AndyAML

AndyAML

@andyaml.bsky.social

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I've already seen the entire series but I still popped the fuck off when Imaizumi walks out in his lil david byrne suit in episode 4 of Furuhata Ninzaburo (the whole show with subs is on internet archive it's literally on poob you can poob it archive.org/details/Furu...)

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I know everybody remembers the Itchy and Scratchy Land episode of the Simpsons for the Bort license plate, but for a brief moment at the bird sanctuary, you do actually get to see the new birdfeeder shaped like a diner on a really tall pole! Marge wasn't lying!

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I've heard the sound so many times that I immediately clocked when the "YES! OH YES!" part of the dying homer simpson beer opener showed up in an episode (it was the episode where flanders opens the leftorium)

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Absolutely blessed Event SSR ticket in granblue today; I'd pretty much resigned myself to these always being gold moons so nabbing one of the two Providence summons I'm missing is a fantastic get

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did you know gaming (real) gaster in undertale was originally supposed to be cartilage head from achewood, but it was deemed too difficult to take and send a real life photograph of every player who would abandon a dying man, so it was scrapped and turned into an ARG for dataminers instead

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I did one of these relatively recently but I think it was on Twitter, so fuck it, have an updated 9 games that define me

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me watching exactly one video on some random synthesizer: maybe i do need to start purchasing audio production equipment (i did not buy it but the video itself has a fun little history lesson on the yamaha dx7 which is neat! link to watch is here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyUo...)

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Completely unintentional, but did you know that the bass thumps in the final Trauma Team operation theme kick in at the exact moment during the KH2 title screen sequence when the screen flashes and the dot lands in the box to give you control of the menu? Neither did I.

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I figured out how to get custom music working with KH2 rando! There's a nice little tool called SCDToolkit2 that lets you convert audio files to the .scd format that the game uses, along with setting up loop points for tracks, and even volume auto-balancing. Now I just gobba grab some music...

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My one issue is that some songs are just arbitrarily Cursed and the tool will decide to shift my loop points, making the looping sound really bad if the song plays through all the way ingame. The discord link in the github is dead and the dev doesn't appear to have a social media presence.

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every time mickey shows up in a cutscene in DDD i lose my shit because he looks like a dog waiting for you to drop something off the kitchen counter

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Finished up with BBS! I do have some gripes, mostly with humanoid bosses deciding to not be in a combo anymore, and the game balancing is kind of all over the place, but they threw a ton of new stuff at the wall here and overall it felt like more hits than misses compared to Days.

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D-Links are cool but they definitely get much more situational once you get to the endgame and have a better command deck lined up. The finisher commands are very hit or miss, especially Stitch's advanced finisher which takes 3-5 business days to fully resolve.

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Still, I had a good time! Each campaign is short enough that it doesn't overstay its welcome, and while the story does feel very contrived at times it's nice to have more context for the stuff that happens in KH3. See you in Dream Drop Distance V, everybody!

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Finished up with BBS! I do have some gripes, mostly with humanoid bosses deciding to not be in a combo anymore, and the game balancing is kind of all over the place, but they threw a ton of new stuff at the wall here and overall it felt like more hits than misses compared to Days.

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This was their first time with the Command Menu system and I've been a big fan ever since first playing it in Recoded. While there are some commands that are objectively busted, I think the fusion stuff gives enough reason to just play around with em and not look up the "best" ones.

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I know that BBS isn't the most popular but I'd love to see a rebalance mod so the commitment-heavy commands are more worth it, and while I'm dreaming I wouldn't mind the KH2 revenge value system ported over to this game so doing big combos on bosses isn't a bad idea.

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Been doing some thinking and I think I'm gonna shelve the Elden Ring playthrough. I'm enjoying the game, but interest in the whole decrees thing dropped off a cliff after the first few sessions, and it's pretty clear that I overestimated people wanting to keep doing it for a 60+ hour game.

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I'm sorry if you were enjoying it and hoping to see more, but it was unfortunately getting to the point where I just wasn't having a great time putting in the effort for something that clearly was not hitting.

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Today's stats for BBS mutes. Got 6 minutes cut from Neverland, the first 2 minutes of Keyblade Graveyard, and 2 minutes from Runble Racing for some reason. Weirdly enough Disney Town, the place that has the Michael Rodent March playing nonstop, was left completely untouched?? Idk man

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Congratulations to Birth By Sleep for having the most VOD mutes per capita of any KH game I've streamed! They are apparently very protective about the Command Board theme for some reason

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Funny prank that Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days plays on you: You remember how I grumped about finishers being the only way to stagger weak enemies? That ability actually does exist in Days, but for Roxas it's exclusive to the Pandora Gear which is only available at the very end of the game.

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If you do decide to play it, absolutely run it under Melon Mix so the controls aren't quite as clunky and you can focus on a single screen. It even supports Re:Coded which is extremely underrated and fun, even if most people only know it for putting bugs in Riku github.com/vitor251093/...

github.comGitHub - vitor251093/KHMelonMix: KH Melon Mix (DS Emulator)KH Melon Mix (DS Emulator). Contribute to vitor251093/KHMelonMix development by creating an account on GitHub.
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BUT WITH ALL THOSE GAMES FINISHED IT'S FINALLY TIME FOR THE NEW SHIT Never played Birth by Sleep, Dream Drop Distance, or Fragmentary Passage and I'm excited to hang out with another trio named after land, sea, and sky for some reason. Still not sure if I wanna stream it, guess you'll see tomorrow

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Funny prank that Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days plays on you: You remember how I grumped about finishers being the only way to stagger weak enemies? That ability actually does exist in Days, but for Roxas it's exclusive to the Pandora Gear which is only available at the very end of the game.

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It only takes, you know, the fucking Omega Weapon to do so, but you can eventually start playing Days like a regular KH game right at the finish line

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Anyways that is Days Done And Dusted Divided By Dos. I definitely get what they were going for with the game and it does a nice job of fleshing out the story of Ice Cream Squad, but the gameplay has too many frustrating parts that it's a really hard recommendation for anyone but the KH superfans.