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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/796318

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If you missed this whole thing (like I did) here's a summary:

Vampire Survivors-type games don't really have their own simple genre name or Steam tag, leading them to get lumped in with "Bullet Hell" shumps. So Awesome Games Studio (and 450 other studios) held a poll to determine what the gaming community thinks the tag should be.

Well, the results are in and "Bullet Heaven" won the poll. So now, Awesome Games Studio and their allies are asking Steam users to tag their favorite "survivors-likes" with "Bullet Heaven" as part of getting the tag officially recognized by Valve.

While I don't love the Bullet Heaven moniker, I am very much in favor of drawing a line between the danmaku shmup genre and the "rogue-like survival twin-stick" genre. Especially considering the influx of opportunistic, ignorant devs flooding into shmup discussion boards hunting for unpaid beta-testers, only because they looked at Steam's top-selling tags, found "bullet hell" "shoot em up" and "roguelike", and figured they could make some easy money crapping out yet another trend-chasing, low-effort, 2D pixel graphic slopfest -- not understanding that they're barking up the wrong tree because those Steam tags have become nearly meaningless.

But what do y'all think?

Well... at least it's not a City Connection production.

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Own the riff: https://www.rifftrax.com/santas-space...

Here come's Santa's Spaceship! Because, apparently, a magic sleigh that can fly all over the planet in one night wasn’t enough for him. Honestly, it just seems a little greedy!

Santa’s Spaceship starts with a marionette cowboy singing a western song to an ailing reindeer, and gets weirder from there. All the marionettes living at the North Pole are worried about making the Christmas deliveries because the reindeer are getting old and tired. Rather than, say, try to help the reindeer who have served faithfully for so long, marionette Santa and his marionette friends decide to trade ‘em in for a used rocketship. The used rocketship salesman makes it pretty clear he will turn the reindeer into hamburger, but Santa goes through with the deal anyway. And still, somehow, it again gets weirder from there!

Grab a warm mug of rocket fuel and settle in with Mike, Kevin, and Bill for the marionette madness of Santa’s Spaceship!

I mean, what are the odds?