tiny voices

sitting here, letting all the splatoon idols perform their 'thanks for playing' songs over and over on my TV after the end of the Grand Festival. they're all really nice songs, but i think my favorite is Into the Light. gotta admit, that one has the most poignant story attached to it: it's 'thanks for playing,' but also, 'all these people are coming to the surface to see and feel sunlight for the first time. it's a whole new world.' (splatoon's story is kinda wild.)

i'm feeling sentimental-- granted, splatoon has made me really mad over the years, but it's also a lot of fun. and cool and weird! it's a series that's really about the vibes and i love that. and the devs put a ton of work into so many little details that make the series really something special, i think. i mean, the whole grand festival has been basically Burning Man, with three different stages all having performances going on, with like 10+ songs, including one that combines the motifs of three different idol groups (and still sounds coherent and great!), with choreography AND lights, fireworks, pyro, and other shimmery effects, huge crowds of little jellyfish with glow sticks that jump and sway to all the music, plus all these little stalls and vendors and side characters hanging around... all for a silly squid game. they didn't have to do all that, but they did, and i admire that.

i missed out on splatoon 2, but i did play the first game a lot: about 568 hours, actually. even more of splat3: i just checked and i've played it for 935 hours. that's a grand total of about 1500 hours of the silly squid game (jesus christ). so yeah, it's made a colorful little space in my life, i guess, since that first college summer in 2015.

i'm not really expecting a splatoon 4, but if it does happen, and i can get a hold of whatever comes after the Switch, eh, i'll probably get it. make it 2000 hours, maybe.

so long and thanks for all the fish, splatoon

-bean

howdy

i don't know exactly what my posts on this site are going to look like; ideally i'll be motivated to write a little bit more than i tend to on the regular, even if it just to ramble or rant about something or other for ye olde dreamwidth. like some number of others, i was inspired to make this account by the imminent shut down of Cohost. i'm sad to see the place go but truth be told i never got around to using Cohost as much as i perhaps should have. ah well. so far the "life raft" discord servers have been fun; if nothing else, i'll be able to say i found my way to those little communities as a result of using Cohost.

anyway, i have a few vague ideas of things to post about here, including:

- RPG sessions (currently i'm in a DND campaign, and i plan on writing at least a little bit about future sessions of the game i'm making at the moment)

- wrestling (yes, professional wrestling, i got into WWE content this spring, yes, it's rhea ripley's fault)

- vidya gaymes i'm playing

- music & playlists (i make a lot of those)

- commentary on various media; just off the top of my head i've had some kind of post about the Daria movie "Is It Fall Yet?" brewing for a while now

etc. etc. we'll see. i can already sense i'm overthinking this first post a bit, so imma cut the cord here.

i love you bye

-bean