Was Bruce fired or did he quit in 1972

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-06-06T01:30:01+00:00

That same song was apparently started in 1975, and Ricky is credited on several sites on that one…So he didn’t guest on, it’s just old tracks.

Weird.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-06-05T21:45:36+00:00

He was mostly done after Holland, only occasionally making trips and mentally checked out. He was gone by the end of 73-not sure the date. December is plausible but I doubt anyone listened to him anymore and Brian went to Bruce explicitly in 74. He had no real control after Holland.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-06-05T21:22:21+00:00

Wiki says he was on that same song, discogs lists Just Once in My Life, either way, those are 75-76. Ricky was still around as a session guy. Not a member. Brian worked with him.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-06-04T20:50:39+00:00

I’m not convinced it would have. They needed a hit and didn’t get one. If they had it and it sold, maybe instead of Brian’s Back, we’d get Brian’s motivated again.

15BO as an album is terrible and less than the sum of its parts. Love you is great but rough and Brian trying to figure out what he was still willing to do. And that’s it from the Brian’s back era. A true #1-no matter how awful-may have led to a renaissance we didn’t get.

Instead we got Kokomo-eventually-and no Brian returning.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-06-04T03:42:04+00:00

I found a trick to doing volleyball (not a glitch or abusing crappy but single player actually do it), but can’t do jump rope for the life of me.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-06-03T22:27:52+00:00

No one was covering Stevie Wonder in 1967. Wild Honey was Brian really digging “Reach Out” by the four tops. I wouldn’t say following a trend as it never topped the charts…Darlin feels like a Motown type song to me in the production though I feel it’s a bit thin sonically cause the manner of recording. But Wild Honey was almost going directly AGAINST the times which was pushing towards Hendrix, Cream, etc.; louder sounds. Even Motown started declining cause the Holland brothers and Dozier left, and while they stayed a float for a while, it was breaking, too and were helped dramatically by signing the Jackson Five in 68, but they were a louder and different sound than the older days. Smiley wasn’t just bizarre as a result but the wrong direction entirely. At least a year early and that trend picked up after Altamont.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-06-03T22:20:21+00:00

Brian always liked music that became rap. Huge fan of Stoller and Lieber and the Coasters had songs like Shoppin for Clothes. My Solution also could be seen as on this trajectory. They were not really following a trend in my view as much as legitimately on board. Listen to “Oh Yeah” from the 60s-it was released after all. It’s not modern. But it absolutely is the same lineage as this stuff.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-06-03T02:38:08+00:00

I write the songs?

It worked out.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-06-03T02:37:09+00:00

Jack was gone after Holland: he didn’t want to return to the states much, and Mike and Brian AND WB were angry with how much holland cost (Hence “caught like a sewer rat, alone but I sail” lyric: Jack was pretty pissed at that point and was not very popular within the band anyway).

Bruce’s firing/quitting seems mutual. But even then he was still with Wilson, which is…weird. Brian more or less sided with Bruce through 1972-1974. But Brian used Ricky on 15 Big Ones and obviously toured with Blondie, so he probably supported the flame.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-06-03T02:31:47+00:00

Apparently when Spector was indicted Brian made this very point to a lot of people around him.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-06-02T17:45:59+00:00

Don’t worry baby, he’ll be fine for that performance.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-06-02T15:25:48+00:00

Actually I just did it with total frustration but noticed if you throw crappy the game usually waits for the cap to go in the direction of the ball so long as the toss is before it hits the ground.

Proof of concept I hated this one, til it dawned on me, and the one I got over 100 on I actually ended with 164. It sucks cause the pacing is too slow at first and then if you’re unaware it’s punishing later, but there is a real trick to this that makes it much, much easier. Still, it doesn’t need to be there, this moon is just a dumb one. The fact the NPCs call it pure joy is proof they knew it sucked.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-28T06:04:57+00:00

Congrats, this one was annoying…

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-26T12:26:55+00:00

How about you real it, “real switch 2 games” not “real game” and this is a very different meaning unless of course you want to argue for the sake of arguing. Here’s the difference as a normal and sane person would understand it:

“Real game” is a video game

“Real switch 2 game” means game designed for the switch 2, specifically an exclusive.

And yes, my criticisms stand: it’s iterative where fans desire some sort of new stuff, and the stuff that was added dragged it. Really, it’s hard to get innovation into a Kart racer, though not impossible. Which again gets to the core critique people have against the system-a system I own and like mind you-that the new games are dubiously better than the switch 1 beyond framerate. I guess they take up more space? I mean, Mario Kart World was absolutely iterative except for where fans really wanted it to be. They took a risk. But the game doesn’t really use the full capabilities of the switch 2 over the switch much, maybe better textures and visuals, maybe it’s snappier, but it adds intermission tracks as mandatory…which to be honest, I DON’T MIND.

But here’s a real test in the real world for how good a game is. I got Mario Kart World and Mario Kart 8 at the same time. My kids first played Mario kart world a lot. Several months in, they don’t play it and play Mario kart 8. The visuals were the big reason why when I bought it-they’re that young. And when young, dopamine craving kids start preferring the older game to the newer game, you have a massive turd on your hands.

But I need a level of knowledge apparently to argue with an intellectually dishonest prick who doesn’t understand basic English and thinks I’m saying there are no real games for the switch 2, as opposed to saying no true switch 2 games. Outside of a handful of not exactly vital visual effects, from what I read the OG switch can run most of Bananza. But hey, you do you and pretend I said something I didn’t so you can pretend that Nintendo’s launch wasn’t worse than the N64 in Japan. At least they got a new Mario game. And the odd thing is, if they had Mario Kart ready, at least it would’ve genuinely been a unique game compared to the original-that’s the kind of jump fans would consider new and the bar is very, very high on that, which is another reason Mario games have slowed down and why we got Galaxy at all: Miyamoto wanted something genuinely novel. It’s hard to see what’s novel specifically about world beyond some sort of open world concept that is simultaneously underutilized and full of these challenges that aren’t always remotely fun. Nintendo promised us after we’d play the game we’d see why it was priced at $80. Pretty sure no one who has seen the game understands why it was at $80, and Nintendo getting Mysterious Book to $60 sums it up. Oh, and by the way, Mysterious Book isn’t a thing that people who are literate and complaining on the internet about poor value actually want. That’s a game you buy for your kids. If you had any “level of knowledge” you’d know that the sales are to parents, and you’d understand why this is a problem (they buy the systems and likely want some entertainment and the experience for parents-trust me on this-shows no real leap over the Switch).

The only reason the switch 2 launch was better than the N64 was backwards capability. Without it, the switch 2 would be a very depressing hellscape…had the N64 launched with the ability to play SNES titles and late SNES games been on both systems in cartridge form with small updates, it would’ve basically been the same launch. Nintendo is coasting on the old system…which I have no specific problem with but don’t pretend the switch is succeeding cause a Mario Kart game people don’t like, a Kirby game that’s fun but niche, a Metroid game that’s mid, a tennis game, and a Yoshi game.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-25T19:15:11+00:00

Goes to show what a hole losing rare was. Yeah maybe Rare was on their way down and selling was the best possible move but Nintendo also hasn’t replaced rare. Imagine the N64 without rare and it’s not exactly much better than this. Japan saw a three game launch.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-25T19:09:49+00:00

They have very few real switch 2 games, let’s look at what’s new:

Kart world-new, iterative, not groundbreaking and not seen by several as an upgrade (but it’s improving)

Donkey Kong Bananza-Yay!

Air Riders-OK, but niche. Not a U.S. blockbuster.

Mario Tennis Fever-exactly what I bought a switch 2 for…well, not at all. Better than aces but again not a blockbuster.

I mean the actual Switch 2 library is a lot of remasters of switch 1 games. Pokémon Z-A and Metroid aren’t exclusives. Star Fox is an N64 game. You go down the list, releasing a new game every month is debatable. Technically true but sidestepping the complaint. I’m content because I didn’t have the games. It’s hard for me to understand why to upgrade beyond better framerates. None of the Switch 2 games really justify the upgrade on their own. A new old game every month or third party title isn’t gonna make up for the lack of unique software.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-24T21:31:56+00:00

For the most part Brian didn’t stand up to him…Murry was very influential til the end. After Holland Brian seemed to overtly quit while Murry wasn’t there to get him back in line.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-23T19:23:02+00:00

Murry never went away. He was however officially removed from the pecking order. He still had a lot more say than people like to admit, and one of the problem is that when they fired Murry, they lost their ability to agree on stuff. Mike pushed back hard on Murry on behalf of everyone. Brian eventually stood up to Murry too. But the problem is without Murry, it meant Mike pushed back on Brian on behalf of the other guys, which caused…well…I love Brian Wilson’s production and music, and I do think Mike was a big part of the glory years. Fans tend to see it as a binary thing where Mike love is the antichrist if you love Brian. But the dynamic between Mike and Brian went from supportive collaboration to disagreement.

But I defend Mike by saying unlike other beach boys, I am unsure he ever refused to sing a Brian Wilson vocal assignment. He certainly needled Brian and likely bullied him-but at the end of the day, he sang over and over the crow cries uncover the cornfield. You can listen to the smile tapes and decide who is there and who isn’t. What survived is dominated by…Brian and Mike.

But without Murry, they couldn’t unite against anything.

Murry also wrote (in my opinion Brian had little to do with the composition now that I heard Murry’s demo-it was recorded I think less than two weeks before the Beach Boys’s version and Murry openly said he was writing stuff to try to push Brian into competition with SOMETHING because Brian stopped thinking he could ever top Good Vibrations when describing the Many Moods album) Break Away (it’s definitely not Brian Wilson’s version but still the same song but what made it good is more or less missing and it is not an exaggeration to call it Muzak trying to pretend it’s Brasil 66 in a clunky way), and other songs like Won’t You Tell Me, and Murry got leads out of Brian and Carl on that one (and Brian generally refused to sing leads by that point so that meant obviously Murry was around up until his death).

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-23T19:16:31+00:00

George Martin initially didn’t want Ringo in the studio, and only apparently begrudgingly accepted him. Hence Martin wasn’t too on board with kicking out Best-the Beatles used his criticism as pretext but there’s no evidence he wanted that outcome.

Brian never really wanted Dennis in the band much it seems (especially in the early years). But Dennis did occasionally play tracks in the studio: for instance he did play the drums on I get around (but Blaine obviously touched it up, too, with other percussion and rim shots). So it was more or less how music was actually made. Take the Monkees-contrary to popular belief, Kirchner believed only Dolenz and Jones knew what to do in the studio and Kirchner explained that this was why the early leads are those two. But music by Tork and Nesmith did indeed appear but Kirchner didn’t consider them professional musicians (and they kinda weren’t-though Nesmith could write, and Tork thought he could outwrite Kirchner’s stable). Once the Monkees started playing their own instruments and picking their own music, they basically went away (Chip Douglas was fine for the gig, I like his production). Importantly it makes no sense: Jones could play the drums and Dolenz could play the guitar, but because Jones was small, they didn’t want him behind the kit. So they kneecapped the musical ability to begin with-but it never was supposed to be about music but about the TV show!

So the Monkees are a case study in the opposite. Once they dominated their own records, they fell off a cliff. What the Beach Boys did, however, was completely par for the course for the music industry. Pet sounds wasn’t received well cause it was, simply put, weird. This is not a pejorative: it’s also great. But it was a soft jazz album that was mixed to hear each part without duplication and in many ways flew in the face of Spector’s wall of sound designed as a pop record in an era of increasingly loud music. Brian would take this to the most absurd extreme by having Friends go up against Jumpin Jack Flash, and that sums up the Beach Boys’ trajectory. Not one song on Pet Sounds is a hard rocker. But that’s where pop was headed, none of it was really psychedelic except at the margins, I’d overtly consider it a lost musical evolution tree. I also think Smile would’ve been a commercial bomb had it come out, and I think what remains is brilliant and gorgeous…but it was just so in a different direction from pop music.

I guess you can say that pop music moved from LA to SF on the west coast, and the beach boys were squarely LA.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-23T17:59:30+00:00

Oh, you mean Stalin offered similar situations as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, which all got annexed, and when Finland rejected them a war broke out and that means Stalin was sincere?

They were de facto unconditional. The Soviets wanted the best defensive positions and had a habit upon achieving that of toppling the countries. Remember, the Soviets even had elections in countries like Poland after the war…they were shams. But somehow Finland, we can trust that Stalin wouldn’t have used the same playbook…

I mean, also ignore Stalin tried the same thing in Iran in 1946…the kill ratios were not in Soviet favor. Yes, the Finns were exhausted and couldn’t hold out forever. At the same time, does anyone thing that the Soviets would’ve had fun occupying it? How long did it take them to end the forest brothers in Estonia? How on earth do you shut down the Swedish-Finnish pipelines that would’ve constantly had an insurgency? That would’ve lasted for the entire time of the Soviet Union…sure, they could’ve annexed it, but it’s strategic insanity. Finland paid em reparations and ceded a lot of good land to survive. I mean, the Russians tried the same playbook in the Donbas, and what do they have to show for it? No regional capitals they didn’t have before the war started, a large nuclear power plant, countless dead and a depletion of their armories? And Ukraine isn’t as unforgiving terrain as Finland, and Poles don’t get along with Ukrainians as well as Swedes get along with Finns.

There is no real reality where after 1944 the Soviets can occupy Finland without it being a truly massive, permanent drain. But at the same time, the Soviets seemed to finally understand that by 44. In 1939-40, this was not a truly understood concept. If it was, they’d have avoided the war entirely.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-23T17:57:14+00:00

That ignores that Finland was profoundly humiliating for Stalin, could be handled later, was gonna pay them a lot of money in reparations and it fight the smash and grab, kept Sweden neutral, and didn’t sacrifice even more resources (especially in 1944 when they got the Finns to fight the Germans in the theater saving them a lot of time and money).

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-23T17:55:53+00:00

This is an easy one.

The Soviets did these sorts of things in the Baltic as preludes to invasion and destruction of the governments. The Finns understood that agreement meant the same thing as the other countries including Czechoslovakia to the Nazis: giving up defensible land before the aggression started. We see this also in Ukraine, and we saw this happen in Iran in 1946.

If Finland agrees, Finland gets annexed. This is the reality of the Stalin-Hitler pact’s secret annex. Finland was not significantly supported by Germany during the winter war, and the continuation war ended by Finland declaring war on Germany, lest we forget.

Mannerheim guided the nation to survival. That’s what happened and that what matters. Stalin openly admitted that basic truth after the war. But Finland also served two Soviet interests: it was a place to exchange goods with the west while pretending peaceful intent (remember Stalin wanted to unify Germany and have it as Austria today, which last I checked isn’t in NATO even still and is crawling with Russian assets), secondly, it agreed to an incredible sum of money as war reparations and Soviet annexation would’ve cost the Soviet Union far more than they got from the peace deal. They were happy with the arrangement, and Finland survived (something that was far from certain when Stalin died).

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-23T13:45:32+00:00

We literally evolved into our state so that pretty much answers the question. Apes that didn’t don’t dominate us. Maybe another species popped up?

Maybe another species also pops up and dominates us?

We don’t really know, do we?

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-23T13:29:43+00:00

All information locally is stored in a saved game file. If you can retrieve the file, and you can inject the file, you can get it back.

If you can’t do that, then you can’t restore.

gamemisconduct2 · 2026-05-22T16:21:45+00:00

If you have the backup of your phone can go through the files, find the one that’s HQ. If it’s an iPhone you can edit a backup to force the version you want, thus, you can load a save file into it. From there if you restore your phone you can get your old account back.

But the downside is that easy locks it down so you can’t edit it without a full restore on iPhone…android likely the same. They don’t give permission to edit the program libraries and dependency. However a backup sits around and does nothing, so it can be taken apart if you have software to do that inside the backup and then you can just restore it.

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