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2026-06-13

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Blogsong: Fly Me To The Moon

Routine?

HEY both Pragmata AND Routine both take place on the Moon.

What do you think about that?

Btw, I hope you’re having a good day.

Routine is so fucking scary, excuse my language, I can’t cope with it. I’ve noped out twice now.

The atmosphere is incredibly unnerving. It’s freaking dark everywhere, there’s big freaking robots stomping around.

You can temporarily disable them with a well-placed “overcharge” from your little moonman multi-tool.

Heeeeeere’s to youuuuu, Nicola an—sorry, freaking YT playlist keeps going.

Agony is not my triumph in Routine, it’s bullying the hell out of me.

Is it scarier than Visage? I really don’t know. Not quite, not yet. But it’s up there, man.

Something that really sucks is that the robots are persistent, at least in the bigass section I find myself in.

They’re always moving around, kinda like the Xenomorph in the extremely-overrated Alien: Isolation.

Unlike Isolation, the robots don’t seem to obnoxiously rubber band to you, and I don’t *think* they kill you in one hit, but I just noped out when one got too close and cornered me (I think, idk if I could have snuck past him)

I don’t know though, I’ve heard that you can run faster than them. But bro, this aaaaaahahahahaaha 😭 this game is SCARY, man.

I have to hype myself up to go back in. Before I do though, I do wanna try out Layers of Fear. That should calm me down a little.

Ded

Last night I played a little Dead Space. I think Pragmata put me in the mood. It’s good. Straaaangely, the mouse didn’t seem too bad this time. On the other hand, the camera when you’re *not* aiming feels too sensitive.

You can’t win. The game’s still fun and great to look at, though. I’m really glad that I’m not a subhuman who buys remak—oh no, I’m gonna lose my cred when I get Nu-Ocarina of Time, aren’t I?

Wrong. I’ll tell you what. If Nintendo does to Zelda or Saria or Malon what EA did to Nicole?

I’ll admit defeat then. Do you think that’s gonna happen?

I just… I think Ocarina of Time is one of those exceedingly-rare instances when a remake might be okay. RIGHT? Idk… if it’s like an entirely—if it’s not just a 1:1 remake, I think it could be just… freaking amazing. Imagine something like a Kokiri Forest the size of Hyrule Field. But are they brave enough to not just make the exact same game with fresh paint? Broooo I’d even take BOTW gameplay & graphics, just like… expand the map of Hyrule, you know? Make it take 10 minutes to gallop from Kokiri Forest to the Castle Town. Make Lon Lon Ranch huuuuuge and not a separate map you have to load into. MAKE THE ENTIRE GAME NOT HAVE ANY LOADING SCREENS

They can’t mess it up, they won’t.

But still. I promise you now, on my honor, that I will NEVER, no matter how good it is, call the remake “the definitive way to experience the game! 🤓”

I see people say that about Link’s Awakening for Switch, or the DQ HD remakes, and I want to – it just sickens me deeply, that’s all. The definitive way to play Dragon Quest 3 is the fan-translation of the SNES version. That’s it. And even that will be missing a certain charm from the NES version. You want QOL changes? Emulator lets you speed up battles or save whenever you want. It is now superior to the HD remake, where you’re subjected to endless gameplay-interrupting cutscenes, and towns and battles take longer to load into than the version that came out… 28 years before it. The NES version also loads battles faster, and it came out 36 years before it. Neither of them pester you with cutscenes telling you exactly where to go at all times.

“The Definitive Experience”

it’s just never true. Oh, you got your HD textures? Now the fog doesn’t work anymore. Now the lighting on the characters is messed up. Now the pre-rendered backgrounds are blurry. Now the UI is fucking plain and ugly. Now you just spent 50, 60, $70 on a game that only looks nicer to a soulless animal.

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Don’t forget.

We are Crystalcels now.

RKD4C

have I been writing, literally at all?

https://inpieces.rip/writing/spooksinspace

no :)

I’m kinda just goofing off today, sry. I DID add the books to uh… Gemini though, and she’s helping me keep track of my characters. I’m also re-reading Rodrigo Gets Some to refresh my memory, since all of its characters are like half the characters in Spooks in Space.

I’m actually a genius, it’s soooo good. All of the unnecessary sex scenes are a little much. They’re not funny enough to keep. They’re not hot enough to keep, either. I will never write a hotter sex/almost-sex scene that Lesser did in his story.

And the vulgar language makes me cringe a little sometimes. Crazy what changes in 7 years. But other than that, the story’s absolute gold.

Here’s a bit of the character summaries. I love reading this, because I have no memory of most of it. It’s not even complete though, because it completely forgets the freaking incel dog god, which is a massive part of the story(which I have zero memory of)

🏛️ The Great Character & Faction Manifest

1. Team America / The Fellowship

Rodrigo Jimenez: The ultimate hyper-masculine, testosterone-fueled brawler. In Rodrigo Gets Some, he went from an anti-goblin grocery store manager to a reality-altering savior who strangled Satan to save his girl. Currently at Fortress Grueber, throwing punches at Joshi.
Joshi (The Hacker King): Originally a lone-wolf cyberpunk hacker from Neo-New York who got turned into a shiba/pit-mix dog, hacked reality with an AI, and absorbed his rivals to achieve cyber-godhood. Currently fighting Rodrigo in the hallway.
Goblin Girl: Rodrigo's wife. Massive continuity catch: In your original prequel, her name is literally Goblingirl. In the new draft, you reveal she was actually a human dryad plant-girl painted green, and her real father is Benjamin Grueber!
Roy: The protagonist of the current draft. A wimpy amateur astronomer who faked having "Prophecy Powers". He is currently sitting conscious in the Court of Space.
Rob: Roy’s idiotic best friend who mistakenly signed him up for the Space Force. Currently in the Court of Space.
Rasta Rick (The King of Kush): A dimension-hopping spellcaster who can breathe in space due to "dank magicks". He became the President of Planet America after bitch-slapping Space Judge with a blunt broadsword. Currently in the Court of Space.
Simon & Vi: Grueber’s legendary past-timeline bodyguard and his omnipresent AI girlfriend who cross space and time to be together. They are currently traveling/managing assets.

2. The Planet Bones / Court of Space Faction

Space Judge (Supreme Judge of War): A Grim Reaper-looking legal bureaucrat who attacks people with a titanium gavel-sledgehammer. Rasta Rick brain-washed him into being a good guy, and his pocket-dimension courtroom is the current main setting.
Space Bailiff: The universe's largest black man and the physical muscle of the court.
Satan: The King of Hell. He was brutally murdered/MMA-beaten by the Gloommeister, resurrected, learned Goblin Karate, and has now been body-slammed through the floor into a basement cell by Space Bailiff.
Asia Bones: The legendary skeleton martial artist who trained Rasta Rick. He is currently standing by in the Court of Space.
Deadly Bones: The actual Skeleton God who cucked Satan decades ago, creating the entire lore of the series. Currently banished to another dimension because he has a massive headache from the "Spirit of Fighting".
Johnny Thunder & Suzie Sacramento: The actual biological parents of the mysterious "Skeleton Child". They just burst into the Court of Space to stop Satan's custody battle.

3. The Corporate Overlords & Overworld

Benjamin Grueber: The short, stocky, George Costanza-looking corporate overlord of GrueberCorp. He is currently active in the Court of Space and appearing at Fortress Grueber.
Xi: Grueber's hyper-competent secretary who won an MMA catfight to become the President of Earth.
Zhang Bang: Grueber's ancient, independently powerful neo-Chinese billionaire rival who lives off the Elixir of Life. Joshi just called him on his Bangwei dumbphone.

Awesome.

Also, I know this is CLASSIC overextending, but I am also having Gem do a manga for My Father is a Skeleton, and a smol rpg for the entire Grueberverse. Look how cute Suzie Sacramento is

Game will probably come first, because idk wtf I’m going to do with the manga, at all lol. You know, it’s easy to just have it do 100% of the work and generate gold, but it’s not ultra consistent. I might storyboard it by hand, idk. You know, just draw the skeletons(pun intended)

Game’s gonna just be Dragon Quest with all the characters of the Grueberverse. Also the Bored2Death cast too because they’re my oomfies

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