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    $5 well spent

    By Laughing Man,

    goes for like $50+ on Amazon and eBay, got it for five bucks because of saved-up Kmart rewards points. last one they had in stock in an otherwise completely cleaned-out section of Star Wars merch.
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    Machinae Supremacy!
     
    an interesting band from Sweden, Machinae Supremacy employ the use of a Commodore 64 SID chip to fuse electronics with power metal, and top it off with anime and video game-inspired imagery and lyrics.
     
    while not everything they've released is free, they do have a handful of albums available that you can download in either 192kbps MP3 or FLAC format - one full-length, Deus Ex Machinae, as well as three compilations of demos, promotional tracks, and re-recordings: Origin, Arcade, and Fury (unfortunately, when you download the latter three and throw them into whatever media player library you use, they're completely unorganized and jumbled up).
     
    those who are curious and wish to check out a couple tracks, I recommending looking up the songs "Origin", "Winterstorm" (which is currently serving as the intro music for the Yogscast Top 5 videos), and the instrumental "Hybrid".
     
    UPDATE: I've converted the albums from FLAC to 320kbps MP3 format, which is higher quality than the MP3s they currently offer to download, and I have also sorted and organized the albums with the proper information and good-quality embedded artwork. if anyone is interested in downloading these MP3s instead, PM me and we'll work out a way for me to get them to you.
     
    UPDATE & BUMP 06/20/13: I've once again converted the albums, this time from FLAC to VBR MP3s encoded with LAME, providing for high quality sound as well as smaller filesize. as I used LAME (considered the best MP3 encoder available) rather than the generic, built-in encoder I had previously used for the FLAC-to-320 conversion, the sound quality is audibly better than before. I may find a place where I can host a .zip file of these albums and link it here for those interested.
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    RIP Hostess

    By Laughing Man,

    screw your Twinkies and Swiss Rolls, my life will be meaningless without CupCakes =<
     
    also, I imagine Tallahassee would be very upset about this.. although it kind of explains why Twinkies were so scarce
  13. Laughing Man

    Stardew Valley

    By Laughing Man,

    (shout-out to Jedi Master J. for gifting this game to me)
     
    story time: I was utterly obsessed with Harvest Moon when I was younger. it was one of the games I played on my brothers' Nintendo 64 a lot as a kid, and then when I got older I had the DS version and was so addicted to it that my parents had to take my DS away from me sometimes just to get me to sleep and eat.
     
    so after seeing Stardew Valley touted by multiple sites and people whose opinions I generally trust as being "like Harvest Moon but better", my interest was piqued and I needed to try it for myself.
     
    4 hours in and so far it's lived up to the hype. it really is a lot like Harvest Moon without being a direct ripoff, and does a lot of things even better than Harvest Moon did. I've been taking it slow since I'm working through a couple other games at the moment (including a visual novel that seemingly never ends; I've logged 23 hours on the first route alone and there's still no end in sight) but I think it's safe to say that once I really get into it, there will be very little sleeping or eating in my future. and if that's not a recommendation, I don't know what is.
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    Sonic Underground

    By Laughing Man,

    idk what's better about this absolutely, horrifically cheesy show:
     
    the sweet 80s-esque heavy metal theme song
     
    or the fact that all three of the main characters are voiced by the guy who played Steve Urkel, including the girl for whom he literally just does his Urkel voice
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    I went for one thing, I left with one thing. and I couldn't be happier.
     

     
    I got Katatonia's RSD exclusive 12" B-sides compilation Kocytean, limited to 2000 copies, on glorious translucent orange vinyl.
     
    this is officially my most prized possession.
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    those absolutely horrid CD "cases" that are literally just thin cardboard sleeves that they somehow expect you to slide the discs in and out of without scratching them
     
    which is, like, impossible
     
    seriously I have 3 CDs that just came out THIS YEAR and they're already scratched because of those wretched things
  20. Laughing Man
    since I mentioned the Pumpkins in my last post, I figured why not.
     
    top to bottom:
     
    - Gish
    - Lull EP
    - Siamese Dream
    - Pisces Iscariot
    - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
    - 1979 single (the B-sides on this are fantastic)
    - Zero EP
    - Adore
    - MACHINA/The Machines of God
    - {Rotten Apples} Greatest Hits (my first Pumpkins album)
    - Zeitgeist (Best Buy exclusive deluxe edition)
    - Oceania
     
    owned but not pictured:
     
    - MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (digital-only release)
    - Zeitgeist standard edition
    - all Teargarden by Kaleidyscope tracks so far (digital-only release)
    - Batman & Robin soundtrack (includes two Pumpkins songs, “The End Is the Beginning Is the End” and “The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning”)
    - Zero T-shirt
    - Zeitgeist “Invasion” T-shirt
  21. Laughing Man

    In Addendum

    By Laughing Man,

    for the last time, this is NOT something that is open to opinion or disagreement. there is NO CHOICE involved here, it is NOT just a "lifestyle". you cannot disagree with cold hard facts - not without being objectively WRONG.
     
    additionally, people telling you why you are wrong is NOT oppression. how dare you continue to insist you know or face oppression over this. you DO NOT.
     
    please educate yourself.
  22. Laughing Man
    I've run out of larger collections to dedicate whole entries to, so here's a couple smaller ones put together.
     

     
    this one isn't quite complete, unfortunately. I'm missing the first two albums plus the 2014 Last Stardust EP, but that's because those are all difficult to find (and expensive) outside of the band's home of Japan. I'm fine with missing the first two albums since they predate the trance-metal hybrid style the band excels at, but I would like to track down Last Stardust eventually.
     
    incidentally, the album Mozaiq is also pretty hard to find. for a while it wasn't available through U.S. or European digital outlets, and all the CD copies ranged from $30-$100. furthermore, if you were lucky enough to find a CD copy for cheap, there was a pretty good chance you would end up with one of Amazon's awful "manufactured on demand" CD-Rs instead of the real thing. and as if this wasn't annoying enough, it would appear that virtually all the copies of the album available outside of Japan, digital or otherwise, have the track listing totally screwed up where the songs are all shuffled around and don't match what's shown on the packaging or listed online - some copies, specifically the Amazon CD-Rs, even mistakenly include a song by a completely different band in place of the track "Neo-Gothic-Romance". I somehow managed to luck out seriously a couple years back and find a promotional European pressing on Amazon for $7. it does have the track order messed up, but at least it's not a CD-R and none of the songs are missing.
     
    top to bottom:
     
    - Idolator (European pressing, excludes two tracks included on the Japanese version, includes the music video for "Truth")
    - Mozaiq (European promotional copy, includes the bonus track "Cosmic Highway")
    - Epsilon (European pressing, includes the bonus track "Royal Sky", an updated re-recording of "Final Sky" from Idolator)
     

     
    this one is a complete collection, albeit with a far less interesting background than the Blood Stain Child one. Days of Nothing is a bit harder to find than the other two, but I did manage to luck out and get one for about $8. all of these are American pressings to my knowledge.
     
    top to bottom:
     
    - Days of Nothing
    - Oionos
    - Second World
     
    as a side note, if everything goes as scheduled, I should have an entry up tomorrow about a very cool box set I ordered last week.
  24. Laughing Man
    - 500 gig Toshiba portable external hard drive ($50)
    - Redeemer by Machinae Supremacy digital album ($10)
    - Overworld by Machinae Supremacy digital album ($10)
    - A View from the End of the World by Machinae Supremacy digital album ($10)
    - Rise of a Digital Nation by Machinae Supremacy digital album ($10)
     
    WOO
     
    BUYING THINGS
     
    prices listed are mostly approximations for the sake of convenience. a couple of the digital albums may have been a dollar or two less.
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