Quote from: A1A1inE8 on January 11, 2024, 04:26:29 am

Inspired by this topic, I went through some old GW-related files on my computer, found a folder named "interesting" from 200X, containing only the following file named "reality69.gif"...

I think that was one that I made? I know it was a Pokey bootleg and not a real one, and I did make a bunch of those, making sure to get the font right and everything, but that was so long ago that I actually can't claim credit 100%. I guess that's good that it has withstood the test of time either way, but.......

I think that's right, I now definitely remember it downloading it from your website or something, and that there were a bunch of other bootleg Pokeys. Maybe this one was in your signature or something for a while

Inspired by this topic, I went through some old GW-related files on my computer, found a folder named "interesting" from 200X, containing only the following file named "reality69.gif"...

Hi,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sty73gVmhDE
 
Ages since I have played deus ex but I think the sound effects are forever burned into my brain. In retrospect that game had amazing sound design and music

 
This must have been done with this math paper generator here http://thatsmathematics.com/mathgen/
 
Anyway does that look convincing to anyone? To me it looks like obvious nonsense, but then again I spend most of my free time with maths. I first found that generator is when I saw that one MIT professor has a joke PhD student called Nacho Bell (http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=201312), whose only paper is made with that generator http://rhbell.scripts.mit.edu/maths/~nacho/
 
There's another site where you guess whether a title of a high energy physics paper is fake or not: http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/ . This one I find difficult, but seems people who something about physics find it easy.
 
Then there is that pomo generator http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ I think a few people successfully got a computer-generated paper accepted into some humanities journals with weak or non-existent peer review, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

 
makes total sense

 

https://mega.nz/#!uy5WiRYR!jminMEtJ9xXM0liawAf54rs9Ine9WEsn7s060SHX0ms
 
Here it is. Someone shout at me if it's not okay to upload this - I somehow have the memory that the artist doesn't mind but also doesn't want this to be associated their other stuff??
 
I still listen this sometimes, for some reason especially "It's all in the mind, you know" comes back to play in my head every now and then
 
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8kp3b5h2DY
 
Watch one of these videos and your youtube recommendations are filled with variations on a meme. This is probably the best one.
 
Probably this could be automated and a bot could generate endless Steamed Hams But It's 7% Faster Each Time Skinner Says a Word With a Vowel or Aurora Borealis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhs5hKU82W8
 
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DWWOs0HU0&feature=youtu.be

 
Definitely very true, see top comment in this video:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfKzHpsQkxo

 

Quote from: A1A1inE8 on October 07, 2016, 06:32:45 pm

I have never played FF7, so I don't really have any feelings about the remake. In fact, so many years since I last touched a jrpg, let alone a final fantasy.. if one day I have time or interest in playing a jrpg, I might give a try to see how it feels as an adult who didn't have the FF7 experience as a teen. Does it hold up? Did you have to "be there" to appreciate it? Does Sephiroth really kill Aeris?

yo, your name is a local area code. you a newf? 

 
Really? But nope, sorry. The name has mathematical origin: link

this is probably as offtopic as it gets, but reminds me..
 

- bela bartok's atonal, modernist compositions are shit, yet his piano piece Op 18 Etude's is THE shit, really good fucking poop, diarrhea made of gold and nectar.

 
this is more appropriate it seems.. quote from the abstract of "Móricz, K. (2006). The Untouchable: Bartók and the Scatological. Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 47(3/4), 321-336."
 

In his book about his father Peter Bartok told stories about the composer that had never seen print before. Most surprising perhaps for readers used to the image of the rigorous, disciplined, morally uncompromising Bartok were Peter Bartok's descriptions of the composer's childish, obscene jokes. Despite the abundance of documentary evidence, scholars kept an embarrassed silence about the scatological nature of Bartok's humor. Embarrassing though the topic might sound, its discussion can reveal important aspects of not only Bartok's personality but also his music.

 
Then there's Mozart:
 

Adults are not immune to the effects produced by scatological humor either. The most famous example in music is Mozart, whose letters to family members are littered with excremental language, spiced with sexual allusions: "blow into my behind. It's splendid food, may it do you good," he wrote to his cousin Basle. "Forgive my wretched writing," he wrote her in another letter,

but the pen is already worn to a shred,
and I've been shitting, so 'tis said,
nigh twenty-two years through the same old hole,
which is not yet frayed one whit,
though I've used it daily to shit,
and each time the muck with my teeth I've bit.

 
More gold from Mozart is in the wikipedia article "Mozart and Scatology": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_scatology
 
A few years ago I did manage to find the bartok pieces where some trobone/tuba parts were imitating fart sounds, but unfortunately I am unable to find them now..

I have never played FF7, so I don't really have any feelings about the remake. In fact, so many years since I last touched a jrpg, let alone a final fantasy.. if one day I have time or interest in playing a jrpg, I might give a try to see how it feels as an adult who didn't have the FF7 experience as a teen. Does it hold up? Did you have to "be there" to appreciate it? Does Sephiroth really kill Aeris?

Actually, maybe someone could translate bonzi_buddy posts into french and then some old french guy could read them out loud.. ben oui...

Well, here's Jean Renoir in 1975 explaining why the older star wars movies are better, why stranger things doesn't give you that 80's movies feel but something artificial (actually I haven't seen that show yet, so I dunno if that's true), why instagram filters are so popular, etc.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKCrOLcDbjE
 
Maybe technique doesn't explain everthing, but I feel this can be one basic reason why these attempts to make art replicating the feel of something older can have this plastic artificial feel to it. This summer I saw some old home movies made by my relatives around 1950-1970 or so, and boy these are beautiful. Not really because some old uncle was some great cinematographer (probably not), but somehow it's "easier" to make something beautiful/artistic with primitive technique than with a full HD 1080p 3D camera. I'm not sure how to explain what I am getting at here but one way to put it is that less precision is needed. Limitations can be liberating, something like painting needs a frame. I like this quote by John Cage: "Structure without life is dead; life without structure is unseen". However, artificially limiting yourself probably you might just become a boring hipster with a shitty old camera
 
Anyways,I wanted to say this because this comparison between old movie vs. remake movie always makes me think of this. In the end I find most remakes/homages/etc creatively useless (even if they are fun and entertaining, eg. new star wars), especially if the content and goal of the movie is just "same as the old one, but you know filmed with modern technique or dark/gritty or something"
 
 

It really is fascinating how your mind can just sort of spin entire concepts and ideas into existence like it's no big deal. And how certain keywords can totally alter that whole idea, like just including the word wizard into something automatically implies certain ideas and rules to help shape the concept. Whether not those rules are followed up on or broken in interesting ways is another issue entirely.
 
Take the last one for example, "villain is a sorcerer who summons wizards", there are so many implications on the story and content just from that alone. There is a sorcerer who opposes the player. The sorcerer can summon wizards. Wizards are object's that must/can be summoned. The wizards are far enough away that it is necessary for them to be summoned rather than just already being there. There is a significant difference between a sorcerer and a wizard. There will likely be a sort of hierarchy between the sorcerer and the wizards. The sorcerer is unable to accomplish their goal without the aid of the wizards. 
 
One sentence and half the work of crafting some kind of story or adventure is already done for you. Then there is also the reader's preconceived ideas about sorcerers and wizards that can further the thought. i.e. sorcerers are orange, while wizards are blue. etc etc

 
It's great when creators know how to use the imagination of the audience as a powerful tool, instead of underestimating it. Some of my favourite moments in various movies are these small moments which become bigger than themselves with your imagination. Sort of like "show, don't tell" I guess.. with most stuff like these (game concepts, fake screenshots on nonexistent games at tumblr or something) no realization can live up to whatever mysterious imaginary thing or feeling you have built around it.
 

 
I like those snippets you gave, for example "Explore a glass palace in a rainforest. All the furnishings are made of glass, including the butlers and maids."; here just "glass palace in a rainforest" is enough to evoke a whole world in my head. Glass palace in itself is not so interesting, but for some reason placing it in a rainforest makes various images and moods spin in my imagination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZu69OB2KM
 
closest thing to real life double dragon

 
I watched the movie a year ago or so. The trailer basically shows you all the exciting and fun parts of the movie. The rest of it I found pretty boring, even watching it in the context of movie night+beer.
 
The short documentary about the movie is kind of interesting. Apparently the guy behind the movie (Y.K. Kim) almost went bankrupt making the movie. Much later (a few years ago) it was released again and got some success, presumably for same reasons people watch Tommy Wiseau's The Room (movie is so bad/cheesy it's good).
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1UmZ4WWspo