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Q&A: January 29th, 2025
Majin Brandon AsksWhen it comes to the general public's opinion on the Halo series overall, how do you feel about the interesting shift to view everything Bungie touched as gold and everything by 343 being worse? Or is my perception wrong, and it was just always like this? Because I swear 2'...
Plans For The Future
I've mentioned here and there on Patreon having gone on a trip last year, attending a wedding, visiting family, and letting Sparky take me to the big milk.Don't ask.There were many amazing things about the trip that were a welcome change from my usual day to day life, but the part I didn'...
Recommendations: Starfucker by Slayyyter
Years ago, I heard Fantano describe Billie Eilish's Oxytocinas "if Pharrell Williams made a Nine Inch Nails song." I'd give the same to Slayyyter's Purrthat was my gateway to this album.The rest of the album doesn't fit that description, it ranges from the slow horny goth clu...
Why Was Twitter Addictive?
In 2015, a friend and colleague I've known since I first got a "break" on YouTube via a community channel called "GXPTube" were talking about Twitter one day. I can't recall what the conversation was about, but I think it was about how pointless, silly, and obtrusive the webs...
Recommendations: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
One of the goals since coming back home was to consume more art across all of its forms I've loved, books included. It's been a hot minute since I've had one on here, and it makes a lot of sense that the one I am recommending, is all about Art.What I'm loving about Rick Rubin's b...
Q&A: January 15th, 2025
Dzera AsksWhat video game story made you genuinely depressed after finishing it?Soma.I part of the reason the credits song lives rent free in my brain is every time I hear it, I remember just sitting and staring at the computer screen until it started the post-credits sequence...Which made me even m...
Recommendations: Dark City
Welcome to the most fun I've had watching a movie in years.It really shouldn't have taken me so long to get around to watching what's often merely viewed as "The Matrix before The Matrix." This is an almost exact balance of cheese, mystery, over the top, down to earth, fucking fu...
What It Is About The 00's?
There's precisely one reaction channel that I actually like, LM Reactions.I'm not an avid watcher, I'm not sure if I've ever even watched a full video of theirs start to finish, I only watch reactions for shows that I've seen to completion, and I skim through them being that… w...
Recommendations: Rally
Last year, I recommended a Youtube video that was more accurately, a multi-part three hour documentary about Canada's biggest company.Rallyis quite the opposite.It's a slim ten-minute fictional short film made in Unreal Engine with minimal dialogue, plot, and even events, but sells something...
Q&A: January 1st, 2025
HAPPY NEW YEAR Y'ALLSpeaking for myself, 2024 felt like a bit of a repeat for me of 2023. Tons of personal progress in-regards to... Mental Health: I've not sought a new Councillor after mine moved Provinces, feeling comfortable enough to prioritize...Physical Health: Started writing this Q&...
Recommendations: Obsidian by Northlane
Holy Shift's gonna be happy about this one.Normally, I like to space out recommendations from artists I've highlighted not too long ago, but I also have to acknowledge this is been the album I've been repeating these last two weeks, with even certain songs just being looped for hours.Whi...
Operation Health
On June 7th, 2017, Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege released one of its most… uh, everything Update's in the game's history.Important, infamous, amazing, terrible, dumb, necessary; there's dozens of words in the dictionary that could be argued to perfectly describe this update, which is...
Recomendations: Robocop (1987)
I thought it was kinda weird to have not watched Aliens or the Star Wars Trilogy until I was 18... meanwhile, Robocop I never watched until two days ago.The main reason I'm recommending it however, isn't that I think it's amazing... I mean, it kind of is in Paul Verhoeven's almost un...
Q&A: December 18th, 2024
johnny1248 AsksWhich vocalist would you describe as ''it isn't bad, it's infuriating''I honestly can't think of any... Fred Durst is bad, and it's hilariously entertaining. Duncan Gohl AsksFavorite type of Burger?Hmm... just a good ol' Bacon Cheeseburger for me. H...
Recommendations: Slut Pop Miami by Kim Petras
One of the lyrics is "I'm a Semen Jesus."Enter this album expecting your IQ to increase after listening, and you should be submitted to a lab for Medical Experiments. Go in wanting a good laugh and nodding to some melodies catchy enough to classify as an infection by that laboratory, and...
Hard Mode
There's this fear with meeting friends made over the internet that was very much assumed to me by my family and theirfriends growing up. That these people who you may view as a colleague, friend, maybe even family, will in the real world, turn out to be nothing like who they are when behind the ...
Recommendations: Spin Rhythm XD
Originally, I was going to recommend a completely different type of game for this week's recommendation, but I want to give it just a little more time to cook in the oven for my thoughts...I don't need to do the same thing with Spin Rhythm XD.The only reason I've stopped after an hour to...
Q&A: December 4th, 2024
Andylad AsksThere is currently a community online client almost complete that allows players of NFS Carbon to play online multiplayer and provides several game improvements as well as adding and connecting the Rockport map! There is a discord server where the devs are constantly posting their progre...
Recommendations: Spy Game
On a whim, I watched the 2005 Tony Scott "Fuel for Max Payne 3" cloaked as a movie called Domino, starring Keira Knightley, and I absolutely loved it...But it's not a good movie... it's anything but a good movie.That probably won't stop me recommending it one day on the grounds o...
This Genre Used to Be Ahead
Everyone has that sensation of wishing they hadsaid something, but it's too late. That's the nice thing about writing, you get to do that all the time, and it comes across as if you've always planned to say something when you've said it. Truth be told however, I'm not sure the fo...
Update: November 26th, 2024
Hey everyone!Having (not quite) fully recovered from Laryngitis, and archiving everything from my trip to the East Side of North America visiting weddings, friends, and family, I'm back working on all my projects that were started before I left!Though that is the key the word.... Projects.Yester...
Recommendations: Wet From Birth by The Faint
Normally, I like to mix up the recommendations as best as I can. Follow up each post with a different medium, a game, a movie, an album, if I read more, a book. However, last week's Teen Mortgage seemed to have open the floodgates and I've been adding so much music since leaving the Vogue Th...
Part of the Problem
Thetopic of complacency is something I've often seen discussed in regards to quite heavy subjects, and the struggle with heavy subjects is just that, they're heavy.They're laced with nuances often ignored not even out of ignorance or bigotry, but just time, and the eternal challenge of c...
Q&A: November 20th, 2024
The_Surviv0r AsksRecently played through Signalis and greatly enjoyed it. Did you ever ended up trying the full game?I did buy it after a conversation with a friend a few months ago reminded me that they're one out of dozens that have recommended it, and rightfully so. I played the Demo before t...
Recommendations: Teen Mortgage - Self-Titled
Should say something that the first thing I'm doing after going to see Death From Above 1979 live in Vancouver, is recommend the band that opened for them!Yes, DFA was still the main reason to go and a band I've recommended and will continue to recommend forever, however, old-school raw-punk...
Time
So I finally just took a nap on my flight back home to Vancouver with two-hours left of what's totaling up to be a twenty hour journey, ten of those being stranded in Washington D.C.It's times like these when everyone wishes the E-Cigarette from Metal Gear Solid V was real.I was desperate en...
Recommendations: Anora
There's many different styles of Acting.There's the scene-chewing over the top antics of Tim Currey in Red Alert 3. The reserved yet moving words of Morgan Freeman in Seven. The endless electricity of Brad Pitt in Snatch. However, Anora's acting across the entire cast is something I can ...
Q&A: November 6th, 2024
Tucker Legate AsksWhat e-ink tablet do you have, and what writing software do you use on it?Bought a Remarkable 2 after seeing everyone swear that it is notably better than the Kindle Scribe, though looking back, I do wish I at least tried a Scribe to see the differences, because while the Remarkabl...
Recommendations: Juiced 2 Hot Import Nights
I'm absolutely the person who completely wrote this game off back at release just from the marketing and subtitle/sponsor alone. Juiced 1 has nostalgia, and was a decent first effort for a first time studio, but couldn't compete with the likes of Need for Speed Underground 2.Juiced 2 meanwhi...
Recommendations: The Company That Broke Canada
I've never recommended a Youtube Videobefore, although, calling this a Youtube Videofeels a little inadequate, though in its own way, speaks to just how much the landscape of Youtube has changed. I can't imagine telling my 2005 self that twenty years later, I'd be watching a two-parter d...
