Selfsurprise

David Cage and Hideo Kojima somehow conceive a child. It inherits both of it's fathers most "cinematic" tendencies.

Is an SCP fan, I think.

Chance

Doom Chibi? I like the idea of a non-violent kawaii version of the new Doom game. It would be like Ape Escape but with technologically augmented demons rather than inappropriately attired monkeys.

^ Maybe you've brought it up before, but I take it you're an SCP Wiki fan Zaraki? As a fellow Foundation asset to another! ;D

PNm5gKjVr0o I have a soft spot for this kind of rough-around-the-edges ambient music that a lot of scarier and typically more extreme musicians are creating lately.

Babysitting

Painting by Christopher Wool

I really don't envy the choice Americans are having to make in this election. It strikes me as stark decision between someone who will actively abuse office to avoid accountability, and someone who is sincerely and deliberately whipping up hate and stupidity. There tends to be a lot of coverage of the presidential process in the British news which inevitably leads to a lot of complaints from my fellow country kin that we pay too much attention to US politics and that "it isn't relevant" to British interests. There has been NONE of that during this election! You might be familiar with the concept of the USA and the UK having a oft-cited special relationship, I think it was originally a term originating from the two nations close collaboration during the second world war, and has ever since taken numerous other facets of meaning. I personally haven't heard any of the aforementioned knee-jerk national whinging that usually accompanies US election coverage. We seem to care much more this time around. Maybe it's an uneasy side effect of Brexit but my fellow English men and women suddenly seem far less indifferent to the state of our cultural ties to America, we want to know what kind of administration we'll be associating with. The prospect of being in a "special relationship" with Donald Trump... It would have to be special, wouldn't it...

It seems Ross has displeased Nurgle. If he has turned into a Great Unclean One by the time he uploads his next videochat then I think he'll have smoothed things over with the forces of chaos.

I was reading up on some recent colonial history and I got to thinking about Sierra Leone. It might be a somewhat contentious setting for a Fallout game, but when have I ever let real world sacred cows or even the franchise lore inform my decisions? :3 Britain isn't exactly a world superpower in the Fallout universe, but Sierra Leone's history is heavily involved with post-American revolutionary war resettlement and politics (the country's capital is named Freetown due to a founding colony created for emancipated black African Americans) and it could've theoretically happened in the franchise lore context. It isn't much of a leap to suggest that America had retroactively made an exception of the country and invested no mean measure of its commercial and military might in the nation, which quickly went to shit and resulted in numerous bastardized offshoots of the country's already fractious armed forces. When the bombs fell in 2077 it was the military that had predominate access to vaults and bunkers and thus results in a "contemporary" Sierra Leonese population descended from various armed groups. Many of these grew into diverse post-apocalyptic secular/Christian/Muslim/West African tradition populations just trying to survive and thrive. The isolation however caused some of these vault descendents to become ideologically bizarre and warped, resulting in aberrant in terribly corrupted belief systems that could include strange fixations on certain forms of media, US subculture, cannibalism, violent animism, etc. Sierra Leone has plenty potential for enemies, power groups, allies and factions. The aforementioned warped militant groups, rad hippos, numerous species of oversized butterflies (that might not be as aggressive as other "giant bugs" in Fallout games), Mende minority secret societies, rad-resistant Temne minority denomination of Kurumasaba worshippers, flying or otherwise mobile governmental broadcast radio-bots with a cheerful yet pedantic disposition, unusually intelligent monkeys that escaped experimental labs that mimic the warmongering behaviour and flamboyant apparel of human soldiers, multiheaded ferocious warthogs, an African wild dog equivalent of Dogmeat, a race of anthropomorphic Hyena people (who might also simultaneously be a non-to-subtle reference to the Gnolls of Dungeons & Dragons), a benevolent and powerful giant spider called Aunt Nancy, beautiful yet loathsome Tingoi monsters resembling rotting women, any number of sci-fi inflected interpretations of West African monsters and spirits. Just a thought...

I certainly remember being much more invested in older games, but that probably had more to do with my age, my latter change of interests and the simple fact I had more time. Being a fan of the point n' click genre I'm very grateful for the number of variety of games of the last ten years or so that broadly fit within that category. Rarely do they achieve the stellar heights of Discworld or Broken Sword franchises, which has the peculiar effect of making those rare contemporary titles that square-up equally to those games all the more exciting. Those moments closely match the kind of enthusiastic feeling that I achieved as a youngster.

I'm with you here, limited inventory space isn't fun to me, and despite actually being a fan of the much slated No Man's Sky the games resource gathering/divvying up was the most frustrating thing about it. I could live with a carrying capacity if realism was an individual games forte, if it really did insist of only allowing you to only carry what a healthy member of your characters given species could. But it never is actually rendered in a realistic way, it's always just an arbitrarily assigned number based, items with their own equally arbitrary numbers, based on your characters unrealistically abstract stats - and I'm a DnD player, I love stats! ;3 I also want to emphasize that it isn't the lack of realism that bothers me about it (I'm most likely playing a game about shooting dragons made of balls and lava out of the sky with a crossbow that fires yodelling hammers, how much do you think I care?!) it's the sheer needlessness of adding yet another disruptive chore to a game that I otherwise enjoy.

It's not been a good week for numerous heros of mine. Learned this morning that Pete Burns, gender-bending frontman of the band Dead or Alive (who wrote the new wave pop hit You Spin Me Round), died a couple of days ago from a heart attack. I've also gathered that Junko Tabei, Steve Dillon and Mary Sheriff also shuffled their mortal coils over the last ten days of so. The first being a Japanese mountaineer who was the first woman to reach Everest's summit, the second being an English comic illustrator known for his work 2000 AD and Marvel, and the third being an American art historian and feminist writer who wrote one of my favourite books Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France. PGNiXGX2nLU

Howsabout' you be My Little Pony?

Granted, they are so awful that superheros with better powers come after you out of sheer pity. I wish I knew what I wanted to wish for.

A week later the Playstation 6 is released onto the market without any warning or fanfare.

Rescues dying threads teetering on the abyss.

You're in for a treat, DS9 is my personal favourite of the Star Trek iterations. It seems to have a broader narrative scope than most of the other series, the alien characters are treated more like individuals rather than just set-dressing in order to contrast humans and nonhumans, that and not everyone in it is a Federation goody-two-shoes which makes for more interesting relationships and character dynamics. Theres plenty of thought provoking sci-fi tropes and anomalies for the cast to contend with, but I reckon the real meat of the show is in the politics and social conflict that underpin so many of the stories. It's a very ambitious show in that regard.

Glad my weeks over. Work is an absolute ballache at the moment.

Joanna's Lullaby by Altars Altars

Holoprosencephaly? :3