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Just one particular homage though in relation to the Touhou series that I picked up, and I am serious here, don't flip, 10-year gap, and all that. Seija Kijin's pose, the one from her first appearance in Touhou 14… they nearly completely replicated that exact pose. This is shown in this game after the player(s) gets/picks up the 'drill' powerup, or the stamps showing this from in-game. Indeed, Shinmyoumaru's battles from DDC too were also replicated to an extent... in a Bowser Jr. battle (player shrinks, enemy grows, and also the other way around).

Fuck all this Halloween and Christmas stuff this year… Personally, this October has been the most destructive October month in recent history. The same thing I most likely would say about the final 2 months of this year, too, if this script follows through. Personally, nothing… YES, NOTHING, haunts me more than nuclear annihilation or nuclear war… or at least the start of it… Hamas and their friends, executed surprise strikes in the Gaza region early in the month, and also declaring the nation itself as the enemy. The chaos in the previous warzones were relatively petty when compared to this, no bullshit. And then in October 18th, in Nevada, were the nuclear weapons tests. The USA have never done such a weapons test like this over there since back in the Gulf War era, 30+ years ago, back in September 23, 1992, and that is a fact. And after the Ruski folks made a public announcement of revoking their ratification of the CTBT (yes, that treaty), and then warned of retaliatory incidents if the USA first conducted tests after they did, a devastating chain of events would unfold, with very few signs of any letting up or regrets by anyone involved, and another battle of supremacy would then commence, especially when the missiles, tanks, and warships get more involved as the battles eventually intensify, make no mistake on that. There is no point to fuck around and cover the truth this time, like that other prolonged situation, that I still am waiting for the end of it, and the SARS-coV-2 situation, that has damaged more than has fixed, the human condition, and obviously too, the societal norms of humanity. Know too that we may be a loud, as well as honest, minority, and if others still wish to call our types, the irresponsible, the racist, and immature, raging, uncontrollable types, then fuck them. They are the blind ones, not us. At least I often separate plain garbage, paper and cardboard, and aluminum/cans in different bags, and dispose each in it's appropriate areas of disposal. Many of the folks that I know do not do this. Bye. That is it.

No need to lie, but the main sport I’m still following this season is in AFL league matches, among other levels, of Australian Rules Football I mean. In truth, for the last 5 or so rounds of the season, it has been a very intense struggle in the midfield. And just like many others who follow with deep interest, this season has had an even higher stakes game of Snakes and Ladders, compared to last season. Also contrary to previous seasons, where I followed 2 or 3 particular teams per season, I’ve took a backseat with barracking this time, and if I’m going to be honest, at a personal level, I frankly don’t care to place deep support to any team anymore, as much of the experience of the sport recently in my mind, harbors a ‘wild rollacoaster’ ride, at greater frequencies than in recent seasons, and thus, exhibits more pleasure, pain, and unpredictability on the competitive side. More in relation to Sports events before I end the post. Poor standards have been shown so far in the Women’s FIFA WC, but I think that’s expected since all the sides who have competed in day 1, are all rather poor teams, including the host nations in my personal opinion. No interest in this season’s F1. Sennastappen, come Bahrain in 2024. Virtually no-one, be it drivers, or constructors, can stop the RBR powerhouse, even if occasionally the other driver is not in the same league as Sennastappen is. ------ In the following other Sports I found more positivity in it than in past years. Yes, Cricket for one, has improved in some essential aspects, but crowds I think are more derogatory and less honest than in previous years, which not only do I not approve of that, but also runs parallel to potential anarchy and straight-up war against the opposition, never mind about how high the quality of the actual Cricket that was playing then. Indeed, this also includes in the USA, where many elite cricketers are at competing in Cricket’s MLC, and in parts of England, for both the Men’s and Women’s Ashes matches. I hated the way the Mens Ashes in particular ended... the rainy weather interfering the great series that may have been, and personally I’m livid with it. Also privileged too to witness on TV, the IPL finale, delayed a day, but was still worth waiting for, as well as the way the match finished off, high-class, straight-up theater. And perhaps the best match of all, when Rinku scored five 6′s in the final over to inexplicably steal the match from what never should have been their victory. And I never, ever saw anything of that extreme in cricket, ever, including teams making, or agonizingly not making, that last run in the last ball of the chasing team’s inning. Enough there on that subject. The NHL, in Ice Hockey. Wrestling, both in the WWE and AEW, but not so, the MMA or Boxing ones. I must add, it has been over 6 years since last actively following any live developments of any Professional Wrestling events on TV, but at least the workaround I’ve found recently was just not to listen to it at all. The dog-gone profanity on virtually all the walls, as it has been in practically the entire history of such combat-based events, . But nevertheless I do still like watching the competitors, regardless of gender, battle, even if occasionally it ends under unfair circumstances. Yes, I am also going to add in the events of the PDC darts tournaments in, but only just, because I’ve seen the events in it this year as fractionally better than in last year overall. At the first main tournament, in the Grand Final match of it, both players in one of the legs, 9-dart attempts, where the first player missed by a thread, and somehow the other hits his/it’s ‘9th’ dart home, to what virtually all the folks have stated it as the best leg that they ever seen/watched, and if not, one of the greatest moments in Professional Darts history, period. But since that match, it’s been peaks and valleys, and I must say, it has been lower, more so than higher. In both main forms of Rugby League and Union, minor stuff which was changed up, and still feels very similar to the previous few years, for which I interpret as a small, yet important positive.

My final take of this film... occasionally it is crazy funny, but it’s also among one of the most disturbing films I have seen of recent years, given the ‘grim’ content after the end of the film’s first chapter.