u/kongcobra

• Oof. I feel bad. I should've looked around and found the actual source. If y'all like it, I think we should make sure some traffic gets to the developer's video:

https://youtu.be/JBGhVcF3OJc?is=Qc4xVuWfBx9nvkJW

I searched and didn't see any results with this trailer. Me still being in the Hollow Knight endgame, it's easy to draw parallels, but I really only have that and Aria of Sorrow to go off of. From the stuff I've read, it's really hard to be a metroidvania (which I'm not sure this is) without being reminiscent of the biggest names in the genre.

Still, I love the art direction and the music used in the trailer. IF i can love something like Kirby despite its consistently familiar gameplay and difficulty, I can love something like this if it turns out to be good whatever that means to me when I play it.

I hope it can cross the finish line. I don't know how game development works and if a trailer is usually a good sign for a game, but I hope that's true for this.

How much political strategy would go into something like this as opposed to eager prosecution? Is there a generally assumed view the jury holds against or for pro se defendants who are fighting the case from inside?

Famous Monsters has a few great standout songs, but Devil's Rain feels a little more attached to what is great about the first Misfits albums. It can't duplicate that, but I feel like it was obviously done in love. I think it also takes a few more risks than Famous Monsters does, and this really gives it a flavor that says it's a great album.

I personally wouldn't say it's great, but it's as close as you can get, it just lacks something that I can't really put my finger on right now. Famous Monsters Is good, but I feel like it lulls between "Saturday Night" and "Helena" with a few good uses of Graves's voice. Devil's Rain stays in this really nice groove of its own making. It has a few songs worthy of a skip, but they're not stains on the album or anything.

I figure there's got to be at least a few people out there who think similarly, or at least admit the Jerry Only album isn't some egregious attempt at staying alive in music. It feels like they really cared about it, and it does have something to offer musically, even if it can feel a bit corny at times.

I just got the free trial. I want movies that combine the cover of 8 Million Ways to Die, the nostalgia of '90s jazz cups, the feel and texture of Larry Clark films, the romance of Henry Miller, and the sensuality of the California coast.

I love movies that depict hedonism in grimy settings, or someone noble and other-people oriented in a hedonistic environment. Anything that deals with drugs, sex, homelessness, mental health, and crime. I love movies where people indulge their desires, but they battle their wants while pretending those same wants are actually what they desire. I love movies that normalize the weird and taboo, but I also love watching those same moves made with a more exploitative lens.

Movies that I love related to this:

I Melt With You

Alpha Dog

Party Monster

Manic

Ponyboi

Gang Tapes

I just got the free trial. I want movies that combine the cover of 8 Million Ways to Die, the nostalgia of '90s jazz cups, the feel and texture of Larry Clark films, the romance of Henry Miller, and the sensuality of the California coast.

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What exactly is precedent, how does it affect a judge's responsibilities and powers, and can the precedent ever been reversed?

Like, say a precedent was set that sailors don't get convicted for crimes out at sea. A case comes along and a sailor gets convicted for just that, and sailors begin to get convicted more often for crimes committed on official business. Can the precedent ever get back to where it was before?

Not when I take it to the extreme, but coming out the gate super patient and trying to learn the attack loop right away is so... anti-fun. A huge part of the tension in this game comes from the Shade mechanic and traversing through dangerous territory to get to the dangerous territory you died in. Do you spend more time on an obstacle this way? Sure, but I'm not playing this game to feel safe. I'm tryna git gud.

I remember a long time ago talking about how I love Bones because of the kinds of subcultures you see on the show. From clowns to breakdancers to bowling to avant-garde artists, you see a lot of professions and hobbies you either never see or see from afar.

The Practice isn't really like Bones, that's why I'm suggesting it for this specific reason. For example, I'm currently watching an episode where the defendant believes they're Superman. In another episode, they defend a tenant's right to have a heavy flow toilet because of the kind of stool their body naturally produces.

These are small aspects of the show, but they add an important sense of average and awkwardness, and in doing so add humanness to the show. Part of why I love Bones is because they treat these edge-of-society cultures with so much respect. It's actually in the name: Underneath, we're all the same, so humanity comes from how we dress our bones with personality and interests. The Practice does sort of the same by staying firm in the idea that we all deserve dignity, especially so in an environment as cold as a courtroom.

• Edit to mention it has its own channel on Roku.

Any recommendations that fit this would be great

I'm in the U.S.

Something pretty tame that I can watch with my nephew, but also comically stupid so that his Spanish-speaking grandma can still laugh at the dad-type antics. Something that'll remind her of how dumb and goofy his grandpa was.

In terms of technical skill, which song is most likely to be dissected in a music class?

The song that makes me want to ask is "Shining". To my ordinary ear, something about the drums tells me it's pretty difficult to play. I think I'm hearing a double kick or some kind of Blues thing. Other than the drums, my money is on some vocal thing either Danzig or Graves has accomplished. I'd bet on Graves if I had to. He just has the more polished voice even though people appreciate the rawness of Danzig's voice.

Okay, I have a hankering for something. I haven't felt like this for a while, like I'm ravenous for sinister.

I want an anime like InuYasha in the sense the fights are a bit slower and usually come down to a few guttural blows, but I want a more Horror but also folklore feel to it. Japanese myths and urban legend have this extremely unsettling quality to them.

I'm watching Dandadan, and Turbo Granny says something: She says that the Evil Eye is a mountain yokai, and those yokai were always the most feared and sometimes revered like gods. Of course. The best and most haunting legends are ones that make you think of dark and dusty woods filled with spiders and creepy predators of that kind. Like, being able to survive in the same environments where bugs rules tends to mark those who are extremely resilient, durable, and lethal in some way themselves.

The thing is, insects are not huge, but they overpower with numbers. Even birds, and reptiles to a certain extent, are shown to dominate in numbers. Fantasy analogs to birds and bats have always been deadly.

I want an anime that gives me this creepy feeling of lethality, like walking through what I described and realizing you've just stepped into a world our species hasn't been a part of for milennia. We've lost our physical and spiritual power through shunning the dark and the dusty and the toxic and the fungal threats.