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Heya denizens and trolls, I am formatting and prepping the December 7th The Community Blog. As well, I continue to take submission for new entries. Please DM if you have an idea for new additions in 2025!

*peaks in looking around*

Writing some poetry in the midst of the internets being the internets ...

Thanks, @SChin!

Hello everyone - can you comment, as time permits, please, are you still experiencing slowdowns as you access the community?

We're in the final hours of the 10th Anniversary! Thanks so much to everyone who have helped us not only be the most successful Extra Life stream, but we exceeded our goal of $30k! Please do join us for the last few sessions before things wrap up at 1800 PST! http://twitch.tv/obsidian Donate today: https://obsidian.net/donate

We're in the final hours of the 10th Anniversary! Thanks so much to everyone who have helped us not only be the most successful Extra Life stream, but we exceeded our goal of $30k! Please do join us for the last few sessions before things wrap up at 1800 PST! http://twitch.tv/obsidian Donate today: https://obsidian.net/donate

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Please join us for a little, some, or a lot of the Extra Life Anniversary event this coming weekend, November 15-17. More info is below but know how important the Forum Community has been in supporting Obsidian. Please consider this an invitation to help us now help the chids!

The latest Community blog by @melkathi has been published: Ghosts & Goblins & Chocolate! While you check it out, please consider what musing might be percolating for you! Looking for new submissions for December 7th and into 2025. Please DM if you would like to explore this further

This is a story about sacrifice. It is also a story about nostalgia, but more than anything, it is a story about the sacrifices gamers make. We travel back to a time of low pixel count and greenish screens – specifically the summer of 1992. The radio that summer would blast SNAP! Rythm Is a Dancer and my cousin and I, shortly before our 13th birthdays, were in summer camp on the German island of Norderney. In the evening, after lights out, with eight kids per tent, obviously nobody slept. In our tent we did two things. Firstly, one of the boys had brought terrible horror novellas, and we read those. Over thirty years later I still have nightmares. Mostly because the story did not make sense – you can’t hide a whole labyrinth inside the walls of a bell tower! The second thing was eating chocolate and other sweets. And this is where this becomes a story of sacrifice. You see, the eating was predominantly done by the other six. The two of us would initiate it, but then we’d spend the night selling our stash to the others in the tent. In retrospect, we should have found a way to expand business to the other tents, but we were not even thirteen. There was a reason to this, which had little to do with entrepreneurial spirit. The camp organizers had permitted each kid a 50DM allowance per week for the two weeks of camp. Incidentally, as my cousin pointed out, 50DM was roughly the price of a new Game Boy game. Not eating chocolate but watching others enjoy my stash was not a choice. It was a sacrifice that only gamers will understand: others would eat so I could game. Everything went well. Until the very last day. It was hot. We were on our last excursion in town, killing time until we had to get the ferry. In the (heat of the) moment we decided to grab an ice cream. The worst 3,50 I ever spent. Also, one of the worst ice creams I ever had and most likely the reason why I still do not eat lemon ice cream. It almost put me off lemonade as well. An hour before we left, I dropped to 46,50. One, horrible tasting lemon ice cream was the reason I couldn’t pay for Gargoyle’s Quest solely through the chocolate black market. Mind, the entire process did turn Gargoyle’s Quest into one of my favourite games, even though it wasn’t really my thing – too dark in tone, too much jumping around spikes. In the end, the cool green daemon on the box cover turned out to be red! That was an unexpected plot twist. It highlighted something though about descriptions and plot relevance: how often do authors abuse the fact that in written format you do not have information until they give it to you? In comics, movies, and games, you see things from the start. Unless it is a greenish Game Boy screen and after hours and hours some NPC tells you: your skin is red. Two things I remember about Gargoyle’s Quest: how I made the money to buy it and how surprised I was finding out the protagonist was red. Also, the many spikes. Three things I remember about Gargoyle’s Quest: how I made the money to buy it, how surprised I was finding out the protagonist was red, the many spikes, and the gnarly trees, the inextinguishable flames, the different breath weapons… Among the many things I remember about Gargoyle’s Quest is that it is a game literally worth it’s weight in chocolate.

The November 7th is formatted and ready to be published! Until them, please (re)explore the submissions already available in The Community Blog. As well, I continue to take submission for new entries. Please DM if you have an idea for December 7th or into 2025! https://forums.obsidian.net/blogs/category/2-community-blog/

Thanks for sharing this amazing affirmation! I have let @The Guildmaster, @SChin, and Admin know ...