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Recommendations: Unbeatable (Demo)

Originally I wrote this recommendation comparing Unbeatable to a certain failure from last year that shares many similarities on paper... but part of Unbeatable's draw is just how unique its execution is, and the quality and care that's paired with it.

The presentation just leaps through th...

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Spent all of my Tuesday on Taxes.

Whenever sending anything to the Government or Corporations, the "title" I put down varies. If it's a manual prompt, I'll sometimes write "Youtuber" which I'm not a big fan of, but automatic prompts often have "Influencer" which I'm not a big fan of.

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Recommendations: Now & Then by Adam Freeland

Some years ago, I looked at Spotify playlist that catalogued all the songs it possibly could from the 15+ years of Top Gear aired on Television. Because the BBC have a licensed music library that any of their shows can use without paying anything, tons of music gets utilized over the course of se...

Q&A: April 23rd, 2025

Rocketmushroom Asks
When are you going to release your “Chaser… still the greatest flawless masterpiece years later” and “Ride to Hell Retribution, love it more than Nutella and peanut butter” ?

When I've made a clone who can take that duty over for m...

Recommendations: Clue (1985)

I watched Adolescence.

I'm reading "There Are No Accidents."

I listened and recommended Penelope Trappes' "A Requiem."

All quality but... heavy. You know what's needed? Something light, and fun, but don't let those two words trick you into expecting slop. It's funny how...

Is Final Fantasy Powerful Because It's Cute?

One line I remember from Apex Legends' Loba is "you should smile more" before stomping somebody to death… with a smile on their face. Okay, but seriously, it's a very simple, yet clever reversal of a line that's been condescending woman for generations the instant they have the gall to not beam...

Recommendations: Cairn Demo

Welcome to the latest episode of "Raycevick's friend predict a game he was obviously going to love."

The Game Bakers have very rapidly become one of my favorite developers even though I've only played a Demo of one of their games Haven, and honestly didn't click with it's moment to moment g...

Recommendations: A Requiem by Penelope Trappes

I've been on a real Modern Metal kick recently, so I forced myself to mix up the albums being added to my rotations to stop this from just being a ceaseless list of House of Protection, Crossfaith, Thornhill, and Memphis May Fire... though don't be surprised if I still shout-out the HOP EP when t...

Before the Storm

So I've Finally Played…
Life is Strange Before the Storm.

That's probably not what most people were expecting me to first clear off the list after rewriting myself into Obli...

Recommendations: Portal: Still Alive

Those who've seen my Orange Box Years Later video might remember this, but weirdly, Portal Still Alive isn't just a straight individual copy of the original game sold separately from Valve's iconic bundle, but a version of the game which had it's own Campaign with 14 original levels.

The st...

Q&A: March 26th, 2025

And now... back to our bi-weekly programming!

Duncan Gohl Asks
What are some campaigns/narratives from games you played that you wish were better than what was executed? (Mine would be BF3 and both modern MOH games)

Funny enough, I've had ...

EARLY VIDEO: "This Game is Perfection, Please Don't Buy It"

https://youtu.be/O7N6On1Ar2k

I can't remember when I said it... but I know at some point I mentioned wanting to make the Patreon releases of videos the 100% complete finished products. However, I started taking down my not...

Update: March 17th, 2025 - Crisis Averted

I don't mean for this Patreon to become Cyberpunk's Yellow Update tweets, but last night proved to be an... adventure.

TL;DR Listed at Bottom:

Taking a break and practically falling asleep in the ...

Update: March 9th, 2025

I was hoping make light of the video's "Next Week" release having to be on the last day of the week, but I've unfortunately massively underestimated the workload of this video's final stint, and now not even a technicality can stop my promise from not being kept.

What making this video has ...

Recommendations: The Sky, The Earth & All Between by Architects

Well, it seems that Jordan Fish can get me interested in anything.

While plunging further and further into the depths of Metal these last few years, Architects was a band I only saved one or two songs from, none of which coming from their last album that seemed to be the Black Sheep even am...

Update: March 1st, 2024

Average Pixel was kind of enough last week, during a quite hectic month, to make an animation for my next video! When asking for a Deadline, I said "I'm aiming to be completed by Friday."

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Q&A: February 26th, 2025

Dzera Asks
Is there a genre of games that you personally could never get into?

MMO's are the easiest example. One I'm not sure will ever change due to my general interest in games just not really aligning with what MMO's strive to accomplish.

I'm not inter...

Recommendations: Perfect Dark: Initial Vector by Greg Rucka

You'd never see me recommending on here Perfect Dark Zero on the Xbox 360...

So why is its sequel novel on here?

Because, though it's slop with action-scenes, global stakes, and cowboy one-liners from Johanna Dark... it's good slop!

I recall this from Greg Rucka's work on the c...

"It's Only a Second."

Microsoft were definitely having a laugh when they called their program "OneNote." Dude… I've taken probably one-hundred thousand.

One of those sub-section's I've got adding to the word count over a period of years is called "dialogue." It's not dialogue for anything in particular, it's n...

Recommendations: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2

Vicarious Visions continue to be one the character actor of video-games.

That group who are never going to be given the notoriety of Naughty Dog, ID Software, or Bungie, nor are they in the position to as a support studio, but never the less, doesn't stop them from showcasing ...

Q&A: February 12th, 2025

February 12th... technically.

Dzera Asks
Opinion on the current PC optimizations? Games have become a lot more demanding but without the benefit of added fidelity or quality of graphics, since probably like 2021 or 2022. Are the devs lazy or is it because they d...