Incidentally, this was a very correct week to release a song about losing myself to a bad work-life balance

I had to stay up all night for a mostly passive work obligation, so I passed the time by revisiting Okami. I almost never get the urge to play it, even though every time I do it has an uncanny, instant restorative effect on my soul. I can't think of another game that's as joyous an escape.

What are the essential Thanksgiving video games? Cooking Mama?

Btw listen to this. I keep wanting to preface it with a bunch of self-deprecating shit, but whatever, it's what I did with the last twelve months. gregmoore.bandcamp.com/track/bullet

I don't think we should care about split infinitives. Live a little!

Sustained anti-Muslim hate + complaints that I'm "too critical of genocide & the Israeli Govt" = 400 cancellations of paid Subs to my human rights newsletter. So...I'm doubling down. I cannot trade dignity for dollars, and hope those who feel the same support me. www.qasimrashid.com/p/400-cancel...

So yeah I beat Neon Inferno on Medium and it's very good. More nuanced opinions forthcoming. Two important things not covered in the tutorial: 1. L2 locks your shot direction in place so you can run around while shooting 2. R2 locks you in place so you can shoot in various directions without moving

wanna feel old??? we are now further from the moon landing than the launch of the NES was from the moon landing

People are saying the Neon Inferno guy looks like Jin Kazama, but I'm getting another vibe...

For Scream 8 the killers should be revealed to be Paul and Ringo, who then unveil brand new Beatles material onscreen. Also Shatner should show up carrying a kitchen knife and wearing a mask of his own face, and fill in for John. George could be I dunno, Neve Campbell.

Two of my least favorite activities are mixing audio and selecting a font. I can only handle like two variables at a time.

Is there a movie that has aged more in less time than American Beauty?

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Lots of great releases this week. Check on Neon Inferno from Zenovia Interactive. They made Steel Assault, my favorite game of 2021. store.steampowered.com/app/2957720/...

Mega Man is like if Kirby took a really long time to digest his food

Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it. store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/... store.playstation.com/en-us/concep... www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

Sound the klaxons, it's Demonschool Day! @necrosoftgames.com's TRPG (demon) baby is making its way out into the world. 🎉

Just took a peek at my old soft-retired Twitter account. Somehow tweet A still has no likes while tweet B has 489,000. I consider these tweets equally likable

Excellent anecdote from Toby Fox in A Profound Waste of Time volume 1

Gibbons run around with their arms up the air and I just think that's so good

Let's see what's in the news today

I've been working on recording this song I wrote for basically the entire year, and it legitimately strikes me differently every time I hear it. Sometimes I think it's too embarrassing to ever release or complete, sometimes I'm like "Wow what part of my brain conjured this extremely true truth"

Changeable Guardian Estique, a brand new NES/FC shoot-em-up developed by ex-Compile vets, featuring a transforming mecha. www.hardcoregaming101.net/changeable-g...

They replaced a bunch of the parking meters in town with spaces you have to pay for through a crappy app that doesn't work properly and asks for all your personal info and charges you $0.75/15 min., which is how long it takes to pay for your space. I can feel my blood radicalizing in real time.

Man, I just watched the original Twilight Zone ep "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" for the first time. Maybe this is stating the obvious, but compared to the movie remake, it reads a lot more clearly like a war PTSD analog.

Has anyone watched the movie Don't Turn Out the Lights? I've been driving myself mad for two days trying to figure out what was going on. I keep thinking if I piece all the clues together there will be some super clear-cut answer, like "The RV is a metaphor for smartphones." That's it, isn't it

Got a really nice comment on the channel I make subtitles for, but I have to admit, I had to look up that adjective to understand it, lmao

ok, no more politics skeets, only video games. hey, remember in bionic commando when hitler said "AH . . . !" and then his entire head exploded? great game.

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In "Freaked," a movie from 1993, there's a throwaway joke where the mutated main character goes, "I wonder if they're still casting for Gremlins 3." The 4k version just came out and that's still a valid question lol

Last night I watched the 2016 Blair Witch sequel, and oof. It is downright irresponsible the degree to which the movie is just this happening over and over.

Finally upgraded to Windows 11. People like to diss it, but I just discovered they got rid of the sticky keys thing where pressing or holding Shift too much makes stuff happen. This is a major feature for fidgety bastards like me.

What's the deal with the Revolver Ocelot guy though? Is that Revolver Ocelot

JLPT is less than a month away. Do you know where your children are?

When are they gonna rerelease Bionic Commando? It's the best game

Another word for "thesaurus" is "the lizard."

My favorite podcast. Check em out.

Rescued from my parents' basement.

I know Soul Steal is already OP in Symphony of the Night, but it would've been cool if it generated an absolute buttload of souls when you did it on Granfaloon. Or some other unique effect.

In business Japanese, people use the phrase 恐縮です (kyôshuku desu) as an expression of humble gratitude or apology. Its equivalent in English would be like "Thanks for handling that," "I really appreciate it," or maybe "Sorry to ask for this." But them kanji mean TERROR and SHRINK.

I think this might be the only case I've ever seen of the game being better than the book.

It is unfathomable to me that people beat this game in the '80s with no internet and no save states. Frankenstein, Death, and Dracula alone each took 50~100 attempts. If I had to redo the entire stage every three of those, I would simply not like video games.

Is this the worst moment in gaming? Wtf

It's funny how in Castlevania 1 you can upgrade your whip to maximum strength immediately by just collecting two of those bow and arrows(?) that fall out of candles but in Castlevania 2 you have to grind for hours, travel all over the country, and also have random chance encounters with wizards(?)

That's a good thing, right

Been playing through Simon's Quest this week, and although it's arguably very bad, I kind of love it. The music, the mystery, the epic screen shake when you drive an oak stake into an orb. Also, Dracula's looming figure looks like the Count Magus Lee reveal in Vampire Hunter D. 😗👌

There's a translator tendency to match カッコいい 1:1 with "cool." I'm not big on that. "Cool" has a slangy nuance that doesn't always fit, especially when the カッコいい refers to something abstract, like someone's mindset or maturity.

Rewatching the Night of the Living Dead remake. It's remarkable how much better Tony Todd is than everyone else in this. He rescues the whole movie.

I just hope when space aliens unearth the ruins of this once great land, they find some lingering evidence of our greatest technological achievement, the Crispick.

We're four Gaidens deep. When are they gonna give us the MEAT of this ninja meal?