Hauntsune Michael

Steam keeps recommending me this game and because my music taste is bad I can't look at it without thinking "yeah, I've been listening to a lot of post-girl lately."

Using more recent examples, I joked to my partner that this has been the year of rhythm games that make me cry because the final chapter of Unbeatable and chapter 5 of Rhythm Doctor both got my ass.

I wasn't prepared for what is arguably the first and only fandom I ever engaged with to get hit with it's own "secret good episode" conspiracy ten years after it's last installment. It's like finding out an old friend you thought had died is actually alive but has leprosy.

I really only know the series by reputation (I have seen two segments out of context and that's it) but when I hear about new V/H/S movies they sound increasingly like the sort of holiday tradition that's more obligation than anything folks look forward to.

Had the pleasure of hearing a version of this essay (via recording) as a preface to a showing of Silence of the Lambs last year, very much recommend reading it!

Question: if you were to give a presentation on some of the video game industry's weirdest moments to a group of largely non-gamers, which ones would you pick and why?

Diminish an anime Palatable in Dungeon

Switching my car insurance provider to whichever one brings me the head of Liberty Bibberty

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Evil Does Not Exist for Tax Purposes

Stackable

The punchline, almost two years after the fact, is that Silver Pines is pretty much exactly this and I've spent the long weekend either playing it or wishing I was playing it. I'm the world's easiest mark; give me a Twin Peaks sliding block puzzle and it would probably make my end-of-year top 5.

The door opens from the other side

Bagel shop was out of stuff to make any sandwiches and the raspberries I bought yesterday were full of dead bugs, food's just not working out today I guess

So glad Hellraiser Revival is spotlighting an underrepresented demographic in gaming: dudes with cock piercings.

There's playtest signups open for Pony Island 2, and the original mystery rabbit-hole is just free right now. Let your friends know and don't tell them anything beyond 'Play it'.

I use Amazon very sparingly (basically when someone gives me a gift card) and mine was like "repairs electronics, reads contemporary fiction, and prefers physical media to digital." Amazon must think I'm the least fun person to talk with at a party

Been doing this thing where, when a coworkers suggests a book or movie to me, I go check it out. Now my life is full of great art I wouldn't have found on my own and people to enthusiastically discuss it with. I also have a lot less time for the stuff already on my list but hey, can't win 'em all.

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I think Rhythm Doctor rewired something within my brain because before I was basically incapable of playing any rhythm game on any difficulty and now I gotta bump them up to at least hard to have any fun. First two hours did feel like banging my head into a wall though.

Male praying mantis on opposite day

Box art for Doom 3

Oh shit they saw me

FIRESTORM IN EVENING our latest single, out everywhere. https://waxlimbs.bandcamp.com/track/firestorm-in-evening #bandcampFriday #bandcamp #music #alternative

Everyone needs to go see Appofeniacs if it's playing near you. It is very bad, but in that way where it's indifference towards conventional rules of storytelling allow it to be genuinely shocking the whole way through. Each scene ends the way a Goosebumps chapter ends.

I had jury duty last year and the only part that wasn't sad or boring was the guy who spoke in near-constant Jim Carrey quotes, who got kicked out day one for shouting at the bailiff. And he was mostly just confusing.

i will move beyond my inspirations and be better

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

Cooked, then ate half of, a delicious steak. A good evening had by all.

Denshattack, huh?

"Oh, you're challenging me to a fight?" I slowly strip off my shirt, revealing a full yakuza style back tattoo of a possum screaming. I fall to the ground and stop moving until you leave.

Happy bi visibility day, last year I saw Hozier at Fenway and the crowd was 90% women in flowing ethereal dresses and 10% dudes with mullets.

Also means that today my partner gets to bring up one of his favourites: