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Been spinning The Flaming Lips' latest album (American Head) this week. To my ears, a lot of their output since The Soft Bulletin (which is already 22 years old this spring! ) has sounded kinda same-y. More keys and synths, less guitar, more pop oriented song stylings and less rocking (with the exception of Embyonic). My ultimate Lips lineup was in the mid '90s. Transmissions from the Satellite Heart and Clouds Taste Metallic are two of my favourite albums ever. It took me years to come around to The Soft Bulletin and the other albums since then, but even then I don't really enjoy all the songs and I still like '90s guitar-rock Lips best... But there are some pretty good songs on American Head. Gotta give it a few more listens yet to really form a final opinion.

I like a couple of Zelda games quite a bit. Even though it's not my favourite series or anything, I don't strongly dislike it either. Zelda game announcements just don't get me excited, it's more of a and then I move along to the next headline.

I was curious about Project Triangle Strategy for a hot minute but then I realized strategy == SRPG ( duh ) and immediately got turned off. I've tried several times to get into SRPGs but have never enjoyed one enough to actually finish the game. I love Mario Golf and Mario Tennis games, so I'd totally play Mario Golf Super Rush... but -- as much as I like these games -- I'm not willing to pay 79.99 plus tax of my hard-earned Canadian funbucks for Mario Golf or Tennis. I still haven't found a good enough deal on Mario Tennis Aces and that's been out nearly 3 years now... Knockout City sounds pretty darn fun. Doubt I'll ever get it, but I think a younger version of me would have played this a ton. Might be interested in Ninja Gaiden someday for the right price. When I saw the headline I had assumed it was a collection of the NES classics, which I like but I can't beat without save states I forgot that they made more Ninja Gaiden games later on. Were those games any good..? Zero interest in anything Zelda from me

More thoughts re: Neverland:

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Wonder Egg #6 - this show is so nice to look at. Some great background music and sounds in this episode too. It keeps getting better and better. Teacher's a creep for sure...

Fatigue can apparently be a lingering aftereffect of COVID-19. Hopefully that doesn't stick around with you for too long after you get better.

Kemono Jihen -- Kabane figured out how to ! SnK -- MAL and AniChart both say the final season is 16 episodes... it feels like there's a lot left to squeeze into the last 6 episodes! The stuff going on in the manga in recent chapters is pretty nuts. I guess there will only be one or two more episodes of slow build before the anime starts getting crazy again.

That sucks. Being sick in any capacity is no fun, but it at least sounds like you're not experiencing really bad respiratory problems..? No high fevers either? Get well soon!

Hori's dad and the stalker/neighbour girl are both great additions to the cast of characters in Horimiya. Great episode this week SK8 was also pretty great this week. I don't find the bad guy very interesting and as a result thought last week's episode was a bit weak. Fortunately he wasn't much of a factor in this week's episode.

Juju Looked like a guitar case. Why would the old man be carrying around a guitar? Can't be that. Actually it is a guit and it's a fucking Flying V

This is what Internet message boards were made for

I grabbed Transistor since it is heavily discounted on the eShop right now. (Tempted to snag Bastion and play it again too... ) So far I'm not in love with the Turn() system but maybe it will grow on me as I get better at the game.

Yeesh, took you forever to add another song. I was tempted to just finish this myself Lemme listen and think for a while and I'll get back with another track...

I thought the season started pretty good, up until they found the shelter. It's been really random since they had to flee the shelter though. Having not read the manga, it doesn't really bother me that I'm missing parts. If the anime is still good despite being different from the manga then that's fine. But the last couple episodes were not great and then they do this terrible clip-show Hopefully the anime redeems itself over the second half of the season.

Recap episodes always suck but this is especially bad timing for a recap. Ugh.

RIP Chick Corea He was an incredible player and composer

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1) Taiko??? no Tatsujin Rhythmic Adventure Pack #1 2) Final ?Fantasy?? ???V 3) Chasm 4) Cosmic Star Heroine I'm on a roll this week! This was a very fun little RPG. Not too long, another "just right" sort of game for me. In the end it was a bit too easy (I assume I was on normal difficulty), but I'm OK with that and I don't feel the need to play it again for a greater challenge. There were a few tedious moments, but otherwise I really liked. I just don't have much patience for parts in RPGs where it's like you gotta talk to this NPC, then this NPC who will give you some item, then you give that item to another NPC who does something with it, and then you can advance to the next part of the story. Running around a town for half an hour talking to every NPC to figure out what the heck to do next just ain't fun. At least build a mini dungeon or boss battle into it if I have to go on some wild goose chase to advance the story Fortunately that silliness only came up once or twice. Zeboyd Games have done some cool stuff. I also like Cthulu Saves the World when I played it years ago.

Yeah I'm enjoying all of the shows you listed there a lot as well. Haven't watched this week's episode of Wonder Egg Priority yet, probably gonna get to that tonight.

Getting back into Cosmic Star Heroine after I got lazy a long time ago. Took me a stupid long time this morning to figure out what to do next from where I left off, but now I'm back on track I enjoyed Chasm so much. Gonna have to keep my eye out for deals on similar games on the eShop.

1) Taiko??? no Tatsujin Rhythmic Adventure Pack #1 2) Final ?Fantasy?? ???V 3) Chasm I really enjoyed this one! Couldn't put it down since I downloaded it last week. If it's still on sale, it's definitely worth the $10 (CAD) it was going for. My completion time was 8:18:05 and I apparently rescued 100% of the NPCs and explored 99.9% of the game. Not exactly sure what tiny thing I missed. Not a super long game, but just right for me.

Attack on Titan

I've also been playing a lot of NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 this week. The games are short and fun. I'll never unlock all the players unless I pay for it (not happening!) but I am trying to get a few more of my favourites.