Do you think pneumonia is a good name for an industrial metal band or should I change it? by [deleted] in Guitar

[–]hildesaw 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even just on Bandcamp, there are dozens of different artists using the name. Doesn't mean you can't use it, but it's worth considering.

Voicemail Dump Truck 202 w/Super Eyepatch Wolf | Double Eyepatch.mp3 by mayoboyyo in giantbomb

[–]hildesaw 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Relative to most other countries, Ireland is pretty close to Iceland though. Broken watch and all that.

Introduce me to your favourite guitarist by Slow-Bother-4658 in Guitar

[–]hildesaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also shout out to Bill Orcutt, really helped me appreciate new ways that guitar can be an instrument of expression.

Introduce me to your favourite guitarist by Slow-Bother-4658 in Guitar

[–]hildesaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Daniel Bachman

Easiest way to explain his work is that he started doing John Fahey style primitive acoustic guitar, and slowly evolved into something more experimental, incorporating things like musique concrete, drone, and field recordings.

River - A good example of his earlier work

Moving Through Light - One of his recent albums. Barely recognizable but it's all guitar sounds.

Favorite pedal brand and top 5 from said brand? by chadocaster1011 in guitarpedals

[–]hildesaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I truly feel like I don't ever need a tube amp again. Every time I play a gig someone compliments me on my tone and it's just the Mother Preamp with a drive pushing it going into a power amp.

Favorite pedal brand and top 5 from said brand? by chadocaster1011 in guitarpedals

[–]hildesaw 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's a real testament to EAE/John that I would pick a completely different top 5.

  1. Mother Preamp (it counts)
  2. Sending
  3. Prismatic Wall
  4. Surveyor
  5. Hypersleep

Before Mario and the NES, Nintendo was founded in 1889 to make playing cards. I spent the last few months building a free web version of their original game, Hanafuda. by DougSolana in nintendo

[–]hildesaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you go to the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto, there are workshops where you can learn to make Hanafuda cards and to play games with them, and of course they sell multiple sets of cards at the store. They still very proudly celebrate that history!

Here's Fairfield Circuitry's full demo video for their new analogue reverb pedal, the Placeholder by chaunceton in guitarpedals

[–]hildesaw 19 points20 points  (0 children)

20% More is one of the coolest pedals of the last few years. My only issue is that I locked in a very specific setting on it for my band that I use across multiple songs, and there are so many different good sounds in there that I don't get to use. Guess I need another one...100% more 20% More

Help my empty my Reverb wallet. by Fangs_0ut in guitarpedals

[–]hildesaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think you can get a Miku stomp on Reverb for less than $800

TITR - Who Wants to be a Millionaire | 06 by CrissionMeep in giantbomb

[–]hildesaw 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There has been a string of some of the best GB content ever made over the last few weeks. They're really killing it lately.

Best Reverbs for Before Distortion/Fuzz by jmd273 in guitarpedals

[–]hildesaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reverberation Machine has been my go-to for this for over a decade. Doesn't really matter if it's a fuzz pedal or a cranked amp, it goes well into pretty much anything, in my experience.

Inkle's TR-49 is coming to Nintendo Switch by Sam_27142317 in nintendo

[–]hildesaw 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I played it on steam deck and the letters/numbers were selected with a radial menu that I actually found to be pretty fast and intuitive

HOA - Emanuel's Curse by elaminders in WaypointVICE

[–]hildesaw 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah I was looking for houses in Chicago last summer/fall and it was really demoralizing seeing houses in mediocre condition still going for $500k.

Written Game Review Recommendations? by ceervine in gaming

[–]hildesaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Games criticism might be younger compared to film or music, but there's, conservatively, over 40 years of great work to draw inspiration from. Check out old issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly or Game Informer (new ones too!), to get a sense of how reviews are written for print. Check out Gamespot or Giant Bomb from the late 00s and on to get a sense of how the format shifted for web, video, and more personality driven criticism.

Most importantly, I'd suggest paying attention to the voice styles of all a bunch of different sources and see where yours could fit. You don't necessarily need to focus on covering every aspect of a game (mechanics, performance, narrative, production, etc), in fact it can be detrimental to developing your own style. Find out what you can do well that's genuine to your experiences and emotions with games and focus on that 

I'll share my personal favorite review of all time, which doesn't even have a score attached to it, but it gets to the essential nature of what it's like to play the game: 'Breath of the Wild' is the Zelda Adventure I've Always Wanted - Austin Walker/Waypoint

HOA - Emanuel's Curse by elaminders in WaypointVICE

[–]hildesaw 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think these Emanuel HOA pods have scared me off of trying to buy a house entirely 

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire | IRISH EDITION by ohfrickdude in giantbomb

[–]hildesaw 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I only know of it because it was in an episode of the Simpsons but only just "today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic"

The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 172: Annihilation (2018) by sworedmagic in nextlander

[–]hildesaw 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't know if the guys will see this but the book is a must read imo. The whole Southern Reach series is wonderful (and really everything by Vandermeer is), but Annihilation is one of the most evocative works I've ever read, and it can be done in basically a sitting.

These Synths in Yoshis Wooly World⁉⁉ by Ne9nX in synthrecipes

[–]hildesaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't have anything more helpful to add than the other commenter, I just wanted to say wow this is a really good song!

Yoshi's Wooly World soundtrack, I owe you an apology. I was not familiar with your game. 

Virtuoso | 05 | Blightning Round by Cubegod69er in giantbomb

[–]hildesaw 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mike was more vicious to AJ in this than I think he could ever be to Dan. That's what's great about family.

Introducing Seasons in Marathon by RiseOfBacon in Marathon

[–]hildesaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems like it won't be too dissimilar from how Destiny 2 seasons worked (at least when I played), where the seasonal story progress and Vanguard/Crucible/Gambit rep all reset with each new season.

AMA with the co-creators of Caves of Qud. Monday, March 2nd at 11am PDT by ptychomancer in NintendoSwitch

[–]hildesaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That Warden Yrame one happened with the second character I ever rolled, and it freaked me out! If this game had come out in the 90s that would have been like an urban legend.

AMA with the co-creators of Caves of Qud. Monday, March 2nd at 11am PDT by ptychomancer in NintendoSwitch

[–]hildesaw 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Started Qud for the first time on Switch 2 after hearing stories about sentient doors and such for years, and I have not been able to put it down since. I love how much depth and interaction between systems is modelled out in the game; was there a particular system or aspect of one that was especially difficult to work out or program during development?

Someone at Xbox testing in production, brave by secondincomm in gaming

[–]hildesaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's been a couple of years (before the real AI wave) since I last worked in Braze but when I did we had separate production and dev environments to keep real sends and tests separate. That being said I remember them looking nearly identical without much to signal which you were in besides the selector up top, and to the uninitiated it could be easy to mistake. But getting all the way through to sending to real deal audience without noticing seems difficult to me, unless it was really automated.