How HARDCORE of a GAMER are YOU???

Miss Miko Mayonegg

I and my girlfriend are both level 4; let us hope we don't fall off the deep end. ^_^

Previous Calica

no but really fuck 4chan

Princess Alice

*Bubbles voice* HARDCOOOORE

Miss Miko Mayonegg

^^ shh :p

Miss Miko Mayonegg

^^ :D

Previous Calica

Central Avenue said:

*Bubbles voice* HARDCOOOORE

this though

this is good

Obā-san

til Bad Rats is more hardcore than any shmup

Salix Babylonika

>making a distinction between shmups and danmaku in 2014

lol

no but really I can't tell if this is supposed to be serious. Given where it's from I'd not be shocked either way.

Obā-san

anyone remember the incredibly lame musical version of that there chart

all rap is a 1, shoegaze is a 4, "Kreatrock"

Miss Miko Mayonegg

:D

Obā-san

(*flies above the plebians whilst playing a wicked kreatock solo*)

Miss Miko Mayonegg

Burgundy Queen said:

>making a distinction between shmups and danmaku in 2014

lol

*le shrug* SHMUPs is probably shmups pre-1997, back when most shmups were actually possible to beat. ^_^

Odradek

BAD RATS

Miss Miko Mayonegg

Seriously I don't even know where that came from, but I have a feeling this is not meant to be serious.

Previous Calica

Miko said:

Burgundy Queen said:

>making a distinction between shmups and danmaku in 2014

lol

*le shrug* SHMUPs is probably shmups pre-1997, back when most shmups were actually possible to beat. ^_^

pretty sure plenty of danmaku games are easier than shunt-you-back-to-the-start gradius bullshit tho

Miss Miko Mayonegg

I notice that classic shmups, even though you pretty much can't die, ever, get more manageable once you learn the tricks, while danmaku, especially the type of stuff Cave used to put out, would be ultra hard to execute even after memorizing every pattern. But, maybe I haven't played enough "old-school" ones. I guess there is Raiden et. al., but those are proto-danmaku, sort of.

Imipolex G

I seem to be casual scum

my musical tastes are spread all around the musical one FWIW

Salix Babylonika

Yon Assassin said:

anyone remember the incredibly lame musical version of that there chart

all rap is a 1, shoegaze is a 4, "Kreatrock"

pleb music

Obā-san

kreatrock > cRap music

Obā-san

just so you know im gonna tag all my soundcloud stuff with kreatrock from now on

glennmagusharvey

danmaku games with tibetan throat singing OST

Miss Miko Mayonegg

make it happen

Salix Babylonika

lowercase music is the funniest shit ever, by the way.

I tried to listen to some once--for a full hour nearly--with some decent headphones and without doing anything else.

My reward was a couple very feint clinks on a piano and the sounds of some paper rustling.

Sredni Vashtar

The concept behind the piece that originated lowercase, Alvin Lucier's "Elegy for Albert Anastasia", is actually really fascinating.

Incidentally, I have also enjoyed field recordings, musique concrete and Tibetan throat-singing, so...

Salix Babylonika

I like those three things to an extent too.

I dunno man, maybe I just don't get it.

Obā-san

But do you listen to kreatrock?

Imipolex G

krautrock

Imipolex G

unless "kreatrock" means Kreator

Sredni Vashtar

^^^^ It's more about the story than the piece: Albert Anastasia was a notorious mobster who was killed because he failed to pick up on a whole bunch of obvious signals that someone wanted him dead. In 1964, Alvin Lucier decided to compose a piece around the idea of what is not heard being more important than what is, and wrote a piece for electronics where over half of the sounds are too low-pitched to consciously hear, but low enough to be felt at certain volumes. Most of the sounds are like the faint flapping of wings, caused by what was essentially a primitive LFO. It's beautiful in its simplicity.

I am generally not huge on lowercase, but I do like some weirder ambient and experimental music that approaches that level of minimalism, and I really like Alvin Lucier.

^^^ Erryday.

Obā-san

No kreatrock means kreatrock u pleb

Sredni Vashtar

Some of those really deep-level games look kind of fascinating from an outsider perspective. It's sort of like finding out that certain experimental films or niche TV channels exist and just being entranced by the fact of their being things that people enjoy.

Previous Calica

so what actually is kreatrock

Obā-san

-calica said:

so what actually is kreatrock

It's a stupid typo on that music taste levels thing I like just posted earlier on this page

Sredni Vashtar

A misspelling of Krautrock. Ninjutsu!

Incidentally, if I were to actually rank such things in earnest, I think that there are layers of how weird Krautrock can be, with NEU! at their mildest and Can at their grooviest toward the top and stuff like The Faust Tapes and Ash Ra Tempel's live albums closer to the bottom.

Salix Babylonika

Sredni Vashtar said:

Some of those really deep-level games look kind of fascinating from an outsider perspective. It's sort of like finding out that certain experimental films or niche TV channels exist and just being entranced by the fact of their being things that people enjoy.

you might genuinely enjoy Crusader Kings 2.

Getting all of the expansions (there are several, plus a bunch of cosmetic DLC that 99% of players never bother with) when a sale isn't going on is exorbitantly expensive though.

Salix Babylonika

you'd also probably enjoy The LSD Dream Emulator, which is at the very bottom of that chart.

I think worlds.com is just a nested text thingie.

Sredni Vashtar

LSD has been on my to-play list for a long time. It looks seriously amazing.

Sredni Vashtar

OK, remember I mentioned Alvin Lucier earlier?

Check this out:

nohaynicklibre

worlds.com is a weird as fuck, extremely simplistic MMO. It's full of botts and people pretending to be bots. It's pretty similar to LSD actually

Sredni Vashtar

It looks like it. Just going to the site is a bit surreal, given how incredibly retro-futuristic it all is...

Tre

pfft level 0 on the game chart and level 2 on the music chart

god what a pleb

Sredni Vashtar

I'm Level 3 on the game chart, actually, 4 if you count my fondness for the Hitchhiker's Guide text game...

0_0

Odradek

I can't wait for that remake of Pathologic that Icepick studios is doing so that normal humans can finally play the game.

criminalscum

It's cute how /v/ thinks playing obscure video game genres makes you look sophisticated.

Sredni Vashtar

That's because /v/ is one of the 4chan boards utterly dominated by people with no lives.

Salix Babylonika

Sredni Vashtar said:

That's because /v/ is one of the 4chan boards utterly dominated by people with no lives.

did you mean

like all of the 4chan boards

Obā-san

as opposed to the ones that aren't?

nohaynicklibre

The drawings for Jaded Outcast, That Weird Guy and Hardcore don't really imply sophistication

Tanya

Sredni Vashtar said:

That's because /v/ is one of the 4chan boards utterly dominated by people with no lives.

No lives huh? Tell me more about that.

Salix Babylonika

no but they imply a vague, early to mid teen's idea of "badass", which is what like a solid half of the people on the internet think about themselves at that age.

nohaynicklibre

Burgundy Queen said:

Sredni Vashtar said:

That's because /v/ is one of the 4chan boards utterly dominated by people with no lives.

did you mean

like all of the 4chan boards

Yon Assassin said:

as opposed to the ones that aren't?

They have a lot of boards for more regular hobbies. /ck/, /fit/, /out/, /diy/, /d/...