#heather flowers

[tofreezetime]

there's so much to lose

[quinzii-beans]

Everything Will Be Okay

Finally the family back together

No more death

No more tears

Finally it’s over… for now

[everygame]

Unfair Flips (Flowers, 2025)

Developed/Published by: Heather Flowers Released: 25/09/2025 Completed: 17/11/2025 Completion: Nine heads with an unlikely 40% chance and then the coin landed on its side. I’m taking it.

Q-UP (Everybody House Games, 2025)

Developed/Published by: Everybody House Games Released: 5/11/2025 Completed: /11/2025 Completion: Finished it with the Medic.

Oh, I didn’t think I’d do another one of these joint essays again so soon. However, with there being two games about flipping coins released within a couple of months of each it does feel like I’d just be repeating myself if I wrote two different articles, so here we are.

I did a jokey question on The Insert Credit Podcast about this: “Why is coin flipping so hot right now?” despite the fact that I feel like I know the answer: it’s our old friend simultaneous discovery. Yes, I may be an agnostic, but I also apparently believe that ideas float around in the sky and fall into multiple people’s heads at the same time. And it’s more people than actually act on it too, which explains how I invented nasal strips sometime in the late 80s as a child who suffered stuffiness far too often (should have made a bigger deal of it even though my prototype—sellotape and a broken toothpick—wasn’t that great.)

The more obvious answer, you’d think, would be Australian streamer/comedy man Tom Walker, who I best know for being on best TV show Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee, but I first heard of for playing GTA IV with all the cars set to 9999% speed. However before that, at the very start of 2024, he did a coin flipping stream, where he attempted to flip a coin heads ten times in a row, but every time he flipped ten tails in a row, he’d add an extra heads (meaning he’d have to flip eleven, or twelve…) This took over eight hours, and while there might have been other coin flipping streams before or since (he actually does joke during the stream that it’s “Mr. Beast shit”) it’s the one that seemed to stick in people’s imagination. But, and it’s an important but, Unfair Flips and Q-UP are not really about the coin flips.

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[morethansalad]

Tarragon Lime Pine Nut Cheesecake (Vegan)

[andivebeenaforestfire]

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[silvaris]

Crazy sunrise by Kevin Teerlynck

[tinysamm]

Flipping between visual novel and top-down robot smashing action, Extreme Meatpunks Forever creates a simultaneously fantastical and grounded presentation of living as queer, disabled, and neurodivergent in the face of open, local oppression. The player may have multiple characters to work off of, but both during conversations that must keep the group together, and when facing off against multiple enemies at once that can only be defeated by pushing them into an abyss, the game makes it clear that the player characters are often on the cusp of losing out. This is an incredible feat of narrative design, especially when the game outright allows the player to skip the combat sections if they find them to be too difficult.

[absentia-veil]

model, photo, fashion designer: Absentia