We saw "Megalopolis" on Thursday and I did like it but I have to admit, we saw "Tetsuo: The Iron Man" (1989) tonight and in addition to having more coherent politics, it was simply a better film
Kinda interesting decisions. Hardware recreations of the Pentium and various vintage sound cards, handles various problems like ISA³ not being available on modern computers (in case you want to connect a sound card directly), can present USB kbam as PS/2 kbam, and presents an sd card as a DOS-recognizable hard drive.
¹ Not literally² ² Except it also has a literal RaspPi inside as a USB helper ³ Edit: Oops
@dosnostalgic i had it in a CD 4-pack with Journeyman Project and Indiana Jones but I never played it because at the time i defined myself as someone who Didn't Like Horror
@dosnostalgic@jplebreton Something I keep noticing is that *people who make YouTube videos* seem to as a group be a lot more interested in AVGN than people who do not.
I watched, and enjoyed, the Dan Olson AVGN video. It mostly felt like a recap/coda/extension of the Lady Emily video(s) on the same subject, but he thanks Lady Emily at the end so I assume this happened in a cordial way.
I think, if you're in a position to spend hours watching deconstructions of mediocre media & internet culture, you should watch these 3 videos:
Thinking about it that way, I enjoyed having Dan's alternate perspective to Lady Emily's on what is basically the same narrative ("AVGN's channel got less watchable because he decided he'd rather spend time being a father.")
I've now watched like 3-4 hours of Emily/Dan AVGN explainers and I have never watched a complete AVGN video. I watched the Castlevania II video when it first came out and was like "Why are you behaving this way?" and turned it off 40 seconds in. I never watched one again
At the center of Dan's video, he discusses a short film "Wavelength" (1967) which is 40 minutes of an apartment bldg.'s lobby, a film that's only important because as an object it's strangely devoid of meaning and therefore forces you to project your own thoughts onto it in order to make any sense of it at all. I believe Dan's thesis is AVGN is the "Wavelength" of YouTube. There's not much to it, so if you try to deconstruct it you're really just talking about yourself & what you see in film.
@jplebreton When I watched that original Castlevania II video (I think it might be the first one? I didn't know that at the time) I imagined someone like, getting angry at a toaster. He puts bread in a toaster, and toast comes out, and he's like, shocked and surprised. Oh my god, why is my toast all brown and crinkly now?!
For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.
Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):
What I'm listening to today: "8888 + ParipiDestroyer + POLYS", Freaky Tweaky
This is a fun, satisfying acid jam on three small devices by different small-batch designers in Japan.
The devices are all little handheld things based on trim pots and breadboard buttons, sized like business cards and Altoids tins; one is a gorgeous reproduction of the 808, another a gorgeous reproduction of the 303, and the third an odd Roland J8-like prototype. The Pocket Operator is reborn
You've heard of the "Shepard Tone", right? That's a sound design trick where a sound appears to continuously increase in pitch without ever retreating back down to give itself space. There's a variant of that for drum beats called a "Risset Rhythm".
This song, from a Telafon Tel Aviv/Belong collaboration, uses the Risset trick plus some seriously weird production to make a dreamy, alien, not-quite-danceable dance track:
What I'm listening to today: "greim93", AGF / @poemproducer
AGF does poetry, VJing, noise music and Theory (so if you are looking for eastern European left feminism she is very worth a follow).
This is a immaculately sculpted noise collage wherein hisses and thumps stalk you through a fog of microsounds, constantly threatening to congeal into a beat but then instead doggedly remaining just outside the edge of your perception
What I'm listening to today: "extinct bird gathering", Luna SC
From this musician's "tmod" series of songs performed live on a wall-sized modular synthesizer rack, this is a fresh-feeling electronic composition with gorgeous sound design. Crunchy beats and warm metallic everything else. I'm not going to say this is dance music exactly but it is definitely music to bob your head to