drillkicker

Even if you were Indian, there's a good portion of the Indian population that doesn't speak Hindi and wouldn't say "namaste" to greet someone. India has around 2,000 different languages and dialects. Where are you from, though, if it isn't Australia?

A biographical film about NWA and their breakup, but not entirely factual and it makes Dr. Dre look like a much better person than he really is.

I miss my cat.

I had a pretty depressing dream last night and it left me feeling pretty lonely and bleak. I haven't felt this way in a while, so it's unfortunate that, of all things, it was a dream that caused it. In the past, they've never caused anything but happiness (or maybe that's just a flawed retrospective). Regardless, I feel kind of awful. I feel like I've lost every friend I had, and I keep growing more and more distant from everybody. It's like sinking in quicksand. I want to do something to stop it, but nothing works, and it seems like it's completely out of my control. Nobody cares about me enough to put any effort into remaining friends, aside from one friend I have who lives in Baltimore now, leaving us unable to meet in person. At least we should be meeting at the AE show next week.

If you get spam or automated messages, then either read them or delete them. It takes almost no effort to do either of those. I don't delete everything either, and have over 1300 emails in my main inbox, but not a single one of them is unread. I don't understand why people just let them build up like that.

Why not just check your email every day? It isn't difficult.

Hasn't he identified as a socialist for his entire political career? I remember seeing him in a Michael Moor film talking about socialism, and that was years before anyone outside Vermont cared about him.

that's not too bad. imagine being a kid in the 90s having to deal with this. or a parent. kind of relieved the expansion pak is $20 and hasn't drifted into obscure and unnecessarily inflated expensive rarity. the expansion pak is wicked btw. games that require expansion pak all have pretty vivid colour palettes and the difference is pretty noticeable. prepare to be blown away kiddo. iirc majora's mask came with the expansion pack bundled! but yeah, i think Majora's Mask is my favourite game ever! My copy of Majora's Mask definitely doesn't have an expansion pak in it. I don't see where there would even be room for one in the box. I hope Majora's Mask becomes my favorite game ever, as much trouble as its been so far. It'll have to compete with Dark Souls, though.

that's not too bad. imagine being a kid in the 90s having to deal with this. or a parent. kind of relieved the expansion pak is $20 and hasn't drifted into obscure and unnecessarily inflated expensive rarity. the expansion pak is wicked btw. games that require expansion pak all have pretty vivid colour palettes and the difference is pretty noticeable. prepare to be blown away kiddo. A parent in the '90s would have had more money than I do. I won't notice a difference, because this will be the first game I will ever play with a Nintendo 64. I never had an N64 when they were still cool and fresh because the only game console I ever had before the Wii came out was the PS2. My cousin had a Nintendo 64 and I was jealous of him because it looked cool and I only got to play it the one time that I visited his house. The best part is that there are no other games I want to play that are even compatible with the expansion pak. I bought it just for this one game.

I got a copy of Majora's Mask in the mail yesterday, and put it in my N64 only to find out that the game won't run without an expansion pak. So I had to spend $20 on an expansion pak and now I have to wait for that to arrive before I can even do anything with this game.

This album is incredibly disappointing. I couldn't get all the way through it. It's all my least favorite parts of R+7 mixed with EDM. I wonder why Warp thought we should wait so long for that. It's unbelievable that they would just allow those two months of waiting without any more updates. That's a great way to build up hype and then let it all vanish. Or maybe this leak was just a promo thing done by Warp and the real album will be much better.

Heorge Garrison is such an unoriginal and just absolutely shitty name. It seems like the artist actually picked that name simply to spite this thread.

ECCOJAMC1 is a thoroughly disappointing track. Sticky Drama sounds like a Skrillex track. Of all the people I could have expected to go into brostep, DLop was the last. First Ufubulum, now this.

I had a dream that I was living in Bolovia, and I was in Maryland when I woke up. I see new transportation potential in dreams.

vaporwave is full of faux nostalgia, half the listeners were born after the era it evokes and/or pulls influence from...i suppose the appeal for some is the novelty of it, which I get, but I don't approach it like that at all i've always listened to it as another hauntology genre, so it's not quite nostalgic for me in the straightforward sense, but in a future past way (music that could of been but never was made with tech from a certain past era) after all it uses the word "vaporware" as a basis...so like the aesthetics and sounds are not like pure retro fetishism or re-hashing (like say 80s synth stuff or 60s psych rock) but instead an exploration of more forgotten and discarded new age, muzak, commercial jingles, etc., specifically late 80s / early 90s stuff. If done right it's cathartic emotionally even to me - a rediscovery of music I loved as a kid but either purposely ignored later on or simply forgot about. Most of the vaporwave I've heard is an exact copy of the same type of sound that new age synth musicians were doing in the '80s. It doesn't feel very new to me. Some '80s music (like Software's Digital Dance or Yasuaki Shimizu's Music For Commercials, for example) feels more vaporwave than actual vaporwave does.Yeah the stuff I like is halfway between that sound and the slowed down pop eccojams approach, t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 is a good example. It's moody too.That's one of the things that I really don't like about vaporwave. All the artists are trying to go for the exact same aesthetic. They all have a random English word in all lowercase or all capital letters with spaces after each one, followed by some Japanese word(s). It's like they all want to be as unoriginal and generic as possible. I wish they would just try to be themselves, because that's what art is supposed to be about. Nobody wants to listen to a musician who's just trying to be someone else. (On second thought, I just remembered that they actually do want to listen to someone who doesn't have a personality, and it makes me kind of sad tbh. Artists who just follow whatever trend is hip and try to brand their music to that trend as much as possible tend to get significantly more recognition and praise than artists who are doing their own thing entirely.)But its really not about "popularity" or "originality" or "hipness" at all... Vaporwave is not really a genre- it's more of a curation of new ideas and concepts, usually narrated through recycled parts from unexpected or strange sources. It's more of a found/ collage art movement. Most of the "artists" in the movement straight up pitch down and loop sequences of muzak and smooth jazz in order to create a specific mood or effect, so of course it's not original- the goal in much vaporwave is to use generic sources and turn into something weird- of often times so absurdly generic that it becomes original its own way. It's not really about trying to be original- its about capturing a specific feeling... Nobodys taking their vaporwave ep on the road or trying to chart on radio lol.. This is a weird anonymous Internet genre where we can openly collaborate and come up with bizzaro cyberpunk concepts using 80s / 90s / discount bin / cheesycorporate training video vibes- hence the japanese characters, weird glitch art, roman busts and surreal neon city scapes. It's weird, fun, dreamy, romantic, idealist, and fucked up. And that's why we dig it (: Imagine youre feeling sick and in bed all day and stumble onto weather channel cuz its slow canned artificial generic thoughtless vibes comfort you and numb your mind ... Thats what vaporwave is and why we like it.. We're all just trying to make albums that sound and look like the Weather Channel. You summed up my complaints with vaporwave better than I could myself. Thanks.

vaporwave is full of faux nostalgia, half the listeners were born after the era it evokes and/or pulls influence from...i suppose the appeal for some is the novelty of it, which I get, but I don't approach it like that at all i've always listened to it as another hauntology genre, so it's not quite nostalgic for me in the straightforward sense, but in a future past way (music that could of been but never was made with tech from a certain past era) after all it uses the word "vaporware" as a basis...so like the aesthetics and sounds are not like pure retro fetishism or re-hashing (like say 80s synth stuff or 60s psych rock) but instead an exploration of more forgotten and discarded new age, muzak, commercial jingles, etc., specifically late 80s / early 90s stuff. If done right it's cathartic emotionally even to me - a rediscovery of music I loved as a kid but either purposely ignored later on or simply forgot about. Most of the vaporwave I've heard is an exact copy of the same type of sound that new age synth musicians were doing in the '80s. It doesn't feel very new to me. Some '80s music (like Software's Digital Dance or Yasuaki Shimizu's Music For Commercials, for example) feels more vaporwave than actual vaporwave does. Yeah the stuff I like is halfway between that sound and the slowed down pop eccojams approach, t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 is a good example. It's moody too. That's one of the things that I really don't like about vaporwave. All the artists are trying to go for the exact same aesthetic. They all have a random English word in all lowercase or all capital letters with spaces after each one, followed by some Japanese word(s). It's like they all want to be as unoriginal and generic as possible. I wish they would just try to be themselves, because that's what art is supposed to be about. Nobody wants to listen to a musician who's just trying to be someone else. (On second thought, I just remembered that they actually do want to listen to someone who doesn't have a personality, and it makes me kind of sad tbh. Artists who just follow whatever trend is hip and try to brand their music to that trend as much as possible tend to get significantly more recognition and praise than artists who are doing their own thing entirely.)

I've been playing the video game where the blue darknuts kill me over and over and over.

Oh, OK.

Sorry to be a dickhead but it always pisses me off - it's down't mine not down tut mine Or for example, going tut (to the) shops What language is that?

vaporwave is full of faux nostalgia, half the listeners were born after the era it evokes and/or pulls influence from...i suppose the appeal for some is the novelty of it, which I get, but I don't approach it like that at all i've always listened to it as another hauntology genre, so it's not quite nostalgic for me in the straightforward sense, but in a future past way (music that could of been but never was made with tech from a certain past era) after all it uses the word "vaporware" as a basis...so like the aesthetics and sounds are not like pure retro fetishism or re-hashing (like say 80s synth stuff or 60s psych rock) but instead an exploration of more forgotten and discarded new age, muzak, commercial jingles, etc., specifically late 80s / early 90s stuff. If done right it's cathartic emotionally even to me - a rediscovery of music I loved as a kid but either purposely ignored later on or simply forgot about. Most of the vaporwave I've heard is an exact copy of the same type of sound that new age synth musicians were doing in the '80s. It doesn't feel very new to me. Some '80s music (like Software's Digital Dance or Yasuaki Shimizu's Music For Commercials, for example) feels more vaporwave than actual vaporwave does.

Goldeneye 007, Legend of Zelda: OoT, and Super Smash Bros are all you need. Well, and maybe Turok for unintended comedic value. Any Nintendo hype beyond that console is moot. Excluding Majora's Mask and Super Mario 64? Now I know you're deceiving me.

Nostalgia is something that is best avoided. It's tempting, but it normally doesn't result in anything very productive. I think that if you're going to listen to vaporwave for nostalgia, you're better off just listening to actual ambient synth music from the '80s and '90s. Nostalgic music tends not to produce anything new for obvious reasons.

i started collecting n64 at a good time, games were like max 30 over here... i don't play it anymore but i'm def holding on to it because it's CLASSIC Ocarina of Time and Super Mario 64 are pretty reasonable, actually (around $15-20 for Mario and $20-25 for Ocarina), but Majora's Mask is $40 at the cheapest for some reason. I don't know why the prices on that one are so ridiculous. I'm glad I have the working system, though, because that't the most difficult part to get ahold of. I got my NES in mint condition, still in the box, for $35, so I guess I have no right to complain about anything.

I turned on my Nintendo 64 today and realized that it actually works. For some reason I thought it was broken. This is a problem because I don't have any good games for it and they cost around $30-50. I don't have that kind of money.

That doesn't belong in this thread.