Welcome to the capitalist dystopia. This is what all businesses want now that labor unions are forming, and we have a whole political party dedicating itself to making it happen.... again...
The conservatives, obsessed with a false idea of what "grooming" is, now wants to groom children as disposable cogs in the machine. This is absolutely disgusting. This is NOT just about exploiting children for cash, which would be horrible enough. They want to make the kids too busy to do their homework, to complete their high school studies (and eventually middle school and below), and then carve out special "exemptions" so that kids who work don't have to go to school. There you go, now you've got an uneducated populace that profits you directly. Well not YOU. You're disposable. You weren't born into wealth or a political dynasty.
Posted by: etoven - 12th May 2023, 3:24 PM - Forum: Tendo City
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My sims walked right into a museum and started porking the exhibits right in front of their kid.
My work is done. I can teach them no more.. Be free little sims. Bring my teachings to the world.
Alright, I should provide some context. The original.... let's call it "song"... is from the third release of the very first Resident Evil. There was Resident Evil, Resident Evil Director's Cut, and lastly Resident Evil Director's Cut Duel Shock Edition. Avoid that last one. They replaced the whole soundtrack in the third version with a new one as a sort of promotional stunt. At the time, there was a famous Japanese composer who had a reputation "like Beethoven" because he was deaf. This wasn't promoted at all in the U.S. release of this version, only in the Japanese version.
Now here's the kicker. This composer who so impressed due to overcoming his handicap? He was faking it. Not only did he fake being deaf, he was also faking writing the music in the first place. It was "ghost written" by another composer. The whole thing became a national scandal for a few months. Suffice it to say Capcom steered away from similar "celebrity tie in" stunts going forward, preferring to use only fictional characters in their cross promotional dealings.
Here's another delightful digital detail. This OST wasn't as good or fitting to the game as the original, but it wasn't really terrible by and large. I could easily see it working well for a Hitchcock based game about say a corrupt priest covering up a murder in a church and growing more and more paranoid about discovery. Then we get the basement song, or the "symphony of clown farts" as so many call it. Why does it sound like that? The song was converted into digital form improperly and accidentally coded every note to use the same default trumpet instrument. Someone has done a little creative license and reinterpreted the song using one of the creepier instruments in RE's sound font to produce this:
It... actually sounds decent now!
Now, for full context, here's what the original version of the song is, from both RE and RE: Director's Cut.
It's that wonderful trend where a company makes a big deal about a minor to the point of statistically insignificant change to their product so they can pat themselves on the back for being eco friendly. Then, Fox can come along and complain about the change that didn't really help but for all the wrong reasons.
I'm not sure who watches Technology Connections (it's basically a modern "long lost" 80's PBS series about how a bunch of different tech works as hosted by a full grown Eddie Munster), but I found this funny.
It's a ROM hack of Link's Awakening, converting the base concepts of the worst of the three CD-I Zelda games (the one with the live action cutscenes and rotoscoped sprites) into what appears to be a competent Gameboy game. The modder promises it's designed with original hardware in mind rather than emulators, which means it should run well on both. I think some Zelda II rom hacks of the other two CD-i games may be in order next, if this one turns out to actually be fun.
Historically, the CD-i was the first time Zelda was playable in a Zelda game (Hyrule Warriors is the first time Nintendo made her playable), but not the first time a female PC was put in a Zelda game. That honor goes to the Satellaview BS Zelda games on Super Famicom. Instead of Link, the player used their own Satellaview town avatar to play the game, which could be male or female. It was sort of a predecessor to later "Miis" come to think of it, and also allowed voice acting via radio broadcasts. The games also have the benefit of actually being good and have themselves since been translated and modded to no longer require radio broadcast. I intend to play them on original hardware soon as I get a FX Pak Pro.
Kotaku posted a little opinion piece on this, but I've noticed the trend too and not just for "official" forums. So very many keep pushing to just remove forums outright in favor of Discord. There's a number of problems with this. First of all, at Discord's whim, the whole place can just vanish, or all of them can. This goes back to the trend towards monopolization so many industries are undergoing, but heck discussion forums are barely an industry. It's just not a good idea to tie so very many discussions to a singular company who could just vanish one day. Heck, Discord's dead if ever phone companies all get their act together and implement the old "party lines", complete with UI hooks for modern cell phones and establishing "rooms", right into the telephone standard.
But, then there's that other reality. I can't find anything in a discord chat room! Forums specialize in everyone creating individual threads for every little avenue of discussion, where Discord, like chat rooms, is designed to congeal everyone's thoughts down into a small handful of massive threads. The "searchability" is pretty much nil as well.
Forums still have a very important place, and the worst situation there would be a buyout, as happened with Nintendoage. THAT was devastating. All that research and all that information for collectors just deleted overnight by greedy scam artists so they could use that ignorance to artificially inflate prices in their current scheme.
Well here's a whole Sakurai video on it. Imagine if you had a TV that was shaped like an apple.
It's interesting he didn't even mention how completely bizarre US marketing was for all his Kirby games, what with how they kept redrawing Kirby with intense "mean face" to try and "edge" the puffball up a little... even though he's a pink puffball and literally has no edge.
