Drakodan
@drakodan
Help I can't play game 33 | Speedrunning | Videogames | Music Occasional philosopher, chronic metalhead. Minors DNI. Games Committee Lead @albionspeedrun.co.uk linktr.ee/drakodan The best is yet to come.
I know it's common knowledge that Magnus Carlsen is the best Chess player in the world, but what really drives that home is how consistent he was during his long reign as WC, and how the two who have come after in the last few years instantly collapsed. Red dot = Became WC "The crown is too heavy."
BEYOND relieved to be done with the most dreadful fucking grind I've done for an achievement set to date. No I didn't leave the game on overnight for days at a time. The Advance Wars DS set genuinely takes this fucking long, the median time is close to 180 hours.
Reached 19650 on Ice Cold Beer, last stage of fourth lap only to find that the top route for 10 doesn't work because once the height caps and it tries to tilt higher, it locks your controls and auto-dumps the ball in a hole. That's cursed.
Can we get an SGDQ leaderboard going for Ice Cold Beer? Currently on NG+++ at 15000
Well, it ain't WR, but it is a 2x, and one I'm pretty happy with for the last session before leaving for SGDQ!
4th > 2nd, on the no-reset first attempt of the evening. Gotta love runs with shit execution that are hard-carried by good RNG.
This is without a doubt the hardest gaming-related-thing I've done in quite a while. Wanted to get this set completed before SGDQ since I'm running the game there, but I didn't think I'd actually get it done in time. Crazy Hard mode is appropriately titled, holy shit does it not fuck around.
I have no idea why the YT algorithm rec'd this channel, but I'm grateful because this is by far the most epic channel I've seen in a long time.
Reminder that when a corporation insists that THEY must be the ones to sell you something and you MUST buy it from them and you WILL be happy about it, this is what they're expecting you to be. Moreover in this instance we're talking about the most basic human need that should be non-negotiable.
Also came with a new pressing of The Odyssey. Between having these and Paradise Lost, I'm now just praying that Sheet Happens can do a pressing of The Divine Wings of Tragedy at some point, that would be perfection.
Last order for now, and THRILLED with this one: First ever vinyl pressing of one of Symphony X's finest efforts: V - The New Mythology Suite
In this difficult time of AI art bullshit discourse, a reminder to make your own art, even just for yourself. Pictured: The album cover for Morbid Angel's "Blessed are the Sick", followed by a couple of composites by me of "Remastered" art using a scan of the original painting by Jean Delville.
NGC was the best gaming magazine published in the UK, I'm not available to be persuaded on this topic.
I'm a massive fucking poser when it comes to electronic music, but to say this album did the rounds in the UK during the late 2000s would be an understatement.
The one Displacer Beast in BG3 that I yeeted down a huge slope with a Critical Hit on Pushing Attack with Great Weapon Master: All In active, triggering extra fall damage, proc'ing Cull the Weak:
Different kind of UKSG debrief: I went to a really good local record shop called Monorail Records and came away with quite a haul! Photodump incoming, Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol 2: