe my favorite tabletop. It flows pretty smoothly if everyone is familiar with the rules but for sure even if you've been playing it for a decade you'll always hit something that's like "I have no clue how to resolve this". And the learning cliff is for real so actually getting people interested in it enough to become that familiar with the rules is as hard as the game lol

I tried not to add too many things that are just old but previously super popular, instead of niche. Time really does add obscurity though

Alright let's go, I love niche things:

Movies:

• Bubba Ho-Tep
• Joe's Apartment
• Six String Samurai
• Krull
• The Greasy Strangler
• A Boy and His Dog
• Fido
• Within the Woods
• Undead or Alive
• Cemetery Man

Tabletop:

• Car Wars (maybe, depends on crowd)
• The worlds worst diagram of ship controls included as an insert in a Paranoia box
• All Flesh Must be Eaten
• Fairy Meat
• Cult of Ecstacy (for Mage the Ascension)
• Did you know that according to Dragon Magazine players can participate in orgying for a number of days equal to their con SCORE?
• Castles and Crusades
• Tunnels and Trolls
• Remember Car Wars? They did a crossover with GURPS, called GURPS Autoduel, and it is amazing.
• HOL (Human Occupied Landfill)
• The second publication of the HOL supplement, Buttey Wholesomeness, where the cover is printed BUTTery HOLsomeness. That one was just a pita to find I started wondering if it was just a PDF concept cover. Only took me like 8 years to find a physical copy.
• Mars Attacks board game

Games:

• Sim Tower
• Redneck Rampage
• The Diablo 1 expansion, Hellfire, that Blizzard said not to make but a division of Sierra of all companies yolod it into existence anyway.
• The Neverhood
• Toy Story for Gameboy
• Battlezone, back in the day when you were fighting green triangles
• Descent
• I wasn't going to at first but I want to throw in some of my favorite Magic the Gathering cards: Nature's Wrath (haha, holy shit mono green, go home you're drunk), the art of the Pride secret vault thing for Bearscape, the art for Spy Network looks like Friend Computer from Paranoia, Kudzu, Stunted Growth

My music taste is so underground you guys I'm very cool like that. There's a surprising number of trans folk punk musicians from the Pacific Northwest. I'm getting sleepy but if anyone wants me to bombard them with folk punk artists (trans or otherwise) lmk I'll totally hook you up

"What's that?" "A hand grenade" best pun in cinematic history, un-toppable. I'm a huge Death Race fan, and CarWars, and the Twisted Metal game. Gun cars are just cool

One of the few movies I actually have a DVD of, great movie

I adore how sparkle happy this one is <3

I found out because I was talking to my partner earlier "I don't have work on Friday I'm not sure about Monday though I'll need to check" "Monday is christmas I doubt you have work" "oh..."

Depends on location too. I live in Seattle, I don't know the last time I've seen a cup for less than $6 on anything other than drip

Two things here explain this for me. One someone already mentioned I don't believe Max is one person I think he is a legendary figure that gets merged into one person as people talk about their local heroes. The other is I always viewed the first movie as one of the holdouts of old civilization. For whatever reason that region had the resources to be in a more normal state for longer. When Max fucks off into the desert he's going deeper into areas that are more desperate and have been hit harder by everything. We don't know the full landscape of everything. The bat shit stuff we seen in later movies could be relatively isolated even but the society that does remain could be more like city states that dont have the power to go in and control the wild areas.

Came here to call out Seattle too. Those chairs especially show up in any style of restaurant it is wild. I see this some in Spokane (or I did when I was there last don't know if there are more or fewer of them in the last few years).

While there are definitely people who are completely whack about it the concept itself isn't particularly bad or historically out of place. My understanding is while Idaho was becoming a state, North Idaho was prepped to be part of Washington but then Idaho put U of I in the area basically as a bribe. Even today culturally and economically North Idaho has a lot more ties to Washington than it does to South Idaho.

Adding another potential thing here, I just learned of a game called Silica. It is a hybrid play where some people play as RTS commanders and some people play as on the ground FPS soldiers. Haven't played it yet but could be interesting for mixed skill level based on which genre someone is good at

I have a bookshelf full of DnD and other roleplaying books. Whenever someone is over if they get particularly excited about something I always try and give it to them (unless that book holds particular sentimental value to me). Or like one time when I was moving one of the movers was talking about studying for a programming interview so I gave them a book specifically to help with that. For most my life I had very little income and I'm finally in a place where my needs are met and I'm not struggling constantly. The times people gave me things when I showed interest were really impactful and I just want to do that for others now. You're doing great things they're going to remember this

Don't forget the contracts with the military to help train them to "definitely not kill people"!

Hello I work for Unity (for now lol, we'll see)! I'd like to just say from my end of things we do actually do a solid amount of R&amp;D. Just that a depressing amount of it either never sees the light of day, takes so long to release it has already been done better by someone else, or is unannounced with little to no documentation on release so it never gets visibility. The other thing to note is that Unity does a lot of non-game things that might not be that noticeable if you're just looking at it from a game making perspective, like our publicly known contracts we have to help train the military to "totally not kill people you guys"!