We had our first community poll to decide our next theme and Plants Vs. Zombies was the winner! Which was actually a surprise since it was going up against Super Metroid, Banjo-Kazooie AND Animal Crossing (GC).
This one'll be for November!
I wanted to do something spooky themed for October, so this felt appropriate. 🎃
Replaying LM3 with my sister right now as well!
Or really any multi-tape cassette duplicator.
If so, do they work well when in good condition? And is potential drop in audio quality at all worth the convenience?
Would anybody mind sharing what machine settings they use for kiss cut stickers on the cameo Portrait?
I've been trying to play around with it myself but I'd like to avoid wasting too much sticker paper in experimenting if possible.
I've use Joyeza's Glossy Vinyl sticker paper for the most part, which seems to be a bit on the thinners side.
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Perhaps the pictures aren't enough to tell, but I've recently had an issue with skewing on my Tascam 202mkii, and cleaning doesn't seem to have helped much. I've lost about 4 blanks to it so far, plus a couple others I was able to save by splicing them.
It's a fairly new deck, as I only just bought it in May of this year, but I do use it considerably. Up to around 10+ hours of recording every weekend since then.
The issue is occurring on both sides of the dual deck, which could signify a bigger issue, but I do tend to dual record most frequently, so they've both received about an even amout of wear.
Also yes, I've also cleaned the heads and capstans. I am very new to doing any kind of maintenance myself though, so I could be missing something.
★ Are you a fan of video games AND old school physical media? Then this might be the club for you!
☆ Every month, I'll create a new custom cassette covering the OST of a retro classic, popular modern title, or an indie favorite.
★ Each month's theme will be chosen by me for now, but if enough people join I hope to open monthly polls for eveyone to vote in to decide which games will be featured next.
☆ Some games currently in the roster to be featured include: Portal (and Portal 2), Spiritfarer, TLoZ: Majora's Mask, Gunpey, Skylanders, Catherine: Full Body, Cuphead, Ace Attorney and many more! (But those are in no specific order with others sure to be added before, after and in-between)
★ Each tape will come fully playable, and include freebie stickers and an info card with some facts and that game's synopsis for those who may not have ever heard of it before. This club is ideal for people who have a wide range of tastes in games (much like myself) and are just as excited to discover new games through music as they are for their favorites.
☆ All tapes will go out on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd of the following month (depending on when I can get to the post office), and the next months game annouced after all that months have been shipped.
★ Whether you're building a collection, decorating your game room, or just love unique gaming memorabilia, this club is a fun way to own a custom-made tribute to the games we all love. Yes, they're bootlegs, but I'll be sticking exclusively to games that don't have an offical cassette release of their own.
[ ▪︎ Not interested in a subscription, but see a tape you'd really like? No problem, as some of the tapes I'll design for this club will become available on my etsy eventually, though there will be quite a few club exclusives, those of which will be announced as such when the time comes.]
You'll have until the 31st of August to sign up and be eligible for September's tape. (We're unfortunately starting a bit late into our first month as I've only just gotten everything ready...)
At current, there's only one tier available, which comes with everything seen above and includes the cost of shipping. (Domestic shipping (US) only, at the moment)
With the total being $23 a month! ($16 for the tape itself + $7 for shipping.)
This club will be launching with an optimistic 15 spots open for sign up, with more to open in the future if it does well and I find the workload manageable!
I've been making these incrementally as I finished the chapters and as of this weekend they're all done!
I think chapter 5 is my favorite so far, both to have played and designed a tape for, but I'm super happy with all of them.
On a massive Deltarune kick rn and Chapter 6 can not get here soon enough.
At what point should I stop sharing these? I feel like I post on here too much lol.
But aaaaaaanyway— I finished this one just earlier today!
Gonna do either Deltarune or Ocarina of Time next.
Been re-watching the show with my sister as of late! Specifically while I work on tapes lol, cause it's easy to have on in the background.
I did my best to arrange the songs in order of how they appear in the show! Unlike the official soundtrack, in which they seem to have been arranged in a more random order? Not sure why. But chronologically by episode is my preference.
I'd like to do one for the movie at some point too!
(Warning: Talk of N*il G*iman below)
If we're to take these tweets at face value, that no one altered the bones of the story, neither Peter Atkins, Michael Marshall Smith, or the TP estate, then that confirms that the ending we received was entirely Gaiman's.
FOR THE RECORD! The purpose of this post isn't to guilt or influence the opinion of those who liked S3, but to discourage the very vocal few who like to throw Sir Terry's name around and act like being anything but happy and grateful for the finale is some kind of moral failing.
Having this fact confirmed didn't surprise me, but the way people have been talking about S3's ending being "What Terry would have wanted" you'd think the writers had been working off some secret, hand-written draft for a sequel made in secret by Terry himself.
So the point of this post is just to honestly acknowledge S3's authorship. I'm personally not of the opinion that it has to effect your enjoyment of the ending if you're one of the people who did enjoy it. I'm a lover of S2 myself, and I consider it pretty significantly in my own GO canon, but you would never see me insisting upon it in regards to it being what Terry Pratchett would have wanted for the series.
Because we don't know that.
You can love the show for expanding the story and trying new things, you can compare themes to the sorce material, make connections where others might not, and agree or disagree artistically the choices that were made for his characters. Criticize, analyze or praise it all you like. That's what I do! And what I'll continue to do now that the story is over.
But at the end of the day, when you drop into the comments of posts critiquing S3 and say with your whole chest that this ending is "what Terry Pratchett would have wanted", what you're really saying with your whole chest is that you trust Neil Gaiman to have decided honestly what Terry would have wanted.
Which, I suppose is up to your individual discretion. But even if you're somehow one of the people who still tolerates that man, he's not, and never will be, some all knowing creative executor of Terry's will.
Especially considering they seemed to have butted heads on one of the more under-acknowledged but significant aspects of the book's ending.
A Quote from this interview with Sir Terry:
"Yes, the maggot reversal was by me, with a gun to Neil's head (although he understood the reasons, it's just that he likes maggots). There couldn't be blood on Adam's hands, even blood spilled by third parties. No-one should die because he was alive."
Something as simple as insisting (gun to his head) that they go out of their way to make sure everyone had a happy ending, and even writing it in such a way that the readers knew for sure that was the case, is a detail I think really separates Gaiman's and Terry's intentions to their readers
And that is still also NOT me trying to insist either which way what direction Terry would have wanted a potential sequel to go, whether his ending would have been happy or equally as bittersweet. I just feel it's important to acknowledge small differences like that in how they made writing decisions, especially if you're going to consider Gaiman's ability to actually write with Terry in mind.
(I've also heard tell that Gaiman greatly exaggerated his relationship with Terry overall, but I'm personally not very familiar with any part of their connection to eachother outside of Good Omens, so I won't speak on that matter.)
TL;DR: Being on the side of the fandom that liked the finale does not make anyone the moral paragon and defender of Terry Pratchett's work they might think it does.
The only ending we can honestly and in good faith consider HIS, is the one he himself gave us. Which was the happy ending we see in the book and S1.
Finished this one earlier today! I'll be making my way through all of the AC games eventually.
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Technically version 2! The first iteration of this tape I made was done so as a request for my etsy shop and before seeing the movie myself, so it was a little bit uncreative.
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I have of course seen the movie since then and fallen in love with it, so... ta-da!
Any fellow Mysme girlies in this subreddit?
I haven't touched this hame in ages but it's still pretty special to me, so this felt like a good idea.
Finally decided to up my tape game and get a splicing kit!
It's such a little (and somewhat tedious) thing, but it's nice not having so much empty space at the end of my customs when an albums length doesn't fit as cleanly onto a blank.
I wanted to share some more thoughts I originally typed out as a reblog to someone else's post over on Tumblr. (Apologies in advance for the odd analogy used below, but I couldn't think of a better comparison at the time...)
One of my own more complex opinions in regards to the ending of the finale is that it COULD have worked.
In a different story, with a different set up.
There are a lot of optimistic fans who will theorize and headcanon and explain over and over again why the ending "makes sense" and is a "bittersweet" but happy one. But every argument I've heard in that regard only "makes sense" if you narrow down the show to ONLY the third season and the direction the showrunners took it in.
It's because so much of it directly contradicted the rest of the show that myself and many others felt betrayed by it. And while I am not, and never will be, the type of person to express their distaste for something directly to a series' creators and writers, it really does feel like the people who took over for S3 chose to pay very little mind to the sorce material and previous seasons.
• For example, the turn of having god act as a direct antagonist, insisting things must end, instead of them continuing to be the absent, ambivalent force they were in the book and S1 and 2.
• The issue of free will having never really existed was entirely invented in S3 as well, seemingly only to somewhat justify the drastic measures of having to scrap it all and start over.
Because up until S3, free will was one of the major themes of GO. Not the questioning of its legitimacy, but the constant reinforcement that everyone has it and can make their own decisions.
Adam chooses not to be the antichist, despite everyone telling him he has no choice in the great plan. Aziraphale and Crowley find loopholes and choose to try to avert armageddon, all while denying their own free will and taking the long way around to get anything done. Gabriel, Beelzebub and the Metatron insist upon armageddon under the excuse of having to follow the great plan, all while abusing their free will in choosing to do so. Anathema burns the second book of prophecies, choosing to live her own life and break the cycle her family had been stuck in.
The book insists upon free will, and S2 even goes out of its way to show us another example (besides Azi and Crow) of angels and demons indeed having free will of their own despite always denying it, when Gabriel and Beez run off together.
Thematically and literally, free will has always been a very real driving force in the GO universe, but S3 chose to retcon that.
• Then, another one of the biggest contradiction: The message of S2E2 with Job's children. The show spells out for us how, when it comes to people, replacing them, even in abundance will never make up for the loss of them in the first place. It's a sorry and down right insulting excuse for a reward and a happy conclusion**.**
• Not to mention in S1, when the exact same scenario of the world being broken and just needing to start over is being discussed by Adam and The Them, the moral the story chooses to enforces is literally "That's a reason to fix it, not destroy it!"
Looking back at all of that, the ending they gave us, while technically "bittersweet", was bittersweet in same way that adding motor oil to an affogato instead of espresso would make it "bittersweet." There are recipes where bitterness plays a valuable part, but it won't be enjoyable or even make sense if you're going to use ingredients that have no place in that particular kitchen.
Almost all of the foils, themes, issues and sacrifices that were introduced in S3 could have worked in another story, with a different sorce material, with a different message and build up. Good Omens was a comedy. A sweet, deep, somewhat hearbreaking comedy. But an optimistic one. With a satirical take on heaven and hell, and always a loophole to jump through to find a way out of a bad situation
The sacrifice Aziraphale and Crowley were forced into at the end was on account of them being put into a uncharacteristically hopeless situation, under uncharacteristically hopeless circumstances, in a story had had always been and was supposed to be inherently hopeful!
So the bleakness of those last 20 minutes instead felt jarringly uncanny
Motor oil works excellently in cars. Couldn't get around without it! But it's not so great in a coffee... In other words, nihilism and seemingly unavoidable "noble" self destruction have no place in a story that had always been about hope and finding another way.
Even as a "metaphor for dismantling institution" it doesn't hit at all. At least not in theme with the message that came before it. And I only bring that interpretion of it up because I've had that point barked at me plently of times now.
S1, S2 and the book told us: Despite being born into/as a part of an abusive sytem (Adam, Aziraphale, Crowley) you can make a very real change by refusing to participate in it. And even without the power to rebuild it completely, you can still carve out a life for yourself independent of it and make your own side.
But S3 said: At the end of the day, there is no escaping the institutions you were born under. There are no changes you can make that will last, no choice you can make that is really your own, and no real freedom from it for yourself or others in your lifetime. BUT! If you're willing to sacrifice everything, you can make things better for the people that will come -after-.
(And if I had been looking to engage with a story that enforced the latter, I wouldn't have been watching Good Omens.)
It could be argued that, assuming this was indeed always the way the story was intened to end (though I don't believe that, personally), that with a full 6 epsiodes, the writers could have gradually worked the story of S3 to more convincingly justify the same outcome, with the same sacrifice from Aziraphale and Crowley and the same end and rebirth for humanity.
But but even then, if that had been the case, and it had been handled better, I'm still not convinced that the core message of S3 could have ever aligned with Good Omens as a whole.
When it comes to the heart of Good Omens, the story that we've all loved for so long, that ending, when placed alongside the book and first two seasons feels very much like (and is almost objectively) a bleak, tone-deaf disregard of what came before it.
Some bitter part of me just wants to see those contradictions acknowledged. You can like the finale, you can love it! But isn't it odd? The weird shift from everything we'd been show already? It feels almost dishonest to embrace it as anything but a turn from the spirit of the series.
(Also, side note: People love to echo "But it was their choice! Aziraphale and Crowly chose this! They got exactly what they wanted!" As if fictional characters have a choice. If the writers chose to write Aziraphale and Crowley into bland hetero relationships apart from eachother, would you look at that writing direction and go "Aww, but at least they chose it for themselves UwU", or would you be mad that the writers made a terrible writing decision for the characters they'd been entrusted with?
Even on a non-meta level, operating WITHIN the rules of S3, either:
Free will had indeed never been real, in order to somewhat justify starting over, BUT that in turn means that Aziraphale and Crowley did not make their sacrifice of their own free will and the ending was just another hollow extention of the almighty's game.
OR
Free will HAS always existed in the GO universe, so the decision NOT to rebuild and reform the world they'd both come to love and instead let it be scrapped and started over, was a poorly thought out and and cruel one.)
Howdy!
I'm looking to have some clean graphics/backgrounds done of the Animal Crossing grass and snow patterns, like seen above! But in a couple different variations. I'll have more reference pics then as I'd like to have one for each of the seasons done, maybe multiple for the different potential variations in the game.
This is somewhat of a commercial commission. As i'll be using them for things like packaging and backing cards for enamel pins, or backgrounds for J-cards for the mixtapes I make and sell, so feel free to price accordingly if that makes it extra. My budget is around $25-60 rn, but I'm not entirely sure what the standard is for this type of thing so I'm willing to negotiate! Please let me know your price range in the comments if you're interested.
Ideally, I'd appreciate someone who can make them without it being too stylized and just copy the simple patterns we see in game.
Thank you for reading! If you understand the assignment and think you're right for the job, then drop a comment or shoot me a DM with your info, and I look forward to working with you
This one was a suggested by my sister!
Definitely my favorite AC game music wise, but New Leaf is a close second.
I unfortunately did not include any of the regular hourly music, as there was simply too much of it. I will l, however, at some point, be making a separate series of tapes, each dedicated to the hourly music of the individual seasons!
Ayyyyy. It's anotha one.
A very underrated series, in my opinion. I'll be doing the sequels too at some point!