Imperial Boy - Vegetable Garden
Imperial Boy - Vegetable Garden
Imperial Boy's detailed, colorful background art makes for some great desktop wallpapers. He's always got this sense of vertical scale that I've always tried to work into my level designs.
(Starting with this post, every image on my old WordPress blog had unique mouseover text. Tumblr does not support mouseover text for the featured image in an image post, so I’ll have to copy those over as plain text captions as demonstrated below. Mouseover text doesn’t work well on mobile, anyway. As far as I know, the mouseover text on images is the only feature I lose in the transition to Tumblr. I could theoretically fix this in the theme, but it wouldn’t affect Tumblr’s dashboard or the mobile app since those ignore themes.)
Hmm, I think I'll add alt text to images. It's a nice little easter egg in XKCD and Dr. McNinja, and hopefully Feedly supports Wordpress's method of doing this too. I just have to remember to change the tag from alt= to title= each time.
Source: 霊雨さん設定資料集 - Ms.ReiuSetMaterialCollection (with Google Translate)
More Posts from Hitstun and Others
How Americans Eat Hamburgers
UPDATE: Joe Inoue deleted his video and then uploaded it again with a shameless plug at the end.
I put some ketchup on a frozen hamburger today and remembered this old video from Japanese American rocker Joe Inoue joking about how we Americans love our burgers. He went on to make some anime opening songs and a new English YouTube channel called VellySillyBilly.
Source: HOW AMERICANS EAT HAMBURGERS!!! – YouTube
Chart Party – The search for the saddest punt in the world
Sports geekery is geekery like anything else. SB Nation's Chart Party answers tricky questions by doing deep dives into a vast amounts of statistics. The show has tackled what if Barry Bonds didn't have a bat and just how profoundly bad the Cleveland Browns are. This one's still my favorite. It uses a complex formula to determine how "sad" a punt is, and then runs it on every punt in the modern NFL. This inspired me to do my own absurdly complicated formula to decide what retro games I should put on my handhelds' limited storage space. I might report on that later, but I should stop punting and finish a blog post already.
Source: Chart Party via GeekNights
My new Kia Forte5
This is my new ride, a 2016 Kia Forte5 SX. I wanted a new five door hatchback with a backup camera, Bluetooth audio, and a nice interior for road trips. When I walked up to the car with the key and the mirrors folded out, I knew this was the one. When I went to Shumatsucon this weekend, I parked in the craziest parking spot I know and took some pictures.
With this, the hardware upgrades are complete. This car is so good, I feel like I need to improve myself to be worthy of it. More on that later.
It's about time I took my own wide angle picture like this. I had to wait a week for a nice day, and I happened to be at an event near this parking garage. I even got a helicopter in the shot!
I probably won't drive up there again. It's really tight climbing to the 8th floor of Fifth Third Center with a car. It's only good for pictures. I haven't tried panorama before. The car looks kinda warped, but I got all of Columbus Commons. It's too cool not to include.
Source: my phone camera on the 8th floor of Fifth Third Center
Hydelic and Kate Brady – Always Been but Never Dreamed
30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 11: Puzzle game music From Tetris Effect (PS4, 2018)
Multiplayer modes are coming, but will they use the VR environments and keysounded music that made this the best classic Tetris?
Source: YouTube and Hydelic, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun
Pannenkoek2012
Super Mario 64 arrived in North America twenty years ago today. I used to speedrun it badly. Pannenkoek2012 is still finding new ways to exploit game mechanics and collect stars with as few A button presses as possible. This involves accelerating to relativistic speeds to travel to parallel universes. On his second channel, he uses programming logic to explain cloning, health, enemy behavior, floating point arithmetic, and more.
Source: Pannenkoek2012 via YouTube related videos
Fire Your Representatives!
Serious time here for a minute. If you can legally vote in the US, it’s your responsibility to read about your ballot and vote in the mid-term elections on Tuesday, or you have no right to complain about the outcome.
Who is your House Representative? Did they participate in the budget stalemate that shut down the government for 16 days? Did they vote for CISPA, a cybersecurity bill that would have allowed the NSA to bypass existing privacy laws? If so, vote against them and fire them. This includes every Representative from Ohio except Tim Ryan.
UPDATE: Every House incumbent in Ohio got re-elected. It’s like the whole state rose up in unison and said “Government shutdowns? CISPA? Sounds good; do more of that.” Way to fail, Ohio.
The blog will return to its regular goofiness next week.
Source: My Ballot — Columbus Dispatch Voters Guide, Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, and a lot of searching; EFF helped; image from Wikipedia
PAX South 2017 – Puyo Puyo Tetris Tournament Finals
Puyo Puyo Tetris‘s Swap mode is really good! It’s 25 seconds of Tetris, then 25 seconds of Puyo Puyo, back and forth until someone loses one of the games. It’s like chessboxing. At PAX South 2017, I put my Tetris stacking up against Puyo master heavenchai in this intense final match. Watch for the twists!
Edit: Here’s another upload that used the replays I saved during the second and third games. I forgot to save the first game’s replay; sorry!
Source: nuclearlemons and lhadatt, both standing behind me during this match
Did You Know Gaming? — Grand Theft Auto V
By the way, testing something here. You're reading the title text, not the alt text. (...That's what the WordPress version of this post said when you mouseover the image. Tumblr doesn’t support mouseover text, so you get the mouseover text as plain text instead.)
Source: This one sources the Verge...
Grand Theft Auto V.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/4/4693052/gta-v-features-real-gang-members-as-voice-actors
Mystery Skulls Animated – Freaking Out
With the success of Ghost, Mystery Ben planned several more videos to continue the story and flesh out the characters. This second video is Freaking Out. I’m sure they could all talk out their problems if they all weren’t constantly bobbing their heads to the music. We had to wait for 2½ years for the next one…
Source: Mystery Ben
Snail's House – [snowdrift]
Here in Ohio, we finally got our first decent snow of the winter. I really like snow as long as I'm not driving in it. For the moment, things are calm and pretty and not even that cold.
These are dire times. The USA became a dictatorship, China is sick, Hong Kong's autonomy is still threatened, Australia is still on fire, and climate change is inevitable. Let's rest and enjoy the snow before climate change takes it away from us. We should recover our strength so we can continue the fight for our future.
Source: Ujico* via NutellaFrenchToast via Unironically Good SiIvaGunner/Mashups while looking for music to play at my wedding
