Sunday, February 26, 2017

Status Quo Wednesday Is On Back On Sunday

UPCOMING STUFF
Omni Expo!
My concert is on Saturday! BE THERE! Working on some new stuff, which you'll find out about under the next header. I also put the damn thing in the sidebar.

PAX East!
Four days of Boston fun times! I'm not performing or anything, I'll just be in Beantown playing some Magic, playing some games, and reveling in the fact that I'm writing the OFFICIAL THEME SONG FOR PAXAMANIA 3, "Fire In The Hole"! Also it's the catalyst to a surprise!

Pat Baer already used it in two of his Baer Caev Promos:



GP Orlando!
Maybe! But I'll have another surprise ready by then!

WHAT SURPRISES?
Next week, I'll have the Single version of "Fire In The Hole" on my Bandcamp page! It'll include the full song, the PAXAMANIA MIX and another new song that also pertains to Overwatch in case you missed the reference!

Also planning on doing the same for my Aether Revolt song that comes out before GP Orlando!

JAM OF THE WEEK: "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" by Against Me!


Trans Lives Matter.

It's not as visible as skin color, and you can't sell it on something bombastic and emotional like Love Is Love!, they're human beings who deserve the same rights and respect as anyone else.

I've known enough trans people in my lifetime at various points in their transitions to know that it's normal. Gender is a question, and some are more confident in their answers than others, and that's fine.

Donald Trump rescinded Obama's Title IX guidance that gave federal protections for transgender students. The protection guaranteed students the right to use restrooms matching their gender, not their sex assigned at birth. That was probably the 7,000th bullshit thing this past week, but I feel this is important.

This was never about the bathrooms, like it was never about where you sat on the bus or at the lunch counter. This was about continuing marginalization.

"Geez, who cares? It's just _____. Suck it up!"- Privileged asshole

EDGESERFS- BECAUSE EDGELORDS DO NOT DESERVE ANY RESPECT AND ARE INDEED SUBSERVIENT TO A GREATER CAUSE OF EDGINESS AND ARE LORDS OF NOTHING
Whoo, where do I begin?

Sure, how about "Geez, suck it up! It's just a joke!"- Privileged asshole

Speaking of jokes, "Triggered" and "Did You Just Assume My Gender?" are not jokes.

A. The joke is "Ha! People upset by something!" or "Ha! Trans people exist!"
B. It be countered by "Sorry, my bad!"

Cool? Cool. That "Sorry, my bad!" thing is going to come up again.


Since I'm going to drop the ball on this one, Film Critic Hulk summed this up very well in an essay he wrote.

A lot of assholes who use their "edginess" and readiness to disregard and offend the marginalized finally got what was coming to them in the past couple weeks, and while it is optimistic, this has been going on for too long, there's always this pushback when people get called on their bigotry. Not even in a defensive "I'm not racist/sexist/etc!", but in a "Quit killing our buzz, maaaaaan!".

First off,

Free Speech

Secondly,
This insistence on "being offensive" and "triggering SJWs" means one thing: You have nothing to contribute, and have no desire to improve.

Milo Yannipolis is self-hating wreck who actively harmed others, and PewDiePie might go the JonTron route and start shilling for Briebart and InfoWars because it's easier than saying "I messed up" and reconsidering your attitude.

Think of it like this: if you were exactly the same as you are right now, only not white and not male, what would you be able to do? How would you be able to make yourself useful to others?

The greatest failing of my generation is "participation trophies" or "we're too soft", it the fact that we have the power to learn about others experiences, then choose not to, because we'd rather laugh then take a second and listen.


If all you have is provocation, then don't get upset when you get punched in the face.


To wrap it up: HBomberGuy, right on cue!

Sunday, February 12, 2017

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 2/11/2017: Sad, Old Men

ECHO CHAMBER EPISODE 196

-OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!?!?



-Apparently Scrath and Sniuff actually existed:


Sounds exactly as good as you imagine a hair metal band in the 90's would sound.

-Online Play I couldn't get to work, but I'm glad it's there with all the features we mentioned. Namely the "all members get one song".

-As someone coming off a Game Jam, most of what happens when making a game comes from the testing, more so then the coding. For example. you can program a basic collision detection code to get everything else moving, but until you find out stuff like "running in a corner accelerates your character so hard you go to another dimension",then you go back and fix that error.

Like the old proverb, "Most Writing Comes In The Editing"

-I'M A GOOFY GOOBER!


​-Legendary Punk Singer Jello Biafra:
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-Legendary Punk SInger Jello Biafra on Not Owen President

I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 45 

-The Lee Harvey Oswalds DO exist, and I have more likes on Facebook then them and I'm a slightly better singer than them.




-YOU'RE FAKE NEWS OWEN

-The "We're gong to call you fake news until you stop attacking us" is a real thing, sadly.

-Adolf Hitler was born in 1889. If you bang in 1910s Germany, you could pop out Eva Braun. She's not a leader, though so chances are you're popping out the modern day equivalent of a modern day millennial.

-Here's John Howland's Wikipedia page, since this podcast will be the most anyone's ever thought about him.

-This the Zero Escape Timeline. Some highlights:
  • (1904) In April, copies of Phi and Delta arrive (presumably in Germany or Europe) via transporter from 2029 following D-END 2. 
  • (1905) Ten months after arriving by transporter, another copy of Phi is sent to 2008.
  • (December 25, 2028) - In California, Sigma is knocked out by Soporil in his car. His consciousness is pushed to January 25, 2074, and his 68-year-old consciousness occupies his body in the present time. Phi's consciousness also switches places with her future consciousness. Akane joins Sigma and Phi, but her consciousness isn't from the future so she hasn't experienced the Radical-6 outbreak. The three of them infiltrate the Mars Mission Test Site (Dcom) in Nevada after using Crash Keys to hack the admin server to include them. Six others have joined the Dcom experiment for their own reasons: Junpei, Mira, Eric, Carlos, Diana, and Q
  • (January 27, 2074) Akane has been wearing K's armor. K is revealed to be Kyle, a clone of Sigma, who has been kept in cold sleep since the beginning of the Nonary Game in this timeline. Sigma learns that his body is 67 years old, but his consciousness is from the past. Akane attacks Phi with the Myrmidon knife, making Phi and Sigma's consciousness jump back to the past to April 13th, 2029. 
 -And now a message from Commissioner Gordon:

















VOICE OF ALL- AER 7 BREAKING POINTS


Dovin Baan is Dovout Baan. I'd also like to show you the bloopers I recorded!

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Status Quo Wednesday Goes A Wrasslin'

I'M DOING THE OFFICIAL THEME SONG OF PAXAMANIA III!



That's right! A little something I've been working on is being remixed using the Wrestlemania 2000 soundfonts! The song is called "Fire In The Hole", and my plan is before PAX East to release a single version with the original song, the AKI remix, and a BONUS song.

JAM OF THE WEEK: "Splash Woman" by Mega Ran

Black Current-cy Month continues with a man I saw 3 times live in the span of a year: MEGA RAN.

"Splash Woman" is his most popular track, and it ends every set of his. He makes a chill dance groove with Splash Woman's stage music from Mega Man 9 and manages to make it a tragic little romance.

What's got me hype is that he's going to be at Mat Mania: The Revenge on March 31st at The Social in Orlando. He's a big wrestling fan, Wrestlemania's in Orlando, and it's going to a BLAST, considering I'm missing him and Lars next time they're in town since I'm going to PAX East. The weekend before that however...

OMNI EXPO
The link to the Facebook Event is there. So far not a lot to report on, but hopefully I'll have more to announce as things get closer!

Friday, February 3, 2017

Status Quo Wednesday Celebrates Black Current-cy Month


TINY DESK ENTRY


NPR's Tiny Desk Contest was due this past week, so I farted out an entry 30 min before the deadline. I figured "Status Quo Radio" was that fine line between "Sounds good for NPR" and "Trupunx". Still, I'm on a hot streak with putting up video content!

JAM OF THE WEEK: "Q.U.E.E.N." by Janelle Monae


It's Black History Month (which I'm making Black Current-cy Month), and I firgured I'd focus these jams on black artists I like who are doing cool stuff today.

First up, Janelle Monae. I've gushed about her before on this site, but she deserves way more attention, even with two movies coming out in 2016. "Q.U.E.E.N." is the first single of her 2013 album The Electric Lady, and while "Dance Apocalyptic" is my favorite track, this one can't be discounted, because it was the song that got me into her.

The music video starts off in this very clean, elegant museum, while a voice over talks about "time traveling rebels". Then the sick guitar riff kicks in and so it begins, slowly ramping up until Erykah Badu's verse breaks it down to the slick bassline. Finally, top it off a tight, defiant verse set to so,ething striaght out of a James Bond movie.

"Q.U.E.E.N." is everything thing I love about J.M.'s music: smooth, weird and proud.

I wanted to see Hidden Figures, where she plays one of the black female NASA mathematicians that helped launch the programs' first sucessful space missions but it's a movie and apparently I don't watch movies.

GIANT ROM 4!
Giant Bomb's Game Jam is going on right now, and I'm working on a project with frequent I'd Rather Not guest Trace Evans. The themes for this edition were "ONE GIANT CHOMP" and "EAST VS. WEST".
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW













SHIT YEAH.