Arcade and Retro General Chat in Karkariko Village Tavern: Live Ocarina Music

Jack burton

Anyone else want some? :P

Myrddin

Achilles wrote: »

You're single, aren't you?

Lol, nope sorry. But you'd be surprised at the amount of girls out there who think fair is fair

DinoRex

Nerdkiller1991

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

There is an old Retr0 meme picture somewhere, that post would make a perfect statement in it.

Go find it then, so we can laugh together.

In other news, my laptop is 100% dead (using my sister's for the time being), which means I have to use that money I saved for getting a 3DS into getting a new one...but hopefully, this means I can get a laptop that can actually run games past 2005.

DinoRex

South Korean soap operas are pretty special:

MrVestek

Myrddin wrote: »

Lol, nope sorry. But you'd be surprised at the amount of girls out there who think fair is fair

Probably one of the more rare females that is actually in to gaming.

Myrddin

Achilles wrote: »

Probably one of the more rare females that is actually in to gaming.

Ha, nah, unfortunately not....though I did partially succeed in getting her completely hooked on Theme Hospital once

Jack burton

I had my lady playing Rapunzel over the weekend. Its the game in the bar in Catherine.

Dark Souls next I assume

Myrddin

So, finished Between Words Johnny Ultimate suggested Attack of the Friday monsters next...seems very cool actually, might go ahead & buy it

richymcdermott

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/21297/20131228/phantasy-star-online-2-western-localization-rumors.htm

god i hope it will be out this year but i know how sega handles things with the west but at least the south asia servers are in english so either case I need to experience phantasy star

eddhorse

My missus love the Half Life series, Resistance series, anything shooting aliens really, got me a SNES in October and she kicks my ass in Super Mario 3 and Zombies Ate my Neighbours.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Myrddin wrote: »

So, finished Between Words Johnny Ultimate suggested Attack of the Friday monsters next...seems very cool actually, might go ahead & buy it

I got it the same time as JU but was busy with ACNL at the time. I'll finally start it after Persona 4, on the home stretch ... but I'm a bit withered from it, might take a break and start it sooner.

johnny_ultimate

Friday Monsters is easily playable in a sitting or two (maybe three hours all in all, dependent on your level of OCD), wouldn't worry about it being a major interruption

eddhorse

Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) have been speed running all types of games for a few days now, Seven days of speed running to help prevent cancer, full list of VOD here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/1ui4dn/agdq_vods_thread

They are still live on twitch here :
http://twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda

You need flash to watch, the app is pretty good though.

Ed

Optimus Prime

Slightly off topic, but ive been registering a load of club nintendo codes i have and i have a spare one for animal crossing new leaf i cant register twice. if anyone has a nintendo game code spare they cant register for the same reason and would like to swap codes give me a shout. thanks

CiDeRmAn

I'll trade an unused NSMB2 code!

Optimus Prime

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'll trade an unused NSMB2 code!

Ive registered that one already so dont think it will work either, im happy to pass the code onto you and you can send me on one when you get one?

CiDeRmAn

Beautiful work from the Simpsons people, a tribute to Miyazaki,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R94Q6NhuS3A

DinoRex

I tried watching the Lady Gaga episode of the Simpsons that was on last night.

I know it probably gets said about a lot of recent (past 10 years) episodes, but that was without a doubt the worst episode EVER! So bloody tiresome with awful forced humour and obvious attempts at jokes.

Won't it be hilarious if Lady Gaga met Ned Flanders? No, no it won't!

johnny_ultimate

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Beautiful work from the Simpsons people, a tribute to Miyazaki,

While it's nice to see Ghibli referenced affectionately in mainstream media, to me that falls into the same category as a lost of Simpsons gags and references: referencing alone doesn't amount to anything funny or even amusing. All that is is Simpsons characters (randomly selected, it seems) drawn as Miyazaki-esque characters. To me, that lacks the humour, warmth and satirical edge that always defined the way the show homaged other pop culture in its early seasons. If you watch the famous Citizen Kane episode, it's a very, very funny episode in its own right, as well as a brilliantly oddball celebration of the film.

I was watching the Saturday cartoon episode of Futurama last night (Scoobie Doo etc...) and it fell into the same trap of just lazily referencing stuff without much finesse. Although thankfully Futurama, even if it was never as inspired in its later years, would usually recover from a misfire the following episode.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

DinoRex wrote: »

I tried watching the Lady Gaga episode of the Simpsons that was without a doubt the worst episode EVER!

I think it really is one of the worst, it was talked about here before if you can find them. Was it the first time you saw it? The one about Bart getting a phone was pretty bad too.
Bart giving Burns blood was on during the week "boney girl arms and you smell like an elephant's butt"

DinoRex

There's another recent episode where the entire thing is a lazy parody of 'Heavenly Creatures'

I can't imagine a huge amount of viewers would be familiar with the source material so most of the jokes (that weren't that great) wouldn't have fallen flat for a lot of people.

The only funny thing in it was the father being a John Grisham expert.

Star Lord

If you think that Simpsons episode was bad, the Lady Gaga + The Muppets special thing that was released recently is worse again. 90% Lady Gaga, 5% other people she wanted to perform with, 5% Muppets.

That was painful, but kept watching hoping for some funny Muppets stuff. There really wasn't much/any.

Jack burton

I'm in work now so I can't check but wasn't there an episode of south park where they talked about how referencing something alone isn't funny.

The Simpsons referencing pop culture does not make it funny. Perfect example was on the telly last night, it was the spinal tap episode of the Simpsons, stand alone its very funny regardless if you know spinal tap or not.

o1s1n

DinoRex wrote: »

I tried watching the Lady Gaga episode of the Simpsons that was on last night.

I know it probably gets said about a lot of recent (past 10 years) episodes, but that was without a doubt the worst episode EVER! So bloody tiresome with awful forced humour and obvious attempts at jokes.

Won't it be hilarious if Lady Gaga met Ned Flanders? No, no it won't!

It's not just the worst episode of The Simpsons I've ever seen, I think it's possibly the worst episode of anything I've ever seen. I'd rather watch an episode of Jeremy Kyle.

DinoRex

It's the same problem with all the spoof movies you get now.

It's just pop culture reference after pop culture reference.

Compare that to the likes of The Naked Gun and Airplane spoof movies, the jokes all stand alone and you don't need to be overly familiar with what is being spoof to find the humour in them.

CiDeRmAn

DinoRex wrote: »

It's the same problem with all the spoof movies you get now.

It's just pop culture reference after pop culture reference.

Compare that to the likes of The Naked Gun and Airplane spoof movies, the jokes all stand alone and you don't need to be overly familiar with what is being spoof to find the humour in them.

Surely you can't be serious about that Dino?

DinoRex

Of course Airplane just lifted everything from Zero Hour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaYseBJuruk

o1s1n

And once a few years goes by and those pop culture references are forgotten, it loses all relevance.

You get similar things in Dreamworks animated films. Things like The Matrix references in Shrek - it's really obnoxious and cheapens the whole thing.

DinoRex

Dreamworks have definitively improved in recent years though and don't rely on lazy pop culture jokes in their better films.

How to Train Your Dragon was a big step forward for them. Last years Rise of the Guardians was brilliant too and probably a better Avengers film than the Avengers.

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

And once a few years goes by and those pop culture references are forgotten, it loses all relevance.

Wazzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

DinoRex

Future generations will look back on this age and ask the question 'Who's taking the horse to France?'

Retr0gamer

FL Studios is far too much fun to mess about in. I've already created a boss music masterpiece. Zuntata have nothing on me!

CiDeRmAn

DinoRex wrote: »

Future generations will look back on this age and ask the question 'Who's taking the horse to France?'

I had to Google that one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxl0UmXi8a0

Retr0gamer

I'll probably look back on this in a months time and cringe at how bad it is but here's my boss music I was working on all day:

https://soundcloud.com/retr0gamer/boss1/s-ATFbS

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'll probably look back on this in a months time and cringe at how bad it is but here's my boss music I was working on all day:

https://soundcloud.com/retr0gamer/boss1/s-ATFbS

needs some lyrics
"Now I face out, I hold out
I reach out to the truth of my life"
loljk

Retr0gamer

Sad news, Retropolis is closing. The guy that runs it had a baby.He said he'll still be sticking stuff up on advert.

johnny_ultimate

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Sad news, Retropolis is closing. The guy that runs it had a baby.He said he'll still be sticking stuff up on advert.

Why am I reminded of this...

Doge

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'll probably look back on this in a months time and cringe at how bad it is but here's my boss music I was working on all day:

https://soundcloud.com/retr0gamer/boss1/s-ATFbS

Thats great, is it the desktop or mobile version you are using?

Retr0gamer

waveform wrote: »

Thats great, is it the desktop or mobile version you are using?

Desktop version.

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Sad news, Retropolis is closing. The guy that runs it had a baby.He said he'll still be sticking stuff up on advert.

Ah balls. Have bought from them a few times now, really decent place twas.

Jack burton

Myrddin wrote: »

Ah balls. Have bought from them a few times now, really decent place twas.

Said on Facebook all stock will be going to adverts and he'll still be doing conventions so that's a plus

CiDeRmAn

I shall watch out, I got a great deal off of him for a games, Doom did well for some boxed SF2 games for the SFC.
Sorry to hear of the stores passing, didn't he only relocate to a bricks and mortar recently?

Atavan-Halen

I'm a little drunk tonight so yeah....

Atavan-Halen

Got a pic with pamela Anderson herself.

#MakeItRain

Star Lord

Hmm...

#hashtagsdontworkonboards #ihopetheyneverdo

Atavan-Halen

#IMightGetBanned #PAMELAANDERSON #YOLO #WECANTSTOP

MrVestek

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

#YOLO

BANNED

Atavan-Halen

Achilles wrote: »

BANNED

#no.

Atavan-Halen

#WeCantStop

#TwerkTwerkTwerk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrUvu1mlWco