I listen to Aftermath Hours p much to hear Luke Plunkett rail against stuff. I like the rest of the writers there a lot too and am signed up to support the site but I’m ride or die for Luke.
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I continue to get these logos confused - I got them confused in a record store in japan two weeks ago. I suspect I will continue to do so going forward. I think the confession part of this for me is that I find the logo more distinctive than either aphex twin or half life, at least in my life, where I have basically interacted only peripherally with either of those things.
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idk if people want to know more but it’s something i care about, but the aphex twin logo is a stylized uppercase A (that nub in the middle representing the horizontal bar) and the half-life logo is a lowercase greek lambda - λ - which is used in real life science math to represent exponential decay, like the radioactive half-life of some element (it also kinda looks like a hand holding a crowbar which is the i guess iconic melee weapon in the game but idk how true any of that is)
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i’ve been into aphex since sometime in the '90s so when the original design sketches were revealed a few years back i was real real into it
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My mother-in-law took my son outside. When we asked what they would be doing, she told us, “We’re going outside to play two-player Witness.”
So that’s a thing.
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I don’t think I can do Sonic 3. It’s supposed to be one of the best, but I’ve tried to get through it four times. I’ve tried au naturale, with rewinds, with invincibility. I’ve gotten stuck in four different places, just unable to understand how the space wants me to move forward – I got to the final boss of Sonic CD, but something about the level design of Sonic 3 is wholly incompatible with how my brain works.
I’ve never even gotten to the part where you play as Knuckles
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this has the same tone as the “baby shoes” story to me
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it’s equally tragic and affecting is probably why
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When I post about a game I’m playing over in the thread for it, I often stop playing it immediately after. I’m not sure what’s going on with that. It’s like some kind of psychological reaction that people now know what I’m playing, and I’ll have to tell you all about it once I’m further along. It’s silly, but it’s something I’ve noticed.
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i’ve had the same thing where i’ve posted about a book i’m close to finishing–like, now that i’ve performed, do i really need to actually read the thing? sadly the answer is yes.
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Glad to hear I’m not the only one. Thats why you have to hustle in silence 
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be like me: don’t post about what you’re playing/reading, because you’re not really playing or reading anything!
(this is a confession)
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I noticed the same thing happening to me! Especially the (self-imposed) expectation to have something insightful to say about the experience afterward feels oppressive. I decided to just write about stuff I finished or already decided that I’m done with it to avoid that. Leads to less posting about stuff, unfortunately.
Yeah I get the same feeling. Like talking about playing a game or reading a book makes my brain feel the accomplishment of having already done it and then it loses all interest. Weird.
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I usually keep playing whatever I’ve posted about, but it’s hilarious how often I’ll then revisit the post and have totally changed my tune. I then decide not to update my opinion for the most part. This happens on the main discord server I visit as well; a couple weeks back I told someone I didn’t think I could make myself finish the new Zelda, and he said “didn’t you say it was really good?” I’m sure I probably did, and you should know by now that I can’t be held responsible for deciding out of nowhere that I’m not having fun, never had fun, and don’t intend to try to have fun any further.
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Another reason why I can’t create content for my music pages on social media - recording + publishing the process makes me less motivated to finish the thing itself. Don’t know how bigger “creatives” do it, frankly.
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my tombstone will say “no further questions”
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Inspired by these comments to post about the most recent game I played rather than allow it and my thoughts to be lost to history
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Totally anecdotal of course but I hear more often about how Sonic 3 lost something that made the previous games good, or even that it’s bad/unplayable, more than I hear praise for it.
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Mine will say “This concludes my prepared remarks.”
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that makes me feel better, I will take this more affirming anecdotal experience. I’ve been slowly working my way through all the Sonics over the past year or so as a comfort food – I still have a lot to go to re-assess Sonic in my adulthood, but the smoothest ones for me have been Sonic 2, Sonic Advance 2, Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure, and Sonic Frontiers. The only other thing that has stopped me dead has been the final boss of Sonic CD, straight up can’t do it
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