matt 🏴 @matt@cybre.space

I understand that Marie Kondo's philosophy has helped people, but I can't help but feel like the disavowal of physical objects plays too perfectly into the capitalist goal of getting people to repeatedly pay for things they don't own. I.E. Netflix exclusivity. Why buy discs? Sure, you pay for them once and own them for life, but having stuff is bad! You should pay $15 a month for the rest of your life to license them instead. If it disappears, oh well! Guess it didn't bring enough joy.

Oh, Marie Kondo has a TV show now. That's why everyone's been talking about tidying up lately. Huh.

Too bad it's on Netflix, that might actually make for pleasant background noise

My friend sent me all of his spare Animal Crossing amiibo cards! I've been streaming Desert Island Escape with a randomly drawn team to add a little bit of spiciness, but I didn't have a very big card pool, now I have about 30. More than enough to keep things interesting. I'm ready to D.I.E.! (unfortunate acronym)

Now I'm just going around quietly saying "bwooooonk" like a real loser

It's a pretty fun word to say

Oh yeah, I forgot every piece of media also has a TV Tropes page. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/WarOfTheWorlds

They don't have a specific term for it, so I propose "Armageddon Horn".

Anyway, Wolfenstein: TNC has one and I was probably thinking of Half-Life 2 because the new games remind me a lot of HL2 (appropriately) and I was wondering if that specifically was their inspiration. I guess not.

Was War of the Worlds (2005) the first instance of the "armageddon horn"? The big lumbering robot and/or monster that goes BWOOOOONK

I thought the Striders from Half-Life 2 might have had a horn but I looked it up and it's more like a bunch of low-pitched squeals. I was surprised not to find an entry on TV Tropes. Maybe I'm just not searching for the right thing.

Oh, just playing through several levels of Wolfstone/Wolfenstein 3D inside of The New Colossus. Totally normal and worthwhile way to spend my time. Talk about games with bad maps, this game doesn't have one at all. So much of it is just wandering around in circles figuring out where to go next.

At least I don't have to deal with infinitely respawning dudes shooting at me while I wander around in this one, though

Well, so far the storytelling in Wolfenstein: TNC is even better than the already great storytelling from TNO, as I expected. Unfortunately, so far, the "fun factor" (as it's known in esteemed journals of interactive art criticism) is way down and I'm worried it's not going to get better. The sneaking that I liked in the first one is back but totally broken. Just trying to figure out where I'm supposed to go is a nightmare. The map/objective UI is one of the worst ones I've ever seen.

What I imagine "The Good Place" is based solely on the name: a sitcom about an an amusement park in an ailing de-industrialized rust belt town. They wanted a "Happiest Place On Earth"-style slogan and "The Good Place" was the best thing the owner, an ex-factory foreman, could come up with. There's essentially no local government so he bribes officials to pass all the inspections. His daughter, a plucky Penny-from-Inspector-Gadget type, has to help the parkgoers narrowly avoid death in new ways every week.

Raid on Bumbling Bee

Catherine is out on PC?! Does this mean we're finally going to get Persona? I hope that's what it means.

Finished up The New Order. Heck of a game. Part of me wants to go back through the other timeline and clean up the collectibles, but I should probably move on to TNC while I'm still in the mood for more Wolfenstein.

@Trysdyn Er, guess where you're aiming/what you're aiming at

@Tak I like Dishonored a bunch, I didn't know Metro had sneaky stuff in it! I'll check it out, thanks

@Trysdyn Haha yeah, I've been watching a Goldeneye playthrough recently and it's totally bizarre. You just have to sort of guess where you're aiming at if you also want to be able to move. It looks awful. Quake had been out for a year by that point, there's really no excuse for that sort of thing

My monitor has the ability to display a crosshair in the middle of the screen at all times, which I thought was a silly feature I'd never use, but I'm actually glad I have it because Wolfenstein: TNO is one of those games that removes the reticle from the screen when you zoom in

I'm not sure why anyone would want to have to choose between zooming in and being able to see where they're shooting, but it seems to be a popular design choice for some reason.

@Trysdyn Ah okay, I'm generally quiet but I piped up to make a metal slime joke when you fought the puffball, I understand why you were distracted. Pretty mean of the game to throw an annoying rare FOE to confuse you and then drop a boss on you out of sequence while you're still puzzling that out.

@Trysdyn I was there :) I'm Duke of the Bump on Twitch. I've been following your Twitch channel since the Dark Dungeon streams and recognized your name when I saw a post of yours here. Sorry for the two names thing, DotB is a pseudonym I use pretty much just for streaming stuff (mostly because I made it up a decade ago and now I'm stuck with it)

Glad you came around on the music! Yuzo Koshiro is maybe my favorite game composer. The FM-synth style in EO is kind of a weird throwback but I'm into it.

Whoa, the Etrian Odyssey 3 soundtrack heckin shreds https://youtu.be/14U64jWO85s

Makes me wish I could get into those games

Enemy at the gates
Friendly on the dates