Actually, I have this pet theory that creative people (in any medium) tend to be either minimalists or maximalists (for lack of a better term) by nature
However, I have no particular data to back this up
I like the Steve Reich album Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint but haven't listened to much else from the genre.
Philip Glass' soundtrack for Koyaanisqatsi is a must, as is Music for Eighteen Musicians and In C. The Well-Tuned Piano is also well worth a listen if you have the time.
Different Trains is good. Lots of Reich's early stuff is good, but now he just keeps on making things that sound almost exactly like Music For 18 Musicians. Glass had some positively transcendental stuff and now sounds like some kind of ridiculous self parody. And there are like 5 bajillion people that copied Glass and it's a huge steaming pile of shitty arpeggios.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
I am not a minimalist you know, by any stretch. I was aiming more for "I wish cut scenes wouldn't show the same things over and over within the same game and between every other game."
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know what's immensely irritating?
When people get pissy about software updates and refuse to install them, then ask me to dig them out when their computers inevitably end up full of malware shit.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
I have a love/hate relationship with Kingdom Hearts because of how obsessively I collected games and did 100% in them and how much that series let me down over time, in addition to looking more kitsch-ey every time I re-played it.
When people get pissy about software updates and refuse to install them, then ask me to dig them out when their computers inevitably end up full of malware shit.
#centiesfamily
You should lecture them then.... You're really being soft with them....
I like the Steve Reich album Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint but haven't listened to much else from the genre.
Philip Glass' soundtrack for Koyaanisqatsi is a must, as is Music for Eighteen Musicians and In C. The Well-Tuned Piano is also well worth a listen if you have the time.
I dig A Rainbow in Curved Air a lot, myself.
But yeah, that is what usually happens when a genre suddenly founds out it has little else ways to progress and expand itself.
^^^^ hmm, maybe. It could be that Miko is bored with the same archetypes repeating themselves in jRPGs and so would rather skip their babbling and get to the gameplay. Miko thinks of Disgaea, which is built around autistic grinding, and which has lengthy, though very amusing and fun cut scenes, and also that Disgaea is one of Miko's favorite games.
I'd say that's more a problem with lazy writing than with excessive chatter. A lot of stellar writing is a good thing, but a lot of bad writing is self-evidently not.
Preface: I know this isn't what you're referring to. I'm just sorting out my own thoughts, really.
Kingdom Hearts isn't really badly written. I mean, it has bad lines. A lot of bad lines. I find myself rewriting lines in my head so they don't sound so awkward really often. But at the same time, it really works in an odd way. None of the lines feel wrong; they just feel poorly worded at worst (which leads me to believe it's a translation issue; which is odd considering how Kingdom Hearts is a very famous series that has made quite a bit of money and employs a ton of very respected voice actors). Like, for example, one of the games, 358/2 Days, has you playing as Roxas who is a Nobody- an entity that, without getting into the minutia of Kingdom Hearts' rather silly mythology, has basically been separated from all of its emotions after having its "heart" severed. Roxas is in an organization comprised of Nobodies, and despite ostensibly lacking emotions forms a strong bond with two other members, ending most missions by meeting at the top of a clock tower and eating ice cream.
At the end of the game, you are forced to kill the one on the right, Xion. As she dies, Roxas utters one of the most commonly cited examples of the series's all-too-frequent awkward lines.
"No, Xion, who else will I have ice cream with?"
The phrasing is awkward, but thematically it totally works. Because for this character, that's the only way he can contextualize all the complex emotions associated with forming a friendship.
And because I wanted to ruin my mood for the rest of the night, I watched the cutscene where she dies. AUGH NOW I'M UPSET AND I WORRY THAT WITHOUT THE CONTEXT OF HAVING PLAYED THE GAMES THAT SCENE WILL SEEM STILTED AND OVERLY MELODRAMATIC
Basically minimalism took over everything and is boring, lifeless and stagnant.
This is reminding me of how much I dislike post-rock, specifically the third wave "crescendocore" stuff. Musicians who think any old thing is good enough as long as it starts off slow and quiet, then builds to a thundering crescendo. It's a formula that's been used so often that it's no longer impressive in its own right. Only works if one actually makes the slow, quiet part interesting by itself.
I never did quite get the whole 'Nobodies have no emotions' thing.
They emote. They express displeasure when things go wrong and pleasure when things do. Those are generally signs of having emotions.
Yes, it's possible to emote without having emotions and without directly lying to themselves. That's basically half of the robots ever written in fiction. And yet, the argument with those robots is usually that, by virtue of emoting, they have emotions. So Sora's rather vitriolic stance against treating the Organization as people is rather unusual?
Basically minimalism took over everything and is boring, lifeless and stagnant.
This is reminding me of how much I dislike post-rock, specifically the third wave "crescendocore" stuff. Musicians who think any old thing is good enough as long as it starts off slow and quiet, then builds to a thundering crescendo. It's a formula that's been used so often that it's no longer impressive in its own right. Only works if one actually makes the slow, quiet part interesting by itself.
I never did quite get the whole 'Nobodies have no emotions' thing.
They emote. They express displeasure when things go wrong and pleasure when things do. Those are generally signs of having emotions.
Yes, it's possible to emote without having emotions and without directly lying to themselves. That's basically half of the robots ever written in fiction. And yet, the argument with those robots is usually that, by virtue of emoting, they have emotions. So Sora's rather vitriolic stance against treating the Organization as people is rather unusual?
For some of them, they are only imitating what they would have done before losing their hearts.
It's also implied that after a certain point, they can develop hearts.
If I'm not mistaken, the creator has stated in some manner that Sora's aggression came from Roxas.
Basically minimalism took over everything and is boring, lifeless and stagnant.
It seems more like no-one has built on its potential outside of, say, electronic music.
The opening to John Adams' Harmonielehre is still cool, though.
E!E!E!E!
Nero used it to better effect in their song Doomsday than the original composition did and they make the poppiest brostep in the universe.
I am comparing the two now.
I'm not sure whether I agree or disagree. Although Nero's appropriation is surprisingly apt, the original is still pretty disarming and monolithic... although I think that it would be far more impressive in person. It's very much a concert piece.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
^^^^^^^ I refuse to believe this nonsense. In fact I refuse to believe that anime ever happened. And also I shipped Sonic/Tails back then and somehow that made me think of Ash/Pikachu but I couldn't ship that because Pikachu was too short and yellow.
The release of the first generation of Pokemon just happened to fall in the very brief window where I had absolutely no interest in "kid stuff". So I completely missed that particular hype train.
No, wait, I never got into it because I didn't like RPGs or card games.
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However, I have no particular data to back this up
I can see this kind of thing is wareing on you.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Nero used it to better effect in their song Doomsday than the original composition did and they make the poppiest brostep in the universe.
YOU MUST DIE FOR THIS BLASPHEMY
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead