Watching Fast and Furious and Dom's face when he heard his car, he 100% knew it was Brian driving it
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Also I've been watching a lot of YouTube while I play games lately. I finished a 12 hour video about every single season of the American version of Survivor earlier this week, and I just finished a six hour long video about a Japanese video game called Boku no Natsuyasumi:
And I have to say, this video is a masterpiece.
The cover art in the thumbnail is a fake interpretation of what the art might have looked like if the game was localised to America. The actual game is set in the Japanese countryside over the entire month of August in 1975, where the main character is staying with his aunt and uncle while his parents prepare for the birth of their second child. It never left Japan, and its presentation makes it next to impossible to localise.
I don't want to spoil too much of the video or its premise, but I do want to talk about a couple of anecdotes from the video.
The guy in the video, Tim Rogers, worked at Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan circa 2005-ish. Boku no Natsuyasumi was getting a PSP remaster, and a cool coworker of his urged him to try the game out. His section manager overheard the conversation and the coworker mentioned the game, and the section manager gave Tim an uncomfortable look and told him not to play the game.
The video discusses nostalgia and how it can be successfully transfered across cultural boundaries. It's not your nostalgia, but enough reverence and craft can communicate a foreign yearning for the past even if your personal nostalgic past is very different. Nostalgia is a state of mind that everyone experiences; a Japanese person can enjoy Stand By Me, and by that token, an American (or Australian, in my case) person can enjoy Boku no Natsuyasumi.
The video has a heavy emphasis of sunflowers from beginning to end, stemming from an iconic scene in the game with a field full of sunflowers. Tim's home state of Kansas is mentioned, as is his time living in Tokyo, playing Boku no Natsuyasumi over a weekend while his girlfriend was visiting family.
By the end of the video, the emotion is palpable and it's really fucking hard not to cry.
It's a masterful, dense, soothing and informative six hours. But it's six hours of YouTube gamer video essay content. The runtime is obv. a huge hurdle, but it's genuinely a masterpiece and it goes places that might be a little too real. It's truly outstanding.
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"Lily." By Broke_Art_Girl
Fandom: Stranger Things
Summary:
Steve Harrington comes back to Hawkins with a purpose.
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Steve Harrington has a child with Eddie Munson that he doesn't know about, when the child is 4 months old Steve Harrington comes back to ask if Eddie wants to be her father.
Words: 9k+
Characters: Billy Hargrove, Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Original character child of Steve Harrington and Billy Hargrove. Original character child of Eddie Munson and Steve Harrington. The Party (stranger things) Corroded Coffin (stranger things) Max Mayfield, Robin Buckley, Nancy Wheeler, Jonathan Byers, Will Byers.
AO3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54582946/chapters/138304279
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Been liking on average 20-30 tweets a day, and retweeting a few once in a while, so Twitter decided I had gone mad with power and relinquished my privileges for a few days lmao
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