Duncan Gohl Asks
Which character in Cyberpunk 2077 do you wish was a romance option?
...Yes.
Okay, I wouldn't do that to Jackie... lucky bastard.
Jake Malone Asks
What's something you value in character creation? For me personally, if a game has a large amount of hairstyles, i consider it of high quality.
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2025-09-03 13:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter my KMFDM binge, I've hopped back on my quest to listen to three things I've not listened to enough of... Jazz, Hip-Hop, and the reason for Sounds of Silence, classic records.
You'll know this album's title track from its meme status, but everything else really is as beautiful, elegant, and effortlessly listenable from start to finish. I couldn't believe how quickly its twenty nine minute run-time flew by, without there being one song longer than 3:21.
It's album tha...
2025-09-01 13:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the classic cases of a game proving it's appeal to me, is when I'm capturing footage for it, only needing a few minutes, maybe even seconds...
And I play for hours.
It seems to happen almost every time I play Project Gotham Racing 4. By no means is this game going to blow your mind if your favorite racing games are Burnout 3: Takedown, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, or Wreckfest.
It isn't a game that has an extra hook that'll appeal to people who don't care about the di...
2025-08-26 01:21:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Kelvin Kuang Asks
Thoughts on the Superman movie?
Haven't seen it, though from what I hear, it sounds like James Gunn continues to be one of the few working with Superheroes that's able to add a sense of Pathos to their stories.
Matthew Malone Asks
Has your love for video games gone down over the years due to you working on making a living off of them and see them less as games and more as ways to inspire your next video, or has it ...
Those who saw the last Q&A will not at all be surprised by this show's appearance, I must however put up a couple of warnings though...
In July, I happened to be sitting around the Dinner table with some extended family. When one of them asked what am I watching right now, and I said Twin Peaks, they said "Oh yeah, it was weird, I couldn't really get into it..."
...I can't blame them.
When Twin Peaks gets recommended in simple "Must Watch Show" ...
2025-08-18 13:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I've listened to Hurt - both versions - probably hundreds of times over the years.
It's a song that's both stood as the culmination of a one-hour descent into self-inflicted madness, and a stand-alone three minute tearjerker. It's represented the realization of a young-man whose thrown themselves down a well, and an elder looking back upon their life during the final months.
What it's never don...
2025-08-15 13:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
So I've Finally... listened to KMFDM's entire discography.
I'll leave my Tier List on the bottom if you're curious, but even the D albums have absolute bangers. KMFDM sucks! And I absolutely love their decades of consistent attitude and charm.
Hau Ruck's the definitive record for KMFDM's definitive sound, and line-up that surfaced after coming back in 2002. Other albums might have individual songs I like more, but Hau Ruck's the album that's properly varied and never loses strengt...
2025-08-11 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Fucking... finally!
I am lying to myself, there's a typo and rendering error to sort out but... let me huff this copium.
My definitive goal with the next video is to halve the number of edits I've made. Even Friday, when I thought I was going to release this and complete a Randomly Mine to post - apologies for it's absence this week - I then decided to suddenly delete an entire ...
2025-08-10 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The_Surviv0r Asks
I have two long flight coming, any suggestions of things to read/listen/watch/play?
I normally find myself reading on Flights, that or using whatever service they have to try shows I don't normally have access to for free.
Obviously, there's the previous recommendations I've given here on the Patreon, also probably a good time to hear what all the fuss was about regarding Hunt the Truth.
litl snek Asks
Why do...
Ah, the latest reminder that this whole "just put a movie on instead of logging into Twitter" was such a wonderful decision. As great as was my habit of always skipping over any Essay on Youtube that discussed this movie.
This movie didn't grip me immediately, in-fact, I can't really pin-point exactly when I couldn't look away from the screen, but it definitely happened, and I definitely understood why there's such love for this movie.
It's as imaginative as it is chaotic, and as ...
2025-08-04 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody!
I've been meaning to write this update for weeks, but kept putting it off as I've been admittedly pushing well beyond my work schedule I discussed in the previous update. Not to the point of sleepless nights on the floor with rendering like I've done in the past, but 7-9 hours instead of 3-5.
The end result as you can see is that most of the project is laid out, but there's still a decent chunk left. I need to add all the music, sound effects, get a music visualizer...
2025-07-31 22:30:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I ain't cool.
Definitely not cool enough to be dancing in darkly lit Goth Clubs with a towering dominatrix to devilish synth-beats, but damn, is it fun to listen to.
Having heard Pixel Grip's previous albums, I could never get into them for more than a couple songs at a time, but the potential was always obvious, and it's realized big time on this third album.
It's varied, beautifully paced, and consistently catchy.
While I do generally prefer industrial, noisier, more...
2025-07-28 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to admit this isn't working.
343 Industries: Part of my positive-view of Halo 4 I've held since release day was being impressed that a brand new developer who never made a game together before did as good of a job as they did.
They made a game that in certain aspects, I even preferred to Bungie's games. Guns had way more punch, the facial-capture had taken a truly nota...
2025-07-26 02:25:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Kelvin Kuang Asks
Do you think there are games that had storytelling - where it's cryptic in narratives and the twists mind bending (or as Mandalore experienced, mind melting) that manage to somehow stick and gets away with it? For instance, Marathon Infinity, made amids the abundance of Doom/Quake clone being recognized for the gameplay and technology, had lore and details that gradually make sense (and ends up being super meta at the end). It's executed in way that there...
Nothing happens in The Catcher in the Rye.
The amount of works that it has inspired over the years that feature dream sequences, other worldly art-styles, and time-travel might give the opposite impression but truly, this story in its plot is almost as bare bones as it gets...
Which is why it's such a consistently compelling character piece.
Totally get why someone wouldn't want to revisit a book they were forced to skim in High School, but mine gave me Ready Player One, so ...
2025-07-21 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been trying to find Mass Effect music for years now, it feels like I've exhausted everything. I mean, as far back as fourteen years ago now I was listening to Artists whose Youtube pages contain their Scary Game Reaction Compilations during the height of Pewdiepie's influence.
zAllex btw, would recommend!
It's led me down ...
2025-07-12 02:23:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The Phantomnaut Asks
If you had a time machine to stop a certain point in gaming history, what would it be? For me I would somehow prevent Drake and Ninja to ever do that Fortnite stream that amplified our current gaming and streaming nightmares.
Oh, that's a good pick! Though I can't help but feel that'd only delay the inevitable. Somebody else woulda done it not long after if Ninja hadn't, and gaming's had several avenues of obnoxious presentation since its origins...
2025-07-09 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Wait... wait, wait, wait.
I haven't recommend this show yet?
It's moments like these where I truly believe I am in-fact, losing my goddamn mind, because I could've sworn that I already recommended this show.
Well, now that the show's done, I can whole heartedly recommend it! And I'm somebody that doesn't like any of the film trilogies. Star Wars was never really my thing growing up, and it wasn't until the final season of Clone Wars did I adore a piece of Star Wars media tha...
2025-07-07 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Scifiismyjam101 Asks
What are some song changes, or removals in newer additions of games (due to our dear old friend licensing) that bother you personally? There is a cinematic and gameplay sequence in the OG Mafia 3 where the song "Run through the jungle" By Creedence is used to draw a parallel between Lincoln Clay hunting down one of his revenge targets, and his time in Vietnam as a CIA asset hunting down NVA. Which was then removed in the definitive addition that bother...
Well this is not what I was expecting to first recommend after a recent goal of listening to more Hip-Hop.
What began as a listen on a whim became a jump through the Duo's discography, but the most recent album No Hands I think is easily their best so far. My only complaint is there are perhaps a few too many repetitive rhymes about butts for its own good, but at the same time...
Look at this album cover.
You know you're walking into something that's made by cornballs wearin...
2025-06-30 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm very late to the party, but I'm sure you won't have a problem with me pouring one out for the hundreds of people EA recently laid-off, most notably 100+ at Respawn.
I Wrote That May 11th, 2025
Last year we heard about a cancelled "Titanfall Legends" Single Player Game, and now we're hearing about the 100+ people laid off being attached to a cancelled Titanfall Extraction ...
2025-06-28 00:59:38 +0000 UTC View PostIn a world were I use review scores, I'd only give Extraction II a 3 out of 5.
It's an improvement over the previous film but it's still littered with plot-holes, uneven pacing, and melodrama more unrealistic than anything the main character lives through.
However, it's probably the most fun and most impressive 3 out of 5 I've seen in years. In an age of cynical corporate filmmaking, it's refreshing to watch a film like Extraction II that manages to have not one but several sequen...
2025-06-23 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Kelvin Kuang Asks
Recalling back to your previous Randomly Mine post, Doomed For Eternal, do you think TDA is the straw that broke the camel back given the reception is kind of what you predicted it would turn out to be? And will it have the same turn around that Doom 3, for all of it's brilliance and flaws, be discussed in retrospect? And would we see the future possibility (though very unlikely case for now me thinks) of Quake making a return?
Answering in reverse,...
2025-06-19 06:52:18 +0000 UTC View Post
While I've been steadily traveling down the path of viewing things systemically since I started my Adulthood in complete poverty, what little remained of viewing accidents as just a people problem vanished not even by the half way point of this book.
It's not light-reading, but it's very well researched, paced, and importantly, views both the small and big scale versions of these problems.
How the word "accident" is vast enough to encompass an exploding chemical plant, and a fend...
2025-06-16 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm glad I don't stream new games I play.
Had I put my opening minutes with DONTNOD's Jusant live on air for the world to see, they would've potentially had the latest "Games Journalist Can't Play Games Clip" as I spent minutes trying to long jump a vast distance rather than just grabbing onto the nearby rocks on a wall.
This was entirely my fault, not playing with glasses, skipping past tutoria...
2025-06-13 23:46:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you very, very much ThunderSnake!
Probably not what most Jazz Artists would be used to hearing from someone who really enjoyed their album, but hey, whatever leads people to more joy in their lives!
I expect most people going into this probably have a stereotypical view of Jazz like I did. Having most experience it through Soundtracks like Cowboy Bebop or Persona 5, or those scenes in movies with characters smoking Cigarettes with a Femme Fatale in low lighting.
In oth...
2025-06-09 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The Phantomnaut Asks
I just finished watching Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning and it gave me Shadow Ops: Red Mercury vibes of dumb assery that I can love. What is your film equivalent of that game?
The Fast and Furious movies after Tokyo Drift are really fun in their unapologetic absurdity mixed with genuine craft and skillful film making. Though I've not seen 9&10 yet...
I wouldn't call them the film equivalent of Red Mercury though. Per...
2025-06-05 06:31:33 +0000 UTC View PostI was pissed off walking into the movie theater.
My ticket got mixed up and reserved at the wrong theater. Cineplex's app wouldn't let me refund that false ticket. The springs in my seat left marks on my ass for the years to come, and the projector's screen was so dirty, every shot of the sky looked like a swarm of wasps dominated the sky.
And yet, I still got completely immersed in Sinners' world.
That's some damn good writing, acting, directing, cinematography, sound-desig...
2025-06-02 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the movies I constantly think about is 1999's Payback.
It's not one of my favorite movies, it's not even close, were I to give it a rating, it's a solid 3 out of 5. Competently shot, entertaining anti-hero characters, tons of quotable lines, and a tone that's best described as…
Fun.
Dark, but fun.
[For the Theatrical Cut, I still need to watch Straigh...
2025-05-30 07:09:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody!
I've been meaning to write this update for weeks now, the pattern being, I start writing my script for the Perfect Dark Zero video saying "I'll write the update after today's session," and then after four hours, I forget about it, and repeat.
That's one of the reasons why while spending the weekend reorganizing my room after buying new bookshelves (which I should've done years ago), I thought I'd also add a whiteboard and a physical clock to punch in.
2025-05-27 13:00:12 +0000 UTC
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