Robin Williams' uncanny energy really comes through in this song. Casting is everything.
The fact that so many theatre kids (current and recovering) break out in this song is a testament to its greatness. ...aw, hell, they also break out into Rent songs, that doesn't mean anything. But this is a great feminist anthem of a girl becoming a woman, and smashing through her socially inculcated pressure to always be kind and agreeable.
I love the sequence where she's simultaneously creating and running up a frozen staircase. Badass!
Picking just one Lion King song is no easy task. This one is the most popular. I kinda prefer its Book of Mormon spoof, though.
There are more, but I won't suck up all the oxygen in the room.
I've bought a lot of battery holders and Maxell brand replacement batteries for this, and have started to replace all my battery backed games with fresh ones, along with battery holders so the next time around it's far easier.
(I picked Maxell because they have a proven track record. Plenty of my NES games STILL hold their saves. That's good enough for me.)
The first step was taking a multimeter and tracing out, on each type of cart, where a good place to set up a secondary battery would be. I lost a few saves in the process, but their sacrifice is not in vain. I'm pretty adept at spotting the patter now, just following the lighter parts of a PCB to the nearest pin and soldering an extra wire onto that. (I clip off the legs of a resistor for these, since they're nice and still and won't move around on their own.) I actually have just left the legs on. I then stick a spare battery in a spare battery holder and alligator clip the legs of that holder to my "spare" pins. It's important to do this in parallel, not serial. Once that's done, I desolder the existing battery. It's taken a lot of practice but I'm getting pretty good at this part now, and can get the old battery out pretty quick. The new one is a little tricky. The slimmer "negative" pin isn't quite slim enough, so I have to clip it down a little, but then it fits fine. Add a little flux, and the solder flows in and grips it very well. Once the holder's in place, I slip in a fresh battery and finally unclip the emergency battery. Seal it up, and it's ready to test. I lost two big saves at first, but now I know just where I went wrong and am avoiding those errors going forward. I've got battery holders in Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time now along with the same classic saves I've had for years.
Gameboy games are going to be tricky. So so small...
This game is pretty diesel. Pretty sure I never posted about it here. But it has a cool Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe, including an over-the-top dinner scene (even more over-the-top than in the 1970s film). You're back in a mansion, but this one is much cooler than some spooky, opulent museum like we saw in RE2. This one is a trashy plantation that's gone to hell. Floors and walls are littered with trash and various weird kitsch. Bags of trash, cat carriers, weird family photos... the developers did a magnificent job of dropping you into an environment that looks like a trailer home, that has somehow been stretched into multiple floors and buildings.
The game started out with some elements of stealth, where you're hiding from room-to-room while the scary hillbilly man stalks you with a rake. Then at some point, he *smashes through the wall* to come get you. The series continues to inter-splice cinematic thrills in with its game play.
The Old Southern Mansion portion of the game ended, now I'm at a new part where I guess we see the origin of what evil came around and destroyed/mutated the family that lived in the mansion. Now I'm in an abandoned ship. I did not see that coming!
Any y'all play this? I played it on my friend's xbone for about an hour when I stopped in to feed her cat while she was on vacation. I don't have a bone full of ex's, so I couldn't play it at home, and was much bummed to see it was xbone exclusive.
BUT, apparently they're releasing (or have released?) it on Switch. Fuck yeah. I really love the art and aesthetic. You can tell how much love went into recreating those old Fleischer cartoons. Right down to scratches in the "film" and static in the background to mimic imperfect sound recording.
The only disappointing thing is that it's apparently pretty much all boss battles. And it's hard as FUCK. I had some trouble getting past the first few bosses, and apparently it just gets harder from there. Ain't life a bitch. (sorry for all the swearing, DJ )
Alright, sluts. Time to post your guilty pleasures. It can be songs, movies, books, video games, anime (all of it, all the anime), w/e you wouldn't dare tell a person you know in real life but you just might cough a hint of it to a bunch of pasty nerds that you've somehow known for ~20 years, oh fuck what am I doing with my life
I'll go with songs. Back in the day, we used to post our Winamp playlists to share musical tastes, and/or brag about how many mp3s we'd managed to accumulate. Not so here. Join me in shame and humiliation!
God damn if this song isn't some kind of Beckified wypipo anthem. 'Makes me want to get up and jig. It reminds me a little of Shake it Off or that 80s Oh Mickey song.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, IT'S CATCHY *runs and hides*
I was introduced to this song when trying to find fake nudes of Alison Brie. I stumbled upon a look-alike video that played this song in the background, I guess it was significant to that show she was in, Community?? I couldn't watch the thing (the show), couldn't stand Joel McHale. And but so this song somehow hits me in the feels and makes me think of what high school dances would have been like if I weren't in fact a loser who was staying at home playing N64 and crying along to the theme of Banjo-Kazooie.
Love to hate to love to hate this song. This guy is violating all sorts of man codes by wearing eyeliner and expressing FEELINGS. I remember driving once and looking over and there was a car full of teenagers all singing along to this, all swaying their heads with big smiles on their faces, like wtf this is supposed to be a sad song.
TRICK ENTRY, this song and video are in fact cool and good, maybe I'll get into it later
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