The One True Nobody!

Yeeeeep.

Daylight Savings. Crud. I'm losing an hour of sleep. Best time of the year to be an insomniac.

I haven't played all of the versions, so I can't say. The one I've played is Sigma.

Oh, snap. Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered has a fully-controllable camera. Not just the DMC-styled fixed camera angles. That alone is an improvement. I want.

GASP. An overture of aid from another country whose president kept loudly and blithely talking about how he basically wanted to own Greenland, was rejected by Greenland?! Who... woooooooouuuuuulda thunk.

Blizzard warning in my area for the next two days. Bluh. They're saying 16 to 20 inches of snow. At least the state of emergency lets me call out of work without penalty.

I don't blame him. The way the trailer framed its ending clips was very confusing. But Trevor is the old guy reading the letter.

Although I am very aware that if I hope just one or two townships over, that impression would probably change in a hurry. But my local area was pretty nice and peaceful during the whole BLM protest time, too. The protests that happened went well, as far as I know.

In my experience, my local area doesn't seem to have that many cops who are jerks. I think it's a kind of feedback loop: departments with a lot of good cops already in them tend to recruit and produce more good cops, and vice-versa for departments with bad cops.

It could either be Sonia re-imagined as Trevor's daughter, or a re-canonization of some obscure lore regarding Trevor's daughters from unreleased Castlevania Bloodlines stuff, from what I see in these comments. We shall see.

They seem to have done a weirdly obscure job at portraying the main character in this trailer, though, because if you read the video's comments you can see a bunch of people not knowing who she is, and thinking that this is about a young Trevor Belmont or something, ha!

Gotta say, given the popularity of Netflix Castlevania, giving us a game about Trevor and Sypha's daughter and emphasizing new whip mechanics so much is a good place to start drawing people in who got into the series with that show.

Castlevania: Belmont‘s Curse Announcement Trailer (ESRB) | KONAMI YouTube video by Konami

So we have a new Castlevania, and we're playing as Trevor Belmont's successor (according to the game's website), what looks to be his daughter. And the game looks... really cool.
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Ooof. Timing.

I got pulled over by a cop like... two minutes after leaving work. Thought I might have accidentally speeded or something... he just politely warned me that my left headlight was out. My headlights both turned on when I unlocked my car in the parking lot; the damn thing LITERALLY just blew.

Oh, huh! I picked up the Tean Titans Complete Series Blu-Ray collection this week. It arrived yesterday. I was not expecting it to include the Trouble in Tokyo movie, but it apparently does. That's pretty cool.

Another manga/anime has landed on my "list" for purchase in the near future... it looks very good. "Your lie in April." Anyone here seen it?

"[character] being [thing] for [number of] minutes straight" has finally been replaced as my least favorite cookie-cutter YouTube title template, by "[this] vs [that] is NOT CLOSE."

The flavor text was kind of bland in SH1 and 2, but so much of Heather's personality comes out in the flavor text of SH3, it's great.

I like how everyone here is sniping at the wording of the post when the article link in the post leads directly to the headline "Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs," which once again shows how little attention people pay to social media posts before engaging with them.

What a shock.

Ah, rats, my car is shaking when it hits forty. Probably snow or ice in one of the tires causing an imbalance. It doesn't look like the temperatures will rise above the twenties for a while, though. I'll have to clean the tires manually at some point, I think...

Bluh. We got just enough snow today in my neck of New Jersey for it to be an absolute pain in the ass, but not enough for them to close my specific store, apparently. Most of the drive home was tolerable. Slow, but tolerable. Had to do the back-up, edge-up routine when I reached my neighborhood...

I'm partway through the Goddess Monument arc in the manga. It's a lot more laid back and cozy than the Aura, Mage Test, and Golden Land arcs.

That certainly is a grammatical usage of the word that no one is aware of or would ever use, but which I'm sure someone somewhere will ignore to claim that the new translation in the remake has been censored by the left, somehow.

It's a bit murkier than that but not by much. Public opinion certainly was divided though, and likely would have stayed divided for the duration if Japan hadn't attacked first; so I guess history's lesson regarding the U.S. is that if we're stewing in our own stupid internal divisions, let us stew.

Also, the vast majority of gameplay systems sprang out of inspirations from other media types, anyway. Horror games from horror films and books. Videogame RPGs from tabletop, which were in turn inspired by novels.

The thing about that though, is that precious few people only like *one* type of media in the first place. Almost everyone has another type, or another couple of types, that they also enjoy. So it's really not that big of an ask.

Demons, on the other hand, are a supernatural thing; even in Freiren their bodies dissolve when they die, indicating that they aren't really part of the physical world the way humans or elves are. So them effectively being wholly alien in their portrayal makes more sense.

I think this kind of thing works better with demons than with something like goblins or orcs because goblins and orcs are typically a species that exists within the physical world and which are (even in Tolkien's works) usually written as being sentient beings and not wholly alien.