Blackbraid - Blackbraid II (Black Metal)

I honestly need to credit Jon for his work as a one man band. The first Blackbraid album last year helped me re-discover a love for black metal. And this album is an improvement in almost every way.

A lot of good recommendations. Especially Fullmetal Alchemist. I went on a bit of a manga reading binge a few months ago. I read through 3 different series from Naoki Urusawa. I read: Monster, Pluto, and 20th Century Boys.

Urusawa is one of the best in the business at building up tension. I would say between these 3 I would go with Pluto or Monster first. 20th Century Boys is good. But very long and wasn’t as satisfying as it could have been. Pluto is technically a remake of an Astro Boy arc that Urusawa grew up loving and worked with Osamu Tezuka’s family to create. If you like Hunter x Hunter, the creator made one of my favorite series ever in YuYu Hakusho. It’s a timeless classic.

I remember my very conservative grandparents getting upset about the prospect of this. They claimed that if servers made a high wage and didn’t get tips that it would lessen their quality of work. They also called it “socialism”

Not surprised anyone would be upset. You just can’t reason with folks that the effort of work can very much depend on the wage. Someone making minimum wage versus someone making $30 per hour should not be expected to put the same effort in.

I think there are some people who get out of touch due to things like kids or work and it was just seen as something you grow out of. But I think people generally have more of a work/life balance now. And they also realize that you can play games with kids when they are old enough.

I know for me personally, what will most likely happen is that I will always love and cherish video games as an artform no matter what. What will change is the amount of time I have to play.

As long as you are still enjoying gaming. Keep going!

This band is incredibly consistent. I love how the guitar work is so heavy because the singer basically learned guitar from a metalhead (at least I think that is the reason he gave).

I’m hopeful that this will be a strong showing for RPGs. Even if the 2D Mario rumors prove true. Their holiday season still sounds like it could be light. But it would be a good opportunity to for FFT remaster, DQ3 2D-HD, or some other RPG to show up. Persona 3 Remake has an unlisted video that lists Switch even though the updated press release excluded it. So that might show up here too. I’ve seen some speculation about F-Zero being back or a Paper Mario TTYD remaster coming. But while I’m not saying it is impossible. I just really don’t want to get my hopes up too much.

If we see anything longer than 30 seconds for Everybody 1-2 Switch, this thing will be doomed.

-Queens of the Stone Age - …In Times New Roman -Sigur Ros - Atta -Heavenward - Pyrophonics -Church of Misery - Born Under a Mad Sign -Vulture Industries - Ghosts from the Past -Creeping Death - Boundless Domain -Saturnus - The Storm Within -King Gizzard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse (I’m not writing the whole title) -Royal Thunder - Rebuilding the Mountain -Origami Angel - The Brightest Days (technically a mixtape and it is really short)

Though in all fairness. 2 albums leaked early so that gave me extra time. But the remaining 11 I’ve listened to since Thursday when albums start being released in Australia and New Zealand.

This is incredible work! The Vita was a gem. I’m glad MVG made a video showing the progress. I had not been keeping up with the progress.

I thankfully still have my Vita and it is modded and working. But there are some games unfortunately stuck on that thing.

Thy Catalfque - A földdel egyenlo (Avant-Garde Black Metal)

Home is Where - yes! yes! a thousand times yes! (Emo/Post-Hardcore)

Killer Mike - RUN! (feat. Young Thug) (Rap/Hip-Hop)

I went through 13 albums that came out on Friday. Insane week for music depending on how varied your tastes are.

Mostly relaxing games like Unpacking to kill time while I wait for FFXVI. I’m afraid of committing to other games at this point. Though I think I might get back into Vampire Survivors to help kill time too though.