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Jun 15, 2017 - 01:47 PM
GFF Meet 2017 photos - Part 2
Days 0-1 photos here

i said i didn't take a lot of photos this meet and it really shows around monday and tuesday, to the point where i momentarily got really confused what day i was on when putting these up, as if i'd missed an entire day



YouTube Video

Days 2-4 Monday-Wednesday:






awkward pang wave.jpg


(phone)


(phone)


(phone)



Then Escape Room happened! It was great!


(phone)


(phone)








and then the day switched to Tuesday and I almost didn't realize when doing these!













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Then Tails played some more TorqueL while we all sat and screamed at him and it was magical


YouTube Video


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WEDNESDAY MORNING

A WHOLE LOT OF JUST SITTING AROUND



oh no











then Uno happened!
















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(this is actually one of my favourites of the whole week)


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blessed koskenkorva, blessed acer for importing some this year





more to come!


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Jun 14, 2017 - 02:34 PM
GFF Meet 2017 photos - Part 1
I have been dragging my feet with these, constantly finding new ways to distract myself from going over everything and picking and finetuning and uploading.

That sinking feeling that this year is going to be a huge disappointment in terms of photos cause I really didn't take that many photos, especially of moments I would have liked to capture. And the moments I did manage to capture, the photos were often focused incorrectly or I had the white balance selected all wrong and couldn't tell from the tiny LCD screen in bright sunlight.

Anyway.

I am going too slowly so here's the first two days while I try to get the rest done. Sorry!

YouTube Video

Days 0-1 Saturday-Sunday:


My flights would have me arrive after 5PM, missing most of the first day.



but it sure was nice being back at the house again.



NAME THAT POKEMON

"it's pikachu!"



"GOD DAMNIT!"







Few hours into the meet and Tails was already done

















































o7





















pete fucking died




talec fucking died




it was a good day for acer and haydee



It was somewhere around here that I smoked weed and came along grocery shopping in an effort to find ingredients to make mascarpone ice cream


(phone)

I took several photos of syrup before eventually finding everything I needed


(phone)


(phone)


(phone)






then we did jeopardy





pang was not oka-
















(phone)


Then we went to pick up Term!

It was Skills, Acer and me listening to the Initial D soundtrack all the way to the airport!



and he arrived!







then it was grilled cheese time!



geddit



then telestrations happened



and skills knew















"talec is really good at drawing chocobo or unicorns or something i guess"



angry sun and the tower of too many bells


and now a delightful little set of acer laughing









it was at this point that the brownie that had been on my plate in this photo taken earlier finally kicked in and no further photos were taken on my camera for the rest of the evening from the looks of it




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Jan 1, 2017 - 08:58 AM
Games of the Year 2016 + AWARDS
Response to: Games of the Year 2015 and the usual awards by map car man words telling me to do things

That's right. The coveted Qwarky awards for the best games of the year!

Time to go through the list of games I played last year and pick my favourites from the new releases. I built a new computer in December 2015, after two years of very little computer gaming, so 2016 was extremely PC focused.



Games I started before 2016 and only finished last year:

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (135 hours total!)


Games I started and finished last year:

Blocks That Matters
Tetrobot and Co.
The Marvellous Miss Take
The Stanley Parable
GUN GODZ
Nuclear Throne (looped after 66 hours of attempts)
Shardlight
Dungeon of the Endless
Antichamber
Amazing Princess Sarah
Samorost 3
Stranded
Murder
Deadlight
Legend of Grimrock
Legend of Grimrock 2
Lili: Child of Geos
Gunman Clive
Hyper Light Drifter
Lume
Lumino City
Mark of the Ninja
Lucidity
Stealth Bastard Deluxe
Orcs Must Die!
Orcs Must Die! 2
Torchlight
Torchlight 2
Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones
A Story About My Uncle
NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
DeadCore
Oxenfree
Kholat
The Way
Cloudbuilt
Master Spy
Shatterhand
Power Blade
Power Blade 2
Shadow of the Ninja
Xeodrifter
Duck Tales 2
Overwatch (started, still playing, but with 200 hours clocked I'd say I've played "enough")
Oxenfree (replay)
Oniken
Forward to the Sky
Hotline Miami (replay)
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Doom (2016)
Seraph
Republique
Lumo
Submerged
Dreaming Sarah
Odallus: The Dark Call
Batman: Arkham City - Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC
Batman: Arkham Knight + Arkham Episodes DLC chapters
The Longest Journey
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey
INSIDE
Momodora
Momodora II
Momodora III
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
Firewatch
ADR1FT
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Saints Row: The Third (replay)
Saints Row IV
Saints Row 2 (replay)
Shantae: Risky’s Revenge - Director’s Cut
Owlboy
Dishonored 2
MANDAGON
Virginia

Games I started last year but didn't finish:

None (unless you count Overwatch)



THE DEFINITIVE TOP 12 LIST OF THE BEST GAMES FROM 2016:

Spoiler:
12.



Shardlight
[Point & Click Adventure Game of the Year] [Best Wadjet Eye Game of 2016] [The Ben Chandler Award for 2D Adventure Game Sprite Excellence]

Another lovely little point & click adventure from the reigning champions of the genre, with some wonderful world building, melancholic atmosphere and multiple endings depending on your choices. Doesn't quite reach Gemini Rue or Primordia, or even Technobabylon, but well worth playing through. And the sprites are absolutely lovely.

7/10


11.



Samorost 3
[Cutest Game] [Best Music] [Best Collectibles] [Best Third Samorost] [Best Second Samorost Sequel] [Best Dog] [The "Amanita Design Game of the Year" Award For Best Amanita Developed Game] [Best Space]

Amanita gives us another gift and Samorost 3 is more Samorost, but on a level of polish far beyond even Botanicula. It's an adorable, funny, surreal little adventure and one of the most charming titles of the year.

8/10


10.



Virginia
[Best Hard Cuts Of the Year] [The "Seriously Those Hard Cuts Were Really Fucking Great" Award For Some Surprisingly Well Done And Neat Hard Cuts] [Last Game I Played of the Year Award] [Second Best Wordless Narrative] [Most Annoying Cryptic Sequences] [Most Unexpected Little Sequence That Made Me Tear Up That Wasn't Really Meant To Be Particularly Sad]

My feelings towards this game shifted from positive to negative to positive to negative to contemplative and hesitant in the span of its very brief 2 hour run time. It's an achingly beautifully crafted linear path through a set of several mysteries, filled with absolutely stunning little touches, from the use of music and dialogueless narrative, to the superb cuts that completely delighted me. Then it'll throw you into sequences that you won't understand and at times it's spellbinding while other times it's just deeply frustrating. There are sights and scenes that make no sense, whether you try to interpret them literally or symbolically, and the last stretch of the game left me feeling disappointed initially. The more I've thought of it, the more I've warmed back to it, but it is a difficult game to enjoy outright. After sleeping on it, I've come to realize I did very much enjoy the journey, even if the conclusion could have been more satisfying. In either case it's a fascinating, ambitious and in many ways rewarding experiment in first person and video game narrative. It's just that there's another game on this list that does all that so much better.

8/10


9.



Dreamfall Chapters
[Best Zoe] [Best Writing] [Best April] [Best Crow] [Second Most Unexpected Game to Make Me Cry] [Best Episodic Game] [Best Continuation of Dreamfall] [Best Consequences for Choices] [The "Man I Hope They End Up Making The Longest Journey Home" Award For Hoping For A Final Chapter To April's Story Now That Zoe's Is Done]

I sat down and played through The Longest Journey, then Dreamfall and then Dreamfall Chapters almost back to back. People should not play Chapters without playing through the first two games in the series first. Chapters is very much a continuation (and in many ways a conclusion) of past events and the destinies of old characters people like and care deeply about. It's a beautiful adventure, with slight attempts at consequences for choices, but nothing actually major. You are essentially just observing a sequence of events that are only a minor part of much bigger things. And it's really good. Basically play The Longest Journey and Dreamfall. Chapters is fantastic and absolutely worth it. Norwegians are still fantastic storytellers.

9/10


8.



Dishonored 2
[Best Stealth] [Most Emily] [Best Stephen Russell] [Second Best Delilah of the Year] [Best Supernatural Powers] [Winner of The Best Level of the Year Award: The Clockwork Mansion] [The Most Unexpected Brandon Keener Award for Unexpected Brandon Keener]

It's more Dishonored. It's got a paper-thin main story. Its characters aren't particularly engaging. Its world building and flavour text are terrific. Its stealth is really fun. It's got a few absolutely fantastic levels. It's really pretty. It's really great if you like Dishonored 1.

8/10


7.



Doom (2016)
[Best Single Player First Person Shooting] [Best First Person Platforming] [Best Use of Music in Combat] [One of the Biggest Surprises of the Year Award] [The FURY ROAD Award For Unexpected Old Franchise Revival That Actually Turned Out Really Fantastic]

I had written this game off as garbage several times since it's first E3 reveal. It looked like crap. It turned out to be really fucking good. It successfully takes the spirit of what a lot of people love about Doom and splices it with more modern technology and trappings. The focus on exploring the levels is absolutely terrific and they reward exploration and it's all completely perfectly in line with the vast levels and oh my god it's so good. Just the way simply moving around and navigating the levels and shooting feels genuinely good and satisfying is incredibly impressive to me and should be celebrated. It loses some of its steam like two levels or so before it ends, but this is one of the best first person shooter campaigns of recent years. The fury and fun are just wonderful.

8/10


6.



INSIDE
[Depressing Danish Game of the Year] [Best Animation] [The Geez That's Messed Up Award For Implied Dark Stuff] [Best Follow-up to Limbo] [Most Violence Towards Children] [Creepiest Underwater Segment]

It's a worthy successor to Limbo. And I really liked Limbo. It's bleak, it's dark, it's beautifully paced, it's got gorgeous animation and environmental design, it's a very memorable cinematic platformer that doesn't overstay its welcome.

9/10


5.



Overwatch
[Best Multiplayer] [The Most Hours Played Award For Most Hours Played] [Best FPS]

I don't like competitive multiplayer games but I put 200 hours into Overwatch so it has to be doing something really well. It's bright, colourful, fast-paced, fun, pretty and has a world and characters that are charming and memorable enough to add that extra bit to the game. Blizzard are really good at making shiny things.

9/10


4.



Hyper Light Drifter
[Best Graphics] [Prettiest Game] [Best Music] [Best Combat] [Best Wordless Narrative] [Awesome Architecture] [Best Atmosphere]

A slightly non-linear Zelda, but with less reliance on gadgets and more focus on combat and exploration. It strikes a good balance and the atmosphere, environmental storytelling and stunning visuals are enough to keep you playing. This was my favourite game of the year for several months.. until I played the next three.

9/10


3.



Owlboy
[Best Graphics] [Prettiest Game] [Best Music] [Longest Development Time] [Best Finale] [The Delightful Award For Being Genuinely Surprising And Wonderful And You Should Play This Game] [Made Me Cry Award For Making Me Cry] [The Unexpectedly Emotionally Involving Award For Making Me Cry And Not Expecting It] [Most Unexpected Game to Make Me Cry] [Best Hug] [Best Grass]

Nine years it took them to make it, it feels unreal that it's actually done and here and really quite wonderful. Owlboy is a beautiful little metroid-lite adventure, set in a gorgeous world of floating islands, mysterious ruins and ancient, forgotten technology. Play it. It's absolutely wonderful and charming and beautiful to look at.

9/10


2.



Firewatch
[Best Writing] [Prettiest Game] [Best First Person] [Second Best Dialogue System] [Best Delilah of the Year] [Spookiest Moment In A Not Spooky Game] [Second Spookiest Moment In A Not Spooky Game] [Best Walkie Talkie] [Best Character Creation] [Best Drinking] [Best Voice Acting]

Holy god damnit I did not expect this game to win me over. Beautifully subdued in pretty much everything, it's a meticulously crafted, quiet, unassuming little walk through the lives of two lost adults, as much a character study as it is a mystery to uncover. It is a stunning use of interactive narrative and I can't wait to see what Campo Santo does next.

9/10


1.



Oxenfree
[BEST GAME OF THE YEAR] [Best Writing] [Best Voice Acting] [Spookiest Game] [Best Island] [Best Radio] [Best Music] [Best Dialogue System] [Best Alex] [The "Another Unexpected Emotionally Involving Game" Award for Being Unexpectedly Emotionally Involving For What Is Essentially A Teen Horror Trope Plot, Especially The Moments Where A Confused Alex Gets To Talk To Her Dead Brother In The Past Were Incredibly Well Done And Subtle And Hit Me Right In The Feels And Yes They Made Me Cry Ok]

Well this is it. My favourite game of the year. A completely wonderful little ghost story, with a fantastic dialogue system, terrific writing, lovable characters and a surprisingly engaging narrative and emotional punch. A remarkable debut work from a highly promising developer who know what they're doing. I love this game so much and I want to see what Night School does next.

9/10




A definitive list of 25 games I probably should have played last year:

Spoiler:


The Last Guardian



HITMAN (2016)



Uncharted 4: A Thief's End



The Witness



Let It Die



Superhot



Thumper



REZ Infinite
(although in my defence I have ordered the physical disc release, which is set to ship sometime in January)



Dark Souls III



Abzû



Obduction



Earth Defence Force 4.1



XCOM 2



Event [0]



The Turing Test



Necropolis



Quadrilateral Cowboy



Mafia III



Conga Master



Yomawari: Night Alone



Dead Rising 4



ICEY



Bound



Deadbolt



Mirror's Edge Catalyst




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Dec 25, 2016 - 01:35 PM
A Qwarky Christmas 2016
Just in time for the forums to be back too!

Happy chrism!

Merry crisis!

Here's some photos of a table!



Setting up the table!



Lots of of starters on the table!




Smoked horsemeat!



Goes well with honeydew melon!



Shredded carrots and lemon juice!



Mushrooms and beetroot and creme fraiche and red peppers and little plum tomatoes and plates as well!



So many different dishes of fish!

This was salmon!



Gather round the salmon!



So much food!



More food!

Soft dates, filled with blue cheese, wrapped in serrano ham, cooked in the oven! Delicious! Amazing!



yyiiiiiiiiiissssssssssss



What's that, booze, sure let's drink to that!



Cheers!



After a good rest, time for main course. With casseroles! Potato (lower right), turnip (top), and a new dish my mom tried: sweet potato, with pecan nuts and crisp bacon bits on top. Amazing! Delicious!



MERRY HAM EVERYONE



yyyyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssssssssss this is the stufffffff



This stuff was so goooood



yiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssss it's so good to be alive



made mascarpone ice cream for dessert

had to go lay down for a while after eating way too much



Cakes with coffee!



Gather round the cakes!



Presents!

Way too many presents!



It took us forever to each open our presents in turn. We ended up going home past 10:30pm!

It was a great christmas!

I hope everyone has a great christmas!

Merry chrimas!

It's so nice to have GFF back!


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Jun 25, 2016 - 09:23 AM
GFF Meet 2016 photos - Part 2
Sorry for the delay! I had a few days of distractions and more pressing matters and wasn't making any progress. Here's the remaining days at last!

YouTube Video

Day 3 Tuesday::


previously, on gff meet



erik made us us delicious breakfasts






(Acer)

There is so much going on in this photo I love it all








Then somewhere here we went grocery shopping, people played Smash and I made ice cream



(phone pic)

Cody whipping up dat cream for me because I have no technique



Wings!




(Skills?)

Suspicious Devin questions his life decisions regarding nugs









Fuse was great fun to play



Resistance with regular playing cards and mints for guns worked really well!

YouTube Video

YouTube Video






Then there was some 2 controllers 1 character action with Acer and uh



Abby >:|

YouTube Video

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Pretty sure it was here where we had late night hottub and pool dip and talking and a perfect cloudless starry night sky and everyone else had passed out and we turned off all the lights in the house and Puck played music on his little speakers as we sat by the pool and there was mascarpone ice cream tasting in the dark and it was all just

I wish I could have stayed there in that night forever



Day 4 Wednesday::


Took a walk on the beach! It was a lovely day!











Then unfortunately my mode dial clicked into manual without me noticing, which had a set 1/60 shutter speed, so pretty much the remaining photos Abby and I took were completely blown up



We buried a dead crab and gave it a tomb stone and Abby wrote moving words which I could not record




(Abby)


(Abby)


(Abby)






(phone pic)

Then it was escape room time!

YouTube Video

After some tiddy slapping



(phone pic)


(phone pic)


(phone pic)


(phone pic)

Escape room was great fun <3

The other group did the horror themed kidnapped-in-murderer's-basement room while we had a stolen painting mystery to solve. Lots of number locks and drawers to open, books to leaf through, a few mathematical puzzles to solve. There was a collapsing wall panel that revealed more puzzles, a fireplace you opened up and crawled through to find more locked doors and eventually we got out with 8:17 to spare! They were very surprised none of us had ever done an escape room before.


(phone pic)

Unfortunately no photos were allowed so I couldn't take shots of the actual room.


(phone pic)

Then it was time for victory ice cream!


(phone pic)

Lurkie was suitably patriotic


(phone pic)



Day 5 Thursday::

Lunch and candy store in Old Orchard Beach somewhere around here



Abby was feeling blue



People were enjoying my ice cream!



But not Erik. He was out of control.





Abby made a friend



bap bap bap bap




I think it was this day that people did bowling? Maybe? I dunno. I took a nap on the couch and cuddled with Cody and Andrew for hours.






Then Erik and Abby played Kirby Super Star downstairs






Day 6 Friday::











Andrew thought he was smiling



It was pretty much a massage day









































The Erik is perfect


And then I went to bed! I don't know what else happened!



YouTube Video

Day 7 Saturday::

I think Skills took a bunch of photos while we were still in bed! I think!


(Skills?)


(Skills?)


(Skills?)


(Skills?)


(Skills?)


(Skills?)





Sigh. Last days are always a bit gloomy gloomy but there is still something comforting about them. You've had a good week and you'll have memories. You'll see people again soon enough.

And there's a lot of hugs going around.



































This is what people look like when they hug you, Abby



nah just kidding



The internet is closed. Everyone go home.





bye Andrew



Then we drove back to Abby's to drop her stuff off, took like a two hour nap and eventually got me to my airport.








(phone pic)

It was pretty much the bestest possible way to end a trip


I had some trouble with my flights but in the end it was ok




Aaand that's it. Good week. Miss everyone.

Really psyched next year is happening.

Thank you all for being such lovely people.


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Jun 21, 2016 - 05:30 PM
GFF Meet 2016 photos - Part 1
What a week.

I took 1206 photos during this trip, of which I'm running over 540 through Lightroom to see which ones I can and will use. I'm up to tuesday so far so here's the first batch, pre meet days plus Saturday to Monday.

Once again a few people took shots with my camera so I will try to credit them to the best of my memory. If you spot something you took and I didn't name you, please let me know so I can edit it. Some really great shots!

YouTube Video

Pre-Meet Days Wed-Fri::








































(Abby)


(Abby)

Look at how fucking happy I am playing Operation Wolf






(phone pic)










Day 0 Saturday::












Lurkie arrives!



Pete arrives!



Pete has vests and jackets for us to wear!





Menno is here!



People are here!





Burgers!





Drinking!



Pang!









Lurker makes neat things!



Burgers are neat too!



DAVE IS HERE WHAT THE FUCK





LOOK AT HOW HAPPY YOU MADE ABBY DAVE YOU ASSHOLE













Pang is a jolly wizard















People would try on Andrew's glorious flannel!









This incident is covered here







Pang is befuddled by how good pack makes the jacket look





It was a good first night



Day 1 Sunday::


Garr arrives! He had shitty flights and would not get his luggage until days later! :(



















Concept proved very popular!



E3!



Jeopardy!



Jeopardy!!







(mad)





Food!



Poker!

And then I went to bed! I don't know what else happened!



Day 2 Monday::


More poker!











Group photo!



Drinking!



More drinking!







Cider tasting!

















Hey.







But Pang was not impressed.











And now for my favourite set of the week, Lurker drinking Koskenkorva:













::thumbs up::








Poor Garr was so tired






(Skills)


(Skills)


(Skills)


(Skills)


(Skills)


(Skills)


(Skills)


(Skills)


(Skills)


(phone pic)

The next morning:


(I put myself way too low on the scale)



And that's it for the first three days!

More to come as soon as I get around to doing them!


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Jun 20, 2016 - 04:03 PM
brrrrrrrbrbrbrbrbrrrr
I'm nowhere near done with even Day 1 photos, but I had to upload the first batch just to show this

So a bunch of people were posing in Pete's jackets:



And as soon as Pack joins in Skills' face just STARTS VIBRATING LIKE CRAZY

Spoiler:


aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Spoiler:


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Spoiler:


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Spoiler:


SKILLS YOU'RE MAKING PACK UNCOMFORTABLE

Spoiler:


oh thank god it stopped

but the damage is done

poor pack



bonus gif
Spoiler:



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Games of the Year 2015 and the usual awards
Response to: Games of year 2014 and AWARDS! by map car man words telling me to do things

It's that time again! I'm really late with this!

Time to look through my list of what I played and pick my favourites. I got fired in April and that put a big damper on any motivation to play for several months, which contributed a lot to the shortness of this year's list, compared to previous years.

ANYWAY

Games I started before 2015 and only finished last year:

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Games I started and finished last year:

Life is Strange Episode 1: Chrysalis
The Swapper
The Order: 1886
Life is Strange Episode 2: Out of Time
Haunting Ground
Mortal Kombat X
Mortal Kombat 9 (replay)
Life is Strange Episode 3: Chaos Theory
Splatoon
Life is Strange Episode 4: Dark Room
Until Dawn
Super Mario Maker
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Toren
Titan Souls
Pneuma: Breath of Life
Technobabylon
Undertale
Life is Strange Episode 5: Polarized
The Charnel House Trilogy
Richard & Alice
LIT (Android)
SOMA
Monument Valley + Forgotten Shores + Ida's Dream
Bloodborne
Sorcery! (Android)
The Room (Android)
Outlast
Outlast: Whistleblower
Olympia Rising
Armikrog
Broken Sword (replay)
Yoshi's Woolly World
Tales from the Borderlands
The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings (replay)

Games I started last year but didn't finish:

A Golden Wake
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D
Sorcery! 2 (Android)
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (still playing! 113 hours in!)


Best games of 2015 I played:

Spoiler:
5.



SOMA
[Best Horror Game] [Most First Person] [Best Setting] [Best Underwater Setting] [Most Water] [Best Audio Tapes] [Best Scifi] [The "God Damnit" Award for Bleakest Ending]

I generally don't like horror games. Or rather, I like the concept of them, but I don't like playing them. SOMA walked a fine line between stressful something horrible chasing you oh god have to get away, and super atmospheric, super bleak, super fascinating scifi narrative jesus I have to know what happens next. It looks superb, the setting is awesome, and the scifi, moral, ethical and philosophical concepts it throws at you turned out to be genuinely engaging. Great stuff.

8/10

YouTube Video


4.



Technobabylon
[Adventure Game of the Year] [The Ben Chandler Award for 2D Adventure Game Sprite Excellence] [Most "Man was this second ending more satisfying than the first one I got" Award]

A really, really cool cyberpunk(ish) point & click adventure with amazing spriting from the always excellent Ben Chandler, with some great music, atmosphere and engaging narrative to boot. Delightful stuff, and I really enjoyed the multiple solutions to puzzles and endings. Here's hoping they make a sequel. Somehow.

8/10

YouTube Video


3.



Tales from the Borderlands
[Best Use of Borderlands] [Best Opening Credits] [Best Choices] [Best QTE] [Most Button Prompts] [Best Sasha] [Strongest "Man I hope they make a sequel" Feeling Around the Ending] [Best Humour] [Best Chase Sequence] [Best Episodic Game] [The Best Patrick Warburton Award]

This was a year of delightful surprises. I enjoyed The Walking Dead Season 1 a lot, but I felt like Telltale can't keep pulling the same trick over and over. Turns out they totally can, you just need some good writers and talent. Easily their best work yet, TftB says "so hey, why not use this template to do something funny instead" and the end result is marvelous. Genuinely funny, inventive, surprising, engaging, with a cast of terrific characters, setpieces and great banter. Superb music selection too, the opening credits for each episode were some of my favourite things in videogames in 2015. Episode 4 also contains an amazing extended fingergun shootout, with Troy Baker doing his best Patrick Warburton impression, so that's a plus.

9/10

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Undertale
[Biggest Surprise] [Best Undyne] [Best Toriel] [Best Ending] [Date of the Year] [Best Spider Discounts] [Best Music] [Best Humour] [Best Enemy Design] [Most Mercy] [Largest Chain Reaction of "I will gift this to someone" Incidents] [Best Skeleton] [Best Wrong Number Song]

Everyone's already gushed a ton about this and I feel like it totally deserves it. Sure, the fandom around it is pretty obnoxious at this point, but that has nothing to do with the game itself. Every fandom is pretty obnoxious, really. I was super sceptical of the game till I actually played it, and it is disarmingly charming. Completely amazing soundtrack, well written, genuinely engaging, laugh out loud funny, touching and delightful in multiple ways.

9/10

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
[Game of the Year] [Best RPG] [Most Graphics] [Best Geralt] [Most Open World] [Best Horse] [Best Ciri] [Best Triss] [Best Godling] [Best Music] [Most Swords] [Best Leshen] [Best minigame that's really just a game of its own and now there's a browser version of it because who doesn't want to play more fucking Gwent no one that's who I should be playing Gwent right now]

I'm a bit over 113 hours in and I've still not finished it. What I have experienced so far however has been astonishing. It's an open world game that does things right. It's not a sandbox game, you can't just dick around and be an asshole to everyone for no reason, and that might disappoint some. But as an open world RPG, as a Witcher game, as a conclusion to an excellent series of games, it's peerless. It's massive in scope and scale, it's stunning to look at, it's incredibly well crafted. Every little side quest and activity you can do has a beginning, an arc, and a conclusion, often taking you in surprising directions, places and situations, constantly delighting and presenting you with experiences and journeys and characters and narratives that feel meaningful and completely relevant. It will probably be daunting and even exhausting to some, but take the time to live in this world. It's incredible, and without question the best game of the year.

9/10

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A list of other really enjoyable titles from last year:

Spoiler:


Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
[Cutest Game] [Best Running Animation]

8/10




Life is Strange
[Best Use of Ashley Burch] [Best Music] [Best Brooke] [Best Second Work from a French Developer]

8/10




Yoshi's Woolly World
[Best Platformer] [Best Yoshi] [Most Yarn]

7/10




Splatoon
[Best Shooter] [Best Paint Physics] [Best Toasty Cat] [Most Fresh] [Best Music] [Best Squid Sisters] [Best Boss Fight]

9/10




Bloodborne
[Best Architecture] [Best Doll] [Most Blood] [Biggest Borne] [Most Kos] [Most Furious Boss Battles] [Best Cosmic Horror Tweest] [Most NOPE] [Best Papa Petrol] [Best Daddy Dieseldosh]

8/10




Super Mario Maker
[Best Editor] [Most Spikes] [Most Hocus Pocus]

8/10




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Dec 25, 2015 - 03:56 AM
A Qwarky Christmas 2015 Remastered HD GOTY Complete Edition
It's thaaaaat time of the year again! Time for the Qwarky family to gather round and stuff themselves with delicious foods and open presents!

This year we were at my parents!

There was food!



Preparations preparations preparations







setting up the taaaableeeee







These little babies will turn up later all cooked and amazing tasting

basically dates with blue cheese wrapped in serrano ham



this bubbly liquid cardiac arrest is going to turn into our SAUCE



preparatiooonnnssss









TABLE IS SET TIME FOR STARTERS



but first a christmas star



awwww yiisssss smoked horse meat and honeydew melon yissss



let's not forget alcohol



cheers!

To christmas!

Welcome all!



awwww yiisssssss I love christmas



delicious things preparing in the ovennnnn



cheers again sure why not

To delicious starters!



You guys have no idea how amazing tasting these turned out

AMAZING

the date is so hot and scrunchy and sweet and the cheese and the serrano ham so salty and it's just MMMMM



after a brief rest time for ham



TIME FOR SAUCE



TIME FOR HAM



TIME FOR SAUCE



TIME FOR HAM



TIME FOR HAM AND SAUCE



AWWW YIISSSSSSSSSS I LOVE CHRISTMAS



TO HAM AND SAUCE



AFTER ANOTHER BRIEF REST TIME FOR DESSERT

MASCARPONE ICE CREAM

IN A SHAPE

I GOT IT SO RIGHT AGAIN



YISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS





SACHER CAKE WITH COFFEE AND TEA





Then we celebrated my aunt's birthday and sang poorly for her

it was great



Time for glüwein

In case you haven't had any, it's basically hot berry juice with a cinnamon stick, red wine and booze, served with raisins and almonds in a mug



it's great!



time for presents









I love this shot of my mom

she is SO amused right now





my mom made earrings for both of my aunts





oh god so much leftovers I'm gonna be eating for days

Here's what I got!
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This freaking sweet Tintin tin

I can fill it with candy!



a tiny bottle of booze from my brother because why not



two gigantic bags of mini toblerone



a packette of cigarettes with the greatest of brand names!



Abby sent me a new summer shirt!

It's another perfect fit!

She also included cards and a giant christmas stocking I didn't take a photo of!



And the rest of the box was FULL OF CANDY

SO MANY NAPOLEONS >8U~





I also got a new origami book!

hooray!



and a film enthusiast guide/collection of articles



A Fingerpori notebook



A cookbook of various chicken recipes!



and a Leatherman of my own!


Hope everyone has a lovely Merry Christmas and a great New Year!


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GFF Meet 2015 photos: Day 5-7
Day 0 photos here

Days 1-3 photos here

Day 4 photos here


Sorry for the long wait, I had numerous technical difficulties first getting my photos out of the second memory card, and then kept getting distracted from going through them all.. for.. reasons..

ANYWAY HERE'S THE LAST THREE DAYS SAD TIMES FOR ALL IT'S LIKE THE MEET ENDED A SECOND TIME AND IT'S REALLY PAINFUL



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Day 5 Thursday:








We did a thing to Acer's desktop



There was group photo time





"is THAT what I was up to last night?!"













Then we went for candy and lunch!



Candy!



CANDYYYY












(Abby)


(Abby)


(Abby)


(Abby)


(Abby)

CHEMTRAAAAIIIILLLLSSSS









Erik preparing mushrooms



Then we went to buy chocolate milk and lottery tickets



and ice cream for dave



Pang was suitably uncomfortable for his DUNGEON challenge of Rogue





We even got in a bit of Kart that day!



Then it was time for fancy dinner!





















































































After a hard day of working, Erik relaxes









aaaand dessert



ABBY GET OFF YOUR PHONE IT'S TIME FOR BED



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Day 6 Friday:


















VICTORY PIZZA



PLAIN VICTORY PIZZA




Pretty sure this is where oceanforce took place. Even I participated! Dave has photos!







And now for some more adorable "I'm not a spy" faces for Resistance











it was a good idea to give him the gun


Then we ordered Five Guys and sat around waiting for food to arrive!


(Abby)


(Abby)


(Abby)


(Abby)


(Skills)


(Skills)


(Skills)


(Skills)


(Skills)


THEN GUESS WHO DROPPED BY



HI SASS

HI DOPE



It was so lovely to see them again!



ARRGRLGHRLRGHRLGHLRGHRGLHH WARP SPEEEEEED



Did I mention it was really nice to see Sass and Dope again

I missed you guys ;____;



I really like this one.


it's also amazing what exposure and shadows can change:






>:(













DEVIN NO





Fiasco was also a thing!



DAWN OF THE FINAL DAY

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Day 7 Saturday:
Tried to stay in bed for as long as possible but SOMEONE insisted on getting up.



sigh





Part of me dislikes last days but I still kinda like them



it's obviously sad the week is over



and you have to go home



but it's not all bad

clearly the week has been amazing you're already missing it



You'll have memories and photos



and there's hugs and love



so many hugs and so much love





I love these people



and I love hugging them



and I love loving them I guess





yes even him



and him





Term saluting the love





oh stop being so theatrical



I'm gonna miss this house so much again



and this side of the house too



and this driveway



and this lady

(just a little)





BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE

we meant to go to ihops for breakfast and waffles, but there was no parking space so we went to tim horton's instead and had no waffles






(dat disapproving glare)
















then everyone's flights were delayed





*shrug*



Then Abby eventually dropped me off at my airport and I was on my way home



It was a fairly easy trip back, no bigger complications or missed flights



Arriving in Helsinki, we landed away from the main building, and took a bus, driving under the planes. It was pretty cool



And that's it. End of the best week of the year.

I pretty much said what I wanted about the week in the Day 0 entry, but thank you all again for being such wonderful, fun, beautiful people that it's such a joy to hang out with you all week. The wait for 2016 is too long


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