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| Topic | Favorite song about: The Police |
| Paratroopa1 02/14/21 6:25:32 PM #13 | Dead Kennedys - Police Truck |
| Topic | WandaVision starts streaming tomorrow on Disney+ |
| Paratroopa1 02/14/21 1:07:31 AM #357 | What would have even been the family sitcom of the 90's? All I can think of is Full House and Home Improvement and I feel like the aesthetic of Full House was already basically covered by the previous episode (and it started in the 80's anyway). |
| Topic | How is AI: The Somnium Files? |
| Paratroopa1 02/14/21 1:04:59 AM #10 | I absolutely hated it. |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 364: Absolute Proof (Citation Needed) |
| Paratroopa1 02/14/21 12:00:18 AM #399 | I'm impressed that he won |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE TWO!) |
| Paratroopa1 02/13/21 6:05:41 PM #166 | I think FFH and GOTG2 are the next two out and it could be in either order since they're only separated by a single point. There isn't much separating those two from the next two above them either, but I feel relatively confident. |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE TWO!) |
| Paratroopa1 02/13/21 6:01:05 PM #164 | IM1 is probably the only movie that I think is really overrated, but I get the appeal I guess I swear Kaelee and I are like in lockstep in these rankings, she and I have the same rankings and say a lot of the same stuff a lot |
| Topic | WandaVision starts streaming tomorrow on Disney+ |
| Paratroopa1 02/13/21 5:08:09 AM #343 | I think it'd be really funny if the next (and probably last?) sitcom style they did was Modern Family - it'd be so weird and funny to do an episode in a dry mockumentary style |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE TWO!) |
| Paratroopa1 02/12/21 6:33:11 PM #128 | ScepterOfLove posted... Possible hot take: Doctor Strange has the worst villain in the entire MCU. Yep, worse than Malekith. Cant even remember the guys name"Maybe. Who am I to judge" alone puts him above bottom for me lol I mean it's weird for a stoic bad guy to make that quip but I got a solid laugh out of it |
| Topic | Question about backing up games on the Switch |
| Paratroopa1 02/12/21 3:49:00 PM #5 | Games are tied to your account, so if you log in to your account you can play on a different switch. You can redownload the game at that point too so having the game on an SD card isn't necessary. |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE TWO!) |
| Paratroopa1 02/12/21 3:22:04 AM #101 | Inviso posted... AnagramAnt-Man's my second favorite char in the MCU behind Rocket! I think Scott Lang is just a super likeable character and his superhero powers are fun and his movies are fun. I think he's one of the best parts of Endgame. |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE TWO!) |
| Paratroopa1 02/12/21 3:21:11 AM #100 | This is what I predicted for the next four: 312 - Spider-Man: Far From Home 313 - Doctor Strange 335 - Iron Man 392 - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 I could see GotG 2 getting a bottom 3 placement though - so maybe Doctor Strange or IM1? Maybe I'm underrating IM1, I have no idea. |
| Topic | Favorite video game that came out the year of your total karma? |
| Paratroopa1 02/11/21 10:32:50 PM #4 | Oh jesus when the hell did I hit 8000 karma |
| Topic | B8 Hadespinions Day 7: Favorite Legendary boon(s) |
| Paratroopa1 02/11/21 7:18:53 PM #6 | Demeter's is cool, the problem is that it's goddamn well near impossible to get. Zeus's is a lot easier so I went with that. |
| Topic | Darkest Dungeon Playthrough Topic (+ Sign Up) |
| Paratroopa1 02/10/21 11:21:42 PM #58 | You went into the boss very well prepared, although yeah Necromancer is probably the easiest though he can cause problems for some teams. A party of level 2s that are well upgraded should be able to handle any of the level 1 bosses though |
| Topic | New Easter egg discovered in Super Mario 64 |
| Paratroopa1 02/10/21 8:02:58 PM #55 | I want to quote NFUN's post but it won't let me lol I feel like we're talking past each other - I accept that DK -> "SM64 main theme" -> BBB doesn't mean that BBB was written directly off of DK, but it would mean that BBB was written with that motif ultimately in mind, and I just - I don't know, I'd have to think about other examples of that kind of two-step reference happening. A one-time quoting of DK in the context I was talking about is one thing, but the idea of half of SM64's soundtrack being ultimately built on that motif just feels a little strange to me. It might very well be, it's just kind of unusual! |
| Topic | New Easter egg discovered in Super Mario 64 |
| Paratroopa1 02/10/21 7:58:16 PM #54 | HanOfTheNekos posted... It is entirely possible that he didn't intend to use DK's theme as the main theme for SM64.Apology accepted, I apologize for yelling at you too and escalating, I didn't need to. I agree that the usage of the DK melody is a strong possibility and that it has thematic strength. I just have a lot more uncertainty about the obviousness of that being Kondo's process - it isn't that difficult to end up with something that sounds like the 25M theme. I'm actually in the process right now of trying to comb through interviews with Koji Kondo to see if they offer any insight but I haven't come up with too much that really pertains to this yet. |
| Topic | New Easter egg discovered in Super Mario 64 |
| Paratroopa1 02/10/21 7:52:13 PM #51 | NFUN posted... Let's try again: Bob-omb Battlefield is likely a reference to SM64's main theme. SM64's main theme is likely a reference to Donkey Kong. Bob-omb Battlefield in no way has to have anything directly to do with Donkey Kong which is the coincidence you were objecting to before. This scenario is extremely plausibleAnd I'll just say what I said again but differently: What is "SM64's main theme?" Do you know that Bob-omb Battlefield references the motif of SM64's opening, and not the other way around? How can you be certain of what process Koji Kondo used? |
| Topic | New Easter egg discovered in Super Mario 64 |
| Paratroopa1 02/10/21 7:43:38 PM #49 | NFUN posted... he's right. what you're saying makes no sense. Bob-omb Battlefield a reference to SM64's main theme. SM64's main theme is a reference to Donkey Kong. Bob-omb Battlefield isn't a reference to Donkey Kong. This is all intuitive and non-contradictoryAlright well here's a fucking composer's point of view for you: until someone pulls up an interview from Kondo about the process of making Super Mario 64's music, we don't actually have any idea what the process of writing "SM64's main theme" was, and in which order he wrote these pieces. It's entirely possible the first thing he wrote ended up becoming what's now Bob-omb Battlefield, and that it just had a coincidental sequence of E G A G C in it, which is not exactly a spectacularly unique arrangement of notes, nor is it even exactly the Donkey Kong motif (which starts with C). |
| Topic | New Easter egg discovered in Super Mario 64 |
| Paratroopa1 02/10/21 7:32:45 PM #46 | HanOfTheNekos posted... Oh shut the fuck up Han. |
| Topic | Best Game of 2020 Championship! **FF7 Remake vs Hades** |
| Paratroopa1 02/10/21 7:20:29 PM #2 | Hades |
| Topic | New Easter egg discovered in Super Mario 64 |
| Paratroopa1 02/10/21 7:20:14 PM #44 | The weirder thing about this is that it would have to mean the Bob-omb Battlefield theme is ALSO a reference to the Donkey Kong motif, and that really is entering "coincidence" territory for me |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE TWO!) |
| Paratroopa1 02/10/21 5:29:30 PM #33 | Ant-Man's definitely up next |
| Topic | Miranda Lawson's "Butt Focus" will be censored in ME Legendary Edition |
| Paratroopa1 02/10/21 1:56:08 AM #134 | Danganronpa is an extremely weird example to be using since it's (for better or worse) intentionally taking the piss out of anime tropes |
| Topic | New Easter egg discovered in Super Mario 64 |
| Paratroopa1 02/09/21 7:45:57 PM #24 | StealThisSheen posted... Yeah, but to be fair, it also sounds like parts in Bob-omb Battlefield, which doesn't really have that thematic reasoning.Yeah, that was my counter-argument to my own argument - that it's simply the Bob-omb Battlefield motif which the game uses a lot (which is also the Cool Cool Mountain and Princess's Secret Slide motif, a more obvious motif usage that people sometimes miss), following the usage of the Princess's Castle theme. It really could be either one, and I do think the latter is PROBABLY more likely - it seems more cohesive with the way music in this game is generally used. |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE 1) |
| Paratroopa1 02/09/21 7:38:13 PM #472 | I predicted Civil War would be in the top 7 lol |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE 1) |
| Paratroopa1 02/09/21 7:31:36 PM #469 | I am pretty sure Doctor Strange is going to crack the 335-and-up group One of the films that people are mentioning is something that I ranked top 5 (I nearly ranked it #1) so I feel like I have an inside track on guessing what's next, so I won't. I'd be pretty sad if it went out next though! |
| Topic | New Easter egg discovered in Super Mario 64 |
| Paratroopa1 02/09/21 7:25:32 PM #22 | Mr Lasastryke posted... oh yeah, i agree. if it IS an "easter egg," it's probably more like an inside joke than something kondo expected many people to notice.I don't know - like I argued earlier, there is actually a very significant thematic reason why you would use the Donkey Kong motif in this specific place, so it is possible that it was more than an easter egg, and that it really was meant to evoke a dramatic transition from 1981 to 1996, and that it just ended up being too subtle and we were all too dumb to catch it. |
| Topic | New Easter egg discovered in Super Mario 64 |
| Paratroopa1 02/09/21 7:24:00 PM #21 | SovietOmega posted... The world of business decisions can be a wonky one compared to reality, so I can totally buy someone in some meeting discussed ways to pay homage to the classic games, with this being the result. Sample a little ditty, jazz it up a bit, and here we are.I think this would 100% just be the composer's personal decision to have a little fun, there's no way something this granular came from the top. In most cases composers kind of work in their own bubble, there might have been some direction from the director to use familiar Mario themes but that's about it I think. |
| Topic | Best Game of 2020 Final Four **Animal Crossing New Horizons vs Hades** |
| Paratroopa1 02/09/21 7:13:40 PM #10 | Hades |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE 1) |
| Paratroopa1 02/09/21 7:02:54 PM #466 | I'm honestly a little surprised that so many people have Cap 1 highish! Maybe it's because I personally have no personal attachment to the Steve Rogers character and his portrayal - I mean, I do like what this movie did with him a lot, but that goes for most of the characters in the MCU. Some of the period stuff is cute. The third act of this movie is the worst of any of the movies imo though, including Thor 2. |
| Topic | Darkest Dungeon Playthrough Topic (+ Sign Up) |
| Paratroopa1 02/09/21 6:56:59 AM #44 | Ah, that's right. A very solid quirk but I wouldn't obsess over it TOO much... probably try to get it on someone who can attack any enemy position would be my advice. |
| Topic | New Easter egg discovered in Super Mario 64 |
| Paratroopa1 02/08/21 11:05:19 PM #9 | One other argument I would give against this being the Donkey Kong motif - you could also make the argument that this is actually SM64's stage motif, not DK - compare the part we're comparing to DK to the Bob-omb Battlefield line. Of course, this could also be an argument for! But since it follows a little stinger of the castle theme, I feel like this is sort of a more likely connection. The only other time the game evokes an earlier Mario theme that I can think of is Hazy Maze Cave's repurposing of both the underground theme from SMB1 and the airship theme from SMB3, but these have more obvious thematic connections and are a lot less ambiguously used. |
| Topic | New Easter egg discovered in Super Mario 64 |
| Paratroopa1 02/08/21 10:57:11 PM #8 | Well, it's possible to use motifs in clever ways, and Koji Kondo is known for doing that quite a bit - there's quite a bit of it within SM64 itself. So it's possible this was a very sly nod. The context here could make some sense for it, too - a musical motif that's meant to remind us of Mario's earliest days as we do a dramatic sweep in to see how far he's come now that we're in full 3-D! (A terrible reminder that there were only 15 years between Donkey Kong and Super Mario 64, but 25 years between SM64 and today) But it isn't a remarkably unique melodic sequence, and it doesn't particularly remind even an astute listener of Donkey Kong right away, so like I said, it's borderline. I think it's possible Kondo had intentions there, and it's possible he did not. |
| Topic | Darkest Dungeon Playthrough Topic (+ Sign Up) |
| Paratroopa1 02/08/21 10:27:19 PM #42 | I don't really remember very well what Twilight Dreamer does and what the strategy for that quirk is. I haven't played the game much since that particular content update. |
| Topic | Darkest Dungeon Playthrough Topic (+ Sign Up) |
| Paratroopa1 02/08/21 10:26:18 PM #41 | damn fucking RIGHT I'm hot to trot |
| Topic | New Easter egg discovered in Super Mario 64 |
| Paratroopa1 02/08/21 10:25:58 PM #6 | Ehhhh, this is kind of borderline. |
| Topic | Terraria creator has google account locked; cancels Stadia port in response |
| Paratroopa1 02/08/21 7:33:52 PM #4 | Anagaram posted... Has any story related to Stadia involved nothing going wrong at all, like even once? UshiromiyaEva posted... I was gonna say this was a real Phil Fish situation, but this dude seems to have an actual problem with the company, while Phil Fish went out saying "All gamers a worthless, compare your lives to mine and kill yourselves", so....not quite the same. Yeah I uh, don't think this is the same at all, this sounds like some pretty fuckin' justified frustration |
| Topic | Best Game of 2020 Final Four **FF7 Remake vs Ori and the Will of the Wisps** |
| Paratroopa1 02/08/21 7:26:10 PM #16 | Ori and the Will of the Wisps |
| Topic | Darkest Dungeon Playthrough Topic (+ Sign Up) |
| Paratroopa1 02/07/21 11:11:25 PM #27 | Oh and make me a Vestal lol |
| Topic | Darkest Dungeon Playthrough Topic (+ Sign Up) |
| Paratroopa1 02/07/21 11:10:40 PM #26 | ShatteredElysium posted... I do not have Crimson Court turned on as the game recommended against it.Just want to say that this is the right call. Not good for a first playthrough. |
| Topic | WandaVision starts streaming tomorrow on Disney+ |
| Paratroopa1 02/07/21 6:11:03 PM #301 | RyoCaliente posted... I've been watching one episode a week (as in, I watched ep 2 a week after ep 1, so I was always a week behind) but I decided to catch up after all the murmurings of the cameo because that would definitely be something that I would've gotten spoiled on at some point. |
| Topic | Best Game of 2020 Elite Eight **Hades vs Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2** |
| Paratroopa1 02/07/21 5:38:34 PM #2 | Hades |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE 1) |
| Paratroopa1 02/07/21 5:36:22 PM #372 | Amusingly enough, the party scene is probably one of the only times I had fun in AoU, and I thought its action scenes are probably the worst and most boring in the entire MCU! But, different strokes, I'm happy if someone can find treasure in my trash honestly. I do actually sorta like Ultron though, since I think they did a good job at making him not a totally cliche robot character - my main problems with him stem from the fact that he seems weirdly not all that threatening and his origin is basically just from Tony Stark being an idiot which makes the stakes seem strangely low. |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE 1) |
| Paratroopa1 02/07/21 5:28:50 PM #366 | Here were the predictions I had written down so far: 424 - Ant-Man and the Wasp 471 - Iron Man 3 497 - Ant-Man 513 - Captain America: The First Avenger 533 - Captain Marvel 533 - Avengers: Age of Ultron 569 - Thor 593 - Iron Man 2 653 - Thor: The Dark World 669 - The Incredible Hulk I was a perfect 6 for 6 up until now if you give me credit for having Marvel and Ultron swapped in the TB, but the next one's not Cap 1 so I'm going to finally have a miss. But it's one of the next three that I put above it, so didn't miss by much probably. People keep guessing Ant-Man and the Wasp so maybe I'm wrong about it being above Ant-Man, I dunno! I still feel like the original will go out first. |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE 1) |
| Paratroopa1 02/07/21 5:24:33 PM #364 | I'm actually surprised that people keep saying Age of Ultron was too jokey or quippy because I literally watched it about two weeks ago and don't remember it that way at all, I LIKE when the heroes are jokey but they all seemed like they were just kind of annoyed and tired the whole time in this movie |
| Topic | WB finally secures patent for the Nemesis System |
| Paratroopa1 02/06/21 8:31:00 PM #4 | Completely disgusting |
| Topic | Best Game of 2020 Elite Eight **Animal Crossing NH vs Last of Us Part II** |
| Paratroopa1 02/06/21 8:22:15 PM #12 | Animal Crossing: New Horizons |
| Topic | What was the biggest thing in kids' media after TMNT but before Power Rangers? |
| Paratroopa1 02/06/21 8:08:01 PM #14 | I don't think there was any sort of equivalent in this time period. Video games were always a bigger deal for me and my closest friends anyway, but as far as something huge in the TV show + toy line department, there was nothing in between TMNT/Power Rangers that was like, the dominant fad of 1992-1993. TMNT was still big anyway. |
| Topic | WandaVision starts streaming tomorrow on Disney+ |
| Paratroopa1 02/06/21 7:15:55 PM #296 | I didn't like Darcy very much in Thor but I like her here, I think it's well suited for her character. I like the whole "Avengers of side characters" thing she has going with Monica Rambeau and Jimmy Woo (yeah Monica probably won't be a side character for very long but right now she is). |
| Topic | Board 8 Ranks: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE 1) |
| Paratroopa1 02/06/21 7:12:08 PM #310 | I could see the next movie down being Age of Ultron, First Avenger, or Ant-Man, but it's not gonna be GOTG2. Age of Ultron would give me a 6 for 6 on predictions so far (I have Captain Marvel above it in the tiebreakers but whatever, close enough) so I'll guess that! It could be right, since we haven't lost an Avengers movie yet. I don't really think it's gonna be Ant-Man either (and certainly not Ant-Man and the Wasp) so probably either AoU or Cap 1 imo |
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