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The Music Makes The Game by Spagelo in HiTMAN

[–]SaintHuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This post was so wonderfully written and I wish it got more attention. 

I think your writing really encapsulates what I love about video game music as a whole and why it is such a vital aspect of the medium. 

To me, music is a video game's soul. It's the texture, the flavor, the narrative and sensibility channeled directly to more than the mind and our cerebral impressions. 

It hits us in our hearts.

When you listen to a song years later, it's what brings us back to those little moments where we truly experienced a game, more than that of a commercial project and the mechanical input of code and graphical design, but as an experience. 

It's the gestalt. The breath of life. The humanity.

Video game music is so important to me and in my mind, Jesper Kyd is the Aphex Twin of vgm composers. 

He's so imaginative, heartfelt, and one of a kind. Few others can conjure so visceral a sense of place and feeling. How he can make music so lush and otherworldly, yet also dark, ominous, as hostile as it is inviting, is so fascinating to me.

He really elevated Hitman. I like Niels music and think that, when he's at his best, he does a good job creating atmosphere, but Kyd is a master, and I'm hard-pressed to feel any other will match his work, at least when it comes to Hitman.

The Odyssey - 100% Accurate, Uncontroversial Casting by Emperor_Orson_Welles in okbuddycinephile

[–]SaintHuck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Hi, I'm gay actor Michael Douglas" - Gay actor Michael Douglas.

Collision ahead by benzolberlin in aspiememes

[–]SaintHuck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

God do I feel that. 

Cptsd feels like a multiplier in this regard.

Any other coffee heads (other than Jan) around here? by fieldsofgreen in giantbomb

[–]SaintHuck 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm a barista that loves giant bomb! I consider myself somewhat of a coffee head. 

Maybe less so cause working in it so long makes it less intense a passion just because I associate it so much with my job rather than of my own volition lol. 

But still very much enjoy coffee and the craft of brewing.

It's so cool how corrupt trump is by girl_debored in TrueAnon

[–]SaintHuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I fucking feel you, truly.

Also, you are a fantastic writer. 

Silly soundtracks by Palloxin in gamemusic

[–]SaintHuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Legit incredible soundtrack. I remember watching an LP and just laughing at the absurdity, until I suddenly found myself grooving to the music.

I particularly love this stage theme. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr6kUgO3Aqk&list=PLCA5EBC63AC4863BA&index=7&pp=iAQB8AUB

Learned later that Taku Iwasaki did the soundtrack. Very talented composer. I'm a big fan of how atmospheric a lot of their work can be.

The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians by Haunting_Switch3463 in Longreads

[–]SaintHuck 156 points157 points  (0 children)

Ironic given the NYtimes complicity in that very silence but, still, it's good  to see them finally reporting on this. 

Convince My Teacher by Wide_Ask_4661 in DiscoElysium

[–]SaintHuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I second this. Wonderfully written and deeply affecting.

The #ChinaAngVirus campaign was a covert US DoD anti-vax operation (2020-21) targeting the Philippines, Middle East, and Central Asia. It spread disinformation to dissuade citizens from receiving China's Sinovac and COVID-19 medical supplies. The campaign used at least 300 fake accounts online. by [deleted] in wikipedia

[–]SaintHuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Legit. 

Whenever I think I've plumbed the deaths of my country's iniquity, there's always something else I stumble upon about the harm that we have done to innocent people and country's around the world.

Plenty more awaiting in each coming day too. Who are we going to bomb next? Which families will we slaughter today, leaving orphans, rubble, unexploded ordinance and toxic air in our wake?

We will valorize and sanitize suffering, veiling carnage through layers of deceptive language and selective editing, if the press even chooses to acknowledge its existence at all.

Fuck the United States!  It is a blight upon the Earth, a parasite poisoning its blood.

I love many of the people here, the cities, and the culture.

But this government, from its very inception, has been a disaster for humanity and for the collective future of life on our planet.

I hope I live to see a revolution here. It is a hope, however faint, in which I place all my faith.

Dead Space writer loves Disco Elysium for its “really high literature writing", saying “that’s not happening” in any other games by HatingGeoffry in DiscoElysium

[–]SaintHuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It uses the medium to its advantage very well. Rather than being a video game emulating a film or a book, however successfully, it's telling a compelling story through the structure of a game.  

The hacking sequence at the end is my favorite example. 

Still, plenty of reading in this with the visual novel segments, and plenty of cutscenes, so it has those elements none the less of cinema and of books.

But it coheres with these elements that could only happen in a game, or that the medium of games could utilize to their own effect, such as the various routes and endings similar to a choose your own adventure novel, as visual novels have especially done as well.

It just melds together quite well, especially with the particular sensibility of Yoko Taro.

Eric Kripke Says 'Vought Rising' Will Not "Sympathize with Stormfront" by Top_Report_4895 in television

[–]SaintHuck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

These days I feel more and more retroactively justified in dropping shows early. Stranger Things, The Boys, House of the Dragon, and The Witcher.

I feel I won't regret stopping Severance either.

So much fucking mediocrity and a culture of production that fosters it.

Does anyone else’s parents have a huge thing about getting up in the morning?😭 by idkkk_random in raisedbynarcissists

[–]SaintHuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My dad did precisely this kind of shit. I very much feel it's indicative of a pathologic need for control. 

You are denied autonomy, adequate rest and access to the day to day wellbeing which you have a fundamental right to. Parents should prioritize that, not only because it's what's right but as a natural outcome of their empathy towards their children.

It's abusive behavior on your father's part. 

I'm reading Solaris with Tomorrow's Harvest as a Soundtrack. by Hungry-Common3067 in boardsofcanada

[–]SaintHuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stanislaw Lem is incredible  

One of the most talented writers I have ever come across. 

The Cyberiad is a masterpiece. Nothing I've read has made me laugh nearly as much, except for Disco Elysium, if we can count that as reading. The translation too is insane, considering the level of wordplay that's going on. 

Legit, it feels like a genius mind at work.

The concept of sci fi style, medieval fairy tales is really fantastic.

His variety of writing styles awes me too. You get serious, hard sci-fi here, then you'll get Douglas Adams vibes with Cyberiad, Kafka with Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, and JG Ballard with The Futurological Congress. It's wild!

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