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Also, DARK.

Yes, there seems to be a sci-fi revival, there's also a horror revival recently (works from Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, Mike Flanagan).

There was a crime fiction revival / trend, but I'm not sure if it's already been oversaturated and exploited to death. Zombie is definitely (un)dead.

Platforms and studios make their bets depending on trends, and with how shitty the real world is, I could see a large number of people got tired of crime genre right now.

Brothers Remake, now with 2 more brothers and you need to use your toes to control them!!

Sadly I quit mastodon early this year. People are very shout-y.

Lemmy has its share of jerks, but beehaw is at least is bit better, more community feeling.

For some personal reasons, I finally have access to 2 of my old guitars, a 6 string ESP Alex Skolnick signature, and a 7 string ESP Viper.

• The 6 string was full of rust, and I accidentally broke the nut, I managed to replace the rusted screws and the broken nut.
• The 7 string was okay, but I accidentally got a part of a string stuck inside the machine head. Went and bought 2 sets of Gotoh machine heads, drilled some extra holes, and replaced them.
• Also, either its humidity or because I never properly adjusted it, the strings were buzzing. So I adjusted the truss rod. The adjustment for 7 string went okay, it plays ok, the action is low enough that I can play it smoothly. But for the 6 string, it seems problematic, I need to adjust the truss rod really tight that it starts to squeak (I'm afraid it might break the neck), so that the 3 thickest string won't touch the first fret. Let's see whether the guitar would break into two by the end of the week.

Anyway, since I've been playing 8 string guitar (horribly) for the past year, my hand is now so used to the wide neck that 7 string really feels small and easier to play than before.

I believe some people are converting their data into video files and uploading them to YouTube as free data storage.

I enjoy watching Invincible and Fargo. Tried For All Mankind, but S01 was kinda slow, maybe I should give it another try.

Is Reacher S02 out now? I really like the first season, it's a really fun action show

I've never heard of both shows, I'm going to google them now. Both sounds intruiging.

I know it's really weird. I don't like ammo scarcity in games but really love how the weapons feel in RE games.

I generally don't play horror games, or watch horror movies. Except for a handful, and mostly it's not because of the survival or horror part.

Oh wow, maybe I should watch Megamind.

I've watched a couple of episodes of Peep Show before, but couldn't get into it, I presume it only gets better after 1st season. I should give it another try.

2 things

• Resident Evil HD Remaster
  • I followed a guide, and finally got my infinite rocket launcher around 2 hour 41 mins!
  • Skipped all the cutscenes, got the bad ending, I have no idea what's happening in the game, and somewhat learned some speed running moves (e.g. stair skating and kiting).
  • I'm excited to finally playing the game properly (with rocket launcher) in the future, both Chris and Jill scenarios.
  • There's quite a lot of work involved, I used the IGN video walkthrough, spliced the video into like 13 parts for 13 saves, then just redo those parts until I feel like I've finished the section without losing too much time
• Final Fantasy 7
  • I'm replaying it again, the last time I finished this game must be at least a decade ago.
  • It's still my favorite mainline FF, I still love the Materia system and how you can chain them together. The combat is still very speedy, especially compared to FF9, the characters and story still hold up. You can definitely see Shinra Corp existing in our society right now.
  • I'm also surprised at the parts I've missed. After the temple morphed into the black materia, did Cloud shove Aeris to the ground and punch her repeatedly? I was shocked at that scene, didn't realize what was happening when I was younger.
  • With knowledge about what's happening with Crisis Core and FF7 Remake in hand, now I could definitely understand some of those scenes, the voices Cloud is hearing, etc.
  • I'm playing the PS4 remaster / re-release. Liking the QoL features (fast forward, battle assist), but there's still an unfixed bug where the music would just stop playing.

I remember when Joe Rogan was getting giant paycheck from Spotify promoting antivax stuff, and people talked about moving to Apple Music, but it feels like many just stuck with Spotify.

I came across a post on instagram that says that Al Yankovic's 80 million stream on playlist only netted him enough money to buy a sandwich.

Also, Spotify underpaying artists, making fake playlists with cover artists to undermine artists, are not new. It feels like the mainstream crowd just doesn't care, which pushes me further into depression.

So far in season 1, I've only seen 1 instance where the whole crew came out and told the couple at the laundry shop that they're in a prank show. Do they reveal that to the other people? Also how does US privacy regulations work in the case of prank shows? Do they need to ask people to sign a release afterwards?

it's kinda bummer that Morning Show is declining in quality. I've seen people recommending it when it was in its first season or so.

Ys IX Monstrum Nox

I'm at the final chapter of the game, and here's my thoughts:

The game has adopted many bad trends from other games that it becomes annoying halfway thru the game, here are some of my complaints:

• The dialogue, a lot of useless fluff dialogues that takes extra 2 seconds for the characters to animate. If there's 10 people in the scene, then those 10 feel the need to chime in to say something frivolous.
• Just can't get emotionally invested in the character, maybe it's the writing, maybe they just follow cookie cutter anime tropes most of the time (thrown in some 'twist' later on). I weirdly care more about the side characters from Lacrimosa than this one.
• The constant interruption of the flow. You gained control of your character, moved to main/side quest point, cutscene, walked forward 10 steps, another cutscene. And the problem is, most cutscenes are just insubstantial.
• Side quests that are not side quests anymore, since you need them to remove those artificial barriers. You can farm nox, but it's way slower. Side quests also suffer from 'everything needs lengthy writing' RPG syndrome nowadays. Better writing, not more writing. I had the same issue with Horizon Forbidden West, where most side quests contain way too much dialogue that's been used to pad the game to 100+ hours, where it could be a 30 hour game.
• The raids / grimwald sections are bit too much. I like how they are mostly optional in Lacrimosa. In this game, you even need to do them to remove the barriers to optional area.
• Third Eye / detective mode is a mechanic that devs should move away from. Just outline the points of interest, don't make it so it's hard to see everything else.
• The lock-on in combat is a wild mess for me. I don't know whether it's my settings, or the game.

On the other hand, what I like about this game:

• The vertical mobility, that's to shake up the exploration. The problem is it's kinda janky, I'd often fall down after grappling to a ledge, because the ledge is too small. Wall run often ends up being blocked, etc. I hope that they will polish the mechanic more in the future. In combat though, I barely use them to fight enemies thanks to the messy lock-on
• I enjoy doing the collectibles (petals, treasures, graffitis) in this game.

Besides that I've been slowly progerssing Resident Evil HD Remake, trying to get infinite rocket launcher.

why did I misread that as AutoCreamPie?

I don't like remasters, especially those which are usually just re-release with hi-res textures. They are charging like $30 and above for hi-res texture, and some of them has unstable framerates. At certain point of time, using emulator yields better graphics & performance than some of those remasters, especially for PS1/PS2 games.

On the other hand, I actually like remakes way more. ::: spoiler First of all FF7R shouldn't be considered as remake, it should be considered as its own spinoff / sequel :::

Remake not only exploits that nostalgia, but also tend to make game plays better with added QoL functions, sometimes with new gameplay mechanics. Some of the remakes that I really like:

• Yakuza 1+2 Kiwami
• Crisis Core
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
• Resident Evil 1+2 (have not played 3+4 remakes yet)
• Live a Live
• Mass Effect Trilogy (thankfully it's not just a hi-res port)

Remake is great when there's a significant technology and time gaps between the games, which is why TLOU remakes drew some ires.

I use BiasFX2, and it's pretty okay for me. The tone cloud seems to be lacking of content nowadays (maybe it's harder to search)

If you wanna use opensource + deep learning amp simulators, there is Neural Amp Modeler I've never used it (even though I downloaded and it's sitting in my folder for a year now), but it seems like you just need to feed it with the wav of the guitar tone you want.

Let's hope that with enough international pressure, this truce will stay longer, and humanitarian aids can be properly given to Palestinians.

I mistook Larry Summers as Larry Elison (ex Oracle) previously and made a comment that it gone from bad to worse.

I'm retracting it, I don't know much about Larry Summers.