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Let’s have another good week everyone 
I watched The People’s Joker on Saturday and LOVED it. I really love that style of weird humor and I want to see more of this kind of thing. Stuff like this. Maybe I should just go watch more Tim and Eric.
I watched this weird 70’s murder mystery today called Murder by Natural Causes because I initially thought it I was watching Columbo, but by the time I realized it wasn’t Columbo I was into the story and wanted to finish it. It’s not a great movie, but it’s entertaining and has fun sort of classic silly plot-twist ending I liked. Anyone know where I can watch Columbo online by the way?
Finished Nier: Automata and loved it. So after the main ending, one of the NPCs lets you buy achievements with in-game currency, which I thought was genius and made me question my completionist urges. I looked up some older threads on it and people were predictably angry about it. lol
That big life change I previously talked about is coming fast and I’m simultaneously excited and nervous. Trying to hurry and get everything done that I need to do.
We’ve been talking a bit in tracha about starting a coven for trans witches. What’s a good resource for learning wicca stuff? Can I be a real witch if I’m an atheist and skeptical about superstitions but also enjoy ritual stuff as a form of emotional expression?
What’s an obscure piece of pop culture nostalgia you have? When I was a kid, I read these comics called “Ralph Snart Adventures” and still read them. What’s something less known that you’re into and want to share a bit about it?
I’m not Wiccan, but I had a trans masc friend that was really into it to a degree that was almost off-putting but he was a really sweet and protective guy lol but he was big into ritual stuff as like, personal mental health work and gifted me a bunch of sage he had to smudge my house because he thought part of my dysphoria shit I was discussing with him and being open about talkin’ gender shit with was like, me being targeted by negative spirits or something? He also thought he had a rock he wore as a pendant necklace that he claimed held the spirit of a French orphan boy that died in childhood in the 1700s and came into his possession through inheriting it in an antique trunk from his grandparents or something that was his spiritual guide? I didn’t really know what it was all about, but he was really genuine about it and we had a couple strange experiences with spooky stuff that weirded me out a bit despite being pretty skeptical about all that stuff, so idk. I think Wicca is a pretty loose and open thing compared to more “formal” religions?
There are a lot of odd N64/PS1/original Xbox games that aren’t that popular anymore that stuck in my mind for some reason. I really loved Bomberman Hero (mostly for the sick soundtrack), Buck Bumble, Rocket Robot On Wheels, Tiny Tank, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, the MechAssault games, idk. I really wish they’d make a new Crimson Skies game, it was pretty campy and cheesy but super fun and the dieselpunk zeppelin mothership sky pirate plane dogfighting setting was super cool to me and the ridiculous plane designs were so awesome. The Devastator being like, a late-40s/early-50s version of an X-Wing basically is still one of my favorite “dope fictional plane/ship/mech” designs.
This is probably what my interest in it would be. I grew up surrounded by religious nuts so it’s very hard for me to not be skeptical about anything these days, but I do think it would be good as a way to examine my own thoughts and feelings and maybe even find a good community around it. I do very much like spooky stuff for the feels it gives me.
I haven’t played any of those to be honest, so I’ll have to look them up. Much thanks for the suggestions.
I’ve had an interest in the occult and adjacent for years, where I picked up tarot from along with a few other things
Awesome! Bomberman Hero and Rocket Robot On Wheels are both early 3D platformer/collectathons that do some interesting stuff with it compared to something like SM64. There’s a part in RRoW that basically turns into Rollercoaster Tycoon out of nowhere for a minute, and Bomberman Hero has submarine/helicopter parts that play similarly to Starfox that turn it from a proto-Super Mario 3D World kind of platformer to an arcade-y kinda rail shooter? RRoW was the first game from the studio that went on to make Jak & Daxter and Uncharted and The Last of Us IIRC and has a really impressive gamefeel of momentum and gravity for a player character that’s basically a unicycle with a bouncy suspension.
Tiny Tank is a third person shooter thing with a bunch of interchangeable upgrade weapons where you play as a sentient robot tank that’s basically Cartman in a really late 90s edgy kinda way but it’s a post-Skynet apocalypse type setting that’s kinda fun. The gameplay of how Tiny Tank can dodge roll with thrusters and some of the cool upgrades weapons are really fun even though it’s kinda janky, and the mini-tank upgrades are really fun, they’re basically a prototype of the RC-XD from the CoD Black Ops games.
Crimson Skies is basically an open world hybrid version of Star Wars Rogue Squadron and GTA3 in a dieselpunk setting with a lot of Indiana Jones inspiration. The planes are really cool and the dogfighting is really satisfying and the upgrade system is rewarding. It has shitty turret sections that were weirdly common at the time but is still a lot of fun.
Buck Bumble is a 3D aerial shooter about being a cybernetic bumblebee with sci-fi guns dogfighting an evil radioactive insect horde that has a sick UK garage/breakbeat soundtrack with a super catchy title theme with a bunch of Jamaican gibberish and scatting that whips ass.
The MechAssault games are third person shooters that are vaguely in the MechWarrior universe(?) but non-canon where you pilot sick mechs and blow shit up in really gratifying ways. They’re VERY early 2000s in some corny nu-metal soundtrack ways (I think Papa Roach did a song for the sequel lmao) but I really had fun with them. Blood Asp, Ragnarok and Mad Cat are best mechs.
Oh, and the Power Armor mech-jacking mechanic in MA2 is incredibly satisfying. It’s basically just a QTE, but all the movement tech and stealth stuff you can do in the Power Armor is really gratifying. The jump jets and wall climbing mechanic is something I wish some other games did, and the mortar it has where you can charge up the range and have to aim the arc is incredibly rewarding to use well. Good times.
There are different paths to take with witchcraft, Wicca being a religion in itself but you have paganism and more left hand path stuff too. You can find a lot of books online, some are good some not so. There has been more of a growing solitary witches movement as tine has progressed, partly due to covens not being the most friendly and also toxicity along with terfs and some neo pagans being on the right.
I don’t get nostalgia, so I am not sure what to say lol I have read and seen a lot though.
I do remember watching a lot of those 70s shows/movies years ago and they can be fun
Yeah maybe that was the wrong way to put it, but I guess what I was wondering is some obscure pop culture thing that you’re into that most people probably don’t know about. It could be whatever.
Well that is hard to answer i’ve been counter culture most of my life so it is hard to think of specifics
I like the art of Mœbius and stuff like that along with 70s animation, 40s/50s horror comics right through to British comics of the 70s and 80s I enjoy also. Also have a fondess for choose your own adventure books like fighting fantasy. Those are some more mainstream picks I guess
Like EC Comics? I used to read reprints of those when I was a kid and absolutely loved them. I still love them, in fact.
I read these as a kid and loved them, but haven’t picked one up since then. I guess “interactive fiction” games are kind of similar, and I do like those. I should check that stuff out more often.
I am not at all familiar with British comics from any era. Any recommendations?
Yeah stuff like Vault of Horror, Tales from the crypt but I like a lot of the old sci fi stuff too.
The fighting Fantasy books you can get them in pdf form but I had collected a load of them c:
Judge Dredd or 2000AD late 70s/80s, also Tank Girl.
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