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dhex Breeder
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daphaknee just enemies now
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:19 am Post subject: |
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the end boss was hard but i had to beat it to SPITE THE WORLD |
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Ethoscapade .
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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i can 1cc metal slug too and i'm by and large not very good at videogames.
(other games i can 1cc: NES contra, 3/5 of ikaruga, gradius v until the stage 5 boss...) |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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It sounds like you're better than about 95% of people who play games. |
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Cossix .
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:32 am Post subject: |
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Jonathan Blow can BLOW A DICK GET IT BECAUSE THAT'S PART OF HIS LAST NAME I'M SO CLEVER
I really wanted to play his game a lot but then I read about the Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom and it sounds like it's going to use time mechanics in ways that could be a lot more interesting.
Also I don't think I can 1cc anything except Ghost Squad and I think I'm pretty good at video games and it sounds like you're better than I am! |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:37 am Post subject: |
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someone tell this guy that i've already written this story. _________________
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aderack .
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:46 am Post subject: |
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Cossix wrote: | Jonathan Blow can BLOW A DICK GET IT BECAUSE THAT'S PART OF HIS LAST NAME I'M SO CLEVER
I really wanted to play his game a lot but then I read about the Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom and it sounds like it's going to use time mechanics in ways that could be a lot more interesting. |
I heard a few people mentioning it during GDC. Looking at it now, it looks like an entire game based on one specific level of Braid, blown up to ridiculous extremes. With interesting aesthetics. And... it looks like it's doing something different with the mechanics. Making a gamey game out of them, for the hell of being a videogame, which is what Braid is trying to avoid. Hey, though. Haven't played it! Looks sort of interesting. Certainly looks more friendly to the Penny Arcade crowd. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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You got it. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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Some dude has just publicly released a bunch of prototypes. Like, for Mega Drive, Saturn, Master System, even Gamecube... I had a quick look and to be honest none seem too interesting to me, just earlier versions of games that were eventually released, but there might be a few special things in there. Plus it's interesting seeing how some of our favourite games changed during development (apparently a few have different features, levels, etc).
http://www.hidden-palace.org/?news/c/15 _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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I saw that earlier today and was going to read it after I played Passage. Guess I'll play it now!
Here's another article citing another game better than Portal (though I'm not sure I agree with it... has made me curious about the game he mentions, though):
http://theangrypixel.com/blog/2008/01/25/an-impossibly-immortal-defense-aka-why-we-were-wrong/
I, myself, have started work on an article expressing me feelings towards Portal. It started as a simple CRITIQUE and somehow ended up as the most awesome thing I've ever written. I'm not going to finish it until I get the Marathon article done though... and that's on the backberner while I look for a job. NOT ENOUGH HOURS IN THE DAY.
EDIT: Man, that article sure has some shithead comments. Turns out Portal also spawned a legion of twats! _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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portal really is a breath of fresh air compared to most of the tripe the industry produces.
account of sakurai's gdc presentation on smash brothers brawl, courtesy a classmate of mine. we're trying to organize a launch party on the tenth with a giant projector screen. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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I only like the trophy mode in Smash Bros. I think the sticker collecting looks neat too, just because I like a lot of Nintendo's Promotional Art. I dunno that I'll be buying the game though. I think it looks like Kingdom Hearts took a shit. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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HANG ON, WHAT
Passage ain't that good. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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Neither is Portal! _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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But get this thought I just had out of my brain, right: The fact that people are falling over themselves to write 'x is better than portal' articles means only one thing: Portal is really, really fucking good. I don't see anyone writing 'x is better than Passage' articles. Why: because they're not worth writing because no-one gives a tinker's cuss about Passage. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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It's because Passage isn't nearly as over-hyped and over-covered like Portal is, which had a major company backing it! It's also an easy way to grab attention, like the article in question. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah that's true, I guess
I really like Portal, but I guess not every game can be MARATHON(G) |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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Also note that I didn't say I agree with the article in question!
There will be no other game like Marathon. There can be only one.
Excluding Marathon 2 and Infinity.
I wish I haven't made myself such a joke on these boards I need to get my cred back. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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It'll take a grand gesture!
I suggest you express your newfound humility in a sig and avatar change that reflects your new positve outlook.
sig: 'I'M SORRY :('
avatar:
You need to keep it like that for three months. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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What, only if you do something to make up for all the times you've been a jerk. Especially to Faithless.
EDIT: OK, LET'S STOP CLOGGING UP THIS THREAD HARVEY. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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Faithless is that girl you don't like, right
Ok, I'm done in this thread |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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Harvey, I like every girl.
We really need our own area.
ALRIGHT, moving on! _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 996 Location: Super Magic Drive
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:25 am Post subject: |
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Man, an article about both Passage and Portal, it's like attack of the pretentious hipster artfags in here now. _________________
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D-A-I-S .
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:29 am Post subject: |
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Isn't there something a bit dodgy about charging for an emulator in the first place? |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:31 am Post subject: |
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Well, not really. I mean, if the product had lots of man hours put into it and it has lots of features and functions better than other ones, why not charge for it? I mean, you're not paying to run roms you don't own, you're paying for the program that does it. If you get what I'm saying.
Sorry, I'm pretty tired, but hopefully that's clear enough. _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:35 am Post subject: |
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D-A-I-S wrote: | Isn't there something a bit dodgy about charging for an emulator in the first place? |
Only if your stupid enough not to get one for free. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:36 am Post subject: |
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There's that, too.
The only emulator I know of that costs money AND is better than free ones is that PCEngine one. _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:40 am Post subject: |
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I totally got Magic Engine from a torrent site. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:41 am Post subject: |
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Me too, I'm just sayin' is all. _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:43 am Post subject: |
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You say an awful lot of things. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: |
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Well my life is in limbo right now, I have lots of time to say lots of things. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:19 am Post subject: |
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Winged Assassins (1984) wrote: | pretentious hipster artfags |
I'm going to do my line about this being like when dumb kids call smart kids 'brainiac'. Nerds call kids who have good taste and dress well and like things nerds are too close-minded to understand 'pretentious hipster artfags'.
I don't know anyone who is a 'pretentious hipster artfag'. I know plenty of people who are 'hip' and like 'art' and could even be described as 'fags' but they're far from being pretentious. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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Swimmy .
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:48 am Post subject: |
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Maybe it's different overseas. In the U.S. we have people who actually read Pitchfork, and then repeat the things they read there. _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
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helicopterp .
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:22 am Post subject: |
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True confession: I'm teaching a music criticism unit with my 11th graders right now. Today we're looking for trends in Pitchfork reviews.
Another true confession: I like pitchfork. Despite all the snark and the general idea that they are somehow the purveyors of cool, it's a very thorough website, and if you actually read the text of the reviews, they stuff them with interesting information. _________________ Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:42 am Post subject: |
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When ever I read one of their reviews, they spend three and a half paragraphs talking about how cool they are, and then talk about the album in the last half of the final paragraph.
I've only read about six reviews but it was the same case with all of them! They feel more like vehicles for the writers rather than, you know, something worth reading.
I hardly ever hear them mentioned though (like three times, including this time) so I find them easy to ignore. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:07 am Post subject: |
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helicopterp wrote: | True confession: I'm teaching a music criticism unit with my 11th graders right now. Today we're looking for trends in Pitchfork reviews.
Another true confession: I like pitchfork. Despite all the snark and the general idea that they are somehow the purveyors of cool, it's a very thorough website, and if you actually read the text of the reviews, they stuff them with interesting information. |
Why would you do this?
Also, yeah, we have pretentious hipster fags here. It's fucking England, for Christ's sake. And they deserve all the crap they get. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Yeah I like Pitchfork reviews, they always seem to be on the money. There was one for a guy I know, Toog, which was a perfect lampooning of him and his music. I like Toog's music ok but this made me laugh out loud.
Quote: | I mean, take the melody to "The Green Giant" as an example. It sounds so alien, so bizarre. It sounds like, well... wait, actually it sounds like a folk melody. But it's played by some weird computer! That's crazy! Who would have thought to do that? Somebody French, that's for sure. Toog! And that piano part there-- sure, it sounds like it was written in the 1920's by a well-known composer, but sandwiched in between all those bleeps, it sounds brand new. Like nothing you've ever even dreamed of hearing before. A new planet, an undiscovered deep-sea fish. Who else could do that? Toog, that's who. Toog!
The weirdest song by far, though, is "Look at Me!" That crazy Toog takes the vocal cadences of gangster rap, delivers them as if he's falling asleep, and puts it all over a bouncy little synthesized ditty. Such a reversal, such a brilliant trope of pop-culture trends! Derrida, Foucault, Toog! Viva la France! Toog! Tooooog!
Oh, and that last song, "Dental Love." He uses a real live dentist's drill in it. So weird, so innovative. Toog! Ah, but now, alas, the album is over. Let's listen to it again! No! Wait, a better idea: let's learn from Toog's example and use this disc in ways nobody has ever dreamed. In better and more surprising ways. Yes, as a birdfeeder. Or a loincloth. Perhaps like a playing card in the spokes of my bicycle. Listen to its lovely clicking as I ride away. Toog! Toog! Toooooooog! |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:59 am Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | When ever I read one of their reviews, they spend three and a half paragraphs talking about how cool they are, and then talk about the album in the last half of the final paragraph. |
Are you confusing Pitchfork with Tim Rogers? |
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Dracko .
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:04 am Post subject: |
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Utterly interchangeable. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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Mr Mustache .
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That's really not true. I'm not a huge fan of Pitchfork, but they do some good work and are generally well informed. _________________ Straight up |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:59 am Post subject: |
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new blast works trailer. it looks as though there's enough new to justify this game's existing. plus it comes with gunroar. sold. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:20 am Post subject: |
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Whoa, that looks boss! |
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Swimmy .
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, Pitchfork rant time.
Read this review.
Maybe you'll think it's not representative of their content. But if you think it's a good review, congratulations, you're a pretentious hipster, because this is the most meaningless bullshit ever written.
First and foremost, what is up with every Pitchfork reviewer insisting that you know how much they hate music? And why is the logical consequence of this that anything with a fast tempo (except Britney Spears' "Toxic") is beneath their listening standards?
And it just gets worse from there. "I See a Darkness is not music" because, hey, it's pretty good, and music is pretty bad, amirite? Then. . . Christ:
Quote: | A friend of mine said this: "I was listening to it the other day and someone called. I had to turn my stereo off. I couldn't just have it on in the background. It felt wrong." |
In other words your friend is someone who regularly treats music as background noise, but s/he thought Bonnie "Prince" Billy was actually good enough to pay attention to. Don't you think that makes your friend, I don't know, kind of ignorable when it comes to criticizing music? Does your friend also talk on the phone while watching movies or reading books? Oh wait, I forgot we're supposed to hate music, never mind.
Quote: | I See a Darkness is warmer than the title would have you think, and darker than the warmth of the stellar musical backdrop-- the songs feel both familiar and eerily strange. Virtually every note feels like a universe. It's the type of record that demands solitary reverence. No, this isn't music. It can't be. It's something else. |
See, this is what we mean when we say "pretentious hipster." (I usually avoid the "artfag" part.) There is not a sentence is that paragraph that means anything. Virtually every note feels like a universe? How do you tell the notes that feel like universes apart from the ones that don't? They all kind of sound like notes to me! Notes that, when placed in time and played on various instruments make this thing called music, some of which (in this particular instance) is good and some of which is kind of boring. Seriously, how are you going to give an album 10 stars, put it in the top 10 of your "best albums of the 90s" list, and not actually say anything that couldn't be said about a million other albums?
No, this isn't music criticism. It can't be. It's something else.
(Also this.)
(You can go back to talking about videogames now.) _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Yeah, ok, but that's just one writer. I think it's safe to say there are writers at Pitchfork who are dongs and writers that are not. I normally assume stuff like that is intended ironically because no-one could possible say any of those things with a straight face, but maybe I'm too much of an optimist. ALSO, they don't hate everything with a fast tempo at all. They just gave a really good review to Daft Punk's Alive 2007, and I remember they reviewed a lot of Vitalic's stuff very favorably.
BUT I GUESS IF IT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF go ahead and believe that they are all just pretentious dongs and nothing they ever say is of value, god knows demonisation of the 'OTHER' is what makes america great amirite guys
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aderack .
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dessgeega wrote: | new blast works trailer. it looks as though there's enough new to justify this game's existing. plus it comes with gunroar. sold. |
Do the hands just appear in the corner of the screen like that? _________________
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ApM Admin Rockstar
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Pitchformula. |
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helicopterp .
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Ok, I'm sending the Pitchfork discussion here. _________________ Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Are you guys going to comment on Dessgeega's game, or what? |
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