Performing at my first VGM Con with these lovely people next weekend!

I traded in my 2019 Ford Fusion Hybrid for a 2023 Kia Niro EV on Wednesday. My work commute is only about 54 miles round-trip and I hardly go anywhere on my days off. It's damn near perfect for my needs. Thank you for being a river to your people, Alec!

Neutralize a horror movie.

Night of the Living

Hey folks, it's the third and final round of Game Set Mash!! We've got another six bangers for you to enjoy, so vote for the ones you think did it better!

Last chance until sometime next year...

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As an alumni of the first 3 GSMs, lemme just say that your level of skill is irrelevant to joining!

Play an instrument? Get in here!
No confidence in mixing but like to arrange? Get in here!
Never collaborated with others before? Get in here!

You’ll learn a lot and have a lot of fun!

Audio Processing Unit ~ The First Sip of Coffee as a Grown Up (IWATE - Adulthood's Serenity Remix) YouTube video by Pixels & Paradiddles

Fresh from, well, DoD’s latest Fresh Month, it’s the debut of Audio Processing Unit, featuring JSABlixer on chips (LSDJ), @paradiddlesjosh.bsky.social on drums, and me on guitar/bass!

This one’s a chiptune metal take on “Adulthood’s Serenity” from I Was A Teenage Exocolonist. Get that coffee going!

Age Verification: Plug your controller into Controller Port 2 during the Psycho Mantis boss fight in Metal Gear Solid. He can’t read your controller inputs when your controller is plugged into that port!

Interesante!

THIS 👏🏽 ALSO 👏🏽 GOES 👏🏽 FOR 👏🏽 COVER 👏🏽 ART 👏🏽

We don’t want AI slop.
Stop sending us AI slop.
Stop wasting our time with AI slop.
It doesn’t sound good.
It’s antithetical to our core values.
You didn’t even make it.
Knock it off.

The Crazy 8ths feat. Emunator ~ Porcupine Forest (Forest of Illusion/Phantom Train/Deadwing Mashup) YouTube video by Pixels & Paradiddles

Nothing will stop me from smashing together VGM and non-VGM tunes! Certainly not @paradiddlesjosh.bsky.social @zackparrish.bsky.social @lucasguimaraes.bsky.social and @emunator.bsky.social - they enabled this smash-up from DoD’s Koji Kondo month!

Forest of Illusion x Phantom Train x Deadwing

Well said. Haters unite

Cold brew: the Generation X of coffee preparation methods

And before someone wants to “Um, actually…” me: no, I don’t consider getting one state legislator elected to be a significant result

This’ll be about as impactful as Andrew Yang’s Forward Party, i.e. a lot of bloviating and selling bullshit on a podcast for no results

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - BLOOD (Demon Castle Pinnacle, A Fleeting Respite Metal Remix) YouTube video by Pixels & Paradiddles

Happy to share this little 8-minute prog ditty that took 5th in DoD for June.

BLOOD sees 3 Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow tracks (Demon Castle Pinnacle, A Fleeting Respite, and Cursed Clock Tower) joined together for a fun journey about Soma’s face-heel turn. Enjoy!

Big thanks to the gang that brought it all together!
@paradiddlesjosh.bsky.social on drums
@cyrilthewolf.bsky.social on bass and backing vocals
Zack Parrish on acoustic guits, rhythm guits, mixing, and mastering!

Final Fantasy XIV OC ReMix by Tremendouz: "War Eternal" [Dragonsong] (#4792) YouTube video by OverClocked ReMix: Video Game Music Community

It’s really good!

You might like this Dragonsong arrangement by Tremendouz as well: youtu.be/v4u-ZYzowzI

Which, can’t say I’d be surprised. Jack’s a Trump-backed ultra-con Republican and can’t be bothered to respond to his constituents. Fuck this asshole

I called mine (Brian Jack, GA-03) and the staffer interrupted me halfway through to claim he “couldn’t understand what I was saying” and hung up. Unless my connection was actually bad, I think he was just trying to cut me off, ‘cuz I wasn’t being rude

This is awesome. Someone’s gotta step up and fight against these cuts.

Can you also vote in support of H. Res 353 (Rep. Thanedar’s Articles of Impeachment)? It’s up for a vote in less than 48 hours and removing the tyrant from office is also critical to saving our democracy

This is our longest running episode in 2025 so far, and it's a wild ride of genres and styles. We even had trouble picking our "album of the month"! But for our English episode, Ultra Combo's "Game Jam" came out on top.

📷: Makoto (MVisual)

Check replies for the full rundown👇

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This. Help get your colleagues on board with impeachment, please!

Yes, this is corruption. So push your colleagues in the House to support impeachment. Rep. Thanedar (MI-13) drafted and presented articles two weeks ago and signaled his intention to invoke Rule IX this week, forcing a floor vote on them! Please, Senator.

Trump commits an impeachable offense almost every day he occupies that office. Impeach. Convict. Remove.

In fact, if you want to more directly shame your congress-critter into backing impeachment, check out @citizensimpeachment.com

There are articles of impeachment introduced in the House by Rep. Thanedar right now if any one of those cowards has the spine to sign on. It’d be more powerful than a call-out.

Unless they’d prefer to be on record supporting a dictator, of course

Neither of those two have Trump’s cult of personality, either

Congrats to GearX2, streifig, Harmsing, ZinChick, Shaft, AarekMG, Emunator, Chimpazilla, Flexstyle, jnWake, Zack Parrish, Biggoron, Newmajoe, DeLuxDolemite for placing in the Rhythm Games Month!

May is Forest vs. Jungle Month!

New banner art is by MVisual (www.instagram.com/mvisual.photo/)!

Final Round… FIGHT!

Round 3 of Game-Set-Mash!! 3 is up. Download the tracks or check out the SoundCloud playlist and vote for your picks using the link below!