Over the weekend: starts putting one of the "PDVR Main Stage trio goes on Mr. Ant Tenna's TV Time" ideas to paper, leaves it hanging
Two days ago: starts drafting up a fic where Tenna gets his innards cleaned out by a Shadowguy (not intentionally sexual at first, but becomes sexual later on), leaves THAT hanging
Yesterday: starts visualizing a scene where Spamton is decked out in nothing but spiky bandoliers and a loincloth, holding up the Broken Sword atop a mountain at dusk with a leather-bikini-clad Tenna clinging to his leg, thinking I should get out the paint and canvas for it, hasnt started on it yet

Someone stop me before I get more ideas.

So over the weekend I watched the livestream for Mad With Power, a NWOTHM/power metal/VGM festival that's held in Madison, Wisconsin. Now, considering the way things have been in the States, I do not want to travel there in person. Fortunately, the organizers have been kind enough to livestream the whole thing. And like I said earlier, I was there for all of it. So I'm gonna spill my thoughts under the cut.

( Full roundup )

Once again I find myself binge-listening to this song. This one comes from a rock opera adaptation of Dracula, although I've been too lazy to listen to the whole thing. Maybe I should. But anyway, this song is perfect drag king routine material. If I had the performing confidence I'd definitely do something like that, but once again, I'm too lazy for that shit.

So the other day, I was listening to Crimson Glory (the '80s USPM band). All the while, I was doing a bit of research on the members, and I came across a fansite in honor of their late frontman "Midnight". On this site, there was a section dedicated to people who knew him IRL sharing their favorite memories of him. And one of them caught my attention.

According to the runner of this fansite, Midnight and two other people operated an official forum dedicated to his solo project as well as some other Crimson Glory side acts. But the way to get to this forum was pretty unique. Rather than being taken right to this forum, one would have to play through this photo-gallery-meets-point-and-click game where you'd have to click specific locations on the photos in order to advance. Thinking this kind of setup would be interesting to play through, I took to archive.org to try and play through what was archived. Obviously, the archived site is very incomplete. But I was able to make it through a bare-bones route and reach what remained of the forum without any trouble. (and I don't know if this is a bug in the archiving or some sort of weird rickroll by the forum admins, but if I try to click any of the threads in the forum itself, archive.org auto-redirects me to some bizarro "Sexy Mandarin" vid on YT. Idk. I'm starting to get off topic.)

So anyway, this little experience got me thinking about the modern web and how the tools in place for most websites don't let people build fun little games into their personal websites unless they can Code Good. Then again, I feel like it wouldn't be that difficult for someone to code a photo gallery point-and-click maze into their personal site. Only thing is, though, what if someone hid their DNI in it and chewed people out for not being able to find it before interacting with them on socmed? That'd be fucked up.

Anyway, this kinda shit is why I love the early Internet even though I didn't really use these kinda sites that much as a kid. And why I will forever have a grudge against modern tech giants for stifling this kind of creativity.

Can't believe it's 20 fuckin 25. Sci fi dystopia ass year. Praying it doesn't actually become one (at least, not in my neck of the woods). But we're gonna put that aside and focus on more positive stuff. So here we go...

( [SHIT I DID] )


( [SHIT I WANNA DO MORE OFTEN] )

( [SHIT I WANNA START DOING] )

Finally, I know I should've put this in the "Shit I wanna do more often" section, but I wanted to leave this out of a cut so ppl could read it without clicking any links. This is IMPORTANT. (or maybe not in the grand scheme of things, but oh well.) I wanna start posting on DW more often. I mean, I post fairly often on Blorbo.social (which y'all should totes follow me on if you're on the Fediverse), but this is better for more long winded diatribes. Or maybe even shorter diatribes. Idk. But either way I wanna post more updates about my life, back up more fics, maybe do some community posts if I find anything worth sharing. So expect me here more often? I dunno. Only time will tell. Anyway, happy new yonks, and peace out~~~

It's another full album y'all~~

So I had dipped my toes into Kalmah in late high school, but I only got as far as listening to and liking 2 songs off of Swampsong before never thinking much of them for a while... until about 2 years ago, when I delved a bit deeper into their discography because I was trying to make a gimmicky playlist where each song shared a title or otherwise correlated with a card or boss from Act 1 of Inscryption. And the song I'd chosen to represent The Angler was Kalmah's "Hook the Monster".

Fast forward to present day, and I ended up deleting the playlist because I gave up on trying to fill it out. But I did remember "Hook the Monster" being in it, and so I set out to relisten to it because my scrippy hyperfix was coming back. Then I decided to listen to the entire album it came from, and I can safely say it's on my "to get a physical copy of" list. Great shit.

Standout tracks: "Rust Never Sleeps", "One of Fail", "Swampwar", "Better Not to Tell", "Hook the Monster", "12 Gauge"

After a good two weeks without any hyperfixes in sight, I finally have one again. This time, it's Inscryption. Again. Haven't really actively paid any attention to it in a while since the greater fandom died down, although maybe since it has, it'll be less of an ant-farm. Maybe next time I do an exchange I'll put in a req for it. In the meantime, here's a drabble.

Rating: G
Word count: 100
Warnings: Character death

So a few days ago, I was replaying some RPG Maker shit on my ancient Windows 7 clunker, and noticed that I could only spend so many minutes at a time (not even hours -- MINUTES) playing games made in RPG Maker MV before the game crashes when years ago, I could have spent longer on them. After checking in Task Manager when having the game on at the same time, I found out it's because the game eats up a LOT of physical memeory. So I take to the interwebs, trying to find out how to be more efficient with physical memory without buying a fresh RAM that I don't know how to put in, and one of the solutions was to clean out the inside of your computer. Or something along those lines, I don't think that was the exact solution.

So with a couple of Wikihow and YouTube tutorials to guide me, I eventually figure out how to open up Clunker-chan and take some compressed air to the dusty shit. It was surprisingly less dusty than I anticipated, although I did manage to get a decent amount out. But then when I qent to screw the case back in, I ran into a problem... I misjudged the size of one of the screw holes, and end up screwing something in at a very dubious angle. And if I tried to unscrew it, it'd just spin in place, the edge of hole likely keeping it from coming out.

So after a bit of fretting over what to do, I ended up biting the bullet and calling a computer repair place. I'm gonna take it in after work and let the pros handle the unscrewing process. I'm pretty optimistic about it, because judging from where the bum screw is, the only thing I won't be able to do if things fail is use a docking station on it... Which I don't have and don't see myself needing in the future. But I'm still holding out for them to get the screw undone, just in case something more crucial gets fucked up.

(Also found out that this ordeal might've been all for nothing, because I found out somebody'd ported the RPGMMV game I was gonna play to MacOS, so I could play it on my main laptop with no problems. :P Can't believe I may have gone through all this trouble just to end up playing Five Nights At Fuckboy's Complete Collection on my main Macbook... Ah well. I've made worse decisions in life.)

(Alsoalso fun fact: the game I was testing out on Clunker-chan might be lost media now? Or something similar? It's a relatively short RPGM horror title called "Chelsea", and there's no official download links anywhere I can find. There is a YouTube playthrough and a TVTropes page for it, though, so I didn't hallucinate the game out of nowhere.)