YouTube Obsession

So one of my rules when enjoying streamers or youtubers is that they should be chill. I sometimes break this rule and especially so with HunterTV.

But I mean come on. All that editing and funny little costumes. The guy commits to the drag of it all and I support that. Also, most of his videos are about Call of Duty Warzone and honestly, its about the only way I can enjoy watching that game.

There’s also a bit of the annoying little brother in his videos that I he cranks up to 11 just for the art of trolling. Like having a rant on hating the annoying one-shot kill shotguns and then have a clip montage of him going on a kill rampage with said shotgun laughing the entire time. It’s pretty funny if you see the strings.

I can’t seem to find it but he has a really funny video about recruiting his chat for the perfect Warzone team. He adopts an NFL summer camp coach persona and carries a clip board and critiques players as he spectates their gameplay. Its funny! I laughed!

Anyway

Watching

For better or worse, one of the most influential movies of all time has to be The Toxic Avenger, a 1984 schlock indie-film that kicked off the “Melt Movies“ genre in the 80s and 90s. While watching it’s easy to see why this decidedly bad movie is so prevalent in pop-culture. It’s just charming af.

The jokes are low-brow sure, but you can’t deny a certain joie de vivre that takes place in every scene. It helps that the production is so obviously local to New Jersey.

I mean this in the most complimentary way I can: This is the most juvenile film I have ever see. I made a joke about The Crow remake that if a 15yo thought it would be cool, it would be in The Crow. The Toxic Avenger is the same only taken to the fullest extreme: Dick and fart jokes, tits, pre-martial sex, karate, goofy violence and paper mache special effects all serve a story that can only be described as secondary.

There’s a shot later in the film that perfectly explains that slap-dash construction.

A character, surrounded by neighborhood kids who were probably at the restaurant on the day of filming, restates his motivations that he stated literally the scene before while sitting uncomfortably at a table that is placed in this impossible place just to get a shot for this stupid movie. It’s great!

One of the funniest things in the entire movie is right after the main character has fallen into a oil drum of toxic waste. He stumbles around, skin melting blinded and screaming when suddenly an entire elementary school’s worth of children come to point and laugh at him. It’s mean, it’s absurd and it’s perfect. I laughed for a solid five minutes.

Watch this movie, it’s free on YouTube.

Playing

So over the past two weekends I have been playing the Battlefield 6 Beta on PS5 and not to brag but I still haven’t pre-ordered. That will most likely change as soon as I get paid next because if the game released tomorrow, I would buy it as is. This is the best Battlefield has felt since BF4. It obviously needs some work but I had so much fun playing and I can’t wait to play more. I’m sure I’ll have to post more opinions when it fully releases in October.

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I played Quasimorphosis back when it was basically a free tech demo for a DOOM RL-like and I enjoyed it’s art style, turn-based nature and creepy satanic vibes. It is balls hard.

I played Quasimorph: End of Dream when it released to fill-out the ideas presented before and gauge interest in a full game. Adding a more robust mission system, loot, classes and the beginnings of a solid anarcho-capitalism horror story. It too, is balls hard.

Finally, last week I picked up the early access of the final(?) release of Quasimorph. It is about a year into the early access journey and I am already obsessing over it when I am not playing.

But first off, developers: Don’t do this. Don’t list and de-list very similar games as a way to gauge interest or raise funds for a final project. I played End of Dream for a long time thinking I was playing the early access version. I got very confused when I saw Quasimorph was on sale and I thought, wait, I already have that? But I didn’t, I had Quasimorphosis and Quasimorph: End of Dream but not Quasimorph.

However, the game is very very good. A rouge-like with endless customization and “oh cool!” moments of action, horror and exploration. The setting is about as perfect as a setting could be for my interests. The neo-libs have won, society is nothing but corporations profiting off of every form of human exploitation so long as the markets deign it so. You run a mercenary group of endlessly re-cloneable mercs hired by the corps to do their bidding. There are multiple corps in the game that you appease and while on their good side they will offer you better sale prices, equipment and jobs. Get on their bad side and they will send rival mercs after you.

Early in the game, because of your actions you accidentally release demons into reality. Turns out the anarcho-capitalist landscape is not far from hell and the demons thrive. Instead of theoretically sucking the soul out of the human race like actual capitalism they literally suck the souls out of humans. It’s great.

Other Notables

** obsessed with this very 90s, extremely British music video from the original Austin Powers soundtrack.