matt 🏴 @matt@cybre.space

Sorry, I broke my brain. 5 pages, 129 posts.

(CW for ableist and homophobic slurs in case that's not obvious)

Sorry, 129-page https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

lol remember when some dudes on a weightlifting forum had a 10-page argument about whether "every other day" means three times a week or four times a week

Honk if you demand satisfaction

When you have a mod that just changes the mechanics or rules of a game, it's very difficult to describe it without using the word "gameplay." So far I've managed it though. The only place I use it is in a tag on moddb, because I figure that's what people would be searching for

The thing where you type something into a search bar and press enter, and it takes you to the first item on the list that pops up instead of a page of search results

Bad

How many clowns can The Joker fit in his car? None, he killed all the other clowns. And if he didn't, he would just steal more cars so they don't have to ride in his. He's the crime clown

If you don't have respect for me, that's your problem. But if you disrespect me, I'm gonna *make* it your problem

Buddy of mine proved that 1+1=2, apparently. He's pretty smart, so I'll take his word for it.

A psychic tells someone it's going to be 35 degrees outside on the day they die, so the person moves to the tropics. But the psychic was actually using the celsius scale, ooohhh ssssshiiiit

The person lives a long happy life in their new tropical paradise home and dies on a sunny 95° day surrounded by loved ones. The psychic earned a healthy finder's fee for all the tropical real estate they helped sell, and won an award for oracular integrity

It's funny how early CD-based games on computers sometimes still had terrible MIDI soundtracks because computers and compression still weren't good enough to play bitstream-based music, speech and sfx simultaneously

But with the console CD add-ons, most of the non-FMV games were like "wtf are we going to do with all this storage space? Might as well give it a killer soundtrack"

"If I wanted to get away with some bullshit, I wouldn't have paid for this beautiful hat"

lol and then Dan dies to the same enemy because the attacks just weren't connecting. For some reason. This game is very bad

Vinny (repeatedly getting hit by standard enemy) "How do you get rid of this dinosaur?! Is it invincible?"

Dan: "I don't think so. I think you just gotta punch it"

Actually that's not true, there's this video about why music in Miyazaki films sounds "pretty" from a couple years ago that I found interesting, but I found the guy's tone kinda unpleasant and condescending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bZ19hnr8vc

I'll have to watch more of Adam Neely's videos, his style reminds me of suckerpinch. They take very complicated concepts and simplify them in a funny, approachable way that makes me want to dig deeper

I think the only game where I've liked fake pixel art as an aesthetic is Hotline Miami, and only because that game was going for an intentionally fucked-up psychedelic theme. It's purposeful grime. Every other game that does it just looks sloppy and inconsistent for no reason

I saw someone complaining about the text in Celeste and I was about to enthusiastically agree with them, but it turns out they were talking about the writing lol

I can't comment on that cause I haven't played it, but the way the game haphazardly mixes high-res portrait art and text with dull expressionless pixel art rankles me. I'm sure it's a fun platformer and I'd probably enjoy it, but wow what an astonishingly bad look

Last boost: this is the first time I've ever seen someone explain a single sentence of information about why certain things in music sound good to people and holy shit I want to know more

I wish any music class I ever took had talked about the ratio of note frequencies and why some notes harmonize and others don't, and the significance of different tuning across different cultures. I might have actually gotten interested in music as a kid if anyone tried actually explaining it to me