Hello peoples. This is What Are You Playing. Here are all of the flavors.
- Red juicy fruit
- Red pointy fruit
- Red very pointy fruit
- Yellow skin fruit
- MEAT
- Brown earth fruit
- Brown green peel taste (very rare)
- BIRD MEAT
- Spice-a-spice
- Yellow stick
- Nose-a-spice
- White rock
- OTHER BIRD MEAT
- Cheese
- Rotten cheese
- Extremely rotten cheese that has turned into slime
- TUBE MEAT
- Wood
- Sugar on fire
- Alertness juice
- THIN MEAT DISK
- Nut
- Medicine
- “Sir that’s your receipt, don’t eat that.”
Bonus question: Do you remember the first video game you ever beat, start to finish, no cheating?
​Andrew Ross (@dengarsw): My usual Pokemon Go and Let’s Go still. Injured my knees a few weeks ago and have been trying to not over do it, but there’s snorlax everywhere right now!
First game I beat cheat free was either Mega Man 4 for Gameboy or The Little Mermaid, also for Gameboy (we all had to share and I got tired of her losing).
Andy McAdams: Final Fantasy XIV now that the expansion hype is real (as if I wouldn’t be playing it anyway). Might also bounce into No Man’s Sky if the mood strikes.
First game I beat start to finish – a Sega Genesis game called Light Crusaders.
Brianna Royce (@nbrianna, blog): Not much this weekend as I’ll be away for a bitsy, but I’ll probably dip into Star Wars Galaxies Legends and City of Heroes. I also got a Chromebook so I can work while AFK, and I was tickled to see how many of my mobile games work and work well with a mouse and keyboard on it! So I might tinker more with those too.
Chris Neal (@wolfyseyes, blog): I’m slowly cutting a swath through the MSQ content in FFXIV while also very possibly falling in love with the Hrothgar I built in the benchmark. As you can see, FFXIV has rented the lion’s share of my headspace.
I forget the name of it, but there was an Atari game where you played as a person riding a skateboard traversing through this immense maze-like house, turning off all of the electronics in every room. Beating that game demanded that I not cheat because this was from an age where strategy guides and cheat codes were not yet a thing, so finally working my way through that maze felt victorious to eight-year-old Wolfy.
Eliot Lefebvre (@Eliot_Lefebvre, blog): Honestly, I have no idea; probably poking at The Sims 4, maybe World of Warcraft, probably a touch of FFXIV even though I’m pretty well ready for the expansion already. Who knows, maybe there’s something I want for sale on Steam. It’s hard in that pre-expansion lull.
The first game I ever beat was Dragon Warrior (yes, the American version of Dragon Quest), but that was with the aid of a high-level save left on my rented copy (because back then we rented games from a video store, like animals do). But the first one I beat from start to finish? Super Mario Bros. 3. I had elaborate plans to scrounge together enough P-Wings and Clouds to bypass the levels I couldn’t normally beat, and then I made it all the way to the end by myself. It was nail-biting, but I did it!
Justin Olivetti (@Sypster, blog): New games on my playlist are Outer Wilds and The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr, so both of those will get some attention from me. I’m also diving into Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Eternal Throne expansion for the first time and slowly going through the story arcs in City of Heroes on my bots Mastermind.
Mia DeSanzo (@neschria): I have been doing a tour of free-to-play MMOs on Steam, so I will probably continue that. And I will probably jump back into Black Desert Online because I just can’t stay away.
Samon Kashani (@thesamkash): This weekend I shall continue my quest to level 40 in Champions Online. I was making good progress for a while there until Guild Wars 2 dropped War Eternal and the skyscale on me. So I’ll be plugging away at both of those. I want to get back into Crowfall, but I’m just not sure it’ll make it into the rotation this weekend.
Family assisted, probably Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy on the NES were first. Totally solo, it might have been Super Mario World or Mario Kart.
Tyler Edwards: Hoping to return to D&D on Sunday. For video games, I picked up Grim Dawn on a recent Steam sale, and while it’s got some rough edges, I’m mostly enjoying it, so it will probably be my focus. Maybe more Eden Rising, too, if my friend who also plays is available.
Bonus question: I… don’t really remember. I want to say Age of Empires II? Or maybe Drakan: Order of the Flame? Or perhaps Zeus: Master of Olympus…? Thanks for making me feel old, Eliot.
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