Lamp, broken circa 1988

Eric Bischoff and Natalya. So, despotism and nepotism. Seems good. Seems right.

Hey, you know who strikes me as a crowd that could use something that explores a more thoughtful approach to sexuality and human interaction than Bioware's "Time + Gifts = Fuck" system? Young adult males who play video games as their primary engagement with media and entertainment. Granted I have totally given up on video games as an artistic medium after an article pointed out that Gone Home, one of the more progressive pieces of game fiction and design currently available, is basically an OK young adult novel and I don't really have a way to disprove that. So if we've decided to just send a gigantic middle finger to another medium that could enlighten people, I'm fine with that. I'm just tired of the waffling between making toys and making art, or even worse trying to have it both ways.

pokemon pocket monsters maybe if they made, like, housemon or something then there could be console games, but otherwise you just want them to say "ehhhhhh, fuck having a solid design idea"

Oh! Not a band, but Oneohtrix Point Never (Returnal -> Replica -> R Plus 7) is pretty fucking all powerful, if a little impenetrable. If you can brute force through the first track of Returnal I'd say there's a 90% chance you end up hooked.

less cool is them going after Stoic, the developers of The Banner Saga, on the same claims of brand confusion. Grim norse strategy epic, candy puzzle game... I could see how that kind of confusion could happen.

My semester starts tomorrow! :D :D The car is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides And a dark wind blows The government is corrupt And we're on so many drugs With the radio on and the curtains drawn We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine is bleeding to death The sun has fallen down And the billboards are all leering And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles It went like this: The buildings tumbled in on themselves Mothers clutching babies Picked through the rubble And pulled out their hair The skyline was beautiful on fire All twisted metal stretching upwards Everything washed in a thin orange haze I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful - These are truly the last days" You grabbed my hand And we fell into it Like a daydream Or a fever We woke up one morning and fell a little further down For sure it's the valley of death I open up my wallet And it's full of blood

Wire (Pink Flag -> Chairs Missing -> 154) leaps to mind as a pretty unfuckwithable trio of records. Just total growth over each record in just as many years. Also Lightning Bolt (Wonderful Rainbow -> Hypermagic Mountain -> Earthly Delights) and the mid-late 90s Boredoms (Chocolate Synthesizer -> Super ae -> Vision Creation Newsun). This one's personal only, but I'm a big fan of those first three Liars records (They Threw Us All in a Trench and Built a Monument on Top -> They Were Wrong, So We Drowned -> Drum's Not Dead) oh and probably Wolf Parade's three records. Every time I go back to Expo 86 thinking it's only okay I end up headbanging for the length of it.

A Superplex has the aggressor on or partially on the middle rope. A top rope superplex...well...yeah.

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are -you- happy, gonzalez?

man, if your only exposure to Outkast is Hey Ya!, I am so sorry. They are impossibly talented rappers with three classic records released before Hey Ya! ever existed. Just... go pull up that record Stankonia some time.

man i'm barely motivated to talk about kanye when he has new records out

fuck it, it's tuesday by government standards. Also, a bootleg of this song has been stuck in my head for months, but now it is ready to conquer other ears.

i don't share a lot about me but in my experience someone else has to know for something to become a reality in my life and the rest of my posse's asleep The shortest possible version of my story is that I buried my father at the start of high school, badly hurt my knee in high school, let myself stay in a shit relationship for five years, and then buried my closest uncle (bought my first guitar) at the end of that relationship and the start of college. Skip ahead a few years and I'm a 360+ pound ex-binge drinker who knows how to write songs. Last year was the first year things have started looking up, with getting into SDSU and finding a group of very intense and creative friends. NOW THE GOOD NEWS: I made two a-few-days-after-new-year's resolutions: play my first show, and get good at yoga. I ordered the DDPYoga set because I guess I'm still a mark, and I'm writing this after doing it the first time. I can do this.

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hey did you guys see that gif of the face brock lesn

secret candidate for post of the year right here, intentional or not

Honestly, I don't mind developers having the ability to patch games, or even the idea that I'm beta-testing something for full price at launch. For one, if a cartridge or an early disk system game shipped bugged/bad, you were basically stuck with bullshit forever. The ability for a developer to go in and fix mechanics is still pretty fucking magical compared to that part of my life. Secondly, I see no difference between buying a game day one and buying any other technology day one. The risk you run as an early adopter has been severe long before this specific scenario of patchable console games. Third, and this is personal, but I think when games break it's pretty fucking funny as long as it's not wiping save files. I don't even mind the DLC thing that much! If I don't want that game's DLC, I don't buy it. The cases where it's "removing something from the game" are vastly outnumbered by cases where it's content that needed more time or it was just a weird passion project by a part of the development team. Where I draw the line is the X-Box One Microtransaction madness in games like Forza, Ryse and Crimson Dragon. The entire concept of paying for one-time use items or time-limited XP boosts is fucking deplorable to me. However, if I don't like a thing, I don't pay for the thing. This doesn't seem like a weird idea.

I own every Madden from 2006-2012 now. I bought them for $10.50. "why," you ask. Because $10.50 to drag a friend through madness is a pretty reasonable price.

Here's the new single from The Men. There's a new album from The Men coming out in March, called Tomorrow's Hits. Five full-length albums in five years. Yep. EDIT: Hahah, holy shit. According to that link, the new album was recorded before New Moon even fucking came out. "Do what you love," indeed.

I literally had this conversation a few days ago. "man when I was watching there were these dudes that were all in like uniform and they were like evil cheerleaders? they were awesome." That time is a lot closer than six or seven years. also fuck off with Scotty 2 Hotty hate. A lot of that old Cruiserweight Champion era stuff is underrated.

(I would embed a youtube video but the only copies of this song on youtube are static images with weird deformed anime girls and a live version with the wrong name attached to it that totally falls apart. this song is "II" by Perfect Pussy) I was understood to be living I existed only when seen So I died of self-importance I killed the parts of me that still wanted things I tremble with no desire, I need nothing In loss I discovered completion In having things stolen I found that I had more than ever in the absence of everything, I found all things And I understood myself So I understood nothing So I stopped questioning All things pass through me, I’m a tough boy Wild and innocent and dangerous as hell I’m awake And awakening I am here and I have died I killed the parts of me that said that I know I killed off all the parts that keep me awake I’ll die a thousand times to prove that I’m living I'll kiss myself to prove that I’m not afraid of snakes Nothing shakes me any more; I’m tough now, baby Really, I have lost all feeling And I've lost all desire for feeling And I can't thank you enough

I'm going to suggest this as the rule for remakes: this podcast I listen to called Insert Credit talked about when a remade or re-released games are new games (an argument inspired by the release of The Stanley Parable, which is a fine tuning and update of an old Half-Life 2 mod) and the conclusion they came to is that if the changes made effect the way you play the game then it's a new game. So by their logic, the PC release of Spelunky is a new game on account of the Daily Challenges and how that can change your strategy, where as Ducktales Remastered is not because there's no mechanical changes at all. We don't have to do shit that way but I think it's an interesting point.

I'm going to say No on Jai Paul. I took a pretty good amount of care in writing the rules in which I left out bootlegs as eligible releases, and I consider the whole scenario around the release of those songs as an unauthorized bootleg of unfinished demos. Or, put another way, I believe Jai Paul and XL are telling the truth about it being unauthorized.

so the main gameplay rule of Risk of Rain is that after selecting an initial difficulty (basically casual/hardcore/insane) the difficulty raises on its own over time, so you have to become efficient at farming and exploring while you progress through the levels of the game to avoid getting trapped at one of the higher difficulties and having to wait through harder waves to get things done the names of those higher difficulties? Insane, Impossible, I SEE YOU, I'M COMING FOR YOU, and HAHAHAHA I had just crossed over into I'M COMING FOR YOU when I beat the game for the first time i think i love this game