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I'm 34.

No Undertale dlc tease for Vampire Survivors. They said they legit accidentally put the wrong song on the trailer.

Poncle played Undertale music on the new Contra promo.

...Undertale dlc eventually?

If Visa has the time/energy, I want to see the clip of us 50/50ing a poll within the first 10 minutes of a stream. Josh was so mad. XD

Jack wanting to retire from youtube doesn't surprise me. I've gotten that vibe from him for the past 5 years or so, which is the same time frame he mentioned in the video.

While there's a lot of good that's come from the paradigm shift on youtube (now home to many creative independent series and animations as well as a great place for documentaries and literary analyses), I definitely understand what he means about how it's no longer the relaxed environment that it was up until 2015. You basically have to have all your shit together from the start now, and basically be a one-man professional broadcast setup if you want to do anything anymore, which isn't fair to anyone who wants to relax and upload just for the fun of it.

I mentioned this a few years ago during the pandemic, but especially with the retirement of MatPat and several others, the era of individual personalities just goofing off and drawing an audience based on that is kind of over. You have to be making something specific now, kinda. Either that, or be relegated to grinding algo-slop/reactions. You can't just be "you". You need to be "the person that does X", with "X" as the focus of the channel, not the human who makes it. You need to be working 24/7, or youtube will start cracking the whip and intentionally instilling anxiety with the metrics warnings.

As much as I miss that bright eyed and bushy tailed era of youtube that Jack is talking about, with people just laughing and being silly and not having too much of a care in the world, I'm starting to be at peace with it's death, and if Jack wants to retire, I want him to find something that makes him happy and move on with his life. He said he only has 2 years max left in him. I say that that's way more than I was expecting, in a good way.

While Mark, Jack, and MatPat helped me get through a very difficult portion of my life (horrible college and horrible job), I'm more and more alright with the final vestiges of that phase finally shutting down. One of my favorite bands finally retired last year, too. I'd rather my favorite entertainers and artists retire on their own terms, moving on to something happy, than crashing or burning out in frustration.

I'm watching Super Eyepatch Wolf """""play""""" Silent Hill Ascension. That """""game""""" stands as damning evidence that the charmingly strange voice acting in Silent Hill 1 and 2 was an accident and was not intentionally designed to facilitate a dreamlike atmosphere.

They seem to be making an attempt to intentionally invoke it in this game, and it's not working at all. The voice actors are acting fine, but the script and animations are very lifeless and meandering, in a way that is not pleasant to witness.

It seems that the view Konami has of Silent Hill is: "Hey, this weird, garbage game got tons of praise. Let's try to recapture that money by making more weird, garbage games. Wait, why are people hating this?! We thought they loved the garbage!"

They don't see what made the first gen of SH actually work. They kind of see the individual pieces that people like, but not the cohesive whole that those individual pieces work together to make. It's interesting.

I really like the escape room Bendy game so far. That's a great way to tell a character's backstory without relying on diary pages or memory headache cutscenes.

Plus, this game took another step away from corridor walking and relying on Bioshock references. There was also a scare that really got me, with a really awesome design.

I...I love this series again. I'm so happy that they keep going from strength to strength now. I'm really proud of the creative strides they keep making.

Josh just did a full on Warfstache accent. It's Joever.

He solved the lore on his deathbed, wow.

Seeing Josh's name come on screen during a DeOrio stream is surreal as all hell.

Emil is baby.

Nier: Automata made the fatal mistake of having a fishing mini game. I need to complete the fish dex.

I'm also excited that I found 2 of the hidden Virtuous weapons on my own (spear and heavy sword) just because I like exploring in games.

Apparently there's 2 weapons that can only be obtained by fishing. I'm going to try to get the metal pipe tonight while relaxing and listening to analog horror reactions. I don't think I'm near the last Pod fella.

For where I'm at in the story, I just met and beat the AWOL sadge girl, A2. This game still isn't clearing the OFF allegations (affectionate comparison). It's like a fusion of OFF and Blade Runner, and that's the best of both worlds.

A2 also kind of reminds me of the commander woman in Xenoblade 3. The one that had dual lightsabers.

This game is it's own thing, but it reminds me of a lot of good things.