Chatzy Madness Volume 361: Living With Big Ass Fishies

Jumpropeman: that new switch Cooking Mama game
Jumpropeman: is either out or not out
Jumpropeman: there is no developer claiming responsibility for its existence
Jumpropeman: it might have bitcoin mining built into it
Jumpropeman: it was announced by way of a delisted trailer uploaded months early and just found
Jumpropeman: some people associated with the game deleted their posts and tweets about it
RubyChao: jrm this sounds like a creepypasta
Jumpropeman: there is gameplay out there of it and it seems like it's just a generic Cooking Mama game except she says memes like "flex for the 'gram" and "pics or it didn't happen" sometimes
Jumpropeman: you know I'm gonna try and get it now though
Jumpropeman: it was also briefly on the eshop but then taken down
N Goat: That is some strange Cooking Mama news
N Goat: Makes me wonder if Mama's cooking the books...

(later)

Jumpropeman: the cooking mama situation is much more mundane than speculation
Jumpropeman: the developer, publisher, and rights owner are in a tiff. Publisher released the game early even though the developer and rights owner wanted more time to work on it and then it got pulled back to potentially be reworked
Motor Sheep: Ah-hah!
Jumpropeman: "The statement about crypto-currency was all buzz words. The head of planet entertainment knows very little about these things... he just put some fancy language to get potential investors who like that stuff."

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RubyChao: i have so many ideas for this season and a third of them all revolve around the same trio of characters, send help

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Draco: Guys, I almost killed my gaming group by jokingly suggesting we name our starship the "Poo Poo Pee Pee"
SKINKS: Oh no
SKINKS: What
SKINKS: I need to know but I'm scared to ask
Harpy: tell me everything.
iKomodo: Oh god
Draco: We couldn't decide on a ship name, so we were throwing out suggestions. I threw out some serious ones and then said "Let's call it the Poo Poo Pee Pee". Cue about five minutes of us busting out laughing and making jokes about it, like "The enemy ships get -2 to Initiative because they're too busy laughing" and "Sir, our shields have withstood the Poo Poo Pee Pee." "I should hope so."
Draco: We just settled on "Lockdown" as the name.
Harpy: "UNLEASH THE POO POO PEE PEE"
SKINKS: Perfect
Harpy: for some reason i thought you TPK people with the power of POO POO PEE PEE or something
Harpy: or at least that woulda been funny...

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RubyChao: can you believe there's less than a month
RubyChao: *shakes slightly*
Brinehammer: It's almost here! I'm bouncing between Hype and Oh No.
Draco: Oh n-oda
Brinehammer: Oh nobu

Chatzy Madness Volume 360: Momma Said Obliterate The Tri-County Area

ivel: was this ever shared in here
Harpy: ah yes
Harpy: dlc
Gooper Blooper: what the
Gooper Blooper: oh my god
Gooper Blooper: how did I miss the DLC
Harpy: goops you have failed us for the last time
Gooper Blooper: >she gives advice on scams because business and friends because Candid Friend
Gooper Blooper: beautiful
Gooper Blooper: Oh, I missed it because it literally came out today
Gooper Blooper: this is brand new hot off the presses gaming content
Harpy: holy shit ivel
Harpy: i take back your failure, goops
Harpy: BUT I'M WARNING YOU
ivel: oh wow
ivel: no wonder it was missed, yeah, it's brand new :U
Jumpropeman: denying us that cucumber consumption on the store page too
Gooper Blooper: only Komachi gets to see Nitori eat stuff in front of her for free
Gooper Blooper: "more like this: Spyro Reignited Trilogy"
Gooper Blooper: yes, that is just like nitori advice, good job steam
Jumpropeman: Nitori advises you get games in bundles for greater value!

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Jumpropeman: you know what I forgot existed?
Jumpropeman: the arby's waifu
Draco: How could you?
Jumpropeman: the only way to make up for such a grievous sin is to eat at arby's for the first time
Draco: Dew it

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Jumpropeman: how dare wikipedia not have a full list of all the tiger handhelds
Jumpropeman: how am I supposed to cherrypick one, be underwhelmed, and not play any again for 3 or so years?!
Gooper Blooper: link
Jumpropeman: three separate little mermaid handhelds
Jumpropeman: JUMP
FASTER
Jumpropeman: what perils await the potato heads
Gooper Blooper: JRM, look!!
Gooper Blooper: Another Terrible!!
Jumpropeman: I still have a bad rendition of that Bonjour song from the start of the film etched into my memory
Jumpropeman: "1947: Flippers introduced" Pinball was rough before 47
Gooper Blooper: it really was
ivel: there's a reason it was considered gambling
Gooper Blooper: I think the history of pinball has come up in here before a long while back but it's a fascinating story
RubyChao: meanwhile, pachinko forgot to ever move past the gambling RNG part
Gooper Blooper: and the amusement industry eventually gave us arcade games, which led to home video games!
ivel: pachinko machines are neat but not the gambling aspect of it
Jumpropeman: the definition of all flash, no substance
Gooper Blooper: JRM reviews pachinko
Gooper Blooper: Going by the definition presented in that The First Video Game documentary, Tiger handhelds don't qualify
Gooper Blooper: but they sure are close
Jumpropeman: I reviewed Sushi Cat
Jumpropeman: but I haven't touched anything that's straight pachinko like an odyssey2 game I very deliberately did not do back then :V
Gooper Blooper: Catch The Ball, more like Watch The Ball
Jumpropeman: at least you know what you're getting into there
Gooper Blooper: now this is gaming
Jumpropeman: one day I'll realize I have no review lined up when it's posting time, and that's when Slot Machine will be there to save my bacon
Jumpropeman: oh wow goops, didn't know you posted a full longplay of slot machine
Gooper Blooper: it did amuse me in 2018 when you had less of a Game Hoard backlog and so posted a bunch of Atari reviews during Brawl Season

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RubyChao: status update
RubyChao: i have been using windows 7 for two months past its end of support date and i haven't died
RubyChao: mad with power

Chaos In The Undercity

Even before The Curse had fallen, there had been a warning spread by those who planned ahead. A warning that just because The Curse was so big, and so omnipresent, and had already killed off nearly every other major criminal organization on Olympia before their own demise, did not mean that defeating The Curse meant the end of crime and corruption in Olympia. Make no mistake, progress had been made and defeating The Curse was the right thing to do, but the battle for Olympia still raged on, now moving more fully into the dark alleys and graffiti-stained corridors of The Undercity.

The Curse had simply been too big for their defeat to mean the end of the war. While the group technically still existed as The Cure, it was a tiny fraction of its' former self, and a massive void had been created in Olympia, particularly the Undercity. The parasites that had been in hiding came scrabbling out of the woodwork, every idiot with a handgun and something to prove thinking they had a shot at being the next Plague. However, they lacked something that The Curse had possessed in spades: teamwork. Sure, The Curse had had its' mavericks and traitors, any group big enough had some of those, but The Curse had gotten as far as it had due to unity and a shared sense of purpose. Without that, these no-hopers were fighting amongst themselves as much as they were fighting the forces of good that were reclaiming Olympia - The Cure, The Corps, the police... and of course the Kobbers.

And one such underground street fight was going down right now, in the territory of Yamato, former leader of a gang of cybernetic samurai who had staked a claim on part of the Undercity before Plague's forces had forced him into retreat minus most of his men. Now he was under attack once more and had no allies to defend himself with, though his foe didn't seem as intimidating as The Curse's army had been.