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Recommendations: Go Mecha Ball
Isometric Morphball Roguelike Shooter.That sentence has either sold you or turned you away completely, but if you're the former, what I can say about Go Mecha Ball is how shockingly well-made it is. The transitions between playing Pinball and Twin Stick is seamless, and both feel utterly fantast...
Q&A: May 21st, 2025
Why did I forget to upload before Thursday?I might've uh... been torturing myself on Time Trial for Shambles at a new track. Tune in Thursday 1:30pm PST if you wanna watch me lose.Kelvin Kuang AsksI remember watching bunnyhop's video about video game novelisation, where they tend to varied i...
Recommendations: Bodies by Thornhill
Sometimes you'll love a piece of art for its bold ideas, unique premise, or particular execution of one of its concepts. Other times, you'll just love something out of its sheer craftsmanship, and that's very much the case with Thornhill's 3rd album.I expected absolutely nothing when...
Adaptations & IP
What do Tim Cain the game developer, and Remedy the game studio have in-common? They don't seem to be attracted to Sequels. Not that they've never made them, not that they've never enjoyed them, not that they've never made some pretty damn great ones. Just that if they get to choose ...
Recommendations: The Outfit
I was originally going to recommend an album but this film's only on Canada's Netflix until May 31st, so I figure it'd be best to give my fellow Canucks the heads up.I always love it when I go into a film blind and come out the other side with a big smile. This is a low-budget directoria...
Q&A: May 7th, 2025
Kelvin Kuang AsksThoughts on Netflix's Devil May Cry and will it sour feelings for video game adaption compared to Arcane, Edgerunner, Castlevania? I am mostly neutral and more interested in what the journey is gonna look like, good or bad. Do you think they could had have make it faithful or it...
Recommendations: Unbeatable (Demo)
Originally I wrote this recommendation comparing Unbeatable to a certain failure from last year that shares many similarities on paper... but part of Unbeatable's draw is just how unique its execution is, and the quality and care that's paired with it.The presentation just leaps through the ...
Writer
Spent all of my Tuesday on Taxes.Whenever sending anything to the Government or Corporations, the "title" I put down varies. If it's a manual prompt, I'll sometimes write "Youtuber" which I'm not a big fan of, but automatic prompts often have "Influencer" which I&...
Recommendations: Now & Then by Adam Freeland
Some years ago, I looked at Spotify playlist that catalogued all the songs it possibly could from the 15+ years of Top Gear aired on Television. Because the BBC have a licensed music library that any of their shows can use without paying anything, tons of music gets utilized over the course of seaso...
Q&A: April 23rd, 2025
Rocketmushroom AsksWhen are you going to release your “Chaser… still the greatest flawless masterpiece years later” and “Ride to Hell Retribution, love it more than Nutella and peanut butter” ?When I've made a clone who can take that duty over for me.litl snek AsksWhat do you think of ...
Recommendations: Clue (1985)
I watched Adolescence.I'm reading "There Are No Accidents."I listened and recommended Penelope Trappes' "A Requiem."All quality but... heavy. You know what's needed? Something light, and fun, but don't let those two words trick you into expecting slop. It's funny ...
Is Final Fantasy Powerful Because It's Cute?
One line I remember from Apex Legends' Loba is "you should smile more" before stomping somebody to death… with a smile on their face. Okay, but seriously, it's a very simple, yet clever reversal of a line that's been condescending woman for generations the instant they have the...
Recommendations: Cairn Demo
Welcome to the latest episode of "Raycevick's friend predict a game he was obviously going to love."The Game Bakers have very rapidly become one of my favorite developers even though I've only played a Demo of one of their games Haven, and honestly didn't click with it's mome...
Recommendations: A Requiem by Penelope Trappes
I've been on a real Modern Metal kick recently, so I forced myself to mix up the albums being added to my rotations to stop this from just being a ceaseless list of House of Protection, Crossfaith, Thornhill, and Memphis May Fire... though don't be surprised if I still shout-out the HOP EP w...
Before the Storm
So I've Finally Played…Life is Strange Before the Storm.That's probably not what most people were expecting me to first clear off the list after rewriting myself into Oblivion with Rollerdrome, the prequel to Time Travel Lesbian Tragedy Simulator doesn't exactly scream RAYCEVICKlike Bl...
Recommendations: Portal: Still Alive
Those who've seen my Orange Box Years Later video might remember this, but weirdly, Portal Still Alive isn't just a straight individual copy of the original game sold separately from Valve's iconic bundle, but a version of the game which had it's own Campaign with 14 original levels....
Q&A: March 26th, 2025
And now... back to our bi-weekly programming!Duncan Gohl AsksWhat are some campaigns/narratives from games you played that you wish were better than what was executed? (Mine would be BF3 and both modern MOH games)Funny enough, I've had a video idea for years that's one big homage to an old J...
EARLY VIDEO: "This Game is Perfection, Please Don't Buy It"
https://youtu.be/O7N6On1Ar2kI can't remember when I said it... but I know at some point I mentioned wanting to make the Patreon releases of videos the 100% complete finished products. However, I started taking down my notes and...I don't want to hold it off any longer on y'all, and show ...
Update: March 17th, 2025 - Crisis Averted
I don't mean for this Patreon to become Cyberpunk's Yellow Update tweets, but last night proved to be an... adventure.TL;DR Listed at Bottom:Taking a break and practically falling asleep in the evening, I woke up to find the last chunk of my project deleted from top to bottom, well, except f...
Update: March 9th, 2025
I was hoping make light of the video's "Next Week" release having to be on the last day of the week, but I've unfortunately massively underestimated the workload of this video's final stint, and now not even a technicality can stop my promise from not being kept.What making this ...
Recommendations: The Sky, The Earth & All Between by Architects
Well, it seems that Jordan Fish can get me interested in anything.While plunging further and further into the depths of Metal these last few years, Architects was a band I only saved one or two songs from, none of which coming from their last album that seemed to be the Black Sheep even among fans.M...
Update: March 1st, 2024
Average Pixel was kind of enough last week, during a quite hectic month, to make an animation for my next video! When asking for a Deadline, I said "I'm aiming to be completed by Friday."Fuck.Starting with the good, it feels quite strange after what is easily, the most rewritten script I...
Q&A: February 26th, 2025
Dzera AsksIs there a genre of games that you personally could never get into?MMO's are the easiest example. One I'm not sure will ever change due to my general interest in games just not really aligning with what MMO's strive to accomplish.I'm not interested in grinding characters, o...
Recommendations: Perfect Dark: Initial Vector by Greg Rucka
You'd never see me recommending on here Perfect Dark Zero on the Xbox 360...So why is its sequel novel on here? Because, though it's slop with action-scenes, global stakes, and cowboy one-liners from Johanna Dark... it's good slop!I recall this from Greg Rucka's work on the comic Laz...
"It's Only a Second."
Microsoft were definitely having a laugh when they called their program "OneNote." Dude… I've taken probably one-hundred thousand.One of those sub-section's I've got adding to the word count over a period of years is called "dialogue." It's not dialogue for anything...
Recommendations: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2
Vicarious Visions continue to be one the character actor of video-games.That group who are never going to be given the notoriety of Naughty Dog, ID Software, or Bungie, nor are they in the position to as a supportstudio, but never the less, doesn't stop them from showcasing their brilliant abili...
Q&A: February 12th, 2025
February 12th... technically.Dzera AsksOpinion on the current PC optimizations? Games have become a lot more demanding but without the benefit of added fidelity or quality of graphics, since probably like 2021 or 2022. Are the devs lazy or is it because they don't have the time to fully flesh ou...
Recommendations: Creatures of the Late Afternoon by Kid Koala
I'll give credit to the algorithm used by music services like TIDAL and Spotify, they sometimes know my tastes better than me.I get recommend one song by Kid Koala and I'm like "Who the fuck is this guy? And why am I fucking with this?"Then I look him up, and see credit on Deltron 30...
What People Want to See
I've seen virtually every alternative to Youtube in my lifetime.Google Video, Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Vidme, Streetfire, Revver, and now its latest iterations, Rumble and Bitchute, andit's the same story every single time.Good intentions or not, the website gets flooded by people suspe...
Recommendations: Dredd (2012)
There's really something to be said for movies that make their artificiality work.Dredd's first impressions are that of CGI that wasn't particularly impressive even for the time, with a seemingly one-note premise, and a quite hilarious title card that I think was made by videocopilot.Yet...
