Wire Witch Violet
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Here there's gaming livestreams on mondays, creative projects alternate Fridays, each starting at 8 PM: https://www.twitch.tv/wirewitchviolet
Writing comes out here: https://wirewitchviolet.tumblr.com
Here there's gaming livestreams on mondays, creative projects alternate Fridays, each starting at 8 PM: https://www.twitch.tv/wirewitchviolet
every single thing you own isn't going to be enough to pay for treatment. So we're all just constantly living with serious stuff totally untreated, etc.
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
every single thing you own isn't going to be enough to pay for treatment. So we're all just constantly living with serious stuff totally untreated, etc.
But then yeah a lot of it is totally propaganda. There's people who have good jobs and still just live out of their car because even renting a cheap little place isn't affordable, buying a home is basically impossible and if you have a health problem serious enough to need to see a doctor, selling
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
But then yeah a lot of it is totally propaganda. There's people who have good jobs and still just live out of their car because even renting a cheap little place isn't affordable, buying a home is basically impossible and if you have a health problem serious enough to need to see a doctor, selling
single camera in, and big companies want all their fancy cars and such in there for product placement. And also everyone involved in movie making is obscenely rich and long ago totally lost touch with baseline living standards if they ever experienced anything close to them...
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
single camera in, and big companies want all their fancy cars and such in there for product placement. And also everyone involved in movie making is obscenely rich and long ago totally lost touch with baseline living standards if they ever experienced anything close to them...
I mean, it's not ALL propaganda. There IS, to be fair, Trillionaire Georg throwing the mean way the hell off, and I figure a lot of the impression just comes from movies and TV, where there's the practicality of how building a set the size of anyone's actual home would be entirely too small to get a
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I mean, it's not ALL propaganda. There IS, to be fair, Trillionaire Georg throwing the mean way the hell off, and I figure a lot of the impression just comes from movies and TV, where there's the practicality of how building a set the size of anyone's actual home would be entirely too small to get a
Elaborate on these holes?
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Elaborate on these holes?
So yeah. Mostly this was a night of really fun surprises, with one really awful experience early on, and a chance to ramble about a series of games I dig but haven't had a chance to stream because they're still mostly stuck on the DS/3DS.
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM
So yeah. Mostly this was a night of really fun surprises, with one really awful experience early on, and a chance to ramble about a series of games I dig but haven't had a chance to stream because they're still mostly stuck on the DS/3DS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJB2...
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark- This is Final Fantasy Tactics.
I'm not being dismissive or anything, this is just a game really really trying its best to clone one of the all time great games, and other than the art which is a mostly good mixed bag, it's FFT as it can get
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark- This is Final Fantasy Tactics.
I'm not being dismissive or anything, this is just a game really really trying its best to clone one of the all time great games, and other than the art which is a mostly good mixed bag, it's FFT as it can get
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
YouTube video by Wire Witch Violet
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November 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJB2...
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark- This is Final Fantasy Tactics.
I'm not being dismissive or anything, this is just a game really really trying its best to clone one of the all time great games, and other than the art which is a mostly good mixed bag, it's FFT as it can get
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark- This is Final Fantasy Tactics.
I'm not being dismissive or anything, this is just a game really really trying its best to clone one of the all time great games, and other than the art which is a mostly good mixed bag, it's FFT as it can get
doing the "wait you don't sound like a girl" thing. Fortunately everyone else decided he was an asshole for that and tossed him out the airlock on principle but still, a bit awkward.
Past that, I dunno, I'd have to play a lot to really get a handle on how well the social deduction mechanics work.
Past that, I dunno, I'd have to play a lot to really get a handle on how well the social deduction mechanics work.
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
doing the "wait you don't sound like a girl" thing. Fortunately everyone else decided he was an asshole for that and tossed him out the airlock on principle but still, a bit awkward.
Past that, I dunno, I'd have to play a lot to really get a handle on how well the social deduction mechanics work.
Past that, I dunno, I'd have to play a lot to really get a handle on how well the social deduction mechanics work.
who's what, and this particular game will just go ahead and record everything from your microphone which Isn't Great when you're trying to stream things and give live impressions. Particularly here since my throat was in bad shape and I have a somewhat husky voice to begin with, so here's some creep
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
who's what, and this particular game will just go ahead and record everything from your microphone which Isn't Great when you're trying to stream things and give live impressions. Particularly here since my throat was in bad shape and I have a somewhat husky voice to begin with, so here's some creep
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCbe...
First Class Trouble- Do you want Among Us (I think anyway, still haven't actually played that), but it all kinda looks like The Rocketeer? Like most games of this nature, it's a bit hostile towards new players since there's a lot of unadvertised mechanics to help tell
First Class Trouble- Do you want Among Us (I think anyway, still haven't actually played that), but it all kinda looks like The Rocketeer? Like most games of this nature, it's a bit hostile towards new players since there's a lot of unadvertised mechanics to help tell
First Class Trouble
YouTube video by Wire Witch Violet
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November 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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First Class Trouble- Do you want Among Us (I think anyway, still haven't actually played that), but it all kinda looks like The Rocketeer? Like most games of this nature, it's a bit hostile towards new players since there's a lot of unadvertised mechanics to help tell
First Class Trouble- Do you want Among Us (I think anyway, still haven't actually played that), but it all kinda looks like The Rocketeer? Like most games of this nature, it's a bit hostile towards new players since there's a lot of unadvertised mechanics to help tell
comparison that really comes to mind is Gloomhaven's shrinking hand to represent fatigue combat, otherwise it's lots of resource management and altering random encounter decks based on choices you make. It's pretty neat, really.
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 AM
comparison that really comes to mind is Gloomhaven's shrinking hand to represent fatigue combat, otherwise it's lots of resource management and altering random encounter decks based on choices you make. It's pretty neat, really.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq6J...
Fore Tales- This is first and foremost A Furry Game. Real nice high quality expressive art, super dark plot about looming doom and death everywhere. And mechanically it's... a real funky card-based RPG thing, but not really a card game, if that makes sense? Closest
Fore Tales- This is first and foremost A Furry Game. Real nice high quality expressive art, super dark plot about looming doom and death everywhere. And mechanically it's... a real funky card-based RPG thing, but not really a card game, if that makes sense? Closest
Fore Tales
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November 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Fore Tales- This is first and foremost A Furry Game. Real nice high quality expressive art, super dark plot about looming doom and death everywhere. And mechanically it's... a real funky card-based RPG thing, but not really a card game, if that makes sense? Closest
Fore Tales- This is first and foremost A Furry Game. Real nice high quality expressive art, super dark plot about looming doom and death everywhere. And mechanically it's... a real funky card-based RPG thing, but not really a card game, if that makes sense? Closest
stuff in a way that feels like "well, every RTS campaign just gives you units one by one as you go through" without realizing the point of that is to be a game-long tutorial explaining each in turn. Here it's just me getting challenges I might not have the tools to deal with when I go in.
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
stuff in a way that feels like "well, every RTS campaign just gives you units one by one as you go through" without realizing the point of that is to be a game-long tutorial explaining each in turn. Here it's just me getting challenges I might not have the tools to deal with when I go in.
where you don't have to hotkey back to your base to queue up new units, but you DO have to do so to place buildings since there's this very nebulous placement rule like there's creep we just aren't rendering it, and yeah, look away for a second and everything dies.
Plus it gates you unlocking new
Plus it gates you unlocking new
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
where you don't have to hotkey back to your base to queue up new units, but you DO have to do so to place buildings since there's this very nebulous placement rule like there's creep we just aren't rendering it, and yeah, look away for a second and everything dies.
Plus it gates you unlocking new
Plus it gates you unlocking new
get attacked, even if they just started auto-attacking that building after dealing with something else. Stuff that can't hit air will still run over to try. Idle units being fired on will just stand there and die rather than doing anything at all. And it's weird because there's some very modern UI
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 AM
get attacked, even if they just started auto-attacking that building after dealing with something else. Stuff that can't hit air will still run over to try. Idle units being fired on will just stand there and die rather than doing anything at all. And it's weird because there's some very modern UI
early on in the setup, and then while it has all the hotkeys you'd expect for command groups and A-moving and all that, the individual unit AI is like... original WarCraft bad. Mixed troups won't try to match speed and stay together, units attacking buildings won't break off to fire back when they
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
early on in the setup, and then while it has all the hotkeys you'd expect for command groups and A-moving and all that, the individual unit AI is like... original WarCraft bad. Mixed troups won't try to match speed and stay together, units attacking buildings won't break off to fire back when they
system for that. And you'd think if there was a huge problem with it, it'd be the balance issues that brings in, but no, the problem is it just totally fails at basic RTS fundamentals. Instead of having worker units, it limits you to just constructing one building at a time with a lot of bottlenecks
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM
system for that. And you'd think if there was a huge problem with it, it'd be the balance issues that brings in, but no, the problem is it just totally fails at basic RTS fundamentals. Instead of having worker units, it limits you to just constructing one building at a time with a lot of bottlenecks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aySE...
Forged Battalion- I really wanted to like this. An RTS with a really nice properly rockin' soundtrack, and this weird experimental idea where you essentially build your own faction by mixing and matching weapons/armor/basic frames almost exactly like Alpha Centauri's
Forged Battalion- I really wanted to like this. An RTS with a really nice properly rockin' soundtrack, and this weird experimental idea where you essentially build your own faction by mixing and matching weapons/armor/basic frames almost exactly like Alpha Centauri's
Forged Battalion
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November 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Forged Battalion- I really wanted to like this. An RTS with a really nice properly rockin' soundtrack, and this weird experimental idea where you essentially build your own faction by mixing and matching weapons/armor/basic frames almost exactly like Alpha Centauri's
Forged Battalion- I really wanted to like this. An RTS with a really nice properly rockin' soundtrack, and this weird experimental idea where you essentially build your own faction by mixing and matching weapons/armor/basic frames almost exactly like Alpha Centauri's
though, and I'll suffer gross looking town screens for the soundtrack/good map design/really interesting experimentation with bog standard turn based combat the class system brings.
Also, a great example of how while I like RPGs, they're terrible for how I stream. Took 2 hours for a deer to end me.
Also, a great example of how while I like RPGs, they're terrible for how I stream. Took 2 hours for a deer to end me.
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 AM
though, and I'll suffer gross looking town screens for the soundtrack/good map design/really interesting experimentation with bog standard turn based combat the class system brings.
Also, a great example of how while I like RPGs, they're terrible for how I stream. Took 2 hours for a deer to end me.
Also, a great example of how while I like RPGs, they're terrible for how I stream. Took 2 hours for a deer to end me.
which are a mixed bag... and speaking of which, wow these auto-generated youtube thumbnails sure did pick the absolute worst frames and really highlight that frankly gross girl-in-skimpy-outfit-who-looks-like-12-maybe thing that mars a lot of the series' character designs.
It's still Etrian Odyssey
It's still Etrian Odyssey
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
which are a mixed bag... and speaking of which, wow these auto-generated youtube thumbnails sure did pick the absolute worst frames and really highlight that frankly gross girl-in-skimpy-outfit-who-looks-like-12-maybe thing that mars a lot of the series' character designs.
It's still Etrian Odyssey
It's still Etrian Odyssey
just feels real bad and cramped. Otherwise this seems to mostly be a straight port of the orginal, fuzzy orange ball FOEs and all but with difficulty settings (original being the hardest), upscaled graphics (which like every upscaled port look much worse) and a new 5th character image for each class
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
just feels real bad and cramped. Otherwise this seems to mostly be a straight port of the orginal, fuzzy orange ball FOEs and all but with difficulty settings (original being the hardest), upscaled graphics (which like every upscaled port look much worse) and a new 5th character image for each class
how that translates to a single screen, the answer is badly!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k17-...
Instead of just pillar-boxing it you can toggle between just the top screen or this 3 way split of top screen on the left, map in the upper left, very small close-up you can doodle on in the lower right that
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k17-...
Instead of just pillar-boxing it you can toggle between just the top screen or this 3 way split of top screen on the left, map in the upper left, very small close-up you can doodle on in the lower right that
Etrian Odyssey HD (Part 2 of 2)
YouTube video by Wire Witch Violet
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November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
how that translates to a single screen, the answer is badly!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k17-...
Instead of just pillar-boxing it you can toggle between just the top screen or this 3 way split of top screen on the left, map in the upper left, very small close-up you can doodle on in the lower right that
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k17-...
Instead of just pillar-boxing it you can toggle between just the top screen or this 3 way split of top screen on the left, map in the upper left, very small close-up you can doodle on in the lower right that
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbFy...
Etrian Odyssey HD- This was a surprise last minute addition for me as I grabbed this month's humble bundle, but hey, it's a port of one of my favorite games, the really well-tuned DS Dungeon Crawler where you draw your own map on the bottom screen. If you're wondering
Etrian Odyssey HD- This was a surprise last minute addition for me as I grabbed this month's humble bundle, but hey, it's a port of one of my favorite games, the really well-tuned DS Dungeon Crawler where you draw your own map on the bottom screen. If you're wondering
Etrian Odyssey HD (Part 1 of 2)
YouTube video by Wire Witch Violet
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November 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbFy...
Etrian Odyssey HD- This was a surprise last minute addition for me as I grabbed this month's humble bundle, but hey, it's a port of one of my favorite games, the really well-tuned DS Dungeon Crawler where you draw your own map on the bottom screen. If you're wondering
Etrian Odyssey HD- This was a surprise last minute addition for me as I grabbed this month's humble bundle, but hey, it's a port of one of my favorite games, the really well-tuned DS Dungeon Crawler where you draw your own map on the bottom screen. If you're wondering
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKWf...
Rounding out this surprisingly thick batch of games whose names start with Fort would be Fort Solis, but... apparently my computer is too much of a potato to handle this one. Enjoy this slide show of me trying to minimize graphics settings and making it worse, somehow
Rounding out this surprisingly thick batch of games whose names start with Fort would be Fort Solis, but... apparently my computer is too much of a potato to handle this one. Enjoy this slide show of me trying to minimize graphics settings and making it worse, somehow
(I apparently can't run) Fort Solis
YouTube video by Wire Witch Violet
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November 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKWf...
Rounding out this surprisingly thick batch of games whose names start with Fort would be Fort Solis, but... apparently my computer is too much of a potato to handle this one. Enjoy this slide show of me trying to minimize graphics settings and making it worse, somehow
Rounding out this surprisingly thick batch of games whose names start with Fort would be Fort Solis, but... apparently my computer is too much of a potato to handle this one. Enjoy this slide show of me trying to minimize graphics settings and making it worse, somehow