Mitsuda month in my composer series continues! One of my all-timers 😍 A Distant Promise - Xenogears (full vid: youtu.be/sdssnsSiK10?...) I love how this one plays a significant narrative role in the game as Fei remarks it's familiar to him when he hears it on the music box at Citan's house early on-
A Making of Star Wars VHS tape that you could send away for with Kix UPCs in like 1997
I also think a disappearing coin magic trick I had came from a cereal box
Oh no, that sucks. Think of all the extra stabbing you’ll get to do.
Trees
Really really fond of MGS: Twin Snakes
I miss those 😭
Computer, zoom in and enhance
Oh these are good
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A six-panel comic called Signs of Spring, Ranked. In panel 1, #10 is Robin, showing an american robing standing on a lawn - not always a useful sign since robins are quietly present in winter in many areas. In panel 2, there's #9: Daffodil - nice, mundane, #8: Skunk Cabbage - unusual, cool, and #7: Dutchman's Breeches, a flower that looks like a pair of underwear with a hole - lol. In panel 3, there's #6: Turkey vulture migrating - gloriously ominous, a humbling reminder of life's transience, and #5: very very small bunny - wow, the little ears. In panel 4 there's #4: Snake sunbathing, with a gartersnake warming itself - underappreciated, looks cozy, and #3: Woodcock going peent - the perfect sound. In panel 5 there's a wood frog calling from a pond, and #2: small frogs yelling as loud as they can, with a wood frog floating in a pool inflating itself to make a loud quack - they crave love, or at least they crave the external fertilization of 1500 gelatinous eggs. In panel 6, there's a drawing of a spring peeper and #1, Even smaller frogs yelling, with a spring peeper sitting on the ground making loud calls - yes, YES.
Signs of spring, ranked. An older comic. Feel free to argue with my ranking.
Paging @bolnerap.bsky.social
The Under Toad, one might say
Almost all the most unsettling stuff in this game involves, uh, Cyborg Ninja (and the rest of it all involves Psycho Mantis)
This is the one.
Don’t all crackers have crunch?
They’re a great company (children’s clothing with stereotype-defying designs)!
Ok, THIS is the one. Sustained myself on those and Swiss Cake Rolls in high school
This sentence is a gift that keeps on giving
(so are the hamburgers apparently)
Pizza rolls for sure. Do Banquet frozen pot pies count? Had one this week for this first time in years and they are gloriously unchanged
There is a bulk foods store in Taylor, Michigan, where you can buy just the powder.
As a book: I enjoyed the author’s attempt to solve one of the treasure hunts over Zoom, I immediately spotted the key to solving the Murder Game, and Aaron and I enjoyed cameo appearances by Sid Sackson and Geoff Engelstein. The cryptic crossword section was not my cup of tea but it’s a fine book.
With the caveat that I have no streaming services so it needs to be on DVD or YouTube, or a song or soundtrack that can stand on its own without the context of a show: what do I need to seek out?
Ok Bsky, talk to me about Stephen Sondheim. I just finished reading this book about his interest in games, scavenger hunts, and word puzzles, but I have never seen or heard anything from a Sondheim show.
Jaclyn, I was such a good girl last night and fought the urge to start stirring shit in your comments about not having time to research everything on the internet
Magician First Class is really fun!
Now, I know what you're thinking: "CPSC, why does this look like the room where the bad guy from SAW makes his podcast." The thing you need to understand is that we're not like other agencies. We don't "have things" or "go to the store." We make our own way. We get what we get and we don't get upset
We counted the other day, and combined, our family has bought various iterations of FFT at least ten times.
Oh I know a game exactly like that, it is called Spyro the Dragon
