By the way, I'm going to migrate my account to another instance, probably one more focused on retro gaming.

Just letting you know.

Sometimes, I forget about how vastly different each of my favorite media is. To summarize, I take high interest in a platformer series featuring an Italian plumber, another platformer series featuring a blue hedgehog who was the plumber's mortal enemy, a FPS game where you endlessly slaughter demons, a FPS game that requires you to run, think, shoot, live, rather than endlessly slaughtering demons, two indie adult animations with high production values where you empathize with demons, an adult animation that looks like it was made with cardboard cut-outs, despite not being indie, a survival horror that contains Hollywood-level action, a survival horror that contains arthouse storytelling, a semi survival horror with severe plot identity crisis, and an adventure game that's either a "beautiful masterpiece" or "complete trainwreck" depending on who you ask. Every major franchise I love essentially serves as an antethesis to one another, sometimes multiple others.

My tastes are more varied than I thought.

Okay, I should probably finish Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, though, I want to restart from the beginning. It's probably a me problem, but when I don't play something for a long while, continuing from where I left off feels wrong. I always want to complete a game in a condensed time frame, so resuming from a save point that's weeks old doesn't feel satisfying. It's kind of like watching a fight scene, except you pause for a few minutes, breaking the immersion and when you press play, everything suddenly feels disconnected. I know a lot of people love to flaunt the progress they made on a game over a long period, but I don't feel accomplished unless I complete something in an allotted time. I've heard some people say, "don't worry about that and just have fun."

That's the problem, I can't stop worrying, and continuing to do so turns what should be a fun experience into a chore. I know I'm in the minority here, but this is just how my brain works.

#actuallyautistic

I've said this several times, but the music in the Silent Hill series is amazing. Though, if I had to choose one track that I would consider my favorite, it would be 'End of Small Sanctuary'. It's hard for me to describe, but something about this track makes me feel nostalgic, despite having first listened to it recently. And by nostalgic, I mean being reminded of my days as a teen. In my early teens, this was the kind of music I listened to. At the time, the COVID Pandemic impacted the entire world, and I was isolated from all my friends, which worsened my already poor social skills. Even now, I still feel depressed on certain days. However, music like this eased my angst and still does. In addition, Heather Mason, the main character of SH3, is someone I could relate to, far more so than most fictional teens who are written as caricatures of adolescents. I never thought a piece of video game music would indirectly have me engage in introspection, and yet here we are. #VGMWednesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCJ8qeMiQac

TIL that gyromancy is a ritual where an individual spins around in a circle with each part of the edge marked with letters of the alphabet. Apparently, this ritual would go on until a cohesive sentence was formed or when the participant got too dizzy to continue.

I'm now cursed with the mental image of Dahlia Gillespie getting drunk one night and accidentally predicting the plot for a 90s horror game.

(If Silent Hill released in the 2010s, MatPat would have a field day with this game)

I went to that local retro game store again and got a pretty big steal. The games I bought sold for an average of 20-25 bucks which is cheap considering how stuff on the Nintendo GameCube is in high demand nowadays. Me being a Sonic fan, I got every GameCube game from the franchise that was available there in addition to some games that are considered essential to the GC. I have played five of the six shown here on Dolphin, but actually owning them and eventually playing them on their system of origin with no emulation feels awesome.

However, I've never played Wind Waker or any Zelda game with the exception of the first game on NES, and even then, I barely made progress there. Anyway, this puts my GC collection to 11 games; not much, but it's honest work. #retrogaming