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Recommendations: Back to the Water Below by Royal Blood
I admittedly was a little disappointed with this record on a first lesson, as I was going in expecting a whole list of bangers like the opening Mountains at Midnight, but I gave this album a second chance, and I'm grateful...I remember the band talking about freeing themselves to simplify songs,...
Recommendations: Memento (2000)
Memento's a film I've been meaning to scratch off the list for years, especially for being a total sucker for films that delibertly mess with the audiences head.The unreliable narrator is reliably entertaining.What I wasn't expecting from Memento was to feel inspired by the end, as inspi...
Q&A: September 20th, 2023
RupertLitterbin AsksYou wanna watch castlevania and get drunk with me?I'm not John.Dominik Jaworski AsksMost games use something binary while splinter cell and thief used a spectrum of dark and light. Recently playing those, I was in the mindset that if I'm not in the lowest levels of visibi...
NEW VID: Finally... a Better Hotline Miami
Intended to be uploaded September 10th.... our friends at DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere have given me permission to upload to y'all the complete cut of my latest video.All that's left for public release is to assure Copyright is cleared, and make the thumbnail. In the meantime, I hope y...
NEW VID: Finally... a Better Hotline Miami (Rough Cut)
After 5+ attempts in DaVinci Resolve, there's finally a Rough Cut rendered of my next video!I put emphasis on the rough because there's a couple artifacts (thanks DaVinci) and I've already got rewritten lines for the opening, boss fights, and more, I recorded them last night, but my voic...
Recommendations: Zero + One = Everything by Pronobozo
There's a very real mood that came from early 2000s electronic music that I really miss. Songs you'd hear on games like Need for Speed, SSX3, Burnout Revenge, etc.Artists like Andy Hunter, Overseer, Paul Oakenfold, BT, Cirrus, Fluke, Hyper, and of course, The Prodigy, and The Chemical Brothe...
Update: Don't Follow My Sleep Schedule
Hey everybody!Obviously, there hasn't been a Q&A, Recommendations, or Randomly Mine this week; I was trying to sacrifice them to have the video out by September 1st, but being that this is my current to-do list...-Render After Effects Opening-Fill Intro Sequence with "Retro" Game Clips-A...
Recommendations: Across the Spiderverse
Since I finally got around to watching Into the Spiderverse, and loving everything about it, I got to hop into the theatres for its anticipated sequel, and it's gotten some hate due to the toxicity of its fandom and social media outrage.All of which is completely unrelated to the film itself, an...
Spin-Offs
*Trailer Voice Guy*Previously, on Randomly Mine!I talked about gaming's currently common cynical cash-grab character crossovers. Fortnite becoming a fight to the death on an island between Master Chief, Jill Valentine, Chun Li, John Wick, Miles Morales, and a million other iconic characters, isn...
Q&A: August 17th, 2023
DiKel91 AsksIf you wanted to show someone 1-3 videos as a This Is Raycevick showcase, which one(s) would you pick so someone could get as distilled and pure and whole a picture of you(r channel) as possible?I'm glad I've been able to avoid this scenario as long as I have.It used to be that m...
Recommendations: The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons by The Hives
Normally, I don't recommend a new album or film this quickly, but god damn, the album just slaps that much! And it's not just Bogus Operandi, there's banger after banger here from Trapdoor Solution, The Bomb, The Way The Story Goes, etc.What's more surprising is the pacing of this al...
Recommendations: BEEF
I get a little uneasey when I see people put a specific studio on a pedestal, but it's happening right now to A24, and works like BEEF is the one had me putting them on one.I loved Everything Eveywhere, All at Once, I recommended it on here last year, and I wouldn't go so far to say that BEE...
Crossovers
Authors Note: I meant to have this Randomly Mine yesterday, apologies for the delayThe latest crossover event from Modern Warfare II has been done with Amazon Prime's The Boys Homelander and Starlight, but the next crossover's already leaked, and it's gaming's feminine icon, Lara Cro...
Video Update
Hey everybody!As it's the end of the month, I owe you an explanation for what the video's process is. After much beating my head against a desk, I found a simple solution for focusing and getting more writing done...Turn off Discord.I admit, this is very obvious, but I've done it before ...
Recommendations: Bloodsuckers by Saint Agnes
If you don't like LOUD albums... skip this one.If you like 'em, then this album kicks you in the teeth right from the opening, and continues to with most of these filthy yet catchy rock vibe.What surprised me was that it's not entirely one note, with the stripped back synths and build up...
Q&A: July 26th, 2023
dksjournal asksis it weird for you to think of Canada as a bilingual country, or do you just not think that way because the majority of Francophones live in one province? Ou peut-être vous êtes bilingue?I'm definitely not. French class was terrible, and I was even worse. It isn't weird for...
Recommendations: Uncharted Lost Legacy
I've caught up on Naughty Dog's post-PS3 era, and where The Last of Us II and Uncharted 4 overstay their welcome, Lost Legacy better paces itself while telling a better story than both.Lost Legacy doesn't have Last of Us II's massive gameplay improvements, nor its technical marvel an...
Recommendations: 4:23 by Mike Dean
I don't know anything about Mike Dean.I don't know why this face (I assume his) is on the cover.I didn't know what genre I was getting into when a friend DM'd this album to me asking about feeling like they're envisioning scenes while listening to the album.It's awesome when ...
Q&A: July 12th, 2023
Alexander AsksIs it true that there’s no Canada like french Canada?It's certainly the most unique we get as a Country; I've not been to Prince Edward, but I've been to Manitoba, Quebec, Ontario, and obviously, lived in BC, and Canada (unlike the United States) is pretty uniform in more...
Recommendations: To Catch a Killer
This film's title sucks.This film's box art sucks.But goddamn was this film good.It makes total sense why Shailene Woodley through herself into the Producer seat to make this happen, because the script is simply superb, and she is remarkable in it. There's an amount of depth in its chara...
Update: Is It Harder?
Hey everybody;I'm grateful to be writing this instead of speaking, as my throat's Sahara dry with a nasty cough and fierce pain. Travelling to a city of two million for a week, this result isn't surprising, especially via how I spent some of the nights.It was enjoyable though; all that m...
Q&A: June 28th, 2023
Apologies for this being such a long gap since the last Q&A, it was quite stupid of me to assume I'd just immediately fall back in line the instant upon returning from NYC.For now, we'll be returning to bi-weekly Q&A posts.So lets catch up!KasaiKouhai AsksThis might sound like a mouthful, bu...
Recommendations: Octopussy
Going from For Your Eyes Only to this, was like going from Detroit to Barbados.That might've influenced my enjoyment of this film, but in-general, Octopussy is just a really fun Roger Moore Bond film with hilariously charming Villains, fun set-pieces, and surprisingly high stakes.While Moonraker...
Recommendations: D&D: Honor Among Thieves
Man...Why can't Marvel be this?It's watching films like Honor Among Thieves with its charismatic cast of characters, phenomenal effects practical and digital, thrilling set-pieces, and mostly endearing humor, that serve to remind that these types of fun adventures, are best experienced throu...
Movies
I've played exactly one new game this year.Meanwhile, I've watched a couple dozen films in just the last few months, even more hours are added when including shows. It's a little weird as somebody who's always put Games at the top of their media consumption.Some of it is playing catc...
Q&A: June 7th, 2023
Jake Malone AsksWhat do you value most in an RPG? And what is something you think more games should focus more on for RPGs?Ever since doing the Alpha Protocol video, what I really want to see more of is reactivity rather than choice. Instead of the game going "here's all these decisions"...
Recommendations: Texture by Battle Tapes
I haven't immediately fallen head over heels for an album this quickly in a long time, but it's no surprise that the group achieving this is Battle Tapes.Despite doing what I normally don't, and binging each single leading up to the album's release, the complete package still manages...
Update (To Everything)
Hello everybody,My task list today involves…-Packing for NYC (16th-21st)-Writing a 007 Short Film-Writing a mini-series-Co-writing a feature film-Organizing The Shambles Championship Off-Season-Writing four Randomly Mine's-Writing the weekly Q&A-Testing Multiplayer games for Discord Hangouts-D...
Q&A: May 31st, 2023
Daresis AsksOpinions on the metal gear remake? i cant find myself to get hyped whatsoever since anytime i think about it it just brings to mind the kojima-konami split and my level of trust for it to be good just plummets.I don't get hyped about any project these days, so that certainly extends ...
Recommendations: Nobody
Though I've come around on the John Wick series since loving the Fourth entry, Nobody still holds up as the alternative that I wanted, and appreciated back when it came out.Being that I wasn't, and still not a fan of the earlier John Wick films, the idea of that film's script writer team...
