Jump to content

All Activity

This stream auto-updates     

  1. Last week
  2. BREAKING - GTA 6 CONFIRMED to have the WORST soundtrack in the series - "Holy shit," said Sam Houser, "I'm so sorry."

    1. Show previous comments  2 more
    2. Moby

      Moby

      So basically the same as GTA 5 with the 7 rap/hip-hop radios and the 5 techno/electro radios but only one classic rock radio.

    3. TheOnlyGuyEver

      TheOnlyGuyEver

      This is the news I come here for

    4. General DeGroot

      General DeGroot

      Was anyone surprised that Normie Game: The Video Game has zero good music?

  3. Earlier
  4. Let's all remember the only man to walk into parliament with honorable intentions.

    1. John Caveson

      John Caveson

      Winston Churchill?

    2. Gyokuyoutama
    3. John Caveson

      John Caveson

      OHHH....Nov 5th. Now I getchya.

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      Now that I look at it here that link does look pretty shady...

    2. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      These kinds of links are the ones I get sent by users who clearly looked into their junk folders SOLELY to find things to report, ignoring that OUR TOOLS PUT THOSE IN JUNK AUTOMATICALLY SO YOU DON'T NEED TO REPORT THEM WE KNOW THEY'RE BAD LINKS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    3. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      My psychosis aside that's a great game

  5. Is Moby the Duck a reference to Moby Dick?

     

    If so, am I retarded for taking this long to notice?

    1. Moby

      Moby

      Yes. At first it was just "Moby Duck" when I began using the nickname on my first Ragnarok Online character.

       

      Specifically, the idea came from this episode of Fairly Odd Parents with Tom Sawyer where he changes the "i" in Moby Dick to an "u".

      image.png.3da9ed0bb824b5861bb8c469605ee4b3.png

       

      Conclusion: Very yes.

  6. RIP Jimmy Buffett

    1. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      RIP Steve Harwell

    2. John Caveson

      John Caveson

      RIP Bob Barker

    3. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      Rough year...

  7. I swear you can find Blue's Traveller's "Four" in every single used record store in the world, and it used to be played all the time, but the songs on it have gotten pretty obscure now.

  8. ALWAYS I WANNA BE WITH YOU

    AND MAKE BELIEVE WITH YOU AND LIVE HARMONY HARMONY DOGE LORD

    1. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      IT CAN'T BE SEEN BUT THERE'S BLOOD ON THE GREEN

      ONLY GOD KNOWS I'M INNOCENT, TAKE ME, TAKE ME HOME

      A DARK SEED REIGNS IN ME, THE STORM RULES OVER THE SEA

      I CHALLENGE THEE, DO NOT CROSS THIS BRIDGE ALONE!

  9. If I needed to explain to someone what the 00's era internet was like, I would link them to this ZZT World:

     

    https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/9elation/

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      For me it's

       

  10. It's so hot! I'm feeling parched in this heat... It's hot, even when I'm not moving at all...

  11. If you watch this video ten times in a row you can almost believe that old SPUF still exists.

     

     

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      I recently went out of my way to find the skyward sword saxton hale cutscene edit where he's falling after Link and that channel is like a portal back to 2011 SPUF as well

    2. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

  12. Turns out the machine god is real and is keeping my site's welder together.

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      So are you gonna build a shrine?

    2. General DeGroot

      General DeGroot

      I'd have to explain to my boomer management what it was, and I don't know if I could.

    3. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      On the whole I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing but at least the welder's together.

  13. I was fiddling around with an old mp3 player of my brother's that he had left at my parents years ago.  All the buttons on the outside are busted, but I thought maybe I could get it working.  I couldn't get it to play music, but I did get into the file structure and saw names that both resembled my humor far more than his and referenced stuff that he wouldn't have been interested in (like Big O and Aura Battler Dunbine.)

     

    I hooked it up to my computer and apparently I used it as a makeshift external hard drive backup of my first personal computer.  In addition to a gig of the first music I downloaded from the internet, there were also about 60 books in .txt format, lots of various school assignments, some old java programs I made, and Hello! style archives of the very first forum I was active on.  I only vaguely remember making the decision to transfer this stuff over to the mp3 player, and as far as I remember I never transferred them to any other device before now.

    1. Show previous comments  1 more
    2. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      Sweet, free mp3 player!

    3. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      Now it's pretty much only an external harddrive.  Most buttons on the mp3 player are broken, including the play button and most of the navigation buttons.  (Notably once you go into a folder the only way to go back is to reboot the whole system.)  It has a remote that might work, though the battery in it is almost certainly dead.

       

      On another note I had ignored it for a while since when you boot it up you get random garbage characters so I had assumed the hard drive was fried.  Turns out that these are just music files from the Dunbine soundtrack that had Japanese names that the display wasn't set up to show properly.

    4. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      My car has a USB port that you can put a flash drive with music files on and it will play them, and unfortunately it just cannot handle japanese characters which is extremely unfortunate for my love live mixtape

  14. Russian coup bros... we're so back

     

    1. Show previous comments  1 more
    2. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      well now "it's so over" so there's no need to worry about it anymore

    3. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      Gyoku's policy of not paying attention to current events for at least a week after they happen pays off again.

    4. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      it would have been cool to see a russian reenactment of the romance of the three kingdoms but oh well

       

      actually considering the vastly expanded capacity for destruction nowadays maybe  it would not have been cool at all

  15. Pros and cons of becoming known as "that guy who still watches VHS tapes":

     

    Pros: People will randomly give you free VHS tapes.

     

    Cons: People will randomly give you free VHS tapes.

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      Hey I have a stack of religious kids' programming on VHS, I'm sure you want all of it right?

    2. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      Honestly I find that stuff less annoying than "hey, here's a copy of Back to the Future that I've watched fifty times."

       

      At least weird religious kids' programming is unlikely to be available on DVD or bluray.

  16. The verdict? Guilty. His sentence? Loading up an in-progress strategy game save file from 5 years ago and being forced to figure out what the fuck he was trying to do.

    1. A 1970 Corvette
    2. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      I have this problem more with old CRPGs and 16 bit console rpgs.

  17. heist movie where a spam robocaller calls their remote controlled phone bomb at an inopportune time (nobody dies) (hijinks ensue)

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      horror movie where the spam callers try to sell people life insurance moments before they're killed

    2. hugthebed2

      hugthebed2

      postal movie where the last thing that sets the killer off is a scam call

    3. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      the reboot of Falling Down will definitely have that as the inciting incident

  18. Well Amazon I managed to find the product, despite your search engine and recommendations.

    1. Show previous comments  1 more
    2. Gyokuyoutama
    3. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      Oh yegads! The DVD is out of stock! But what if... I were to take a region 2 DVD and disguise it as a region 1 DVD.  Oh ho ho ho! Delightfully devilish, Amazon!

    4. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      Why is there a PAL disc coming out of your warehouse, Amazon?

  19. If June is pride month, which months correspond to the other six deadly sins?

    1. TheOnlyGuyEver

      TheOnlyGuyEver

      December = Greed (holiday corporatism)

      August = Wrath (hottest month)

      July = Envy (Canada Day -> 4th of July)

      February = Lust (Valentine's)

      October = Gluttony (Halloween candy)

      November = Sloth (idk Thanksgiving football)

    2. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      Happy Killdozer month.

    3. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      I'd be proud of having a killdozer if I had one

  20. 旅行は良好だった 

     

    Understanding this dumbass joke feels like one of the biggest steps I have taken towards fluency.

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      I feel like a pleb upon breaking out jisho cuz I should have known it just from the prompt that it was a joke

  21. arcana force fans eatin' good tonight

    1. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      more like arcana farce LOL

       

      this post was made by the prophecy (superior tarot card deck) gang

    2. Rynjin

      Rynjin

      It's too bad Blue Boy is the only monster worth a damn lol.

  22. May the 4th be with you.

    1. Show previous comments  3 more
    2. Idiot Cube

      Idiot Cube

      You're not a true fan if you don't watch the Star Wars Holdiay Special every year

    3. hugthebed2

      hugthebed2

      May da schwartz be with you!

    4. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      Watch Episode 2 cause that came out in 2002 and 2002 kicked ass.

  23. There needs to be some separate term for modern Isekai.

     

    I've previously talked about "Western Isekai" (ex. Narnia, Three Hearts and Three Lions, John Carter, The Dragon and the George, etc.) But even in Japan if you look at classic anime like Dunbine, Escaflowne, Those Who Hunt Elves and so on and you see very little resemblance in terms of plot structure and cliches used when compared to the modern form of the genre.

     

    (Though I'm not even sure if "modern" is the right term here. I haven't seen it, but from what I've heard about the Tanya show it doesn't seem to hit the same notes as other "isekai" shows.)

     

    So there needs to be some new term that refers to specifically this subgenre.  This is important because "other world" fiction has a long and rich history, with much of it being very creative.  But the modern subgenre allows only the most minor ("gimmick based") innovation.

    1. Show previous comments  3 more
    2. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      Honestly I think you're right on the mark about how they treat the setting. A recent isekai that I think actually does take the world seriously is honzuki no gekkokujou. Not a super serious story and it has a lot of levity in it but it generally takes the world it's set in seriously* which I think gives it a different feel from the more boilerplate isekai shows.

       

      *There's like ONE gag sort of but the thing is that it's both plausible for an alternate universe to have that kind of weird coincidence with the "real" world and also the main character/setting overall rolls with it and doesn't really keep pointing at it and saying "ha ha isn't this so wacky"

    3. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      On further reflection, I wonder how much of this is due to genre being a spook.

       

      What I mean is that way back in the 30's or so there wasn't really set "genres" in the way that we think about them today.  There were "types" of stories but it was more like "moods": adventure, romance, mystery, wonder, strangeness, etc.  If you look at a pulp like "Weird Tales" the stories have a particular "flavor" to them but don't fit particularly well in any modern genre.  Some would be called fantasy, some horror, some science fiction, some might be "magical realism," etc.  It's not until much later that you get a hard divide between science fiction and fantasy, modulo some people mixing the two and thinking that they are doing something unprecedented.

       

      But even after the initial definition of the genres, they just got more and more specialized.  Take fantasy: after Tolkien it got dominated by "high fantasy" or "epic fantasy"; think stuff like Terry Brooks, Raymond E. Feist or the prolific Weiss and Hickman duo.  Always lots of discussions of alternate cultures and worlds, the world is always doomed in some way or other, etc.  Something like an old Conan story where Conan simply robs some ruins or fights pirates or something no longer fits, even though you'd have to call that "fantasy" if you're going to give it a genre at all.

       

      And of course the same thing happened in anime.  In both the east and the west a lot of the driving force was ultimately video games, with usually the pipeline being future author plays RPG tie in game -> future author makes pnp RPG campaign -> author now sells works based on campaign world.  (This is also why D&D gets considerably more "video-gamey" with every edition, even in the 1st to 2nd edition transition.)  As a result of all of this popular works narrow the field more and more and more.  It's not "wonder" stories anymore, they have to be "fantasy" storeis in magical kingdoms.  And you have to have a certain type of epic scale to them.  And that epic scale has to be realized basically in a Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy way.  And it's only after you do all that that writers even think about filling in their own details.  So naturally everything becomes the same.

       

      It's not like Japan is forced to do this; Spice and Wolf is a great example of how to write a story in the same broad "genre" that barely follows any of the conventions, but also isn't trying to destroy them (it's just telling a story with a different mood and focus.)  But we've hit a critical mass where aspiring authors only see video games, books, and TV shows that are all in this very narrow subgenre, so they have a difficult time even comprehending that they could do something else.

       

      But as much as I hate Isekai, they're still probably in the better situation, since over here it's the same basic problem but with capeshit instead.

    4. Rynjin

      Rynjin

      I think you have things a bit backwards; traditionally "western isekai" were known as "portal fantasy" works, if they were referred to as a separate genre at all. Much like "anime" is distinct from "cartoon" only in the language used from a technical sense, so is "isekai" separated from "portal fantasy" or "other world fiction".
       

  24. tfw your favorite band takes a new direction and you spend the next three albums liking what they put out less and less

    1. Raison d'être

      Raison d'être

      >he doesn't like post-quixotic smashcore with SmashStep influences

       

      Not gonna make it.

    2. A 1970 Corvette

      A 1970 Corvette

      I just feel like things were fine pre-quixotic, or perhaps even just quixotic

    3. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      I still can't believe that Ritchie Blackmore started doing New Age Folk Rock, even though he was doing that before I even started listening to Rainbow.

  25. The most insane idea that I know:

     

    "This company bought the rights to the franchise, therefore they determine what is canonical in it."

     

    Seriously, the more you think about this idea, the less sense it makes.

    1. John Caveson

      John Caveson

      Star Wars fans: "First time?"

    2. Gyokuyoutama

      Gyokuyoutama

      This isn't in response to any specific development.  I am against the idea that rights holders can change canon, period.

       

      Suppose that Sherlock Holmes was not in the public domain, and that the best mystery author in the world bought up the rights and wrote a book which had an amazing mystery and perfectly extended the character arcs of Holmes, Watson, etc.  It would still be idiotic to say that this author used his legal rights to add to the Holmes canon.

  26. All I ask for is a mouse that doesn't start double clicking in under 2 years but noooo I'm just not good enough for that it seems like

    1. Show previous comments  5 more
    2. Moby

      Moby

      Mine is also a Logitech, G203.

      All three broke. Two started to double/multiclick. One broke when the cable just stopped working.

      I swapped the cable from one of these broken ones to this and it worked fine... for a month, then it started to multiclick.

    3. Rynjin

      Rynjin

      Guess I'm just built different

    4. TheOnlyGuyEver
  1. Load more activity
×