The Hoard

taichara: 13 (well, 12 2/3 or something, and one skimmed) light novels in three shifts.
taichara: I retain my ability to chew text like a lunatic after all, I guess.

So YSST kicked off this week and I must say I was pleasantly surprised! Not that the episode was good -- all signs pointed to this project looking pretty damn good -- but that it actually left me excited to see what the fuck is happening. Also that it raises Many Questions[tm] if you've been around the block for decades but kicks off in such a way that watching it without having seen YST is fine, which is good.

Nasti being right there is also Good and lol props to Sunrise for keeping her under wraps right up until just as (after?) the first episode aired, lolololol --

Hopefully it can keep up as it began. It's absolutely seriously not taking itself seriously, except when it does, which is everything I could ask for in a start.

one growing suspicion I had over the promo months panned out (and how!), I wonder about the bigger red-string-and-pins suspicion even more now ...


Meanwhile in a continued Series Of Sure Coincidences Lolsobwhat, I decided to shell out and get me an omg.lol account the same day Denise started screeching about LJ's imminent demise (and not not~ long after Denise annoyed the fuck out of me wrt Dreamwidth, last month); now the day I activated my account on omg.lol's irc server, Discord is preparing to go public and is filing for a public offering.

Well, a major reason I was interested in omg.lol specifically was its irc (and other similar things), so time to dig around even more and prepare I suppose --

Whether waiting for Neatnik to finish its webhosting plans to go along with omg.lol or finally getting around to Neocities or Nekoweb or something, I need to get on with that. Maybe I can even pull it off before the year is over? Maybe?


I'm gonna take the YSST win, though. Yep.

We have a new Classic Mega Man announced! Mega Man Dual Override!




... predictably the fans are being the most stupid whining motherfuckers ever to not be mercifully drowned in a toilet bowl. *lies flat*


Apparently this isn't the only thing coming down the pike, though, according to Protodude:

"So, what I can say:

This project has been in development on and off for a couple of years. It is not Taisen. It is, and at one point was titled, Mega Man 12. It was originally planned to be announced earlier this year, as far back as spring.

It is a keystone project for the 40th anniversary. Not the only one, but a big one."

Spose I'll keep a sliver of thought and hope alive for X9 or anything X-series tbh, but we'll see -- Capcom deciding Mega Man is going to be upjumped to a core IP could mean just Classic, or ...

Every time I feel even the slightest frisson of "I should at least post more and those posts should be more ~fandom", (ao3/dw/tumblr-centric) (transformative) fandom reminds me why no, actually, "fandom" can fuck itself, lol.

The last two months or so have been especially remindering!

What with

- the Relationshipping/Mod Cabal discord server horseshit (that poor recip) and the circling of the wagons to protect all those fuckhole exchange mods

- the sniveling cowardly and greedy fuck rampaging across fandomgiftbasket (because they want their gifts nownownow)

- the other sniveling cowardly fuck (who clearly thinks too much of themselves and of fandom) who decided to scurry away to FFA to sniff instead of actually engaging with opinions (ahahaa did you think one of us wouldn't see you)

just off the top of my head --

Yeeahhhh I'm good. I'm going to keep on just randomly posting to show I'm not dead and periodically adding stuff to loneknight, and fuck ~*Fandom*~. Always knew it was a cesspool; seeing more and more accelerating evidence of that these days.

(that said, props to the folks who also decided the sniveling fuck having a tantrum on fandomgiftbasket can fuck themselves, and all tossed in to fill baskets. you folks are good folks yo.)

Lol. Fukkin lol.

taichara — 9:50 AM
so far tonight/the weekend is looking like [Deathscythe] Hell and me picking at sailormoon, I better make sure to add Mario and old FF stuff to round out the time travel

CHRIST ON A BIKE WHAT

Okie so when I said on fandom50challenge I probably wouldn't be posting as much this month I didn't actually mean I'd be falling off the trolley altogether, but here we are? It's kind of been a possum scream couple of weeks.

This post is for a different kind of possum scream though!

The fannish kind where I go "Sunrise are you actually seriously putting new canon material for a Gundam setting into a goddamn mobile game?!" -- and honestly the mobile part isn't even what's getting me! If it was a bog standard console G Generation game I'd be just as fucking baffled!

(the timing is dumb as balls because it's for Cosmic Era and SEED Freedom was last year; I blame how delayed G Generation Eternal was)

But yeeeaaaahhhh filling in, apparently-supposedly, what Kira was doing and what Athrun was doing between SEED and SEED Destiny -- as opposed to SEED Eclipse, which is also between series but is about a new cast altogether -- and it's stuffed in a bloody SD G Generation game.

A mobile one at that.

I guess arguably being a mobile game actually makes it more accessible to fans ...?

Still. What the actual fuck.



Also where is my fucking new Wing material in this 35th anni Banrise where the fuck is it

When FFVII Ever Crisis launched two Septembers ago finally I was absolutely onboard with it, because sure I'll go through VII and Crisis Core in a version adapted for my phone -- but the big draw was the First SOLDIER storyline that went alongside them.

Actually, now I'm going to sidetrack with a bit of clarification for the audience at home, because a year and a half on and people still keep fucking this up despite the information being right there:

The First SOLDIER storyline in FFVII Ever Crisis is not the same goddamn thing as the actual game (now defunct) called FFVII: The First SOLDIER. Said game was a make-your-own-PC first party shooter with no plot (but cool chocobos). The FS storyline in EC is an actual storyline. The sole connection is that three would-be SOLDIERs from the FS trailer are the majority of the cast (oh and Lucia does get a namecheck when FFVII: TFS closed and your PC graduates).

-- but this is also relevant because the FS storyline put into Ever Crisis for the ~first year or so was, actually, really fucking good.

I honestly wasn't expecting much, because "ooohhh come see young Sephiroth" waved more red flags than a flag store. I was wrong, and it was really, really well done --

( First SOLDIER story part 01 commentary )

... and then the first anniversary of the game rolled around and a giant steaming shit was taken on everything.

I could bitch a lot (a lot) about the other factors, like the jawdroppingly awful softcore bullshit that was the anni outfits, and more and more pushing playerscore bignums, and etc etc; but we're here for me bitching about the story walking off a cliff.

So.

(an aside: the game started off also giving us character multi-chapter mini-storylines. we started with Tifa, Aerith and Cloud. partway through the first year they added Barret's, which wrecked my shit. there's been none since. I don't think this is a coincidence.)

So with the first FS storyline wrapped up, it was time for another! Which kicked off post-first anni.

It features Spudiroth and a young Angeal and it is the worst fucking thing.

On top of, frankly, just deeply, shockingly poorer writing as a technical thing all around, this staggering mess (which is taking place in east-buttfuck-nowhere Wutai):

( First SOLDIER story part 02 commentary )

Herd of teal deer: I don't know what the fuck changed after the first anniversary of Ever Crisis, but it shot the game in the head (finances are proving that!) and, worse, it's fucking up everything because the writing quality yeeted itself so fast into the sun it left speedlines.

And I'm goddamn mad because it was so good. Just. Goddamnit.

I feel like at this stage giving a full-throated fuck you to the entire miserable universe is the only thing left, but alas here we are.

Having set aside learning PICO-8 for the time being because Stressed As Fuck, I've started chewing on a pile of games all at once -- and by a pile of games I mean a wild-ass collection of Final Fantasy IV hacks (Free Enterprise seeds, FFC2 [bonus, also a FFII alternate universe], and I have Unmitigated Crisis, Darkness Within and Ultima lined up) and many Fire Emblem translations (Heroes Of Light [Mystery Of The Emblem]), demakes (Sacred Echoes), and hacks/retellings (Princess' Lament, Sacred Trilogy ...). And reading Fire Emblem novels.

I am between one and the other chewing on two versions of Gaiden/Echoes and three of Sacred Stones simultaneously. Might get to four, depending on how I feel, but nerfing Seth into the ground makes me cranky so Reforged may not join the list. I'm playing a remake of Dark Dragon in Sacred Stones engine and now might just go ahead and play the version that's in Mystery as "The War Of Shadows" before moving on to "The War Of Heroes" ...

None of this counts the chewing on everything from FFVII to Joust occasionally.

It's not getting Romancing SaGa 2 played either.

Whatever. Final Emblem Fire Fantasy time.

Day Five: What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?

You want an honest answer?

None.

Not a single fucking one.

I can't think of a single fandom I've experienced in the last 10-15 years that didn't start circling the drain as soon as people started noticing it for whatever reason (usually because of a new version but not always). No. Just no. Never fucking again.

Ask me what I feel about what my other fandom as old as Transformers is like since 2016 I fucking dare you.

The more that things dear to me fly under the radar the happier I'm going to be from now on.