#VGA 2024

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Honest Thoughts: The 2024 Video Game Awards and Announcements

So, a couple of nights ago, me and a discord server I'm in did a group watch for the VGAs this year. Normally, we wouldn't care that much about the awards but would just watch them for the announcements for new games anyways. The award show itself was pretty decent anyways with some fun parts here and there. Statler and Waldorf were the best part of the show hands down, as they always were in the Muppets Show. The presentations for Best Narrative from Sam Lake was also pretty good as well as the presentation for Best Adaptation from Jesse Pinkman and Lucina (I will not specify that further). Now for the awards themselves, there are some pretty good winners, especially from Metaphor and Astro Bot with the ladder winning Best Game. Glad to see those two games win awards here and I could check them both out next year. I didn't like how Best Fighting Game was relegated to the First Act as I would love to see that on the main show with a presentation instead of a quick mention. Back to presentations, the one with the two TLOU actresses was the worst part of the show to me tbh, they were just boring.

Now for the announcements themselves and WOW they were something! First, there was the announcement of a new Ninja Gaiden game with Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound that seem to have both the old and new versions of Ryu Hayabusa. I'm already excited for this as a fan of ninjas and with hearing the difficulty of the first NG game and the first 3D game, which is a game I should check out some time.

There was then the announcement of Clive Rosfield from FF XVI being the last DLC character for Tekken 8's Season 1 DLC which is really cool to see as it follows Noctis being in T7 as DLC. I know most people wanted Tifa to be in Tekken (including myself), but hey, Clive looks great and the DLC stage looks great!

To a new project announced, there is genDESIGN's unannounced project, being made from the same creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian. I absolutely love SotC and I did enjoy myself with the demo of TLG found with the SotC remaster. The game itself seems to follow in the footsteps of SotC with a climbing mechanic, but there could be some cases of Ico within it. Not much is known seen in the teaser other than the gameplay and how it has a giant robot to be an important part of the game. Can't wait to see more about this project.

And then there's Intergalactic and I'm... conflicted. On one hand, Naughty Dog are FINALLY working on a new, original IP that's NOT a remaster, PC port, or both of The Last of Us Parts I and II, so thank god for that. On the other hand, Neil Druckmann is directing this game too. Now, if you like TLOU I and II, that's fine. I understand why people like those games, or at least the first game. It has a mass appeal to everyone with its narrative in both games. It's just that ND just focuses on ONLY those two games and nothing else, just shoving down our throats on how great it is, and I'm worried it'll be the same thing with Intergalactic for the next 5 years. But who knows, maybe it'll turn out great, idk.

Now for the five announcements that stole the show from two companies.

First, there is Sega with the one-two punch of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's two new projects: a new installment in the Virtua Fighter franchise and Project Century. Seeing VF come back after years of new versions of VF5 is awesome, with the only two characters being confirmed for the game being Akira Yuki and Stella who is either the daughter of Jacky or Sarah Bryant, or (and this is sort of a fan theory) a clone of Sarah created by J6 given that she looks similar to her, especially that it seems that VF6 as I could call it could take place years after VF5 and Judgement 6 could return. As for other characters coming back, I expect Pai, Kage Maru, and Jacky to be here. Lau I'm guessing is definitely dead as this point with his move set going to either Pai or to Lei Fei, but time will tell. Then there's Project Century, which seems to be a Lost Judgement-esque game taking place in 1915 Japan and it does look really interesting to play. I can check out the demo if there's going to be one of Century. These two look really great and I'm definitely interested in both, especially with RGG's track record with Yakuza/Like A Dragon, which is another franchise I'm itching to play next year.

On the same topic of Sega, there's the announcement of a new Sonic racing game with Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. Given from the little time it was shown with the only character being shown being Shadow, it seems to be more in track of Sega All Stars racing, which sounds really cool to me seeing a comeback from the racing series, I just hope it'll be better than Team Sonic Racing. Sonic does seem to be on a revival with the releases of Sonic Frontiers, Sonic X Shadow Generations, and Sonic 3 coming out next week, huh? Glad to see it.

And now for Capcom starting with the return of two dormant franchises.

To start, there's the announcement of Onimusha: Way of the Sword. It's awesome to see Onimusha get a new game in a nearly 20-year absence with the release of Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams back in 2006 and with the remaster of the first game back in 2019. It'll release in 2026, but it looks great from the gameplay footage so can't wait to kill more demons!

And then there's the Okami sequel being directed from the original director, Hideki Kamiya returning to Capcom and reforming CLOVER studios which is the best announcement from the VGA's this year. I have never played Okami before, but I now have both the PC and Switch ports of Okami HD, and I do plan on playing them during the winter break. I just hope that the sequel won't ignore Okamiden as I really love the puppy so much. And with the reformation of CLOVER, there's a good chance Viewtiful Joe 3 could happen in the future, but I do wonder about Kamiya's Ultraman-esque project he was working on years ago when he was still working in Platinum. Other than some worrying thoughts of me hoping the Okami sequel won't be that controversial in its development like with Bayo 3.

A pretty good and fun VGA this year with some well-deserved winners and great announcements to look forward to.

[nemmiril]

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VIDEO GAME ARE GOOD AGAIN!

OMAKI SEQUEL HELL YEAH! ONIMUSHA SEQUEL HELL YEAH!

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Last year, I wanted to do some kind of jank, made in Powerpoint VGAs-type stream, but… that requires me to put a Powerpoint together and a speech for each thing… and I’d wanna make a cute little suit for my PNGtuber and I’d need to find the TIME…

And that was too much pressure for me to get everything together.

So instead, I did a blog post rundown of the games that were released in 2024 that I either played or experienced through a stream that I liked or have something to say about it. The fact that any video game is released is kind of a miracle in and of itself and I think that deserves an award, even if it’s not “The Most” or “The Best” of something!

So without further ado, here’s my version of the 2024 Video Game Awards:

The Worst Use of the Name “Mililani” Award | Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

LaD: Infinite Wealth was the latest release in the Yakuza series, where ex-yakuza man Ichiban Kasuga goes to Hawai’i to find his mom and shenanigans ensue. The man who is supposed to be Legally Dead and Not Alive known as The Dragon of Dojima, Kiryu Kazuma is also there. He’s having a mortality crisis. It’s fine. If you’ve never played or experienced a Yakuza game, the vibe is essentially big crime J-drama with interludes of silly side stories in-between. Some of these side stories include games that involve taming and getting into cockfights with middle-aged weirdo men and running a vacation resort with cameos from characters of the Japanese equivalent of Sesame Street.

I actually wrote a really, really long review about this game back in the Spring, so I’ll keep this section as short as I can. LaD: IW is a game that attacked my soul as I am a Hawai’i born and raised Gamer™. For the most part, I did enjoy the 100+ hours I put into the game and I did like the battle system and side games, but I have some gripes about the story and I do kinda cross my arms at the way the game portrayed my hometown. That being said I think Infinite Wealth is… ffffine and I’d recommend it if you like the Yakuza series or big JRPGs, just… be wary of the intercultural perceptions.

The Productivity Killer Award | Balatro

Balatro is a roguelike deck building game that revolves around making the highest scoring Poker hands, while using various Joker and other cartomancy-kinda cards to manipulate your score, but also editing your deck by modifying or adding to the traditional 52 that you’d use in regular Poker.

Balatro’s just… good! It’s really easy to pick up even if you don’t know how to play real Poker (like me), but there’s also an insane level of mastery to be had with it. There’s just something kinda fun about breaking the rules of a long-established card game that feels great.

The Tiniest Terry Award | Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip

Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip is a game by the Wuppo devs where you’re a little blue guy who drives his car around the town of Spranklewater, collecting Turbo Junk to upgrade his car to launch it into space. You also have a pipe. To assert dominance :)

TTTT has this really specific dry and absurdist flavor of humor that I really, really like. And on top of that it’s just a really fun game to run around in and play. Massive overworld maps that you find in bigger budget games can get overwhelming, but this game has just the right amount of places to go and poke around in.

The Stupidest Game I’ve Played This Year /pos Award | Thank Goodness You’re Here!

Thank Goodness You’re Here is a game where you’re a little man in a delightful 2D, hand-drawn British town and you just kinda slap things and help people with their problems. Sometimes there is a dick joke. Sometimes there is just straight up A Dick. Because British humor.

I don’t have too much, like, deep and meaningful insight about this one… because it’s really not that type of game. I really like the art style of this game, the whole thing is pretty much just one, big interactive sketch comedy. It’s a game that’s very unapologetic about its culture by just forcing you to sit with how grimy it can be at times, and it’s great!

The Devotion Burger Award | Great God Grove

Great God Grove is a game from the Smile for Me devs about a world in which every thirty or so years, a giant rift in the sky opens up that acts as a portal between the mortal plane and the realm of the gods. An elected human can enter the rift and ascend to godhood, but if left open too long, the rift will suck up and destroy the world. The gods have always joined together to close the rift, but this time around, The Grove is in chaos. Due to some nasty letters sent out by the next-god-to-be, King, it doesn’t seem like the gods will come together in time to stop the apocalypse, so it looks like it’s your job to straighten things out. With your trusty tool, the Megapon, you can suck up the words people say and shoot them at other people to help people communicate and solve puzzles.

So you’ve all been seeing me draw fanart of this game. This game got into my HEAD. LimboLane’s character designs and writing are always so unique and quirky and they’re not afraid to put their feelings and emotions into their art (I have been learning recently that that is very hard to do). I was initially interested in this game because of its style, went in as blind as possible, and I did not expect this game to fall into my lap when I really needed it most because it touched upon some subjects that I’ve been kinda struggling with recently. This and Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip would probably be my Game of the Year picks if I was making that a concrete award for this.

The Gay Fish Award | WEBFISHING

WEBFISHING is a multiplayer lobby (but you can play it solo!) game where you make a little animal guy (cat or dog) and you fish and hang out with your friends. As you fish, you earn money that can be exchanged for cosmetics.

WEBFISHING is a really, really simple game and that’s, like, not a bad thing or to undermine the devs or anything at all. Most multiplayer games have a very concrete goal in mind where players usually have to focus on the main goal to participate, and a lot of us just don’t have the time or the energy to be actively and continuously present for something like that anymore. The nature of WEBFISHING is just hanging out with your pals, popping in and out as it suits you. And we need more games like that.

The Why Have You Done This Award | UFO 50 - Mooncat

UFO 50 is a pack of fifty retro-style games from the Spelunky devs and friends that emulates a fictional video game company’s legacy through the years. Mooncat is one of those games where you play as… what- what the hell is that- An orange (red?) pickle-shaped creature with Grinch feet and unknown motivations.

The directional buttons move the character left and face buttons will move the character right. Pressing a directional button and a face button at the same time will make the character jump and doing so again while in mid-air will make them do a ground pound.

Hey, so, I dunno what mad lad in specific came up with this game, but this is simultaneously one of the worst and best things I have ever played and I think this game should get spotlighted for that emotion alone.

The “Close Enough, Welcome Back Pokemon XD” Award | Beastieball

Beastieball is basically what if Pokemon was also Haikyuu- this is a game that’s Pokemon double battles but also a volleyball game at the same time. As you recruit new critters to your team, they’ll learn new plays, maybe metamorphose into new forms, and make bonds with their teammates.

At the time I initially started writing this, I hadn't finished the whole game- I’m near the end, though, at this game’s version of The Elite Four. The game is also still in early access with a lot of Beasties having unfinished visual assets. Despite all that, BEASTIEBALL IS SOLID. I might write up a longer review of it once I’m done with the game, but as someone whose favorite Pokemon game is Pokemon XD and we haven’t had a solid PvE experience in that franchise in YEARS, Beastieball definitely scratches that itch.

The Cardboard Crack Award | Pokemon TCG Pocket

Pokemon TCG Pocket is Pokemon’s new trading card game app where you collect cards and play a simplified version of the long-running card game. 

I’m putting this here because for being a free-to-play live service kinda game, it’s been… pretty good all things considered? At least for now? Yeah, there’s some decks that aren’t FTP friendly and the RNG will have your head in your hands sometimes. I dunno, as someone who fell hard from playing Pokemon VGC where I got overwhelmed with the amount of plays I had to retain, this was a nice change of pace. I’ve been having fun talking about the different kinda decks that have been going around with friends, sharing the cards we find, and I get to experience the serotonin of opening a card pack without having to spend real world money so... good! While there’s a nonzero chance that the game will fall to ruin a la Pokemon Go, I’ve enjoyed the time I’ve had with the game at the moment.

The “Games I Watched but Didn’t Play” Honorable Mentions

Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom

“Shmovement”- type platformer where you’re a little car with an acceleration button. Has a really great soundtrack! Not-so-subtly dunks on the muskrat man. I don’t have a lot to say about this game because, again, I watched it and didn’t play it and a lot of what makes this game neat is the platforming of it all. It’s on my to-play list, though! So maybe one day.

Crow Country

Survival horror game where you uncover the secrets of the eponymous amusement park, Crow Country. Has an unsettling vibe, goopy monsters, but doesn’t really have any jumpscares, if that helps anyone. I also don’t have a lot to say about this, not just because a lot of the experience comes from having the controller in my hands, but… horror’s not really a genre I go to very often. But I guess if a scaredy baby like me wasn’t put off by the early Playstation-style graphics and could sit through it, that’s a good sign?

Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop

An auto shop repair roguelike where you consult in-game manuals on how to repair different modules under time pressure. Has a lot of swearing for Vibe Reasons. From what I’ve seen, this game can be FRANTIC, so if you’re looking for a chill game, this might not exactly be for you, but there are two modes- one with smaller jobs, but more time pressure, and another with less time pressure, but bigger jobs that you need to do almost perfectly. I’ve been burnt out on roguelikes, but I might actually consider picking this one up, as the test of skill isn’t necessarily reaction time or muscle memory like your traditional roguelike, but gaining knowledge to fix modules quickly without consulting the manual. And I think that’s neat! I don’t think we’ve had a game like that just yet. That being said, the game has been buggy at times, but the devs have been patching it up regularly, so if you’re interested in picking it up, be aware of that! And waiting a little bit before grabbing it might be a solid move.

Egg Squeeze

If Thank Goodness You're Here! was the stupidest game I've played this year, this is the stupidest game I've watched this year.

I refuse to tell you anything about this game.

Persona 3 Reload

It’s the same Persona 3 we all know from the early 2000s with a LOT of quality of life changes and fully voiced social links! That being said, it is still Persona 3, so your mileage may vary and please note the literal trigger warnings.

I… was not able to finish watching a playthrough of it because the end of the game does get kinda heavy and I haven’t been in the right headspace for it (I do not handle death and mortality very well), but in my opinion, of the more modern, easily accessible Persona games (Pour one out for 1 and 2), I think P3 sticks to its thesis and theming the best.

Metaphor: ReFantazio

A game from the Persona team where it’s the same kinda day-to-day hang out with people to strengthen your bonds, fight RPG dungeon monsters kind of deal, except instead of a Japanese high school, a high fantasy setting. 

I liked watching this game- there’s a lot of twists that made me metaphorically (heh) get up from my chair and go “NO FUCKING WAY” and I do like a lot of the characters and their social links. However, this still is the Persona team and, no, they still do not know how to write young adult women. In terms of overall story, Metaphor asks the question, “In times of fear and anxiety, can the general public be trusted to choose a trustworthy leader?” While the game’s plot and themes swing hard in the beginning, the game’s ending kinda pulls its punches.

Despite all that, from what I’ve seen, there’s a lot of quality of life improvements in this game compared to past Persona games - social links ALWAYS level up for each event, the game will very clearly tell you whether an action will progress time or not, the battle system is very polished, and a lot of people seem to like the Archetype system which allows your party members, not just the protagonist, to change battle classes.

Also, shout-out to some of this game’s enemy designs, as some of them are inspired by Hieronymus Bosch paintings. I don’t think a boss battle has ever filled me with the rawest emotion of “okay what the hell am I looking at” as much as this game.

Astro Bot

In the past few years, Team Asobi, a first-party developer for Sony, has been making what are basically tech demos for the Playstation, featuring their little cutie robot player character, Astro Bot. This year, they released a full-on collectathon platformer! A green Minion-ass lookin’ alien breaks apart your spaceship and scatters your robot buddies to the winds, and it’s your job to save them.

I’m just gonna sound like a broken record at this point because, yeah, this game won the VGAs and so many people have sung its praises, but I’m genuinely glad this won GOTY. Even though it’s a very “Sony wants you to remember how good they are/used to be” kind of game that pricks you with a needle and pumps 50ccs of nostalgia into you, it’s still a very solid game without it. To me, the visuals are the best part, with bright, colorful worlds that have so, so much polish into them and you can tell the team had fun making it. I’m glad this game won the GOTY because I want this industry to realize that games don’t need to be gritty and realistic to have value, they just need to be made with heart.

And Two Games I Played This Year that were 2023 Releases

In Stars and Time

Dude, you’re still on Tumblr, you probably heard of this one.

In Stars and Time is a black and white RPG Maker kinda RPG where you play as Siffrin, who is So Very Okay And Not Having A Rough Time At All and stuck in a time loop. The battles operate under a literal rock-paper-scissors weaknesses system with a ATB (Active Time Battle) meter and a Persona-like All-Out Attack style system, which builds as you use the same types of attacks in succession.

It has The Character (Siffrin) with The Character Design. It has the object head character. It has maybe the most casual conversations about being trans and being ace that I've ever seen in any video game so far. It has the narrative that will rip your heart out and possibly inspire you to consider therapy (not as a bad thing). It has so much!!

I have a lot of feelings on In Stars and Time as this was maybe the most cathartic game I’ve played in a while that put into words a lot of feelings I haven’t quite been able to name. That being said, I don’t have too much to say other than, like, it’s good? While a lot of games have the ludonarrative dissonance problem, this game achieves ludonarrative harmony. Although the cast has been traveling with the protagonist prior to the start of the game, Siffrin being emotionally distant from them means there’s some stuff they don’t know about their friends, so you get to learn what’s going on with them along with Siffrin. As you go through loop after loop after loop, you’ll maybe get a little frustrated and the game realizes that and reflects that narratively! A lot of RPGs also have trouble nailing the ending or, like, either the gameplay is good and the story falls short or the other way around, but… ISAT’s pretty much nails everything!

If I had played this in 2023 (and Hi-fi RUSH didn’t exist), it might’ve been my GOTY.

Chants of Sennaar

A point-and-click-ish deductive reasoning game where you use cultural and societal context clues to translate language!

I think this is a game that’s best to go in knowing as little as possible, like, if the premise sounds interesting at all to you, go and pick it up. If you’re on the fence about it because puzzle games can be difficult, the game has a note-taking journal system that’ll help you confirm translations and show any notes you’ve taken on-screen as you’re puzzling stuff out, so you don’t have to worry about getting overwhelmed. I think that’s all I can say about it without spoiling anything, so go grab it if it piques your interest at all.

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The Mysterious Case of Sonic Movie 3 Marketing

An Op-Ed by Malzilla

Let me say this right off the bat, I am not an expert in marketing. I took Marketing classes in college for my business minor but most of it was pretty entry level but it gave me a solid foundation to understand most companies' marketing plans. Or at least try to see the method or goal behind the madness to get a scope of what they’re trying to do. But Paramount’s treatment of Sonic 3 is bizarre. We got toys, plushies etc out in stores before the first trailer. 

Sonic Movie 3 has me utterly baffled. Because here we are exactly four months/120 days (122 days at the time of this writing) and do far zip zilch nada. 

The last OFFICIAL news we got for the movie was back on Feb 2nd when the twitter released a little teaser showing the logo as well as some of the additional human cast members. Sure Jon Campea on his Podcast YT show announced that Keanu would play Shadow and was pretty much confirmed by official Hollywood outlets in April but no official word from Paramount has been given. They’ve been radio silent for months know, save for a few weeks in April to promote the Knuckles TV show

So why the wait? Some folks I have talked to may think there may be some internal stuff going on, but I doubt it. Yes Paramount is getting ready to merge with Skydance and some layoffs have happened but I don’t think that would affect much of the Sonic movie day to day. 

So here we are at four months till release and we’re all wondering “It’s go time right? RIGHT?” 

I would think so. And so has the rest of the Sonic Fandom. But alas we’re still waiting for the green light to go. So when is that green light coming? 

Soon.

I hope.

Honestly, I don’t know. But looking at two other films marketing that run some parallels to S3 as well as some key dates in the next  four months. I'm going to throw some ideas out there. 

First off let's look at the marketing on Sonic 2. Movie was released April 8th 2022, and its first official trailer was released on Dec 9th at the 2021 VGAs (it also had a poster released the day prior on the 8th). So right at the four month mark. They followed up with some TV spots and a special Pre Super Bowl TV spot in February AND then the final Trailer March 14th. So a fairly dense four month marketing campaign. 

The other film to look at is Spider-man No Way Home, which like Sonic 3 had a December release date. NWH after months of rumors and lack of promotion (sound familiar) debuted its first teaser trailer on August 23rd 2021; roughly four months prior to its Dec 17th release date. It also had another final trailer on Nov 16th; roughly one month prior. 

So if we look at both of them we see a very similar four month marketing campaign. So what does that mean for Sonic 3? Let's work backward from the release date till now. The following are dates of significance, IMO to both Paramount, Pop/Nerd/Game culture etc: 

Dec 20th - Release Date 

The Long Wait will be over and we all bask in the Living and Learning of it all 

Nov 28th - Thanksgiving - Possible 2nd Trailer.

Given that Paramount has put Sonic TV spots before Football games before, I would not be surprised if we got the 2nd Trailer during Half Time of the CBS game that airs in the morning of Thanksgiving. This also aligns with the roughly 1 month prior benchmark as seen with both S2 and NWH. 

NYCC Oct 17th-20th - TV Spots/Behind the Scenes/Movie Clip

While this date kinda is little too soon for a second trailer, it would be a great time to bring out the whole cast and do some promotion with the masses and maybe some TV spots or a small clip. 

Transformers One Release Sep 20th - PONR for First Trailer 

I think I can safely say that the absolute LATEST we can expect a trailer for Sonic 3 would nex month with the release of Transformers One. Paramount would have to be utterly brainless NOT to have a trailer for Sonic playing in front of their other Family Nerd Oriented IP.

Gamescom 2024 Oct 20h - 25th - Trailer Release 

Kinda funny how the Opening Night Ceremony for Gamescom just so happens to fall on both the four month till release mark AND a Tuesday (Paramount usually releases trailers on Tues/Thurs)? We KNOW SEGA will be there with more SonicXShadow Generations, but really the movies are more Paramount’s game than SEGAs so there is no guarantee it will be released. BUT Paramount has passed on both Summer Game Fest AND San Diego Comic Con. Everything seems aligned for a reveal on Tuesday. I guess we’ll know if we get a poster revealed  tomorrow. 

Now personally I would have started ramping up the marketing with SDCC. Because right now the two biggest competitors that Sonic 3 is going to have in Dec are Kraven and Mufassa. And both of these movies have had TWO trailers released for it.  With Kraven it makes sense since it was originally supposed to be released back in 2023 but then got pushed back 3 times. So I guess Sony thinks it can rack up a solid week one before the family holiday push. Mufassa on the other hand is going to be the big one to beat as family’s will no doubt flock to the much anticipated origin of Mufasa! That last part was sarcasm but this part is not: they need to get the word out to the casuals. I’ve talked to a lot of Non Sonic who are genuinely excited to see Keanu play Shadow. And the time is right to get them hooked. 

So in the end, I will say that I’m like Jon Snow and I “know nothing” but I do know we're getting to the point where it’s time for paramount to lace up its sneakers and get going. Whether it's this week or the next or maybe till the opening of Transformers One. But I would recommend Paramount not dilly dally. Sonic Fans are easily frustrated and can turn rabid quickly. 

[brutish-impulse]

I'm unreasonably extremely reasonably fond of my Thinkpad T410 but I'm gonna put it on marktplaats (Dutch ebay classifieds, basically) to see if someone still gives me a couple bucks for it.

It's just collecting dust but I can't bear to throw it away. I could drop 100 Euro on expanding the RAM to 8 GB to see if that makes browsing the 2024 internet on it tolerable, but that really doesn't seem like a good use of money.

Still, look at this thing! If Dwarves made laptops that's what they would look like!

It's THICK, it's got a metal plate under the keyboard, it's got funnels to drain out liquids you spill on it. The hard disk has a little shock-proof compartment which is completely irrelevant since I replaced it with an SSD. I needed to take out only one screw to do that. It has lots of ports. It has a DVD drive. You can take out the DVD drive and put in an adapter for a 2nd hard drive.

Want even more ports? Put him on his throne docking station!

The one thing it doesn't have is HDMI. Only VGA, DVI and DisplayPort.

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My Yearend Techs & Misc. Items Summary - 2024

Hello... My worst year has struck again, as 2024 is not my year when it comes to making topics on my tech items. 😔 Sure, there's ONE item that struck me happy, but then my happy days were ended when my custom PC's Powersupply and GPU went out of commission, which I'll talk about it later... And because of it, I went on hiatus after my final topic on August. To this day... I don't feel well, I have a 'major depression' hidden my rabbit brain hole. My 'slow recovery' continues... 🧠🩹🤕

Anyway, enough for that, let’s talk about my ‘My Yearend Techs and Misc. Items Summary 2024’! And here are my choices per month so far, both ongoing & done topics:

• JAN - Another 90s Camera: Olympus Camedia C-2000 Z: This is an old 90s camera that was owned by my late grandpa, who passed away in 2020 due to the dreaded COVID-19, along with complications. It may have few photos in the past, but we could never forget our last photo before retired for good.

• FEB - My PC Upgrade Part 3 - Revival: The 'Part 3' of my PC upgrade was a success attempt, which consist of two brand new PC parts, and a converter of HDMI to VGA monitor port. Although, the latter was completely useless. Unfortunately, there's something wrong... And I'll get to that later.

• MAR - My BRAND NEW SMARTPHONE BY Tecno Mobile: January 22nd (, 2024) is the date when I struck luck by commenting about the 'Tecno SPARK 20 Pro' smartphone as part of the giveaway, and then it was delivered on Feb 3rd. This is actually my 2nd time winning a brand new phone, since 2019. And while my Honor 8C (which is my previous winning phone, by the way) was retired in Oct of this year, my brand new smartphone by Tecno Mobile became my 'main phone', without equipping any of my old micro SD card (as my expansion after transfer files and reformat). I mind as well planning on getting 1TB version, someday when my problem was solved (one by one).

• APR - My Family's 2000s Digital Camera (Sony Cybershot DSC-T70): From 90s digi cam to 2000s digi cam, you're looking at the latter. This is the 'Sony Cybershot DSC-T70', an old pocket-size digi cam with built-in touch screen on the tiny screen. And unlike the old Olympus cam, our Sony cybershot cam had long history of taking snapshots with a single memory stick (you know, the one that you've always used on your awesome sony PSP), until the camera itself was ended on January 5th, 2017 as my last photoshoot recording. BUT, I believed that the cybershot cam (Model: DSC-T70) will make a comeback with new fresh 3rd-party batteries and a new memory stick adapter for the micro SD card. But when? Very soon.

• MAY - My Family’s 2010s Digital Camera (Canon EOS 1000D/Rebel XS): Liked our cybershot, our fam's Canon DSLR camera had a long history of snapshots from the nearby swimming resort in 2011 to my mom's previous school activity in 2018, and the latter was ended there when our camera is showing it is age, and the occasion of unwanted dusts and a tiny ant that forever stuck, to this day. Yes, yes, the camera itself is still functional, but it needs to be repair and replaced with numerous parts. Unfortunately, even though its old, the replacement camera parts were expensive. So much so, we've ended up using our smartphones as our Go-To camera purpose, aside from checking our SocMeds (Social Medias). But, time will tell if our canon DSLR camera still functional after years of hiatus.

• JUN - R.I.P., my PSU & GPU Card: Okay, we returned to my concerned topic. So as I said, unfortunately it went horribly wrong after 6 months of used, with the first encountered was the new PC power supply, it went blown out from either a fuse or some parts that went malfunctioned. We may never know. And while the PC power supply was fixed by replacing a brand new one (not to mention the RAM was replaced with two 8GB RAM sticks to make 16GB RAM w/ 2666 MHz speed), another encountered has followed! This time is the new 'GPU' (I've purchased from January this year), and the latter was never replaced to this day because I'm insufficient. Thus, my life was ruined, and I'm going back to my mom's laptop to this very day. Although, I've already earned some dough by participating another volunteered job, I have to save and earn it MORE for the authentic, and expensive GPU card. Meanwhile, my custom PC itself remain intact and still functional today, even without equipping GPU card. Which, I've checked it, last Christmas Eve.

• JUL - A vintage Motorola phone (from the 90s; "Motorola d368"): One of the oldest cellular phone that my mom has owned is this Motorola phone. Actually there's two motorola phones, but I can't find the first one. Nevertheless, there was a time that Motorola used to be 'cool', 'active', and 'competitive' against another phone brand who used to have the three aforementioned words, and that's 'Nokia', from the 90s to the early 2000s. Unfortunately, their spotlight was stolen by numerous phone brands, including tech giants like Samsung and Apple, Inc. who were already stolen their marketing thunder. And while both 'Motorola' and 'Nokia' are still active, they don't make innovative smartphones, anymore. And that's sad (like ME).

• AUG - My first ever Android Smartphone - Busted (Cherry Mobile Jelly): And speaking of phones, here's one right here. My first ever Android smartphone I've ever bought, and still in my possession to this very day. Honestly, I really missed that TV antenna with a TV app feature, in which I could go anywhere without needing a On-the-go TV tuner device. However, that TV antenna for android smartphone feature didn't last because I don't think they don't make this feature, anymore. Not to mention, the declined of the older Android Operating Systems, starting from the OG to the recent Android 11 are now nothing more than a relic. And this android smartphone of mine from Cherry Mobile is no exception. Meanwhile, the 'Cherry' brand and their mobile phones are still in-production and selling with their modern specs and android OS, to this day.

🛑 AND THE REST OF THE BER-MONTHS SAYS IT ALL! 😔 I DECIDED TO GO HIATUS OWING TO MY LIFE PROBLEMS, AND OTHER STUFF THAT I CAN'T FIX! 😭🛑

So, I'm so sorry... All of you, including my trusted friends (who always cheered me up, to this very day). I deserved to be happy and positive person than the opposite side. 😔😞

IMPORTANT NOTE: No 'Honorable Mentions', this year.

Well, that’s the end of my “My Yearend Techs and Misc. Items 2024”. We’ll see you in 2025. 

🥳 Happy new years eve to all, and as always, stay safe (just in case)!😷

If you want to see my 2020 to 2023 version of that, then I’ll provide some links down below.↓

• My Yearend Techs and Misc. Items 2023

• My Yearend Techs and Misc. Items 2022

• My Yearend Techs and Misc. Items 2021

• My Yearend Techs and Misc. Items 2020

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Virtual Retro Season Low Poly

Three dimensional scene for today based on Formula 1, retro racing with low poly graphics. It is should to be from age of MS DOS or something similar.

It is already going 4th hour of competition in rating formula 1. 2024. Virtual retro season low poly. So, at the track it is appear a racer from a pit stop. And his tires are already warmed.

He will go, right now, for speed raising time. Speeds are here rather high, for example, 200 km in hour. And track is dynamical. Lots of turns.

Racing is going with logos like processors 486DX2, video cards standard SVGA, there are logos 386SX2, and VGA.

Dima Link is making retro videogames, apps, a little of music, write stories, and some retro more.

WEBSITE: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/home_eng.html ITCHIO: https://dimalink.itch.io/ GAMEJOLT: https://gamejolt.com/@DimaLink/games

TUMBLR: https://dimalink.tumblr.com/ BLOGGER: https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/

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Kembali

Yang sudah ditakdirkan untukmu, pada akhirnya akan kembali padamu. meski pernah menggenggam erat lalu hilang, sejatinya jika ia masih takdirmu, dengan izin Allah ia akan kembali padamu Sazzadiyatan

beberapa bulan lalu mungkin sekitar bulan Oktober aku kehilangan pouch seperangkat kelengkapan mengajarku. di dalamnya terdapat 2 converter HDMI to VGA, flashdisk, pulpen dan beberapa makanan ringan. aku sudah berikhtiar mencarinya di kelas kelas yang di hari kehilangannya aku mengajar disana, di sudut-sudut kantor, dan tempat tempat yang aku lalui hari itu juga bertanya kepada beberapa petugas kebersihan di sekolah.

namun sia-sia sudah satu minggu hilang, aku tidak menemukannya, dengan hati yang sedikit kesal aku harus mengikhlaskan karena sejatinya barang barang tersebut baru aku miliki selama 2 minggu. Sedih tentu, selain karena kehilangan aku akan kerepotan meminjam converter tersebut ke bagian tata usaha setiap akan mengajar. namun seiring waktu aku sedikit demi sedikit melupakannya. qodarullah wa maa shaa faala

Lalu kejutan Allah mengagetkanku, pouch yang sudah aku ikhlaskan kehilangannya tidak sengaja aku temukan di laci sebuah kelas saat aku mengajar, aku bertanya tanya ke anak anak untuk memastikan, dan pada akhirnya aku yakin itu adalah milikku. tentu aku tidak menyangka sebelumnya akan menemukan kembali setelah berbulan bulan tidak tahu dimana pouch itu berada.

setelahnya aku merenung, mungkin ini adalah cara Allah untuk mengajari dan mengingatkanku, sebaik baiknya sesuatu jika itu ditakdirkan dan baik untuk kita meski pernah hilang, suatu saat akan kembali. namun jika memang tidak kembali sederhana saja itu bukan terbaik untuk kita, atau bahkan bisa bermanfaat untuk orang lain.

wahai diri yakinlah Allah memberi dan mentakdirkan sesuatu untuk kebaikan Dunia dan Akhiratmu, namun jika itu dijauhkan bahkan menghilang darimu, sejatinya Allah menjauhkanmu dari hal hal yang buruk untuk dunia dan akhiratmu. jangan lupa untuk terus berkhusnudzon kepada-Nya bahwa rencana-Nya akan membawamu kepada kebaikan dan keberkahan. walam akun biduaika rabbi syaqiyya

Gresik, 28 Januari 2024- setelah tidak sengaja melihat sosokmu dengan binar bahagia berjalan dibawah rintik salju, Allahu yahfadzuka

-Sazzadiyatan-

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Election 2024 results: AP declares Trump the winner after victory in Wisconsin | AP News

The fighting on the bases are indicative of fighting elsewhere and they usually start elsewhere and end up on the basis in the USA and elsewhere. United States bases are all over the world at this time and they're very big and they're fighting over them and Trump's people are losing as they usually do but now they're losing completely and people do not want him in office. It is translated to other areas of life and it goes to the food industry distribution water all sorts of threats Trump is levying are being negated by people and he is being physically removed from a lot of facilities nuclear facilities power generation and it's because of what he's saying and having those people say and trying to do and it is wide scale he's trying to do another coup and he is getting creamed he's also trying to get to his stashes and caches and bja has engaged him at half of those that he has cordoned off and he is crushing Trump and he does not have a chance to defeat VGA because he is ill and thinks he has Dave's computer and oxymoron in the first place and it's worse now because the computer is most likely gone.

Allegiant Air is not a private company and is owned by shareholders and Trump doesn't hv controlling share. And allegiant owns the luxury hotel Trump forced our son to and restricts his movements and food purchases and reduced the time of stay is basically a jackass to him we hit him here pull him out use it. His president attitude and his plan to dominate Earth. On him and his now. And yeh your a fuck up trump by being there having won apparent, yet, they mentioned it several times polling stations were not clean. And charges will be filed today by Harris and Tom and to claim the victory and in many key states. Tons of crimes. Threats and all well taped witnessed they are not going to hand it to you they hv Thier fleets in heavy out armies up. And will hit you shortly too. This a.m. out west and more here. in the east too. They hv several targets yousyvwant to know about. All your bunker complexes to get you back. All your computers to shut you up. And most cities. Strongholds in them. Most all cities yes. And clears bases. Anywhere he goes psuedo empire attacks. Now too.

Thor Freya

And I'm mad hate ppl can't stand it here or anywhere I'm president I win ok.

Trump

Haha your an idiot Trump

Hera Zues

Fine so I die so what ok

Trump

That's the idea still working yup

Mac daddy out then idiot

No I won't you can't mk me and I stand behind my conviction

Trump

You arexa criminal we don't recognize you as our president no we don't. We shall send formal papers your act is atrocious. And move to remove you shortly.

Hera

And begin an aggressive program to reverse the fake results as my son has picked up the assignment and his wife. Savage Oppress

Zues

Goid

Hera

Great. We do this had a team in place but calls me to kick it off great good. Another feather in my cap I needed it yesterday. We do this and will be successful. Yes.

Savage Oppress

Awesome

Hera

Us too yes of course but we see him dig in now what do we hv and we work what a vulgar person this Trump is ok all vulgar

Olympus

We work now. Trump defeated call over calls troops we respond flatten him and other groups are too

Thor Freya

He forced his way in. Joe didn't is a good president this oaf tried to take it by force all night is a dead man

Mac daddy

Oh ok I see I'm dead and no ppl don't try what I do. Why am I dead ok cando it will I see. So I'm president lol elect and try now so I can and will nobody said I had to be in office. Oh

Trump

We said you die as Lincoln but that was cheeseman yes he takes the role over. Loses but you die prior to January 20th seen in Lost in space the movie and dated by the outfit and things on set. Etc

Mac daddy

No no your wrong I hit him he left ok onto the bus hits me oh you can see him ok

Trump

Out then Imbicile no

Your so lame we hit you trrump

Bill lund

Olympus