My New Kia Forte5
My new Kia Forte5
This is my new ride, a 2016 Kia Forte5 SX. I wanted a new five door hatchback with a backup camera, Bluetooth audio, and a nice interior for road trips. When I walked up to the car with the key and the mirrors folded out, I knew this was the one. When I went to Shumatsucon this weekend, I parked in the craziest parking spot I know and took some pictures.
With this, the hardware upgrades are complete. This car is so good, I feel like I need to improve myself to be worthy of it. More on that later.
It's about time I took my own wide angle picture like this. I had to wait a week for a nice day, and I happened to be at an event near this parking garage. I even got a helicopter in the shot!
I probably won't drive up there again. It's really tight climbing to the 8th floor of Fifth Third Center with a car. It's only good for pictures. I haven't tried panorama before. The car looks kinda warped, but I got all of Columbus Commons. It's too cool not to include.
Source: my phone camera on the 8th floor of Fifth Third Center
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Plamoo - Mystery Stop Motion
What kind of blog about cool stuff from the Internet would be complete without Plamoo’s stop motion movies done with Japanese action figures? For the past few years, he’s been perfecting the art with unusually smooth animations, unpredictable action sequences, and wacky parodies.
Also worth mentioning is LUXE37, which is this idea done with die-cast toy cars.
Source: Niconico (was 003 謎のストップモーション / Mystery Stop Motion – YouTube) and 疾走の追跡(Miniature car chase) – YouTube.
Lagwagon – May 16
Most of what I know about punk rock came from the Tony Hawk games. I’ve been listening to punk on SiriusXM and Spotify and I keep recognizing songs from Tony Hawk games. This one’s from THPS2. That one’s from Underground 2. That one’s from Downhill Jam. I didn’t realize that these songs were icons in the wider punk rock community, to the point that May 16 is now “Lagwagon Day“. Is it like 20, November for Bemani fans?
Source: Moshcam via YouTube search
Dr. Fatbody - Sonic the Hedgehog 1 at AGDQ2019
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Source: Games Done Quick via GeekNights
Anamanaguchi – Another Winter
30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 24: Music you constantly have stuck in your head From Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game (PS3, August 10, 2010)
Happy 10th anniversary! We want to buy this precious little beat-’em-up, but it’s been delisted since 2014. This Anamanaguchi soundtrack is all we have left of it.
Update: Scott Pilgrim collected a 1up and is getting another digital release in 2020. I hope we get a physical release too. I don't want to lose this again.
Source: YouTube, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun
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Update: Captain Southbird has released Rev 2B which fixes a couple bugs, so get that one instead.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck_a8Y3Gefo via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9rIGa9R9bE via YouTube subscription, also http://sonicepoch.com/sm3mix/
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Challenger is famous for its control scheme which is backwards compared to modern games. On the NES controller, you would press A to shoot and B to jump. I actually played this on a Power Joy by Trump Grand that I bought for $5 at CORGS-Con, but it has the A and B buttons reversed. It makes the Power Joy terrible for most games but perfect for Challenger.
The video features Skype chat from myself, Jdetan, and Kinkaido, so of course it’s NSFW.
Wow, it's been a long time since I've had an actual image on this blog, right? Anyway, the top of the N64-ish controller actually has a pointy bit that functions as the Zapper. The trigger is where the N64's Z button would be. It doesn't work well.
Source: Challenger with Commentary – YouTube, which is edited from an .flv archive of my Instagib stream (Instagib.tv deletes archives after 24 hours), uploaded to YouTube, downloaded from YouTube as an .mp4, and finally edited in Pinnacle Studio 14 like my other videos. I really need to find a better way to do this. Also, the camera on my phone.
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Source: YourMKArcadeSource via Nathan Phillips and Now You’re Playing With Podcast
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Source: Really Bad Chess via Jiko via Google Play recommendations
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Source: http://www.ubernes.com/nesscreensaver.html via the UberNES – NES Screen Saver Facebook page
Hideki Naganuma – Teknopathetic (e-Pop'n Disco 80's Mix)
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXqxg3FpuDA via a DuckDuckGo search via RadioSEGA
