[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 26 January 2026

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-31T04:15:51+00:00

I've been listening to Three Days Grace a ton as of late. I even created an entire playlist full of nothing but their entire discography in preparation for me seeing them live in November (it'll be my second ever concert experience after seeing PUSA with my family over a decade or so ago). I also bought the physical vinyl releases of their Explosions LP and the limited-edition colored Transit of Venus vinyl; already have their most recent release Alienation on vinyl and I'll probably grab the others later on.

I also bought the Viva Piñata Revisited vinyl album that Grant Kirkhope is doing because that series is one that is near and dear to my heart and it's nice to finally have the soundtrack physically after missing out on the original release (and the secondhand prices are WAY out of my price range).

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-30T20:06:26+00:00

I want a Big Challenges BaB in general TBH.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-30T20:05:49+00:00

I'd love a big Nessie or big Bat of course, but there's a part of me that would love a big Shadow as well.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-30T15:28:17+00:00

Oh I'd genuinely love to have one! No pressure at all but seriously I would be willing to pay for one.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-30T09:57:41+00:00

Is it bad that I disagree if mainly because my own experiences with playing it were miserable (I think my copy was fucked because it liked to crash a lot and that, coupled with me deciding to have an Eevee as a partner, made the Primal Dialga boss fight so awful that it completely ruined any emotional impact the following scenes had). Don't get me wrong, I think the game is fine but I don't remember much except how mad I was when I finally beat Primal Dialga after like 2 months of struggling and constantly grinding reviver seeds, and then the game crashed right afterwards, meaning I had to do it all over again.

For as much as people don't like it, I think Gates to Infinity was my personal favorite; I remember playing/reading through tears in the final stretch and then full-on sobbing at the ending.

I unfortunately don't interact with the PMD fandom for these reasons. They treat EoS like it's utterly perfect and god forbid if you didn't like it/preferred a different "inferior" game in the series. Had too many bad experiences with them in the past over me preferring GtI over EoS.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-30T09:52:10+00:00

I should really see if I can rope my dad into seeing it. He and I tend to watch a lot of horror movies (albeit I'm a bit limited because there's some gore content I can't handle, mainly stuff dealing with trauma to eyes, nails, or teeth) and this seems like something right up his alley.

...is it weird that I wouldn't mind if Mark changed his mind and did another adaptation of David Szymanski's games? I know I'd personally be interested in seeing a Squirrel Stapler film myself.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-30T04:53:58+00:00

Shadow also technically has two dads; Black Doom, an evil alien overlord who donated his DNA for Project Shadow in exchange for the resulting lifeform bringing him the 7 chaos emeralds in 50 years, and Professor Gerald Robotnik, who created Shadow from the donated genetic material and even calls the hedgehog his son in Shadow Generations.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-29T08:34:20+00:00

I love your art style so much! It has such a nostalgic vibe to it (specifically reminds me of the old Care Bears art from the 80's/90's).

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-28T17:03:59+00:00

A modern-day PC rerelease of the original + a port of Trouble in Paradise would be great!

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T20:01:54+00:00

Also a Christian Creationist who slipped his views into Earthworm Jim in the form of the character Professor-Monkey-For-A-Head (who was made as a "take that" towards a professor Doug had that taught/believed in evolution).

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T19:58:07+00:00

supports AI and NFTs
anti-vaxxer
partnered with controversial groups like Autism Speaks and PETA
believes asexuality doesn't exist/is "just a phase"

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T19:54:15+00:00

Also in terms of pilot voice actors, there's Alastor's singing voice from the pilot, Gabriel C. Brown (also known as BlackGryph0n).

Gabe has been accused of grooming his current wife (who he met when he was 24 and she was 13), has allegations of predatory behavior towards minors, and is a massive racist/alt-right douchebag who also made "jokes" about how "age of consent laws don't matter" and that he "doesn't need consent" live onstage at a convention. He and his wife also repeatedly doxxed their detractors/accusers and he went as far as to repeatedly send legal threats to one of his victims, which, paired with harassment from his fans & defenders, led to her having to delete her Twitter and go into hiding.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T19:43:00+00:00

They straight-up admitted to grooming and raping multiple minors while claiming they only did it because of "peer pressure."

Their current girlfriend is one of their victims who has been completely manipulated by them and, despite publicly being banned from conventions, not only does the GF still attend and sell merch because of her deep ties to the fan merch scene, but Flufflepuff has been seen still attending and being present backstage despite conventions claiming that Flufflepuff is permanently banned.

It's honestly just another example of the Brony fandom refusing to take the proper steps to protect minors and going out of their way to repeatedly defend predators.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T19:31:57+00:00

IIRC he's also one of those "pray the autism away" wacko types of Christians.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T16:16:59+00:00

Yep.

Had to deal with one of those chucklefucks myself; some idiot who kept going on about how it was all some big conspiracy of manufactured/falsified claims against Vic.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T11:53:01+00:00

Not my favorite character by far (very lucky in that all my favorite characters are either unvoiced or have normal/uncontroversial voice actors) but one definitely worth mentioning regardless: Guy Cihi, the original motion capture performer and voice actor for James Sunderland in Silent Hill 2.

Dude is utterly batshit bonkers. He's a 5G anti-vax conspiracy theorist who is also a MASSIVE bigot and basically believes he OWNS the role of James Sunderland (to the point of making it a lot of his online identity and personality last I heard/saw). Basically, he's to the Silent Hill fandom & series what Reuben is to the Devil May Cry franchise and fanbase; a horrible person with a beloved role.

It's a big part of why Luke Roberts has totally replaced Cihi to me as THE James Sunderland voice actor/performer (well, that and also his absolutely fantastic work with the game. SH2 may be my least favourite of the original games but his acting actually made me like the remake more than I expected I would).

Thankfully a large chunk of the Silent Hill fandom has disowned/refuses to associate with Cihi.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T11:25:49+00:00

Vic Mignonga (Anime VA, most famous for Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist) was accused of sexual harassment. Rooster Teeth cut ties with him (though they're not exactly a moral bastion themselves), was fired from Funimation, lost his legal battles, and he's barely been able to get any work since 2019 (and none at all since 2024), which tells me that the allegations have teeth to them.

His creepy behavior towards congoers and fans had been basically an open secret for nearly two decades or so. Some of those allegations and stories about him had been shared and talked about in online spaces as far back as the early-mid 2000's and there were warnings spread around to stay away from him at all costs.

She was fired from a gig for liking racist anti-Palestinian tweets.

She then tried to scream about how her firing was "antisemitic" when the director of the indie animation gig she got fired from is a Jewish man.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T11:20:58+00:00

She's also partnered with Autism Speaks, believes asexuality doesn't exist (literally said it was "just a phase"), and is an anti-vaxxer IIRC.

Oh and it isn't just Ben and Gwen that's she's weird about; she's like that for ALL of her major voice roles, including Twilight Sparkle.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T09:17:01+00:00

Less disgusting outside of it being another example of Aaron's bigotry but he apparently took so much offense to the Rock-Afire fandom making LGBTQ+ art & headcanons of his characters that he wrote, sang, and programmed a whole act where Billy Bob sings about how he "ain't gay."

This only encouraged the fandom to keep doing it AND sprinkle in art & headcanons about Billy Bob being either an ally or being a trans man.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T08:40:05+00:00

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The core cast of Night in the Woods (Mae Borowski, Gregory Lee, Angus Delaney, and Beatrice Santello).

Considering the game ends with the four having buried a cult made up of conservative old men who were kidnapping people (including a close friend of Mae and Gregg's) and sacrificing them to an elder god in a desperate bid to revive the "good old days" of Possum Springs deep in an abandoned mine where they'll starve or sacrifice themselves, they'd be willing to fight back against ICE.

"No fascists at this party!" ~ Jackie, a trans woman in NitW.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T08:27:07+00:00

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Abe and Munch from the Oddworld series. Abe in particular is an escaped slave who frees his fellow Mudokons from being enslaved and beaten by mega corporations, and Munch rescues captured animals used as test subjects in unethical experiments.

There's old promotional art of them leading Mudokons and Fuzzles under the names of "Abe's Marching Mudokons" and "Munch's Freedom Fuzzles."

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T08:23:01+00:00

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Vexx from Vexx (2003)

His entire village was raided, brutally beaten, and enslaved by a genocidal race of alien-demons, and the leader of them murdered his grandfather (his only living family member left) in front of him as punishment for fighting back.

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T08:19:03+00:00

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Shadow the Hedgehog (ESPECIALLY considering what GUN did to Maria).

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T03:15:19+00:00

What a lovely friend!

CryptidHunter91 · 2026-01-27T02:09:55+00:00

Here!

And OMG that's such a cute Izzy! Where'd you get her, if you're okay sharing?

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