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CW: Horror movie talk, Occult (2009), minor spoilers

Watched Occult (2009, dir. Koji Shiraishi) today. My second Shiraishi after seeing Noroi last year. Lovecraftian cosmic horror faux-documentary, like Noroi, but with a different scope. Felt more focused, with a smaller mystery and set of characters.

Occult is uneasy, it made me very anxious. Really great (and jarring) noise soundtrack by Hair Stylistics. I liked all the performances (Kiyoshi Kurosawa appears as himself in a pretty funny cameo). Sketchy (and in one place bad) CG effects. I liked it & would recommend it, although it did make me pretty uncomfortable (which I imagine was intentional).

Watching the #quakecon Quake Champions tourney, the two most recent lower bracket matches have been incredible. Raisy v Rapha, Chain v Vengeur.

Starting up #quake1 on stream again, this time playing the two Rubicon mods. XP grinding in SNES Arcana later.

MTT 286 / Per Square Inch https://djcev.com/2022/08/mtt-286-per-square-inch

August bass month continues with more CD bass, #electro , and a bit of techno. This #djmix features music by Aux 88, Bass 305, Beat Dominator, Model 500, Novamen, Techmaster P.E.B., and more.

the annual Quakecon Quake Champions tournament is on right now. First day of games. Strongsage vs. Toxjq up next:

Been watching the tourney instead of recording this week's mix...

Arcana for the SNES, an old dungeon crawling RPG, is like comically difficult. The game often takes away party members in story events mid-dungeon and then ramps up the difficulty. It's brutal, especially if you don't know it's about to happen.

I still love it though. Great music, fun artwork, combat is rewarding when you're not seriously outmatched.

Starting up Quake on stream again, doing the first Deathmatch Classics map pack tonight. Will play some SNES Arcana afterwards.

Found out today that Lasergum Records, Juno Lazermachine's label, ceased activities in March and set all their music to free download. I went through their catalog tonight and downloaded about 15 releases. Some good electro and IDM in there for anyone who wants to dig.

Coppertone Summer Jam 2 was really good! 22 maps all pretty high quality. I will say that several of the maps are very difficult on hard and/or nightmare, low amounts of health and ammo, particularly Mazu's map. Something to consider if you might play the mod.

Continuing #quake1 Coppertone Summer Jam 2 tonight & will play a bit of Arcana later at: https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

Continuing the #quake1 Coppertone Summer Jam 2 tonight. Will try to complete Mazu's map, then might switch to SNES Arcana.

Playing some latenight #quake1, Stream at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

Starting Coppertone Summer Jam 2, a very new mod. Most of the cool Quake 1 SP players on twitch have already finished it.

MTT 285 / Pump It Up Some https://djcev.com/2022/08/mtt-285-pump-it-up-some/

#electro , miami bass, techno-bass. Slower than last week but still heavy & tough. This #djmix features music by Aux 88 , Dynamix II, Hydraulix, JR10, Underground Resistance, and more.

Starting up #quake1 again on stream at https://twitch.tv/andreaen . Playing Smilecythe's January Jump Jam map Mana Vemputin for the second time.

I'm gonna play some more #quake1 on stream. Just the regular game, no mods. https://twitch.tv/andreaen . Will go through at least episode 1 and 2 tonight.

Finished Chapter 2 in Arcana today. I love the game but it can be really tough - there's a huge jump in difficulty between Chapter 2 and 3. I'll need to study some maps and think about my route before playing further.