wot im up to oct 2024
hi gamers long time no speak. thought about writing a cohost eulogy post but it didn't happen right so i'm just going to do a big General Update. if i sit on this any longer i'll never post it. rip eggbug big man
Videogame:
UFO 50 fucks so much man. I'm counting my hours by how long until I can check on Pilot Quest. I'm terrible at most of the games, except for... The Big Bell Race...? I'm decent at Rock On! Island - once I figured out what I was missing about it I started winning stages pretty handily, but that last one'll take some planning. Looking forward to drawing a map. I've figured out over half of Barbuta. I was shockingly good at PvP Hot Foot against my friend, but I haven't tried vs CPU yet. I'm halfway into Divers, and I'm nearly done with Mini and Max. I really like Star Waspir, but I can't get consistently to stage 3. I also really like Campanella 2 but I can't get past like, 2-1... the only game so far I've outright disliked is Onion Delivery. Fuck Onion Delivery. Go to hell.
For what it's worth, I'm not actually a Spelunky Liker so I heard about this game really late, but I AM a person who had a famiclone as well as PS1 demo discs as a kid. I'm not normally a buy on release week person (sorry, indies) but I saw a bit of a stream of it and was sold really fast.
I really really want Pilot merch also. Can I have a sofubi of him. Please. He's so crap and I adore him. One time I described him as 'he looks like if someone with a concussion tried to remember Bomberman'. The CGs of him in Pilot Quest make him look like he feels like one of those stress balls that feels like a sack of flour. Alternatively I'll take a toy quibble I can kick into the bin and feed poison
I started Titanfall 2 shortly before UFO 50 came out and haven't returned to it because it doesn't have Pilot in it. It's really good!!! I'm bad at it because I get scared when FPS games have movement mechanics!! The most recent FPS games I've played have been Doom 64 and Quake 1. I'll see how I fare going forward. I would die for BT (said with no foreknowledge of the game)
Talking of FPS games, been occasionally playing some Halo 1 (MCC) with a friend. Took a little while to get working - turns out the Linux build doesn't have (working) crossplay with the PC build, so I have to Wine it. Those remade graphics are kind of hideous, but I'm enjoying going through and complaining about textures. The melee button is next to the change textures button so occasionally I find myself running up to a grunt and turning it HD. It's really fun! My neighbours (my age, two brothers) had Xbox to my Playstation, so I spent a lot of my childhood going next door to shoot "Carbine".
I really gotta finish Ancient Roman sometime. Game of the century
Music:
- I was going to write about music generally but I just found out there was a new Melt-Banana in August. fuck!!!!!
- Anyway haven't been listening to as much as I like. Forgot to buy anything this Bandcamp Friday. Listened to about half of the new Curta'n Wall (it's so good). Found out there was a new Woods of Desolation album and then got worried they're sus (I thinkkk they pass the sniff test for me) - I really like As The Stars, but the new one has a truly bizarre mix. I think it grew on me though.
- I gotta check out the new Spectral Wound/Dawn Treader/Dark Tranquility/Fleshgod Apocalypse/Leprous/Fugitive Wizard/Concrete Winds/Wintersun-
- Went to see my friend one weekend, she caught me up on nonmetal - new FKA Twigs fucks. I liked bbno$'s meme rap more than I expected to and I've had i'm him stuck in my head for a few days. On the subject of cringe white rappers, big into Joey Valence & Brae's goofy Beastie Boys worship. Brooke Candy has some bangers. ЛУНА rips. Ethel Cain might also be good ????. In return I shared Peggy Gou and an ASP track because it had a lifechanging fit in it.
- I should listen to the new Machine Girl. I should listen to any Machine Girl
- I'm going to see KAMELOT soon!!! I'm unbelievably excited!!! Out of all the shit symphonic power metal bands I listened to at 13, they're the ones that stayed with me. (I wouldn't say no to a bit of Nightwish though.)
Food:
- I had Chinese hotpot for the first time recently. I'm thinking about her every day (lotus root cooked in spicy soup)
- I tried a Spanish latte at a new little outdoor coffee van in a local shopping area and came back as soon as I could for another. The guy recognised me and I got a loyalty card... thank you for my life and nice coffee... I love condensed milk coffee... their cappuccino was a bit crap but it's okay if the other coffees are good
Video:
My friend showed me the first two eps of True Detective S4. I didn't finish Season 1, but they're all pretty standalone... it's good though! Old woman divorced bitter rivals yuri! Navarro's dimple piercings!! The setting work's crazy good, I want to go fucking mental in a polar desert too. Can't wait for it to get colder so I can wear a huge coat. I think it's a bit passe to look at a weird TV or film and call it Lynchian but I think the shit with Cohle's dad and Rose and also Hank are really giving Twin Peaks. Lynch would cast the SHIT out of John Hawkes.
Kamen Rider Gavv... I've not watched any Rider since Zero-One really. Watched about 30 eps of Zero-One; some half of Geats; about ten quite regretted episodes of Revice*; episode one of Saber, live and unsubbed, which was bad enough to make me not want to continue with the rest of it; and a big fat Zero episodes of Gotchard. But! Gavv! They've fucking done it. They made Kamen Rider good again. It's peak, kino, etc. It's been overall good - Shoma's a great protag with crazy good suit acting, the Gochizos are the cutest gimmick in forever, the supporting girlies are lovely, the villain squad incredibly well cast and outfitted, the CG backgrounds are really funny, the music and action generally goes; but I've just seen the Valen debut and I'm marking out so bad. We got that Ex-Aid perfectly balanced tonal dissonance sauce again babey!!! And it only took like 8 years but they finally made another secondary I need to push down the stairs!!! I'm watching it with my non-toku friends and they're really enjoying it too... thank you Toei for my life
Forgot to keep watching Boon also. Sorry Boon. You're really good and I'll get back there eventually. I've no idea why I stopped when I was thinking about Taiya/Ishiro for weeks and Sakito was making me crazy a bit (he really looks like kzy to me. if this sentence doesn't mean anything to you don't worry about it).
And in non-tokusatsu news, I've been watching a bit of Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee. Man's funny, I pre-liked a few of his guests on the Australian season (I like Free to a Good Home/bigsofttitty.png), and I'm already predisposed to the Taskmaster form of panel show as torture.
(* well, I don't regret getting to look at George. I'd give up anything for the world in which Revice was good so I could look at George more)
Book:
- Bought copies of The Sellout, Titus Groan, and Cuckoo, but I've got the last Terra Ignota out from the library so those are on hold until I've exorcised the demon 'Mycroft Canner'. I keep holding off on posting my thoughts on it for some reason and it's pissing me off!!!
- The gang's started wave 2 of our journey into Irish Mythology so I'm also reading shit like Cú Chulainn's No Good Terrible Pub Crawl. I really recommend reading some medieval shit at least a little bit to get a good perspective on modern storytelling structure. And also it's all shonen as hell in here. Cu's got a double jump
- I got new doujin in today date of posting... I'm wondering if the relative privacy of a website like this will allow me to post about or at bare minimum catalog my Independent Comic's... I'll have to think about it some more.
Clothes:
- I got a couple T-shirts in from Ryuhei Kitamura's store, Xrosscounter - and the designer sent me a message apologizing for the delay but happy that someone from so far away bought his stuff. Which is really sweet, but he sent the wrong size, and I got a real shock when it turned out that linked Godzilla shirt went straight down to my knees. But it turns out it fits great tucked in anyway and it's like a perfect half-sleeve. Lucky! I also bought a Relics T-shirt, which is somehow more niche a product than my recently purchased officially licensed Flower, Sun and Rain t-shirt (from Scenes of Explicit Violence, but they're pre-order drops only so the shop's shut at time of writing).
- I have my first Q-Pot item coming in and it's an earring of a cavitied tooth. Hi. I was kind of obsessed with the single drop earring version of this that's in black and has 5 pearls attached, but I'm not about to pay £95 for one earring. I bought this to top off free shipping on some leftover stock Granblue merch which sold out maybe one second after I placed the order. Was I the last one...
- My ears were pierced in Dec and I'm being gentle with them so I don't want to get anything heavy or annoying for at least a year... but I'm coming up on a year now... my options are suddenly opening, y'know? I think I'm going to treat myself to something from spiky, piercing-y shop Closet Children - I'm thinking the mix and match set with Temptation and Chainsaw. I LOVE their chokers but don't have the wardrobe to pull them off.
Thank yuo . Biglove