Vampire Robot. Love me some B-roll.

It was right around the release of Star Wars Episode I, and the new pastor thought if he brought modern pop culture references into his sermon, maybe The Youths would sit up and pay attention.

The sermon was a whole thing about “being a Jedi Knight for God” and it was insufferable. I’m not sure time has ever gone by slower. I was twelve and absolutely not won over, I wanted to crawl out of the pew and die.

Andy, but they decided against it at the last minute. However, my dad’s brother and his pregnant wife really liked the name, and a few months later my cousin Andy was born.

Years and years ago I got partway through Dragon Quest XI on the PC, and then got sidetracked and started something else.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago when I had a hankering to get back into it, but the Definitive Edition has released since I last played it and I’d kinda like to play that version instead. But I’m not about to pay $40 for a game I basically already own, so I’m holding off and waiting for a sale.

Other than that, Super Mario Wonder. It’s a fool’s errand to wait for a Nintendo sale, but I guess I’m a fool.

For me it’s usually about availability. If someone suggests I try out a cool game that came out in the 80s, there’s a pretty good chance piracy is the only way to play it. Sure, you can pay way too much on Ebay to get a physical copy, and I have a fair collection of retro games, but it’s not like the money from Ebay sales go back to the original creators.

Same with movies. The version of Star Wars I grew up with, the one without all the digitally added stuff since the late 90s, isn’t on Disney+. If Disney announced a nice blu-ray Star Wars collection that featured the copies without Jedi Rocks and the extra aliens in the cantina and whatever, I’d go out and get it. But they haven’t, so I stick to the fan-made ‘despecialized editions’.

I don’t pirate from the little guy. I buy albums on Bandcamp and indie games on Steam all the time. I want the small creators to be able to eat. But I’m also fortunate enough to have a little disposable income. I know some people pirate as much as they can, and while I don’t entirely agree with it, I don’t know their financial situation (or the availability of these things in their country), so it’s not really my place to judge them.

THAT’LL BE FOUR BUCKS, BABY! YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?

I’d go back to the beginning of 2019. I don’t want to backtrack too far, but this would give me enough time to sell the house, move, and get situated before covid and the price of everything going crazy.

But it’s not just about that, it’s about repairing a relationship with a loved one while I still can.

They forced my company to come back to the office 4 days a week (I’m miserable, btw) but the company on the floor above us on the east side either moved, went out of business, or went full WFH, so I use their bathroom. Specifically the extra big handicap stall farthest away from the door. It’s great, no one’s ever up there. I would stay up there all day if I could.

No headphone jack, no buy.

Electric Sheep is the first book I thought of when I read the thread title.

I’m pretty indifferent on Blade Runner. It’s got a great soundtrack and aesthetic, but as an adaptation of my favorite SF book of all time I can’t stand it.

I had a dream about hyenas.

I know that sounds pretty lame. I’m not really sure what caused it, I don’t have furry-related dreams. Hell, my dreams are usually pretty boring. But this one was about hyenas for some reason. The next day I was idly doodling in a notebook instead of studying and I was thinking about the hyena dream and I drew this very rough drawing of a little hyena guy.

A few weeks later I was introduced to Second Life and I knew pretty quickly I didn’t want my avatar to be a human (this is back when you could only start as a human, I think nowadays you can immediately start with a furry avatar) so I went to a store in game with a bunch of free furry avatars of different species. I saw there was a hyena one and picked that.

Fifteen years later, here we are and my main character is still a hyena.

Oh god 100%.

This isn’t a matter of life or death, Nicole. This is a Disney Store in a mid-tier mall.

https://cari.institute/aesthetics

Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, it’s a neat website showing design trends in advertising, packaging, print, etc throughout the years.

My original plan was to be a smartass and rent a copy of Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection (this was 2009, Blockbuster still existed) but we got very sidetracked with everything going on that day and I wasn’t able to do it. Ah well!

I absolutely meant lemmy.fmhy.ml. See what happens when I try to juggle Lemmy and work? I’ve learned my lesson: focus more on Lemmy.

I started on lemmy.fmhy.net, then jumped to lemm.ee when I heard about the domain issues. But I wasn’t aware of just how big lemm.ee really was, and I like the idea of being on a smaller instance to help with decentralization. I looked around and saw leminal.space and I thought that was a pretty good pun. It was really as simple as that.

If you’re into more obscure retro games, I love Kimimi the Game-Eating She-Monster. She’s got great posts about weird Japan-only releases.

According to my father in law: everything’s fine, actually. It’s hot, sure, but it’s been hot before. The actual problem is that The Weather Channel has started to get political/go woke and push an agenda.

So next time it’s so hot the power grid can’t take it or your house is destroyed in a flood or forest fire, it’s just that pesky Weather Channel!

Video games, browse dumb websites, and maybe draw a little