-What they have at Disney now is FastPass+, where after you register, you can select FastPasses for 30 days in advance, or if you're staying at a hotel, it's 60 days in advance. The thing that sucks is that they limit you to 3 FastPasses.
Universal has a better option if you're a Florida Resident like me, so you can buy an Annual Pass, and then an unlimited Express Pass, which is valid every day your normal admission is valid. The downside is, you live in Florida.
-Mickey Mouse as proven himself to be vengeful:
-Ben's scheme has to be in one of the top 10 Most Harebrained Schemes in I'd Rather Not
If I can guarantee that we can get some fallout on RAW the next night I'm good.
-Owen's provision of preventing us from starving to death is a lot like AM in "I Have No Mouth I Must Scream", where he keeps his survivors from starving to death so he can continue torturing the five survivors.
-I'm kind of honored how I'm the crew's ideal of a "buff guy".
MIZUCON RECAP? ALREADY?
Yeah, weird, right? First, I'd like to thank the con chair for being such a chill guy and hooking me up with a show!
After I got a monitor so I can hear myself, the show went well, and the new song I've been playing (so far) only at cons has been really fun to play, and has gone over big! I don't plan on keeping it "live only", but I think playing it first to a much smaller crowd (i.e. Not The Internet) helps work out some of the kinks.
A group of people I see at a lot of South Florida cons and events is/are The 3000 Brigade. I didn't know what they were for the longest time, whether they were a podcast, an indie studio, a creative collective ala Chaotic Neutral, etc. However, I was able to catch their stage show Saturday night, a Super Smash Bros themed Telethon.
I learned two things that night:
1. They only play once a year at Mizucon, which is why a lot of the jokes were about the stage quality and low ceiling
2. They put on a damn good show with music, choreography and costumes, for what is essentially gonzo crossover fanfiction.
3. #DicksOutForToad
Mega Ran also performed that night, and as a rare treat was joined on stage by YTCracker. My only regret is that I didn't have something silly on hand for Ran to freestyle rap about.
FUN FACT: While Mega Ran was the first rapper licensed by Capcom, who were the other two to come later?
THIS WEEK'S JAM:
How did I go so (12 days) long with out mentionin Green Day has a new song?
It's all right. Heavier than their usual fare, got a kinda Sex-Pistols thing going on.
Now, what I'd like to draw your attention to is the name of Green Day's new album: Revolution Radio, which comes out October 7th.
There was a similar album released October 9th last year with a similar title...
YOU DIRTY MOTHERFUCKERS.
WHOOPING LIKE A MILLENIAL:
Normally any news article with Millenial in the title wants to make me punch my monitor and crack the spine of the old motherfucker who wrote it like I'm Bane:
However this article I think warrants some discussion, because the shift from the switch from the fifth to the third, or as the author calls it "The Millenial Whoop" is one of those things that once you notice it, you see everywhere.
"Whoa-oh Whoa-oh". Click the link to hear what I'm talking about, but it's a lot quicker than pop-punk whoa-ohs. Here's a supercut that's kinda what the author's talking about:
Though it's unfortunate that the example used is The Lonely Island's song, "Fuck Off" is the most clear (and catchiest) usage. There are a couple good examples he lists, like Katy Perry's "California Gurls" and Owl City/Carly Ray Jepsen's "Good Time", but the rest that come up aren't as solid. Some are songs made by people who came before millennials.
Overall, while it's an interesting trend, I'm not entirely convinced it's a Millennial Thing or a Whoop. It's more of a vocal HOPO (Rhythm Gamer term y'all!) then something that can be properly established.
Still, I'd love to see if there's something similar in previous generations where there's a similar vocal shift used in a lot of the same songs if there's any social externalities or influences from other popular genres outside the Top 40.
MIZUCON!!!
Working my ass off to get my set perfect for this weekend. If you were at Mini Iwai, you heard a new song I've been working on, hopefully by Mizu I'll have another one ready.
Regardless, Mizu was one of the first cons I played down here in FL, so I'll definitely be down to have a good time, especially to catch Mega Ran's show. Friends Chaotic Neutral will be running a shiiiiiiitton of panels, and they have been pretty fun.
Also running a special deal: If I get 500 FB likes before Mizucon, I'll play shirtless. ;) You can tell how desperate for attention I am because of the clickbaity title. THIS WEEK'S JAM:
Much appropos, since Mega Ran. Any time he's got Xavier Woods/Austin Creed on the brain he puts out some good stuff. I hope that one day he makes it as the official theme to one of the PPVs. One day, him and Keith Apicary will show up on a proper WWE event, and at that point, wrestling will finally be real.
Shovel Knight's got a great soundtrack, and I think only Undertale rivals it in how many awesome remixes I've seen from a recent game. I MADE A GAME!Giant Bomb held a community Game Jam called "Giant ROM" and I made a game for it! It's a top-down shooter called "The Last Game You'll Ever Play"
The thinking behind it was to make a game in the vein of something like Ridiculous Fishing or Indigo Prophecy (in theory at least with the latter) where the better you do in one half, the more challenging the second half is.
So for TLGYEP, what I thought of doing was an E3 presentation where you pitch a game to a bunch of cyborgs, who you eventually have to fight. Right now there's only five options and one question, but fixing the game and expanding it is on the greater priority over fixing the art and presentation.
-Arcanon, we're your friends. Please stop doing crimes. First you
start off by having been mistakely banned in GTA V then you commit more
dire crimes, like marijuana needles or saying the cusswords.
Remember: When you want to do crimes, instead eat a lime.
-Having since played Lucioball, I can confirm that it's really fun to
play, and lends itself better to a proper soccer proxy than ROcket
League, since your characters don't move as fast or as loose as a car,
so you have more control, and more players per team lends better to
having strict positions (usually forward/midfield/goalie)
-FUN FACT: The Soldier being healed by a medic in TF2 is called the
"Pocket Soldier" and the un-Medic Soldier is called the "Roaming
Solider"
-"Cowboy" by Kid Rock
-Here's just one example of Ubers's cosplay witchcraft:
The Goon is seriously really good, and when it takes a break from the
hilarious action to focus on The Goon as a human being, then it gets
required reading for any comic fan. Yeah, there's punching zombies and
all some freaky mob shit going down but yo, check this: The mob boss he
was The Goon for gunned down the aunt who raised Lil' Goon who then
bashed the boss's head in with a rock out of vengeance.
-Rhythm Bastard's Super Group
Vocals: Janelle Monae
Lead Guitar: Tom Morello
Rhythm Guitar: Nile Rodgers
Bass: Flea
Drums: Travis Barker
Arcanon's Super Group
Vocals: David Draiman
Guitar: Tom Morello
Bass: Justin Chancellor
Drums: Neil Peart
Jeff's Super Group
Vocals: "Zoli" Téglás
Guitar: Trevor Riley
Guitar: Tepe
Bass: Matt Freeman
Drums: Brooks Wackerman
Mystakin's Super Group
Vocals and Guitar: Orianthi
Bass: Rob Trujio
Drums: Zack Starky
-Now, I'd like to address two moments early in the podcast.
Owen and John: Heihachi? Heahachi! Heihachi. Heihachi!
Jonesy: Who's this Heihachi fellow? Are the Japs coming back?
Alex: Can we call an audible? I don't want to focus on them being fat people, how about "your car is filled to capacity".
Me: That is an acceptable substitute.
John: Or how about just sweaty people?
Alex: Filled to capacity with sweaty people.
John: I FUCKING SWEAT A LOT! or something like that
Looking back at these two moments, there was no reason for me to use that particular language and a substitute was readily available.
Same as with the Kaiju episode a few weeks ago. Was there a reason I had to use "gypsy"? Why not "witch" or something?
Like Jonesy could have said something like "Wasn't he a general
during WWII?" Or "I prefer to drive American!" Something that shows that
he's still in that era and an idiot, but not using that particular
term.
Or my half of the question: why did I specify
fat people? The change we made kept the main thrust of the question, and
none of my responses changed as well.
Because society, they were the "natural" response. Mystic powers and vengence? OF COURSE gypsies. Sweaty and stinky? OF COURSE fat people. But why?
It took just a smidgen of effort to change it to where I would be able to communicate the same endpoint and nobody would be excluded/offended.
It's why all of these people who complain about "PC CULTURE IS RUINING COMEDY! WHY IS EVERYONE SO OFFENDED?" come off as lazy. Slurs and stereotypes aren't the backbone of comedy and ideas, they're a crutch that defy reality and keep those already marginalized down. For example, I could have used "bitch" instead of "complain" in that first sentence. However, I caught myself doing it often, and decided to use the word I actually meant.
Every post, every song, everything I do is a challenge. As Mark Rosewater from Magic The Gathering puts it, "Restrictions breed creativity". Status Quo Radio was a set of restrictions. My Magic The Gathering songs are a set of restrictions. The fact that I try to connect something real to this unrelated thing is what I love about doing music, and it's a restriction.
If "respecting people who are different" is a restriction too large to bear, then please vacate society.
MINI IWAI:
Mini Iwai, for those of you further behind, is a "sampler" show before the proper Anime Iwai in November. Other than a couple sound issues, the show went well! It was a really small event, and felt more like a party with vendor's tables set up as opposed to a proper con. No guests and a lot of panels that are interactive, like Discussions, Trivia and Game Shows. Still a fun time, though.
I'll get a table for the bigger event, since by then I should have some more, cooler stuff to sell by then.
I've finished playing VLR. It's a really good game if you liked Newgrounds Escape Rooms, and dumb pseduoscience. Next on my list is the final entry in the trilogy, Zero Time Dilema. Hopefully that provides a "happier" ending, because VLR ends on kind of an "Empire Strikes Back"-esque note.
Still, it makes me want to check out other visual novels and see what the genre has to offer. Of course, the pinnacle of the genre has been accomplished with "John Cena's Sexy High School Adventure"
FUTURE STUFF: Mizucon!
...Still don't know what time I'm playing....!
STATUS QUO STREAM:
Status Quo Streaming will come back... eventually. I think I'll go back to the old style of just playing whenever and uploading it on YouTube. I would like to make it a regular, planned thing, but my schedule is all nuts from my new job.
