Exploring The World From Home

October’s rolling around again so I thought it would be appropriate to talk about exploring dying and dead things in this month’s blog post. The mainstream stuff will be first as always before diving into the more obscure things for my visitors who (mostly) come from around the globe. I’m flattered that anyone finds my site interesting - even more so people from overseas!

I’ve always been an advocate for “the beauty in decay” in which I am referring to the appreciation of rotting stuff. Much like archeologists can learn from studying ancient ruins; I believe we can learn a lot from exploring modern abandoned places. I’ve always been fascinated with Urbex in general because of this (as implied heavily with my recommendations on The List) and it strikes a special chord with me when other people feel the same way. In any case, I have a new Urbex channel to recommend you check out this month alongside a documentary on a dying mall. I hope you find them both entertaining enough to be a gateway drug to what many colloquially consider “Ruin Porn”. The documentary (Jasper Mall) is recently released, so it’s not available online for free to watch. I would encourage if you like what you see from the trailer to consider supporting the creators and renting or buying the video. If you have Amazon Prime however - it’s included with your subscription here.

Moving onto my gaming and anime related stuff - I recently made a new vlog on the community tab on my YouTube channel talking about how I specifically test games once I pick them out. You can watch it down below here if you haven’t already done so. More than likely you found this website out from my YouTube channel, so I would advise you keep the community section bookmarked as I try to update over there as much as possible with smaller incremental stuff as it becomes available.

I end this month’s update with an image of Fenebeth - a character I wanted to use but ultimately could not in the game Illusion Connect. You can find all the details by watching the video above. Farewell Fenebeth - I hardly knew ye! See you guys next month!

Artist Dohwa / 桃花

It's Hot Over Here

I’ve done my best to keep most of the world’s news off of my site, but I do want to mention one bit of news that is unavoidable to me. This is because that news happens to come in the form of wildfires, and California (where I live) has a lot of them going on right now. My local area has seen non-stop “smoke smog” for a week straight - something I’m not used to seeing or experiencing. That being said me and my wife are perfectly safe and are doing fine; albeit it’s hard to focus on other topics when danger is a rather close by constantly. Just wanted to mention that ahead of time for the rather brief blog for this month!

I talked about Peacock in my August update about being a newly launched streaming service that allows you to watch a lot of stuff for free. This month I want to introduce Pluto TV (coincidentally also beginning with P) that also allows you watch a lot of stuff for free. I know a lot of folks out there are still homebound and stuck indoors, so I wanted to make sure you guys get all sources of entertainment wherever possible and as easily as possible. Both services just require an e-mail to sign up (if you wish you can use a throwaway one) and no personal credentials or payment methods. The ability to access broadcast television for free and so easily online is amazing to me as an older guy who use to have to pay $30 bucks a month for a third of the content offered now years back. Also anywhere you can watch One Punch Man season 1 for completely free is a good place in my book.

On the YouTube side of things, I’m going to recommend you check out the Tasteless Podcast which features one of StarCraft’s best English casters. You don’t have to be a fan of the game to enjoy the content he pushes out since he covers a wide audience of topics in regards to gaming - mainly on the competitive front. If you like “looking behind the curtain” on how things get done and how professional e-sport players feel about random things, I think you’ll find a lot to like there. A recent episode interviewing small business owners over in Korea was really interesting to me, and I’ll link it down below.

This final update piece is really just my excuse to post something lewd and obscure as I always try to do, and that’s a Reddit dedicated to Anime Girls Eating Hamburgers. Today in America when I’m uploading this, it’s National Cheeseburger Day! In any case see you guys all next month, and don’t forget to follow the community tab over on my YouTube page for mini updates there.

Artist: teffish

Magicami DX Sabbath Song (Gang Parade - Daylight)

Update: I added the ambient song you hear while in the Dressing Room also for download. Enjoy!

Just wanted to post this awesome song from Magicami DX. The original title is Daylight from the group Gang Parade. This is the song you hear when doing PVP (Sabbath) in the game. I will link the official places where you can listen to it, as well as my custom version. The download will be below the picture icon in a little player thingy. The reason I wanted to post this song on my site is because I wanted to make sure I didn’t get into too much trouble with YouTube, but also wanted it to be easier for folks who wanted to download the track. You can simply play the audio file below and save it on mobile, or on PC you should see a download link. I cleaned it up a bit to the best of my ability, but I’m not an audio tech guy so forgive the amateur attempt.

The game’s version of Daylight is actually an extended remix. I can’t find the official source of the remix (I’ve been looking) so if anyone knows where it is, please let me know in the YouTube comments in the community post so I can give credit to the artist. You could also just e-mail me here. It is drastically different from the original version in that it’s much longer and has additional electronic beats that really sound awesome. For those of you who ever played a Tekken fighting game, this song would not feel out of place at all on that soundtrack! In any case enjoy!

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Still stuck inside with the rest of the world

Just as things were starting to open up worldwide, we unfortunately get hit with a little bit of regression in regards to travel. So just like everyone else, me and my wife have had to make the best of the situation while a lot of things are closed around us. I never thought of myself personally as someone who could go stir crazy (and for the record I’m far from), but I can certainly start to appreciate the freedom I had back in February of this year. Let’s all hope together this ends sooner than later, cause I’m really stretching what I can find out there that’s interesting on the internet that you probably haven’t already stumbled upon yourself being stuck inside like we are!

Let’s start with the mainstream stuff first. Literally one day after my last update, a new streaming service (free by the the way) opened up called Peacock. I’m not in any way shape or form associated with them (or getting endorsed), but I do want to bring them up since they actually have a couple of series “free” to watch on their platform that I have endorsed here on the site. Chiefly, they have the original run of Unsolved Mysteries that runs a staggering 222 episodes! That alone is worth taking a look in my opinion since you’re going to be getting all of that content on a licensed platform at the best possible quality, without all of that icky “potentially pirate” aftertaste that comes from 3rd party “gray” area streaming sites. I can’t recommend it enough for anyone to check out this original series if you want something to run in the background and have nothing better to watch - it might serve as an impromptu history lesson of the culture and world at the time as well. It’s also a good way to see why Robert Stack was such an awesome host, only marginally less charming than Jonathan Frakes on Beyond Belief (but that’s just my opinion!).

Onto some personal news, I want to sincerely thank everyone for pushing me past 1000 YouTube subscribers! Although I have always wanted to make BoxInACorner the main hub for all of my content (and I still do of course), it is still nice to see that I am able to make some type of impact in the massive landscape of YouTube. I did not know of the existence of the community tab (a recently added feature I believe) that allows you to use it as a pseudo news feed, and I want to take advantage of that for the folks that genuinely care about anything I have to say. To this end I will be mirroring the videos that I “exclusively” link on the website over there as well. That way it doesn’t clog up the main channel feed and it will help fill the void in-between major video releases. In the old days most folks would open up a second YouTube channel where they would post content not entirely related to the main theme of the videos being released. I think with the community tab now being able to host videos, it will be a good platform for me to post secondary content. In any case, thank you once again for the 1K achievement, and onward to 2K!

As I’ve mentioned in previous updates, I’m a huge fan of the Yakuza series from Sega. So it goes without question that I am looking forward to the new release Yakuza Like A Dragon that has a worldwide release date of November 13 2020. Although I will not be personally doing a play through of the game (one of my least viewed content on the YouTube channel by the way) I will enjoy it as a fan and hope you do so as well since I still love the absolutely quirkiness of the series set among a crime drama. If you haven’t played or tried the other games in the Yakuza series, the vast majority of them are now on PC and are on sale for half off most of the time. So more reason for you to check them out if you like what you see, and I hope you do.

Since it’s almost mandatory for me to end all updates with something lewd and or anime related (cause most of my visitors came from my YoutTube channel after all), then this is a friendly reminder to take care of your wrists! I personally know a lot of people who have wrist problems (Carpel tunnel) from sitting at a keyboard all day without the proper supports. I also know that some folks get really bad mouse fatigue from using a boring, flat mouse pad. So I always suggest to them (I’m dead serious!) they look into a wrist support mouse pad - chiefly in the form of an “Oppai” mouse pad or similar. Amazon currently carries these mouse pads in droves, but I’m not sure how long before they’re pulled from the “shelves” so to speak due to the political climate we are in at the moment. I won’t (and refuse to) go into those issues on my site, but let’s just say I actually have a small stock pile of these type of mouse pads to use should one ever start to get worn and fail on me. I suggest you look into them while you can and while they’re affordable. They might not be around for long! Don’t worry about the designs as well - they’re is sure to be something that suits all tastes out there. And you can always just use a plain boring single color one!