#kidd vidya

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I get flak sometimes from folks who are of the Magic the Gathering persuasion, but hear me out y’all. Let me make my case for why I like Hearthstone.

Coining in Double Mechwarper into Fel Reaver on Turn Three

Comes in a cool box that swirls.

Chillwind yeti is the chilliest, yeti sometimes can be kind of a prick

Short, balanced matches.

No shortage of variety and opponents.

Annoy-o-tron

-Kidd Vidya

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I can remember hanging out with friends in grade school who were all like “yo you can unlock Luigi in Super Mario 64 by running around the carpet in the main foyer 63 times and ground pounding the middle and then not touching any controls for 64 seconds”. For me, Metroid Prime occupies a space in my memory where shit like that was for real.

My experience with it is almost entirely positive, but it gets a half a percent taken off because I scoured every last corner of Tallon IV looking for the very last missile expansion and I never found it. Hours of my time was sacrificed to the dark god Nintendo, as I ran loop after loop after loop of the blasted place. I got to know this game very well.

Because I spent so much time being bored and frustrated with a fully upgraded set of power armor, I started trying to break the game. This is where that first paragraph comes into play. See, I started trying to get into what people had been calling “secret worlds”; areas of the level geometry that could be slid through, allowing you access to what is basically a big empty void. Not all of these are interesting, but some of them allow you access to places in the game you shouldn’t be able to reach yet. None of them really count as sequence breaks when you’ve already gathered everything in the game, but they were still fun to try and get to regardless. Here’s a few that I managed to do;

~Kidd Vidya

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Yo, so back in the day there was this cool game called Age of Mythology, and it was mythically good, nawmsayin? Haha just kidding that joke was dumb.

Anyway, at this point in my life I didn’t really care about playing the game properly or understanding the mechanics of it on a deeper level so I just cheated a lot. The late Ensemble Studios was really cool about interesting cheats. One of my favorite cheats is from age of empires two. I would set the rally point from my town centre to the middle of the enemy base and spam machine-gun race cars until I won. It would sort of look like this:

However I would Control-V the cheat over and over so my mini map had this huge blue line of death cars going from one end of the map to the other. When they were done I didn’t even use the same cars, I would just set my rally point to the other enemy base and do it again.

So in age of mythology you had cool god powers and stuff. I liked to play as the Atlantans. They had cool units and interesting mechanics but their god powers were cooler. I used cheats to give myself a whole bunch of uses of these powers which I would then use to fill the whole map with spider traps so nobody could move anywhere. If you worshipped Kronos then you had something called “Time Shift” where you could move your buildings anywhere in your line of sight, so I used to build a bunch of buildings in my base and then send a ship to an island and just move all my buildings there at once. It left a big wall encircling a whole bunch of empty space where my base used to be, but I didn’t give a shit because I was eleven.

~kidd vidya