-FUCK YOU WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH JIGGLYPUFF IS MINE.
-Andrew Huang's Pokemon Song:
-For those of you interested, here's our list of 30 SNES games: Super Mario World Super Mario RPG Harvest Moon Zombies Ate My Neighbors SimCity Legend Of Zelda: Link To The Past Donkey Kong Country Final Fantasy II Final Fantasy III Super Mario Kart Battletoads Illiusion Of Gaia Chrono Trigger Super Metroid Mario Paint (Extra Add On) Mega Man
X
Super
Bomberman
Wild Guns Super Punch Out NBA Jam Earthbound Contra III: The Alien Wars DKC2: Dixie Kong's Double
Trouble
Super Castlevania IV Secret Of Mana Rock N' Roll Racing Super Street Fighter II Gradius 3 Kirby Super Star Mortal Kombat II Goof Troop Yoshi's Island Turtles In Time Pilotwings Starfox
-Captain Skyhawk was a shooter for the NES that started my love for
games with thing that are in the air combined with animals. I never
played far in the game, what I did instead was replay the first two
levels 100 times. That's the weird thing about young me: I inherited 50
games from my older brother and played the first 5 minutes for hours and
hours.
Yo, but check these graphics. DON'T THEY JUST BLOW YOUR FIVE YEAR OLD MIIIIIIND?
I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 20
-Choice Auto-Correct Quotes: "That birch of a wife left me"
"There's a flat bunny"
"Her carves are biking"
"I'm really liking this flap house walking down the sheep"
-Books by Chick Tickle sounds like they'd be the opposite of a Chuck Tingle books.
MTSU, Paolo's alma mater, a 15th seed mind you, beat Michigan State, a 2nd seed. I picked Michigan State
My Final 4 is down to just one team that only wins the division.
All the 5th seeds got usurped.
I'm beating JHeff for some reason
-Joney Spencerson is the worst character I ever made and I apologize.
-In Florida, "______ was a meth lab" is a regular occurrence,
especially in one of those areas that's neighboring a poor area, which
there are a lot
-Squidward his a dab:
-The Cranberries are always on "St. Patrick's Day"/Irish Music lists
and inever get that impression from them. Yes, they are from Ireland,
but they don't make their music as "Irish" sounding as Dropkick Murphy's
or The Pogues. Then again, maybe the fact that they're FROM Ireland as
opposed to sounding like the do makes them more authentic, since the
latter two bands come from Boston and New York.
However, I'm from American, so I prefer confirming my preconceived notions vs. the actual truth.
Also, Seth MacFarlane has made fun of 90's singing on several
occasions from the movie Ted and the opening bit of the Family Guy Star
Wars movie. I get it, it sounds weird, but consider this: everything
about the 90's and its music was a big fuck you to the 80's, which Seth
MacFarlane has a major boner for.
80's singing was at the top of your lungs with your crotch thrust
forward, 90's singing was hunched over your guitar signing from the
bowels.
-So this didn't make it to the main podcast, but afterwards we talked
about our school's mascots since apparently mine (Stony Brook's "Wolfie
The Seawolf") has giant biceps and is fuckable (Jeff's words, not
mine):
Mystakin's Mascot, Penn State's Nittany Lion, wins the you trued i guess award:
-Jeff's school mascot, the Cincinatti Bearcats, wins the award for Not At All Accurate and Most Likely to End Up In Jail:
-Arcanon's School mascot wins the award of Most Likely to Have Been Someone's Ponysona:
ECHO CHAMBER EPISODE 162
-It's always interesting in post-apocalyptic settings how EVERYTHING
shuts down. Like, you'd figure the guys who run the water/electricity
would have security guards.to defend the compound or lock the doors.
Knowing cops these days, they'd RELISH any opportunity to shoot anyone
who would look mildly diseased. I'm just saying, we always see things
progress way too quickly.
-Jigglypuff wrecking everyone's shit in the Pokemon anime:
-I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream the game was basically Harlan Ellison trying to make the prequel and the sequel toI Have No Mouth and I Must Scream the short story
at the same time. It was to provide a winnable scenario because video
games, and give a reason why AM chose those five people to live with
him: because they'd be the most fun to torture. How successful was he?
Well...
For the character's backgrounds in the short story this is what we're given:
Benny had been a brilliant theorist, a college professor; now he was
little more than a semi-human, semi-simian. He had been handsome, the
machine had ruined that. He had been lucid, the machine had driven him
mad. He had been gay, and the machine had given him an organ fit for a
horse. AM had done a job on Benny.
Gorrister had been a worrier. He was a
connie, a conscientious objector; he was a peace marcher; he was a
planner, a doer, a looker-ahead. AM had turned him into a
shoulder-shrugger, had made him a little dead in his concern. AM had
robbed him.
Nimdok went off in the darkness by himself for long times. I
don't know what it was he did out there, AM never let us know. But
whatever it was, Nimdok always came back white, drained of blood,
shaken, shaking. AM had hit him hard in a special way, even if we didn't
know quite how.
And Ellen. That douche bag! AM had left her alone, had
made her more of a slut than she had ever been. All her talk of
sweetness and light, all her memories of true love, all the lies she
wanted us to believe: that she had been a virgin only twice removed
before AM grabbed her and brought her down here with us. No, AM had
given her pleasure, even if she said it wasn't nice to do.
In the game, Benny was a soldier who had betrayed his troops and was
kinda racist. It could be implied from some of the dialogue referring
to a secret the soldiers found out about could be his homosexuality, but
it's left very vague and there would have to be A LOT of finagling to
get these two to gel. A man with so many secrets with the constant
threat of being brought out to the light, AND reliving your failures
over and over again? That's pressure.
Gorrister in the game was a trucker who's wife had gone mad, and he
blames himself for it, even though his mother-in-law was the one
responsible for it. In no way does it allude to any kind of passion,
unless he was protesting/canvassing inbetween trucker drop offs. Still,
while he is a shoulder shrugger, and suicidal
Ted in the game
was more of a liar and a fraud than "normal guy who gets tortured" in
the short story. I guess his scenario is focused on him doing the right
thing and not lying? It's not too far off since Ted was the one to
sacrifice himself for the sake of the others. Ted is still scared of
having his facade shatter, and AM does lean into that,
Ellen.... hooo... Um, Yeah, I guess a woman who had a horrible life
and then was raped in an elevator and traumnatized by it would be a dick
move by a dick AI. It's defintely one of those situations where it
would be less problematic if she wasn't the only woman.
Nimdok's background was never mentioned in the short story, and I
doubt someone as megalomaniacal as AM would mind that he was a Nazi
scientist. This was more to justify to the player why AM
tortures Nimdok rather than why AM would have fun with him, His chapter
give a lot of BG on some of the more impossible stuff in the story, but
it didn't really need any. HE'S A BIG EVIL COMPUTER is reason enough.
Still, looking at all of these, Mystakin's right, these are kind of
dumb. The problem is that we bring a lot of our own stuff in with us, so
we the player is hoping to see these people deserving of their
punishment and redeem at the same time, because that's what always
happens in media.
Though my "AMs a Dick Who Likes To See People Suffer" still holds the top spot for most likely.
-Retsupurae IHNAIMS LP:
-Morphogenic Field was a concept developed by Rupert Sheldrake and is
the idea, as explained in 999, that shapes and behavioral patterns of
living organisms are transmitted to each other through a field invisible
to the human eye. This is usually done in times of great duress, and
the plot of 999 is to generate morphogenic fields by putting children in
danger so they can transmit "answers" to their siblings in a remote
location. That way, the main villain can cure his prosopagnosia, his
inability to see faces.
What Nimdok is referring to is morphogenetic fields, which
is the ability for cells to communicate with each other, as the genetic
programming of cells can be flexible. Cells in a particular field will
conform their programming to be tissue of that field. It's a slow
process and it's not "at will", but it's interesting.
-Burnout Paradise Errant Signal
-Bondage Sandshrew, another way in which the anime is FUCKING WEIRD:
It was a harness to aid in that Sandshrew's training, like isometrics
or dynamic tension,., You know, one of those things Dr. Frank N. Furter
talked about in that song from Rocky Horror Picture Show.
-Bad News: North Carolina is basically this-
Good News: Georgia smelled all that sweet, sweet money they'd lose
out on and stopped being pricks in the interim since this podcast was
recorded.
-Peter Panic has music by Grant Kirkhope which has me sold. Here's a list of all the demons in Peter Panic: HEEL TURN : WRESTLEMANIA ROUNDTABLEOther than some exciting shenanigans, nothing to really get invested over. Mostly Wrestlemania was "How are they going to puull THIS bullshit off?" I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 3This week was my week to contribute! The ongoing theme through these is things we're afraid of centered around a theme that will bring us to the point of discovery.
What am I most scared of? Being awkward... Like, if AM were to put me through a psychodrama, it would be a party where I don't know anybody, the alcohol tastes like shit and every time I try to leave, someone goes "Where you going., bro?" Part of the inspiration for this question came when I was going into the gym for a week trial then came out with a yearly membership.I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 4This other theme is BUGS! Also Super Powers.
#Pokemon20
HEY, WHY DIDN'T YOU DO THE ORIGINAL POKEMON THEME SONG? cuz fuck you that's why.
Jigglypuff was my favorite recurring Pokemon in the show. Looking back, my favorite episodes of the original Polemon anime weren't moments from the game, it was all the little inbetween episodes that fleshed out the world a little bit. Like the episode Jigglypuff first appeared in, and it featured a city that wasn't in the games, or the one where they visited that doctor who taught them about Pokemon evolution, where Slowpoke evolves into Slowbro. Or that episode where Bulbasaur was called to his Saurpeople and wanted to evolve but he didn't want to change his personality, or the one where Ash wanted Pikachu to evolve to beat Lt. Surge's Raichu but Pikachu was like "NO! I WANT TO DO IT FOR ALL THE PIKACHUS OUT THERE!" and then there's the one where-
ANYTHING ELSE? I've got Omni Expo this weekend, so to celebrate, here's another recap video from Holiday Matsuri!
Nothing new for a little bit, mostly this week is going to be practice for OMNI Expo, I'm going to be streaming practice sometime this week.
Other than that, this weekend was pretty good, I found a copy of Buck Bumble in the wild, and managed to find this little guy:
There are a couple things in the future that might be worth talking about, but I'm waiting to hear more about it.
-The relative isolation is why a lot of touring bands don't come south of Orlando. Only large bands that can afford the trip go all the way down to Miami, and even then it's rare. West Palm Beach gets skipped altogether, except for something like Warped Tour, which is here on a Saturday, except
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At 4:32 it has that UNTIL ONE DAY... (record scratch)
-J.K. Rowling did mention there is an American Equivalent of Hogwarts. I like the idea. It's not like magic would localize itself to England. It could be a great opportunity for a satirical look at how America would handle that shit. Like, we'd use Magic to kill brown people fight terrorists. Also, we probably already elected our version to public office under the Republican Party:
OK, to cleanse your pallette, here's American Hermione:
-FUN FACT: I've never seen Revenge of the Nerds. It's one of those things I only know because of numerous references on Family Guy. Though these days, I think you would be less likely to root for the nerds. You still would, cause they would be the protagonists of the movie, but these days nerd shit is so ubiquitous, that one of those jocks would be wearing an Iron Man T-Shirt or some shit.
-"#BigAnime wants you to believe that Kids can be Squids"- Arcanon
Looking back at this, I would replace "Danger! High Voltage" with "Do The Evolution" by Pearl Jam.
This is going to be a close one though. We all have one SUPER obvious one, and a couple hopefuls, so it all comes down to the Daft Punk and Maroon 5 songs.
-I'm ultra salty because I don't have a WiiU yet, so I'm going to ignore the Splatoon talk, and focus on the other thing they brought up: JET GRIND RADIO! (or Jet Set Radio?)
I'm a sucker for a game with an awesome soundtrack. The controls are jank, and unlike Aggressive Inline, or Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, it's not like I can just focus on the mechanics and get better. I also have to worry about platforming, tagging rivals and avoiding enemy fire. ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER. Granted, the game wouldn't be as memorable if it wasn't so weird and had such a unique concept. I haven't played JSRF, the sequel, so maybe it refined the engine. Who knows.
-Speaking of weird games with killer soundtracks, Katamari Damacy.
Never got that much into the sequels, but Katamari always had this great sense of progression as you go through the levels, especially the final Moon level in the first game. For those of you further behind, you start out with a ball 1m high, and have 25 minutes to roll up stuff so that you reach 500m in height. Zen. That's the word for it, right? The sensation that you've started with a large goal, by moving but mere grains of sand, and at as you reach the end, you can look back and see all the progress made.
-Big ups to Owen here, because thanks to him, I will soon be in possession of the Jigglypuff Amiibo. Don't have a WiiU, but I FUCKING LOVE JIGGLYPUFF.
-I was going to go into some tirade about the difference between Shadow and Sonic, or how Sonic Boom is actually pretty decent, maybe even post that Boxer Hockey comic where Robotnik/Eggman called Shadow "Original The Character: Do Not Steal", but I think I can just post this:
-Speaking of Sonic, here's the scene with Robotnik and Eggman from Sonic Generations:
-Chance The Rapper: Social Experiment
-YA DAMN RIGHT I DO ALL THE MUSIC! YOU CAN BUY IT RIGHT HERE ON BANDCAMP:
