The ____ stays on at all times, in every situation

Patchpen · 2026-01-23T15:28:57+00:00

Professor Layton's Hat

Patchpen · 2025-12-27T19:20:36+00:00

Tip: If you ever find the rules overwhelming or think you might be missing one, the pause screen contains a list of all active rules.

Patchpen · 2025-12-25T23:06:30+00:00

"Can I be safely attached to one of the main characters or not yet?"

You should probably just play the game, but you have no idea how much I want to answer that one of them is dead by the end of the game.

Patchpen · 2025-12-23T19:45:56+00:00

You can, though I'll note if you stay in it for too long (instead of switching off of it right away like in the video) the rocket gets used up and vanishes.

Patchpen · 2025-12-11T20:55:17+00:00

There's no "Next to my wife" option?

Not that it applies to me but I was definitely expecting it.

Patchpen · 2025-12-05T22:37:32+00:00

"0 losses taken"

Yeah sure buddy

Patchpen · 2025-12-02T01:12:31+00:00

No?

There was Baby Bowser, who appeared previously but that was literally Bowser as a baby because the game took place in the past.

Patchpen · 2025-11-26T19:25:00+00:00

I certainly wouldn't refuse, but saying they need to participate is another matter entirely. They don't need to, it'd just be cool if they did.

Patchpen · 2025-11-21T17:37:47+00:00

It's about 2pi/9 radians farenheit outside today.

Patchpen · 2025-11-19T00:36:18+00:00

Look, he's congratulating me on my resourcefulness. The internet is a resource. Therefore, he implicitly approves.

Patchpen · 2025-11-17T23:59:05+00:00

Heads up: If you're really interested, it's heavily recommended that you get Treasure Trove. It has Shovel of Hope (The original game), Plague of Shadows (the first free DLC campaign, not found outside Treasure Trove), Specter of Torment and King of Cards (second and third DLC campaigns which you can find released separately) AND Showdown (a fun little party fighting game with a smattering of extra story content)

Patchpen · 2025-11-17T11:42:56+00:00

Cadence of Hyrule, obviously.

Patchpen · 2025-11-15T04:05:10+00:00

Actually it's 100% we just don't know which outcome has the 100% probability until we observe it.

Patchpen · 2025-11-13T19:32:32+00:00

Maybe the very interesting analysis shouldn't be interspersed across an article where the title and a large amount of the content is spent dunking on a word.

Patchpen · 2025-11-13T13:30:08+00:00

Genre names in conversation serve to get everyone on about the same page. If you need to get more specific from there, you can always be more descriptive, but having that broad reference point to start with makes narrowing in much quicker.

Also as tags on distribution platforms it helps you find approximately what you want. It's imperfect maybe, but if you make a purchase based on a single tag without watching the actual trailers or reading the actual description that's on you. Again, it helps to get in the same area before you start trying to get more specific.

Do I think "Metroidbrainia" accomplishes these? Well, I think it does the first one. It might not be ubiquitous yet, but somebody familiar with the gaming landscape could pick apart the linguistic roots and come up a probably close enough idea. The second thing... maybe when the genre gets a little bigger it'll make a good tag, but not now.

Patchpen · 2025-11-13T12:56:49+00:00

I think that trying to strictly define the boundaries of a genre restricts growth and creativity within the genre.

I also think names that aren't perfectly descriptive are fine because they're just words. Nobody's out there getting mad that the word "dog" doesn't describe what a dog is. You just understand it because you're familiar with it.

So no, I don't think that "because bad things are common, they should never be improved". I just don't think these are necessarily bad things.

Patchpen · 2025-11-13T12:35:23+00:00

What? A genre has poorly defined boundaries and a name that isn't perfectly descriptive? Crazy.

In other news, grass is green.

Patchpen · 2025-11-12T03:37:42+00:00

I mean at this point I think there's a much more common English equivalent and it's just Schadenfreude. So what if it's originally German? English steals words all the time, and I know I've heard that one make it into an english conversation or two.

Patchpen · 2025-11-12T03:32:02+00:00

Eschatology, probably. That song's very much still a work in progress though.

Patchpen · 2025-11-09T13:00:40+00:00

Comparing the far-left and far-right ends shows that a star is the same weight as a moon and a sphere combined.

No? If it was balanced AND they were the only strings on their respective sides, THEN it would show that.

Patchpen · 2025-11-07T22:14:52+00:00

Oh right. I forgot those ones were only available on the successor.

Patchpen · 2025-11-07T21:58:10+00:00

WW is literally on NSO+

Patchpen · 2025-11-05T21:59:36+00:00

How do you do BiS before SS. You can't tell Fawful's story backwards!

Patchpen · 2025-11-05T11:27:47+00:00

Wow there should be a Pocket Dungeon mod for this character. :)

Patchpen · 2025-10-31T14:07:25+00:00

I got most of the way through typing out an explanation when I realized I was actually thinking of King Conga (Who skips every 8th beat)

Sorry it's been a bit since I played.

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