#Engineered Victory

[minew01]

[theflyingkipper]

can you two back me up here instead of laughing!!

[tf2incorrectquotes]

Spy: *stands* I need to get some air.

Engineer: *tilts his head to the side* There’s air in here.

Spy: I don’t want your air.

[jiauro]

[postgamecontent]

Victory Run (TG-16 Mini)

The fifth and final release in 1987 for the PC Engine was Victory Run. I just realized that 60% of the console's 1987 titles are on this mini-console, with the others involving potentially tricky licensing. Neat. I also just realized that unlike many companies launching new consoles, NEC and Hudson didn't have much in the way of sports games during the early months. Victory Run is the closest thing to it, so any parents who wanted to enjoy some golf or baseball would have to wait.

Victory Run is an interesting game. It's one of the earlier examples of the Japanese game industry's fascination with the Paris-Dakar Rally from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. Its colorful visuals, upbeat music, and horizon-chasing gameplay might make you think you're in for an arcade-style driving game in the vein of OutRun. This would be a grievous miscalculation on the part of the player. Victory Run is absolutely brutal, and makes an earnest effort at trying to capture the feeling of the incredible endurance run that awaited drivers in the Paris-Dakar.

The race as a whole is broken up into legs, each of which has a target time you're meant to hit. You have some bonus time to spare, but the pool carries over from leg to leg. Finish quicker than expected and you'll add to that pool. Come in slower and you'll reduce it. The target times are tight. If you crash, you're going to be eating into that bonus time with gusto. The race is long, and any mistakes you make early on are going to leave you in a very precarious position towards the end.

Your car also takes damage to its various parts based on how you drive. At the start of the game you can take twenty spare parts total with you. There are five different parts, and you'll want to distribute your selections based on how you drive. Between legs, you can choose to use one of these parts to replace your existing one. Your call how far you want to push things, but if a part blows out completely during a race you're going to be in a lot of trouble. Don't skimp on your tires.

The game controls well but the low-to-the-road perspective can make it hard to see what's coming. The road frequently twists and turns, and it's full of other vehicles. Victory Run is tough. If you get everything right and all goes to plan, it's not a ridiculously long game. But those are serious "ifs", and in practice you'll be lucky to pull out a win even with reasonably good driving. That lends this game a fair amount of replay value, and while I don't think this is a particularly great racer by 16-bit standards, I think it's a good meal for those 1987 PC Engine owners. Really, not even that bad by the standards of the game's North American launch in 1989.

As part of the TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine Mini line-up, I think it serves a few purposes. The console didn't have a ton of racers, so it's nice to have any decent ones Konami could scare up. It's also, I think, one of the better games from the console's first year. If you're using this mini-console to do a chronological journey, it's a pleasant albeit challenging stop.

[meowww-ffxiv]

Awwh the surprise reward of the newest Tataru quest is a portrait of Gaius and his dead children + the remaining one.

Meowdred who despises the ex-imperialist piece of shit and still haven't forgiven him and ALSO hates him like a twisted reflection:

[abelllia]

Re-reading the MAG 160 transcript and I want to bite Elias’ head off so bad

[omarwolaeth]

Might be strange sounding, but the card reveals/banlists always come in 2 different perspectives for me, irrelevant of which banlist I'm playing under; because I write fics, I have to contend with the banlist at times (a majority of the time it's based on the sort of half-tcg, half-ocg Master Duel banlist with Anime Specific Additions.)

So when new cards come out I have to judge them not only by what I can figure out from their effects and traits (combined with what's currently meta, and if there's anything that wants to play the new cards, whilst being mindful of banlist differences), I also have the joy of internally discussing the value of a deck when its in a fictional setting.

I don't think anyone normally thinks about if a deck's theme is strong enough to tie a character to it, let alone if a deck's theme is too strong and tying a character to it is like Akihiko Sanada's obsession with protein in anything that isn't mainline persona (Like the Q games.)

Also makes engines less appealing.

[cigarette-catgirl]

Ever since I saw Ryu and Marisa's muscle flexes in SF6, I was so excited to see Zangief because the RE Engine's capabilities are insane. Beautiful burly man

[victoriousakadice]

It GOES Deeper/ We Active - September 2 2023 Bpm 160 Victorious Aka Dice...

[hirokiyuu]

ive been thinking abt a helio/stratos swap recently and mostly just like. the reality of a vace+rex+nomi childhood friends trio in this au is so. man

[wreckedhoney]

^^ "coming to the conclusion that positioning the "can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction" debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that "should we have the death penalty" is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse"

not proshipper not anti but a secret third thing (person who has a career in the media and, through covering legislative politics, has watched "associating with problematic fiction or entertainment is an indicator of moral degeneracy" rapidly become a mainstream GOP position that they are encoding in legislation to target the queer community under the guise of protecting children, thus coming to the conclusion that positioning the "can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction" debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that "should we have the death penalty" is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse — the extent and manner to which fiction affects reality is an issue that is immediately relevant to today's US politics, and to summarize my opinions on the matter in fandom terms would be to diminish the ways this debate is affecting america Right The Fuck Now. and i have stopped taking "this person is bad for shipping the wrong anime thing and being horny about it" in any sort of good faith ever since I saw it literally used as part of a GOP smear campaign against a transgender state legislator in an attempt to defend the right from backlash after they used their supermajority in the Montana house to prevent her from speaking on the floor. Anyway I think everyone on this site, especially Americans, could benefit from ceasing to think in proship v anti vocabulary and instead developing coherent political positions on the nature of fiction that do not directly align with current fascist political tactics)

[caffeinated-and-annoying-bard]

Sometimes I entertain the thought of trying to be funny in the privacy (no privacy, every person I remotely get along with has it) of my instagram account

[Non-direct translation: "Moodboard or whatever kids these days say"]

[gayferrari]

Not tontake away from Max talent, because he's insane, but brocedes taking eachother out in Spain 2016 was absolutely great for him. People immediately knew he had winners potential and where willing to extend more grace for his crimes. Had he come p3, idk if it would be the same

I think an essential part of sporting success is to know when to capitalise on others' mistakes to make your own success and hashtag good for him for that! A win is a win is a win no matter what! It was a momentous occasion! but also I do agree that Max having the credit as "youngest race winner ever" did wonder for his career early on even when he was very inconsistent. Like “proven race winner” >>>>> “promising raw talent” any day of the week. Would 2018 RBR have been that quick to rally behind Max over Daniel without that credit to his name? idk! Interesting scenario to consider!

but yeah the revisionism does annoy me, especially when it comes from media & insiders who should know better. I actually really appreciated that on the same weeekend as Kimi Ant getting announced, Nico Rosberg was saying on comms that Max at that age drove like a lunatic, and like, that's factual! and doesn't take away from his accomplishments! I know sports fandom as a whole is prone to recency bias, but if you're going to compare get your facts straight. See also: how testing restrictions has affected the preparation of rookies over the years, when we bring up, e.g. Lewis's rookie season. If Lewis was coming up now, he would not have the same level of preparation. That does not take away from the insane feat of Lewis almost winning a wdc as a rookie

anyway. I hope Kimi Antonelli or whatever won't be measured against the current narrative of what Max was as a new-ish driver and the expectations that come with it. Because even irl teenage Max wouldn't measure up to what many people now seem to believe Max was.

[sw5w]

N-1 Flyover

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 02:08:35 - 02:08:36

[mayday396]

Oh shit that's a great reference

Diver convince octopus to trade his plastic cup for a seashell