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Stream schedule this week:

Tuesday: Paper Mario at 7:30 pm (CT)

Thursday: Paper Mario at 7:30 pm (CT)

We’re about halfway through the game so we should be done soon!

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yet another day of me instantly recognizing junichi suwabe's voice in another anime

Staaaappp ittttt 😭

Stream schedule!!!!!!

Tonight: Spongebob and the Cosmic Shake

Thursday: More of the same.

However, the time’s gonna be a bit different. Tonight, I’m gonna start streaming at 8:00 pm (CT) instead of 7:30. Just something I wanna try out. Also, I might stream my reaction to tomorrow’s Nintendo Direct. We’ll see! See you tonight!

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Last week, Nintendo had an Indie World Showcase. It's like a Direct but primarily for indie games from developers all around the world. A lot of cool games were shown (Have a Nice Death, Pepper Grinder, and Oni, to name a few) but the one that really grabbed my attention was this weird looking game that was released on the same day. Once Upon a Jester. It's about these two friends, Sok and Jester, and their quest to win a chance to perform at the kingdom's Royal Theatrical Spectacle. This, however, is a ruse so they can steal the Royal Diamond! A game where two idiots perform improv theatre so they can steal a big jewel? Sign me up!

The game itself was really fun! The developers, Bonte Avond, recorded most of the dialogue in one take. It definitely shows. But this is by no means a criticism. In fact, the way the dialogue is recorded makes the improv in the game feel much more authentic. Plus it's really funny to see what they came up with. The gameplay is pretty simple, with the player needing to complete quicktime events during the performance to get a good score. The main goal with each performance is to get 5 bouquets from the audience, with a total of fifteen in each town you perform in. If can't get five in one performance, no worries. You can keep trying as long as you need. The plot isn't going anywhere. Also, since the developers are primarily musicians, the music slaps. As someone who spent all of high school and college doing theatre, I can't recommend this game enough.

This isn't so much a review as much me wanting to talk about this really charming game. If you have a Switch or Steam and an appreciation for theatre, then Once Upon a Jester may be for you.

Oh, also Corpse Husband has a cameo in the game. It's hilarious.

wait.

palkia is water/dragon type.

CAN I THROW THE DEIFIED GOD OF THE PEARL CLAN LORD SINNOH AT THE FARM TO BE A GLORIFIED SPRINKLER SYSTEM

I AM TESTING THIS IMMEDIATELY

edit: Y'ALL.

Unfortunatly, I’m feeling a bit sluggish tonight so we’ll have to postpone this stream to next Tuesday. Sorry about this.

Stream schedule this week:

Tuesday: Paper Mario at 7:30 pm (CT)

Thursday: Paper Mario at 7:30 pm (CT)

We’re about halfway through the game so we should be done soon!

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If you’re still taking responses for the Stupid Innocuous Bleach Faves, I love that Ichigo reads Shakespeare. Like, he doesn’t just have a casual interest. He went to college to study English Literature and became a translator. The man really likes Shakespeare. And that makes me wonder, what’s Ichigo’s favorite comedy? Favorite tragedy? Historical play? Sonnet? Do he and Orihime look for theaters putting on Shakespeare productions for date nights? (Yes, and they have a great time.) Who does he talk to about Shakespeare? I’d like to think at first he only talks to Chad about it because Chad is a great listener. Then he meets Rukia and gets her into it because she loves drama. After he gets closer with Orihime he starts recommending plays to read: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer to start. It makes me wonder what other authors he enjoys. Agatha Christie? Jane Austen? Mark Twain? Who knows? Anyway, I just love that Ichigo is a book nerd. Specifically a Shakespeare nerd.

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MAN I wish I knew more about Shakespeare so I could pick out all the plays and sonnets that would be Ichigo's faves! But I've only read the few plays you get through the US public school system (mine were Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Merchant of Venice, one of the King Henry plays, and a truly terrible high school production of Julius Caesar, which was also somehow both a sci-fi AU and a musical) and one quarter of Jacobean Shakespeare in undergrad. BUT I agree with everything you've listed here and all of these headcanons, and want to add one more.

Ichigo's favorite filmic adaptation of Shakespeare is The Merchant of Venice (2004), because Al Pacino, ICHIGO'S FAVORITE ACTOR, plays Shylock, and imho does it absolutely splendidly. He is just so good at speaking Shakespearean English and making it sound fluid and natural:

Granted, I haven't seen this movie in like 15 years, so ymmv, but I would 100% watch it again--both for Al Pacino and for Ichigo!

Between this, Chainsaw Man, Bleach, Spy x Family part 2, and Stone Ocean part 2, my fall anime season is set.

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Just something cute I wanted to share. I was putting on the newest Bleach episode before going into work and my dog, Ammy (named after Amaterasu from Ōkami), decided to join me.

She left not long after the opening finished because she wanted to lay in bed while waiting for my wife to get out of the shower. I did catch her looking at the screen a bunch when we watched Dan Da Dan the other day so maybe that’s more her show.