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Just took a few long international flights and found this in their movie list. Ended up watching it three times, definitely picking it up when it gets a physical release: Also, Yearn in Years by Josiah Everhart has become one of my favorite albums of all time. You may have come across his video game lyric covers on Youtube before which are fantastic, but this original album of his is really great and deserves more attention. He's been re-recording new versions of a lot of the songs with Michelle Heafy as OrcaMind but I still really enjoy these original solo versions too.

Some day I want to see an alternate take/parody of the "super soldier finds out his origins" trope, where the Sephiroth analogue doesn't have any sort of angsty mental breakdown and his reaction to the big reveal is instead just "Oh, cool, I'm like a weird alien-monster-human hybrid! That's kind of neat. Anyway, back to work."

When you mentioned Donkey Kong Country it jogged my memory. It does show up in the game, but only in two levels in the later half. That's probably why it was out there floating on the edge of my memory (along with Donkey Kong Country's tendency to have a lot of little secret areas in each level which switch the music over to the "Bonus Room" music and then reset the regular music for the level, so a lot of the time you never even get to hear the whole track).

That helped, found the track: It's "Fear Factory" from the Donkey Kong Country OST.

Man, that's one of those ones that feels like it's on the cusp of memory but I can't quite place it. It makes me think of the artist Zabutom but as far as I can tell it's not one of his. Hope someone can figure it out, because now I'd like to know too!

Index on left, middle on right - because that's how it was done in the days before the mouse wheel was common. When the mouse wheel was added, the positioning remained the same and the index finger just moved over to the wheel when needed. Just tried the three finger method, and it feels like the equivalent of putting your left foot on the brake and your right foot on the gas. I also feel I lose a little bit of the finer control which I gain by having my ring finger on the side of the mouse with the two finger method.

Maybe give this a go? EDIT: I'm going to throw this one in too by the same band. More of that catchy bass-line and synth sound: Although these are back in the early 80s, so fall more in the "Sort of stuff the video game composers were listening to and likely influenced their work" rather than stuff that was contemporary with the 90s game soundtracks. This band in particular incorporated a lot of the more synth/electronic aspects after touring in Japan and coming into contact with the group Yellow Magic Orchestra, and David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto would go on to do some collaborations. YMO is almost certainly a big influence on a lot of early Japanese game composers.

Man, that's a tough choice..... "Coin Song" from FFVI comes to mind as a favorite, I think just because of the scene it evokes between the two brothers flipping a coin to determine who has the misfortune of taking the throne. That little scene is some of the best writing in the series, or any series. It's pretty much the same melody as the Figaro castle theme, which immediately anchors it in your mind about what and where and who the track is about, but shifts the tone to give it an entirely different meaning soaked in a feeling of nostalgia, memories, almost happy, almost sad. I feel like I have to name one other, and that's "Into the Darkness" from FFIV. It was the first RPG I really properly played (other than some dabbling with Dragon Warrior II and III as a kid, which mostly consisted of running in circles outside town and killing slimes until I ran out of HP and died and started over). That track in my mind is the definitive dungeon theme, as it just evokes such a feeling of vast, dark, mysterious places. I can't walk into a cave or spooky dark place in real life without hearing that theme in my head. As you can tell, the scene a track evokes tends to be a big thing for me. One of my regrets in life is that I am not in any way musically trained, so I can't talk about the composition or harmony or sinewaves or whatever musical jargon to explain what makes a track good to me. For me, it's all about a mental image of a place or a scene that a track builds. This applies not just to game soundtracks, but to all music I enjoy. I think this is probably a direct result of all my earliest favorite music in life having come from video games, where music does indeed tend to be associated with and define specific places as you move around the game. OK, OK, one more thought to throw out there. When playing FFVIII, the soundtrack didn't really stick out to me like the soundtracks of previous games had done. But when it came to the piano collections later, the FFVIII piano collection actually does stand out as my favorite. I think it just shows that there's a lot of potential in these tracks where if one version doesn't jump out at you, a remixed/alternate version can give it some new life and create an unexpected favorite.

Something about it reminds me of Ryuichi Sakamoto

I might be misunderstanding what you're asking, but Final Fantasy Adventure was the U.S. title for Seiken Densetsu (they're the same game). I think it was released in Europe though as Mystic Quest, which is not to be confused with Final Fantasy Mystic Quest in the U.S. which was Final Fantasy USA in Japan (and apparently Mystic Quest Legend in Europe). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Adventure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Mystic_Quest Edit: And further not to be confused with the Final Fantasy Legend games, which are actually the beginning of the SaGa series in Japan. (Speaking of which, I just finished SaGa Scarlet Grace, and highly recommend it.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Fantasy_Legend

Digging into the forums via Google, it looks like it was definitely by compyfox, but he requested that it be removed back in 2003.

I've got this in my OC Remix folder with a file date of May 5, 2001. The artist in the tag says "compyfox."

Since my daughter was born last May, I started putting together a playlist a bit at a time. Some game music in there, some other stuff as well, most of it sleepy-ish, a few less so:

Here's Round 2: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/PPVfcY I bumped the processor up at first to an i5-8400, but the i5-8500 was only a little bit more so I figured why not. Made a couple of other tweaks as you suggested.

The one you built me ("The Cube" I call it) has been great, so I'm now trying to put something together for my wife. She picked out a case she liked, and I've worked up a part list... Thought I'd post it up for opinions/feedback: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/macroidtoe/saved/mj6zYJ She mostly would just be using it for internet/video, but I wanted it to have a bit of gaming capability since she does occasionally find something she enjoys (or this may be a "kid's first computer" down the road). Did I overdo it? Underdo it? Still need to figure out the extra fans/cooling, but PCPartPicker is telling me a liquid CPU cooler is incompatible with the case even though the description on Newegg says it is compatible, and I've seen other people put one in their build... but I don't know if I really need one or not. Debating as well if I should split up the storage into a smaller SSD and a bigger HDD, or if just the one 500 GB SSD would be enough for her.

OK, gotta admit the one where it uses the vibration from the two joycons to steer the little hexbug looking thing was kind of a cool idea.

I have a friend who picked up a few of them from various online preorder sources, but he is a pure and kind-hearted soul who only did so in order to make them available to friends at regular cost. He gave me first dibs and I claimed the single European model among his selection. I'm thinking of getting a Japanese Famicom Mini to go along with it.

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On the original Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest, you save the princess and then have to actually carry her back to the castle. The only weird thing is that it happens in the middle of the game rather than at the end.

Thanks for the info... I think I just had a bad experience with a bluetooth connection on some device or another at some point in the past (may have just been that specific device), so good to know it's nothing to worry about. I'm temporarily using an ancient pair of Altec Lansing ACS5 speakers which my family used back in like... 1995. I was able to open them up and fix the broken power switch which had originally consigned them to the technology graveyard in my mother's basement. They actually sound pretty good.

Any recommendation on some decent desktop speakers? I don't need anything too crazy over-the-top, but wanted to put a little more thought into it than the old "whatever my friends are getting rid of" method I've used in the past. Like I see now that Bluetooth is pretty common in a lot of PC speakers... Does that work OK or is it prone to stuttering compared to a wired connection?

I switched mine on today and it's looking good. 11/10, would recommend. Time to start catching up on the PC gaming backlog...

The Catholic school kids around here are going to have an advantage when school gets back in session what with all the PokeStops centered on statues, while the unfortunate public school kids are adrift in an iconoclastic acultural void.

I'm curious if we're going to see some laws coming out of this regarding the right of property owners to control the content of their augmented reality space. I've been talking for a while about how I should go around the neighborhood and offer people $20 to sign away their "virtual adspace rights" to me for when some hypothetical new market is created...

You joke, but my wife and I just found a PokeStop located in the middle of a pond that is unreachable unless you actually enter the water.