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I reached the Matador boss fight in SMT3, this is the most infamous battle in the game. You fight much stronger demons later on, but Matador is disproportionately strong for how early in the game you encounter him. He will absolutely wipe the floor with an unprepared team. It had been so long since I had played the game that I ran into the fight very much unprepared and with a poor party composition. I actually managed to survive phase 1, which, I dare say, is impressive, given how suboptimal my team was. He then proceeded to obliterate me in phase 2. The battle is hard enough on normal difficulty, on hard it's downright brutal, even with a good team. I need to do some demon fusing to get the right team before facing him again.

I'm playing the Steam Sale Forge Your Fate choose your own adventure game. It's better than Anthem.

Have the Milwaukee Police filed a missing persons report on Khris Middleton? My man disappeared in the second half last night. Where was the dude that rescued the Bucks against the Nets?

Probably not Trae Young dropping 48.

Even before COVID, a cruise was nowhere near the top of my list of things I'd like to do. Nowadays, the only way I'm getting on a cruise ship is at gunpoint.

For both of the Roger Corman blu rays I ordered they came with double sided covers: For Forbidden World I will use the theatrical cover despite the fact that I think Allan Holzman's Mutant director's cut is a better version of the movie. For Galaxy of Terror I will use the Mind Warp cover. I mean the theatrical cover is great, but the Mind Warp cover is AMAZING. More movies should come with double sided covers if the movie went through multiple cover arts/titles, as many movies do.

I remember watching a documentary on him. What a weird life he lead. He was like part snake oil salesman, part James Bond villain.

Word 'round the campfire is that the Suns are hoping CP3 is back for game 3. That's earlier than I expected.

If I can't make a character that looks EXACTLY like Private Vasquez then this game is an automatic fail. They have her bandana, which is a good start, but it sucks that they are holding it hostage as a pre-order bonus.

Holy $#!+ the ending to that game! This is the Suns' 9th straight win.

I've been trying out the Death Trash demo. I'm not sure how to feel about it yet. The world is weird, it's cyberpunk-ish but also kind of disgusting with piles of flesh just lying about everywhere. I'm a bit worn out on the retro pixelated aesthetic, unless the pixel art is really high quality, which it's not; it's not terrible pixel art, but it's nothing special either. I'll give it this, the demo has grabbed my attention enough after roughly an hour that I'll play it some more.

Not sure where to put this, given that it's manufacturer agnostic, but here seemed to be the most appropriate.

Yes. Having the protagonist be androgynous makes perfect sense for a MegaTen game. The games tend to focus on a conflict of philosophies, namely order/control vs anarchy/freedom. Ultimately, you get to decide what form the remade world will take, which effectively makes you God. God being androgynous always made sense to me. I mean, in a patriarchal society God will be referred to as "He" and in a matriarchal society as "She", that's only natural. If such a being truly exists then it would be both and neither. It makes sense in my head, anyway. Maybe I'm just weird?

I watched I Am Here....Now and Pass Thru. I didn't plan it that way, but it worked out well to watch these movies back to back since they're so similar. I mean, all 4 of Neil Breen's movies I've seen share similar themes, but these 2 in particular almost feel like 2 sides of the same coin, with I Am Here....Now being much lighter and more hopeful and Pass Thru being much darker and more condemning. In I Am Here....Now Neil Breen plays, quite literally, God. For whatever reason, at the beginning and the end when he's arriving and leaving Earth he has 2 sticks of RAM glued to his arms and a PCB of some sort glued to his chest. At times he turns into the Nameless One from Planescape: Torment, I guess that's his true form(?) God is the Nameless One... Checks out. Like in all of Neil's movies, he's here to show humanity the right path and to condemn the greedy and corrupt leeching off the masses, but it's more focused on a message of hope and bettering ourselves. He has a pretty fantastic For Your Consideration monologue near the end. From a technical standpoint, this is the best of Neil's movies that I've seen, which isn't saying all that much. I mean, the acting is atrocious and nobody talks like a real person, they just spout exposition in the most blunt manner imaginable, but the cinematography is... ... passable, there are a lot fewer really jarring, horrible cuts than in his other movies. In Pass Thru Neil plays an AI from the future come to pass judgement on humanity. This movie is a lot darker and a lot more focused on purging the greedy and corrupt from the planet, which has me a bit worried about Neil's mental state and curious to see what he'll be like in Twisted Pair. This movie is a mess, even by Neil Breen standards. It's almost incomprehensible. Neil reaches new levels of incompetence in this movie with some hilariously awful effects and green screen stuff. This also makes Pass Thru his funniest movie with some amazingly hilariously awful acting and just brutal scene transitions, if you could even call them that. Thankfully, there is no Neil Breen nudity in either movie. I saw enough of Neil's nutsack in Double Down to last a lifetime. One more movie to go, Twisted Pair, and I will have completed my Neil Breen vision quest. I don't know why I enjoy his movies, they're not nearly as funny or exciting as Miami Connection, for example. They are baffling more than anything and very slow moving at times, but weirdly engaging and fascinating. I don't know how to explain their appeal, but I'm glad Neil keeps making them. Live your dream, Neil.

The Japanese SMTV trailer with English subtitles:

I don't live in Texas and have no clue of the reference. Can someone provide some context? Are there brownout issues in Texas?

I'll root for the Bucks against the Hawks, Sixers, and Clippers. I'll root against them if they face the Suns. Sorry @Bartimaeus

Yeah, it's a lot easier to whip up some junk like this: Fine movie, but that is some really lazy "art". Plus, it's the movie I blame for the tired back to back rom com trope.

Weight works differently on a flat Earth. I'm happy to see the Suns take game 1. If they play every other day, I can't see CP3 back any sooner than game 5 or 6. Hopefully Devin Booker & Co. can hold the fort until then.

Health has definitely been the story of these playoffs, but it's always been a part of sports, so it is what it is.

I really love the 50s sci-fi and creature feature style posters: It's too bad we don't get posters like this much any more.

I gotta hand it to them, I thought the game 5 loss would have broken the Bucks, but here they are in the conference finals. Hopefully they can keep going... And eventually lose to the Suns in the NBA Finals.

I wanted that series to go the distance so that the conference finals would start as late as possible to give CP3 time to quarantine.