Hugh / ヒュー

Yeeeeessssss! Very much looking forward to this!

An assortment of killer7 nonsense, including the various GCN and PS2 versions from each region (three of which are sealed because I’m an idiot), preorder bonuses, the Japanese guide books, soundtrack, and hand in killer7.

I also have this large uk store promo box thing for some reason. Come to think of it, I also have some Japanese and UK store posters, too, that I need to get framed… or something!

Happy birthday, killer7. This game changed my world. There’s simply nothing else like it!
Really hope we’ll see a director’s cut or sequel someday.

Loved the trailer. Really took me back to that time my grandpa saved my life after getting half my face mauled off with the Dead Gear Life Support System.

............Wait, you work WHERE?!

Damn, Ingame Empire’s a good feature title, haha. Can’t wait for Suda and Sekine to discuss Inland Empire in the next Cinema 51! (One can dream 😅)

Damn, I didn't know it was lost media! I'll have to see if my old iPod touch still has it installed next time I visit home...

Ahh man, that's so cool! The soundtracks for The Silver Case and killer7 are incredible. ;-;

Really regret not picking up the rest of the Pokemon games I didn't have before they shot up in price, haha. ;-;
Really took their cheapness and commonness for granted pre-covid!

Some Flower, Sun, and Rain nonsense laid out on a table, including the original Japanese PS2 version, the European and Japanese DS versions, the Japanese Official Fan Book and Japanese Music Clips DVD.

Happy Birthday, FSR!
I hope we can meet Sumio again someday…

I think I showed you this last time I went back to New Zealand, but I still have your Zelda print!

Wow, that is one disgruntled looking cat, ahaha

TWO things to look forward to?! You spoil us, Craig!

The 3DS side project sounds really fun! Looking forward to it. :)

It’s not too late to justify your decision and play V and VI on the go, right?! :)

Oh, and thank you @alexfkraus.bsky.social and @chestnutvinegar.bsky.social for posting about the announcement here! Might’ve missed it otherwise.

A Japanese PS4 copy of Final Fantasy I-VI Collection: Memorial Package.

Yay, glad this finally got a domestic reprint!
I’d been umming and ahhing over importing the western PS4 version, so I’m glad Square finally decided to rerelease it here.
No idea what took them so long…

Yeah, if it's just about the logo, that would make a *lot* more sense, ahaha!

SUN + K(ids) + US?????? Utter bullshit if you ask me.

I was always baffled by this chain’s name, haha. My best guess was that it was some abstraction of “thanks” or maybe trying to imitate “Toys R Us” lol, but apparently it’s… THIS?!

An overhead photo of some of my favourite games, smushed together in an artistic mosiac kinda thing on the floor. It's a nice mix of popular stuff like Final Fantasy 12 and Phantasy Star Online, alongside less well known titles like Illusion City and Fantasia Sango 2.

If you're at a bit of a loose end this weekend, why not click this way and enjoy a random feature on my site? I've written almost 600 articles covering games on 42 different formats, so I'm sure you'll find something you'll like!

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Later that afternoon, I accidentally zapped the guy at the supermarket, too.

Joke didn’t go over nearly as well with a bag of carrots…

I bought some eneloops at Welcia today, and when I handed them to the guy at the checkout counter, we got zapped by static electricity.

I said, あっ、充電できました/“Oh, they’re charged.” and he humoured me with a laugh.

It’s so great to see you raising your profile, Jonathan!

if you're looking to UNSUBSCRIBE, there ARE replacements that are PRO-Mentalhealth:

twitter (xitter) -> bluesky
spotify -> foobar2k
youtube -> vlc media player
instagram -> WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (GBA)
netflix -> Michigan: Report from Hell (PS2)
face book -> Unreal Tournament 99 (PC)

The front wall of the exhibition (デヴィッド・リンチ版画展). There’s an artwork of a smudgy kind of stick figure with wings, maybe, and a twisty possibly-head. In the top left, it says “bug angel weeping”

An artwork of a giant face to the right, a small house to the left and a crude plane-shape in the sky. At the top, it says “NEW WORLD”

An artwork of… maybe a man crouched over with what might be a big red blood splatter spreading out from his head. Across the artwork, it says “why” “elect” “Ricity” “make” “me” “do” “BAD” “things”

An artwork of a (topless?) man pointing at an alien-looking figure holding a fire, and I think a topless woman above it, also holding a radiating fire? Over it, text reads “MY friends pLAY with FIRE”

Found some photos of the exhibition on my phone!

@farmboyinjapan.bsky.social, I think you went to this, too, right?

Electronic poster-screen thing in a train station advertising season 3 of Twin Peaks. I was pleasantly surprised to see this on the way to work! The show started airing in Japan from 7/22/2017 (“on WOWOW!”), over a month after it began overseas.

A poster at Kadokawa Cinema Shinjuku promoting their limited-time screenings of Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and (my favourite) Inland Empire. It ran from 9/30~10/13/2017.

A ticket for that same film screening.

The poster outside the David Lynch art exhibition in Shibuya. It ran from 1/18~2/11/2018.

Feeling very nostalgic for 2017~8. I subscribed to Showtime via VPN and watched each episode of The Return as it came out in the US.
Kadokawa Cinema Shinjuku ran several of Lynch’s films for a limited time, and seeing them on the big screen was amazing.
There was even an art exhibition in Shibuya!

“This would look nice on your wall.”

RIP, king

www.vulture.com/article/davi...

Inland Empire’s special features were such a treat! ;-;

to me Inland Empire was his greatest artistic achievement among many. i think about these Laura Dern monologues from Inland Empire basically every day.