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Bolverkur posted:

I rarely dream but, perhaps troubled by the lack of a dream thread, I had a gaming dream last night. I goldmined the other thread, and I was worried that by doing so I messed up Imp Zone's balance somehow. I'm glad there is one now, since I didn't want to start it myself.

In the dream I was playing Dragon Quest XI and found a new area that was really scenic. As always, I started out by exploring it and taking in the views. As I did so, I kept muttering to myself "nice trees, nice trees, amazing looking trees" except in English for whatever reason, which is not my native language.

Hearing myself say this, I realized that I was just the same as the "nice water" guy and then I was suddenly at a convention or something, talking to a bald guy who I knew was the "nice water" guy himself. He explained to me that there is one "nice something" person for each element, and that he was water and I was earth. There was also one for fire and air. As he explained it I saw their twitter posts appearing before me as a mental image, showing fluffy clouds and torches with really cool lighting with the caption "nice fire" or "amazing clouds". Then I asked him if there other elements, and he said that there were hidden elements with their chosen posters still unrevealed, but one day they would reveal themselves like I did. "Nice light" was one such element, and I saw screenshots of really beautiful sunsets and ruined churches like from Dark Souls, bathed in solemn light.

But that thought led me to an inevitable conclusion: That means there must be a "nice dark" guy out there. As the thought arose unbidden, Twitter posts with screenshots appeared before me, same as before but now showing terrible monsters and warped demons made from shadow, like out of Junji Ito's Sensor which I read before going to bed, with accompanying captions of "nice dark" and "amazing dark in this game". Seeing those words and nightmarish images made me incredibly terrified, I wanted nothing more than the images to stop appearing. And then I woke up.

I still can't shake the deja vu feeling that I was just dreaming a post someone else had already posted in the previous threads.

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Pablo Nergigante posted:

I can make you mine, posting dreams online
Anytime, night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz
I'm gaming my life away

Hizke posted:

i had a dream i was driving around upstate new york where i used to live and looking for a bunch of snes games. i stopped at a yard sale and found exactly what I was looking for and this other guy there was like this big fat guy in a well fitted suit and he said stuff like 'what a marvelous collection you're building ohh myesss' in this weird accent i cant even describe. next thing i know he was in the car with me and was like what do you think maybe some arby's? mmhmmhmhm and i was like yeah that would be pretty good and then my voice was his voice and i said ohhh yesss indeed. there may have been more to the dream but it felt like a fog and i woke up after that feeling like i didn't get any loving sleep last night.

Caithness posted:

I dreamt that everyone’s posts in the Pitch your game concept here thread were Super Metroid but this and Super Metroid but that and I got so pissed off I woke up

Rabid Boar posted:

https://twitter.com/thetojodojo/status/1434896339238854660

Reaverbot posted:

Took a nap today and dreamed I was watching a switch direct. The presenter voice announced there was going to be a brand new keyboard peripheral for the switch which I took to mean a typing keyboard but then the camera went to a guy with frosted tips and little Morpheus sunglasses walking out in front of a crowd with a giant sheath on his back like a buster sword. He reached back and pulled free a huge full sized midi keyboard in the shape of the snes controller with its keys matching the colors

He put it down in front of him and shouted “Do you guys like final fantasy 4????” and the crowd cheered, and then for some reason he followed this by beginning to play a really cheap chip tune version of head like a hole by nine inch nails on the keyboard while jumping around and gyrating.

Sub-Actuality posted:

Last night I had a dream that Billy Mitchell somehow got his hands on the Metal Gear license and created Billy Mitchell's Metal Gear Solid 6: American World Championship Edition. He put out a smug press statement alongside the release saying that if anyone could beat his impossibly high score, he would award them with $10,000 in cash.

The game was sort of a reskin of Metal Gear Solid except Snake was wearing an american flag tie and his arm was frozen in a permanent thumbs-up which meant he couldn't use any two-handed weapons. All of Snake's voice lines were replaced by Billy saying things like "I am the undisputed champion" or "that documentary was bullshit" at random intervals. Any time Snake/Billy spoke nearby guards would be alerted.

The screen had a giant LCD scoreboard in the dead center, and the game would abruptly end after a 5-minute timer and tally up your score. You could earn points for doing things like running in a circle, eating rations at full health, setting off alerts, or shooting bullets into walls. Basically anything except playing the game effectively.

I played through the game and managed to beat Billy's high score by quite a bit accidentally by just messing around. I hit the built-in "submit score to YouCantBeatBillyMitchell.com" button and was all excited to hear back that I had won the money. A few minutes later I got an angrily-worded email full of typos directly from Billy accusing me of cheating and demanding that I play through again, and that I had to set up a camcorder and record myself on VHS this time to prove it.

I was about to reply with an indignant "you of all loving people should know better" email when I woke up

NienNunb posted:

Woke up from a short nap dream where I was looking through my dead grandpa’s old Poconos cabin and I found a manila envelope that had “TOP SECRET” stamped in red ink on it. I opened the folder and inside was a single white sheet of printer paper that said “Red Skies At Night, Gamer’s Delight” on it in tiny print.

Squashing Machine posted:

A couple nights ago I dreamt that my brother had signed back up for WoW Classic and I was watching him make a character. Everything seemed normal except one of the character creation options was "Car". He kind of breezed by it and just made a Paladin, and I got really scared because I was planning on playing a healer too

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umy-VLP2jIA

NienNunb posted:

Had a Nintendo dream last night. There was a big, full Direct about to go live and millions of people were watching the live stream at like 5am. The direct starts, and they start by announcing a new racer for Mario Kart 8. It’s a giant Mario 64 Whomp with a tiny black bowler hat hanging off the corner of his head. For some reason he had a Smash Bros introduction splash screen that said “Gregory is busting loose”. The direct then abruptly ended. Everyone in the chat was saying variations of “we woke up at 5 in the morning for Gregory??”.

Bicyclops posted:

i'm not even going to try to make the gregory smash 'shop because someone will beat me to it lmao

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Lmfao at everything

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Had a dream that I was at some kind of thrift store and I found a stack of mint condition EGM issues from the 90s. I grabbed one that had “Street Fighter II version 2” on the cover. It wasn’t Turbo or Champion Edition or anything, I think it was that they decided the original SF2 was a failure and decided to just remake the game and destroy all the original cabinets. I was really overly excited to read it so I ran up to the register which also seemed to be a convenience store. All of a sudden a scraggly older guy came up to the counter holding a crumpled $20 bill and butted in front of me to buy lottery tickets. I got really pissed off and started cursing the guy out for cutting me in line and telling him how I was there first and I NEEDED to buy this magazine

ArfJason posted:

I was called by the police to defuse a bomb in my college. The bomb had a panel with a puzzle from The Witness, and police called me causw they saw me online bragging about beating the witness 100%. I was terrified cause it was a new mechanic i had never seen before where there were ants and spiders on the board. My phone started ringing, and it was keanu reeves from speed. They got him to call to encourage me and i said i was too scared. He said not to worry cause he was driving. Somehow i knew that as long as he was driving fast the bomb wouldnt explode. I remember specifically asking "if i fail will you die mr keanu" and he said not to worry, as long as he was driving he couldnt die. I try the puzzle and it was completely different and this time there were only ants running all over it. After i finished nothing happened, and the police escorted me out as i asked what happened to keanu. I didnt find out for what felt like hours until i saw on the news tht they stopped production of matrix 4.

Bicyclops posted:

in the middle of a stressful dream about some family drama, I'd agreed to go on a booze run for an upcoming family gathering, but my wife had the car and the order was more than I could carry a long distance. a friend of mine who does voice acting offered a ride if I would go to an audition with him as moral support.

there were a bunch of people in a conference room playing some kind of board game and when I asked if this was where you waited to audition, they said yes. an ex of mine who I get along with was there, and she showed me that there were some slots in the table with "character cards" you could read to prepare a little. it was clear from the cards that it was for a video game, some kind of 4X thing. my card was for the Celtic god of war (I neither know who that is not do I remember what his name was in the dream). finally, they were ready for people to start auditioning, and they had me and my friends go first because we were.the only ones not goofing off with a board game.

they started me off with what they called an "icebreaker," to do Super Mario. I gave them my best Super Mario and they nodded at each other like "hm, pretty good." then they had me do Luigi, and I did my best Luigi, and they nodded approvingly again. "okay," they said. "now what if there were a THIRD Mario brother?"

I thought I would freeze for a second, but I said "it depends, what does he look like?" they were clearly ready for this question, and showed me a guy in a brown cap and overalls who was tall like Luigi but fatter. his head was really small and his cap was covering most of his face. he was grabbing the cap with both hands trying to pull it up and his hands obscured the letter.

I had no idea what voice to do, so I just opened my mouth to see what would come out and did what I can only describe as Professor Farnsworth doing a Mario impression. it sounded horrible. it was not a good combination. the auditioners went wild, and the director handed me a brown cap and said "congratulations, Super Roderigo." everyone applauded. I was torn because this seemed like a great opportunity, but it also seemed like I was going to singlehandedly kill super Mario and possibly Nintendo itself with the worst voice acting in the world. I woke up feeling very upset.

Sub-Actuality posted:

people recognizing you on the street and begging you to say things in The Roderigo Voice lol

Pablo Nergigante posted:

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happy belated 35th to the entire Mario bros. family

NienNunb posted:

Lmfao at everything

ArfJason posted:

Forfot to wrote this down so ill do it bow before i forget:

I was on co puter and for some reaso jack daniels posted if anyone remdebered a certain video/game/gif and it was so full of typos noone had any idesa what he meabt.
It was something like this:

"Anyodne hage tjjar pigvute of tbat crazy birf goibf amdbut lol judy freakung our in eh t sewmill id u kbow need it... Gor a prjiyect :g "

This reached outisde somwthing aqful and became an internatiobal sreach even my parents wree tryinf to decipher it.
What everyone seemed to agree is that it was about a bird freaking out in a sawmill. Many people poted birds in lumbre millds and woodworking shopsasking if it was it but jd would respond sayi g it wasnt it, addi g further information, each post more unintelligible than the last, but the repeition of certain worfds abd letters confirmed he wanted a bird freaking out in some lumber yard ofr something.

Finally some dude aho hadnt posted in forever comes out of bowhere going "here it is" abnd its a cuatom half life 2 map.
I boot it up and its a single squar eroom with ravenmholm buidling interior textutes, with a headcreab resized like 5 times as large, and it was flipping back and forthe berween beeing upsidfe down and normal in a fast flickery fashion ad if the source engine were glitgching. I try hitting it with a crobrwar (im in the game) and turbs out the hitbox rremains the same size so you have to get inside the model abd hit it a veru small space near the floor. When it dies the ragdoll freaks out and a white text apoears and says i unlocked a new partnrer. A rebel citizen spawns and says "dont forget to reload john" an di get so freaked out he knows my name i wake up

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Spiking posted:

just had a dream that my friend and all his groomsmen + me were in desperate need of help to 'prepare' his wedding. No one was sure who to call and everyone was getting really upset, when my friend said "Should we call Wario, or Bob?". I don't know who the Bob was referring to but it made sense in the dream. We decided to call Wario and one of the groomsmen 'called' him by using some kind of wrist-gauntlet power rangers type communicator. He instantly came burrowing up through the floor like a mole, and launched into a huge explanation of how hard it was for him to get here, I.E., he had to fly in a helicopter all the way across the pacific, he had to ride with a caravan of traders through the Sahara desert, etc. I was very skeptical of this in the dream since he INSTANTLY popped up after we hit the communicator. We all told him relax Wario, you don't have to explain, we understand, we like you, at which point he went dead silent, then said "Very nice" and started doing the dishes.

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

I was thinking about buying Deathloop and decided not to for now, partially because I read about how there's only one very specific way to actually win and complete the game, which makes it feel like less of a big freeform assassination puzzle to work out and more just a matter of working out the set path it wants you to do.

Anyway that was clearly playing on my mind and I dreamed I was playing Deathloop but every time you went remotely off the mission path, the main character started mumbling "drat, hosed up the deathloop" over and over, just playing the exact same line on repeat until you got annoyed and killed yourself. I kept trying to avoid it but he would do it for the most minor reasons, like at the start it gave me a choice of items and I picked the wrong one even though there was no indication it was wrong and it let me pick all of them up anyway.

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Had a weird dream that went all kinds of different places but it ended with me trying to get into an Antifa secret base in the NYC subway. I told them I was with Col. Misato Katsuragi’s unit and they told me I had to get a blood test to make sure I wasn’t infected (with what I don’t know). I went into a small room to wait for the doctor and sat down next to Mario himself, who was waiting for Luigi to be done with his blood test. Suddenly Luigi walked in from the next room looking visibly shaken. Mario hopped up and asked Luigi what was wrong. Luigi pointed to his chest, then his waist, and finally his crotch, saying “First they WAH, then they WOOHOO, then they WAHOOOO”

ArfJason posted:

i was probated so by now i forgot some details but basically:

one dream involved shiggy being incredibly pissed off about unauthorized copies of super mario 64, so he personally went around destroying anything that might be or contain an illegal copy. i found this out while i was hanging out with someone who to troll pointed at a dog that was taking a poo poo and said "that dog is nintendo, and the turd is super mario 64". immediately shiggy appears driving a car and drives up the curb into the sidewalk, perpendicular to it, aiming for the turd. the poo poo is way too close to a wall so the car smashes the front against it, with the wheels unable to run over the poo poo. so shiggy just backs off and smashes into the wall again over and over in a frenzy. im about to tell him but i realize hes not paying attention to anything, putting all his focus into ramming the car back and forth into the wall, never able to run the turd over. he doesnt even look angry, just very determined.

a different dream had a whole bunch of stuff unrelated to any game, but two sections were separated by a sequence where a luigi with a huge round but squished face, and in the middle of it has g-man's facial features from hl2, shows up. he seems to be making an interlude like hes presenting a twilight zone short, talking cryptically as the gman usually does. heres my attempt at recreating this "luig-man":

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

I dreamed all the Paper Mario games came out on Steam in a surprise release and I was mildly surprised but not particularly interested. I felt like it was a bit wrong and hoped this wasnt a sign Nintendo was going full multiplatform so I logged on to see what the Imp Zone was saying.

My concern was assuaged when it turned out that Paper Mario was actually partially owned by HAL Labs and they had the right to port it to PC for some obscure copyright reason involving the Paper characters not being the "real" characters and a recent court ruling that you can't copyright paper.

While browsing I noticed there was a hot new posting trend where people would reply to posts with "burble de burble", which apparently represents the rumbling in your stomach in between farts when you're having a good fart session. This was meant to signify that the post was so beneath notice that it wasn't even worth farting on, even during a carefree farting session, so the poster was deliberately holding it in so as not to waste it. Lyle and a couple of other people were just burble de burbling at every post in the thread and I was trying to understand whether Mario was going multiplatform or not and it was really hard to read the actual facts and information amidst the endless torrent of burble de burbling. Eventually I joined in and posted "burble de borble" thinking it added some fun sounds and variety and I got probation for a month for ruining the burble de burble.

extremebuff posted:

had a dream where I was at a hotel and a pretty lady came up to me and asked to book a flight. I found some info and gave her the rates and when it was time to book I kept desperately trying to enter imp.zone on the url bar and it didnt pull anything up. i NEEDED to go to iz to get her ticket. i tried iz and pimp zone and tried looking up the doom wad and nothing would come up I was sweating bullets

i kept apologizing that it was taking so long when suddenly she asked "what is imp zone?" even tho she was on the other side of the desk. I panicked and said it was just a website, to which she solemnly nodded her head and calmly walked towards a security guard and I got so anxious i woke up

GorfZaplen posted:

I had a dream that I was playing a survival horror game where instead of keys doorknobs had little mouths on them that you had to let lick your fingers in order to pass through. I realized I had played this game before and that I had the wrong "fingers" equipped to win this run. With grim inevitability I let the wrong door lick my index finger and entered. The camera changed to an overhead cctv view of a seven foot tall man in a Space Jam jersey holding a baseball bat. I knew it was coming and gave a very halfhearted "Aaaah." that was loud enough to wake me up

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