Flashback to that time I found an old photograph of me at an arcade in France in 1990, and I somehow managed to sleuth out exactly what cabinet I was playing. (1/4)

Cozy

Sometimes memorable moments from the past come back to warm my heart at random times. For example, the warnings on these Kaiyodo Xebec Hokuto no Ken / Fist of the North Star toys that popped up at random mall anime shops in the late 90s / early 00s. Small child might cause suffocation, indeed.

Been playing though the Dragon Quest HD-2D remakes with Japanese audio and English text. It's a really fun exercise in localization, seeing which bits of dialogue were either trimmed or expounded on.

Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.

Status of the fantasy novel my wife and I have been writing: just under 32,000 words. We have maybe 3x that word count in content, but I'm in the looong process of converting and combining it into readable third person text. The local writing group seems to really like it. Gives me warm fuzzies.

Oh yeah, people have been posting ancient receipts, right? I found a few in a giant old wallet recently. FuncoLand - 1998 - Warriors of the Eternal Sun. I still don't have the box for it, sadly.

I swear, I have the most nonsensical dreams sometimes. One moment, I'm collecting a check for being an extra on some TV show (I've never done this). The next, I'm learning the little-known fact that "Feda" (the video game series) is actually an acronym. It stands for "Federal Ederal Deral Al".

I never have anything to share for mlemsday cause the mlems are so very rare... but my husband caught our princess today!

It's been close to a year, and I'm almost finished translating my first official four-book light novel series. I thought I'd be doing this right out of college, but that was quite literally twenty years ago. Life takes its turns. I'm grateful to finally be soaking my feet in the proverbial onsen.

Seti scrying for what 2025 will bring... #catsofbluesky

me: jesus fuck i get to come up with 300 duck puns

3 fantasy franchise pieces of media I'd love to see but likely never will: 1. Skies of Arcadia remaster and/or sequel 2. Chronicles of Prydain big budget live action epic movie series 3. Slayers MMORPG (this would force Kanzaka to flesh out sooo many missing details, ha ha ha)

Strange to have two KOF posts in a row, but I was going through some old files and found these images from a Gamest Mook I picked up maybe 25 years ago. This is the one showing that Terry Bogard supposedly says "Oh my shit!" during one of his moves. It may be "Overheat" canonically by now, not sure.

Andy Bogard, proud recipient of the Hypocrite of the Year award for 1994!

Finally came up with a climax for our first novel! Pantsing is a lifestyle for me, but sometimes you need at least a rough outline or things might meander into eternity...

And now, your local fourcats.

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