Lamp, broken circa 1988
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HERE WE GO AGAIN. I'm starting early to give y'all time to look back and make sure, or maybe mess around and hear records you meant to get around to months ago.
Rules:
- First Come, First Serve.
- If you nominate two, I'll listen to zero.
- No guarantees that my review will be positive.
- If someone suggests your album I'll ask the both of you if you have another album you'd rather I review. First Come First Serve still applies.
One additional caveat: do not suggest "The Microphones in 2020" by The Microphones. It's one 45 minute song. It's lovely, and it's perfect, but, it's one 45 minute song. That's not going to be an interesting write up.
My personal album of the year came out on Valentine's Day, and it's been locked up all year: "What's Tonight To Eternity" by Cindy Lee. Any way I could describe it is undone by how well the blurb for it is written on the bandcamp page, which is why I linked to it. Nothing I've heard this year has hit me the same way this did and still does. That said, it's REALLY not for everyone. You will need to like R&B, classic pop ballads, and raw shrill improvised noise.
of course, that Avalanches record isn't out until december and so there's a good chance that'll be my album of the year because it's new Avalanches
Now! Proceed at your own pace and show me these records! I'll probably start writing reviews novemberish, and the cutoff date is New Year's Eve.
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I could do that, but the last time I floated that the general response I got was "lol no." who knows, times have changed
speaking of favorite albums and a decade:
Today is the 10th anniversary of my full-stop favorite album, "Public Strain" by Women. It changed my entire trajectory as a listener and a songwriter. Give it a shot if you haven't.
Jagjaguwar and Flemish Eye also announced a rarities comp today but I have all of those songs lol
i'm still totally buying it
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Ok, it's been a while since I've written any game reviews and I cant find my last post on them so I'm gonna dump a whole bunch of game opinions here that may or may not be out of date. I'll try to keep them to ten words each.
- DOTA Underlords: Duo mode is very fun. No one plays it though. [3]
- The Last Of Us Part 2: Or, The Have And Eat Cake Of Us Part 2. [1]
- Hades: First day of 1.0- Made it to Hades. Still rules. [4]
- Fall Guys: The Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas Line about the Third Reich. [1]
- Wrestling Revolution on phones: Despite the reputation, it plays way better than I expected. [3]
- DOOM Eternal: A game about manmade munition famine and gloating over it. [2]
- Dan Ku Ga: Prototype of sequel to obscure Taito fighting game. Balance =/= Fun. [4]
- Crystalis: Early on, but for now, my fun bedtime adventure game. [3]
- Golf On Mars: Desert Golfing, but now with mechanics. Cute. Less fun, though. [2]
- Golf With Your Friends: It can horrify, infuriate, and tell jokes. [Every Number Simultaneously]
- Armed Police Batrider: Nightmare shootemup with team mechanics. Might become a shmup idiot. [4]
- Old World: Early Access. Half Civ, half Crusader Kings. Wonderful and Promising. [4]
- Blaseball: The commissioner is doing a great job. Go Yellowstone Magic! [4]
- The Beginner's Guide: Very powerful. Your emotional response will vary. Mine was anger. [4]
Honestly I've been really down on this year which has bummed me out. I don't want to hate stuff but I cant lie about liking stuff. There's been very little I've enjoyed. This is fixing to be a big Back Catalog Winter for me, aside from Yakuza Like A Dragon and my social Destiny obligations (*LOUD DEFEATED SIGH*).
There's currently 3 games of the year as I see it: If an episodic game that started in 2013 counts, it's Kentucky Route Zero in a walk. If that doesn't, but games that started in Early Access and hit full console release this year count, it's Hades in a similar walk. If neither counts, it's Streets of Rage 4, which has always been a better series than Final Fight*. So there.
*Metro City Mayor Mike Haggar is a better character design than anything in Streets of Rage though, so it does have that advantage.
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Yeah it'll use the onboard mic. Or it should, at least.
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the Vader/Inoki "how his chin hit his solar plexus" suplex is delightful.
My personal favorite suplex is also my favorite wrestling move of all time and my defacto "move I give my self-insert create-a-wrassler since forever": Maeda's Capture Suplex.
Runner up is Hideki Suzuki's Double Arm Suplex, which looks like utter hell and has all the historical legacy of catch wrestling and Robinson's Double Arm to go along side it.
Third place is Doug Williams' Chaos Theory, which still looks supernatural.
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I love Control to death (it might be my favorite game of the decade) but you should probably wait for a sale on the DLC. They're, like, neat, but the best way to experience them I figure is to do it in the middle of the campaign because neither of them is particularly good for closure.
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I asked this question to specifically make the godly REDLINE eligible and that reads like a Yes to me so go for it
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Honestly I'm gonna enjoy this basho no matter what, because I couldn't do the Empty Arena Basho without feeling REAL SAD.
I'm hopeful my main man Kotoshogiku gets his first winning record in a year.
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I asked that earlier and it was answered here
I have a question I asked in the pimping thread but I think it got buried so I'll ask it again here: if a film was shown at festivals in 2009 but theatrically in 2010, is that eligible?
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hey, quick procedural question: if a film made its festival debut in 2009 but its theatrical debut in 2010, is that eligible?
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I took that advice and thought it was fine and maybe better than I was expecting, and on that note, as I come to the end of making my own ballot (I'll probably submit last week of July just to make sure I feel that way) here's a list of movies I watched for this that I was pleasantly surprised by:
- Inherent Vice
- Beyond the Black Rainbow
- The Rover
- Jonah Hex
- Standoff
- Alita Battle Angel
- He Never Died
- X-Men First Class
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replying to multiple questions!
"______ will die for your sins" is the one I do most consciously, as well as "fuck or fight friday night" and a couple of more specific phrases that are more like references to events on this board that I'll decline to state at this time.
I came to the board like two days before the sleaze thread and was told by the person who brought me here to just lurk and not mention how I got here or who referred me. In their defense I was a kid that was MUCH more prone to moodswings.
and yeah i was one of the match writers for two different attempts at the DVDVR fed. If anyone wanted to bring the shit back I think doing it via Fire Pro is the move cuz that way you can cut promos and then no one has to write matches, but I advocated for that the last time bringing the fed back came up and got a big fat No, so.
EDIT: lmao this is my 2000th post
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ok half a year has passed without another post so here, have two records I've listened to every day for the last week and the forseeable future. Surprise: they're two Griselda projects!
and here's the playlist link for Westside Gunn's "FLYGOD is an Awesome God 2"
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that was more in reference to "people hate this?" cuz golly I sure don't see what there is to like about it but ok
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@ me next time
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I am eight hours into The Last Of Us Part 2. I have reached the start of Day 2 and have found myself dreading where this game is going, and not in the "oh no what drama is around the corner I can't wait" way. spoilers ahead
One of my misgivings with the first game is that the idea of the gaming world losing it's mind over a game where a dad has to protect a child around the same time that most of the buying audience and critical audience was reaching the phase of their lives where they were having children meant that the majority of the praise of the story was a vicarious adventure they could slot in place of their own under-developed internal world. During the flashback at the museum, it became clear to me what this game was going to try to be: a tale about an under-developed psyche not being prepared to lose a parent. I dread this.
To be clear, I do not resent the idea of these stories being in video games. I just saw what this team did with "I'm scared of fucking up this child" and have no eagerness to see that same team meditate on "all the things I could have said." Especially as someone that lost my father at an early age.
By the way, the pacing of the "I think I'm pregnant" scene was soap opera shit.
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eh, I get the impulse to dump on star ratings and I've got misgivings about them, but star ratings are the same as "roger ebert doesn't know what he's talking about, I thought it was good because ______." that's at least a venue to learn about your own preferences and what other people can see in things.
ratings talk in a vaccum is fine and maybe even interesting on occasion but people's treatment of them as like this One True Rating, like the masses have been right about anything in your whole life, can be exhausting. the parallel is only made real by a class of people looking to Metrics like they're the teacher and they're gonna get an A for liking all the stuff the market said was good
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Now THIS is a thread I can get into.
Chono's got the best G1 final of the 90s don't @ me
And here he is being king sized in AJPW against the fukin Danger Zone
also I have this in my library and dont feel like uploading it atm but if you want to see some big bully gatekeeping his match against the debuting Kazuki Hashimoto is good times
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it's been a horrific month for the FGC. Started with racism callouts, then sexism callouts, and now the exposure of rampant pedophilia problem. what a nightmare.
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Two more! More oversights than anything original!
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hey! I uploaded a rudimentary move I'm almost certain someone else has put up already! But I'm proud of it so lookit!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2138219777
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update #1 of many: i am not enjoying The Last Of Us Part 2.
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IN 2020 I WILL LISTEN TO YOUR ALBUM OF THE YEAR
in MUSIC
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See, this'll be good news for the people who only submit metal albums to this- this was the year that I deliberately sought out a few metal records (LOVED Boris, liked Loathe, mixed on the new Imperial Triumphant), so I appear to be in a good space for that kind of stuff as opposed to usual.