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Do you miss Sally Acorn?

2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

Specifically just Sally? I dunno.

I liked the dynamic Sonic and Sally had in SatAM. Sally wanted to plan everything slowly and carefully, Sonic wanted to rush in and deal with whatever came his way head-first. They completed each other.

That is not who Sega Sonic is. Sega Sonic is a guy who believes everyone deserves to be free. He seems like the kind of guy who cannot be tied down by anyone. Cannot be changed by anyone.

Sega Sonic is not a guy who has a girlfriend. Not Princess Sally, not even Amy Rose. Sega Sonic goes where the wind takes him. Chasing the horizon looking for something new. He's always on the move and nobody can keep up with him. Everybody knows of Sonic, but not many people know the real Sonic the Hedgehog, you know what I mean?

And Sega Sonic is not necessarily impulsive in the way SatAM Sonic was. If anything, the way he handled Perfect Chaos shows he's willing to look before he leaps and make calculated decisions. He does not "shoot first and ask questions later."

I can't see Sega Sonic getting along with Princess Sally. I'm sure they'd still be allies, friends even, but they wouldn't have chemistry like they did in SatAM. They wouldn't "complete each other." They would simply be two capable members of the resistance.

I do, however, miss the SatAM vibe. I still miss late-era Archie Sonic. I miss when the comics got to be this complex tapestry of weird stuff and were allowed to have more creative license. I miss when they got to have Breezie running a casino staffed by Scratch, Grounder and Coconuts as her bodyguards. I miss when Honey the Cat was this pop-star idol that Amy adored. I miss Professor Pickle and Uncle Chuck being buddies. I miss Bunnie Rabbot, Antoine, Rotor, and Nicole. I miss Knothole. I miss The Void. I miss Wendy Witchcart inexplicably being the sister of Ixis Naugus. I miss Snively. And, yes, deep down, I even miss The Dark Legion, even though they are connected to he who shall not be named.

I miss all of that a lot more than just Sally by herself. I miss what Sally was a part of. Even if it was a soap opera (a lot of comics are soap operas!)

IDW is getting better, though. I know there are IDW haters out there who are going to see a post like this and think I'm on their side. IDW had a rough patch around the release of Sonic Frontiers, I wasn't quiet about that, but that's because some of their A-List talent was working with Sega on the game. IDW seems to have diversified their pool of writers and there's not as much draw on the writing talent from Sega's end anyway. I loved the extreme gear tournament arc. I think what they're doing with Surge is really interesting. I'm totally hooked on who this big villain reveal is going to be (it's totally Franken-Starline).

Thoughts on… this?

2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

Not a fan! And the Sega Discord also apparently uses AI artwork in their header image too. I'm sure some of these things will get corrected eventually, Sega's just late to the party here in how the tide is turning harshly against AI, but it's still a bummer.

The Crazy Taxi World Tour trailer was bad, too. Paced very poorly. Felt like they shoved the Offspring song in there at the last minute and that things were paced around a different song instead. Very awkward.

Won't be hard to ignore it.

Flavor of the Moment | Fortnite

2026-06-10T02:48:01Z

It it a hot take to say shadow and sonic could have fallen in love with each other if circumstances had played out differently? I feel like they are only ones who could really see each other as equals and come to understand each other and exist comfortabl

2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

Is it a hot take to suggest Sonic could handle Biolizard’s final form solo? I fully acknowledge this was born of my own character bias, but considering how quickly it’s possible to reach a weak spot (no, it’s not easy, but it can be done) and that Sonic f

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I dunno. Sonic Adventure 2's plot is weird now. I'm still convinced the point of the story was that Gerald recreated synthetic versions of Super Sonic and Perfect Chaos from Echidna prophecy, and that the whole point is that Shadow would eventually realize he's lesser than Sonic. His death was meant to be this moment of defying Gerald's deathwish, honoring Maria's promise, and proving that even a copy could still do something right.

If you keep that in mind, yes, Sonic could almost assuredly solo Biolizard. All throughout The Finalhazard, Sonic is talking about how Shadow doesn't look so good and his Super power is starting to fade. And if you consider that the prototype textures for Super Shadow were Silver and not Gold, I think that's also tying into all this. That Super Shadow just wasn't supposed to be as powerful as Super Sonic.

Now the question is: let's say things play out exactly the same with Sonic soloing The Finalhazard. Can he generate a big enough Chaos Control on his own? I guess I question that. It's a good dramatic moment that Sonic and Shadow work together.

And I sort of get this picture in my head of the end of Dragon Ball Z, right. Spoilers for one of the most popular Anime of all time and an episode that aired 20+ years ago: Where Goku unites the entire planet in the biggest Spirit Bomb he's ever conjured and it's still not enough to kill Buu, so he has to give it one last little push to finish the job.

For some reason, if Super Sonic has to solo The Finalhazard, I feel like it's going to be the same sort of thing. He'll get close, but there will need to be an extra push from somewhere. That was Super Shadow. But if Super Shadow isn't with him, it has to come from something else.

Since Sonic Adventure 1 specifically shows the Chaos Emeralds completely depowered and the support of his friends (and the city) re-energizes them, maybe we get something similar. But instead of the people of Station Square cheering on Sonic the Hedgehog, we pan across all continents on earth (something we already see!) and everyone gives Sonic just a little more energy to push past the last 10% he needs.

Fortnite: Shattered Event (Ice King Side)

2026-06-10T02:48:01Z

Thoughts on the recent State of Play?

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I'm not really sure why we need a remake of Rayman Legends with CGI models instead of hand drawn art. Maybe the original game still sells well enough to justify a new edition but it feels super pointless to do this weird half step where they're adding another 20% to the game and completely redoing all the visuals.

And the new visuals are nice, they aren't as blasphemous as they could be, but I still dunno.

As I round the bend on what feels like the final encounters of Control, I am becoming very excited for Control Resonant. The first Control feels like Remedy throwing down their shackles and letting their freak flag fly in so many ways, and Resonant looks like a doubling down of that. I keep thinking of how they're sort of feeling like Hideo Kojima levels of weird without all the baggage of Hideo Kojima himself.

I want to see how far Remedy can push things.

Conceptually I like the idea of God of War Laufey. On Bluesky I compared it to Kill Six Billion Demons in the way it portrays the afterlife, and I say that favorably. In practice, the more I sit with what they showed of Laufey the less I like it. It's a very different tone for the series and the moment they introduced Phranque I completely checked out. The name sucks, all of his dialog is too quippy, it gives off the vibes of, almost like executive meddling, in a way?

Like somebody thought the audience needed a "normal" character to "ground things." Keeping in mind Phranque is a gelatinous cube, of course. "Cute" might be a better word. But there's something about him that feels very calculated and forced in a way that is a little yucky to me. There are other things that are rubbing me the wrong way, but I know they'll sound like nitpicking. For now I'm giving this game the side-eye. I'm suspicious.

Off the top of my head that's all I can remember from State of Play. I guess Wolverine was there? That looked exactly like I expected it would. Zero surprise there. I'm sure it'll be a very fun and polished game, but I could form a complete picture of what that game was going to look and play like in my head, and that's exactly what it is.

Who has the best rizz/sass between the Straw Hat pirates in the Netflix series

2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

Why do I get anon asks wondering who I think is hot in different shows and other things? Who out there is delighted by my hot or not opinions?

To be honest I don't feel much about anyone in the Netflix series. It kind of weirds me out how much sexual tension there is between Sanji, Nami and Zoro. I know Nami eventually triples her cup size in the manga, so sex appeal is a thing in One Piece, but there's a few scenes where they lay it on thick with Emily Rudd stripping down to a wet bikini.

And, I dunno. I just don't like feeling pandered to. Emily Rudd is a pretty lady but you don't gotta have her do that to prove it.

At least it's universal, though. There's a shot on Drum Island where Zoro's inexplicably shirtless, and there's a scene later on where Luffy comes running out of a bath with nothing but a towel that made me think, like, "damn dude, Luffy's cut." It reminded me of that George of the Jungle movie with Brendan Frasier, where people talk about it being this "mom movie" because it's prime era Brendan Frasier oiled up running around in a loin cloth.

But sorry man. I don't even have anything funny to say.

https://bsky.app/profile/landofobscusion.bsky.social/post/3mmwmdm3vnk2y So. Looks like ol’ Naka really does got the awful reputation

2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

You could have linked the actual Sega-16 post instead of the quote dunk:

Interview: Mike Fischer (VP/SOA Product Manager) – Sega-16

This is an interview conducted by Ken Horowitz of Sega-16, in what are a long line of really great interviews. (Look up his other posts; not only does he translate old interviews he conducts lots of new ones with the old Sega guard. I recall a very juicy and hotly debated interview with Tom Kalinske, and a really fantastic one about Sony Imagesoft's role in creating the 32X)

But this particular interview is with Sega of America's old Product Manager, Mike Fischer, and it's just chock full of lots of really fun and interesting anecdotes. He has a lot of frankly very humble stories about his time at Sega of America handling products like the Game Gear and Pico, but it also leads to a lot of fly-on-the-wall moments where he talks about seeing the Sega America vs. Sega Japan divide from his perspective.

Which is, generally, that Sega of Japan was just as busy fighting with each other as they were with fighting against America. I've long said that Sega is its own worst enemy, and that appears to be more true than I could have ever realized. SOJ consistently thought they knew the right way to do everything and refused to take advice from anyone about anything, including other employees at Sega, and especially from Americans.

One particular story stood out to me, and that's Mike mentioning seeing an early prototype of the Sega Saturn where they wanted to give it kind of an iridescent, sparkling, candy apple style finish (but black, not red). Mike apparently tried to offer advice that you can't really do that with plastic injection molding, because the plastic has flow points that will ruin the pattern. If I remember right, Mike had a background in toys and gadgets, so he knew what he was talking about. The guys in Japan basically told him to piss off... only to later find out he was right and trying to injection mold that kind of glittered plastic looked like garbage.

Notably, yes, he does talk about Yuji Naka more than a few times in this, and it's mostly to mention that dealing with Naka-san was always a nightmare. He tells one particular story of trying to convey that "mature" games like GTA were on the rise in America and maybe the teams in Japan could think about games to target that wave. Yuji Naka blew up at him about how Sega doesn't make "porno" games, only to get smug about it later on and suggest they rename Billy Hatcher to "Giant Cock" because it's a game featuring chickens.

There's easily two dozen stories like that in the article and it's a great read for Sega historians.

Since it’s free and you said you dig it, thoughts on Gravity Circuit? Did you ever review it on Steam or anything?

2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

I did in fact review Gravity Circuit on Steam, if anyone out there wants to lavish it with thumbs up. Here's the text:

There's a lot of indie games out there I would consider a spiritual successor to Mega Man, and a lot of them accomplish that goal with both varying degrees of success and polish.

Gravity Circuit deserves to stand among some of the best. From visuals to music to gameplay, this is a great game with enough variety to set itself apart from Capcom's legendary franchise.

Mainly, that's due to Gravity Circuit not being a shooter. Your primary method of attack here is your fists, your feet, and your grappling hook, putting it closer to something like the Mega Man Zero games on the Gameboy Advance. But again, without the reach of Zero's blade, Gravity Circuit still feels like a very different game.

How it handles power-ups is different, too. No longer do you get a limited-use special weapon upon defeating one of the game's eight end-level bosses. Now, you spend currency in a handful of different shops, picking and choosing between a wide range of different abilities and stat boosts to equip on your character. You may not get a gun, but do you want to punch with enough force that it generates a shockwave in front of you? You can do that.

And then there are the specials, a set of Smash-Bros.-style directional inputs where you can equip flying uppercuts, healing powers, and much, much more.

Wrapped around it is a story that makes sure never to take itself too seriously while still keeping the stakes real and the characters interesting. As the Gravity Circuit, you are tasked with hunting down your infected Circuit brothers while having to deal with their baggage along the way.

If you've been missing the Mega Man X and Zero games, you owe it to yourself to give this game a look.

The game is currently free to keep on Steam, given they just announced the sequel. Here's a gameplay video I captured after (I think?) I received it for Christmas. Or maybe I bought it for myself. I forget:

It's one of those games I'd actually been following on Tumblr for many, many years before it came out (@gravitycircuit, though I swear there was a lot more old developer posts there and not just promo stuff) and I'm glad it turned out to be such a banger.

I, uh. Actually still need to beat it. I think I'm down to one or two Circuits left. (In my defense: I did the exact same thing with Mega Man 11, where I got down to the last robot master and never went back to it)

Get this game, it rules

2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

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To go along with the sequel announcement, for a limited time, the first game is free to grab on Steam!

You recently answered that Sega has only accepted Sonic fanworks within the past few years. I’ve often heard the exact opposite, arguing that Sega holds a more permissive position on fanworks than other Japanese companies, and or that the Sonic fandom hol

2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

How it used to be is that nobody knew.

Early internet was the wild west. Paramount and Fox were notorious in stomping out totally harmless fansites for things like Star Trek and The Simpsons in the early 90's, citing IP infringement. Infamously, one of the first Doom total conversions was Aliens Doom, based on the movie, and Fox tried to cease & desist it off the internet forever. It was such a big deal that claiming something "got FOXed" was short hand for getting a cease and desist.

Nintendo continued to carry that torch. What fan projects they'd shut down were (and still are) hit or miss. It's hard to tell what crosses the line and what doesn't. The same goes for lots of other developers like Capcom, Konami, and Square.

Square, for example, shut down a project called Chrono Resurrection. Chrono Resurrection was going to be a re-imagining of Chrono Trigger in 3D, but not the entire game. Just a handful of select scenes, to show the potential of what a Chrono Trigger remake could look like (PS2 era, keep in mind). They boasted professional talent, including CGI artists that worked on movies like The Matrix Reloaded.

Square didn't care. Shut the project down. It mostly exists as a soundtrack now. Fangames did not feel safe.

Sega seemed totally detached and ignorant of their fanbase. There was a sense that they just didn't know what the fans were doing, because they didn't seem to react to anything from the Sonic fandom, ever, good or bad.

I remember it going around in the early days where Funimation broke off from Saban to dub the rest of Dragon Ball Z. There were some growing pains there, where Funimation was trying to push around Dragon Ball fansites and "control the messaging" so to speak. I forget what site it was specifically, but I remember they complained at length that Funimation was exerting legal control over what they could and could not publish because Funi had the license and thus they dictated how it could be used.

And I remember that sending reverberations through the Sonic community, because at least for me, it made me realize how tenuous everything at SFGHQ could be. Sega could have very easily told us all where to stick it and we'd be powerless. It was their IP, they wrote the rules.

Did they? No. But they didn't encourage us, either. They just kind of did their own thing, and any feedback from the community about the state of Sonic games was often not just ignored, but defied.

But it felt like there were near-misses. Somebody working at Sega sent cease and desists to a few Shining Force fansites in like 2012 or so, and at the time people were left scratching their heads. They also swept through and randomly issued a takedown request to Streets of Rage Remake around this time as well, despite the creator claiming Sega even gave him implicit approval. There was a sense that Sonic's day might be coming.

What changed was a few different things. It basically comes down to the fact that Sega could no longer maintain plausible deniability about Sonic fan projects. Guys like Aaron Webber and Naoto Ohshima were guests at SAGE, who did Q&A sessions within the heart of the Sonic fangaming community. In 2017, when the final version of Green Hill Paradise released, the official Sonic account appeared in stream chat for the game's launch and basically gave everybody there a thumbs up and told them to keep doing good work.

That was also around the time that Sega was doing I think weekly community streams and they were constantly asking for and showcasing cool fanart and other things like that.

To me, that's when it felt like Sega explicitly approved. They said, "We know, and we think they're awesome. Don't stop." And 2017 is obviously the year we got Sonic Mania, in itself the culmination of a long process of bringing Sonic fans into the fold that started all the way back with the Sonic 4 disaster (Sega actually requested fan feedback for Sonic 4, which snowballed into becoming Sonic Mania).

Now, that Green Hill Paradise incident was 8 years ago, and plans could change. But I also feel like the cat's out of the bag and precedent has been established. Walking that back would be very damaging to the brand.

Especially when Sega is still bringing fans in for things like the Sonic Symphony concert or Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog.

You genuinely have to play Paper Mario: Sticker Star to understand how bad it is. It’s genuinely the worst designed game I’ve ever seen and it says a lot considering some of the stuff I’ve played. It gets so many basics of game design completely wrong and

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I'm gonna go ahead and say that I probably don't need to play Sticker Star, though. I am not invested enough in the Paper Mario franchise to wade into one of the more hated entries "just because." :p

“I don’t know what my goals are, no. Thanks for asking.”

2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

bashcrandicoot:

“I don’t know what my goals are, no. Thanks for asking.”

Am I wrong for not wanting to support third-party games on Nintendo Switch 2 because of Game-Key Cards?

2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

Absolutely not! Lots of people seem to hate Game-Key Cards. It's the worst of all worlds; it's as bad as buying a download code in a game box combined with a waste of plastic.

Some devs have apparently been pushed away from considering Game-Key Cards because people hate them so much, and supposedly Nintendo was trying to reduce publishing costs so Game Key-Cards weren't so prevalent.

Hear me out: a really big Chaos Drive, or perhaps an enclosure housing a bunch of them, called a Mega Drive.

2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

What is the essence of Coenn Brother’s style of filmmaking? Only seen two (NCFOM being one) but my impression is that it’s mainly character driven with barely any plot.

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I wouldn't say "barely any plot." I would say characters that borderline on being over the top, but they ride the line just enough that they don't become cartoon characters.

At least in the Coen movies I've seen, they're very much operating in kind of an exaggerated version of reality. It's almost pulpy, in the comic book sense. Even in the more serious movies they do I think there's this almost artistic way they're directed, something I've described as almost lyrical.

Now, keep in mind, according to Letterboxd, I've only seen two Coen movies. Raising Arizona and Hudsucker Proxy. So I've never seen Fargo, I've never seen Barton Fink, I've never seen No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, or O Brother Where Art Thou.

But from what I know of some of those movies, I think that even applies to their dramas as much as their more comedy leaning work.

Like, let's take your claim of "barely any plot." Even though Letterboxd has their own summaries for movies I tend to include one in my review, because if you follow anyone on Letterboxd you're primarily looking at the feed instead of the individual movie pages, right. For Hudsucker, I really had to work to shorten things down, because it was becoming a very large run-on sentence.

But the first 15 minutes basically sets up that it's twilight of 1958, and the Hudsucker Corporation has just broken all of their sales records. The company is at its peak. So, Waring Hudsucker ("Hud" to his friends) gets up from his seat, climbs up on the long board room meeting desk, and takes a running leap out the window to his death. Suicide.

This leaves the board room with a dilemma: with Hud dead, all his shares in the company will default at the end of the fiscal year -- which is in four weeks. The general public will be able to buy stock in the Hudsucker Corporation. There's no way anyone else on the board can buy up Hud's shares, either, because the company has never been worth more than right here, right now. They are backed into a corner. This is the worst case scenario.

But one of them, Mr. Mussburger, has an idea: they hire some random moron off the street, the perfect idiot, and appoint him as the new president of Hudsucker. He'll tank the stock price, at which point the board can buy up all the shares for a discount, blame it all on the dope, kick him out, and restore the company.

Enter Norville Barnes, a sweet and simple country boy who just started working in the mail room earlier that day. He's already at the end of his rope when he's given a dreaded "blue letter", a special piece of mail that must be hand-delivered to a member of the board -- in this case, Mr. Mussburger, who is about to find his perfect idiot to take the fall.

That's all in the first 15 minutes.

What follows is a roller coaster ride of journalistic espionage, Barnes being smarter than he looks, endless corporate satire, and even a little bit of real actual genuine magic. Long live The Hud.

It's a long setup! There's a lot of plot threads wrapped around each other!

Like, I guess in my mind I don't understand the difference between being character driven and having lots of plot. Characters have motivations, motivations drive friction, friction creates plot. If you don't have characters you don't have plot. Right?

I guess the only exception to that is when you just have characters that aren't doing anything. Like the example that jumps to mind is The Life Aquatic. I only saw that movie once when it first came out on DVD, and it felt like nothing happened in it. It was just a bunch of random little vignettes stapled together but to me, at 21 years old, it felt like a movie where not a lot happened to drive the story. Maybe I'd like it more now that it's been so long but I would describe that as a movie with lots of characters but not a lot of plot.

But when characters have goals and do things to accomplish those goals? That's plot. And of the Coen movies I've seen, they have those qualities.

Update time!

2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

Since I was late last time, it’s barely been three weeks, and it’s kind of been a chaotic three weeks, if I’m being honest. You may remember that I am due for oral surgery soon! I’ve been spending over a week now preparing for it, as I have specific prescription medication that’s required to prep my mouth.

I was actually supposed to go in on Friday for the first round of surgery, but after driving all the way up to the surgeon’s office, it turns out there was an error and they didn’t have me on the schedule at all. I made that appointment almost two months ago! I bought all this soft food to eat while I recovered! So I had to reschedule, and they originally wanted to schedule me for surgery at the end of June.

Thankfully, somebody canceled, and they can get me in on this coming Thursday. All it really means is that I have to keep taking this mouthwash they gave me, and to stop taking the antibiotics. They didn’t really give me instructions on what to take when, and I’ve had mouthwashes aggravate bad teeth before, so I figured the antibiotics and the mouthwash went together. They apparently do not!

Speaking of that mouthwash, it’s an extremely powerful antiseptic that’s supposed to prep my mouth and clean out any lingering bacteria my toothbrush can’t reach. It just tastes like weak Listerine, but it leaves an aftertaste that lasts all day. It’s been ruining the taste of food for going on two weeks now. I’ll be glad when its gone.

Job-wise, I’ve slowed down on applications a bit. Given that my mouth is going to be a big mess very soon, it won’t do me any favors to show up to job interviews looking and sounding like I lost a fight with the tooth fairy, and I’ve heard stories how the appearance of one’s teeth especially matter during job interviews. I haven’t completely stopped, I literally just sent another application in last night for a remote video editing job, but I’m waiting to see how I look after the surgery. I also haven’t had any bites on my pet sitting gig job, either.

Which means I need to fill in the gap again this month. I’m about $400 short on June’s rent, so if you can pitch in a few bucks, I really need it. Even small amounts add up if a lot of different people chip in, you know? And I’d really like to not get evicted.

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UPCOMING VIDEOS

So I’ve mentioned I’ve been trying to get things aligned so that I don’t have to do a lot of voice over work while my mouth recovers, because I’ll be missing enough teeth that it might make me sound a little different until I can get fitted for my partial. One thing I’ve been trying to focus on these last couple weeks is filming some sponsor segments. I’m signed with a sponsor again, but since they ask that I be on camera, I need to get things shot before my surgery. That’s been a little difficult!

Between prepping for and rescheduling my surgery, school being out for the summer (meaning I’m sharing the apartment with other people sometimes), and now attending a friend’s wedding, I’ve lost a lot of shooting days in the last two weeks. Technically I’ve already shot a sponsor segment last week, but it was done in a rush on a very hot day and I look super greasy and sweaty. And tired! I need to reshoot it so I don’t look so gross, and I’ll have a couple days here to do that.

In the mean time, I’ve been giving the “Definitive Way to Play Sonic Adventure 2 Part 2” script its much needed touch-up. That’s basically ready for a fresh voice over session now, and enough changed (like 40% of the script) that I should revoice the entire thing from scratch. We’ll see if I can squeeze that in before Thursday.

I’ve also been spending a lot of time trying to clean up my HDD. I’ve got a lot of clutter, and with all the footage I’ve captured from the Shadow Generations and SA2 videos, plus all these raw voice over recordings, I’m getting down into the red zone on remaining HDD space. So I’ve been diving into the depths of my video capture folder, I’ve been trimming file collections, I’ve been doing everything I can to free up space because I need it badly. You forget just how much space 6tb is until you really start poking around and see just how much junk is hiding in dark corners.

Have any plans to do anything with Bubsy 4D?

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I probably can't afford it, and I feel bad, because whoever manages Fabraz's games offered me a key for Demon Tides a few weeks ago and I should have done something with it. Like I need to or should have done something with OneShot.

Ideally I wanted to stream one or both of those games (OneShot and Demon Tides) but, well, my mood has been shot for a while now. I just don't feel like streaming anything, ever, at all. And a friend even gifted me Half-Life Alyx recently! I could probably try to stream that too!

But I guess I'm just depressed. Not in a good place these last few months.

Anyway, I assume if I had done something with Demon Tides they might have also offered me Bubsy 4D, but I didn't, so they won't.

How do you deal with the endless toxicity of social media? I made a Bluesky account because I heard it was “better than Twitter”, only to find that it’s just as bad.

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I don't follow toxic people. I don't value toxic opinions. I limit my engagement with dunk culture. I block or mute anyone who seems to be harmful. I aggressively curate who and what I see in order to maintain peace of mind. It's like tending to a garden.

Bluesky is, generally, better than Twitter. Its curation tools are significantly better. Bluesky moderation is a different story, but it's still not as bad as having to deal with Elon's sweat shop goon squad.

I also just, uh, don't check social media as often as I used to. I scroll Bluesky for about 20 minutes first thing when I wake up to see what's going on and then I only check it a handful of times throughout the day, and never scrolling for more than a minute or two. I'm actually realizing I miss a lot of posts from old friends now because I don't look at Bluesky as much as I looked at Twitter.

Kind of makes me sad. But ultimately maybe it's more healthy for me in the long term.

Tagging: Uhhhh… a lot of my usual movie buddies aren’t on tumblr, so @coossification,…

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Tag Game: favorite films

Rules: without naming them, post 10 of your favourite films and then tag 10 people to do the same.

tagged by @littleblackraincloudofcourse

tagging @blackdalek @greyheadedjaco @morriganwarrior @wickanderhalovar @the-grimsqueaker @greencheekconure27 @knight-princess @bizzybee429 @celamity @cenobitic-anchorite

(This ⤴️ still only counts as one!)

Tagging….

In an age where we have like, the Metroid Prime Trilogy collection and the Mario 3D All Stars Collection, why do you think Sega seems to only do Genesis collections, and not like, their GBA/DS games, or DC titles or anything later than that?

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I've never understood it, personally. Like, maybe you could say Sega only wants to re-release "quality" titles, but we've got folks like Piko Interactive buying up the rights and putting out literally everything they can get their hands on. They've re-released so many games I've straight up never even heard of before, like Super Hunchback and Impossimole.

Sega has a huge library of games where they aren't necessarily bad, they're just weird and different. I can't imagine quality is actually a barrier.

There was a theory they didn't touch their GBA library for a long time because THQ published those games originally, but I can't imagine that still matters. I would think Sega owns all of the original code for those games, and I know Sonic Advance has been ported to a few different platforms (NGage, Android, etc) without THQ's involvement.

I can only assume that somebody high up at Sega just doesn't have any interest in their older games.

I can kind of see it, too. I think Sega has made poor decisions on how to present their retro library. Like I know games like SA1 and SA2 have probably sold very well, but I think about, like, in the Xbox 360 era Sega ported Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter 2, and I think Fighting Vipers to XBLA? Perfect 1:1 arcade ports. They were incredible.

They sold them for $5 each. In an era where the average XBLA game was $20. I think that created a perception that they were cheap or bad games and I don't know if they sold very well. They probably didn't make a lot of money from them. They're all delisted now.

Or what about Sega Ages on the 3DS and Switch, right. Again, flawless ports, occasional new features, worth every penny. But then they started getting into games nobody cared about, like G-LOC Air Battle or Ichidant-R. Did we really need Sega Ages ports of both Puyo Puyo 1 and Puyo Puyo 2 separately? Did we really need Sega Ages ports of Lightening Force and Thunder Force AC? I can think of dozens of games that needed the Sega Ages treatment before we started double dipping like that. And as such, the Sega Ages line is dead now.

I think it kind of sent a message to Sega corporate that old games "don't sell very well." Like you have to think about this stuff like a corporation does, and a corporation goes where ever the money flows. If they fumble a series of releases (due to poor price point or lack of interesting titles) then all they see is the flow of money changing directions.

That's why we only seem to get old Sega games through Yakuza anymore. Yakuza games still generate bank for Sega, so RGG Studio (the development team) can justify needing the budget for porting old games to play in the virtual arcades. The money still flows around Yakuza.

For Sega to care, they need to actually make money on these old game releases, and they've had bad luck with anything that doesn't have Sonic's face on it.

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2026-06-09T19:54:10Z

Some steps forward, some steps back. More some than others.

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I dunno if I've ever explained to everybody the full story, but when I came back to Colorado, it was very joyous. I was back home. But then, uh, I guess I discovered I'd been holding a lot of feelings in about my mom's death and I completely fell apart in a way I wasn't entirely prepared for.

Which caused a lot of friction with my roommate, because it was hard for me to find the energy to look for a job. I got there, slowly, eventually, and that was the impetus behind me having a neurologist appointment last year and getting into therapy.

The neurologist told me a lot of things that made sense. I was diagnosed with Complex PTSD, general depressive disorder, and avoidant personality disorder. From my test results he said it was clear I was on the path to overcoming things, but that I needed a long time to work through things and I needed a low impact, even sub-part-time job where I wouldn't get too stressed. Because I am very, very emotionally burnt out. Not just from the death of my mom, but everything leading up to that, and probably also the last 25 years of my life. It's a long and depressing story, some of which I've told on this blog.

Unfortunately, the world isn't going to wait for me to get better. Double unfortunately, my symptoms are kind of bad enough that another reason I went to a neurologist was to see if they were bad enough to classify me with a disability. They were not. But that also doesn't mean things are suddenly just easy.

But gradually I was picking up momentum. Applying for jobs at a steady clip. Getting a few interviews here and there. Around Christmas, I got one that felt like a shoe-in. The manager was showing me around the workplace, telling me where everything goes, how things work, it felt like I was a lock. And then he hired someone else. It was very dejecting. And with the way the job market is going and the recession the way it is, prospects are drying up. Aid is drying up.

Therapy helps. Just having someone you can open up to and say whatever sad or toxic thought that pops into your head, and work through it instead of argue about it. I have a lot of self loathing and that's been a frequent topic of conversation. I think we had a major breakthrough regarding that just a couple days ago, though there's still a lot of work to be done.

But now I've got another timer hanging over me. I say "my roommate" a lot, but in truth I moved in with a cousin. We used to be best friends growing up but then we drifted apart (due to my breakdown) and that's created a really weird situation between us where she's sort of having to deal with me struggling with myself on top of dealing with the fallout from a very nasty divorce and the effect that's having on her son. She also told me a lot of things before I moved here and I would argue that some of them ended up not being true, or at least stretching the truth.

One of those things being that she sprung it on me less than six months after moving in that she wants to get out of this place. And I'm not ready to move again yet. Not financially, and definitely not emotionally. But it's not up to me. She anticipates that rent is going to go up enough next year that she will no longer be able to afford to live here. So she needs to get out of here, and wants to possibly find some place bigger.

She waffled back and forth on whether I could move with her and ultimately decided that with prices being what they are I probably can't move with them. I will have to find a place of my own. Which would be nice for a lot of reasons, but I also still feel very unprepared for. Again, both emotionally and financially. I have until March of next year to find a job and get stable, and I have my doubts about that. But I have nowhere else to go. I have to try to make it work out, or I accept homelessness.

Now, 10 months isn't nothing. It'll go fast, but I have... some... time. I'll have to fight with my own anxiety every step of the way while also fighting the worst job market since 2009.

I did talk to the manager of this apartment complex and I might be able to get a one bedroom for roughly the same amount I'm already paying my cousin to live here. But that also wouldn't be utilities, that wouldn't be internet access, and I'll need to be making a lot more than the $700-ish I get from donations in general. I was also told it's not a guarantee that place will become available and not to count on it. So it's a long shot anyway.

But again: the only other alternative is that my life is over.

That's not even touching on the fact I have major dental surgery incoming. It was supposed to happen yesterday, I've been doing lots of prescribed surgery prep, and then they didn't have me on the schedule. Thankfully somebody canceled and I'll be going in next Thursday. I'm getting a lot of teeth removed and a partial denture to replace them. They're gonna drill holes into my remaining good teeth and implant the plate, it sounds like. There's a lot of foods I can't eat anymore because of my bad teeth, so it'll be nice to have good teeth again. It's just very scary.

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