Accursed Farms

My mouse is starting to die on me and that made me frustrated trying to find a new one. I ended up making a graphic of a mouse I'm pretty sure no one besides me wants, but some of you might find some individual parts of it appealing. I wasted time making this, but it felt cathartic.

I went through all the games in the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality on itch.io and picked out ones I liked. It was a rapid-fire process, but that was the only sane way for me to deal with this many games. I missed a couple, I updated them in the pinned comment. 4:01:47 - (mostly) final results You can see other games that pass my filter here: https://accursedfarms.com/games

Itch.io had a gigantic game pack for sale a week or so ago, that ended up coming to 1700+ games. The majority of this stuff looked like games I wasn't interested in, but there were some promising ones. I was going to attempt to filter through these on a livestream to see which ones I was interested in, and which I would pass on if people are interested. This will of course be to my own tastes (you can see those in my games list video), but I'll explain my rationale. In any event, some people may want to check the video afterwards at the end and see what I whittled down the list to. I originally thought I would be able to do this in one sitting, but that was back when it was "only" 700 games. I'll just go at it for a few hours and see how many I get through. If you're interested, it will be at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast at 5PM UTC on June 20th.

If you ever wanted to know all my thoughts on the GUI, here you are! This has honestly been brewing in my mind for decades and while this video took way too long to make, it's an accomplishment for me that I was able to put this into something coherent. I'm really hoping this leads to somebody bestowing GUI enlightenment upon us, though I'm not betting on it. This post also doubles as a thread for people to post any helpful information regarding my GUI quest at the end of the video. Thanks in advance for anyone who finds some answers!

June videochat with fans. Topics seemed to swing back and forth between gaming and the state of humanity. Apologies there's no new real video yet, hope to have a big one ASAP, hopefully tomorrow!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on June 7th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. I'm embarrassed I don't have a new video yet, but it's coming ASAP; I really hope to have it out before the videochat. It's going to be about 75-80 minutes long, has a massive amount of editing this time. More Game Dungeon / Freeman's Mind afterwards!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on June 7th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. I'm embarrassed I don't have a new video yet, but it's coming ASAP; I really hope to have it out before the videochat. It's going to be about 75-80 minutes long, has a massive amount of editing this time. More Game Dungeon / Freeman's Mind afterwards!

Here's the longest videochat with fans so far. The sound quality isn't great since I'm still setting up in my new apartment and haven't dampened it yet. There's nothing too important here, I advise against watching this unless you're really bored, which you might be if you're stuck at home. More real videos coming!

The region I'm living in has declared a pseudo-quarantine and are discouraging people from going out more than necessary. This actually won't affect the videos too much, but may delay my move. I'm also going to suspend FM2 Episode 14, since I should probably cut back on constant shouting since a lot of people will be at home in the apartments around me now. Episode 13 is still due out ASAP and I'll be working on the upcoming side video / Game Dungeon / movie instead.

March chat with fans. Mostly rambling as usual. More videos coming ASAP, also I'm moving. Lots going on!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on March 7th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Apologies for not having more videos, LOTS of things been going on, will have updates. FM2 Episode 13 is done except for sound effects, been working on FM2 Episode 14 + movie + big side video. Also, there's a chance that the chat may have to get pushed to the 8th, but I'll make an announcement if so.

February chat with fans. I somehow screwed up and turned off video recording 3 minutes in, so this was pulled from the twitch stream instead. I felt like this one made a little more sense than usual, but maybe it didn't.

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on February 1st at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Been working on multiple things!

Here's the latest Freeman's Mind! This was delayed MUCH more than I planned. There were actually some good excuses related to the delay, but not enough for it to be delayed this much. Expect 13 out faster!

January chat with fans. It felt like it made sense while I was doing it, but then I started feeling more crazy immediately afterwards. Freeman's Mind coming soon!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on January 5th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Freeman's Mind will either be shortly before or after this, don't know yet!

In a rush, have to head out and am posting video before Youtube's processed it, should appear before too long. Have a good Christmas!

GOG recently reached out to me to offer to give some games away on a stream as a way to promote their winter sale. I usually try to give you guys free games when convenient, so I accepted. As for the stream, I thought I would use this an excuse to attempt a "stunt stream" where I'll see if I can beat the last level of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter on serious difficulty using only one life. At the end of it, I'll giveaway games to people in the stream. There will be 20 games total (10 game, 2 copies each). They gave me a list to pick some out from, so I tried to guess and pick the ones I thought fans would most want to play. This will be happening at 5PM UTC on December 26th on twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. If you only want to show up for the games, I don't know when that will be, but it will probably take me at least an hour to get through the level, if I can do it. Christmas episode will be out before then!

I meant to post this a couple days ago, Youtuber The Great Berate reached out to me wanting to interview me about various topics. It's largely stuff I've covered in the other videos before, so there's no secret info in this or anything (that I remember), but I'm posting it here if anyone's interested. This was recorded before I got sick, still going in and out of that, but Christmas video is coming!

Here's the December videochat. I talk about COPPA and Half-Life Alyx towards the beginning. I was right at the beginning of being sick when I made this, I'm more sick at the moment now, in a half-stupor. The rest of this was sort of a blur to me, though I remember talking about things. Freeman's Mind and Christmas episode coming this month!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on December 7th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. I'll talk about Half-Life Alyx and COPPA then also. Freeman's Mind still coming!

Happy Thanksgiving! This is the first Thanksgiving video I've made. This is honestly an episode I thought would be shorter than it was, since there's not a lot to the game, but it mystified me, so here it is. Freeman's Mind still coming!

November chat with fans, the first one with the chat viewable! This one I felt like I rambled extra hard, so nothing too important in here. I did this still recovering a bit from the Halloween crunch, so it was a bit of a mess. Ended up getting triggered by Linux towards the end.

Enjoy the 2nd half of the Halloween episodes! This one is age restricted for pretty much every reason you can think of, there was no avoiding it. This turned into the longest RGD episode I've made, but I feel like few games are as worthy of the show as this one and is one I wanted to cover ever since I started the series. Feel free to spread the link to it, since because of the age restriction, it's inevitable it won't get as much traffic as a normal Youtube video, so I'll have to rely on word of mouth more. I almost didn't make it in time, again! Have a happy Halloween!

This is much more last minute than I intended, but ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on November 3rd at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Should be another Halloween video out before then! Also, there will be another Castlevania streaming the day before on November 2nd at the same time.

Here's the main Halloween episode, though there's one coming up right behind it! I still have a lot of editing left on that one, so no time to say more. For now, enjoy!

October rambling! Going to have stuff for Halloween + hopefully more FM2 this month! Also Castlevania streaming. Discussed games + world collapsing a little bit in the chat.

Here's the latest Freeman's Mind! Much more of a delay on this one than I wanted, but I hope to have more FM out this month, along with something else for Halloween. This episode is shorter than the FM2 average, but it's about normal for FM1. I don't usually have a set length in mind, I just go until there are semi-natural stopping points in the game and build it around that. There's definitely some longer ones coming up after this.

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on October 5th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Hope to have a new Freeman's Mind out before then!

Dead Game News! I wasn't even sure about making more of these, but this news was so big and there was so much to talk about here, I felt like I had to. I plan to make a followup video to the "Games as a service is fraud" video also, which this overlaps a bit with, but there was so much here I thought it was enough for a video in itself. It's worth mentioning this did NOT delay the next Freeman's Mind episode, the dialogue on that is done, I'm waiting for sound effects back on those, my guess is that will be out pretty soon. More videos coming!

Here's the September videochat with fans. I was low on sleep during this one since I was still recovering from finishing the Trackmania episode. This one was more of a blur to me, so the rambling ratio is probably worse than usual. Nothing too important here, just that Freeman's Mind is going to be the priority for a while and I'll slowly figure out everything else hopefully.

Here is the latest Game Dungeon! I thought this was going to be a shorter episode, but I ended up having multiple discoveries that made it balloon into what you'll see here. This is easily the most pro-desert video I've done or likely will do. Contains a bonus scandal!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on September 1st at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Should have a new video out before then!

Here's the August videochat with fans. This went on a lot longer than I anticipated, but had a good discussion, lots of good questions and topics this time. There's also a bunch of links to things discussed in the video in the video description.

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on August 3rd at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. I'll talk more about the game list then too.

Behold, the list! I've been wanting to make this for at least a year, but since I'm not a web programmer, I had to get the right help and everything to fall in place before it was finally able to happen. I'm quite excited about this, I find it impossible to be completely negative about gaming with this list. While everyone's tastes are different, hope yours overlap with mine enough to get some use of it!

Here's the latest videochat with fans. Just minor announcements about future videos and the usual questions. Next video I think some people will appreciate!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on July 7th at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. Also, there will be a playsession with fans of Fortress Forever on Saturday, July 6th on twitch.tv/rossbroadcast also. I'll post more details on that a little later. EDIT: After downloading Fortress Forever, you should be able to connect to the following: server: AF Server password: puppy I'll be joining on July 6th at 5pm UTC.

The Game Dungeon returns again! I never meant for there to be this large a gap between episodes, but here it is regardless. I have mixed feelings about this episode since I feel as though I should have edited more out of it, but there are special circumstances surrounding this one, as you'll find out.

I'll be having a playsession with fans playing Team Fortress Classic. The instructions are pretty simple. Launch the game in Steam, click "Find Server." Server name: AF Server Password: puppy I plan to primarily be playing "push" maps. The main ones I want to run are dustbowl and warpath, though we could also do avanti and hunted if people are interested. If you've never played TFC before, that's no problem. I recommend playing soldier or heavy weapons guy if you're unfamiliar with the game. The great thing about push-style maps is even if you don't know any of the objectives, if you're just moving in the same direction everyone else is and attacking the enemy, you're still helping the team. The game should be easy to run, but running it in widescreen takes more work. I'm playing TFC over TF2 since I was never crazy about the Pixar-style of TF2, plus I prefer how respawning is instant, so there's no downtime waiting to come back into the game. You'll be able to view the game live tomorrow on June 22nd at 5PM UTC on twitch.tv/rossbroadcast.

Freeman's Mind returns, again! I never meant for there to be this long a delay between this episode and the last one. If I had never made the "Games as a service" video, there would have been more out by now, but that felt like a necessary detour for me. There will still be more developments on that later, but I felt like getting the larger issue made more public was a more time-sensitive thing for me. I ran into new errors I've never seen before in Source in this episode; I'm hoping they go away after this one. It's a reminder why I don't plan on doing anything else besides FM2 in the Source engine. This episode I think is the second-longest one also, just by coincidence. There's also something that happens in the episode that wasn't planned at all, but it was a great addition, so I left it in. Ross's Game Dungeon is coming up next, then more Freeman and other videos!

June videochat with fans. Mostly casual questions, got to discuss a few dream game ideas, usual rambling. More Freeman's Mind and Ross's Game Dungeon coming soon, I swear!

Ask questions or topics to discuss here for the next videochat with fans on 5:00pm UTC on June 1st at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast. I realize there's been a lot of delays, but more Freeman's Mind and Game Dungeon coming, I promise!