Here I try to log shows, music and other things I enjoyed!
March 2026
Long ago but not ages, I would watch a bit of Zuthar13's stuff. I was playing a lot of Source games myself because my old PC couldn't handle much intenser stuff. You can see how I end up on a channel where someone started out with "How to troll Gmod players" as a video series.
That series had already ended by the time I started really watching for a while. I saw him start to do more scripted stuff or at least try and tell a little story. He then moved over to GTA5 online and started a new persona; Commander Chaos. This later became his Vtuber name and persona when he stopped going as Zuthar13. By this point he had already started using his first name and a few pics on socials. Conner dresses like a vampire who is into melodic-doom-grunge and I always loved that.
He once did a stream where he took the mask off his Commander Chaos character and revealed himself to be a handsome anime man. I didn't follow this period of his streaming career but I did watch his last stream as that character. What happened is that he joined Hololive and then had to get rid of some of his old stuff.
To be very honest, Yeah, good, I get it.
As you can imagine from a 16 year old on player-moderated online games, the language and slurs are heavy sometimes. I don't know if he ever adressed these things, but it's whatever I guess. His fans were not kind to him when he wanted to Vtube as Cmd Chaos, let alone when he became Gavis Bettel.
He also does a show with a friend called "Best in Jest" and is still active on social medias. I missed a lot of these things because I checked it out and just wasn't drawn to it. I do like seeing him do well though. I also learned he does covers and has grown quite a vocal range!
So, that, I was watching some old Zuthar13 videos. His little movies of Team Purple and Two-Arms. So much has aged so poorly and it was already rotten at the time. But there's something fun about seeing the super early roots of someone. I take it all with a grain of salt and understand you have to view some things in the vacuum of 2013. I mean, it still was not okay back then, but gamers were even less informed.
Poke ALL Toads is out!
I had this one on my wishlist for a while after playing the demo. It's a cute little puzzle game where the goal is to poke all the toads in a level and live. You are backed up by other cute faeries each with their own skill or abillity.
I got around to playing Psychopomp! I had heard of it before and liked what I saw, but I finally sat down and finished the first base game.
It's a grimey first person game, not really a puzzler, not a shooter. You do have an attack in the form of swinging a hammer, but you only need it a few times. I am in love with it's strange phrasings and bleak imaging of a darker world.
I don't have super many thoughts on it while I did enjoy it! I'm thinking I wanna get the Gold Edition which has some extra levels and all that.
I've been playing Warhammer: Return of Reckoning again. A private server for an ancient MMO all about fighting eachother in the Wrhammer Fantasy world. I play for a week or 2 maybe once every year or 2. I like a lot of things in the game, minus like half of the players. Big pvp battles, sieging keeps and goofy warhammer! What's not to love!
I got it running on my Linux Mint without too much issue, although sometimes you do gotta restart the launcher once or twice before it goes "Oh yeah, I'm supposed to make contact and log you in."
I finally got around to leveling my healer to the max normal level. I still wanna change her name later on. Right now it's Shanaa Blightrotten, but I wanna rename her to like Nurgelette or something cute.
I'm watching videos on someone who keeps little contained eco systems and documents all the growth and changes in them. I think something like this would be fun to do, but I don't really have the space to set up large glass boxes. Maybe I can use something closer to mason jars?
February 2026
Every so often I go back and replay the first Deus Ex. I change the resolution, I untag the Pistol skill and get Lockpicking, Multitool and Computing skills, I spawn and turn around and look at the skyline.
I chuckle and say to myself "Limitation of the engine"
Deus Ex was a very strange game to me when I first played it decades ago. While I completely missed the missing twin towers in the NYC skyline and didn't think about the implications of the statue of liberty being decapitated; I was very interested by what it was saying. In between complaining about how none of my shots connected, meeting the first rebel leader and just hearing him talk about consolidation got me invested.
Together with JC Denton I made a bizarre journey through various conspiracy theories. Some are given an explanation by Deus Ex, some are just driven to it's "logical" conclusion. The stereotypical Gray's are real, but they don't come from space. The Illuminati is real, but it's been dying for a long time. There is a man-made virus propagated by the same people who sell the cure. And so much more tucked away in the details. I recommend anyone to grab a copy, get Kenies launcher and rebind your controls. You can follow a guide if you want, no real person is gonna blame you for save scumming a passcode here or there either. But talk to people, every computer is a chance to learn something weird about what's going on in the year 2052!
A while ago I came across a channel that builds a lot of goofy, sometimes dangerous machines and other contraptions. Uwo's Lab. I'm watching the stream where he showcases hobbies from viewers.
I do love this one!
Grass Kitty Fan is really good, too!
I'm wondering if I should see Iron Lung and to take a friend who sometimes has markiplier on the background. I heard good things!