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Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote in [community profile] mobilegames2025-08-11 10:12 pm
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This is the August 10th Weekly Megapost & Chat!

This is the August 10th Weekly Megapost & Chat!

Things you can do in the comments-

- trade friend codes
- ask about games
- post about in-game events
- anything you don't want to make an individual post about
- share how the RNG is treating you
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schneefink ([personal profile] schneefink) wrote2025-08-11 11:42 pm
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Homestuck? In 2025? More likely than you think

A few weeks ago I was looking for another podcast to listen to and saw a rec for Homestuck made this world: "a show where two cultural critics, one an old Homestuck fan and the other a new reader, work through the landmark multimedia webcomic and discuss it with the intent to critically analyze and contextualize it and its effects on the world with a blend of media theory, game studies, and internet history." I just finished episode 7 part 3 and I've been enjoying it a lot. Interesting, and lots of nostalgia too. I look forward to them getting to the parts where I stopped reading, I don't exactly remember where that was.
As a bonus, I really enjoyed my friends' reaction when finding out about it: Homestuck? In 2025??! xD

So the timing of finding out about the planned animated pilot was especially funny. The trailer is... fine, I guess? I feel fairly neutral about the trailer itself. I think you could probably make a perfectly average, decent, maybe even good pilot (or even season 1, maybe.) But so much of what made Homestuck special relied on its medium and I think any adaption to another medium will inevitably fall short. And that's not even mentioning the scale problem.
It'll be made by the creators of Hellaverse, which I haven't seen but I have friends who are big fans, I'll have to find out if they were Homestuck fans too and either way it'll be funny.

(The announcement coming shortly after the Unofficial Homestuck Collection was taken down because of legal issues and people including Hussie being dicks might have been a coincidence or not, but I'm curious if there'll be an actual good way to reread the webcomic in (close to) its original form by the time the pilot comes out. Not that I want to, thankfully, the podcast helps with that.)
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schneefink ([personal profile] schneefink) wrote2025-08-10 09:57 pm
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August recs: Battleship Exchange, 18 fanworks

Getting some [community profile] battleshipex recs out before the anon phase ends soon.

I got two great gifts:

Next Time, Hermitcraft
0.6k, Etho & Decked Out 2
Summary: Prickles made it to the new season. Someone else didn’t.
The worldbuilding in this is fantastic, and I also love Etho here. Rusty <3

The Dead Hills, Hermitcraft
0.9k, Joe Hills/ZombieCleo, fantasy AU
Summary: Prince Joe of the Hills travels to meet his new spouse, Cleo the Zombie Queen
Great Joe voice, very him, and a very fun scenario.

And I have only read a small fraction of the other works in the collection, but under the cut are recs for some I especially enjoyed.
11 fics: Life Series, Dungeon Meshi, Naruto, Murderbot Diaries, Cthulhu/Taskmaster, Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean, Hermitcraft, Nirvana in Fire, Dream SMP
5 artpieces: original work, Murderbot Diaries, Spirit, Pokémon, Temeraire

15 fanworks )
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Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote in [community profile] mobilegames2025-08-03 04:44 am
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This is the August 3rd Weekly Megapost & Chat!

This is the August 3rd Weekly Megapost & Chat!

Things you can do in the comments-

- trade friend codes
- ask about games
- post about in-game events
- anything you don't want to make an individual post about
- share how the RNG is treating you
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schneefink ([personal profile] schneefink) wrote2025-08-01 11:19 pm

How is it August already

I went swimming today even though it was raining (lightly), yay minor accomplishments. I'm currently house-sitting for my parents and there's a great spot for swimming nearby, but due to a combination of bad weather and other plans I only went swimming twice so far. Better than nothing though.
Also, "bad" weather isn't really accurate, I like that it's not as hot and humid as it's been recently.

Recently I went on a bike ride for the first time in a while with my gf and found out that I'm even more out of shape (figuratively) than I thought, not great. I should improve that because biking can be very convenient. Maybe I should buy myself the kind of headphones I can use while wearing a helmet.

The second half of July felt very busy: my weekend classes started again, [community profile] battleshipex was going on (the collection is open and currently in the anon period), work is approaching the busiest time of the year, and I had plenty of plans with other people. For example I finally bought a couch, and I finally made it to karaoke again!, yay, it'd been a while. I maaay (definitely) have gotten less than optimal amounts of sleep at times, which does not help my energy levels at all. But at least there were also many fun things.

Past Life, the new Life Series season, is great so far, one of my favorite seasons already only four episodes in. It's not an ideal one to recommend to new people because many of the best parts build on the history between the players, but I have been watching some episodes with my gf while explaining some of the background, and we recently finished watching Grian's Third Life too.
I'm behind on both watching and note-taking but I'm having a great time.