Thank you for reading thus far if you did! Have the 2016 garegga port OST + remixes, as a complementary piece to it all, and as a personal favorite freebie, have COOL&CREATE's arrange+mashup of the first level music for both Ibara and Battle Garegga (of touhou and shmup arranges fame, besides a few songs for BMS and the ever-present IIDX series) . Now that you know the history of these two games and how they came to be, and by whom they did so, you can appreciate it better.

Man, remember when games had imagination and took risks? I do. Nowadays games are made by a team of HR busybodies and corposlop consulting firms with the clear intention of not taking any risks, and it works, since they never risk making any fucking money whatsoever.

¹in reference to the first post: if anything of the sort has ever been implemented elsewhere and i'm wrong, i'll be ecstatic to stand corrected, but even thinking about it, i couldn't think of anything remotely similar.

Oh boy. That was a long one. But it's nowhere near long enough, in my opinion. I could go on for days.

I'll be glad to post more and if you ever meet me IRL over a beer (or twelve), i'll give you the whole enchilada, free of charge.

finally, a drink for me

You thought we were done with the Adam Freeland albums?

think again

And as an addendum to the shmup post from the other day, coincidentally, the ever-great Jaimers published a run for the Nokia flip phone spinoff for Deathsmiles, arguably Cave's most commercially succesful and popular shmup they ever released

There's actually a lot of phone shmup spinoffs made by Cave (even Ketsui and DaiOuJou had flip phone ports) and even nowadays, by way of Gothic wa Mahou Otome (usually abbreviated as gomaotsu) for smartphones, and the somewhat recent ports of mushihimesama for ios.
They're nothing compared to the arcade originals, of course, but they're still a novelty and worth checking out, if nothing, for curiosity and historical relevance's sake.

If you have a switch, Deathsmiles got a port recently. I don't know how accurate it is, though. You'll tell me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoMoxHw6NzY

on another note, i got my dedicated coffee brewing area set-up properly.
Love it.
I'll have to make an even bigger one once i move!

if you're more of a tea person, i get it. I like chinese tea also.
I would recommend you try Tie guan yin if you ever have the chance.

i'm feeling this year as the year i finally get into pop'n.

It will be easier too, since i actually can. We got good things cookin'.

i'm pinning it because

no reason, just because

just kidding it's because it's too long to be buried in the rest of the channel

dammit