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Mega Man 1 - Glitchfest
Scykoh‘s Glitchfest series is all about breaking popular games in as many ways as possible. TASVideos’s resources for NES Mega Man games covers several methods for moving through the game quickly, but even that doesn’t explain what Scykoh does in Ice Man’s stage. When I planned the “bugs” in Skeleton Hunter, the first place I looked for inspiration was Mega Man 1’s zipping, pause tricks, and tileset corruption, and they’re shown off very well here.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdqJgCLVR2Q via YouTube subscription via recommendations probably generated from Did You Know Gaming?
Marcokarty's International Superstar Soccer Deluxe TAS
I love watching people break games. This tool-assisted glitchfest of the SNES International Superstar Soccer Deluxe replaces the referees with dogs that apparently can’t keep score and don’t take issue with players messing around behind the goals. If you like this, the mad scientists at TASVideos have plenty more.
Source: TASVideos – SNES International Superstar Soccer Deluxe via TASVideos Top Rated Movies RSS feed
Jamaican bobsled team raises $30,000 in dogecoin
You know Bitcoin? The crypto-currency that’s about as fake as real money? It’s apparently big enough that there was a need for an alternative. Liam Butler likes that doge meme so he created dogecoin. He also liked Cool Runnings so he started a fund, Dogesled, to send the Jamaican bobsled team to the 2014 Sochi Olympics. They raised 27 million dogecoins, or $30,000.
I…I couldn’t make this stuff up.
So meme. But money? Much real. Such surprise. Wow.
Source: Jamaican Bobsled Team – Dogecoin Fund via RT
Frog Fractions
Frog Fractions is an epic journey masquerading as an edutainment game. I played this blind on my stream for eleven fifths of an hour, and it was a trip. Sure enough, by the time I was done, I had gotten better at investing money based on how flammable my warehouse is. The only proper way to play this game is with at little prior knowledge as possible, so just play it now and look stuff up later.
What are you doing reading this old post? Go play Frog Fractions already.
Source: Frog Fractions | Twinbeard Studios
Cookies n' Creme Oreos
Thanks to some creative food scientists, you can now go to Walgreens and buy Oreo ice cream flavored Oreos. Sure enough, they taste like cookies and cream ice cream.
TVTropes calls this Recursive Adaptation. Another one I'd like to track down: the Words with Friends board game.
By the way, this post is a test of writing and publishing a post entirely from my phone. This picture might be huge.
Source: My phone camera and SPOTTED ON SHELVES – 9/16/2013 | The Impulsive Buy via Consumerist