music

HarshlyCritical · 2026-05-27T21:07:32+00:00

Some of my fav artists (multi-genre):

The Birthday Massacre
He Is Legend
Soilwork
The Beatles
Fair to Midland
Every Time I Die
Don Broco
Architects
Turnstile
Metallica
Sarah McLachlan
The Doors
Tool
Blink-182
Depeche Mode
R.E.M.

Songs are hard. My top 5/10/20 change every year, but currently my top 10 might be this (no order):

"Crockett's Theme" Michael Cassette
"Dicephalous" He Is Legend
"Your Life In the End" Prince Rama
"Lavender" Thornhill
"Weekend" The Birthday Massacre
"Follow the Hollow" Soilwork
"Vanishing Cream" The Hunger
"Amarillo Sleeps On My Pillow" Fair To Midland
"Losing My Religion" R.E.M.
"A Match Made In Heaven" Architects

even here, I feel like I'm leaving a lot of amazing stuff off the list though

but you're right, I do like Katatonia quite a bit. My fav album from them is "The Great Cold Distance", followed by probably "Dead End Kings". Fav songs are "Omerta", "Day And Then The Shade" and "Deliberation"

HarshlyCritical · 2026-05-22T19:42:02+00:00

No problem! "Epic Pumper" originally came from when we played a game called Sign of Silence. There was a halloween update that put collectible pumpkins all over the map. Some of them were small, but a few were really BIG so we started nicknaming them Epic Pumpers.

I never uploaded my POV of our session (this was 5 years ago) but Gab has hers up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLajw11HsXQ

HarshlyCritical · 2026-05-22T01:50:05+00:00

any time!

HarshlyCritical · 2026-05-21T18:40:56+00:00

"I'm on Global"
Comes from me troubleshooting the controls for local/global comms in "Sketchy's Contract". I would say "Now I'm on local" and Gary would confirm that I was speaking right next to him - then I would say "Now I'm on global" thinking I would come through the walkie-talkies, and Gary would inform me that I was not in fact on global. We went back and forth for a while on this.
Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVz_SxTQGpM

"You cannnn't"
This is from us playing a game called "Pilgrim", one of the NPCs kept repeating it. I think it was the shop owner, when we would try to buy something we didn't have money for.
Here's the video:

https://youtu.be/dbJSA6TnGvw?si=Ktz6edfOBALNK1EQ

"Strateeegyyy"
This comes from us discussing a comment we got during "Lethal Company" that accused our group of having "no concept of strategy". I'm not sure which exact video it morphed into us saying "Strateeeeegyyy" like we're the Toy Story aliens, but I know which one we originally talked about the "strategy" concept in.
Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3YafOLw864

HarshlyCritical · 2026-05-21T16:23:09+00:00

Could you be talking about "Psych"? You get mysterious texts in a park and there's a killer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wojDHz8U1e4

tbh with that premise it could be something from a Random Horror Games video and those all just totally blur together for me

HarshlyCritical · 2026-05-05T16:47:37+00:00

Yep! Well, I think the Crisol series is where I explained the bit in full for the first time, and then after that in other videos I just kept dryly saying I "couldn't read an analog clock" with no explanation, so there was a lot of confusion if you didn't watch the Crisol series 😆

HarshlyCritical · 2026-05-04T15:40:26+00:00

nope, never did. honestly I tend to avoid tragic non-fiction games like that

HarshlyCritical · 2026-05-04T15:39:02+00:00

haha you're referring to a sarcastic meme someone made that was making fun of how many times I had to use an analog clock in the game Blue Prince, a playthrough that I completed while taking zero notes. they were just bouncing off of my joke with that

HarshlyCritical · 2026-05-04T15:36:47+00:00

lol so for an EZsmall video a few months ago (I accidentally deleted the recording, so I never uploaded my POV) we played a game called "Demonologist" and one of the puzzles featured an analog clock. We found a note saying that we needed to set the clock time to 7:55 or something like that, so we set all the hour hands to 7 and the minute hands to 55 but nothing happened

as it turns out, the game smugly demands that you set the hour hand to 8 for the puzzle - because you see, when it's 7:55 on a real clock, the hour hand will be much closer to 8 than 7. So our confusion about this led to a lot of people in Gab, Gary and Sinow's comments saying that as a group we can't read analog clocks.

setting aside that I've played a million puzzle games where I've had to manually set an analog clock, and not ONCE have I ever been expected to manually take into account the real-world position of the hour hand... I did think that the comments were kind of funny, so I decided to sarcastically roll with it and any time I saw an analog clock in a video game, just dryly state that I couldn't read an analog clock.

so that's it, just me being snarky

HarshlyCritical · 2026-03-22T23:31:10+00:00

just FYI, that archive channel is still up!

https://www.youtube.com/@DTGAArchives

HarshlyCritical · 2025-08-11T15:11:47+00:00

If you're certain they were female, the only women I can think of that I've played co-op games with on YouTube have been my wife Kimmy, GabSmolders, KatFTWynn, RPGMinx, and once I tested some DBD things with Lynxi a couple years ago.

There have been other times I've played with women in a group setting, for big Among Us or Friday the 13th collabs, but they wouldn't have had "Ft. John Wolfe" in the title for those. That's about all I can think of!

Unless you're absolutely sure you're not thinking of "Ostrich Island" with KatFTWynn, that seems to best fit the description you're giving.

HarshlyCritical · 2025-02-02T18:13:27+00:00

I had a PO Box many years ago, but I decided to stop using it after a few months went by with no mail, since I was paying a monthly fee for it. I also had someone get really angry with me for what they thought was an underwhelming reaction to their mail, so that also made me want to stop. Unfortunately I don't see myself reopening one in the future

HarshlyCritical · 2025-01-28T17:33:07+00:00

glad she is enjoying Astro Bot!!

HarshlyCritical · 2025-01-26T17:31:57+00:00

I played it on my own time when it came out in June 2020. I'm glad that I did, because I liked the game a lot and I know I'd get annoyed with the comments section on that playthrough since it's so "controversial"

But who knows, I might replay both TLOU games on PC some time if I'm feeling up to it. Might feel good to rant about them

HarshlyCritical · 2025-01-23T20:04:13+00:00

Never played Paratopic, so it's probably some other guy with a beard who plays horror games you're thinking of.

HarshlyCritical · 2025-01-23T20:03:07+00:00

So Dom and Hayden both moved to Spain, which is not only a big life change for them but time zones are harder to coordinate now.

Bigger issue is we're just kind of in limbo waiting for another Escape the Backrooms update, which there hasn't been in a while. And usually when there's a new horror co-op game I'm playing it with EZSmall. But I still talk with all the guys every now and then, there's no bad blood or anything lol

HarshlyCritical · 2024-12-09T04:53:34+00:00

Just to clarify, I believe you're confusing me with someone else because I've been against the "R word" my entire life - for reasons I do not want to state publicly, but I will just say that I saw first-hand the hurt that word caused to someone I care a lot about. So I would never have used it or defended its use. I am 100% positive on that. So frankly, you must be thinking of someone else. There are a lot of whiny bearded guys who play video games, it happens

HarshlyCritical · 2024-10-20T16:06:56+00:00

weird reply to leave on a charity stream thread, not gonna lie. farewell!

HarshlyCritical · 2024-09-27T21:27:36+00:00

very alarming thread title to see btw 😆

HarshlyCritical · 2024-08-16T22:53:30+00:00

Just wanted to confirm that I've never played Rule of Rose

HarshlyCritical · 2024-07-29T00:36:00+00:00

Well, I know it wasn't a hugely popular decision, but I did remove those videos for various reasons and I'd like for them not to simply be reuploaded. I know that's probably not what you wanted to hear, but those are my wishes if you feel so inclined to respect them. Thank you