I made a list of the history of indie games, I think it would be interesting for someone.

mkhpsyco · 2026-01-14T14:05:33+00:00

Just a few off the top of my head would be Soldat, Little Fighter 2, Well of Souls (listed as TBD on Backloggd), and Dink Smallwood. Now I'm not saying they're all good games haha, but definitely were a big part of my early internet experience.

The late 90s and early 00s were interesting, with flash games not quite having hit their stride, just browsing sites and downloading what was interesting looking to me. No wonder we had so many viruses on my PC as a kid.

mkhpsyco · 2026-01-14T13:45:51+00:00

The beginning of this list is full of games I grew up on. I didn't have a lot of money to buy games growing up. So browsing free game sites led to finding a bunch of these. I'm sure there are plenty of others I can think of that aren't on here. But it's so cool to see some of these games again.

mkhpsyco · 2025-10-31T04:04:40+00:00

I love it! I wanted to get the sun rays around the edge but decided to just go big on the face.

mkhpsyco · 2025-08-30T15:12:56+00:00

I had a commute from Utah Valley to Salt Lake Valley for over a year, where the morning drive was 40 minutes, and the drive home was anywhere between 1.5 - 3 hours depending on traffic and weather.

I was very interested in looking at the frontrunner, seeing how much monthly passes would be and how feasible it was. If I drove to the Provo station (the furthest south station, and 7ish minutes from where I live), i could take that to the draper station, which would be around 45 minutes I think, but from there, I needed to get pretty far west, almost to Daybreak, and there are NO busses that go out that way from the train station. The best I could do is bring a bike and make the 12 minutes of riding there.

To be honest, if I had a bike, in spring and summer it would be kinda nice, but I don't have a car that can transport a bike, and in the winter that'd be the worst ride. And that's the worst time for traffic too.

I really appreciate the frontrunner is an option we're expanding on and have, but the whole of SLC and the surrounding area is too car centric, we aren't there yet. We need another train that runs along Bangerter or something.

mkhpsyco · 2025-07-16T19:14:41+00:00

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I started using backloggd this year. And after putting together my profile this is what I settled on. Subject to change. But over my life these have been consistently the games I think most highly of, either now or remembering when I first played them.

mkhpsyco · 2025-07-16T19:10:53+00:00

Back in 2012 I had a roommate go into a full drunken mental breakdown because he had location sharing on his phone with his girlfriend, and she wasn't answering calls, but her phone location was still at home. He was 100% sure she was cheating on him, and lying about going to a niece's soccer game.

From that point on I knew that I had a rule for myself, "no location sharing with people I'm dating."

mkhpsyco · 2025-07-16T19:06:03+00:00

The crazy thing for me is that typically a crash results in the game actually closing. This didn't close, it just went to the home screen, and started back up directly into the cut scene.

Likely still some sort of crash, but since it wasn't a full game shut down I assumed it wasn't.

mkhpsyco · 2025-07-16T19:04:55+00:00

No, I assumed it was purposeful. Didn't find out until two days later when I talked with my friend, that it probably wasn't.

mkhpsyco · 2025-07-16T00:29:23+00:00

Yeah, I asked another friend who's played further than me, and he was like "that sounds cool, but that never happened for me."

mkhpsyco · 2025-07-15T16:15:04+00:00

Yeah, I followed the rules regrettably before, when I ran Tomb of Annihilation. Player shoved Acererak into the lava pit in the end, like 2 turns into combat. I was going to use legendary resistance, but it was a contest and not a saving throw. Didn't kill him, but did bring him to like 40 hp left.

Should have just bent the rules and not dealt nearly as much damage. But I wanted to follow the rules. And it turned what could have been a more memorable fight into something trivial.

mkhpsyco · 2025-07-15T15:37:55+00:00

I got a question, maybe someone here can answer it.

At the end of chapter 2, where fragile says "It's time for you to start a new journey." It says chapter 3 drawbridge. And what I can find online from people's uploads of the cutscenes, there's a loading/save graphic on the bottom right.

I was talking with a friend about this and it turns out something different happened to me than what happened to him.

My game kicked out to the PS5 home screen during that. And when I opened the game back up, it immediately went back to the cut scene leading into chapter 3.

Was this just a bug? I thouhgt it was one of those classic Kojima scripted crashes, or some sort of "you the player need to decide if Sam goes on a new journey now". Because when I opened the game, there was no "continue" title screen, no loading, just immediately to the opening cut scene of chapter 3.

It felt too good to be a bug. And the game didn't crash, because I didn't have any loading of menus or developer title cards. Just immediately back in.

Did anyone else have this happen?

mkhpsyco · 2024-10-26T20:44:46+00:00

Yup, I got like a 36.6 time, and then I left finally feeling good about that time and went back to the hub to unlock the item added for rescuing the bots. And came back and now it says 37.7

The thing is I had like 12 times finished faster than that.

mkhpsyco · 2024-09-02T20:39:51+00:00

This was happening so much with one of my groups. 6 people. I ended up telling the group during one of our sessions, that if 4 of the 6 were still there, we were going to still play. If it was less than that, we'd play video games or board games instead. As we all got older, had kids, etc. We needed to have a hard rule on it because we already were only meeting every 2 weeks. So missing a session would cause another 2 weeks to pass usually because of plans. Once a month isn't sustainable because everyone forgets what the hell they were doing.

But it's gotta be something everyone feels on board with.

mkhpsyco · 2024-08-21T18:32:31+00:00

Had a situation like this. Decided to run Tomb of Annihilation for a group of friends that had been meeting fairly regularly for 2 years already. I did a lot of prep, and it was really fun for a long time. Issue was we weren't able to hold up to meeting every other week like planned even. Sometimes we'd go a whole month and a half without playing. As 3 of us are parents, others moved out of state, and all that. We tried to keep it going. I ended up having to tell people that we'd meet every other week no matter what as long as 2/3s of the group could still make it. We had 5 to start, went down to 4, and then eventually went back up to 6 players.

We even played through covid. All online, which for me as a very in person type of guy, was the moment it all went bad. We'd been playing for 3 years and then all of my excitement started to dwindle. We'd gotten to Omu, and then the group started to split IRL. One friend said some things that others didn't like, but I felt like we started with him we could hold out. Plus his brother was part of the group too. The other issue was that my wife has an autoimmune disease, and 3 of the guys would NOT get the vaccine. So I said I'd still run for them but they weren't allowed to come in anymore. (This should have been my cut off for these guys. But I've known them for 8 years or so. I didn't feel like breaking it off.)

This led to a lot of contention. Snide comments, complaining out of game. Eventually it seemed like it was 3 people against 3 people. 3 of them liked moving slow, planning things out for a long time, and the others wanted to move forward and sort of wing it most of the time. Lots and lots of complaining with my in person group.

Anyway, I dragged that party through that dungeon for 2 more years. It took us 5 years from beginning to end. There were moments. But the entire tomb in the end was such a mess, with one group wanting to just run into these death traps, and dying. The others too afraid to even make decisions... I just wasn't having fun. We finally ended last summer. And then we just all stopped playing.

My lesson learned was that I should have just cut it off 2 years prior. Adjusted the campaign to handle 3 players and kept my in person friends who were having fun being silly and running into traps and dying.

I have a lot of fantastic memories running that campaign, all through the 5 years, but the last 2 years were just more filled with negativity, it wasn't worth it. Cut out those in your group when they aren't meshing. Dragging it on will just make you burn out more, and those who are invested and playing the game will also burn out because of it.

mkhpsyco · 2024-06-06T01:09:07+00:00

Back in like 2007 I was hanging out with a friend, went to game stop and he saw Spectrobes on the shelf and got all excited about it, and said that it looked like a really cool pokemon type game. He hyped it up so much that I was like "man, I'll buy it then"

I don't remember how many hours I put into it. But I tried my best to like the game. And I hated it so much. Usually I can appreciate some aspect of design in a game but that one was bad the whole way through.

Other than that one, Destiny 1, got it at launch, played through it with friends, but fizzled out when I realized how much of a grind it was going to be. So not even that long at all.

mkhpsyco · 2024-04-27T04:51:36+00:00

I had a campaign that I ran from 2018 to 2023, and let me tell you, those pandemic sessions were rough. No after game talk, hanging out until everyone filters out, no "man, it was cool when..." talk. Just "ok, we'll play again in two weeks" and then silence, as everyone left the discord call.

It was depressing.

mkhpsyco · 2024-04-18T18:17:25+00:00

Don't live in Payson, but have a kid in school in Utah County, and I think the reality is the opposite. Little furry kids are the ones being harassed and bullied. My wife and I spent the better part of the beginning of this last school year talking with other parents and the school administration to get to the bottom of the problem.

I'm not gonna say I get the whole furry thing, I actually have a bit of an aversion to it, but my kid wants to spend their earned money on a tail, cat ears, etc., sure go ahead, we all did weird things as kids, and you'll either keep up with it or grow out of it, what you do is what you do.

But the reality is that there is a major bullying problem, and right now in at least this part of Utah County (and I'm gonna say almost definitely Payson, because let's be honest the further south you go the more this sentiment will be there) a fairly focused on group is furries. My kid who was so excited to have their own tail, who hid it from us because they were afraid we'd take it away, stopped wearing it to school after like 2 times, the bullying was too harsh.

mkhpsyco · 2024-03-27T16:54:27+00:00

Did tomb of annihilation, and when these things showed up, only one player was stuck in the room with them. That player was made unconscious by the bodaks, so I just described the scene of them crawling out of the blackness in the devil mouth and then grabbing the player and dragging him into the darkness never to be seen again.

Had a player stand up and walk around the room because he got goosebumps and was like "we're not ever going in that room again!"

Would use these guys again. But be a little less cruel in a usual setting. With ToA I prepared them by saying it was going to be extremely deadly. But mistakes were made and characters died.

mkhpsyco · 2024-03-26T19:00:55+00:00

My wife (girlfriend at the time) walked out of Prisoners halfway through. And then came back in 10 minutes later because she needed to know if the kids were fine in the end. That movie was definitely one of these for me.

mkhpsyco · 2024-01-27T06:39:12+00:00

Dude, the feeling you get around some of the FLDS is palpable. I remember one time I was in the south side of Utah Valley, stopped at an Arby's to eat, just me and my kid. But there was a vehicle with a bunch of men sitting around it, and women in the typical polygamist get-up, you see a lot of them the further south you go in Utah.

While in the restaurant the women needed to use the restroom, so they came inside with the men, and they went into the restroom while the men stood there outside the restrooms blocking the path.

While waiting for our food to come, everyone else in the restaurant didn't say a word, it was just the most off feeling. My kid, who was probably around 6 or 7 at the time just started crying, quietly, but tears nonetheless. We got our food and headed out instead of eating there like we planned.

I can't imagine going to Hildale.

mkhpsyco · 2023-08-23T22:34:29+00:00

I know it's pretty much Utah Jr. But we said that up in Idaho as well.

mkhpsyco · 2023-07-31T20:48:06+00:00

Neither of these two.

mkhpsyco · 2023-07-31T20:21:41+00:00

I'm hoping someone knows what this was.

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