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Comment on November 2026 Backlog Burner: Week 1 Discussion in ~games
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Reviews are now available for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (2026)
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: The Showcase in ~creative.timasomo
kfwyre LinkTimasomo Notification: The showcase is live! This is the final ping you will receive from me for Timasomo 2026. You will receive a one-time ping for the announcement topic of Timasomo 2027. For...Timasomo Notification: The showcase is live!
This is the final ping you will receive from me for Timasomo 2026. You will receive a one-time ping for the announcement topic of Timasomo 2027.
For those posting their work in the showcase, I strongly encourage you to also make your own topics showcasing your work in their respective tildes (e.g. ~life, ~tech, etc.). This showcase is only visible to those subscribed to ~creative.timasomo, but the wider Tildes audience will undoubtedly appreciate your efforts as well.
Also, you are more than welcome to share your projects elsewhere online. They are your projects, not Timasomo's, so share them however you see fit!
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@ZorindPlease mark this comment as noise so that the projects can be the feature of the showcase.
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Timasomo 2026: The Showcase
Timasomo 2026 is now officially complete! Over the next few days, participants will be posting their creations and efforts in this topic to showcase their work to the community. Comments and...
Timasomo 2026 is now officially complete!
Over the next few days, participants will be posting their creations and efforts in this topic to showcase their work to the community.
Comments and feedback are both welcome and encouraged.
Let these creators know what an awesome job they've done!
Creators: In posting your showcase:
- Give your project a title, and use the
#markdown to make it stand out in the showcase thread! - Link to your project in whatever way works best for it.
- If you like, give a "creator statement" that contextualizes what your project is.
- Add anything else you consider relevant! The showcase is yours!
- If you need examples, take a look at last year’s showcase.
Also, I strongly encourage you to make your own topics showcasing your work in their respective tildes (e.g. ~life, ~tech, etc.). This showcase is only visible to those subscribed to ~creative.timasomo, but the wider Tildes audience will undoubtedly appreciate your efforts as well.
Community:
- Treat this thread like a walk through an art gallery or a museum where you get to see different works on display.
- Simple appreciations for the creators are not noise—they are valuable community support!
- Make sure any feedback you give is constructive and meant to help.
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Comment on Not Solitaire in ~games
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Comment on GOG is hosting its first-ever GOG Showcase on November 5th in ~games
kfwyre LinkBluesky announcementThe first-ever GOG Showcase is almost here! Big announcements, new games and new features, all in one show.
Thursday, Nov 5 · 7 PM CET / 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT -
GOG is hosting its first-ever GOG Showcase on November 5th
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Comment on November 2026 Backlog Burner: Week 1 Discussion in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentThis is so shady and I love it. XD I adore my little console library that (mostly) could(n’t).With a back catalog that only a Kefir could love
This is so shady and I love it. XD
I adore my little console library that (mostly) could(n’t).
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Comment on 2026 United States midterm elections distractions topic in ~talk
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Comment on 2026 United States midterm elections megathread in ~society
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Comment on 2026 United States midterm elections distractions topic in ~talk
kfwyre LinkDistractions Topic Announcement: Un-distract yourself and go check the news. I mean it, seriously. :)Distractions Topic Announcement: Un-distract yourself and go check the news.
I mean it, seriously. :)
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Comment on Humble Choice - November 2026 in ~games
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Comment on November 2026 Backlog Burner: Week 1 Discussion in ~games
kfwyre (edited )Link ParentWhiplash/Fatal Racing (Abandonware) Time travel back to the mid-1990s with me for a moment. You've just gotten home from school, and you've checked the mailbox on the way in, delighted to find...Whiplash/Fatal Racing (Abandonware)
Time travel back to the mid-1990s with me for a moment.
You've just gotten home from school, and you've checked the mailbox on the way in, delighted to find that your new copy of PC Gamer magazine has arrived. You think you're getting one over on your parents because they're paying for a magazine subscription about videogames, and they think they're getting one over on you because you spend hours reading them over and over again, cover to cover.
There's no YouTube, no Twitch, no on-demand way to see games being played. These print magazines are your only window into games, with many titles getting only a few words and some tiny screenshots. Your mind is tasked with filling in the gaps and extrapolating, based on that very limited data, what any given game might be like. It lives more in your imagination than it does on the page.
In this new issue, you see a new racing game (your favorite) called Whiplash. Next to a writeup making the game sound thrilling, you see these screenshots.
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A car, flying through the air.
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A car, driving down a road literally twisting itself upside down.
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A car, upside down, at the top of a loop.
Young 1990s you has never seen anything like this before. Your racing game references at the time are the original The Need for Speed and Ridge Racer, neither of which did anything so exciting.
You are utterly captivated at the idea of a car flipping upside down and launching itself through the air in 3 dimensions. After all, just that third dimension itself is still quite novel. It wasn't that long ago you were playing RC Pro-Am and Rad Racer which were both amazing but feel so, SO limited compared to Whiplash's promise of unprecedented multidimensional driving FREEDOM.
You want the game. Badly. You yearn for it.
But games are hard to come by. One, they're expensive. Two, your parents don't want to buy you too many of them, and you and they have VERY different opinions about what constitutes "too many." Three, you're limited to the games that happen to be in the stores around you. No Amazon or eBay. No online ordering. If it wasn't on the shelves at your local Wal-Mart or Best Buy, it might as well not exist.
Every time you go somewhere with games, you scan the shelves. You never find it. Even years later you find yourself rummaging through bargain bins full of old, discounted jewel-case versions of games. No dice. You never find a copy.
Years go by and the game slowly fades from your memory. You're older and gaming has developed. The promise of such exciting car acrobatics aren't nearly as gripping as they used to be. You discover and fall in love with Trackmania Nations Forever which offers roads in every conceivable configuration for your car to drive on and fly off of. You follow the series for the next decade, playing every iteration of it for combined thousands of hours.
You've now forgotten all about Whiplash. It's not even a faint memory. It's simply gone.
And then one day, 30 years later, a much older you is surfing through titles in the GOG Dreamlist, looking at stuff to vote for, when your memory is jogged. You remember some old game that looked SO cool when you were a kid. You think it might have had a corkscrew or something? You search around and suddenly your memory clicks: Whiplash!.
After finding out there's no way to get a legit copy anymore, you find an abandonware release of it almost immediately. After updating DOSBox-X and playing around with the settings, you've got a playable version of it with a modern-ish resolution and only minor framerate issues. You are so excited.
And then you never come back to play it.
For some reason, you really like the process of getting games set up to play and then just... leaving them there. This has happened with your emulation library countless times. Or those times you spent hours modding games. Or one of the MANY abandonware games you've troubleshot, trying to get them going on modern hardware.
But then a Backlog Burner event comes along, and you commit to playing one of those abandonware games. And, wouldn't you know it, you really want to play this one. The one that captivated you for so long. The one with that corkscrew that looked so, SO thrilling.
I'm happy to report that Whiplash still slaps.
It shows its age, of course, but its core essence is still undeniably cool and fun.
It felt like the devs, playing around in three dimensions, wanted to use them to the fullest and just decided to go all in on the cool factor. Tracks rise and fall and bank and loop and, yes, corkscrew. There are lots of jumps giving you ample airtime. Drawbridges that open into ramps. Banked jumps that cause your car itself to corkscrew through the air.
I'm not kidding when I say that these are genuinely fun to experience, even today.
Also of note is that the game's physics are quite robust. Your car isn't magically stuck to the ground, and it's affected by gravity. You'll feel the gravity pulling on your car when the road banks. If you slow down at the top of a loop, you'll fall off of it. This means that that ever-inticing corkscrew isn't just a cool trick: it's a genuine physics problem during the race. It is not as easy to make it through as you would think -- I fell off plenty of times.
This not only gives the game depth, but it helps enhance the drama. Whenever I did actually nail that corkscrew and sail through it successfully, it genuinely was thrilling -- the exact kind of experience I'd wanted it to be thirty years ago when I was a kid and imagining what it might be like.
I played through the campaign twice, and then played a good amount of single track races. The game is genuinely quite hard. I was consistently getting stomped even on the easiest difficulty. It's listed as "Girlie" which is undoubtedly derogatory, but I chose to gay re-appropriate that and played it with 💅GIRLIE💅 vibes instead.
The game has damage meters for your cars, and each track has a pit lane that you can stop in to repair your car. Damage carries over between races, so you have to time out when it's optimal for you to repair versus keep pushing to hold on to a position.
Higher difficulties increase speeds as well as the number of laps. I tried out a grand prix on Impossible difficulty (the highest), and it was wanting me to do 15-18(!!!) laps on the tracks. A bit much, in my modern opinion, but I would have thought nothing of it at the time. In fact, I probably would have liked it. My parents bought me a new game only every few months, so those long races would have helped me fill SO much time.
I can't quite recommend the game to anyone, simply because I think I'm riding the high of a 30-year wish fulfillment. While I do think the game was great by the standards of the time and still legitimately fun today, I think that probably only holds for people my age or older. I think anyone younger trying this would probably be all "let's get you to bed, grandpa" as I ramble on about how it's legitimately "fun" and "thrilling."
Whether or not I'm out of touch, however, I'm super happy to have played this game that got away. I would love it to get the modernization treatment -- whether that's from a remaster, a spruced up GOG release, or just some fan TLC. I finally closed the door on the dream of launching my car through a corkscrew, so the new dream is being able to do it on my Deck with native controller support at 60 FPS.
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Humble Choice - November 2026
November 2026's Humble Choice is now available with 1 Battle.net game and 7 Steam games. Steam Page OpenCritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Mafia: The Old Country + 2 DLC...
November 2026's Humble Choice is now available with 1 Battle.net game and 7 Steam games.
Steam Page OpenCritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Mafia: The Old Country + 2 DLC Packs 74 74 / 71 Win ❌ Unsupported 🟨 Gold The Outer Worlds 2
Note: Redeems on Battle.net via account link83 59 / 73 Win ✅ Verified 🟨 Gold SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance 87 82 / 90 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Yakuza 6: The Song of Life 84 88 / 95 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Crisol: Theater of Idols 74 76 / 79 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Space Haven -- 77 / 84 Win, Mac, Linux ✅ Verified ✅ Native DYSMANTLE 77 85 / 90 Win, Mac ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Squeakross: Home Squeak Home -- 95 / 98 Win, Mac ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
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Comment on CGA-2026-11 🌍️🪀 INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 Mother 3 in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentOf course! Do you want to go on the notification list for all CGA topics (a different game each month) or just for this month with Mother 3?Of course! Do you want to go on the notification list for all CGA topics (a different game each month) or just for this month with Mother 3?
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Comment on itch.io reveals just how much AI slop is flooding gaming storefronts in ~games
kfwyre LinkUpdate: Indie game website itch.io expands its AI disclosure filter as 'AI slop' continues to overwhelm Steam and other storefrontsIndie game storefront itch.io has expanded its AI disclosure filters, allowing its users to better separate games made with the controversial technology from those who don't.
This expansion, revealed on its official BlueSky account, includes Itchio's search page which now features a "No AI" box. By ticking this, users can hide any game on the website that features the generative AI disclosure. Games created using generative AI must have this disclosure to be present on the platform, similarly to Steam, although without an option to describe to what extent the tech was used.
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Comment on 2026 United States midterm elections distractions topic in ~talk
kfwyre LinkSelf-serving self-promotion: Tildes has two currently active events for anyone into gaming: Colossal Game Adventure, our retro gaming club, is just kicking off our playthrough of Mother 3 for the...Self-serving self-promotion: Tildes has two currently active events for anyone into gaming:
- Colossal Game Adventure, our retro gaming club, is just kicking off our playthrough of Mother 3 for the Game Boy Advance.
- The Backlog Burner, a chance to play and talk about old games you never got around to, also just kicked off.
Anyone is welcome to participate, and you don’t need to commit to anything or go for the full month. You could try out a single game tonight and then post about it in the Backlog Burner topic, for example — or simply talk with someone else about a game they’ve played.
The Bingo site lets you generate 3x3 bingo cards, so you could even go for a mini three-game bingo win!
We’d love to have anyone who’s looking to get away from the news tonight and into some fun old games instead.
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Comment on 2026 United States midterm elections megathread in ~society
kfwyre LinkI went ahead and made a corresponding distractions topic for anyone that wants/needs it. Sorry if I stole your thunder, @ICN. Any credit for the idea should go to them!I went ahead and made a corresponding distractions topic for anyone that wants/needs it. Sorry if I stole your thunder, @ICN. Any credit for the idea should go to them!
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2026 United States midterm elections distractions topic
It was quite popular last time so I figure we could use another round of it. This topic is a casual chat space and link drop for literally ANYTHING besides US politics for those of us that want to...
It was quite popular last time so I figure we could use another round of it.
This topic is a casual chat space and link drop for literally ANYTHING besides US politics for those of us that want to occupy our time with something other than scrolling feeds and checking the news.
This will be a noisy topic. Please use the
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Comment on November 2026 Backlog Burner: Week 1 Discussion in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentI love save states too. They’re a huge accessibility and quality of life improvement on old games, I feel. Yes, they can also be used to cheese things, but also sometimes old games are so...I love save states too. They’re a huge accessibility and quality of life improvement on old games, I feel. Yes, they can also be used to cheese things, but also sometimes old games are so unforgiving in their design that they’re kinda worth cheesing? “Nintendo hard” is a phrase that definitely earned its stripes.
The OG Ecco is one I’ve always wanted to play, having only played the Dreamcast one myself. It features the same non-rapid turning you mention, which definitely does make you feel like you’re controlling a real dolphin and not just a cartoony avatar of one. Happy to hear that the original holds up (with save states), and also happy to see a Genesis game getting played for the Backlog Burner. It was one of the systems I had to cut for my Platform Party, so I’m thrilled it’s still making an appearance.
Glad you liked it! Maybe someday it will come off of your Steam Deck (but not today, lol).
Also, with regard to your details block:
Spoilers
I saw that section as linking back to the game's main theme that the assumptions embedded in your perspective affect how you solve problems, so by changing your perspective you can confront problems in new and meaningful ways.
It uses the standard horror tropes to prime your perspective on that section, while your experience of moving through the level counteracts that priming. You're continually shown that the "fears" you've been trained to expect are unfounded and circumstantial. As such, I felt that section was another way that the game reinforced its central theme. I quite liked it to be honest.
Also I love your faith in education that makes you believe that we somehow have the money for computer hardware that can run Superliminal.
I'm only half serious with that by the way.
Okay maybe more than half. I have to buy my pencils for my classroom myself. 😭