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  • A Year Or So In Music – 2020/2021 Capsule Reviews

    It’s been a while since I last posted a full proper album review, not since the last Pet Shop Boys and Mono Inc records landed in my library… and it may be a while longer yet, because what you’re going to get here is a mess of bullet points with brief summaries. Sorry about that. I’ve been buying music all along, mind you. The dearth of writing about those purchases stems from the same malaise that prevents me from writing about much of anything else.

    So, since I just picked up the new Jethro Tull record, let’s try to catch up a bit with the last year or so of new material in my library. (I’m going to leave out some singles and compilations and what-not for various reasons.)

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  • Winter 2022 Anime – The Few Shows I’m Watching

    Yes, I still watch anime. Just not as much as I used to, and not the same kind of stuff that I used to. Here’s a quick run-down (alphabetically, for lack of a better sorting order) of what I think I’ll be sticking with through the rest of the season:

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  • The Things We Do For Nostalgia

    I could have played a current game, a new game, or not played a game at all.

    But, no. I installed Might & Magic VI, a musty old RPG-type game from the late 1990s. I downloaded the strategy guides and maps from the site I used to rely on way back when (I’m glad it still exists!). And I plowed through the “loot the game developer’s offices” map trick to get a bit of a monetary and gear head-start on things.

    Is it every bit as janky as I remember? Oh yes. Is it a game from the days before everyone realized that WASD makes a better keyboard movement setup than the arrow keys? Sadly, yes.

    Did I have fun mowing down lizard men and Followers of Baa once my party all had bows equipped? Definitely yes.

    I’ve no idea if I’ll keep at this for very long, but hey, it made my evening pass rather pleasantly, all things considered.

  • Gagarin!

    Nothing pithy today, I just wanted to share this ridiculous, fun little video from a band I adore. Public Service Broadcasting, “Gagarin”

    Have a great weekend, y’all.

  • Three Houses, Alike In Lack of Dignity

    I spent most of the past year playing one of two games. Clearly, if you’ve been here before, you know all about one of them. What about the other one?

    Let’s get into that.

    There’s a sizeable contingent of 3H players (myself included) who adore this guy, which may tell you everything you need to know about 3H fandom.
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  • All Sticker, No Shock

    Every year, Vyx does some kind of advent-calendar-y thing, because she’s creative and such that way. For Yuletime 2021, this took the form of a series of small envelopes with stickers inside.

    Here’s all 24, in order top to bottom, left to right. (There was no 25th.)

    I want to use all of them. I want to use none of them. This is the eternal struggle of someone who likes stickers.

    At some point I’m going to need a sticker storage device, aren’t I?

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