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The American Republican Party should fuck off all the way to Pluto. (re: Kavanaugh hearing, mostly)
 
I have been a victim of "minor" sexual assaults. I have never told anybody about these incidents. I fully understand why women who were victims of far worse choose not to speak up. Looking at the results of that shit hearing, I fully understand why women will refuse to speak up in the future about any political appointee. It doesn't fucking matter to the Republicans/conservatives. "How dare you ruin this good man's reputation?" "I knew Brett in high school, he didn't rape me, so he couldn't possibly have raped somebody else!" "Are you SURE it was him? Maybe it was somebody who looked like him." "We can't ruin his life because of one accusation with no evidence. Oh, there are three accusations? We can't ruin his life because of three accusations with no evidence." "THIS IS A SHAM, THE DEMOCRATS ARE DESPERATE, THEY ARE PAYING THESE WOMEN TO MAKE UP STORIES #SOROS!!!!"
 
Fuck right off. Need I remind you that this is essentially a job interview, not a criminal trial? If a dude was applying to flip burgers at McDonald's, he'd be disqualified in a heartbeat. Somehow, a dude applying for Supreme Court Justice (or, hell, dude applying for President) is held to lower standards. i.e. NO STANDARDS EXCEPT HE'S GONNA TOE THE REPUBLICAN LINE. The very least you could do is delay the confirmation vote and allow the FBI to investigate. But no, we can't have that either.
 
It's a good thing I'm Canadian and will probably not have to worry about abortion suddenly becoming illegal. Or watching the country descend into fascism. Never say never, though. I see that cancer spreading.

Generally speaking, the vocalist has to have a certain special "something" that attracts me. I can't explain what it is. I just like it or I don't like it. They could be technically bad singers but if they have that "something" I will listen to them. .. After selecting based on vocalist, I would find an album and listen a couple of times to see if I like the songs. 
 
As for how I hear of bands in the first place... well, these days I don't have time to be following VK news and checking out every single band. But I still run a lyrics site, and have found some awesome bands from what people have requested.

Generally speaking, the vocalist has to have a certain special "something" that attracts me. I can't explain what it is. I just like it or I don't like it. They could be technically bad singers but if they have that "something" I will listen to them. .. After selecting based on vocalist, I would find an album and listen a couple of times to see if I like the songs. 
 
As for how I hear of bands in the first place... well, these days I don't have time to be following VK news and checking out every single band. But I still run a lyrics site, and have found some awesome bands from what people have requested.

Today is election day for Ontario. We're almost certainly going to elect a pseudo-Trump to lead us. Yaaaaaaay.
(If you remember Toronto's crackhead mayor Rob Ford from a few years ago, well, the pseudo-Trump is his brother, Doug Ford)
 
This timeline sucks.

E3 HYPE ?!
Yeah, Nintendo hasn't gone yet but I don't really care about Nintendo anyway.
 
There wasn't much I was excited about. 
My biggest hype is Assassin's Creed Odyssey, lol. I was, at one point in my life, rather into Greek mythology. This is more historical, obviously, but I still love the setting, I'm SUPER happy a female protagonist is an option, and I'm interested in the dialogue options/romance, which I'm sure will be hilariously terrible. Gameplay looks extremely similar to Origins which is fine by me. 
 
Ghost of Tsushima probably had the most beautiful trailer of the show. The wind blowing the tall grass and Japanese maple leaves was so gorgeous. I'm very happy the protagonist looks like an actual Asian dude. Would be perfect if they give an option for Japanese voice-over. Kind of got Assassin's-Creed-In-Japan vibes, that is to say, sort of stealth-focused and not much original in terms of combat, which is fine by me. (I still want an actual AC Japan/China because I WANT TO CLIMB ALL THAT SHIT can you imagine climbing giant buddha statues and jumping off the tallest pagodas CAN YOU?!?!!)
 
Cyberpunk 2077, I am interested to know more about, mostly because it's the Witcher team making it. I'm far more interested in fantasy over sci-fi, and I've heard rumours that Cyberpunk will be mostly first-person?!? which is not fine by me.
 
Yeah, didn't really care about anything else. Some cool looking games, but not stuff that I'd normally play, OR it's stuff that I played in Japanese already. It's cool that Tales of Vesperia (PS3 edition) is finally coming out in the West. It was the first game I played on my PS3 and the first game I platinumed (after 200 hours). Also, still my favourite Tales game.
 
edit:
Forgot to mention Death Stranding. I will most likely not play this game, because I've never touched a Kojima game before, but there is something charming about the idea of being a mailman walking through these vast empty landscapes. Especially the shot of him with a wrapped-up dead body strapped to his back (A commentator I was watching said "he's gotta get that one to Kratos" HEH HEH).  I doubt the game will actually be like that, though.

The worst thing about daylight savings time is that I'm the only person in my house AND my office who is competent enough, or not too lazy, to change all the stupid clocks.
 
In addition to wall clocks and alarm clocks, there are...
Microwaves, stoves, thermostats, landline phones, cars, printers...
Half of those things don't even need to have a clock.

Maybe they were just really salty about not getting Budokan, which led them to write that song. Like "whatever man, we don't NEED Budokan, fuck going major"
 
Or maybe "going major" has nothing to do with Budokan? Major = (theoretically) making more money and having execs control your image & output.
 
Or maybe the whole Budokan thing was a joke in the first place?
 
Not that I care. As long as I like the new songs they can say whatever they want to say.

ヶ is an abbreviation of 箇 , so they do mean the same thing. I am guessing both the band name and song name refer to the Shikoku Pilgrimage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku_Pilgrimage) . R-shitei is so educational!
 
I agree with the translation of the 2nd track.... or maybe it's "We don't give a shit about going major". Something like that.

I do not understand the hate for this band. I guess my taste leans more toward pop than most people here.
WANDERLUST is my #1 album of 2017. "Kyou kara boku wa kaisatsuki" is my #1 song of 2017. Freshest shit I heard all year. Chizuru is one of my favourite singers right now, he has such a clear, clean voice & delivery. (just please stop doing that growl thing)
 
The new look is concerning (especially considering how amazing some of their previous looks have been), but the previews sound like Pentagon so I'm not worried about their music, at least.

I honestly would have preferred it if Kiryu disbanded and My Dragon stayed. Kiryu's become pretty repetitive, while My Dragon is/was pure joy and happiness. (this is not sarcasm)
 
Oh well. 11 songs is a very good run for a joke band.
 
*pre-orders Kiryu's next single for no reason*

Still cant get over their website being
mydora.sexy 

It is funny, I started taking the pill recently and I think it has given me worse mood swings. I was always very chill, or at least able to hide it when I was annoyed/angry, but now I find that I will snap and show that I'm pissed off.
Other than that, I think the effects from the pill have been very positive.

Have to draw a teeny tiny tangent line from this to just strange translation choices. While replaying Final Fantasy XV recently (still on it, even without the updates the game is still like 60+ hours) and I have a very basic grasp on Japanese, but I could tell that some of the choices they made in the translations were just... odd. Mostly because they usually changed the tone of the conversation completely from one end to another. 
 
As an example, after a decently tough fight with a level 51 bandersnatch, Prompto follows up the battle with a statement: "生きてる! (I'm alive!)" to which Noctis responds with "おめでとう (Congratulations)."
 
However, how they translated Noctis's response was "Enjoy it while you can." 

I just... don't understand why they decided on that. I mean sure, congrats could be taken as subtle sarcasm, but "Enjoy it while you can" is nothing if not in-your-face mocking. 
 
I have not played the game in English, but have they just completely revamped the personalities of the chocobros? Another reason for me to avoid the English voiceacting, because apparently the subtitles for the original Japanese voiceacting are the same as the English voiceacting.
 
I would ever play it like that only because I've kinda grown fond of Ignis's English voiceacting and his superduper posh British accent. And also because "That's it! I've come up with a new recipe!" makes me giggle.

I caved in to the hype and bought Assassin's Creed Origins. I'd been reading people's impressions and seeing their screenshots/gifs on another forum, and just got more and more excited to play it. I was planning to wait for Black Friday sale, but on Friday night, Sony e-mailed me a 20% coupon for PSN store...
 
.. it's pretty sad that I got 20% off, evaded sales tax because it was digital, and STILL HAD TO PAY $64.
(At regular price, with sales tax, it would've cost $90.39. Such is Canadian life)
 
ANYWAY, wow, what a great game. It's like playing a dumber Witcher 3, but in a way better setting, with a more likable character, with stealth archery and the ability to climb almost anything. I climbed up a huge obelisk for no particular reason (there was only bird shit at the top). I climbed up one of the pyramids of Giza and got an amazing view of Egypt. The world building and the actions of random NPCs are amazing. I was in a temple for some side quest and noticed a dog hanging out with a family. First dog I'd seen in the game. After running around for a bit, I heard the dog barking like crazy. I was like WTF shut up dog. I went to see it and it was actually chasing a random cat that had wandered into the temple. Holy shit. I could write a lot more about this kind of stuff but getting lazy now.
 
Sure it still has that Ubisoft open world jank. At some point I'll probably get tired of side-questing, but that happened with Witcher too. I started on Normal difficulty, and while it was manageable, it wasn't super *fun* for me, so I dropped it to Easy. I'm enjoying headshotting fools with my bow (thank you, aim assist), and wrecking them in melee if they spot me. So satisfying. (well, it's maybe a little too easy, but that's better than being a little too hard) I will criticize the lack of dismemberment, though. I'm slicing this dude in the face with a khopesh (sickle sword), as part of the standard execution animation, so WHY ISN'T HIS HEAD FLYING OFF?
 

I really love that his idle animation is his pet eagle landing on his arm. And look how pretty this area is.
 
My favourite gameplay moment so far: Some idiot guard was chasing me. I climbed up a ladder and there was a ballista at the top. I got on it and aimed for the top of the ladder. As the guard reached the top, I fired it into his face and sent his dumbass flying. It was just like in my Game of Thrones.

I caved in to the hype and bought Assassin's Creed Origins. I'd been reading people's impressions and seeing their screenshots/gifs on another forum, and just got more and more excited to play it. I was planning to wait for Black Friday sale, but on Friday night, Sony e-mailed me a 20% coupon for PSN store...
 
.. it's pretty sad that I got 20% off, evaded sales tax because it was digital, and STILL HAD TO PAY $64.
(At regular price, with sales tax, it would've cost $90.39. Such is Canadian life)
 
ANYWAY, wow, what a great game. It's like playing a dumber Witcher 3, but in a way better setting, with a more likable character, with stealth archery and the ability to climb almost anything. I climbed up a huge obelisk for no particular reason (there was only bird shit at the top). I climbed up one of the pyramids of Giza and got an amazing view of Egypt. The world building and the actions of random NPCs are amazing. I was in a temple for some side quest and noticed a dog hanging out with a family. First dog I'd seen in the game. After running around for a bit, I heard the dog barking like crazy. I was like WTF shut up dog. I went to see it and it was actually chasing a random cat that had wandered into the temple. Holy shit. I could write a lot more about this kind of stuff but getting lazy now.
 
Sure it still has that Ubisoft open world jank. At some point I'll probably get tired of side-questing, but that happened with Witcher too. I started on Normal difficulty, and while it was manageable, it wasn't super *fun* for me, so I dropped it to Easy. I'm enjoying headshotting fools with my bow (thank you, aim assist), and wrecking them in melee if they spot me. So satisfying. (well, it's maybe a little too easy, but that's better than being a little too hard) I will criticize the lack of dismemberment, though. I'm slicing this dude in the face with a khopesh (sickle sword), as part of the standard execution animation, so WHY ISN'T HIS HEAD FLYING OFF?
 

I really love that his idle animation is his pet eagle landing on his arm. And look how pretty this area is.
 
My favourite gameplay moment so far: Some idiot guard was chasing me. I climbed up a ladder and there was a ballista at the top. I got on it and aimed for the top of the ladder. As the guard reached the top, I fired it into his face and sent his dumbass flying. It was just like in my Game of Thrones.

Amazon in Canada is generally pretty shitty. I only order from Amazon 2-3 times a year.
- The range of products is garbage compared to Amazon US. 
- I live less than one hour away from their warehouse, so I already receive packages in 1 day (UNLESS they decide to let it sit there for days before they actually ship it)
- I have no use for Twitch Prime and Prime Video
- There might be pre-order discounts, but I buy so few games at launch that it's not worth it to pay for prime just for those discounts.
 
South Park was great. My memory of the first game is clouded, but I think I liked Fractured better. The combat was more interesting and moderately challenging (I played on the hardest difficulty and didn't die in combat once.. came really close tho). I spent about 25 hours on it and almost 100% everything. I think it's worth buying now if you're a big fan of South Park and you liked Stick of Truth... and if you find toilet humour really funny. (but it will probably have a good discount on black friday...)
 
For the record, I am not actually a big fan of South Park OR toilet humour, and I still loved the game. There are enough moments that remind you that these are kids playing superhero (like when battles get randomly interrupted by "CAR!!") that make it quite charming. 

I'm super hyped for it! So hyped that I actually preordered the deluxe edition of it though I promised myself that I wouldn't... oops.
I've really enjoyed the previous AC games and though they've indeed made some changes to this one I'm pretty sure I'll still enjoy it a lot. At least from what the trailers and gameplay videos have shown the mechanics seem still good.
Also the setting is one thing that's gotten me really excited. I can't think of many games that would've been set in Egypt, so it's interesting to see how it'll turn out.
 

Anyone hyped for Assassin's Creed Origins?
I was iffy on it. I really love the series, specifically, sneaking up on dudes and jamming my hidden blade through their faces. The games were generally easy enough for my low-skill lazy playing. So I was concerned when I heard they changed up the combat, and removed towers/viewpoints and minimap. I've never played a game with one of those compass bar things.
But now I hear they are putting in difficulty options. And the trailers/gameplay videos look very pretty. (granted, I'm not sure how pretty it will look on a launch PS4, but I'm not that picky). Plus, Egypt is a cool setting, way more interesting than European city #6.
I will probably pick it up on Black Friday if there's a good discount.
 

 
YOU CAN PET CATS.

Glad to see they have included all of those 12 monthly 1-song singles they did. Was afraid those would be hard to find.
Gonna go pre-order these albums.

"PARAIZO" tracklist :
 
01. period
02. SETSUNAスリップ
03. 妄想攻略
04. 間に合うわ
05. アプローチ
06. LUNA
07. 『現実逃避プレゼント』
08. 真夏A
09. 命短し恋せよ～なんて
10. 忘れないと誓う
 
"LIBERI" tracklist :
 
01. S.O.H
02. サキアバレ我
03. 嫌い日記
04. アカイト
05. 孤独の理由
06. 反抗期が止まらない
07. ◯○関係
08. 枯らすカラス
09. 絶対病的希求
10. 幾億もの美しく咲く花は人

GOOO DOWNLOAD GOOOOOOOOO
 
Estimated cost of $120 canadian to buy this game.. that's the cost of 1.5 full-price games...
WORTH IT
(i hope)

Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness
Playing this on Vita.. it's also out on PS4 and I can tell it was optimized for PS4. The text can get really tiny... Anyway, I think this is based on an anime, I don't know anything about it.  Only bought it because I wanted to support visual novels on Vita.  
The concept is very interesting.. cyberpunk-ish sci-fi about Japan 100 years in the future. Don't want to explain it, it's complicated. I've already gotten a few endings and I'm not sure how I feel about the actual story. The big "twist" was HEAVILY telegraphed from almost the beginning of the game, so I was not surprised at all when it happened.
Also, to get the platinum trophy, you are required to grind out points in a Threes/2048-clone minigame. Weird..
 
Zero Escape series
Finished both the Nonary Games collection and Zero Time Dilemma. Not sure what to say about ZTD. I was not a fan of any of the new characters, except maybe Carlos was ok. I found the graphics to be rather ugly. Plot-wise, definitely had a few WTF moments. It was a fun ride for the most part, but was left somewhat unsatisfied by the final ending. Felt like another "to be continued" kind of thing. Also, about that freaking dog...
 
Other stuff I completed but don't need/want to talk about..
Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God
Reine des Fleurs
Lara Croft GO
Tropico 5

It's telling that you wrote this 13 hours ago and I have no way of knowing which scandal or idiotic policy decision is being referred to.
 
I've stopped visiting & posting on MH partly because reading about the latest daily American political travesty has consumed most of my at-work procrastination time.

It's telling that you wrote this 13 hours ago and I have no way of knowing which scandal or idiotic policy decision is being referred to.
 
I've stopped visiting & posting on MH partly because reading about the latest daily American political travesty has consumed most of my at-work procrastination time.

It's telling that you wrote this 13 hours ago and I have no way of knowing which scandal or idiotic policy decision is being referred to.
 
I've stopped visiting & posting on MH partly because reading about the latest daily American political travesty has consumed most of my at-work procrastination time.