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Gacha games have been blowing up lately, and if you’re even a little into anime-style action, story, or collecting cool characters, they’re worth checking out. At their core, these are free-to-play games built around pulling random characters, weapons, or upgrades from banners (think digital loot boxes on steroids). You grind for resources, build teams, tackle story missions or events, and chase that next big power spike. They mix RPG elements with live-service updates that keep things…
(Post written while electricity was still out) Upon waking up for work on Saturday evening, or, as many will remember it, the worst 4th of July ever, I shoved myself out of bed to the sound of rain pounding the windows and my air conditioner while random Minecraft horror ARGs played via Youtube on my TV. As I sat down onto my couch to remove my watch so that it could charge, the power flicked off. It did not come back. I heard a loud one-off bang outside as if something had exploded, and…
Who even BUYS physical media anymore? Asked the guy whose experience with gaming is exclusively on his phone and a PlayStation 5, whose only interaction with music as a medium is via Spotify and Walmart radio. Who buys physical media, anyway? A question I’ve been seeing a lot lately, ever since Sony announced that they’re killing the medium and experience of owning things, now, and forever. But we’ve been through this song and dance before. Many times, actually. Spotify has been slowly killing…
There’s been a lot of bad news lately, from Rockstar trying to push the cost-of-a-game envelope even further, to Bandcamp firing most of their engineers only a few months after pledging to ban any and all music that even so much as hints at the existence of AI (whose got money on Bandcamp running AI internally as a replacement for their engineers?), and to Sony announcing that physical discs will be discontinued entirely… I find myself continually slipping into nostalgia for the early 2000s.…
Hello, once again, and welcome to my fediverse hi-jinx! This is going to be somewhat of a shorter post, mostly because I need to make sure the couple or handful of people on my Mastodon instance at null.mkultra.social see this, but my Mastodon instance is “moving” to cmplxdecay.space! Why have I done this? Because I like to be annoying? No! Actually … I have quite a handful of servers currently. One that’s running my OpenSim grid, another that’s basically handling my bot-net, the server that…
My discontent with Second Life has been growing for a long time, and this is definitely something I’ve probably spoken about recently, but, you know how it is: In Second Life it used to be about creating, meeting, being social, hanging out, and all that. But now? It’s about the latest shopping event, rent-seekers looking to score as much profit off of as many people as possible, at all costs. To add insult to injury, Linden Labs has only created more ways to extract money from its users. As if…
I keep writing about these little (or not so little, almost 200 gigs??!!) gacha games I play that are more like if you said, “Okay, so how about Breath of the Wild but with nearly all women and also anime and a gachapon machine?” And it seems they’re evolving faster than Anthropic can lie about the capabilities of Claude. Wuthering Waves is one of them, which you already know. Because I wrote about it just recently and how blown away I was by the Lahai-Roi story arc. Well, they did it again.…
So, you went to the theater and you saw the legendary Backrooms film from the mind of Kane Parsons and A24, and you can’t get it out of your head. The claustrophobic feelings, the pulsing silence as the walls close in around you, and the way even regular people within the Complex themselves become something of an “entity” all on their own. You want more, and you want to experience it yourself! Well, good news, buddy. This is my shortlist of games that will absolutely blast the crap out of your…
You’re reading that title and you’re groaning. You’re probably groaning so hard that you’re almost farting and maybe shidding a little. But fret not, this isn’t what you think it is. I’m not sitting on a rented yacht with a monkey image. In fact, none of that money even exists in my wallet, anymore. But I did do it. And it’s never going to be possible to do it again. It started after I returned to my previous job. I didn’t have a good phone, and the car I got was already seeing issues…
I am a fan—and have been for years—of decentralized media: the ability to host your own thing and keep your data safe from big corporations and profit-seeking entities entirely. And, to be frank (don’t call me Frank), that’s exactly what OpenSim is. Decentralized. But this is something I detailed in the first post I ever made about OS back in 2025, almost a year ago to the day. Has my experience changed? Have my opinions morphed? It’s true, OpenSim has AI-generated stuff everywhere. But so does…
In my previous post I talked about how blown-away I was by the current story happening in Wuthering Waves, and how much the game has grown since its launch a few years ago. I also mentioned the amazing Endfield, and the newly launched, “Neverness to Everness”, an anime ghost-hunter Grand Theft Auto-inspired kinda gacha thing. And that is what I want to talk about today, because there’s … a lot to talk about. Can you decipher what’s happening in this screenshot? I’ve given this game my attention…
A little while back … okay, actually, two years ago, I wrote about my first impressions with Wuthering Waves, an anime gacha mobile game that has a PC counterpart with cross-progression (I’m starting to view games without cross-progression and a mobile counterpart to be inferior, because I like taking my games and their progress around with me in my pocket). I talked about how the first iteration of the game and it’s launch was really cool, but the story left a little to be desired. In that, it…
There are a lot of takes about AI out there on the internets, some good, some bad. Okay, actually, a lot bad. There’s talks of the environmental impact, which I personally feel can’t be spoken about fully, until we acknowledge the environmental impact that we, and our habits, have already contributed to environmental breakdown (fossil fuels, media consumption, consumerism). And then, there’s talks of copyright, and LLM training, which … for some reason, is continually popping people into…
It came to my attention, that, while there are plenty of people who lived through the nineties, not everyone has the same kinds of experiences with what was essentially a decade of technological revolution. A revolution that brought us to exactly where we are now, for better, or for worse, depending on who you ask. So, I figured it might be neat to write down my memories of the decade. Both, because there are people younger than me who apparently wish they lived this decade, and also because,…
Recently I posted on here about relaunching my Minecraft server, and doing it in a way that’s nice and cheap and not heavy on the wallet (address: mc.mkultra.monster). Initially, I loaded up the server with a “starter pack” that new players get whenever they join, and my little spawn building that sets you off on your journey. Well, there’s a lot more than that now. A rundown of new things I’ve added to my server: Sign yourself up for a job, be it mining, hunting, farming, or fishing (/jobs),…
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It's been a wild ride since I shutdown my Mastodon instance here on mkultra.monster. From spending time on Bluesky, and being disappointed by their...
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