M68040 [they/them]

‘00s pop culture fucking sucked

Did somebody say something about an assaassin known as a strider?

Whatever happens happens. Don’t really care that much anymore.

I actually still mess with diskettes on a fairly frequent basis, but it’s more of a hobby thing than a serious use thing

Assigned System/370 Operator At Birth

Seibu Kaihatsu’s Dynamite Duke (1989), a pretty novel hybrid Cabal-like/Beat-'em-up with a lot of love put into it. The arcade version’s got a pretty slick art direction, the environmental destruction vfx rock, and the animation’s pretty slick. The whole thing’s got that passion project charm to it. Unfortunately, Cabal clones were only really in vogue in that late '80s/early '90s space, and the beat 'em up gameplay isn’t fleshed out or consistently applied enough to be satisfying in a post-Final Fight, post-Streets of Rage world. I’d like to see something like it, but there’s no way to bring Duke into the world of modern game design practices without drastic reformulation at a minimum.

Notably, Seibu had really high hopes for Duke, being a passion project and a intended magnum opus. Unfortunately, lukewarm reception brought in poor returns, the company slipped into dire straits, and they were forced to make something simpler and lower stakes as a hail mary. That title - a simple, Toaplan-esque shooter nobody had any real faith in - turned out to be Raiden, which would become a darling in arcades, pushing 17,000 units solds worldwide in the first year after release, and becoming the fifth highest grosser on the Japanese market in 1991. (Beating out some offerings from much bigger players like Konami)

In a weird way, the development of advanced communications and coordination technology has only made it harder for anything to change in a significant way .

Re: Moreno, it’s weird to me how these guys just suddenly get to pivot. Cruz kind of did the same thing.

I’m gonna personally beat everyone’s ass if we’re just caving to the right on this shit. I am not handing it to Bush Jr., Bush Jr. voters, or any of the other fuckers who’ve come since

I’ve never liked taking the whole “The west” thing seriously. Predominantly associate referring to “The west” and “western culture” as something wignats and conservatives do, and that kinda tints every other contexts where the phrase/concept comes up.

Brought to you by the guys behind the recent remasters of Klonoa and Katamari Damacy

The whole “Constitutional republic” thing is a old John Bircher talking point from what I can tell.

I’ve never had one, but I wish I would. Whole lot of dead relatives I want to hear from again, and yet…

I almost swear I could go digging in my closet and find the comically oversized Osiris skate shoes I had in high school in 2010

R-Gray 1, RayStorm (1997) - Mostly laser by weight.

Mad God was my favorite movie of 2021. Part because it’s the only movie of 2021 i’ve watched, and part because i’ve watched it five times and i think about it constantly

A notable victim of the “keep milking the cash cow forever” mindset. Not many movies have the luxury of doing what they need to well then fucking off within two entries.

Me pulping a radio dj’s head in New Mexico in the '50s so I can read a creepy poem on the mic

My main takeaway from philosophy is that I hate philosophy and mostly just want to wing it. So much hair splitting

Part of how I got here involves reading an assload of textfiles from the '90s and growing disillusioned with the fruits of that optimistic '90s techno-libertarianism