Maddy T. Henry @Lobst@scalie.club

Also, the Black Lodge is brilliantly designed; I haven't ever seen the unreality of a supernatural phenomenon depicted in any other work of media in such a practical and analog way

That said, there are a mess of plot points that exist only as shock value for early '90s network-TV audience sensibilities, and the entire subplot with James (while he himself is cool) is such a meandering drag on everything else that I don't begrudge anyone for checking out

Finishing up my rewatch of the original series, I'm finding more to like about the latter half of season 2 than I thought; Donna and Shelly each starting to have more to do on their own, and Annie busting out onto the scene with an interesting personal story

Some songs aren't especially great at encouraging movement on Normal difficulty, and I've come to miss the feeling of just barely pushing through to the end of a song; I think it's nostalgia for the memory of three-starring QOTSA's "No One Knows" in Guitar Hero 1 specifically

Back to Synth Riders after a brief holiday hiatus, I think I'm best off starting on Hard difficulty with no-fail off and just dealing with it if a hard cluster of notes causes me to drop out of a given song

I think when I get back into game development it'll be in Unity, for the sake of more easily exporting 3D games to desktop and gaining a skillset that'd be directly marketable to smaller studios

Picked up the Twin Peaks revival OST, partly for the ability to listen to No Stars on demand, partly for the ability to experience a compressed version of the emotional journey of a long-form work through its soundtrack. The last piece of media I did this for was Undertale

My desktop PC is now a Linux gaming rig again (except for online multiplayer and VR), feels good man

I've been trying to avoid that going in the opposite direction, too. "Ah, that company's doing good work, I think I'll reward them!", as though said company was an individual with a conscience and not a shapeless mechanism engineered for self-preservation at any cost

I've generally grown to disregard calls for individual consumer activism, now believing they're toothless by nature and doomed to fail (a big change from how I felt five years ago, ha), but there are some companies I still just loathe the idea of giving money to

Level 21 in WaniKani currently, here's my all-star mnemonic team for syllable combinations that are used constantly. When 幸福 (こうふく, "happiness") came up I pumped my fist in celebration

I can't believe if I want to play as Chi-Chi or Bulma, iconic personalities as important to the series as they are, I have to fire up my well-worn digital copy of the Dragonball: Evolution film tie-in game for PSP

They just added Master Roshi and I suppose he counts as a shoutout to OG Dragon Ball, but it's such a rich well that's barely been drawn upon partly because flying isn't really a thing in it (but to be fair, also because it's Very Old)

DBFZ hasn't yet added the requisite fighter who brilliantly showed up to the martial-arts tournament with a firearm because they'd be dangerously unqualified otherwise; Mr. Satan could fill this category, but Launch is right there

There's a phenomenon in dramatic TV where the pilot establishes the story's location, stakes, central characters, and tone in an artfully evocative way, then another writer/director's first non-pilot episode attempts to make it weekly-digestible and overcompensates massively