Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

the bad thing about this plotbunny is that breath of the wild is the first zelda game i've really played, so the characterization keeps going mushy

first we have a Princess Zelda by way of Hawkeye "what i really need is a nap while the world unfucks itself, but i'll settle for a drink and my dressing gown" Pierce off M*A*S*H, now i just realized i also have Link by way of low-chaos post-first-game Corvo "I am definitely not going to let the person I guard out of my line of sight" Attano

@monorail yeah! and i've seen that kinda music really panned as generic and forgettable when it pops up in video games.

i don't think it's BAD music by definition, just that it's more diffuse, and when diffuse music is there to help push along a mood, it's harder to single it out and remember it as Really Good.

but i'm also biased because all my fav movie music is also strongly strongly "hummable" and "coverable" too (insert star wars lietmotif-a-gogo), lol

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@monorail

tldr video game music good in part because good shit easy to remember, because real early computers only do so many beeps n' boops, so they only had room for the good beeps

but i took five million words to say that Whoops

@monorail but i think video game music, with that "melody focus via technology limitations" taste, definitely has a bit of an advantage here. (and i think it also got a good boost from early composers being, well, good enough to leap over that technological limitation and make it work. it's a bit "if you can make an evening gown out of a trash bag, you can probably make a really fucking good evening gown if we actually give you cloth this time". trial by fire! sink or swim! lol)

@monorail with people doing Frank Sinatra style lounge singer covers, heavy metal covers, hell it wouldn't surprise me if there's an operatic cover of it out there somewhere.

the good shit staying in the public consciousness, making people forget the crap, is definitely a selection bias that happens in a whole lot of media - i mean thank god i can listen to the classic rock station and not hear EVERY song that would have been on the radio in 1972, y'know? thank fuck for good shit only - >

@monorail so good video game music, being melody-heavy, is able to occupy the modern consciousness of fans and still be remembered for being good. the bad shit gets more easily forgotten.

a casual example is one of the favourite things i've found lately is a channel that does big band style covers of video game songs. if "still alive" was more complex, it probably would have been forgotten more easily. but since it's simple and catchy, it's still very much around >

@monorail so modern bad video game music gets ragged on for sounding generic and forgettable.

meanwhile the good video game music has often kept in that genre convention of being melody-heavy - "easily hummable" instead of a big orchestral complex piece.

i think this also helps the good stuff 'stay evergreen' because that early music especially, being so simple, really opened the door for a lot of covers, remixes, reinterpretations, etc.>

@monorail a lot of the video game music i've seen slagged on as bad suffer from sounding too generic to be memorable. and there are plenty of jokes about how it doesn't sound like video game music, but instead *movie soundtrack*. in other words, nobody remembers it as good because it's trying to be a very modern "wannabe danny elfman", aping a medium where it's been a much longer time when music had to be melody-focused by technological limitations.>

@monorail i actually saw a theory about this once

that bad video game music exists, just that it's a lot easier to just not remember... because of the history of video games. the genre began with such limitations that technology-wise, composers were limited to just the melody, so they had to come up with really catchy and strong melodies. that's the part easiest for human brains to remember, and so even as technology grew, the "genre taste" tended to be melody-heavy. >

today's bad idea:

#lolitafashion border print of a bunch of people wearing lolita dresses, and those lolita dress designs being a border print of people wearing lolita dresses, and

i know that many people are angry about how blue mage has shown up in ffxiv, but in all honesty, i am very amused by the start of the unlock quest

a writer or at least translator has GOT to have read about american snake oil salesmen. the pitch is pure eorzean equivalent of Kickapoo Joy Juice sold to you by one of the sawbones Heroes Of Patent Medicine

lookin forward to when my shoulder gets unfucked so i can return to roleplaying in #ffxiv , and delivering such Quality Content as the following

@rey if you go, give the gym dog a pet for me!!!

and if the gym leader ever ends up holding a workshop down in georgia, i may try and attend! that looks like such a... really positive space for wellness, and i can really appreciate that ^0^

@rey as a stranger cruising by on the fediverse timeline:

nb fat owner, AND there's a gym dog!??!? i'm peanut butter and jealous honestly, it looks like a really nice place! (also omg gym dog)

@pink_ink it's this one! https://picrew.me/image_maker/86774/ :>

found the chubby girl avatar maker and i'm just.... way too pleased

it me!!!!

it an avatar that actually look like me!!!!!!!!!!!!

shoutout to the fuckin superstar healer* who decided to make syrcus more interesting for everyone by breaking all the ice blocks on amon so we wiped, and then rescuing me out of the levitation aoe so i died

*this is incredible sarcasm

i think i've settled on my start-of-shadowbringers glam and i had the PERFECT GOOD FORTUNE to get void ark in roulette so it was GOTH BACKDROP TIMES

plot only continues when alisaie is located and janine then spends 15 minutes chasing her around because "hold still honey you got a bit of schmutz on your face" and alisaie objecting because recently-licked-fingers are not the most sanitary cleaning device despite being mom-approved for several centuries. a compromise is reached with janine using her sleeve instead of her finger. then they get back to saving the world etc.