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  1. 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."

  2. 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).

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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:

     

     

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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?

  12. 7 hours ago, Kat said:

    I've seen like 3 churches around here that are also Pokespots. There's also an Abby's Pizza nearby that serves as a Gym. Some of the GPS stuff seems a little wonky right now, though. I can be right next to or even inside Pokestops and be too far away.

    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.

  13. 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...

  14. 4 hours ago, AngelCityOutlaw said:

    Plot twist: The dead guy was trying to capture a rare water pokemon.

    In case anyone hasn't figured out by now, if you wanna be the very best, like no one ever was, it's gonna take you to the most dangerous corners of the Earth.

    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.

  15. Didn't see a topic about Nintendo's first smartphone app yet.

    https://miitomo.com/en/

    I originally just signed up for the point bonuses for the new Nintendo rewards program, but I've been pleasantly surprised. It's got the usual "Acquire and spend digital currency to dress up your avatar" stuff going on, but the Q&A aspect which is shared among friends is kind of fun, as is the "Miifoto" feature. Here's my failed attempt to land a marketing job with Nintendo:

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    There's some odd quirks in how you can only add friends in person or via a linked Facebook/Twitter account. (You'd think it would allow for direct adding by NNID or through Miiverse, but nope.)

    I'm curious to see if they expand the app in the future: I get a vague feeling we'll see some Animal Crosssing-esque furniture/room customization, and personally I think it would be neat if they added integration with the Badge Arcade.

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