#big valley red dead redemption ii

[rshredm]

RSH Bear Tamer

Stable Name: Bear

Breed: Irish Draught (In Game Warlander) Gender: Gelding (In Game Mare)

About: Bear is a solidly built gelding, with plenty of character and a willingness to please. Purchased from an auction, his powerful build, and calm sensible nature - and his potential for jumping had Tobias interested from the get go. While he may not be the fastest horse, he has a calm sensibleness that means that he isn't likely to cause too many upsets. Couple this with a long stride that can positively eat up the ground, whether he's being used for trails, or across the country, he can cover the ground easily and efficiently. Jumping he can get a bit sticky depending on the size of the arena, but he always approaches his job with willing. He is also one of few horses trained to be ridden side saddle rather than astride.

[wintersongstress]

RED DEAD REDEMPTION II  • scenery [93/?] —Travels Through Big Valley, West Elizabeth

[youngdutchishot]

This is just some basic info about me!

My name is Sye, hello. 😊 I use he/him pronouns as stated in my bio above.. I am 18, but don't exactly mind minors interacting. Just keep appropriate!

I'm aroace!!/sil

Won't specify only thought to share (‘-’*)

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I likely will not post very often! I'm quite silly( anxiety riddled 💔) and the idea of strangers finding my goofy thoughts with such ease is a bit scary ..

[Oh and please- please, do not feel weary because I mentioned my struggle with socializing. I still love when people see my stuff!! Don't feel hesitant, engage!!! <33

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You might only see rdr2 captures from me or random snippets of my head-canons! That is, if I ever get around to posting such.....

FANDOMS :

Red Dead Redemption I / II [special interest(?)]

( hardly ever acknowledge these but will engage if asked^)

Roblox..

EPIC: The Musical

The Walking Dead

My Little Pony

Stardew Valley

Slasher movies..

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fave rdr characters!!! ( you wont believe it../sar)

Hosea Matthews, Dutch van der Linde!! yeahhh Arthur is up on the list too! And JOHN<33 I also really really loveeee Molly i would do anything for her (〃´∀｀) AND OMF LENNYYYYYYY!! my pookie baby boah hes very dear to me....

STUFF YOU CAN DO :

I'm pretty OK with most things! If you're chill and don't cross boundaries, I'll reciprocate! Unless you're- y'know, the obvious troll, or a complete utter bigot, yeah, I will ignore your existence and block. But other than that, if you're respectful, I really won't mind!!^^

You can definitely ask questions about me! That, I'm very open to!!

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PLEASE DO NOT :

Act weird / sexual toward me, not exactly comfortable with that. Have some decency at the very least, please. :((

Talk to me without tone tags, I struggle heavily with tone through text and if you even know the slightest bit about them, please do use them! If you're confused or don't want to, that's fine!! ( I put a site at the bottom that explains and showcases tone indicators btw!!)

Private messages!! That's a big no-no with me!!

Here's my ao3 and carrd profile as well. I lacked on publishing fics but will probably come around sometime soon.

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( Obviously the card below's not mine!! rightful credits to the owner that took time out of their day to put this together — I'm certain it's somewhere on the site..)

that's all ty for reading this (^-^*)ノ

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Red Dead Redemption II — Exploring the Corners of Big Valley ❦

[prairiemule]

Red Dead Redemption II - Nighttime on the Little Creek River • [Big Valley, WE]

[britesparc]

Weekend Top Ten #433

Top Ten Things I Want from Xbox Series X

June is Games Month here at David’s Top Tens! That’s right, all month long we’re exploring the majesty of what we all used to call “computer games” before we became too cool. That’s because it’s the time of year when huge multinationals tantalise us with pre-rendered cinematics showcasing gaming experiences utterly divorced from what we’ll get to play. Even in this Time of Crisis (as opposed to a Time Crisis), games companies are still Touting Their Wares, and as such, I am brimming with fanboy fervour, tantalised at the prospect of Gaming Yet to Come. This week alone has seen sexy new videos from the likes of EA, Pokémon, and Sony – whose PlayStation 5 reveal gave us the best glimpse yet at exactly what the next generation could look like. I was impressed; although there wasn’t too much in the way of radically new concepts or whatever, games looked good, with plenty of sexy, shiny new bells and whistles, and it looked like environments will be bigger, more fluid, and more reactive than ever before. Plus seeing the ray-tracing in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart gave me serious “Quake II running on a 3D accelerator card” vibes. Suddenly I was sixteen again, getting all sticky-knickered over texture filtering and coloured lightning.

It was great.

However, I’m pretty much an Xbox-first gamer; mostly, I suppose, due to inertia, having gotten used now to how an Xbox works, to the point where a PlayStation always feels a little alien (still wanna play The Last of Us Part II, though). I’m more of a fan of the Xbox game franchises – the main reason I bought an original Xbox in the first place (way back in 2001) was to play Halo: Combat Evolved, and because of the promise of Fable. This love of Xbox games has only grown with the acquisition of Rare (despite the slight misstep of Perfect Dark Zero) and the release of games like Crackdown, Gears, and Forza Horizon. So as much as I try to be open-minded – and certainly I try to avoid any kind of partisan mud-slinging – I guess I’m pretty much in the tank for Xbox. As such, I’m phenomenally excited for Xbox Series X. I got an Xbox One at launch, and despite all of the hullaballoo and criticism, I’ve always really liked it. I think it’s kind of struggled compared to its predecessors (cult favourite OG Xbox and revolutionary Xbox 360), and hasn’t quite had the era-defining games that both of those enjoyed. All that being said, though, I’ve had loads of fun with it, and so have my wife and kids. But I’ve stuck with the same machine all these years, never upgrading to the more streamlined Xbox One S or the super-duper-sexy Xbox One X. So when I do upgrade, I think the jump will be far more noticeable than someone who’s been enjoying Red Dead Redemption 2 or Gears 5 on a 4K display; it should really feel like a new generation. And that’s before we get to all of the traced rays and other lovely gubbins.  

Anyway, when it’s this time of year, I tend to do a semi-comical “E3 predictions” list, followed by a “Stuff I liked at E3” list. Obviously E3 isn’t really happening, but these other online game reveals are, and given my aforementioned excitement over Series X – and Microsoft’s upcoming and much-anticipated reveal of first-party titles – I thought I’d divert my thoughts to what I want to see on the new console. However, unlike the traditional E3 predictions of yore, I’m going to look at what I’d like from the console rather than what games I’d like to see. Partly that’s because these announcement videos are getting spread so far and wide that it’s hard to keep track of what’s been revealed or when we’re likely to see something; partly it’s because we already know quite a few Xbox games that are coming out; and partly because the list would just degenerate into older franchises I want to see come back round again. Plus, with Crackdown 3 having already happened, a new Fable more-or-less an open secret, and a new Perfect Dark being very heavily rumoured, my go-to “wants” are getting thin on the ground. Perhaps Tim Schafer can bring his old LucasArts classics to the Xbox next year…? Whatever, this time around, I’m looking at that big black box and thinking about what features and design elements I’d like to see. What could be improved from how the Xbox One works? How would I like Microsoft to leverage their assets – from the faster SSD to the power of Project xCloud? Basically, what do I want Xbox Series X to be like, outside from glittering reflections on Master Chief’s shiny armour?

Streamlined, faster dashboard: now they’ve already said that the Xbox Series X dash will be effectively identical to the Xbox One dash, which is a trifle disappointing, but I hope that doesn’t mean that both systems can’t get an improved dashboard before Christmas. At the moment things are a bit fiddly, and I’d like to use the improved SSD to mean seamless transitions from page to page. Make it super-easy to get to your game library. Allow more customisation of the landing page. How about allowing us to resize icons, like on Windows 10? Don’t have quite so many obscure categories clogging up the front page. Use the shoulder buttons to hop between sections. Make it more about the games I can play rather than connectivity, shopping, or chatting. Stuff like that.

Integrated streaming: with Project xCloud on the (official) horizon, hopefully we can integrate that service into how the Xbox works. How’s about letting us stream demos straight from the store? Or stream games while they install/download? Or the option to stream any game we own rather than play it from the console? Or cast games from console to phone, or tablet, or PC, so we can enjoy the benefits of Series X hardware in the palm of our hands?

Discless play: teased then withdrawn from the Xbox One launch as it require the internet to check, I hope this can make a belated return. I like physical media, but I also like not having to get off the couch to change discs. I’d be very willing to accept an always-on connection as the price for playing a game without the disc in. If they could find some way to implement this and keep everyone happy, I’d be delighted.

Improved Guide menu: the best thing about the Xbox 360 interface was the Guide menu, which – certainly by the end of the generation – basically offered you full console functionality from one simple pause-button menu. The One Guide has been refined but could go further. Offer instant access to all our games, and all the system settings. Let us seamlessly jump from one thing to another and back again. Let us view all our captures quickly and easily. And let us go through game-by-game and see all our achievements, cycling through their related imagery. Basically, make it more like the 360, please.

Standardised settings: another amazing thing the 360 did that was totally walked back for the One is the idea of having a standardised range of settings that were applied across your entire profile. So if you want to invert your Y-axis, you tick one box, then all games are inverted. This was fantastic, and Microsoft were daft for undoing it. Make it good again! You have the power!

Refined subscription services: I think Game Pass is the future of Xbox, and I think xCloud is the future of Game Pass. This seems fairly obvious to me. I don’t know how much money Microsoft makes from Game Pass, but the way they’re leveraging their entire gaming strategy around it suggests that it’s a much stronger money-spinner for them than the traditional console market. I just hope that eventually the myriad Xbox subscriptions can be refined. Perhaps “Gold” as we understand it could be retired, replaced with a simple three-tier monthly sub, similar to Netflix; Game Pass Bronze (limited multiplayer, limited ability to download games from the library); Silver (Gold and Game Pass as we understand it, plus limited streaming), and Gold (all the games plus full streaming of everything)? This would, hopefully, mean we could get some of the benefits at a reduced cost (say, a fiver a month), and the “free” games in Game Pass would offset the loss of Games With Gold, perhaps.

Switch app: simply put, this would be cool: the ability to stream Xbox games on a Switch. Nothing more to it than that, really; the Switch form factor and controls would lend themselves to the Xbox experience effortlessly, and it’d mean I could continue my Halo campaign whilst my wife hogs the Xbox with Stardew Valley again.

Tangible differences between generations: on the one hand, I really applaud Microsoft’s blended approach to console generations. Smart Delivery, Backwards Compatibility, and Play Anywhere combine to form a very consumer-friendly approach; if you a buy a game now, you’re more-or-less guaranteed the best possible version come the Series X launch in November (or whenever). The downside to this, however, is a slight nagging feeling that we’re not going to see the best that the console can do; it’s fair enough that the Xbox One and Series X versions of Halo Infinite are, to all intents and purposes, on the same disc, and your progress and achievements carry over; but does this not mean that, aside from improvements in graphics and loading times, the Series X version is functionally identical? Is it just like upgrading a graphics card? Ratchet and Clank boasted some nifty dimension-hopping technology that presumably is a core part of the gameplay and looked like something that maybe wasn’t possible this gen; will Xbox owners miss out on features like that? If Series X could, say, give us a new Fable that presented as one continuous open world with no “hubs” or separated areas or loading, with some kind of magical traversal that allowed us to rocket across the landscape on a broomstick or whatever, would that not be handicapped by having to carry save game data over from the inevitable Xbox One version? Basically, I’m fascinated by how it’s going to work, but I hope we’re not going to end up slightly short-changed from a featureset point of view.

New hardware: not just the Series X itself, obviously; and not even the strongly-rumoured “Series S” either. I mean other bits and bobs. As they’ve already shown us the controller, I can’t realistically wish for one that had a microphone in it, but a tiny mic attachment maybe? Alongside the obvious headset. I wanna talk to the machine, basically; it was the one genuine benefit of Kinect. Also: a new, improved, media remote. A wireless mouse and keyboard, or some kind of lap-based hybrid. A new camera, not as invasive or scary as Kinect, just so we can use the Xbox to Skype people. And y’know what? VR support. Doesn’t have to be unique, bespoke headsets; just let us use PC ones, and let developers support VR in Xbox games. I don’t have the money or space to upgrade my laptop to be VR-ready, but if I had a PlayStation you can be damn sure I’d have PSVR. Half-Life: Alyx might be a pipe dream, but can I play Star Wars Squadrons at least?

Don’t bankrupt me: yeah, this. I’m cautiously optimistic that Microsoft will at least attempt to make this manageable; the recent rumour that it’d sell for $399 was much appreciated even if I think it’s supremely unlikely, especially if Lockheart/Series S is a thing. With Sony giving out noises that the PS5 will be a “good value” proposition rather than cheap, I think MS will strongly attempt to undercut them, but also not feel the need to go stupidly low. So please, Microsoft: $450, top end. Please don’t give us a $499 box. I’m already gonna be forking out for a new TV so I’d appreciate if I could keep the whole cost. For what it’s worth, I think the prices of all the new consoles will be: PS5 $499; XSX $449; PS5 DE $399; XSS $299. There you go: I managed to slip in an E3 prediction right at the very end. Prove me wrong, guys!

Phew, that was another epic one. But it was fun. I guess it’s weird to try to talk about the feel of a console without having used it. There are things I’d like improving with the look and feel of Xbox, but it’s hard to quantify it; stuff that’s clunky on a daily basis. And I’m probably an edge case anyway: someone with a huge interest in games and gaming, but who’s not very interested in multiplayer, and who – because of time and money but mostly time – rarely plays new releases, and takes ages to complete a game. But anyway. I’m dead excited about the Xbox Series X, and I can’t wait to hear more.

[skillzyo]

The last time I updated In Fate’s Hands, it was August 5, 2017. Things that have happened since then:

- Moved houses 

- Promotion at work

- Hospital stay because of a cat bite

- Became discouraged with my writing because it just didn’t seem good enough

- Gotten Hella more into Tokusatsu than anything else I watch

- I became more involved with my family

- Visited @phyxrak​ for a fun weekend

- Cried a bit because Writing Is Hard

- Watched most of Grey’s Anatomy at least three times

- Got sucked into some amazing video games like Monster Hunter World and Red Dead Redemption II

- There was a two-week period where all I did was play Stardew Valley, and I think that’s very valid of me

- Moved again though not as far

- Was informed I’m being considered for another promotion, which means even more responsibilities at work (but more money!)

Basically, it has been a busy year and a half since I last updated. That being said, I’m happy to finally have a new chapter for you all, and I really hope it was worth the wait. Big thank you to @iamthegaysmurf  for being a patient beta, and adapting to whatever new changes I made to the chapter (and there were a lot). I couldn’t write this fic without her support. 

Shout out to @sensitive-pigeon and everyone who has commented. Without the encouragement, there was a possibility I would have called it quits on the whole thing, simply out of frustration. 

Anyway, here is the link to the new chapter: 

Link Here

[cantstoptheimagines]

Fandoms

Last updated on June 29, 2024.

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Alice in Borderland 

Anastasia 

Anne with an E

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Bad Guys 

Barbie 

BBC Merlin 

Bear 

Big Hero 6

Breakfast Club 

Bridgerton 

Bullet Train

Call of Duty

Centaurworld 

Chronicles of Narnia 

Cruel Summer

Cruella

DC Comics (The Batman, Wonder Woman)

Detroit: Become Human 

Disney Fairies

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Disney’s Descendants 

Disney’s The Lodge

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Doctor Who

Dune

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Encanto 

Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023 Film)

Frozen

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Haikyu!!

Harry Potter Universe (Read Here)

His Dark Materials

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Klaus 

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Office 

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Sing

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Joe: Retaliation Gladiator GoodFellas 13 Going On 30 Goldmember A Good Day To Die Hard The Goonies 3x The Green Mile Gridiron Gang How The Grinch Stole Christmas Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn 2x Hancock The Hangover The Hangover Part ll Hansel and Gretel Harold and Kumar: Go To White Castle Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets The Heat Hellboy Hellboy ll: The Golden Army Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy High School Musical 2 High School Musical 3 3x Hitch Hitman Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 1 2x The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Hulk The Incredible Hulk The Hurt Locker Identity Thief The Illusionist Immortals Inception Independence Day Inglorious Basterds Insurgent The Internship Into The Blue Invincible Idle Hands I, Robot Iron Man The Island Jack Frost Jack Reacher Jeff Dunham Spark Of Insanity Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special Jeff Dunham Minding The Monsters Jennifer's Body Johnson Family Vacation Joyful Noise Jumper Just Go With It Just Married Just Like Heaven From Justin To Kelly Katt Williams: Pimpadelic Killer Eliter Killers 2x King Kong Kingsman: The Secret Service Kingdom of Heaven Knockaround Guys Kung Fu Hustle Kiss The Girls Kung Fu Panda Ladies 49 Land Of The Dead The Last Castle The Last Dragon The Last Stand Looper Legally Blonde 2 Lemony Snicket's: A Series Of Unfortunate Events Let's Go To Prison Liar Liar The League of Extraordinary Gentleman Life Of Pi The Longest Yard Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers 2x Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring Lost In Space 2x Man On Fire Madea's Big Happy Family Madea's Witness Protection Madea Goes To Jail Madea's Family Reunion 3x Matrix Reloaded Maggie The Magnificent 7 Martian Child Max Mad Max Major Payne 2 pack- MIB, MIB II Mario Bros MIB Michael Clayton Michael Jackson: History: The King Of Pop Mr Deeds Mask Meet The Fockers Meet The Parents Men Of Honor Michael Jackson Number Ones Michael Jackson Mr 3000 Mrs Doubtfire Miss Congeniality Mortdecai Monster Monster's Bail Monster-In-Law The Monuments Men 2 pack- Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat Annihilation My Super Ex Girlfriend Napoleon Dynamite National Treasure Neighbors 2x Never Back Down My Baby's Daddy Never Been Kissed The Nice Guy Night At The Museum: Secret of The Tomb Night at the Museum Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O The Notebook The Nut Job O'Brother, Where Art Thou? Non-Stop Ocean's Twelve Ocean's Thirteen Kill Bill Old Dogs Open Range Pacific Rim Vin Diesel the Pacifier Paddington Padre Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest Parker The Patriot Poltergeist Peter Pan The Phantom of the Opera Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest Point Break Practical Magic Predators Premium Rush Premonition Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Princess Bride The Proposal Pearl Harbor P.S. I Love You Pulp Fiction Mo'Nique Phat Girlz 2 pack- The Purge, The Purge: Anarchy The Pursuit of Happyness Real Steel Redline Rush Hour 2 Red 2 Remember the Titans 3 pack- Pitch Black, The Chronicles Of Riddick, The Chronicles Of Riddick: Dark Fury Rise of the Planet of the Apes Robin Hood Prince of Thieves The Rock Rocky ll Rocky Balboa Ron White A Little Unprofessional The Rookie Rounders The Rum Diary Saving Private Ryan Sabotage 2x The Sandlot School of Rock The Shawshank Redemption Snitch Scott Pilgrim Silent House Shaun of the Dead Sherlock Holmes She's the Man Step Up Revolution Snow White and The Huntsman The Social Network She's all that Soul plane Scooby Doo Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Shallow Hall Son in Law Song One Sorority Row Spider-Man 2x Spider-Man 2 3x Spider-Man 3 Space Jam Spy Stand and Deliver Starship Troopers Star Wars: The Force Awakens Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Stuck on You Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street Taken Taken 2 Taken 3 This is 40 The Ringer The Croods Thor Tomb Raider The Time Machine The Time Traveler's Wife Toneloc T.V. 2 Tombstone Total Recall The Exorcist Trading Places Training Day Transformers Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Transformers: Dark of the Moon The Bucket List The Eye Transformers Beginners Troy Directors Cut Two for the Money The Man From U.N.C.L.E True Grit UFC: Best of 2012 Unforgiven Unknown Uptown Girls Unfinished Business Van Helsing The Vow Warm Bodies The Wedding Date The Wedding Planner The Wedding Singer A Walk to Remember Walking Tall Wanted The Waterboy War Dogs We Bought a Zoo Where the Wild Things Are Kevin Hart What Now While You Were Sleeping White Chicks The Whole Nine Yards Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit Wild Card Wild Hogs Wings of Life The World's End World War ll X-Men Origins: Wolverine The Last Stand 40 Year Old Virgin Zombieland Zookeeper Zoolander 2 Guns 8 Mile

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RED DEAD REDEMPTION II  • scenery [87/?] —Sunrise at Owanjila in Big Valley

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BGO Staff Picks 2018

The fine folks who put in the work behind the counters at Beat Goes On stores all over the world have humbly submitted for you their lists of their most favourite albums, movies, TV shows, games, concerts and other miscellany for your approval.  Enjoy responsibly.

BRANTFORD

Aiden

Albums

1. Foxing - Nearer My God

2. mewithoutYou - Untitled

3. boygenius - boygenius ep

4. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

5. Thrice - Palms

Concerts

1. The XX

2. Foxing

3. Toe

4. mewithoutYou

5. Tokyo Police Club

Chris

Albums

1. Jim James - Unified Distortion

2. Voidz - Virtue

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet

5. Gorillaz - Not Now

6. Greta Van Fleet - Album Of The Peaceful Army

7. Roger Daltrey - As Long As I Have You

8. Iggy Pop & Underworld - Tea Time Dub Encounters

9. Mudhoney - Digital Garbage

10. Neil Young - Songs For Judy

Television

1. GLOW

2. Dark Tourist

3. Kominsky Method

4. Final Space

5. Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

Films

1. Sherlock Gnomes

2. Incredibles 2

3. Peter Rabbit

4. The Grinch

5. Hotel Transylvania 3

Justin

Albums

1. Neil Young - Songs For Judy

2. Alice In Chains - Rainer Fog

3. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet

4. Jack White - Boarding House Reach

Films

1. Avengers: Infinity War

2. Black Panther

3. Mission Impossible: Fallout

Concerts

1. Dinosaur Jr. at Danforth Music Hall, Toronto

2. Jack White at Budweiser Gardens, London

Karen

Albums

1. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

2. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet

3. Leon Bridges - Good Thing

4. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

5. MGMT - Little Dark Age

Rob

Albums

1. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer

2. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar

3. Dan Mangan - Love Is Magic

4. MGMT - Little Dark Age

Films

1. A Quiet Place

2. Upgrade

3. Annihilation

4. Mario

5. Black Panther

Games

1. Spider-Man

2. Starlink: Battle For Atlas

3. Hitman 2

4. A Way Out

5. Donut Country

Concerts

1. Broken Social Scene at Supercrawl, Hamilton

BURLINGTON

Julie

Albums

1. Gorillaz - The Now Now

2. Beach House - 7

3. Mitski - Be The Cowboy

4. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

5. Cat Power - Wanderer

Films

1. The Meg

2. Black Panther

3. Coco

4. Avengers: Infinity War

5. Bohemian Rhapsody

Katelyn

Albums

1. Mother Mother - Dance & Cry

2. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

3. Gorillaz - The Now Now

4. Metric - Art Of Doubt

5. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope

Films

1. Deadpool 2

2. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

3. Black Panther

4. Coco

5. Incredibles 2

Games

1. Life Is Strange: Before The Storm

2. Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

3. Detroit: Become Human

4. Spider-Man

5. The Walking Dead: The Final Season

Lana

Albums

1. Metric - Art Of Doubt

2. Mother Mother - Dance & Cry

3. Muse - Simulation Theory

4. Gorillaz - The Now Now

5. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope

Films

1. Black Panther

2. Deadpool 2

3. Ocean’s 8

4. Annihilation

5. The Spy Who Dumped Me

Mike

Albums

1. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

2. Jack White - Boarding House Reach

3. Mitski - Be The Cowboy

4. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

5. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

Games

1. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

3. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

4. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

5. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Sean

Albums

1. Mitski - Be The Cowboy

2. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake

3. Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place

4. Brockhampton - Iridescence

5. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

Films

1. Hereditary

2. Annihilation

3. Suspiria

4. Mandy

5. Eighth Grade

Games

1. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

3. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

4. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

5. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Steph

Albums

1. Dear Rouge - Phases

2. Metric - Art Of Doubt

3. Now Now - Saved

4. Frank Turner - Be More Kind

5. Chvrches - Love Is Dead

Films

1. Crazy Rich Asians

2. Black Panther

3. Love, Simon

4. A Simple Favor

5. Widows

Games

1. Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

2. Life Is Strange: Before The Storm

3. Detroit: Become Human

4. Spider-Man

5. The Walking Dead: The Final Season

CAMBRIDGE

Alex

Albums

1. Tesseract - Sonder

2. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

3. The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaezoic

4. Judas Priest - Firepower

5. Between The Buried & Me - Automata II

Films

1. Solo: A Star Wars Story

2. Ready Player One

3. Avengers: Infinity War

4. Annihilation

5. Bohemian Rhapsody

Games

1. Red Dead Redemption II

2. Sea Of Thieves

3. God Of War

4. Detroit: Become Human

5. A Way Out

Angela

Albums

1. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

2. Muse - Simulation Theory

3. Twenty-One Pilots - Trench

4. Sleep - The Science

Films

1. Bohemian Rhapsody

2. Venom

3. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald

4. Deadpool 2

5. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

Josh

Albums

1. Kurt Vile - Bottle It Up

2. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

3. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

4. Harm’s Way - Post Human

5. Judas Priest - Firepower

Films

1. Avengers: Infinity War

2. Venom

3. Halloween

4. Deadpool 2

5. Ready Player One

Kayla

Albums

1. Moby - Everything Was Beautiful & Nothing Hurt

2. The Decemberists - I’ll Be Your Girl

3. Sleep - The Sciences

4. Jonathan Davis - Labyrinth

5. 30STM - America

Films

1. Black Panther

2. Avengers: Infinity War

3. Bohemian Rhapsody

4. Venom

5. Ant-Man & The Wasp

Games

1. World Of Warcraft: Batle for Azeroth

Shane

Albums

1. Sleep - The Sciences

2. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers

3. Oh Sees - Smote Reverser

4. Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth

5. Chvrches - Love Is Dead

Hon. Mentions: Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch, Black Panther OST

Television

1. Disenchantment

2. Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

3. Final Space

4. Haunting Of Hill House

5. Hilda

Films

1. Black Panther

2. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

3. A Quiet Place

4. Avengers: Infinity War

5. Isle Of Dogs

Hon. Mentions: Aquaman, Bumblebee, Happytime Murders

Vinyl

1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles OST (1990)(Orange & Green Vinyl)

2. Fritz The Cat (Picture Disc)

3. Chris Cornell - When Bad Does Good (7″ w/Mother Love Bone Cover B-Side)

4. Primus reissues

5. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Live At The Twist & Shout

GUELPH

Jake

Albums

1. Sleep - The Sciences

2. Sumac - Love In Shadow

3. High On Fire - Electric Messiah

4. YOB - Our Raw Heart

5. Baptists - Beacon Of Faith

Joel

Albums

1. mewithoutYou - Untitled LP & Untitled EP

2. Ben Howard - Noonday Dream

3. Slow Machete - Ola Mala

4. Mark Kozelek - Mark Kozelek

5. My Epic - Ultraviolet

Albums Discovered While Reading Year End Lists

1. Typhoon - Offerings

2. The Magic Lantern - To The Islands

3. Barbarossa - Lier

4. Valley Maker - Rhodedendron

5. Bas Jan - Yes I Jan

Films

1. Transit

2. Annihilation

3. An Elephant Sitting Still

4. State Kitchen

5. Our Time

Steve

Albums

1. Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars

2. (Ph)authers - (Ph)authers

3. Smallertide - All Among The Northern Lights

4. Tim Hecker - Konoyo

5. Hifiklub & Lee Ranaldo - In Doubt Shadow Him

6. Nadia Struiwigh - WHRRu

7. Hibernis - Middle Of The Meds

8. Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu Ledesma - Limpid As The Solitudes

9. Low - Double Negative

10. Foudre! - Kami

KITCHENER

Brady

Albums

1. Neko Case - Hell-On

2. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

3. Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth

4. John Coltrane - Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album

5. Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells

Films

1. A Quiet Place

2. The Mule

3. Welcome To Marwen

4. Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

5. BlacKkKlansman

Used Vinyl Finds

1. Starchild - Children Of The Stars

2. The Ramones - The Ramones

3. The Clash - Combat Rock

4. Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years

5. Paul Horn - Inside The Great Pyramid

6. The The - Infected

7. Herbie Hancock - Headhunters

8. Freddie Hubbard - First Light

9. Straight To Hell OST

10. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley

BGO Used CD/DVD/Blu-ray Finds

1. The Hidden Fortress (1958)

2. Seven Samurai (1954)

3. Paper Moon (1973)

4. Metropolis (1927)

5. Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Midnight Sugar (1974)

Ryan

Albums

1. Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending

2. Riva Starr - Curveballs

3. The Sheepdogs - Changing Colours

4. Paul McCartney - Egypt Station

5. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Merrie Land

Vinyl Reissues

1. Katamari Damacy OST

2. The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash

3. XTC - Apple Venue Vol. 1

4. U2 - Achtung Baby

5. Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg

Games

1. Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life

2. Fire Pro Wrestling

3. Burnout Paradise Remastered

4. Soul Calibur VI

5. Far Cry 5

LONDON

Jay

Albums

1. Joe Bonamassa - Redemption

2. Joe Bonamassa & Beth Hart - Black Coffee

3. Joe Bonamassa - British Blues Explosion

4. Buddy Guy - Blues Is Alive And Well

5. Billy Gibbons - Big Bad Blues

Rob

Films

1. Heredity

2. A Quiet Place

3. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

4. Mandy

5. Upgrade

OAKVILLE

Antonio

Albums

1. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer

2. Eyedress - Sensitive G

3. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope

4. Various - The Grinch OST

5. Metric - Art Of Doubt

Films

1. Roma

2. The Death And Life Of John F. Donovan

3. Museo

4. Burning

5. Gloria Bell

Cory

Albums

Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

Idles - Joy As An Act Of Resistance

JPEGMafia - Veteran

Mac Miller - Swimming

Saba - Care For Me

Dan

Albums

1. Jeff Rosenstock - Post

2. Tribulation - Down Below

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Wasteland

5. Andrew W.K. - You’re Not Alone

Films

1. First Reformed

2. The Favourite

3. Mandy

4. Roma

5. Hereditary

Drake

Albums

Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy

Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts

MGMT - Little Dark Age

Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

Jack

Films

1. Hereditary

2. Eighth Grade

3. Boy Erased

4. Bohemian Rhapsody

5. Green Book

WATERLOO

Derek

Albums

1. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

2. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In

3. Low - Double Negative

4. Sleep - The Sciences

5. Kanye West - Ye

6. U.S. Girls - In A Poem Unlimited

7. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

8. Sons Of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile

9. Beach House - 7

10. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

Films

1. Avengers: Infinity War

2. Bandersnatch

3. Annihilation

4. Eighth Grade

5. A Quiet Place

Concerts

1. The Flaming Lips at Riverfest, Elora

2. Phil Collins at Scotiabank Place, Toronto

3. B.A. Johnson at Jane Bond, Waterloo

4. Father John Misty at Fort York, Toronto

5. BadBadNotGood at Maxwells, Waterloo

Favourite Things About New Waterloo Store

1. There’s room for a microwave

2. There’s an actual backroom

3. Used vinyl isn’t on the floor

4. Not fighting for space in a tiny triangle

5. The garage door

Kirk

Albums

1.Idles - Joy As An Act Of Release

2. Pusha T - Daytona // Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts // Kanye West - Ye

3. Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic

4. Against All Logic - 2012-2017

5. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

6. Noname - Room 25

7. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!

8. JPEGMafia - Veteran

9. U.S. Girls - In A Poem Limited

10. Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place

Films

1. Burning

2. Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

3. Sorry To Bother You

4. BlacKkKlansman

5. Suspiria

6. Avengers: Infinity War

7. The Favourite

8. Mandy

9. You Were Never Really Here

10. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

Best Concert

Idles at Lee’s Palace, Toronto

Best Performance

Tom Waits in Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

Best Criterion Release

Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

Best Single

Pusha T - The Story of Adidon (Shoutout to Drake from BGO Oakville)

Kristen

Albums

1. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

2. VNV Nation - Noire

3. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

4. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

5. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch

6. Chvrches - Love Is Dead

Television

1. Final Space

2. Disenchantment

3. Killjoys

4. The Tick

5. Legion

6. Letterkenny

Films

1. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

2. Black Panther

3. Isle Of Dogs

4. A Quiet Place

5. Bumblebee

6. Teen Titans Go To The Movies

Kyle

Albums

1. Mark Lanegan - With Animals

2. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Neko Case - Hell-On

5. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

6. Ryan Bassett & The Bassett Hounds - Bitches Be Hustlin’ Da Dancin’ Shoes

Films

1. Hereditary

2. BlacKkKlansman

3. Annihilation

4. Isle Of Dogs

5. Dumpsty Scott Brings The Sausages

Ryan

Albums

1. Chvrches - Love Is Dead

2. Shad - A Short Story About War

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

5. Same Fears - Glitching

6. Lissie - Castles

7. Jeff Rosenstock - Post

8. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

9. Thom Yorke - Suspiria

10. Antarctigo Vespucci - Love In The Time Of Email

Television

1. Final Space

Films

1. Mandy

2. Annihilation

3. You Were Never Really Here

4. Incredibles 2

5. Hereditary

6. Sorry To Bother You

7. Suspiria

8. Disobediance

9. Black Panther

10. Eighth Grade

Podcasts

1. “De-Louse Your House: How I Learned To Live The (Mostly) Itch-Free Live” by Kyle Robb

2. “Ditch The Itch! The Wonders Of Talcum Powder” by Kyle Robb

3. “Drywall & Me: How I Crafted A Personality” by K.R. Obb

4. “Growing Up In The 3rd Century” by Robert Kylington

5. “To Have & Have Not: A Chicken Pox Tale” by Kale Robe

Scott

Albums

1. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In

2. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

3. Sleep - The Sciences

4. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

5. Jack White - Boarding House Reach

6. Kanye West - Ye

7. Kyle Robb & The Robb Kyles - It’s Itchin’ My Tickley! (EP)

8. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

9. Neko Case - Hell-On

Tom

Albums

1. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

2. Beach House - 7

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

5. David Byrne - American Utopia

DISTRIBUTION CENTRE

Laura

Television

1. Pose

2. The Crown

3. Legion

4. BoJack Horseman

5. The Good Place

6. Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

Films

1. Hereditary

2. A Quiet Place

3. Crazy Rich Asians

4. Sorry To Bother You

5. BlacKkKlansman

6. Eighth Grade

HEAD OFFICE

David

Television

1. The Americans

2. The Handmaid’s Tale

3. BoJack Horseman

4. Maniac

5. The Good Place

Podcasts

1. Slow Burn

2. Reply All

3. Serial

4. Stay Tuned With Preet

5. The Wilderness

Meredith

Albums

1. Clutch - Book Of Bad Decisions

2. Neko Case - Hell-On

3. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers

4. Great Lake Swimmers - The Waves, The Wake

5. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Tearing At The Seams

Will

Albums

1. The Arkells - Rally Cry

2. John Butler Trio - Home

3. Buddy Guy - The Blues Is Alive & Well

Television

1. The Last Ship

2. Letterkenny

3. Ballers

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Grateful Dead and Da Vinci Codes Updated

Branding is an important business tool of a musician’s or band’s marketing. A music artist’s logo is as vital a visual asset as a music artist’s stage wear and hair. And if an audience doesn’t remember you or your name, they will remember your logo. Modern music branding, as we know it, started in the 1960s. When music artists lived and worked with bands face to face. Some living together in communes. The Grateful Dead is a USA folk blues jam band with a psychedelic cult following. The Dead, as their fans call them, came out of Haight Ashbury, San Francisco, California. The Grateful Dead symbol is the Grateful Dead lightning bolt.  “When the group formed in 1965, the Dead provided an American alternative to the overpolished and squeaky-clean Beatlemania still captivating the world. The Beatles, of course, would eventually come around in agreement. But it was the Dead, among other acts, who set the tone for the let-it-all-loose rebellion of the '60s. Could there be a better insignia than a tie-dyed skull to celebrate the revenge of the turned on, tuned in and dropped out? The Dead wove the image of the skull through much of their presentation, from album design to music-festival art. Two skull-based logos that hold up include the red, white and blue lightning bolt and the rose. The first was the creation of sound engineer Owsley Stanley, also known as "the Bear," who says he wanted to put a mark on the band's equipment so he knew who owned what at multiact music festivals. The Rose was the artistic work of Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley. The duality of virgin floral beauty and the cult of death was of a piece with the message of a band known for saying, "a friend of the devil is a friend of mine."” Time.com 2010  Haight Ashbury is full of Masonic lodges and Knights Templar churches. Many built in the late 18th and early 20th century. La Belle Epoque and Masonic symbols inspired arts and design in the 1960s and 1970s. Especially in Summer of Love music poster designs. 

The Haight Ashbury Street Fair logo, founded in the 1970s, features a pyramid with an "all seeing eye" on a bed of roses. Masonic symbol themes appear through many poster artists’ work of the era. Relaying a subliminal message.  The 13 point lightning bolt or Grateful Dead bolt as an example. The skull, rose, circle and lightening bolt. All are symbols of the Masons, Catholics and Knights Templar. The symbols' origins and early meanings before that are the mystery and the key. Knowingly or not, what artists do is keep these mysteries alive in the public psyche. In no small way. Their fans keep spreading the symbols in tribute art on anything that images can be applied to. Including permanent facial tattoos. 

Get somebody tripping on any kind of psychedelic and tell them something over and over and they will believe whatever that something is you are telling them.  This is how new age cults recruit newly open minded avid followers.  The quickest way to be a guru with a following who follow your every word is host LSD parties.   It is also how the Dead got such a huge cult following that has been multigenerational since the 1960s. Ditto for electronic dance music, EDM.

The Dead and friends were trying to open minds to the "truth of oneness" through music and psychedelics. While this is admirable in its concept, it has a double edged sword. The minds they opened were later drowned in new age space alien guru conspiracies on all kinds of drugs.  Give somebody any kind of psychedelic and tell them something over and over. They will believe whatever that something is you are telling them. This is how new age cults recruit open minded avid followers. The quickest way to be a guru with a following that follows your every word is to host LSD parties. 

Tripping is how the Dead got such a huge cult following. A cult following that has been multigenerational since the 1960s. Ditto for electronic dance music, EDM. I know EDM producers and DJs from the 1990s who are grandparents. hieroglyphs that in the 21st century we call heraldry. 

The Dead’s skull iconography was more likely inspired by the Day of the Dead festival. A popular Latin American theme in California, featuring skulls and roses. The lightning bolt may relate to the first time somebody takes LSD or mushrooms. Their minds get opened to other realities and ways of thinking.  Masonic and Knights Templar institutions have large visible ornate buildings in Haight Ashbury. The symbols on the buildings are a language and they are history books. There is nothing mystical or extraterrestrial or even Biblical about the symbols. The symbols on the buildings are history books. Not the histories taught in school books. Bible miracles and winged angels and demons with superpowers don't actually exist. If you think they do, you've had too much screen time. Step away from the phone and game console and the remote… like now! In Masonic and Knights Templar lore the Grateful Dead symbols are common symbols. The skull, lightning bolt and rose relate to the Holy Grail Bloodline. San Graal is the original name in French. It means Sainted Blood or Holy Blood, another name for royal blood. The big secret is that Holy Grail, in a nutshell, is just another name for Royal Blood.  Before written words as we know them, histories got written in symbols. Jesus was a King of Kings, so he was a royal. A King of Kings is an emperor. Royals have always recorded their family histories in a form of pictorial hieroglyphs. In the 21st century we call it heraldry. 

Heraldry is a symbol relating to an event or career in a royal’s life. Such as a ship for a navigator or a tower from a land that an ancestor ruled. A flower from a poem an ancient ancestor wrote in the Bible. Sometimes the symbol meanings are related to royal status. A coronet for a prince and heir. Each symbol is not an isolated abstract. Each symbol is rich with history and back stories and the people those back stories are about.  Symbols are a kind of shorthand to record dynastic epics. Line up symbols and their stories with other symbols and whole libraries of lost history appear. Different versions of history to our school history books and Bibles. Histories with kickass women rulers, women scholars, women warriors and women priests. They didn’t need Bible miracles or extraterrestrial super powers or fantasy fiction. They had the real thing. "Whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.” Jesus Christ from the Gospel of Mark  In Stanley Mouse and Anton Kelley’s skull and roses logo, are symbols of Mary Magdalene of the Bible. From the Bible, “I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters…”  Song of Songs II, also called the Song of Solomon. It is a love poem written by Mary Magdalene to Jesus Christ.  

The historical Mary Magdalene was of Greek descent and a royal. Magdalene means "Great Queen", an empress, the same as Catherine the Great. Ancient monarchs had god avatars and symbols. Roses are a symbol Venus, a goddess of love and was once a real person. The real life Venus was an ancient ancestor of the historical Mary Magdalene. This is how the rose is in Mary Magdalene’s lexicon of symbols and Christian icons.

Floral and leaf wreaths with ribbons are ancient Greek and Roman headwear. It denotes them having Gods and Goddesses for ancestors. The head wreath with ribbons is the headdress of the Goddess Nike. A goddess who is also syncretistic with Mary Magdalene. Nike is the goddess of victory. Her Greek name is Bernike, the ancient version of the name Bernice.   The story gets confusing from here. There are at least two historical Jesus and Mary Magdalenes. Both were emperors and empresses and other elements of their stories the same or similar. This is why it took 20 years for the Council of Nicaea to create the Biblical Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The Bible is allegory, so are all religious stories around the world. Modern researchers and Bible orators tend to forget or don't comprehend this. So we get new age garble, such as calling the lightning bolt a Satanic supernatural S. Or that Bible miracles really happened like in Hollywood movies depict.  The truth is that there were no Bible miracles involved. The Bible is not a book of history and was never meant to be history. The Bible is a book of morality tales and redemption stories. Paraphrased religious folklore from many different religions. Its characters loosely based on people who were deified royals. All religious stories are based on deified royals.  Owsley Stanley’s Grateful Dead skull has a 13 point lightening bolt. The lightning bolt is a big clue to the identity of the historical Jesus of the Bible.  “Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.” Psalm 18:14 King James Bible Arrows can mean both a battle and or symbols on a military shield. Both people that the Biblical Jesus became based upon were emperors. Both entered Judea as military commanders with huge armies. The insignia the army’s shields were lightning bolts. Their battles recorded by scribes in allegory as many lightening bolts raining down. Both had secret marriages to an empress, a Magdalene. All these people were deified, and other shared stories. One also foretells the coming of the other. The Second Coming has already happened. Fans in the 21st century write tribute fantasies about the Grateful Dead. Flying around with wings and super powers and lighting bolts shooting from their guitars. What these creative followers are talking about in allegory is the Grateful Dead’s music. But imagine 1500 years in the future, somebody finds the writings and artworks in scattered pages. 

They don't know the backstories, but try putting them together into a book. Some other people make a cult from that book. They make movies and documentaries to tell the people the book is a real story. People start to believe the Grateful Dead flew around with wings. They start to believe that the Grateful Dead shot lightning bolts from their guitars. Total Bill and Ted moment.

2,000 years in the future the Grateful Dead are paranormal space aliens with laser rifles, flying around in UFOs. Their followers watching augmented reality concerts in the sky. Chanting their church's holy mantra “Beam me up Jerry.” And Phish Food ice cream their holy sacrament.   

[sans-abrisme]

[jamesbyerj]

A Flashy Expansion - FlashShifter

This week we're talking with [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/users/46021252]FlashShifter[/url], creator of [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/3753]Stardew Valley Expanded[/url], a massive overhaul mod for the titular game. [b]Thank you for joining us FlashShifter. To start off could you please tell us a little about yourself?  [/b] I’m glad to be here and grateful to have this opportunity for an interview! My name is Devin. I graduated from university a couple of years ago with a BA in accounting. Moved to Seattle with my girlfriend to seek out employment. I enjoy video games, art, piano, and modding! [b]You've been a member of our community since 2017, how did you first find Nexus Mods?  [/b] I originally joined Nexus Mods for [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/starwarsbattlefront22017]Star Wars Battlefront II mods[/url]. My little brother showed me Stardew Valley in 2017 and I played the heck out of it on the Nintendo Switch (over 200 hours). I wanted to experience more of the game, so I became active in the Stardew Valley modding community to enhance my experience. [b]What would you say are your favourite games and what do you like about them?[/b] Some of my favourite games are Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, LoZ: Breath of the Wild, Bloodborne, Super Smash Brothers, and Red Dead Redemption 2. I love games with exploration and a good story. I also enjoy fast-paced games too! [center][img]https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/2295/images/26/26-1566393785-1374693356.png[/img] [img]https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/2295/images/26/26-1566394178-953737027.jpeg[/img][/center] [b]Stardew Valley Expanded is the biggest and most popular mod for Stardew Valley in the last 12 months, but for anyone who hasn't played it yet. Could you tell us about the mod? [/b] Stardew Valley Expanded is the largest mod for the game. From the mod description [quote]This mod features 17 new locations, 63 new character events, 3 new NPCs, over 500 location messages, reimagined maps and festivals (all maps), a huge remastered farm map, a new world map reflecting all changes, and many miscellaneous additions. [/quote] I aim to add over 30 hours of brand-new content, expanding the universe ConcernedApe created. [b]What inspired you to create mods for Stardew Valley?[/b]  Modding for Stardew Valley requires very little to no coding knowledge, so it was easy for me to pick up and learn. There were many things I wanted to add to the game I enjoyed. The project was originally only supposed to incorporate some map edits, but it kept growing and growing. To this day, the mod is still expanding! [b]Have you ever created mods for other games? [/b] I have not. I am open to the idea in the future, but I am currently focusing on Stardew Valley. [center][img]https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/1303/images/3753/3753-1554699004-1117718845.gif[/img][/center] [b]Are you the only one working on the mod or do you have a team of modders?[/b]  I am the only developer for SVE and the creator. [url=https://twitter.com/mojav1a]Mojavia[/url] and [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/users/41168370]HopeWasHere[/url] have helped me with the portrait art of the NPCs and new buildings. Other developers have added/tweaked their frameworks for SVE. Some people have assisted me in creating compatibility patches for other mods and streamlining installation. I also have used assets from other modders, acknowledged in the SVE credits section. But for the most part, I am the only person actively working on SVE and maintaining it. [b]Many talented Stardew Valley mod authors have contributed assets and even entire mods to SDVE. What would you say are the challenges in bringing these all together?[/b]  The toughest challenges I would say was asking for permission, ensuring proper credit was given, and tweaking/implementing these mods to mesh seamlessly together. [b]If someone wanted to start making mods for Stardew Valley, what advice would you give them?[/b] My first piece of advice is to ask yourself what you want to add and why you want to make it. The resources I used were primarily the [url=https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Index]modding wiki[/url], the map editor “[url=https://www.mapeditor.org/]Tiled[/url]”, the [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CpDrw23peQiq-C7F2FjYOMePaYe0Rc9BwQsj3h6sjyo/edit#gid=239695361]Events Google Doc spreadsheet[/url], and the [url=https://discord.gg/stardewvalley]SDV Modding Discord[/url] for help. [b]What other mods would you recommend when playing Stardew Valley?[/b] I have a Mod Recommendations section on the [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/3753]SVE page[/url] detailing what mods I recommend! [center][img]https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/2295/images/26/26-1566394618-1252089923.jpeg[/img] [img]https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/2295/images/26/26-1566397812-1158571790.jpeg[/img][/center] [b]Do you have any future plans for your mods you'd like to share? [/b] SVE is still growing! I have plans to add more unique locations, more NPCs, more events, new activities, new festivals, new sprites, and more! If anyone wants to help with portrait art and C# coding, I would love to have a chat with you! [line] Follow [url=https://twitter.com/FlashShifter]@FlashShifter[/url] on Twitter to keep up to date on the development of his mods. You can also join in the Stardew Valley discussion on our [url=https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/forum/3641-general-stardew-valley-discussion]forums[/url] and the Nexus Mods [url=https://discord.gg/nexusmods]Discord server[/url]! A big thank you to [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/users/46021252]FlashShifter[/url] for answering our questions. As always, if there's an author or mod project you'd like to know more about, send your suggestions to [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/users/64597][b]BigBizkit[/b][/url] or [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/users/31179975][b]Pickysaurus[/b][/url].  Published first at A Flashy Expansion - FlashShifter