dynamiteFactory

The official tumblr for my Let's Play channel! Here you'll find all of my videos and up-to-date info on said channel.

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You would be better play DOLL instead HOME

(I’m probably not doing let’s plays anymore due to lack of time buuuut)

I’ve actually never heard of that one before :O There’s a lot of OFF fangames tho so I’m sure I’ve missed several lololol

Not sure what you mean by better tho? I enjoy HOME a lot, it stays really true to OFF and it’s just really well made… and Felix was a friend of mine so I might be a lil biased but IT’S GOOD. Someday I’ll finish HOME and then maybe I’ll check out DOLL :3

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Let's Play HOME - Glitch City

Turns out having no healer in your party is a BAD IDEA. Send help

Welp the difficulty seems to have ramped up a bit :o

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Let's Play Dream Daddy - Vampire Daddy

We finally got ourselves a date! (Ohgodpleasedon'tmessthisup)

Heaven Help Us, because This Is The Best Day Ever, from the start To The End. These might be Famous Last Words but The Only Hope For Me Is You (okay now that that's out of my system... we done went on a date.)

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Let's Play Dream Daddy - Dadbook

It's been forever but Emma (and special guest Lara!) and I are back playing Dream Daddy! ...but who will be our *ahem* dream daddy? Give a like and maybe eve...

Ended up having an impromptu Dream Daddy session! But will we be able to woo OUR Daddy?

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Let's Play Pizzeria Simulator - The End For Real

Saturday is upon us, and we've gathered them all in one place...

Without spoiling anything... I'd say this was a very satisfying ending to the FNAF series. Just about all the loose ends are tied up, and it was cool to see a few throwbacks to the older games as well - check out my video if you want to see what I mean!

[cigardoesart]

playstation characters!! cute animal mascots are my new fave thing to draw

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Let's Play Pizzeria Simulator - Getting Hot In Here

THIS IS DIFFICULT AND STRESSFUL AND I DON'T LIKE SHADOW FREDDY. But hey, at least it's friday.

Here's night 5, we're almost there!

[prokopetz]

The thing that gets me about most arguments against accessibility features in video games is that they’re not just grossly ableist, they’re also hypocritical as hell. Video games have always had accessibility features: we just documented them poorly and called them “cheat codes”. Indeed, having a robust library of difficulty-modifying cheats was considered a mark in a game’s favour! The only difference is that a cheat code is theoretically a secret, which allows it to be framed as elite knowledge, even though it’s functionally identical to having an “infinite lives” switch on the options screen.

Here’s a thesis for you: the Konami Code was the first well-publicised accessibility feature.

[hieronymus-botch]

being bad at video games is a disability now?

[prokopetz]

I’m going to assume you’re not being disingenuous here and take this as a serious question. In brief, very few people are generically “bad at video games”; in most cases, difficulty engaging with interactive media stems from one or more of a wide range of physiological conditions, including:

visual deficit (including colourbindness; colourblind individuals often have difficulty identifying threats in action games because they don’t stand out from the background for them)

repetitive strain injury in the hands, wrists or forearms (common for anyone who performs manual labour for a living)

arthritis and other degenerative joint conditions (both those due to age and those comorbid with many autoimmune disorders)

dyslexia (a common symptom of even mild dyslexia is the inadvertent mirroring of sensory-motor responses under pressure, e.g., moving your hand left when you meant to move it right - which is a big problem for action games!)

sensory processing disorders (delayed reaction to visual stimulus is a common symptom)

spatial processing disorders (see above)

chronic pain

propensity for motion sickness

This is, of course, only a partial list. Many of these issues are individually rare, but taken together, we’re looking a huge chunk of the population - up to 40%, by some estimates - who have at least one condition that would impact their ability to play the shooters and action-platformers that are held up as the gold standard for hardcore gaming.

[hieronymus-botch]

hot tip: if your disability makes you bad at a thing, maybe either put in the extra effort to get good at it or just don’t do it instead of demanding people make the thing easier?????

[prokopetz]

Here’s the a better question: why is it an issue for you? Accessibility features in video games are entirely transparent to those who choose not to use them. Your experience of play isn’t affected by their existence in any way whatsoever unless you deliberately turn them on. Complaining about the mere existence of such features is like claiming that your viewing experience of a movie is being ruined by the fact that the disc has a subtitle feature on it, even though you haven’t actually turned subtitles on.

(And no, don’t try to frame this as video game developers somehow being victimised by unreasonable demands. The vast majority of developers are more than happy to include accessibility features in their games - and quite sensibly, because, you know, they’re businesspeople, and they want to sell things to as wide an audience as possible. The popular backlash against accessibility features is entirely on the player side.)

[hieronymus-botch]

honestly, yeah you have a point there, i will concede that. the only problem i have with them is if you still get the achievements and shit with all the disability accomodations on, like with that game Celeste that you were talking about earlier, which is basically tantamount to buying one of those hastily-assembled dodgy steam games that exist solely to give whoever buys them a million steam achievements the moment you boot them up. Like, play your own game however you want, but don’t claim you performing a feat in a significantly easier version of the game is worth the same achievement as performing said feat in the standard game.

[prokopetz]

Well, if we’re going to frame it as a question of fairness, we’ve got to ask: fair in what sense, and to whom? Let’s flip it around: is it fair for you to receive exactly the same credit for performing a particular in-game feat as a disabled player, though they faced greater obstacles in practice than you did? Should we demand that players who’ve lucked out in the genetic lottery and enjoy above-average coordination and reaction times be obliged play with special handicaps in order to keep things fair for the rest of us? Whose level of ability are we judging fairness against?

[itsrocketsurgery]

That video game moment when you think you died but you survive and the moment you register that you’re still alive you fuck up and die

[13faeinapenguinsuit]

this the only way i know how to play video games

[dynamitefactorygaming]

Let's Play Pizzeria Simulator - Mr. Afton??

Doing some more speculation. This night's question: just who are we, anyway?

Night 4 and holy HELL this is hard

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Let's Play Pizzeria Simulator: Damn Dialup!

WE NEED SOME ADBLOCK IN HERE! Also, where are we in the timeline? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

Here we go, night 3! Welcome back, Springtrap...

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Let's Play HKG - Santa?

Ho ho ho! Let's welcome the new member of our team as we traverse the Ice Path!

Made it in before midnight! Happy holidays!

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Let's Play HKG - Obey or Die

Finishing up with Team Rocket, hopefully without getting cussed out this time.

So I SHOULD be finishing either HOME or FNAF, but I had a Christmassy-themed idea for Hong Kong Gold and I forgot that I STILL had some Team Rocket shenanigans to deal with.

On the plus side, you get two videos in two days :D

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Let's Play FNAF: Pizzeria Simulator - I Bought A Restaurant!

Just getting the hang of the mechanics. I have a feeling the rest of the game won't be this easy... Covers nights 1 and 2.

Finally got around to playing this! Video's a bit longer than usual but I did two nights and there's a LOT to take in.

[dynamitefactorygaming]

Let's Play HKG - The Underground

There's a lot of weirdos in the basement, and I don't just mean Team Rocket!

Silver wants me to what now?!

[c4tto626]

“omg you can’t play video games on easy mode!!”

listen if i wanted to struggle with some dumb task and fail a dozen times for bullshit reasons only to get some underwhelming reward once i finally get it right i would just live my actual life and not play video games smh

pls love urself

[greenhat97]

Oh and if you want to play something like Dark Souls? Don’t feel bad for using guides or looking up walkthroughs. I’ve done that to find specific items, or when something is so bullshit and obscure that I need help for it (I’m pretty damn good at it, too.) 

And guess what? My experience didn’t diminish at all. If anything it helped me. 

[luxwing]

Use guides. Use cheats. Use item duplication glitches. Clip through the floor going 30 miles a second. Just have fun

[cr-mango]

[hank-job]

Its about having fun

[dynamitefactorygaming]

Let's Play HOME - Judge Gets Vored

Featuring: finding the last Grand Items, the Courtroom, and some rambling about Stranger Things.

Took me a while to figure out how to get into the Courtroom but once I did... it got worse.