The music though!
The music though!
Ahh yes, definitely. I should have said that isn’t strictly a traditional shmup. Bangai O definitely has many elements of shmups, but the level design and many of the mechanics are quite unique to it.
I actually played a bunch of that Star Wars vector arcade game at my local bowling alley. Yes, I am old…
Starfox never did it for me like Space Harrier. I’m not sure why. The primitive 3D maybe. Space Harrier creature design is just plain bizarre and intriguing.
I love Space Harrier. There are a handful of other third-person, on-rails shooters (Sin and Punishment), but nothing recent that I’m aware of.
Also, Bangai O on Nintendo DS is insanely fun. I can’t think of any other games where slowdown is a necessary mechanic.
Whoa! That’s crazy! I had no idea. I just tried to take a picture of the moon with my phone since someone told me my phone could do it. Hmm. I’ve taken a few. I should compare.
I’d be impressed considering I took that picture myself. I’m sure there’s some filter stuff going on that the camera app isn’t entirely transparent about, though.
I am not a Samsung fanboy by any means, but there’s no denying the cameras are fantastic: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4JwmReBsskSYNfzF9 was taken with a Galaxy s23 Ultra.
Oh ho. After some responses to this that Samsung was faking these, I went through some of my moon photos, and it certainly does look like there’s a little more than just filtering going on. I added two images that I took back-to-back to the album. You can see that in one, the phone didn’t recognize the moon as the moon because I didn’t get enough of it in frame. What is in the frame is completely washed out with little detail. The one where it did recognize it, the detail is almost absurd. Sheesh! Disappointing. I might just go third-party camera app. Who knows what this thing is doing to my pictures.
Hmm. Korean kids have recently started saying “skibidi”. Meaning it’s probably old hat by now. Old hat… that’s how old I am…
Sexy Parodius is a bit sketchy, yes. But, it’s easily the most-fun shmup I’ve ever played. The music is fantastic, too. I’ve managed to 1cc the game, but I’ve never beaten the bonus stage which is just so ridiculously difficult, I question whether it’s even possible without a very specific strategy or something.
Unfortunately, the best version is the arcade one, and MAME doesn’t do the best job with it. Still playable, though.
Nope. Ublock Origin is the only plugin I use. It’s not a regular thing anyway. The loading problem that is. I’ve only had very intermittent success with Chromecasting within Firefox. It just doesn’t work most of the time. That is most likely due to Chromecast being tied to whatever remains of Google Home.
I can’t be 100% sure that it was the fault of Firefox or Ublock Origin, but I’ve definitely had times when videos wouldn’t load or would load excessively slowly. My Internet was otherwise working entirely fine at the time.
Also, Chromecast refuses to work from Firefox. The icon you click to start it up just won’t appear. It always appears in Chrome no problem.
Fantastic food. Entirely too rapey.
Pop quiz: four of the top five most anticipated games are Doom, Gears of War, Perfect Dark, and Assassin’s Creed: what year is it?
Soju is the same thing as what we used to call “fortified” wine like Great White. It lures you in with 20% alcohol being sneaky enough to not immediately buzz you like liquor which then lowers your guard until suddenly you’re black-out drunk singing 80s Nami songs in the nearest noraebang. OH YEONG WON HAN CHINGU! OH HAENGBOK HAN MAEUM! OH JEUL GEO EUN INSAENG! YEAH!
My older sister was supposed to get my name, but she was a she. It would have been fairly unique at her age. I came along five years later and got it at the height of its popularity, as a result there were three of us in my grade six class.
2027-2032 is going to be a wild ride.
Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is set next to a real life lighthouse in my hometown. I used to go crawl around on the rocks so much so that I recognize some of them in the trailer. I haven’t watched it yet since I don’t find much time for movies anymore. I’m really looking forward to it. Horror movies also happen to be my thing, but my to-watch list is huge at this point.
I got a chance to watch it on a cross-Pacific flight. Which is just about the only time I watch movies anymore. I made the right choice! It was far more enjoyable than Meg 2 which I also managed to squeeze in unfortunately.
It’s 30 degrees and I live in a “miserable” humidity area. If I tried to run outside, I’d end up in the hospital. I walk to the gym anyway.