PiNe – Lemonade

"Weird Al" Yankovic – Word Crimes

“Weird Al” Yankovic is fed up with your misspelled and misused words. It’s not that hard, people. Even on phones, keyboards like Swype make it easy enough to use proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation. There’s plenty of red pen in this video, but this is the first time since high school that I’ve seen a sentence diagram. I heard this song at RiffTrax Live’s screening of The Room, a legendary bad movie that commits crimes against words, storytelling, logic, anatomy, and football.

Source: YouTube via the trivia slides for RiffTrax Live: The Room, parody of Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell

Wallpaper Watchface

For Android Pebble users, Canvas for Pebble makes plenty of information available to your watchfaces. It’s hard to display much information on such a small screen and still look nice. For Wallpaper Watchface, the time is still large and in charge, and the other two lines are stuffed with so much small text and icons that the screen takes about 20 seconds to load. Missed calls and unread messages make new notifications appear on top of the large wallpaper image. Replace that Pebble Beach wallpaper with any graphic you want from your phone.

Wallpaper Watchface was built on Canvas for Pebble v2.0.6 beta which requires Pebble firmware 2.0 beta 5. If you have that stuff installed, click the links below on your phone to install the appropriate screen on your Pebble.

Wallpaper Watchface Imperial Wallpaper Watchface Metric

It's tricky to photograph e-ink displays indoors, let alone time the shot to the second... Ick, this preview looks ugly. This is why I took a photo of the watch itself.

Source: My wrist again, Canvas for Pebble v2.0.6 beta, and Greg V Music – Lone Cypress Tree, Pebble Beach CA

Yasuhisa Watanabe – Girl of Power

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 8: Music from a shooter (first or third person) From Border Down (Dreamcast, 2003)

I’m glad lots of people chose shmups for this prompt. There’s so many good soundtracks to choose from, and I’ve got more coming.

Source: YouTube, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun

Tower of Heaven

Tower of Heaven is a Game Boy-styled platform game with a great soundtrack that keeps adding conditions for failure. The controls are simple, but it's easy to get near the end of a section and accidentally break one of the game's many rules. Take ten minutes and try this out. Since then, they've made another game, Pause Ahead, which I want to run blind on my stream soon.

Speedrun times are almost a minute faster than this. This is a fun game to run, and I'd totally race this on SpeedRunsLive. There's only one real skip, and everything else is just platforming skill.

Source: Play Tower of Heaven | askiisoft.

Hydelic and Kate Brady – Always Been but Never Dreamed

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 11: Puzzle game music From Tetris Effect (PS4, 2018)

Multiplayer modes are coming, but will they use the VR environments and keysounded music that made this the best classic Tetris?

Source: YouTube and Hydelic, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun

Wave – Meowvel vs Catcom Infurnite!

You came back! I realized while writing the PiNe post that my most recent artist post was this one, so I updated it in case anyone came back and looked. Since then, Marvel vs Capcom Infinite came out and Wave gave it the Meowvel treatment.

Source: Suzuran’s DeviantArt via Capcom Unity five years ago

Happy Marvel vs Capcom Infinite day :)

Highraiser – Just Warming Up

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 7: Music from an indie game From Butterflies – Episode 1: Rudies (Windows, 2018)

Grab this game on itch.io to warm up for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Leave it to the fans to faithfully carry on Jet Set Radio’s legacy.

Source: Highraiser and YouTube, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun

Rob Hubbard – Monty on the Run

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 26: Music you like from a game you haven’t played From Monty on the Run (C64, 1985)

I grew up in an Apple II house, so I’ve barely touched the Commodore 64. I’ve played Space Taxi a couple times, but that’s it. Is THEC64 worth picking up?

Source: YouTube via I Wanna Be the Guy, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun

Xinon – Origin

I just got on the train headed for another PAX East! 70,000 gamers get together in Boston every year to play games, and you can find competition in any game there is. Last year, I took second place in the tournaments for Tetris DS and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, and I’ve been training to win them both this time around. I’ll be updating Twitter just like last year.

Anyway, enjoy some high-energy Game Boy chiptunes courtesy of Xinon. This album has gotten me through some long, tiring weekends.

Source: https://xinon.bandcamp.com/album/origin via a Spotibot playlist based on my Last.fm recommendations

Shattered Skies – The End and the Rebirth

Hello from Tumblr! I’ve been thinking, and I realize that my WordPress blog posts are basically Tumblr posts anyway. I might as well make it a Tumblr blog because I lose almost nothing. I plan to re-make all of my WordPress posts as proper Tumblr posts, properly reblogging the Tumblr stuff this time to comply with the posters’ wishes. For instance, my post for PiNe’s illustrations will become reblogs of every image when possible. Once I learn to Tumblr properly and get my theme and cross-posts working correctly, this is going to be good.

Source: Shattered Skies via Google Play Music radio