For sure! Kick ass score! Trying to show me up, eh? :P
Good stuff. Take a look at Ultimate Success next if you end up enjoying that album. Really anything by them is great, but Ultimate Success is their newest, I believe, so you can see where they are at musically now.
I can understand the occasional reference, or encounter with a character who has those qualities. But almost every book with every main or supporting character gets to be ridiculous. "Meet Amami Tutsudo, she's the owner of the local bakery known for her undying love for Chopin, her mind soars with his transcendent movements, which she plays while baking her acclaimed loaves of bread."
Zip is the best. Bill Griffith is one of my favorite cartoonists.
Oh, that's awesome. I didn't know they were. I'm excited ;D
Not surprising at all. He has the vibe of a 8 year old telling me,"by the way, did I ever tell you about how much I love MINECRAFT!," over and over again. I suppose the thing that gets me is that I've never seen an author inject a personal interest in something in their work to this degree. I've read a few authors where you can kind of get a feel for certain things they like, but they usually aren't so obvious and overt about putting those interests on blast. It's just jarring to me.
Yeah, I dabbled a bit with the full game since I own it through itch.io. But never played past the third stage. I'm no stranger towards brutal platformers though, so maybe that gave me a little bit of a boost. I can hold my own with fairly difficult games and have even tried my hand at some Mario Kaizo hacks. That said, I still felt like I was doing a lot worse than I was apparently. It's also been quite some time since I really took on a challenge of this difficulty, as I have been mostly been playing cozy stuff like TOEM and GNOG lately. I'm really enjoying the change of pace though, it feels good to beat a good challenge like this again. I'm playing through Celeste Classic 2 now, and I'll be playing the full Celeste soon as well.
Once you get the hang of the controls, it really is a blast to play. I'm not typically one for speedruns or no death runs, but I just might replay it a few times in the future just to challenge myself. I'm fairly decent at platformers, so it'd be cool to see how far I can hone my skills. I'm playing Celeste Classic 2 which utilizes a grappling hook as the primary mechanic, and it's giving me a run for my money too. All of this amped up platforming challenge is actually making me want to download a NES or SNES Super Mario Kaizo hack.
Haha, and here I was thinking that I did horribly. I saw someone on a random reddit thread say they did it in 400 and something.
As I was typing this out I rechecked the thread and they we're playing the full PC version with assist mode on. Apparently the PC version has the original playable within the game at some point. A quick Google search put the average at 1000-1200 or more deaths for the Pico-8 version.
So, damn. That makes me feel pretty awesome lol. Thanks for the kind words, you made my day!
A gruff, one-eyed, one-legged seagull looks at you and the crumbled fiver with unreserved scorn. He caws loudly at the assembled seagulls on the railings and decks of nearby boats,"Hey guys, getta load of this schmoe treatin' us like we's a bunch of knuckle draggin' apes, wadda we gonna do wit that ass-wipe?! And you come 'round 'ere actin' like youse one-a us!! Get 'em boys, we don' need no polly poser on our territory, 'specially when they ain' got no food to gives us!
A huge mass of seagulls start furiously dive-bombing you, pecking at swiping at you with their feet. Dozens and dozens of angry gulls swarm about you, as you try and bat them away, your foot slips into a pile or rope left on the deck, tripping you, causing you to stumble overboard! The rope winds itself around you leg, preventing you from fulling into the harbor, but you know dangle helplessly from the side of the boat like a colorful pinata. The birds continue to swarm, taking turns carrying nearby trash and dropping it on you. You hang upside down, covered with egg shells, burger wrappers and half eaten corndogs.
Nearby the robot is struggling to get up, it slams it's fist on the ground angrily, like some sleep-deprived toddler throwing a tantrum. Just behind him, wedged into the branches of a tree and looking like a large dustbunny, is Wattage Woman, struggling to dislodge herself.
I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that independent comic creators are spread out over multiple publishing companies and not just a few independent imprints. You have Drawn and Quarterly, Fantagraphics and a whole host of others that publish smaller, indie graphic novels. There are also a lot of traditional book publishers that publish graphic novels now too. There's a lot out there, but it's not under any one umbrella like it was back in the 80s/90s.
Kafka did, but after that I've had trouble getting over that default setting time and time again. I still have Sputnik from the library, so I might push ahead and see if it lures me in, but I'm still annoyed by the repetitive use of the same motifs.