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Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery: The Euphonious Companion

All the world is turning exuberant, Annie (1982)-style somersaults at ‘Tobias and Jube and the Something Hat Mystery’, the ALL-NEW, ALL-AGES, ALL-COLOUR, ALL-NONSENSE comic caper by Patrick Alexander (available imminently via stela.com). “Wow,” the world says breathlessly at last. “Gosh.”

And now… it’s songs!

GALLOP UPON YOUR VERY EARS through a landscape of wonder and chuckles. Breathe airborne cartoon musical notes in through your actual nose holes. Scrub your filthy skin off in the clear, logorrheic brooks that twist through the forest beyond the horizon, where rainbows grow! Sit upon a mushroom and drink tea with the pixies. Now you are paralysed. The tea was poisoned. You will be a prisoner of the pixies forever, until the world you knew is long dead; dead with the sun and planets. You fool. You fool.

I don’t know what genre any of these songs are.

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Folks! It’s an album launch! It’s a comic promotion! It’s as literally indie as music can be, and I’ll be getting it out there in whatever ways I can think of in the coming days and weeks. Please listen, buy and share if you can and want to!

The first song I’m pushing is ‘Father, Why Don’t You Kiss a Man?’ — it feels appropriate given my country’s current, totally unnecessary quagmire of marriage equality rigmarole. Also, it’s a breathtaking masterpiece. Just saying.

Just on bandcamp for now but iTunes, spotify etc. are on the way. Exciting! Absurd!

Ask me questions, if you got ‘em, or say something nice!

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The comic is out!

And the music is out in more places!

• The comic, on your smartphone, via Stela (subscription required) • The album… on iTunes! • The album… on Bandcamp! • And on Spotify • And on Google Play • And yes, you really can Shazam it

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Production photo taken during the making of the North American commercial for Super Smash Bros.

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Screenshots from each of the 3 unreleased GameCube Kirby games.

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#windwaker

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What do you think of the term 'gamer'?

I’ve gone into this before but I fucking hate it.

It was never a good term, it was always something some marketing schmuck thought up to make people feel special about buying consumer products. Consumer products you can get at a fucking Wal-mart. Guess what? If you can buy it at Wal-mart, consuming it doesn’t make you part of some elite group, asshole.

It’s gotten even worse recently as I believe the amount of people who regularly play games, not even mobile games but console or portable or PC or whatever is something like 67% in the US. And that was 2010, so it’s probably even higher now.

So despite 70% or more of people playing games, constant references to them in all forms of media, an entire genre of internet media about them, and marketing blitzes that regularly dwarf those of blockbuster movies, you still have chumps selling shit like GAM3R GRU8 and people acting like being a ‘gamer’ makes them special. I get wanting to be unique but fuck, go learn how to carve wood or build a boat or sculpt or paint or do something. It’s just sad when people latch to ‘gamer’ as their identifier. It’s understandable when it’s teenagers but there are tons of grown-ass people making shit like this:

I mean look at this shit, this wasn’t created in irony. It’s so cringe-inducing it hurts.

And despite all the clucking about how mainstream and inclusive gaming is from places like Kotaku or Polygon, they still continue to use this term for no actual reason I can see. I guess if they gave up the term they wouldn’t be able to to waggle their fingers at a specific group when they needed more traffic.

So the point is, don’t try to get a feeling of uniqueness from playing games, or really consuming any disposable media. Try something else. You could get it from being an overly-wordy pedant, like me.

ncatfish

I think I agree with everything in this. The amount of people who feel the need to identify themselves as GAMERS as though that makes them some sort of unique flower is just, I don't even know.

Games are great but you shouldn't identify yourself by the media you consume. I feel this is just as relevant to fandoms too >_>

(inb4 i get crucified for criticizing fandoms on Tumblr)

(also I just realised I pretty much regurgitated the above post but not as well OH WELL hashtag journalist amirite)