Entry 2: What to Play

A friend of mine (hi Stu!) recently mentioned that he needed something new to play on PC. After a bit of thought, I compiled this list of semi-recent indie games I thoroughly endorse. Here they are in no particular order:

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Doukutsu Monogatari (Cave Story)


Okay, so I said no particular order, but there's totally a reason this game comes first. Cave Story is amazing beyond measure! In fact, it's so good there's a WiiWare port of it. I won't do a full scale review, but I will say it's a badass metroidvania game with a cool story, RPG elements, tons of replay value, and music that will not disappoint. When you first start up the game, you will probably find the physics a little floaty and weird, but once you get used to it, the payoff is so worth it. If on your run through, you pick up the machine gun, I guarantee you will have fun with this game.


Here's the Cave Story Tribute Site, or you can go ahead and skip right to the download page.

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Noitu Love (and the army of grinning darns)


This one is a pretty zany title, and it's another super fun one. I haven't gotten very far in it, but not for lack of trying. This game is somewhat challenging, but the truth of the matter is that I'm not that good at games. Whatever the case, this game has some unique and epic boss battles, and I highly suggest you try it for yourself.

Additionally, if you do find yourself really enjoying this, I suggest you take a look at Noitu Love 2. This one actually costs money, so I haven't tried it, but I do plan to. Expect more fucking nuts boss fights and some of the best side scroller action mechanics on the PC. Check this shit out:



Yeah.

So here's the Creator's Website, and here are the pages for Noitu Love and Noitu Love 2: Devolution

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Legend of Princess

While we're talking about games by Konjak, I can't ignore this one. It's Zelda, arcade side scroller style! 'nuf said! Stop readin' my shit and play this game!

Linklink

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Iji

Yes, that is spelled capital i, j, i. So when I said earlier that Cave Story deserved to be first on the list, well it was a tough call between these two, and it's really for a lot of the same reasons. This game has a dark, rather involved story, and some really kickass dialogue. RPG elements are present, and it has a leveling mechanic that really gives you great control over your stat progression. Many of the choices you make in this game will have subtle effects on the story, making this an exceedingly replayable game. You'll go crazy trying to unlock every single thing, and I fucking dare you to try a pacifist run. My only gripe with this game is the artwork in the cutscenes. I feel it could've looked a lot better, but honestly, it's really hard to complain about anything when you're listening to this.
Btw, those are all worth listening to all the way through.

Oh, also this:


This is an incredible game and I beg you to go here and get it!

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Well, that's enough of that... I'll probably do another list of games at a later date, but I know not everyone  wants to know what I'm playing right now, so I'll give it a rest for a while.

In other news, work has been great! It's been hella slow because of the snow, so I've actually been talking a lot more at work and getting to know my co-workers. My bosses still think I'm a fucking hermit, but that just goes to show how heedless they are of me.

Don't care, gonna go over here and fish for the attention of someone worth my time.

Alright, enough of that, I'm tired! This takes too long...

oh, almost forgot... funnycomiccominATCHAAA!

Entry 1: An Introduction

Hello, and welcome to my Weblogue.
Now I know what you're thinking... "But Dan, why do you have a blog now? Do you even have anything worth saying? Also, what's with the name? Are you retarded?"
Well, I'm going to ignore most of your questions (especially that retard comment, you big meanie) and focus on the name thing.
"This Fucking Spaceship!" was a line from a letter  I wrote and never gave to my then girlfriend. We were in an extremely unstable relationship, and she was going away to visit her ex, which history had already proven to be a baaaad idea. She wanted me to write her something so she would be reminded of me and what we were to each other. I tried, but I was pretty fed up with the whole thing by this point, so it turned into a rant about human nature and where it was taking this planet. I had been reading Helter Skelter at the time, along with many quotations by Charles Manson that I'd found on the internet, and one such quotation compared the world to a spaceship. I referenced this somewhere in my letter. After re-reading my work, I realized this clearly wasn't the love letter I'd intended to write, and I never gave it to her. It was pretty clear to me at this point that I had to end it.
A couple years later, me and my friend Seth started a band called Japanese Economy Cars with minimal success. We played two shows, wrote a lot of songs, and most importantly, had some good ass times.
At some point I found that old letter in one of my school binders, and we decided to make a song of it... well, less a song, more a noise-splosion. I screamed the words of my letter into a microphone while Seth soloed the shit out of the drums. We recorded it, and when playing it back, we both heard the drums die down just as I screamed "THIS FUCKING SPACESHIP!" at the top of my lungs. We laughed our asses off, and I'll never forget how stupid it sounded out loud.

So that is the origin of the title, but forget that for a minute.

Marooned in space... this has kind of become a metaphor for my life and the vast distance between what's in my mind, and the real world, and the great difficulty I have getting messages from my mind to the real world. I'm a pretty quiet person, and I spend a lot more time inside my head than I do in reality. Frequently I can't relate to the people around me, and it takes a whole lot for me to get to know most people. I'm awkward as fuck, but I've gotten very used to it. This fucking spaceship is my head, and these entries will primarily chronicle the occurrences therein. I'll try not to make it too boring or emo, but I make no promises. If you don't want to follow, don't follow... but I warn you now: You'll be missing out on links to funny comics that I'll be posting in every entry, starting NOW!

Entry 0

Hello World