SubMyOwn

In Super Mario Galaxy 2, the Wigglers on the Tall Trunk Galaxy slide are special slide-only Wigglers that literally cannot exist outside of it. If one of them is allowed to make it all the way up the slide, he will lose his head and become a singularity.

Bit over two months now, and patches have been great for many reasons but every now and then, even though I do all the same prep as usual, my skin is just like "this is literally sandpaper AAAAA" and I want to gnaw my leg off.

Ik it's just the moodboard but the idea of either "random stone carving??" or "$15 of gas, take it or leave it" being options amuses me

Ok, the Bastion medley at the end though

I may be biased because half the tracks are from Transistor (which I need to actually play more than 10 minutes of, but gosh the soundtrack is easily my favourite of them).

YouTube video by Darren Korb and Ashley Barrett - Topic We All Become

How am I only now finding out that there's an orchestral rearrange best-of album for Supergiant games? EXCUSE ME?

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YouTube video by Syuusuke5 Futurama - OUT OF CREAM !!

No context (because spoilers) but: Arknights 15-14
youtu.be/b0Bt0lkpV_U?...

I was loaned a Wii U from a coworker 5ish years ago (for a single at-the-time-exclusive) and it lasted like 15 minutes. Luckily the charge cable was decently long!

Soundtrack for internally screaming right now (in a hopefully good way)

Xenoblade X screenshot: The party of Elma, Tatsu, Lin and the player character (and Al, but only as the 4th member) stand on a grassy ledge at sunset looking towards the crashed habitat unit of New LA.

Anyway, until the Switch 2 upgrades (Monolith, PLEASE)... [7/7]

Xenoblade X screenshot. A mountainous desert landscape with Mia, distantly being carried away by a large flying creature as the party look on: "AAAUUGH! HELP ME, CHIEEEEEEF!"

Xenoblade X screenshot. On a white sandy plain, Mia, to the player character in front of her heavily damaged Skell: "Oh come on, I've been shot down AGAIN?!"

Xenoblade X screenshot: Mia, from behind a locked door in an underground alien hideout to the party: "Trust me, you don't want to know more. Unless you do--in which case, not judging. Buy me a drink and I'll catch you up."

Xenoblade X screenshot at night on a semi-arid island. Mia, with the player character and Tora, a small Nopon, says aloud: "Now I really miss my dads."

It also has Mia. Mia is the best. [6/7]

"But yes, there will be those who foolishly claim that pizza is not the answer to every problem, won't there?"

"They will demand that we abandon our pizza platform in favor of laissez-faire economics--whatever that is!"

"They'll say we're making a mockery of politics, won't they? But are we?"

"...WE SURE ARE!"

Then there's the "there's an election for the alien races' representative but the candidate is useless so they want us to help them rig it" quest which ends up with us giving them an "agrees to everything" serum and results in this speech. (we'd already got them insatiably addicted to pizza) [5/7]

Then the actual side quests (normal ones, not just the voiced affinity ones) can be almost anything. There's the expected "go rescue another squad with your mech". Then there's the "we've built a water purification plant but some cult is poisoning one of our friendly alien races" questline. [4/7]

I've raved about the affinity chart before (it's absurdly big) and I don't think there's any game I've ever wanted so much to talk to all the NPCs (and there's a lot!) just to find out about the world or because I was invested in how some characters from a side quest are getting on now. [3/7]

There's so many things to like about the game (interesting-but-not-overly-complicated combat/builds, Sawano soundtrack, such a big varied world that is genuinely fun to explore) but the standout will always be how good the SIDE quests are at telling the story of the world and the characters. [2/7]

A post-game save screen from Xenoblade X DE. Of note, the selected save file has 145:25 play time. The party are all level 63 consisting of Nagi, Lin, Elma, and the green-haired player character, Noelle, Rank 9 Winged Viper.

Post-game version of the Xenoblade X DE title screen. It differs from the usual with an alternate angle of a ledge overlooking NLA, and 10 of the main NPCs standing with the player character.

Played a few more hours in post-game to tie up some loose ends, but I'm both happy and sad to say that's Xenoblade X DE completed. All the affinity quests and heart to hearts, all bar 3 other quests done (checked the segments), Ares 90.

680+ screenshots (only ~540 got in my discord thread) [1/7]

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

YouTube video by HOYO-MiX - Topic Gion2

Feels like home <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=agvd...

Replaying (ish) The Walking Dead Telltale and finishing Season 1.
Final choice: oof 😞
End credits vocal song: 😭

Who do I need to bribe to get Discord to add folders for favourite GIFs? I know I have some gems but I forget when I need them most.

YouTube video by Audiotree Mega Mango on Audiotree Live (Full Session)

I can only get good songs stuck in my head.

youtu.be/tHZ-iMj6Q9A?...

Recent events in the news remind me of the wonderful easter egg in this with the wife-appears-disappears connection.

YouTube video by Audiotree Mega Mango on Audiotree Live (Full Session)

I can only get good songs stuck in my head.

youtu.be/tHZ-iMj6Q9A?...

Screenshot from Unbeatable: Beat, dressed in her usual red tracksuit with yellow jacket, runs through a standalone doorframe standing in water under a wide, cloudy sky. The entire view is reflected in the water under Beat's feet.

Curse my lack of hand-eye coordination making a C rank on hard my best effort at rhythm games. Absurdly stylish, I had to show friends the *startup logo*.

(Game is Unbeatable [Demo])

YouTube video by JasperDasper Debunking Transphobia

Yes it is 5 hours. There is a 64 page list of references. The content warning 2 hours in is needed.

Please make time to watch it all.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiOc...

Just a few weeks now 🔥

YouTube video by Diels-Alder - Topic Long Way Home

Thank you Arknights for the random Chinese indie emo rock band recommendation (from the Lessing EP, Diels Alder)

Thought they'd disappeared after doing that, but they released new stuff!

(my posting here really is just music stuff now I guess!)

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YouTube video by Halozy - Topic モノクロの世界

I think Viva Evolution just beats 864 as my favourite Halozy albums. (I suppose whichever has the most emaru songs, which then led me to find them as macaroom!)

Anyway, have something fun
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