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Yes. Watched the first movie again a month or so ago and was blown away by how well it holds up. You can download a free fan-cut of the first three movies here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mh-nAYwDhsHWR7QiQ7NkyNBr4o69rRHx/view

Super Dodgeball for the NES, no contest. It's a fun game, but very short. You control three players on the court and have the AI or even a buddy (I think) control the other three on the sidelines. Every character can do a couple of special attacks that will rip the other team to shreds, and so it isn't very hard to just plow through most of your rivals. All of the other teams aren't very good in the first place, but there are two with special terrain to keep things interesting. India is the only stage that proves a hindrance due to their team's insane defensive power, but even they don't last long There are only about eight levels plus the battle against your evil clones that appear after the defeat of the USSR team for some reason, and thus you can beat it pretty quickly. Definitely my favorite sports game of all time. The Iceland Stage is probably the neatest.

Sorry, not too many machines in this entry except for some robots. Glad to see you found something you liked: there's plenty of other weird things on there to look at as well.

You know, upon closer inspection Cozy is just sorta floating there. At least they bothered to give Discord a nice setup.

I like that they didn't surrender.

There is indeed, nothing that man's nature seeks more eagerly than to be flattered. -John Calvin

Was a beautiful evening when I went out for my sunset walk, and I kept hearing parts of these themes as I went:

He's an AI generated picture of my OC/fan pony Strange Omen. Was originally going to have him be a easy-going soothsayer/astrologer/prophet in the Classical mood ("Two livers? Never seen that one before..."). Now he looks like he's about to welcome you to an episode of Night Gallery.

Bunch of video game related links in no particular order. Mostly artbooks with some guides, comics and other things in there. Ayami Konami artbook featuring designs from Castlevania https://archive.org/details/santa-lilio-sangre-ayami-kojima/mode/2up Earthbound Nintendo Player's Guide https://archive.org/details/earthboundnintendoplayersguide1995 Collection of retro game artbooks. https://archive.org/details/RetroGameArtbooksAndIllustrations Demon's Souls (Black Phantom Edition) Artbook https://archive.org/details/DemonsSoulsBlackPhantomEditionArtbookCBZ Dark Souls Design Works https://archive.org/details/artbook-Dark_Souls_Design_Works/mode/2up Dark Souls 2 CE Artbook https://archive.org/details/artbook-Dark_Souls_2_Collectors_Edition_Artbook Bloodborne CE art book https://archive.org/details/BloodborneCollectorsEditionArtbookCBZ The Art of Metal Gear Solid https://archive.org/details/artbook_Yoji_Shinkawa_The_Art_of_Metal_Gear_Solid The Art of Metal Gear Solid I-IV Gallery Works https://archive.org/details/the-art-of-metal-gear-solid-i-iv-gallery-works-jpg Metal Gear Solid comic book collection. https://archive.org/details/MetalGearSolidComicBookCollection/Metal Gear Solid - Sons of Liberty 00 (Sep 2005)/ Kirby Art & Style Collection https://archive.org/details/kirby-art-style-collection-japanese Art of Splatoon https://archive.org/details/b03cf9e4-d43a-4969-a484-c1e1d9de94fb Dragon Quest Emblem of Roto Kamui Fujiwara Art collecton https://archive.org/details/dragon-quest-emblem-of-roto-kamui-fujiwara-art-book The Art of Super Mario Odyssey https://archive.org/details/the-art-of-super-mario-odyssey The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening "Dreamer" Artbook https://archive.org/details/linksawakening_dreamer_artbook The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening German Strategy Guide https://archive.org/details/zelda_guide_la_de/zelda_guide_la_de_300dpi_small/ The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Nintendo Player's Guide https://archive.org/details/zelda_guide_lttp_nintendo_power_us/zelda_guide_lttp_nintendo_power_us/ The History of Zelda Art Collecction, Volume I https://archive.org/details/artbook_zelda_nintendodream_history_vol01 Street Fighter 20th Anniversary Artbook https://archive.org/details/streetfighter20th_201910 Monster Hunter Illustrations 1 https://archive.org/details/artbook-Monster_Hunter_Illustrations_1 Monster Hunter Illustrations 2 https://archive.org/details/artbook-Monster_Hunter_Illustrations_2 Mega Man comics https://archive.org/details/MegaMan34/Mega Man 01/ Retro Game Stickers and Labels https://archive.org/details/RetroGameStickersAndLabels/Nintendo Official Sticker Album (With Stickers - 1992)/mode/2up Sonic Game Art books https://archive.org/details/sonic-game-art-books/Sonic Game Art Books (CBZ Files)/Sonic Frontiers Digital Art Book (JP2 converted to JPG)/ The Art of the Mass Effect Universe https://archive.org/details/artbook-The_Art_of_the_Mass_Effect_Universe Resident Evil V Artbook https://archive.org/details/resident-evil-5-artbook Research On Biohazard 2: Final Edition https://archive.org/details/research-on-biohazard-2-resident-evil-2-final-edition Chrono Trigger Ultimania https://archive.org/details/chronotriggerultimania Retro Gaming Books (non-fiction) https://archive.org/details/RetroGamingBooksNon-Fiction Art of Halo https://archive.org/details/artbook-Art_of_Halo Tactics Ogre: Ring of Fate Artworks https://archive.org/details/tacticsogreringoffateartworks/mode/2up The Art of Tekken https://archive.org/details/the-art-of-tekken-artbook Armored Core Chronicle Art Works Book https://archive.org/details/artbook-Armored_Core_Chronicle_Art_Works_Book Creating Space: The Art of FTL https://archive.org/details/faster-than-light-artbook Fallout 1 Manual https://archive.org/details/fallout-manual-english/mode/2up The Art of Fallout 3 https://archive.org/details/artbook-The_Art_Of_Fallout_3

This one looks sick. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2614199156

I recognize that reference.

Just cooked burgers with toasted buns out on the griddle that turned out fairly well. Easier to cook some things on there than a conventional grill, but it requires more cleaning and maintenance to keep from getting rusty. Made fried green tomatoes for the first time in my life yesterday and fried them in oil in my wok.Chen Kenichi may not have approved of my actions, but to my great surprise as a tomato-hater they were pretty good. First time ever growing tomatoes (from seed, even) this year, and I pretty much used all of my harvest in one shot. I dipped them in a mustard sauce and they weren't bad at all.

The complete story of the Sentient Milleu from the amazing Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters. Probably the greatest science-fiction game I've ever played, its charming setting and plot more than make up for the tedium of some of its mechanics. You probably already know that Mass Effect was accused of lifting some principles from this game, but that's OK: even Futurama may have done so with the Hypnotoad according to Some Sources. With fun and genuinely interesting writing that doesn't take itself too seriously, I would confidently stack its plotline up against just about any other game script in the same genre and many more. I've only ever played the free version with voice-overs (Called The Ur Quan Masters without reference to Star Control due to copyright issues IIRC) which some players dislike, but I generally enjoy the voices. It's free to download, so if you want something new to try then check er' out: https://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php If you don't want to play the game but just want to listen to cartoon aliens tell stories, then this is a good place to start (Giant plot spoilers that I read before playing):

Being of the Jacques Vallee/Budd Hopkins school of thought, I would probably freak out in a controlled or uncontrolled manner. I'd like to say I would play IRL 7 Days to Day by excavating an elaborate underground fortress that would put what you read of in The Tunnels of Củ Chi to shame, but I'm probably overestimating my capacities. I predict it would be: nightmarish!

The WB: Fun and soulful. The CW: Bland and soulless. RIP Froggie

Big Trouble In Little China.

When I was younger, I would spend hours reading about dream topics while listening to the Earthbound soundtrack. The oddity of Earthbound itself and the logic-defying strangeness of the things I was viewing blended together pretty well: even today I associate some of the music with those times. I would use a program to slow the music down and add effects to make them sound even more spaced-out than they already are. It was a thrilling age. Dreams to me were a doorway to a mysterious realm that everyone had visited, but few had ever explored to their fullest potential. What I found most attractive was the idea of being able to consciously experience and even mold my own somatic adventures along the lines which I would dictate via lucid dreaming. It's a very ancient topic, but the modern-day practitioners- called Oneironauts after a combination of the Greek word for dream + sailor- have much more research to back up their claims. I was never very successful with it despite one or two minor incidents, but it's a real phenomenon. Like many other goings-on in the brain, why it happens at all is still speculatory at this point in time. Brain imaging in general and modern dream research are both fairly new and both closely associated with one another: it wasn't long ago at all that seeing the inside of a real human brain involved the use of a cadaver. No surprise, then, that the information we have is pretty sketchy in some respects. Toss in all of the other related advances in medical science (especially genetics) and you are going to see frequent changes in the basic assumptions of the field. But scientists can't just sit on their hands all day despite the rapid obsolescence of certain facets of established practicum, and so they do their best for us. One thing they seem to concur on is that not a few aspects of dreaming do in fact have a genetic basis: there are many factors involved, but some people are just born to be lousy candidates for the Dream Olympics. No two brains are alike: men and women have size differences in different portions of the brain, for instance. Age factors play a part as well - honestly easier to ask what doesn't have a part. Go beyond the quantifiable into the psyche and you may as well be on the moon with Princess Luna - in some respects, things wouldn't have changed much from the time she left until the time she returned. We just don't know too much about the purely psychological/spiritual side of dreaming despite the passage of tens of centuries: it's not much of a lie to say that a priest in Ancient Mesopotamia or Egypt could give you an answer that is just as good as some of what you'll read on PubMed or Sci-Hub. I wouldn't be quick to dismiss what they had to say, either, because those men of old knew more about the human heart and its secret works than we ever will again. Anyway, here's a few of those Earthbound tracks I was talking about earlier.

Best wrestling image I could find.