tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150422412024-03-19T07:32:50.624+00:00the demon downloadi rule on this throne by anarchy of circuitrydemondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.comBlogger424125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-29099578689285192462024-02-14T15:54:00.003+00:002024-02-14T15:54:34.901+00:002077
So, Cyberpunk. It's basically all I've been playing for the last month. Almost 50 hours into it, still not seen the credits (I think I've got the final mission on the board, though).
I wasn't much on its side to begin with; the cheap shock (and schlock) tactics of swearing, nudity and ultraviolence being much more embarrassing than adult. Frankly, I'm about done with Keanu Reeves' demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-55253796533225446692022-12-24T10:20:00.001+00:002022-12-24T10:20:41.639+00:00GotY
Marvel Snap has occupied my waking thoughts to a possibly-unhealthy degree.There are a bunch of buttons it pushes in my lizard brain - the bright colours of the card art, the satisfying animations as they flip over and activate their abilities, the delightful use of haptic rumble, the nostalgia kick of recognising a lower-tier character from some comic storyline I read twenty years demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-17582628364512559312022-07-13T12:37:00.000+01:002022-07-13T12:37:08.777+01:00Chainsaw Man vs. Fire Punch
The new chapter of Chainsaw Man dropped yesterday, after a two-year break. I've read it three times already. It's not at all what I was expecting – whatever that was – and exacrly what I hoped for. It's a confident, triumphant return for probably the best manga I've ever read.
But in the run-up to the new chapter, I went back to mangaka Tatsuki Fujimoto's previous work, Fire Punch.
It's, uh&demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-36982514326229891962022-07-11T00:37:00.002+01:002022-09-07T11:56:17.238+01:00Love and Thunder, signifying nothing
Is it just me, or are more and more movies nowadays feeling like they could use another draft or two before shooting? I've got the benefit of hindsight, obviously, but the last few films I've seen definitely felt like they had at least one subplot underbaked.Thor: Love and Thunder is definitely one of them.There's no real connection between the hero and villain's arcs, which is what would reallydemondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-1215191555553428472021-11-06T18:19:00.004+00:002021-11-06T18:19:35.804+00:00Ranking of Kings
Everything I'd seen about Ranking of Kings before going in - admittedly, not much more than some promo images - had me expecting something light and fluffy. (Apart from the title, which sounds like a shonen battle anime.)
The bright, primary colours; the simple, stylised character designs. And the first episode delivered pretty much on that promise: a little slower than I expected, sure, demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-50822601108884206952021-09-29T21:06:00.002+01:002021-10-04T10:19:24.622+01:00Don't Say Goodbye
I'm writing this the evening before the Sonny Boy finale airs, surrounded by swirling fears and thoughts and hopes for how it ends. No small part of me is afraid that it will screw everything up, as so many promising shows have before it.
This fear is borne, mostly, I think, probably, of how deeply Sonny Boy's themes have resonated with me in some indefinable, profound way that I've yet to find demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-48927181791648075362021-06-09T21:25:00.001+01:002021-06-09T21:25:14.289+01:00A New Low in Hi-Fi
I'm pretty sure I first heard of Brad Sucks in 2003, off the back of his Outside the Inbox project, a collaboration album featuring songs titled after spam email subject lines. I've still got the home-burned CD that I bought back then, as well as two copies of Brad's follow-up album, I Don't Know What I'm Doing (also from 2003) – there was a home-burned copy of that as well, before the demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-74546490976114609322021-06-03T14:30:00.026+01:002021-06-05T09:38:46.136+01:00My Next Life as a Villainess
What makes harem shows compelling, to the extent that any of them are, is the balancing act the series has to pull off to keep all of the "routes" viable. All the romantic options are broad archetypes without much real depth, so it's down to the protagonist's agonising to sell us on the dilemma and draw us through the implausible events that get them into this situation.
The biggest problem demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-16833644853880735862020-11-18T11:02:00.002+00:002020-12-08T16:03:23.280+00:00Makibét, Ak 5, Sin 5Makibét
Da livit im bera wa ting nalush ando du wok, wa *dorámawala mal,
Demang pasa ora im ere da mesa da *dorama wit lek bik unte wit seteráx,
Unte deng namang na pochuye im natim efa. Im wa setoriye
Deting wa *baka tili showxa, wit walowda walowda sownte unte walowda walowda gova-tet,
Wit wa senyawu nakangekeng.
Macbeth
The life it (is) just a thing not-light (CONT) make walkdemondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-78721364611662123992020-11-01T21:50:00.003+00:002020-11-18T10:58:04.150+00:00Talentless Nana
To explain exactly why Talentless Nana is a show you should be watching would be to spoil its best moments1. Its premise, character designs and animation all bring to mind the kind of mid-2000s filler that eventually brought down ADV Films, but underneath that cheap veneer is an experience that's quite unlike anything I've seen before – even as it cribs elements from many, many other places.
demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-70271280111164491832020-10-18T22:01:00.002+01:002020-11-18T10:58:18.207+00:00Bloom Into You
There's something about the central relationship in Bloom Into You that I can't quite gel with. It's frustrating, because otherwise it's completely up my anime alley: a high school romance with a large dose of emotional turmoil and self-examination.
Spoilers follow.
Yuu, a high school freshman, has never fallen in love. She suspects she never will. When she meets Touko, an upperclassman demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-23875919616304051462020-10-17T13:29:00.001+01:002020-10-18T09:57:50.961+01:00Kowpelésh Ere da VedipeléshMi finyish vedi ere fo translate wang mo sowngit fo langbelta: All Along the Watchtower(I have tried to translate another song to langbelta: All Along the Watchtower)(Asilik kowltim, sili tolowda mebi tenye wawe fo du im mogut, fodagut showxa mi!)(As always, if you have any way to make it better, please tell me!)Kowpelésh Ere da *VedipeléshMogut fo desh wa we fongiDa *dzhoka ta showxa fo da demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-28954952333535072142020-10-15T23:35:00.001+01:002020-10-15T23:35:18.855+01:00Gleipnir
Gleipnir is a vaguely body-horror manga adaptation, about a guy who has, somehow, found himself with the ability to transform into a "monster" with the appearance of a Japanese prefectural mascot. After his secret is discovered by a classmate, she finds a zipper down the back which allows her to climb inside and pilot him.Also, other "monsters" (with various other abilities and demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-5890960560602575032020-10-14T22:29:00.004+01:002020-10-15T23:37:26.181+01:00Dear Brother
After some… let's call them recommendations on Twitter, I have started to watch the 1992 shoujo manga adaptation Oniisama e. It was described to me as "pure uncut black-market shoujo" and I honestly cannot find fault with that assessment.
This is melodrama in its concentrated form. Directed by Osamu Dezaki – whose better-known works include the sports anime Ashita no Joe and Ace o Nerae, as demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-13920945406052871572020-09-19T16:56:00.001+01:002020-10-15T23:38:18.877+01:00O Maidens in Your Savage Season
One of the principal characters of O Maidens in Your Savage Season, a 2019 anime based on the manga by Mari Okada and Nao Emoto, describes fictional stories as not simply escapism, but a way to experience emotions at a safe distance; by empathising with the characters in the story, we get a kind of a vaccination against emotions that we'll experience first-hand later.
The trouble I'm having, demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-66285177689996721212020-09-10T10:54:00.005+01:002020-10-14T22:34:42.043+01:00Mi ando xunyam fo showxa langbelta
Because I can't ever make things easy for myself, I've started running a second RPG campaign.
It's a sci-fi game this time, using The Expanse RPG rules and in that setting (albeit without any connection to the TV show or books), so it's a nice change of pace on the front—and it makes it harder to reuse any of the plot beats or influences from my 13th Age campaign, which is slso useful demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-9441789739451052782019-11-27T10:55:00.003+00:002019-11-27T10:55:50.843+00:00One Cut of the Dead
One Cut of the Dead is a 2017 horror/comedy directed by Shinichiro Ueda. It follows the cast and crew of a zombie movie whose shoot in a WWII military facility is interrupted by a real zombie outbreak. Its biggest marketing point is a 37-minute opening shot, filmed in a single take, but its most ambitious efforts don't become apparent until well after the first cut.
One Cut of the Dead might demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-64706071607989055122019-03-14T12:36:00.000+00:002019-03-14T12:36:37.348+00:00Skills for kills, Agent
I don't remember why I bought the original Crackdown. I wasn't a big enough fan of Halo, so it can't have been the multiplayer beta that came bundled with it. I don't remember playing the demo, either - but for whatever reason, I took a punt on it and fell in love.
It's probably fair to say that Crackdown changed my life. If it hadn't been for that 2007 open-world blow-up-'em-up, I'd never demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-48592730786052229862018-10-09T20:39:00.002+01:002018-10-09T20:39:04.330+01:0013th AgeI'm trying to write an adventure (or actually, several) for a new tabletop RPG campaign that's going to start in a couple of months, and I am struggling.
My issues stem, I think, from how different the new system, 13th Age, is from the game I finished running last week, Monster of the Week. Where MotW is extremely light and relies heavily on improv, 13th Age is much closer to D&D's school of demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-66958215541597802022018-05-16T00:08:00.001+01:002018-05-16T00:08:15.568+01:00Ejector
On Sunday morning, I woke up with a game idea stuck in my head; I spent a few hours with GameMaker over the course of the day, and by 9pm I had something I was happy enough with that I posted about it on Twitter. I'm never happy with my stuff enough to post about it on Twitter.
It's still full of other people's art assets and unlicensed fonts, and most of the code is borrowed from ShaunJS demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-39398039533178309592018-05-11T23:31:00.001+01:002018-05-16T00:10:29.343+01:00Where we were togetherSay Sue Me - Where We Were Together by Say Sue Me
At first blush, there are not many obvious similarities between Say Sue Me's lazy winding surfgaze and Aimee Mann's more traditional indie pop, but listening to the Korean quartet's latest album, Where We Were Together, over the last few days, I can't help but feel like they're musical siblings, somehow.
When her most recent album, 2017's Mental demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-82400892146314064962018-04-02T20:58:00.001+01:002018-04-02T20:58:17.338+01:00Doki Doki Literature Club
Warning! Spoilers follow for Doki Doki Literature Club and The Beginner's Guide
There's a content warning at the start of Doki Doki Literature Club which is, on some level, a spoiler. It's not unusual for visual novels to touch on heavy subject matter, but to call attention to it before the title screen does stick out.
Up front, I feel like I need to say that this is a game worth playing, if demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-24631146195294838422018-01-10T18:30:00.000+00:002018-01-10T18:30:37.745+00:00Isometrish: Automatic wallsObviously, when you're building a game level (and especially if, like I hope to, you're building it procedurally), you can't spend ages making sure you've put the correct-facing wall object down at every part of the level, or fixing them every time you move a bit of floor around.
Well, you could, but wouldn't it be much better to just have a single wall object that could automatically detect demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-30687154550903372182018-01-05T23:26:00.003+00:002018-01-10T10:26:53.449+00:00Isometrish: Perspective
Do you ever suddenly realise that you understand something that's been bugging you for days, and then find it impossible to see how you didn't get it in the first place?
GameMaker is great at 2D - side-scrolling and top-down games are a breeze to get working. There are dozens of video tutorials that can get you up and running with a platformer in fifteen minutes or less. But if you want to do demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15042241.post-68128066790695158742018-01-04T19:00:00.000+00:002018-01-04T19:00:52.272+00:00Isometrish
Right, fuck it. I'm going to write about something that terrifies me: my own code projects.
About the only thing I've programmed 'publicly' is a 140-character random level generation script (in Ruby). I'd written it in JavaScript originally, but decided for no particular reason to try and shorten it until it fit in a tweet. (This was before tweet length got doubled.)
def l w,h;g=(1..h).map{[]demondownloadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828871939234906810noreply@blogger.com0