Atomicfog

I tried this before in Off Top awhile back and the thread didn't last too long, but given that there is a ridiculous amount of amazing music out there that isn't widely listened to; this is the thread for it. Any great music you think you might not have heard of if you hadn't been lucky enough to happen upon it should definitely be posted, and don't be concerned if you accidentally post something relatively popular as long as it's good anyway. I'll start with some of The Bad Plus, which is a post-modern Jazz cover band: (bad quality, great cover)Also, Black Light Burns, a relatively new alternative-rock band that, to put it bluntly, kicks ass, and features both soft and hard rock: Anyone who considers themselves a seeker of good music, like myself, feel free to post and listen away.

Near the end of Unmod. I forget if most of my threads were boring or not -- guess not remembering doesn't say much, ha ha. Only one I remember was the zombification one, though it's too bad there weren't any other shoopers at the time because everyone wanted to be a zombie. ZOMBIE GIRL

Some truly badass photography, Rent. It's interesting that much of it seems reminiscent of Half-Life 2 for whatever reason. Pretty much every picture is worth taking a close look at and has a mood to it, though I imagine you took many more that aren't quite as good as these gems. Heh, maybe it's just me, but this one looks like you're peeping in on some fire hydrant pron.

Yes, nobody cares about Gen Disc indeed. I think the only thing I ever did in Gen Disc was make retarded arguments about the PSP or something. I can't remember, I wish someone saved the threads Then I quickly migrated to Unmod, and good times followed.

Any of you guys remember back when we threw down on that advanced war clone, Battalion Freedom? That was pretty fun. http://www.gamedozer.com/battalion/

Heh, lots of amusing memories in this thread. Here are some more:

I was thinking that Jackie Earle Haley, aka Rorschach, would be so perfect for the part of Cletus Kasady (Carnage) in the Spiderman movies.

Good movie, maybe great, though not epic, apart from a few scenes. Definitely worth seeing. Disappointing from the minute they head to Antarctica though. I think IGN's review sums it up as I saw it pretty closely.

I am. Though I have a feeling it is going to be quite cheesy, hopefully in a good way -- at least it looks that way based on the trailers, though they're obviously going for serious biz. Guess I'll find out in less than 24 hours.

Wizardry hasn't been mentioned yet. Wizardry 7 was pretty great from what I remember.

You want hilarious, you should try Leisure Suit Larry (the old school ones).

Not sure if it has been mentioned, but don't forget charming sprites. Square has always had charming sprites -- the amount of emotion they captured in their sprites puts some real people to shame XD

Yes, yes, yes. Primarily the first and fourth. I give them my highest recommendation as far as classic games go. Yes, these too, and the Indiana Jones Scumm VM games were great from what I remember. Some these require a Mac emulator though, I think. If you do get a Mac emulator, then you should play Escape Velocity Override if you want to play a great story-oriented space shooter, or just get EV Nova for PC which lets you play them all with a mod. Also not adventure, but Commander Keen was pretty fun, at least, at the time.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I forgot about that, but I think I'm pretty sure I thought it was cool at the time XD

You're not impressed? It looks spectacular to me, yet little of the game has been revealed -- still. Reminds me of FF8, and that's undoubtedly a good thing from where I stand.

Oh yeah, same here, and it all seemed to be going so well until #3

I think Slade may have this one, or at least in the RPG realm.

If you want something that may have better value than the above, Logitech X-230s, which they don't sell anymore are pretty damn good. I got them off of Ebay for $50 after reading some reviews awhile back, and they're really good for the price in my opinion, and those who reviewed them seem to enjoy them too (Don't get the newer X-240s though, seems they aren't anywhere near as good.) http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-2-Piece-Speakers-Ported-Subwoofer/dp/B0002SQ0A4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1232443866&sr=8-1 They have one set on Ebay right now: http://cgi.ebay.com/Logitech-X-230-2-Speakers_W0QQitemZ260348569862QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Speakers?hash=item260348569862&_trksid=p4295.c0.m299&_trkparms=240%3A1318

Wow, so many spectacular photos in this thread. I really enjoy jmr's, G-T's, and Black Mage's in particular, though most of the pictures in this thread are really good. I'm more of a videographer than a photographer, but my Canon HV30 has a pretty decent photo mode aside from it's 1080i video. It's also got a fair amount of manual settings to fiddle with. Here are a few photos I took while I was out rock climbing:

So what if it doesn't add anything to it? There are lots of movies that don't add to other things, why does that matter? You can still watch the anime as much as you want, so really, I would like to know, why does it matter to you? I agree with you, there is no way they can do the entire series of Cowboy Bebop justice with only a movie, but that's not what it's intended to do. It's intended to be an entertaining live-action interpretation, nothing more, and similarly, the effect it will have on the show as it stands is nothing. In fact, if anything, it might inspire enough popularity within the series to warrant more episodes. As a Cowboy Bebop fan boy myself, I see no reason to rant.

Heh, Keanu Reeves is probably the most emotionless actor in existance, which actually made him perfect for some movies, though I suppose we'll have to see with this one. Regardless of what it is, it won't change the fact that the anime kicks ass, so I'm glad for its existence. And really, at the end of the day, it's pretty easy to bash Keanu, but we all know he's awesome. For this role? I don't know, but awesome none-the-less. He's fucking Neo.

GI says how they rate their games in every magazine, and they don't write their magazine to appease GameRankings.com, though one would hope GameRankings would be smart enough to take this different rating systems into account. The average games only seemed better than they were to you because you didn't read GIs rating system -- plenty of magazines have different rating systems. I mean, GIs rating system is in every magazine on the same page as the games of the month (the first review page), so it's not exactly fair to say that's misleading. Exactly. Hah, have you ever sounded prickish or confrontational, Coop?