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New Secret Area post (the first for 2024!): A post about Avenged Sevenfold's Free For All map in Fortnite, which segues into an issue I have with modern cross promotions.

Likes, shares and comments appreciated, as always.

asecretarea.com/2024/01/20/ave

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New Secret Area Entry: We talk about them Mountain Dew Game Fuel flavors.

After a brief hiatus, they brought them back. In typical fashion, I decided to go back to the well once more.

And yes, the master chief is in the soda.

asecretarea.com/2023/11/23/mou

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New Secret Area post: It's Blood of the Werewolf.

There haven't been very many great werewolf video games out there. Does this game break that curse?

Shares and comments appreciated, as always: asecretarea.com/2023/10/28/blo

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fursona reveal!! 

Hey, remember when I was talking about wanting a cat fursona?

Well, thanks to a picrew, and a friend who was willing to help, it's now a reality.

Say hi to Tonya! She's soft, cuddly, and friendly!

(art by Megahand6 on birdsite)

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ps visit my website it has cool dumb video game things

I made a new post yesterday to cover devolver digital's silly advergame

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my partner is streaming assassin's creed II and she switched to the Italian dub and strangely, it fits better than I expected it to

transphobia 

Someone left a rather transphobic comment on my post about Celeste.

How much of a sad boy do you have to be to make a comment like that, on my small blog of all things

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There's hall effect sensors

Where's the Oates effect sensor

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little story for tonight.

while i was goofing around with #globalTalk, I ended up searching for some old Simpsons icons for my classic Macintosh (an LC 475), and stumbled upon an entry on the garden called Banned Simpsons Icons. (Who could resist downloading something with a title like that?)

They were called the "Banned Simpsons Icons" because Fox once sent the artist - Jeanette Foshee - a cease & desist letter for her uncannily perfect renderings of the copyrighted characters. they planned on suing her for every penny she made ($0.00) on them. this was back in 1995.

i thought - hell, what a wild story. why don't I get a hold of the artist - jeanette - and find out more about her banned icon set?

what i stumbled upon broke my heart, and i ended up spending a week digitally preserving what i could find.

read the rest of this diary entry here: www.dialup.cafe/~vga256/diary.

#smallWeb #homepage #worldwideweb #marchintosh #macintosh

update: now listening to Billy Joel's Glass Houses, on an incredibly old tape that squeaks when played.

partially annoying but I can deal with it.

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sometimes it's the kind of day where you listen to Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "The Best of BTO (So Far)" on cassette on a tacky My First Sony cassette boombox

I've now bought a 360 controller receiver so I can play YARG with my GH5 guitar controller rather than the wired X-plorer I had been using.

Damn it seems the "Fortnite Festival to Clone Hero/YARG" pipeline hit me hard.

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Last piece of Modern AU Pirate's Fate stuff for the time being.
Mila n Morgana getting frisky down by a harbourside tavern~

you folks love that "star trek," right

this thrift store has a bunch of these for a buck each!

re: mild rant about rhythm game customs 

Thankfully it seems some custom song folks have made charts that support all difficulties and aren't hard for the sake of being hard.

If it was nothing but incredibly hard songs, I probably wouldn't even bother with YARG/Clone Hero and would stick to the official games instead. which would be a bummer tbh

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mild rant about rhythm game customs 

I find it a bit frustrating that rhythm game customs tend to lean towards making charts that are pointlessly difficult.

not everybody's a god-tier player who's beaten Through the Fire and Flames at 125% speed while blindfolded, you gotta accommodate for the lesser-skilled as well.

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i'm overqualified for most jobs on linkedin yet they can't bring me in because mr uk government says i can't generate value for their economy without paying them thousands of pounds to get a little piece of paper ^^; maple.pet/tech give me money

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been playing through Guitar Hero 1's setlist through YARG.

As someone who never played the original game, it definitely has the "first game in a series" rough patch when it comes to things like the charts and song selection.

Still fun, though.

I'm starting to realize I have a *lot* of stuff and I probably don't need most of it but it's hard to get rid of it

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Sometimes you wanna just throw a bunch of junk into a container so you can sort through it much much later and realize you don't need 80% of it

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While I'm digging through my old watercolor work, here's my big fifteen-minutes-of-fame, frontpage-of-reddit-several-times comic that got retweeted into orbit in the days of Early Twitter, from around 2009-2010.

It's an open secret that if you get a cute fox involved, you're bound to get loads of traction with computer people.

#firefox #watercolor #WebComic #MastoArt

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