solon's haunted library

solon's haunted library

@chorby.org

I am your blue-haired Library Scientist working to put Videogames into your Libraries [and vice-versa] || Wrestling sicko - Let me teach you how to be beautiful.

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The first of many this week, we're live with the best streamer alive! twitch.tv/chorbySP Xenosaga's final dungeon has been hyped up to me and I'm soooo ready to indulge in that PS2 end-game feeling.

We're going to be live all week this week, so if you want a healthy heaping of SuperPoints and news on the week's games and libraries, we're going to start today with the final chapter of Xenosaga Ep. 1 and end with my favorite stream of the year: @fkasocks.com's Race-ident Evil 5

We're going to be live all week this week, so if you want a healthy heaping of SuperPoints and news on the week's games and libraries, we're going to start today with the final chapter of Xenosaga Ep. 1 and end with my favorite stream of the year: @fkasocks.com's Race-ident Evil 5

I wish I had a tool to block or flag accounts that don't interact with other accounts on here. Like, okay antisocial crossposter from Twitter, you didn't pay your social bill this month - you're off the feed until you at least meet the neighbors and repost someone else's stuff.

Like I see these journalists who post exactly once a day with the most annoying stuff and they never chat outside of it. Why should I deal with you, if you see yourself as better than everyone else here?

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It's 5 years into Race-ident evil, the yearly series where me and @chorby.org have "raced" through the Resident Evil games as slowly as we could, and each year I make a trailer to go along with it and I wanna share each of them real quick and talk about it!

Saturday, 10/31, All Halloween Long www.twitch.tv/fkasocks www.twitch.tv/chorbysp Race-ident Evil 5

It has been such a long time since I made a streaming schedule for everyone, and this week I legitimately need one to help corral all of the fun events I'm doing. It's gonna be a VERY good week to be a games librarian

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Oh... everything was hard-coded like 10 years ago. I would just print an entire new overlay in PSD with everything on it every time and it stopped being usable. I'm glad that thing is blown up! Try a bit harder Solon!

It has been such a long time since I made a streaming schedule for everyone, and this week I legitimately need one to help corral all of the fun events I'm doing. It's gonna be a VERY good week to be a games librarian

@antdude.bsky.social Hey Anthony, I'm working on a classification and libraries video inspired by what we talked about at PRGE when we met a few weeks ago. I could use some Wii-playing expertise. Is there a good spot to contact you about a short interview to help do a little science?

The Games That Ace It steam event is incredible if you want to witness the depths of wordplay. Puns, portmanteaus, and asexual alliteration as far as the eye can see in every demo.

Give a streamer just a little chuckle, what could go wrong?

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Alright we're live with another full-day shift in the Wii Shovelware archives. We've done a lot so far to define what makes a Wii game bad, but we still haven't found a real nightmarish work- every time we put a disc in it's too much fun! twitch.tv/chorbySP - Gift subs are 35%-off today too!

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Anything that you can imagine defines a bad wii game, The Mummy has IN SPADES: samey gimmick motion puzzles, endless grindy combat arenas, atrocious hitboxes and signage, miserable bosses, and of course loads of softlocks like this. The only mercy is that it is pitifully short...

It's still insane to me that the booth I bought it from at PRGE literally disappeared the following day. I'm going to think about that for a very long time.

Alright we're live with another full-day shift in the Wii Shovelware archives. We've done a lot so far to define what makes a Wii game bad, but we still haven't found a real nightmarish work- every time we put a disc in it's too much fun! twitch.tv/chorbySP - Gift subs are 35%-off today too!

I want to make sure the next time I crucify Lara, that I do it for a good reason and not just because the box says 'Wii' on it. Anyways, we're live in five - see u on the stream

Day two of 'bad' Wii games-athon is here, we've got a heated contest near the top of the mountain between a miserable and embarrassing Tales game and Super Mario 3 with Hamster Schmovement. But I'm looking at what we'll spend about 12 more hours on today and, there are some doozies.

As for the actual science: I'm starting to think that maybe the more you move the wiimote the more fun the game is when it comes to shovelware. If it's a rushed production and you don't even get to waggle, then it gets really dire. Also Wii disc menus are one of the saddest places in the world.

I'm going to be using all of these for today's experiments and I don't have nearly enough hands for it, so I'll be inviting a dear friend who knows very well how to stream with multiple controllers at once~

Just like the steam AI alerts, this doesn't affect your ability to access those projects, it will just pop up a little warning. It makes browsing Steam and Github more transparent and feels nicer bsky.app/profile/pmrd...

You can even install it in Steam by right clicking on any link in the Steam app Store page and cliking "open in a new tab" it will open a new windows where you can enter a URL, just enter the chrome store link for the extension: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-wa...

Nine hours in the bad wii zone and we made it to zhu zhu pets. It's science

Are the games bad? Or are they just history? This week we're defining games knowledge at the primary-source level. So come on in all day and help us build a new official taxonomy to define Wii Shovelware! twitch.tv/chorbySP

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If you're big into game preservation (and who on Bluesky isn't), you need to be following Chorby here. These projects are gonna be so cool.

Did you know games preservation doesn't just have to be hash checks and putting boxes on shelves? You can do proactive knowledge building projects and even PLAY games as games preservation! Join me in developing multiple new history projects all this week on Twitch to set a path for the future

Did you know games preservation doesn't just have to be hash checks and putting boxes on shelves? You can do proactive knowledge building projects and even PLAY games as games preservation! Join me in developing multiple new history projects all this week on Twitch to set a path for the future

I'll be on twitch at twitch.tv/chorbySP from noon for the rest of the day building a classification system for "Bad" Wii games. Yesterday taught us that 'shovelware' and contemporary 'slop' may have similar properties with art and labor. I can't wait to see what we pull out of that today!

twitch.tvChorbySP - TwitchThe future of history is here! Chorby is live and offering you librarian and research opportunities every week. How much do you truly know about videogames? Test your mettle with the blue-est guy in t...

Durante @durantep.bsky.social and I have made it to the penultimate dungeon in Xenosaga! If you want PS2 mechanics where you've gotta destroy weights on elevators to ascend, you are home! There's a whole week of streams planned so don't miss out on all the SP you can win twitch.tv/chorbySP

twitch.tvChorbySP - Live on TwitchXenosaga Xonday is coming to an end! How will this generational hooper end? w/ @usaleonheart | Streaming xenosaga episode i: der wille zur macht.

There's already been so many thoughtful comments from friends starting to see what kind of work can come from folksonomic classification~ For folks who want more, it's going down all day tomorrow at twitch.tv/chorbySP

NEW: youtu.be/iWBf9h095ew I spent last weekend at @retrogamingexpo.bsky.social to acquire the worst game I could find on the Nintendo Wii and it took all of my skills as a librarian to find them! Somewhere along the way this became my manifesto on games librarianship, I hope you like it!

I've gotta figure out the balance board situation, the PAL situation, and the 8-player wiimote situation??? Those ones might get pushed to Wednesday and Thursday depending on how this goes.

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You're just too far away...She doesn't keep BETA MALES close to her while playing Wii, she only plays Wii with GUTS FROM BERSERK

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