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Mira | July | Viper | Trinket
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I was going to ask what your thoughts on Tim Horton's was, but now I want to know if each of you had a specialty doughnut, what would it be? 👀
We get an Iced Cappucino there every day but they keep jacking up the price so we've tried to slowly cut back. Sometimes like a bagel or sandwhich is we're hungry but those aren't actually very good from them. They started selling pizza a while ago which is hilarious. Obviously not fancy pizza but it's edible.
I think Mira would have one with a cute cat face formed in candy and it'd be jelly filled.
The July is rich dark chocolate chunks and a caramel drizzle
The Viper is probably some kind of cruller with cinnamon. Harsh and crunchy on the outside, but soft on the inside
The Trinket is pink icing, sprinkles and candy toppings. Extremely sweet
Any weird consoles you want to try and do a showing of? Anything you've wanted to try but just never actually sat down and did?
At this point anything is fair game. Though that said, the CDI is something we've wanted to get going for many years and it just didn't work out. There's a mister core for it so that shouldn't be a problem for too much longer. There's also a lot of handhelds still out there that we know nothing about. That Wonderswan life
What's your favorite food?
In all eras, I believe that it is the noble pizza pie
Do you like Sonic.......................................Do you like NiGHTS into Dreams......................................
Our preferred Sonic is the Adventure era but there's nothing wrong about other Sonics. The boost era has been alright, Shadow Generations was really excellent. And NiGHTS is an all-time banger top tier video gaming. Love that thing. The Wiiquel is not as good but Nights is still extremely gender so it's okay
also have you fucked with the Amiga at all?
Haven't had the change directly yet, but it's definitely something on the list for the future. We watched Enbyeon play a bunch of Amiga in April and there's lots of cool stuff there. For a long time it's been a world we've felt guilty about not knowing well enough. Some of the games can feel impenetrable for our sensibilities, but we don't like how dismissive people often are of it. Lots of people loved those games in the past and present, and we wanna see what the appeal was. The sick music definitely part of that.
hi hello do you like cats? what about yellow cats? what about green cats?
Yes! Cats are the best! As a green cat, green cats are good, but also all cars are good. Yellow, purple, red, orange, uuuuh see-thru. Any.
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Thoughts on microcomputer stuff now that you're poking more at them?
They're so cool! The MSX1 really feels like there was just an entire console that we sorta, didn't think too hard about or consider real. It was actually a computer of course and that matters but still. There's just a Kinnikuman game on it that's better than the ones on Nintendo platforms! It's still not amazing but that's wild! This is also probably also the affect of it being Japanese primarily, whereas when we look at Amiga games and such they're mostly the strange and upsetting world of "Europe." Since we didn't really grow up on those, playing them feels like spelunking into a world we don't know instead of an entire rich vein of familiar games. That'll make the Amiga mines even more interesting when we get there though.
The FM Towns stuff we've looked at so far feels a lot more like a computer as we understand it since everything is on CDs and many of the games we're picking out are like, Wizardry. Alone in the Dark. Games we already at least know about. It feels much more like a computer as we know it. Still, in addition to the unique games on it, a lot of the games will be interesting ports too.
The MSX2 feels like the most exciting thing possible right now.
What's everyone's hottest fantasy, for those that have them?
Hmm, I guess it's only me (Mira) and Viper that do that kinda thing. And since he's my owner he tends to indulge me a lot from his side, though its kinda the same fantasy on opposite ends. The only thing is that we both like to imagine being the center of attention, which means we diverge in some cases.
That is to say I always fantasized about being overpowered by one or more demons or werewolves or monsters or whatever and made into a pet or a toy or a slave for them. It's all variations on a theme depending on how much I feel like being treated in any given moment. In real life I probably would not enjoy being suspended from the ceiling and spitroasted but in fantasy that's nice.
Truthfully, my master just likes having someone made to obey his every whim, which I'm happy to do anyway, so on some level he doesn't need to fantasize about much of anything. My mind tends to wander a lot more.
After dipping your toes in the MSX, is there any other older computers you'd want to look at?
Oh like a ton of them. After seeing some FM Towns stuff that might actually be the next one. Really, being raised on Japanese games means we naturally go towards them. Like the Sharp X68k seems rad as hell too.
That said, we'd get a lot of education out of hitting more Amiga and like, C64 stuff I think. A focus on some old RPG stuff might be nice since that's sorta the biggest intersection of "hypothetically our jam" vs "god I hate this." Like Wizardry exists and its so important
What type of comedy are you into? Do you like bombast or do you like it a bit dry? Any comedians you like specifically?
Oooh it's been many years since we've really been into standup. Mostly when we were a kid and watched Just for Laughs and such on TV and most of it was absolute garbage. Though, having seen some Three Stooges clips recently that shit actually holds up and is good.
Either kind of style is definitely capable of being very funny, we grew up on the Simpsons after all. But we have really strong editor brain when like a gag comic hits our eyes because so many of them are constrained by the format into just ruining their own jokes and we'll start going over how it could be made actually good. Comedy is entirely a matter of delivery for the most part. We're naturally boke as hell for the most part but have come to appreciate the tsukomi in our lives. You're actually pretty good at it, better than we are.
However, when it comes to writing comedy, we barely know where to start and so we tend to weave it into things we write naturally as the absurdity of people and life is just part of our world view, and to that end dry and character-based comedy is king. On Cinema is just an incredible project back to front and an inspiration. We and some friends in the know quote the Tim Heidecker standup routine a lot and it's just nonsense like "any foodies in the audience?" that isn't funny outside of a ton of context.
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