they're aimed at teens/young-adults but it's fun spotting the direct inspirations and differences. also, several Studio Ghibli films are based on books: Howl's Moving Castle, Tales from Earthsea, The Secret World Of Arietty (kind of), and maybe a few others.
weird mix, but Kiki's Delivery Service during the day and Infinite Jest before bed.
On Computer Games Monthly is a gaming magazine styled as if it were created in the early 2000s. Within its wistful pages, writer and editor forrest and a...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13971279
> On Computer Games Monthly #1 > > https://archive.org/details/OCGM-1-Nov-2000 > > > ! > > > I have been working on a passion project for the last two months; a retro games magazine, and it's finally completed! This #zine is a digital celebration of nostalgia; a collective of writers from the federated internet that strives to capture the subjective quality of gaming with stories about life-and-stuff told through the lens of video games. Issue#1 covers November2000 and features: Breath of Fire IV, Counter Strike, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, love letters to the Dreamcast and PlayStation consoles, and much more.
not sure. didn't expect anyone would want to subscribe. i do plan on making more, but it will be awhile. you can always follow me on mastodon @buru5@mstdn.games or follow the blog which i post some of the magazine articles in: oncomputer.games
took about two months. i have a full-time job and two kids as well, so would have taken less time if i didn't have Grown Up Stuff to do.
On Computer Games Monthly is a gaming magazine styled as if it were created in the early 2000s. Within its wistful pages, writer and editor forrest and a...
On Computer Games Monthly #1
https://archive.org/details/OCGM-1-Nov-2000
I have been working on a passion project for the last two months; a retro games magazine, and it's finally completed! This #zine is a digital celebration of nostalgia; a collective of writers from the federated internet that strives to capture the subjective quality of gaming with stories about life-and-stuff told through the lens of video games. Issue#1 covers November2000 and features: Breath of Fire IV, Counter Strike, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, love letters to the Dreamcast and PlayStation consoles, and much more.
looks alright color scheme is a bit gaudy and not a huge fan of the big miyoo logo. they can do better than this, i think. i have the miyoo mini plus and really enjoy it so have high hopes.
created this video essay thing based on an essay i wrote for my website.
https://youtu.be/OBFZtIQYiiI?si=LDxjp-lfoh5cJ47s
if you happen to watch, let me know what you think
could post this in the SaGa forum as well but figured this would be a better spot.
covers some of the following:
0:00 (Introduction & Justification)
2:26 (CHAPTER I: History of Final Fantasy Legend II or: Richard Dean Anderson's Haircut in Season 6 of MacGyver)
5:11 (CHAPTER II: Presentation, Setting & Plot or: Smoke Dope, Go Bananas)
7:57 (CHAPTER III: Music or: Is this Emerson, Lake & Palmer?)
11:34 (INTERLUDE or: Artistic Gentrification)
13:15 (CHAPTER IV: Gameplay or: Nintendo Power Nominee for Hardest Game Boy Game of 1990)
20:58 (CONCLUSION or: SAVE THE WORLD or: If Richard Dean Anderson is the Peak 90s Action Celebrity ...)
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thanks for the basic lesson in freedom of speech. had never seen that xkcd comic before so it was extremely enlightening. i feel 100x smarter now.
do you think the creator would be ok with just censoring millions of people for no reason other than they happen to use threads, though, do you think that is what the comic is promoting? or maybe it's more of a commentary on hate speech and the consequences of bigotry in a society with free speech, ever think of that? just a thought.
anyways, enjoy your mass censorship.
what? all federated servers i use have a block function. again, why are you telling me what to do? and this discussion on "server standards" -- if we're being honest -- is really just a discussion about censorship. you're promoting censorship. congratulations.
extremely weary of any call to arms like this, especially when i am exclaimed to "need" to do something. the block function exists in almost all federated platforms, including the ability to block entire instances; use it and, like META: stop pushing YOUR OWN AGENDA on everyone else.
i am trying to figure out if this had some clever intention behind it related to the ouroboros or if you're really just an insufferable human being -- can you confirm, please?
this feels a little weird, considering this is one of the main reasons people dislike FFXVI; "i'll fix the reason you don't want to play the game if you just buy the game!" seems like he knows what he's doing and is being a little sneaky.
agreed, it was a clever bait-and-switch-with-an-out
"no, remake doesn't stand for REMAKE ... it stands for RE-MAKE the story, completely, like .. history is being REMADE! it's time travel baby!"
they knew what they were doing; literally EVERYONE was expecting a close remake of the original game for modern consoles, instead we got a FINE and VERY COOL SEQUEL, but nothing close to the REMAKE they led people to believe.
FFX-2 was Square as well. It was developed by a Square team and released by Square in Japan, not SquareEnix. In fact, it was the last Square Final Fantasy game to be released. This is all easily verifiable on Wikipedia, as well.
The truth is that this was the direction they wanted to take the X universe, even had the same Director and everything.
best episode in the last 3 seasons of the show and much better than Star Beast; still trying to figure out what Tennant is always reaching out for in these promo images, though: validation? acceptance? lost youth?
this is just a smidgen of the first-world's self-inflicted punishment. very excited to see what happens next.
also rumors of a spin-off featuring the adipose. and another one in which Swarm is the main character. also heard of another spin-off in the works for the pting. oh yeah, and the autons. and the zygons. and the renegade judoon enforcers. and the clockwork people.
seems a bit wishful thinking, and - absolutely - it was Davies who made the Doctor the center of the universe, starting with 9/10 as ThE lAsT oF ThE TiMe LoRdS, and every episode/arc being largely centeted on The Doctor's past/present/future and enemies. 14(?) popping in to essentially NAME the Daleks, his greatest enemy, kinda undermining 4's Genesis of the Daleks arc, is a sign - to me - that The Doctor is, once again, the center of the Whoniverse as we know it.
13 was far less "center of the universe" than 10 and 12 ever were, often taking a back seat to her companion's storylines, which was refreshing.
to clarify, i like every season of Doctor Who and enjoy center-of-the-universe Doctor as much as backseat Doctor, i just don't think this is going to be a backseat decade for Doctor Who, not with Davies at the helm.
ignore the "how" and focus on the immediate situation; what do you do?
what is the lore reasoning for NEW GAME + and NEW GAME ++? clearly, as new things happen each time, there is some continuity here; it's not simply "starting over" with no knowledge of what happened before, even Ayre says "let's see what you do this time" (or something along those lines). so, the question is: what's going on here? is it some form of time travel that only some people are aware of (Ayre, being one); is it Coral influence, meaning the Coral can alter time?
so, long story short: i bought a Pixel 6a to replace my broken 5a. i bought said phone from Amazon, "refurbished and UNLOCKED," needless to say: it was not unlocked; in fact, it was locked by VERIZON.
i call Verizon, hoping for a miracle, wondering if they'll unlock it: they won't.
i start #googling and find a few "unlock" sites; all of which seem very shady, so i look at reviews, forum posts, etc. and finally come acorss one that, according to #SOME people "had good luck with"; the site is "The Unlocking Company."
i give this "company" my imei number, make/model/carrier, and $27: they say they'll have an "unlock code" and "instructions" to me within the next 72 hours.
so the burning question for this community is:
WILL THEY UNLOCK THE PHONE?
i am strongly inclined to think they will either 1) never get back to me or 2) say they can't unlock the phone and give me a partial refund
bets? and has anyone ever tried this before, any luck?
anyone have distinct memories of their first Final Fantasy or how they got into the series? share them!
as a kid, my parents sent me to live with grandma in Charleston SC every summer. there was an older boy that lived next door, met him while he was fishing in the lake behind my grandma's house. i don't know how it happened but i asked him "do you like games" and he, of course, said "yes" and we went to his house, up to his room, and he showed me his collection of PS1 games. i must have been 10 or 11 at the time.
anyways, he had FF8, which didn't look super interesting to me, but he came over to my grandma's house one day, brought ff8, and he played it on my grandma's huge old-fashioned projector TV (pictured); i remember being immediately entranced with the music; specifically Balamb Garden theme, and my interest in the series immediately increased.
that was my first "experience" with Final Fantasy, later during one of those summers my friend’s friend lent me their Game Boy Camera to “play with for the week,” and I subsequently traded it at the local Babbages for in-store credit (i was a psychopathic kid); these events were significant because thanks to that in-store credit, I was able to purchase a used copy of Final Fantasy 7; and at the time, my brain was immediately drawn to the spiky-haired guy holding a big sword on the cover. i spent the rest of that formative summer playing Final Fantasy 7.
hope this is not breaking any rules; my friend and i run a website in which we write "creative writing" essays on video games we play. we make no money on this and never plan to, it's purely passion projects, but we do put a lot of work into them. the most recent essay is comparing Metal Gear for MSX to the OJ Simpson Trial, but we also have a number of essays on:
- Dragon Quest Monsters I (explores vegan concepts)
- Final Fantasy Legend (origin of the SaGa series)
- Final Fantasy Legend II (traditional analysis)
- Final Fantasy Legend III (explores time travel)
- Final Fantasy XII (traditional analysis)
- Final Fantasy XVI (analysis + comparison to movie The Seventh Seal)
- Infinite Space ("being in love with an idea)
- Landstalker ("mood time and place" + analysis)
- Metal Gear (comparision to OJ Simpson Trial)
- Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside (biographical essay)
- Popful Mail (traditional analysis)
- Romancing SaGa (critique on the "games collector" and "retro gaming" communities, + analysis of the game)
- Shiren the Wanderer 5 (History of the Japanese Tanuki + comparison to the game)
- Tactics Ogre (essay on the themes of the game)
- Xenosaga (philosophical essay with a lot of footnotes, Infinite Jest?)
- Xenosaga II (philosophy + analysis of the game)
- Xenosaga III (personal stories, philosophy, analysis of the game)
we also aim to create "podcast" type videos on each essay, we have done seven so far: https://youtube.com/@oncomputergames?si=5c__UWP-vCU_Bqwd
