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A layer 5 joke? That's probably the highest I can go.

It was close to a reset there, not gonna lie. :)

Thanks, Flik, we gotta do that Raizing session with Eaglet some day.

I blame Covid, got back to old habits then. I thought I'd do 5-10 videos about the games I care about, get some closure, and finally move on. But now I don't know anymore. Every now and then I think about Batrider but it's a dangerous drug. You playing anything?

It's still a fun "come home from work, rest your mind, and let the muscle memories flow" activity.

@@DMC_stg I just assumed that you play much more actively/deliberately than I usually do, routing, etc, rather than just shooting some shit. :P Focusing on just a couple of games, as well.

@@DMC_stg Still, after all these years, Batrider can have that effect on you? I mean games in general, and even more so television, is a drug for me, but if I only watched a couple of things over and over again then I think it would stop being so exciting. I get the part about closure, and moving on, though. Have myself for MANY years thought about completely switching up my life, but never had the courage. At least I got the courage to start playing more for myself, how I enjoy playing, rather than some preconceived notions about how one should play. So I play more right now than I have since back in those days 15-20 years ago. I just give myself extra lives, make artificial rules and challenges, play training mode and choose different difficulties for different stages, even change the speed of the games in Cheat Engine, to 0.97, or 0.94, or what have you. I just enjoy a bit more relaxed experience, but at the same time more engaging one because it is more custom made for my flow and abilities.

@@aVataR_ehyeh it's more like it's easy to turn a game goal to an everyday routine, and leisure time is limited. Anyway, most modern releases let you do those alterations, so you can do them without the dirty feel of a cheat engine :)

Thanks, thanks, agreed.

Fair point!

Thanks for the info!

True. The entire Rolling Gunner SS6 commentary is top-tier STG content btw.

@@DMC_stg I am glad you loved it. I can help with commentary during events if you just ask and I have time

@@BigMaloneGaming A joint Dimahoo commentary would be tempting.

Undantaget, I presume. :) I fondly remember your debates with Nitrifikation. Stgfan was great!

@@DMC_stg Haha did I get on his nerves or what! But I also idolized him, even if I don't know if that ever came across. I was very immature back then though, so I probably would have gotten on my own nerves these days if I met my younger self. :P But there was a wide range there, from like brandbil and egret iirc correctly that had thousands of comments, whereas our maybe best player was this guy that just once and then posted another very high score in like daioujou without any comment what so ever, whereas I would have made a thousand word post about my score, shit though they were! Although the most prolific overall good player must have been javel, who had relatively high scores in very many games - and also the highest amount of broken controllers from shmup rage. XD

Yeah, Javel was my favorite (so I had to include his Vertigo avatar in the community homage at the end fwiw). He was really good at learning games fast, then posting the score followed by a statement like "this game is now for sale, I will never play it again" or "I have now deleted this rom, I will never play it again". :) J2d was awesome as well, typical northern grumpy guy.

@@DMC_stgHaha ah yeah yeah yeah, Jd2. :)

Sitting here suddenly wishing I had a million bux to order shmups tailored to my liking from Kenta Cho, Like Dreamer creator, and Mecha Ritz creator. 😊

Yeah, music in compilation videos is always gonna be a divider. I've considered adding an instrumental version, but not sure it's worth the effort... and part of the fun was syncing the dodges with the temporal patterns of the vocals.

@@DMC_stg well, i subbed anyway. I like the content.

Thanks! I also struggled with the boss more than anything else, very rarely got all parts. I think I needed to get there to see the boss appear around 1:54 to have a chance, and get rid of almost all the blocks by then to have an open field. Other than that I think it is the timing of the first bomb that is most important, so maybe experiment with that. Maybe record a run and look at them side-by-side to compare? Sorry can't be more specific because I struggled there too. glhf.

@@DMC_stg Thx...I think I finally made my way on this. Question: you played on PCE mini with classic Pad or you bought a turbo pad?

@@pops_retrogamer I played with the stock turbografx mini controller, so I guess it's the classic one.

I added a link in the description if you want to download it (both .mov and mp3).

@@DMC_stg it's fine, i just yt-dlp'ed it

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Thanks for bringing the Shikigami dodges and Crimsom rants to my attention. :) I considered Paul first, but the Deathsmiles/Shikigami clips sealed it for Shadowserg. I like Aktane, very sampling friendly! Are you planning more kumites with Chinopolis, Wabby, and others? I liked that you kept track of scores throughout. My favorite stg streams!