Recent content by Surgo

I think most folks who do double bass end up playing bass guitar too. Can always buy a fretted and try playing it with a slide for fretless.

Not these days, but I did when I still worked in an office. We had a Theatre of Magic and an Adam's Family machine that eventually got replaced by a Terminator machine. I played quite a bit of Theatre of Magic. I sucked at it. I remember it was down for maintenance about as much as it was...

There was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party, so I Tried Confessing to Her This series can barely be called animated. The budget is stretched paper thin across it, and at times it feels more like a slideshow than an animation. It's one step removed from a voice acted manga. And absolutely none of...

I can repair mechanical and electronic things, at least to a point. I volunteer as a repair person at my local repair cafe fixing mostly electronic items one Saturday every season.

After checking out Stern's new Pokemon pinball machine, I got an urge to play pinball, which led to an urge to play Pokemon Pinball, which led to an urge to revisit the GBA library. Ended up ordering a new battery for my GBA SP, which I don't think I've turned on for 15 years. On the actual...

After seeing a bit of the sequel to MYGO, Ave Mujica, I have to retroactively drop the score to 4/10. See, the whole plot there was kicked off with the idea "the kind keyboard player does a personality 180 and becomes a huge bitch for no apparent reason". That can work, but to do it you have to...

I'm currently practicing the guitar and lumatone. I picked up the lumatone because of the isomorphic nature of the instrument compared to the piano. Hopefully this wasn't a poor choice!

Thanks to needing more gym music, we can now add Nemophila to that list. B-tier because I hate growled vocals in metal. All their songs without vocal growling are great. The ones with them are, by and large, not.

Over the last year or so I started listening to some Japanese bands. Here's my tier list of my experience. S-Tier SCANDAL: Single-handedly revived my interest in rock music. Not a single bad album. They basically rocketed to international popularity and it's easy to see why. BAND-MAID...

Some reviews of a bunch of different animes I've watched lately and mostly liked. Multiple posts as I get the time to write them. Rascal Does Not Dream Great sort-of-science-fiction show. The characters and the situations were wonderful. I don't know if it's meant or not, but it reads to me as...

Kidney stone. The nurse (a woman! I would not have made that comparison!) compared it to giving birth.

This has absolutely wrecked me. Her, Veronica Taylor, Eric Stuart, and (outside of Pokemon) Tiffany Grant *were* anime for me growing up. Even though I've never known the actual person, this feels like losing a big sister. I'm devastated. I've started a new morning tradition of watching an...

The news about Rachael Lillis has me absolutely shaken. She's only a few years older than I am; she was bringing Pokemon to life with her voice while I was a kid enjoying it. Her, Veronica Taylor (Ash), and Tiffany Grant (many anime) basically *were* anime for me, growing up.

In terms of just pure realistic train simulation, how does Trainz stack up against Dovetail's stuff (Train Simulator...I guess it's called classic now? And Train Sim World 4)? I mostly know Dovetail from them taking over ownership of Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

Finally got a name of what I've been dealing with for just over 16 years now: chronophobia. Supposedly more common in prisoners (which I'm not) and people nearing the end of their life (which, hopefully, I am not). But can hit anyone. Unfortunately, it is a physical impossibility to avoid the...