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Grenartia wrote:

Tlik wrote:Because you restart at the last checkpoint, and if you get stuck at a checkpoint that you can't get past, but can't get back from, you're kinda screwed for the rest of eternity.

You've got to grind a lot to be able to unlock proper universe exploration, that's what humanity's doing now. No point just skipping ahead with our "mission to Mars" minigames.

Misssion to Mars isn't a minigame so much as a level. Video/board/Tabletop RP games, now those, are minigames. And they're pretty fucking good, although the in-game minigames, for the most part, suck. Though the Galaga knock off in San Andreas and the casino games in Pokemon were pretty addictive.

Tlik wrote:

Grenartia wrote:
Misssion to Mars isn't a minigame so much as a level. Video/board/Tabletop RP games, now those, are minigames. And they're pretty fucking good, although the in-game minigames, for the most part, suck. Though the Galaga knock off in San Andreas and the casino games in Pokemon were pretty addictive.

True. Although watching the recursive levels of minigame echo below us, you wonder if our game of life isn't just a minigame in the celestial game of Cosmic Pool.

Grenartia wrote:

Tlik wrote:True. Although watching the recursive levels of minigame echo below us, you wonder if our game of life isn't just a minigame in the celestial game of Cosmic Pool.

Its like philosophical Inception.

Tlik wrote:

Grenartia wrote:
Its like philosophical Inception.

Which was presumably an in-game cutscene?

Tlik wrote:

Grenartia wrote:
Misssion to Mars isn't a minigame so much as a level. Video/board/Tabletop RP games, now those, are minigames. And they're pretty fucking good, although the in-game minigames, for the most part, suck. Though the Galaga knock off in San Andreas and the casino games in Pokemon were pretty addictive.

True. Although watching the recursive levels of minigame echo below us, you wonder if our game of life isn't just a minigame in the celestial game of Cosmic Pool.

Grenartia wrote:

Tlik wrote:Which was presumably an in-game cutscene?

Holy fuckballs, my skull just turned into a mushroom cloud.

Shaggai wrote:

SaintB wrote:A planet where people have a sense of humor?

No, just Earth in general. If you can respawn, you will survive everything that happens to you. Why not go explore the universe?

Aquafireland wrote:

Grenartia wrote:
Holy fuckballs, my skull just turned into a mushroom cloud.

What the hell?

Tlik wrote:Although watching the recursive levels of minigame echo below us, you wonder if our game of life isn't just a minigame in the celestial game of Cosmic Pool.

And his name is Armok!