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Son Of General Retro Discussion

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    #4382
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Consolevania is now on iTunes:

    http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/consolevania/id493861809


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    #4383
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,914 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Consolevania have a podcast??
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    #4384
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Consolevania have a podcast??

    Think it's just all the old shows. But it's a handy way to download them.


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    #4385
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,914 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Ah ok, I had some false hope there that rab and ryan were back again :(
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    #4386
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Two big Halo cut outs being thrown out here. Look like store displays. To save or not to save?

    I'd look like a bit of a pleb walking across the office with them under my arm and I don't exactly like Halo - but I hate seeing game related stuff thrown out!

    I know someone with a birthday coming up who'd find a home for them!


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    #4387
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I know someone with a birthday coming up who'd find a home for them!

    I can't help but think of the episode of Family Guy where Peter brings the Kathy Ireland cut out home and starts having an affair with it.

    180px-2009-10-05_163148kathy.jpg


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    #4388
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I know someone with a birthday coming up who'd find a home for them!

    They'd be perfect for a 50th actually


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    #4389
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Use them to line the floor of the pantry. Good thinking Mr. Arnold Jim Halen!


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    #4390
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,182 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plg_yYsCQM

    Another reason to keep old Floppy drives..to play teh tUnEzz on ;)


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    #4391
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,861 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    James Howlett wrote: »
    Sounds cool, have you upload any to youtube for us to have a look at?

    I have indeed.
    Remember, these are just for a laugh and a nice excuse to brush up on my rusty skills, so don't judge to harshly :o

    After a few to many beer with my brother over the xmas we started talking about Doctor Who in a battle against the Predator/s. So that conversation inspired me to do the below.

    As always, best viewed in 1080p.


    Doctor Who vs Predator:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-DJHebYvFY



    Doctor Who vs Predator(second attempt and a bit better I think):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aztuiet4iKA



    .


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    #4392
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnWMASmq-tE


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    #4393
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,914 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    My kind of game!
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    #4394
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,189 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    You should watch Love Exposure if you ever have four hours to spare. Brilliantly mental film about a guy who takes up upskirt photography to piss off his religious father. Amongst other things.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fxa5NuVrqU


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    #4395
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,914 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I just finished my first Murakami book the other day, a collection of short stories called After the Quake. Johnny_ultimate would be proud.

    However there's a lot of similarities to Murakamis writing and the Mother games. In a lot of Murakamis stories absolutely nothing happens but it's all about the emotions you feel. It's the same thing with the mother games. The just seem like quirky RPGs but by the end of them it's all about the emotional pay-off. I get the feeling Shigesato Itoi is a big Murakami fan, which would make sense considering he's a writer as well.
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    #4396
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I get the feeling Shigesato Itoi is a big Murakami fan
    Yoshítoshi ABe was supposed to be influenced by Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World when making Haibane Renmei :P


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    #4397
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,914 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Thinking about it, saying Murakami might have influenced a japanese writer is like saying miyamoto might have inflenced a videogame designer.
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    #4398
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,189 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    The best thing about Murakami books - the more fantastical ones, anyway - is that they can have profound emotional payoffs that you might not even understand :P Stuff like Hardboiled and Kafka.. have surreal, obtuse central stories but they resonate at a much deeper level than a more in-your-face emotional payoff.

    I like his short stories from what I've read (After the Quake and one of the other ones), but I'm more of a novel man - that's where his real genius lies.

    Always enjoyed this short piece though: http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/murakami-perfect.html Think it might be included in After the Quake amongst the stories about superfrogs? Could be the other collection though...


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    #4399
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,914 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    The best thing about Murakami books - the more fantastical ones, anyway - is that they can have profound emotional payoffs that you might not even understand :P Stuff like Hardboiled and Kafka.. have surreal, obtuse central stories but they resonate at a much deeper level than a more in-your-face emotional payoff.

    I noticed that as well especially in the super frog saves tokyo story. Earthbound is very like this as well. It's actually a bit of a weakness of mother 3 that a lot of there's a lot of emotional in your face scenes in it, although it's also got its much deeper emotional themes as well. It's not as brave as Earthbound which is a really surrealist piece with a lot of emotional depth that I'd say flew over a lot of peoples heads. It's not apparent unless you beat the game, which I thought was brave for a 60 hour RPG. I felt the same way when I read the first story from After the Quake, I was wondering what it was all about since nothing happened until I realised it put me in a weird emotional state and had a think about it. You can tell the people that have beaten earthbound and the ones that haven't because the ones that haven't will only mention how it's great because it's quirky and has an amusing take on american culture.

    It's interesting though to see the difference in japanese writing and western writing, although outside of science fiction everytime I get recommended a book it ends up being populist thrash. I should really seek out some really good western writers to compare it to.

    Anyway I've Kafka on the Shore for after I finish Ciderdudes books.
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    #4400
    Retr0gamer
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    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Always enjoyed this short piece though: http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/murakami-perfect.html Think it might be included in After the Quake amongst the stories about superfrogs? Could be the other collection though...

    It's not in After the Quake, will give it a read later, have drama rehearsals in a minute.
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    #4401
    johnny_ultimate
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    I'd recommend some of the stuff by David Mitchell as a good comparison point. His early stuff - especially Number9Dream - is basically doing a really bad Murakami impression. Pretty sure he's admitted as much! But he really blossomed later on, and Cloud Atlas is a masterful work with five or six very different stories that work with each other in surprising ways. But he really hit a new level with The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, about a Dutch clerk living in 18th century Nagasaki. It sounds tough going, and I'm no fan of historical fiction, but it's a beautiful, surprising and very contemporary work.


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    #4402
    Retr0gamer
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    Thanks, i'll try and keep it in mind!
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    #4403
    o1s1n
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    Master of the Universe


    If hooradiation were here now, he'd be throwing the term '****ing weeaboo bull****' around to beat the band :pac:


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    #4404
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,189 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    o1s1n wrote: »
    If hooradiation were here now, he'd be throwing the term '****ing weeaboo bull****' around to beat the band :pac:

    An unusually bitter and aggressive fellow.


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    #4405
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    If hooradiation were here now, he'd be throwing the term '****ing weeaboo bull****' around to beat the band :pac:

    Only for I forgot the term, I'd be throwing it about myself :p

    Bloody weeaboo-hipsters, even worse than normal hipsters. Where's Nyarlo when you need him! This place needs some beer & pool tables :D


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    #4406
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    An unusually bitter and aggressive fellow.

    :D


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    #4407
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,189 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Where's Nyarlo when you need him!

    He's been over in films recently. Always fun to watch the confusion his posts cause amongst the unsuspecting posters, followed by bursts of frustration as logic takes a much needed vacation.


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    #4408
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    He's been over in films recently. Always fun to watch the confusion his posts cause amongst the unsuspecting posters, followed by bursts of frustration as logic takes a much needed vacation.

    In fairness, we fell victim to it here too :D He's actually a clever chap, when he's not talking about Doom that is


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    #4409
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,189 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Depending on my mood, I either find it funny or annoying.

    I did chuckle when he made the ludicrous generalisation there is no great film that isn't sci-fi.

    I did rip my hair out when he disrupted yet another thread with his bizarre claims that Your Highness is the cinematic masterpiece of the year.


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    #4410
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Depending on my mood, I either find it funny or annoying.

    I did chuckle when he claimed every single one of the great films are sci-fi.

    I did rip my hair out when he disrupted yet another thread with his bizarre claims that Your Highness is the cinematic masterpiece of the year.

    I reckon he gets a chuckle out of it himself. Nobody with any modicum of sense could be that pig-headed! He winds hipsters up, & for that, I salute him!


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    #4411
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    An unusually bitter and aggressive fellow.

    He on the other hand, doesn't have that amusement factor that Nylarlo gives...horadiation genuinely seems to be a reallife Victor Meldrew


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