functions as a pretty good halloween album. love the spooky synths towards the end of sorry laid the hearth.
always been funny to me that atmospheric black metal can either mean "lo-fi but there's a casio" or crazy layered maximalist production like this
Someone asked me about one of my kapools earlier and it made me happy for the reminder I'm not alone in my love for them. Anyway the kapools are fighting right now but don't worry it's in Chess.
I'm like ten hours into SMT 4A and this game is definitely a *response* to how alarmingly nationalist the neutral route is in 4, but it might also be buying into it completely. Game's fun at least, definitely less friction for better and for worse.
It's not an accident that Flynn as a protagonist is 18 years old whereas Nanashi is 15. Both of these games obviously have a lot of indulgent stuff but it really does feel like they're targeting slightly different age demographics. Still, it's strange to make your sequel the less mature one
gundam 00's mix of flippancy and grounded geopolitics leads to some grimly funny takeaways, such as "kurdish independence is less feasible than literally unifying all nations into a one-world government"
the passage of time combined with formerly-niche franchises getting super popular is so funny. like what do you mean I was treated as a casual for preferring the GBA fire emblems and Digital Devil Saga and now those answers make me trve kvlt
microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts
me watching utena for the first time: i can't wait until the show gets to the part when utena and anthy don their knight armor and attack the castle in the sky together upon flying horses
On the other side of the world and never relevant to the plot, but whenever they show a flyer or bring up the date of a gig it's like oh man.... nana is thinking about moving out of the apartment... and next week they're gonna hit the fucking pentagon...