I like it as a more relaxing version of Slay the Spire. I’m not great at either though, so take what I say with more than a few grains of salt. I feel like I can see the combos Monster Train wants more easily than in Slay the Spire, where I sometimes feel like I’m tricking the system OR the Spire is trying to trick me by offering something remoting that doesn’t quite work with my deck.

How about you? Which do you prefer, or do you have a preference?

That’s neat! I don’t think many of the games I play (and poorly at that) would count, like Slay the Spire etc.

But, maybe in the Christmas downtime i’ll apply and see what it’s all about! Thanks for sharing!

Ooooooooh, that’s good thinking. They are literally my favourite youtube thing and I’d be even more gutted if corpo took them away.

Honestly, if it was Werner Herzog asking instead of my folks… Maybe.

I was pretty choked when I saw that. I’d been excited for them to finish the new series and I was even going to get ready and probably finally watch episode 9.

Awww man, I hadn’t made that association. Happily, the bit is too good to ruin. (Not your fault and glad you enjoyed it!)

Oh, best believe we used that line all the time, unironically. It’s like they’d all watched Glengarry Glen Ross and missed the entire point of the movie/play.

That’s messed up!

My rule, especially when I was working in South East Asian neighbourhoods, was something like “stop saying yes to the first dinner offer! There’ll be something amazing you haven’t had yet by door 5.” (Those folks were crazy friendly, really blew me away and opened my eyes to a whole range of delicious foods.)

Ha, amazing! Admittedly, I’m at the age where whenever one of my good drinking friends orders a non alcoholic beverage, it’s usually followed by an explanation, and because we’re us, a good percentage of the time that explanation does involve gestating a tiny new person.

I’m not sure about pure evil so much as sociopathic. I worked briefly in door to door sales, got taken to some high performer award celebration nonsense and was standing in one of those group circles as people were recounting war stories. “Give her the discount? Hell no. And then I realized she was too old to read what I was writing so I just added an extra year on to the contract!” Huge round of laughter, light applause.

To make it more gross… The discount was standard, we got no extra commission for having or not having it, was purely a free promotion to grease the wheels. He just didn’t because, well, the old lady he’d scammed was too trusting.

I quit shortly after.

Ha, the music absolutely makes it work! Have you listened to Craven In Outer Space"s solo stuff? His synthwave remix of Hit Me Baby One More Time is genuinely one of my favourite songs of 2025. (Concerning Hobeats is up there too)

Auralnauts! And yup, the Bane rap is great.

More recenrly, one of them made this 75 second masterpiece:

https://youtu.be/IhqQO_vBhlc

Well that’s pretty dang cool.

I love the texts that are clearly just anon’s personal fantasy.

I had never heard of Backstroke before, just looked it up and cannot wait to watch it sometime!

Thanks for sharing the much more appropriate link!

Their stuff is so damned good. Existential Stormtroopers always cracks me up.

The meme is actually an attempt to exorcize Babytime from my head, where it’s been stuck for the better part of a week.

If the administration wasn’t pure fucking evil, I’d admire the audicity of taking credit for undoing the terrible policy they enacted months ago.

Forgot to give credit where credit is die, this still is from episode 3 of the auralnauts version of Star Wars. I love pretty much everything they’ve done and a million percent recommend them:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WSCm8yAxBr8

This is so well put.