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The more that’s out there, the more it starts to blend together. Kinda like how it’s almost impossible for music to sound completely original anymore because even the best artists get inspiration from their favorites.
For music, I rarely bother with the mainstream aside from Gorillaz and Linkin Park. I go to YouTube or Sound Cloud. Much more unique and interesting sounds over there. Still a familiarity to them, but with their own twists.
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I tend to watch those with a notepad at hand and I write down the names of the ones that catch my attention as I go. After that, I decide whether or not to sort them onto my Wishlist to keep an eye on them until they come out.
So normally I end up playing a fraction of the games I see but I have discovered a couple interesting ones through those.
It's also a review thing, you need to convey the experience to someone who hasn't experienced it and the only way to do that is by referring to something the person probably has already experienced (ie big popular game). If for example you were reviewing food and tasted something brand new you'd still try to relate it to other experience so that the listener would get some sort of understanding of what's going on, simply saying "it taste unlike anything else" is pretty useless. Similarly just saying "it's a brand new way to play a game" wouldn't be much use and explaining it properly would be essentially doing the game tutorial, which would be both too long and quite boring for a review.
It does also discuss the skin color thing some people are mad about, because of course people are mad about the black lady and not....well, any of the other stuff that doesn't quite fit the mythos or history around this game.
Let's just face it, GOW takes real myths and history and then reinterprets them however it wants for the story it wants to tell and that's fine.
Christ, how did you 80s kids survive all this before NES? I know things weren't easy, but the Commodore has so many ridiculously tedious ways just to start up the games.
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Don't forget that a lot of Neo Nazis and racists like to attach themselves to Norse mythology to prove that they're the superior race and the whites are the ultimate survivors. And at the end of the day, geographically makes sense or not, they don't want to see people like me nor anyone else non-white in a positive or non-negative light. They want to see us as either victims, monsters, assholes, or mindless slaves.
Norse Mythology / YMMV - TV Tropes
Alternative Character Interpretation: Hel is initially described with a body half-white, half-black even though modern interpretations make her half-living, half-dead. However, back in the viking times "black skin" often meant "rotten, …
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Same here.
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Oh, I haven't. It actually really sucks that such shitheads are doing their best to ruin a perfectly interesting mythos by trying to co-opt it for their own shitty agendas.
I'm led to understand a lot of modern day pagans really, really don't fucking like it that they have to defend their interest in Norse Runes as not being associated with Nazis.
Let me introduce you to my first love:
I taught myself BASIC on this thing, and when I got to high school and took a BASIC class, there were several times where the teacher told me "you can't do that in BASIC" and I showed him that yes, in fact, you could.
My God! Rolfe mentioned a couple of the models in the video. I'm impressed, but I can't even imagine going through all that.Let me introduce you to my first love:
The Radio Shack (yes, that Radio Shack) Color Computer 2. Eight whole colors and 16K of RAM. That tape deck there isn't for music- it's for data; you had to move the tape to the exact right spot where the data was located and then hope you'd had the volume set correctly. Fortunately it also had cartridges (called Game Paks) available, or if you were the patient sort, you could program your own in "Color BASIC".
I taught myself BASIC on this thing, and when I got to high school and took a BASIC class, there were several times where the teacher told me "you can't do that in BASIC" and I showed him that yes, in fact, you could.
It was all we had back then. (Well, there were disk drives and hard drives, but the first were a few hundred bucks and the second could set you back more than three thousand dollars [in 1985 money; today that's more than $7k] just for ten megabytes.)
I remember the days fondly, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate my 1TB M.2 drive.
Not to mention Kratos has always had a black VA, and his character was even supposed to be black himself early on.
Pat goes in about how the Immersive Sim was coined back when only Deus Ex and System Shock 2 were around. Now that are so many games like them, the term is not that unique and describe almost any game at this point.
Gemma: “She’s a schoolgirl why we see her pantieees?!”
Yoshi (sheepishly): “Yeah that’s the point.”