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/

This SHOULD be me for the foreseeable future, unless (of course) they ever decide to add playable Bangaa, in which case I plan to spike this character into the nearest available trash can 🔸

Realized my desire to play FFXIV was partly limited by an unsatisfying character, so I deleted and rerolled; character name is now Harper Miret-Moor on Ultros, fellow players, feel free to add me to whatever ingame friends lists or social mechanisms you find appropriate 🔸

I liked where Sakurai addressed how difficult it must be to design and name a full cast of distinctive characters for each installment in the Fire Emblem series. The one I own (and would like to complete) has a female lead named "Celica", which just makes me think of the car and the paragraph of White Noise that uses that name as a punchline

Wow, I can't believe I finally get to play as Kelswort from Fire Emblem's historic Roaring Eagle house! (And they licensed an actual stock photo of the Goddess Altria as a background image for their ultimate?!)

NGL, when A2 passes through a door in the massive artificial spire to reveal a perfect copy of the library from the original NieR I was ecstatic. It's a cheap move but I fell for it completely. I imagine it's what people in other fandoms think when they see Darth Vader's helmet in a film trailer or whatever

Assuming Picarto continues to behave well, I'll be going live at the top of the hour with more NieR Automata: https://picarto.tv/lobst 🔸

SSBU Fighters Pass #5 is Gex?!? With new voice lines recorded from both Dana Gould and Danny John-Jules, locked respectively to US and European console regions?!?!? And they licensed an actual stock photo of Austin Powers as a background image for his ultimate?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Oh hey, the 40mm fan grill I eBayed for $2 arrived from Shenzhen today! It's a little crooked but still fits great and adds character; I also did a half-ass job of removing the SSD label and added a sticker from my friend Chu. The Katrina evacuee in me is a fan of having all this in a pocket-size form factor; 240GB is roomy for Raspbian, but I anticipate adding even more storage to it as I upgrade the storage in my other devices (like my PC and Switch).

(I bounced off of most videogame podcasts because the usual outlets are too focused on the new hotness or the controversy of the week; while there's an appeal to that, I'd still like to reject the notion of any kind of media being inherently time-limited or disposable)🔸

It's a tricky proposition, since games are lengthy/hardware-limited and everyone has their own taste in genre! I'd still accept a show that said "Hey, play the Titanfall 2 campaign, then you can enjoy hearing these charismatic hosts talk about it for an hour", though 🔸

After subscribing to a few media podcasts I've discovered I like consuming culture via a 'reading list', turning it into a parasocial activity I can experience at my own pace. Now I just need to figure out how to work my mountain of unplayed digital video games into this 🔸

I used to use Bulbasaur as a stand-in for myself in situations like this, but Phen recently described me as more of a Totodile and I can't say I disagree

Not bashing the presentation at all, but the fact that they mostly showed off concept art and environments (despite these packs being scheduled for later this year) really speaks to how hectic the production cycle at Game Freak must be

The thunder of "there's a new PMD" was stolen for me by the fact that it's a remake, but Rescue Team is a great game and this ensures it won't be trapped on the GBA or DS (which both have clumsy interfaces these days, especially now that the DS hardware is on its way out), so not only am I OK with this, I hope they do it with Explorers as well

Good on them for letting the Sw/Sh Expansion Pass take the place of this year's main-series release, also