happy new year! its officially halfway through the 2020's, and ive been.. processing it. you mean to tell me i started calling myself "bazooie god" 10 YEARS AGO?? anyway, ive been winding down from the post-holiday blues.
there was a new wallace and gromit movie, and I watched it with my family. it's very good, as per usual with the series. ive yet to rewatch the other films, but i loved them when i was little.
ive been thinking about being more active in the selfship community on tumblr. but it's been kind of hard with my social anxiety. as much as i like my small, contained space.. i kind of want to just send strangers love letters unprompted. just wing writing their f/os and pray they like it. if another event like "to my s/i" happens, id be interested in just going mad with power and sending letters to people with obscure f/os.
i beat toejam and earl.. twice. one as toejam, the other as earl. the special interest really hit me. it's just such a fun and cute game! not only that, i also beat mean bean machine on all difficulties. just because.
i started a save in ocarina of time 3d. the original was a staple of my childhood. replaying it as an adult without being afraid of every enemy that wasn't a deku baba is a strange yet ethereal experience. i just started the water temple as of the time im writing this.
usually february goes by pretty fast for me. but this year it went by really slow? idk if that's just me or if other people have felt this. it also was a lot less cold than usual.
i spent valentines day alone this year, as always. well.. not TECHNICALLY alone.. if you count f/os. i haven't really been in the selfship "mood" this month. but im trying to get back to it. i have a bazwest fic in the works that im almost done outlining (all ill need to do is replay nsr to ensure accuracy and then it will begin proper production).
ive been playing more genesis games. lately its been vectorman and alex kidd in enchanted castle. vectorman has a really cool "3d" look to it, and the titular character almost looks like his animation was done using tweening. though the game itself is a little hard to recommend, because it is EXTREMELY flashy. apparently the alex kidd game ive chosen to play isn't very good, but i personally like it. even with the slippery controls.
i sadly haven't been watching a whole lot lately. aside from some short flash series ive had on the back burner for a while. yknow those like, oc tournaments? stuff like endzone and law of talos. i love the animation style and climber is adorable. i also like olga, chimbley, and mizuno.
.. oh, and one last thing. the new shrek 5 preview dropped and it looks like a disney film. which is ironic coming from the franchise that is basically a giant middle finger to disney. the meme references were super cringe. like.. if you're gonna reference pop culture, stick to films and celebrities that most people can recognise. not memes that haven't been funny since 2016.
march is easily the slowest month of the year. things that happened to me at the start feel like they happened months ago. i can't be the only one who feels this way, right? maybe it's just the weather changing.
to cope with my troubles, ive been watching onegai my melody. it's a show i used to love when i was little that still holds up today. im still hoping it gets an official english release, even though there are lots of puns that are really hard to translate and a few weird moments that would probably raise some eyebrows. sure, there technically is an english dub.. but it's currently lost media, and only covered the first season.
for my 21st birthday, i saw the day the earth blew up. it was really good. i hope warner bros gets their karma for barely promoting it, dead serious. if you want a fully 2d animated film and none of that live action remake slop, go see it while its still in theaters!
i was gonna end this off on a gloomy note.. BUT THEN KETCHUP ENTERTAINMENT SAVED COYOTE VS ACME. no longer will we mourn while zaslav swims in his tax money, nor will we have to pray for a leak. it kind of feels like a dream, but nope! it's really happening! wont be til next year, but im willing to wait!
to start things off this month, nintendo did a direct focusing specifically on games and features for the switch 2. some of the games look cool, but i have not been swayed yet. i pretty much have the same complaints the rest of the internet has. the new mario kart got its own direct too but it was a nothingburger honestly. the cow was cool though.
with last month revealing a new tomodachi life game, i decided to return to a file i made last year and then forgot about. the island has myself, some ocs, and other random characters. here's a list of important events:
easter fell on 420 this year. aside from my usual chocolate, i bought toejam and earl back in the groove because it was on sale. it's pretty much the same as the original, just with a more modern style.
here's some advice from me to you: you don't need to buy an expensive cable or circuit board device thing to play n64 games on a modern tv. cheap bootlegs off ebay work perfectly fine. i recently hooked up my n64 and the cable i have works really well, and is even compatible with older consoles. though it doesn't have an option to switch to 4:3 resolution (so everything looks stretched and crunchy as a result). the setup was also quite simple even if the instruction book i got was extremely vague. i only have mario kart 64 right now, my other games are still in the basement.
im actually thinking about getting into n64 collecting. there are lots of games i wanna try or at least own physically. my main goals are to get banjo-tooie (and every other rareware game i dont have), all the mario party games (because believe it or not i havent played them).. and clayfighter sculptors cut but that will probably never happen.
something really huge happened this month. for the first time ever, i went to a con for all three days. it was a really fun experience!
heres what i purchased:
and heres what I played (for the first time):