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[Vicious Parker]

This week we are celebrating months, and the things that happen during months.

 

For instance, March Madness is just about at an end. We are down to the final round of voting. Your choices are Minecraft and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. There were few other games on the list as influential as these two, so this is quite a match up! Go vote!

 

This week also featured April Fools Day, probably the internet's favorite of all holidays. It's the one day of the year where soulless corporations can appear almost human, and features what would normally be considered click bait during the rest of the year are celebrated for being so. But why so serious?  Even Glaciermage and myself got in on the fun.

 

I normally do this portion in threes, but I don't have anything else. I mean, after all, what's next? May Hem?

 

On to the weeklies.

 

Member of the Week

Tau
Achievements are achievements, ya know?
I heard recently that someone earned a 1 million point gamer score on X-Box live. That means that he likely received such achievements as pressing the A button 2047 times in the game Command and Conquer 3, or simply pressing the start button in The Simpsons Game. Yeah, whoever this person is, they are not as cool as Tau. A losing streak like his in Trips is certainly an achievement in itself, worth all the gamer points, and I say this with no hint of sarcasm. It's like a high score, and Tau has the highest. Achievement unlocked.

 

 

 

Game of the Week

Quintessence: The Blighted Venom
According to Jack Nicholson's character in The Departed, John Lennon said, "I'm an artist. You give me a fucking tubra, and I'll get you something out of it." I feel like that's what Freebird games, makers of To the Moon, seem to do with RPG Maker. Quintessence may err a bit on the pretentious side in the story department, but does it ever use graphics and sound to establish setting in a way that many big budget titles can't even manage.

 

Last Week's Poll Results

 poll.png   9.5K   6 downloads

Results: Inconclusive

 

This Week's Poll

Which April Fools Day prank was the best? (sorry I couldn't fit all of them!)

 

Button Mashin'

Pixeljunk Eden; Final Fantasy 10; Grand Theft Auto Online; The Elder Scrolls Online; Pokemon Emerald; Dark Souls; Star Trek Online; Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc; The Guided Fate Paradox; Demon's Souls; Titanfall

 

Book Readin'

Secrets of a Shoe Addict by Beth Harbison; The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan; Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones; Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand; On Basilisk Station br David Weber; Alamut by Vladimir Bartol

 

Boob Tubin'

Adventure Time (TV); Lucky Louie (TV); Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Movie); Hannibal (TV); Bob's Burgers (TV); Sword Art Online (anime); FLCL (anime); Silicon Valley (TV); Stargate SG-1 (TV); Game of Thrones (TV); Agents of Shield (TV); Community (the best TV)

 

Bass Blastin'

To Hell and Back by Sabaton; Island Song by Ashley Eriksson; Steal Your Heart and Eat Your Muffins by SlyphStorm; Celestial Scenery: SIlk Road by Kitaro

 

 

And this is where I sign off.

[Glaciermage]

Well done, VP.

Congrats Tau! It's high time you hit a 13 game win streak in Trips. Edit: It's somewhat ironic that Tau earned an Achievement by being made MOTW.

I always forget about Quintessence. I still wanna play it.

[Stars]

...I unironically watched that whole "May Hem" video.

[SpazCat]

On a scale of boxer shorts to evening gowns I give this update a curtains rating!

 

Congrats Tau!

[Xteven Xavier]

Congrats tau, and good update vicious

[lazlo falconi]

Tau is almost as good of a runner up as Arbor's Eve! This has been a fun week, even though I haven't been here much, but you know what's really weird? For some very strange reason, this weekly update--yes, this one in particular--makes me want to be more active here that I am now!

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[Tau]

Oh wow, thanks guys. It's kinda sad that I probably won't be coming by as often since I'm on a course, living in a place with no internet whatsoever! I'm using my precious mobile data to convey this message to you lovely people. Though I'll be damned if I don't finish my trips game before it runs out :D

Great update as usual guys, my losing streak is one to ponder, especially given its rock, paper, scissors! I mean imagine if that happened in real life, a losing streak of such magnitude in a game like that... Fuck I'm tired. My course is to go into the Fisheries, going out on the boats. The physical training is awesome but quite taxing.

Edit - Well something unexpected happened and I had to come home, dads sick and it was just as I was getting used to the place.