M. Tarah Henry @Lobst@scalie.club

#introductions

Hi, everyone; I'm tarah, otherwise known as lobst. I've drawn a few comics that people have seemed to enjoy, and programmed a game demo that won 10th-place in a 140+ entry game jam despite having no sound. My ability to finish any individual project has been stymied by mental health problems for over a year, but I've been seeking treatment and making progress. I've also been streaming videogames on weekends. Watch this space!

https://lobstworks.com/
https://lobst.itch.io/

My main worry going into the film was, as a road trip movie, it would be interchangeable with an identical film about a different cartoon character (say, Awesome Possum) entering the real world. It wasn't that! Most of the scenes actually depend on the CGI creature being Sonic, wow!

Aside from that, the film's a piece of advertising-driven copaganda, but at least an entertaining one. 10-year-old me would have been on the edge of my fucking seat

Ah, that was wonderful! Now starting Infinifactory as a one-off for tonight: https://picarto.tv/lobst 🔸

TONIGHT, I Chapter Select to NieR Automata's Endings D and E, then: Something Else! There will be a second stream announcement when I switch games: https://picarto.tv/lobst 🔸

The Funimation dub took the Gohan-gets-drunk/high-on-special-fruit sequence, replaced the score with an instrumental version, and dubbed it with the characters as though those scenes were always meant to have dialogue; a solid minute and a half of Gohan's voice actor laughing uncontrollably. Whew, I was worried I might briefly feel like this was an anime for kids

It is also wild to me that they took the "Goku was sent as an infant to Earth to conquer it" angle and doubled-down on it. They could have easily retconned it into "Bardock found out about Frieza's plan and sent Goku to a distant backwater planet to protect him" but no, some offscreen workers blast this baby into space as part of their usual workday. The most ridiculous plan, leaned into as hard as possible, and I am very glad the show creators did this

This is my first time since my Toonami days that I've seen a version of the show where the music was subbed out from the usual fare (mostly nu-metal and pop-punk), and it ended up being an even bigger turn-off for me than I'd have otherwise expected. Definitely leans more into the "musclebound dudes wrecking each other" angle than the "hey, we're on a whimsical martial-arts-adjacent adventure!" fare I'm used to hearing from this franchise

I ultimately decided to make a whole new fediverse account JUST for talking about Pokémon, complete with a new OC/gimmick! Art of the trainersona and their team will come shortly, and I might boost the occasional post from it on this account if I'm super proud of it: @lobst

FFXIV progress: I tried to level every job through the hunting checklists before I found out there's an XP bonus after you get a single job to 50 -- so I'm beelining to that goal by maining a support class, which has (so far) allowed me to skip queues left and right🔸

NGL, a major reason I'm hoping the PS5 will somehow have full backward compatibility with my entire existing digital PS3 library is to financially justify getting a device that also runs PS4 software just so I can play through Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise 🔸

Gonna resume NieR: Automata subquest cleanup in a moment! It promises to be the least eventful game stream possible, feel free to drop in and hang out: https://picarto.tv/lobst 🔸