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"
-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.
(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.
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:
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-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.
