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Laoshu – Foreign Language Roadrunning

Yesterday, we lost a local legend. Moses “Laoshu” McCormick was a giant among polyglots, having developed his own Foreign Language Roadrunning method to practice and speak dozens of languages. He recently became internet famous for finding foreigners and surprising them with conversations in their native languages. I’m fortunate to have met Moses and Marcell at our local fighting game meetups and Asian Festivals, and I’m glad Moses could pass on his knowledge through his online courses.

Source: Laoshu505000 and Foreign Language Running

TwistedJiko

I have news on my highly anticipated, long delayed project! Jiko and I got engaged under the blood moon! I can’t wait for more magic and adventures with the love of my life and our family. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Source: Jiko

#4 ‘Spell’ Now with color!

Ode to the 2-Hit Combo

I played Ultra Street Fighter IV last night hitting with lots of Final Turn Punches and I remembered this classic from August 2004. Jchensor, Maj, MrWizard, and zEvil compiled 20+ minutes of footage that ranges from the earliest fighting game combos to Playstation 2 games and their highly impractical setups. Jchensor also posted his commentary for every scene.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRWLKT0RH0s, originally found via the old version of ComboVid.com

Savaged Regime – Boss 2

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 16: 16-Bit music From Xeno Crisis (Genesis/Mega Drive, 2019)

Holy crap! Is this Prodigy-sounding jam coming from 16-bit hardware?? This narrowly beat Vapor Trail for my Genesis/Mega Drive pick.

Source: YouTube via Retro Core, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun

Mystery Skulls Animated – Ghost

Mystery Ben makes animated music videos for Mystery Skulls songs. Ghost could have been a simple Scooby Doo parody, but every second seems to have important details for TV Tropes to analyze. This attracted a far bigger fandom than the official live action music video, prompting Mystery Ben to continue the series…

Source: Mystery Ben via Anime Hell at Ohayocon 2015

Introvert Signal

Sinfest is a web comic veteran with new newspaper-style comics almost every day since 2000. It's up to 4787 strips, or almost four 8-Bit Theaters. Sinfest covers topics that come up a lot on Facebook, so I'm sure you'll like it.

Maybe I’ll use one of the more religiously- or socially-challenging ones later. You know, standard Facebook fare.

Oh cool, you're reading the full blog post now. Here's a GIF I wanted to post, but I can't find who this is or where it came from.

UPDATE: After four and a half years, I've found the source! This comes from the 78th All Japan Costume Grand Prix from 2007, where this earned 3rd place.

Source: Sinfest and yjiefcs.gif via Us Vs Th3m

Junko Shiratsu and Mariko Nanba – Door Into Summer

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 23: Underrated music From Knuckles’ Chaotix (32X, 1995)

Chaotix nicely uses the extra sound channels that went unused in most 32X games. I think I ought to give Chaotix a chance.

Source: YouTube, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun

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

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

Did You Know Gaming? — A Link Between Worlds

UPDATE: Did you know? I actually appear in Did You Know Gaming’s Mario Glitches video at 2:17 with footage from Fun with the Orb Glitch. I’m glad they cite their sources too, but I liked them more when they posted images like this.

Every fandom needs its useless trivia. For video games, you can find tons of useless trivia at DidYouKnowGaming? Their RSS feed is perfect for this sort of thing, and it all shows up on their Facebook page too. You too can find out how in the new Zelda game on 3DS, every character and object is doing a constant Michael Jackson lean because it looks better than looking at the tops of their heads all the time. Smart stuff!

You know, I put too much effort into these posts and I'm not posting often enough. I ought to start posting images and videos without any titles or context. It works for Tumblr! (If only I knew I’d remake this WordPress post on Tumblr 4½ years later...)

Source: Did You Know Gaming? — The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. ..., which sources Iwata Asks.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.

http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/a-link-between-worlds/0/3