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I have Crypt, Terraria, and Undertale on Steam, as well as DS cartriges of the PWAA trilogy, so probably not those but I'll definitely look more into Cadence of Hyrule, Baba is You, and Goose, thanks!

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Was going to just make a status for this but I figured it could be its own thread. If you're looking for game recommendations, just post some details in here like system, what you generally like to play, price range, whatever you feel comforable with and other people can come in and help out. I'll start: I currently have thirty-five (35) Nintendollars on my Switch account. and was wondering what the best way to spend that was. I haven't played much that's on there, so I'm pretty open to anything, though if I had to narrow it down, the less hair-trigger reflexes the better. That's not to say no action at all -- I'm just worse at that stuff.

Peter’s immediate impulse upon hearing “Toss me one!” was to just lob a granola bar across the room in a way that Makoto would have to try pretty hard to catch. But he wasn’t thirteen anymore, and he especially wasn’t going to do that in a room full of onlookers. So instead, he just brought the whole box back over and passed it around the room that way. More boring? Yes, but after dealing with Hana for half the previous day, boring was good occasionally. Besides, it also let him grab a second bar for the ride to Ocean’s Coast. A fortuitous decision, all things considered, because it allowed him to connect up his phone and his earbuds, play some music, and just focus on chewing, ignoring all the nonsense that was surely going on on the rest of the bus. He was always a front of the bus sort of person, too, so he didn’t even have to look. Even as he cranked the volume higher and higher, though, scolds of needing to remain seated still managed to needle their way in. He could have looked, but he instead focused on savoring every last morsel of his granola bar. He kept his earbuds in even once they were off the bus, though that only served to keep him unawares as to just who was greeting them at the door until it was too late. “You know them?” Coach Clara said. Even with high volume, Peter could tell she was talking to him. He took an earbud out and fiddled with his phone until the music was barely audible. “It’s a long story,” he said. “Hana could probably tell it better.” He still sheepishly waved to Laurie and Leila, even if Hana’s combined hug of the two of them distracted them from seeing it.The gym they wound up in was much nicer than the one they’d been using back at Horizon. It was bigger, for one; the seating areas on either side by themselves probably took up more space than anything Horizon had been allotted. And yet, despite its size, there were only eight people -- seven students and one significantly older gentleman Peter presumed was the coach(?) -- all sequestered to one side, and huddled together flipping through cards. If there was Duel Monsters being played, it was on the floor. “Feels like you could make better use of the space,” Peter said to nobody in particular before quickly realizing just what sort of impression that put upon both him and the school he was representing. He turned to Laurie. “Um, so are we supposed to sit across from them? Over here? Or, uh…?” Laurie pointed over to the other side and said, “You guys will be sitting on that side. During the duels at least. Just set down whatever you have over there too.” She pointed to everyone else and said, “We'll be over there.” Peter couldn’t help but still be curious as to what everyone “over there” was doing, though it made sense that they couldn’t, like, fraternize with the enemy or whatever his parents would say in such a situation. He dutifully lugged his bag over to about the area Laurie indicated and finally took his earbuds off. Was he ready for this? “I’m not sure I’m ready for this,” he mumbled. But, then again, didn’t he have to be? This was the first step on the path laid out for him, and it was that thought that got him to turn around to the rest of Team Horizon. “Is there a chant or anything we have to do? Team spirit sort of stuff? My parents didn’t really prep me for that part but it’s probably important, right?”

the album version has the swears, but the album version also has a longer outro

“Oooh, the witching hour,” Elsie said, eyes as wide as dinner plates. “Very exciting. All I got was they were nighttime attacks but that narrows it down considerably, especially ‘cause when I heard ‘nighttime,’ I thought, like, midnight or something. But no, the witching hour! You know what that is, right?” “Actually, I do know. Er, or at least I've heard of it anyway. It's sometime in the early morning-” “Right, right,” Elsie didn’t even miss a beat, like as soon as she heard an answer she didn’t need to hear any more. “Most humans are asleep for it. Maybe that’s why it’s the way it is in the first place. That part’s a little complicated, but it’s, yeah, like, the halfway point between midnight and sunrise. It’s the time each night Hecate and all her spawn come the closest to straddling the veil between her domain and ours which is, you know, very exciting stuff when you’re a witch. Especially with sabbaths, if those don’t start on the hour, well, you can bet they’ll last to the next one for sure. “I haven’t actually been up for one in a while ‘cause I’ve been trying to match the times I’m awake with everyone else in Jekyll’s tower, so that’ll be fun too.” Elsie stepped away from Lach and the wall he was cowering against and scratched her cheek. “Anyway, I learned that we’re not the first ones to try and solve this particular town’s little problem; there was a whole group of mercenaries here last month who all mysteriously vanished. They didn’t even go out into the woods or anything, they were just defending the town. And you said there was fog too? Very spooky. I wonder what it could be…” She took her time, mulling over the bits of lore she’d managed to remember growing up, even turning round and round as she continued to think, almost to the point of ignoring Lachlan entirely. But nothing came to mind. Nothing that fit the exact situation, anyway. Fahlyn? All she knew about those was that inscrutable picture Jekyll had shown everyone, and if she was going to make guesses, she wanted to have at least a little more backing them than that. The closest she got was, like, an evil cult or coven, but, in the latter case, she was having a hard time imagining Hecate’s own flesh behaving in such a manner, and both theories had a bunch of pokable holes in them besides. The one good thing thinking about covens did, however, was that it got Elsie thinking again regarding something Lachlan had said earlier that she’d kind of brushed over until just that moment. She whirled back around to face him, just in time to catch him scooching down the wall like he meant to put even more distance between them. “By the way,” she said, “the ‘witching hour’ thing, that’s just what it is. I don’t take offense at all, and I’m a little interested why you thought I might.” A realization hit Elsie like a thunderbolt. “Wait…” she said, and her face turned to one of bemusement. “Do I scare you, Lach?” As quick as a wink, she went right back up to him again, and, with that same wry smile, let out a single “Boo!”

Chris took his allotted share of blast powder and felt the weight of the bag in his hand. It wasn’t much, but surely one didn’t need loads of the stuff, right? He thought of all the ways he would have put it to use back in Ellwood Manor. A pinch here as a surprise BANG to scare the servants, maybe some under a stove to send food everywhere, what would have been easier? In fact, with a creative enough application, he could probably even - His thoughts were interrupted by a foreboding dread, the otherwise indescribable kind that he could only place on one thing. “Let’s get out of here,” Chris said. He faced the portal. “So, do we just…?” He mimed a couple steps to show his intent, but that sort of teasing only made the dread worse, so with a final gasp, Chris stepped forward into the swirling vortex. It was a sensation he certainly wasn’t used to, that was for sure. He was moving and yet not moving? This was why he could never be a wizard. He appreciated magic, sure, especially when it was saving his butt, but up close and personal like this? Chris nearly collapsed as soon as his feet touched solid ground again. In fact, he did, and the only reason his face didn’t reach the dirt for the umpteenth time that day was a medic who reached out and caught him. Estellise had already patched him up a few times, though, so really it was just his shoulder that needed to be looked at the most. They still were quicker than he would have liked, though, especially when they told him to chill his shoulder “unless he wanted the soreness to get worse” without giving him a way to do that. Once that was done with, though, he turned to the rest of his party members. “I’m going to the Drooling Dragon,” he said. “Figure we’ve earned that much. And hey, if what we learned is worth anything, maybe Hector’ll let me stay there another week or two when work dries up.” He gave a little smirk, turned, and went on his way.

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Similarly, favorite kind of moth?

←Previous Post -- Next Post→ Duel 19 -- A Song for a Kingdom Now Lost Or: “Nice Guys” -- Big Scare Quotes There -- Finish Last Our continuing exploration of Revolutionary Girl Utena’s music leads us from the OP to the duel themes that feature in most episodes of the show. The most notable, of course, is the “Absolute Destiny Apocalypse” sequence (“Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku”) that plays as Utena ascends to the dueling grounds. It is so iconic that the more recent musicals that otherwise have wholly original songs include a version, to the point that it might as well be the second theme song of the whole show, or the third including the credits song, “Truth”. The compositions of the show were split between two people, J.A. Seazer and Shinkichi Mitsumune, with Shinkichi composing most of the music, including the first eight duel themes, while Seazer composed the aforementioned “Absolute Destiny Apocalypse” and the remaining duel themes after that. Some of the symbolism of specific songs has already been covered in previous posts. “The Sunlit Garden,” for example, introduces many of the nostalgic elements of the show, while “Absolute Destiny Apocalypse” invokes the surreality of the sword fights, transporting its participants to almost another world entirely. The themes themselves, meanwhile, vary in how obviously they attach themselves to the participants. There is one, for example, entitled, “I Am An Imaginary Living Body” which, as we’ll find out, is significantly more on the nose compared to, say, “Inside the Body of a Paleozoic Era”. At the same time, of course, saying something like, “Obviously there is meaning there, you just don’t get it” is counterproductive and more than a little exclusionary. You could easily go through the entire show and get just as much enjoyment pretending the lyrics are all as nonsense as the “mokushi kushimo shikumo” segment of “Absolute Destiny Apocalypse”. But, if you do want to start looking into this more, I would recommend establishing the group of words each song draws from. “Paleozoic Era” is all about rocks, for example, made in relation to Saionji’s stubbornness, while “mokushi kushimo shikumo” all play with the syllabic structure of the word for “apocalypse,” though there are translations that place it as “revolution noitulover” which is an interesting decision in itself. Like most of these episodes, a couple stories are going on at once here. The first is Tatsuya Kazami being convinced and internalizing that Wakaba is his one true love. Her “prince,” as it were. The second is Wakaba realizing that she needs to be honest with herself and with her prince about her feelings. The conflict, then, is that neither of these plots are talking about the same prince. In that way, it’s glib antics as everyone dances around the issue, something emphasized by C-ko talking about two different kinds of stores. There’s also a significant focus on Utena this episode. The episode barely starts and Utena is already saying, “Wakaba, you are the most normal girl I know,” (while Tatsuya claims to barely remember her before later saying he wanted to get close to Utena (the “special”) to get to Wakaba) -- emphasizing Wakaba’s “normalness” is a lead-in for a subplot that will be expanded on next episode. Utena not realizing the, uh, the plot by not-too-subtly shipping Tatsuya and Wakaba is another such factor. Yes, this is a subtle two-parter of an episode, and you can already imagine who the next duelist is, I’m sure. But if you can’t guess, well, it’s certainly not Tatsuya. The first thing he does after being rejected is imagine Wakaba in an unhealthy relationship that only he can rescue her from. The fact that he is proven right, that Wakaba is infatuated with Saionji, does not suddenly make him sympathetic. The only sympathetic quality he does have is his unwillingness to escalate the situation beyond where he is now and don a black rose. That’s certainly one of the less gross interpretations of Souji Mikage saying “You are truly a good person.” Maybe there’s a little tragedy involved here in Tatsuya not realizing Wakaba’s feelings in elementary and being too late to capitalize on them, but also, like, learning to accept when they’re just not that into you is a pretty good life lesson. A bit of a spoiler, but Tatsuya cameos talking with Wakaba in a way that presumes that he does not, in fact, learn this lesson. -r Next time: Wakaba learns what it’s like to be special. ←Previous Post -- Link to Episode -- Next Post→

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