Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@pettancow listen. listen. there's no need for that sort of language. that's very unfair of you

drk 30-50 deserves none of this slanderous association,

aw man now i'm hungry for a publix sub

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz h o n e s t l y

like if i'm paying 7 bucks for my lunch, subway, i'm absolutely going to bitterly look at my mess of a sandwich and think, "i could've gone to publix and gotten some actually good food for this money"

i mean, i may just know that song because "snake eater" is actually the best James Bond theme, in the same way that Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie

yes i am right, no i will not be taking questions,

@InspectorCaracal ok yeah that's valid, especially when looking at the shallow puddles that are things like the call of duty franchise lmfao

it's interesting though to see this shift happening within a series, too. like, i've never played a metal gear solid game, but i could probably due 'snake eater' on karaoke if you got me drunk enough. but mgs5? metal gear rising? NO idea what a theme from those are. the only music i know from them was done by regular pop artists and referenced in-world.

@InspectorCaracal and both types are fun in their different ways! but it's a whole fascinating confluence of how it gets remembered.

like i love dishonored, i think it was a game that did a fantastic job of creating atmosphere. but i can't hum that atmosphere for you. i can hum the pokemon center theme on the spot though LOL

maybe the "graphics too crap for first-person to be believable so we're going third-person" nature of early games also comes into it? 🤔

@InspectorCaracal that second part may not make a lot of sense, but it feels like idk a gameboy game is set up to be a lot more of a gilded jewel than call of whatevertyfuck duty, simply by design.

that gameboy's going to really bring its limited music out because it knows things are happening around it and it wants your attention.

the game on your tv screen that expects to use things like surround sound wants you to come to it, and it doesn't have to come to you, so to speak.

@InspectorCaracal honestly i think that's a huge part of it too!!

i wish i could remember where the fucken video was or who did it, but i think that memorable video game music really did hit that sweet spot of "we have to work within our technical limitations very hard, and that has meant that we accidentally did some kickass shit". it makes a lot of sense too, especially when these are early systems where there's like... a very small window into the video game, instead of an immersive world?

@InspectorCaracal -and presumably it makes it much easier to do different covers, because people are expecting that distinctive melody instead of something much more nebulous. same reason why the ace atty jazz covers worked so good, too - the music has one foot in that oldschool melody-heavy video game soundtrack sentiment, due to design limitations. (i forget if the first game was old enough that it was basically midis or not but like, close enough, not able to do full-sound mp3s constantly.)

@InspectorCaracal it's also fun because there's some brooooaaaaaad variety in genres. the primal fights/boss battles often are opportunities for them to go off the cuff and present something pretty different. pompous opera? whiny emo rock? chill hippie rave beats? hard metal? pop electronica? Those All Happen lmao

i saw a youtube video once theorizing as to why early video game music is more memorable, and i think ffxiv's music keeps that melody-heavy focus which means it's easy to remember -

@InspectorCaracal honestly even if you don't play ffxiv, i commend its music to you, there is some seriously good shit in here

i feel like final fantasy as a series has traditionally been very music-strong but it's definitely an absolute delight, compared to my time playing WoW (where i can only list like one song as a real favourite i stop and listen to every time), SWTOR (good themes... taken directly from the movies)... in ffxiv i have trouble saying which song is my fav. THERE ARE SO MANY

no seriously though, you know the jazz instrumental arrangement albums for phoenix wright games?

that but for ffxiv would be brilliant. i mean we already have The Primals jammin' away, somebody get Soken some jazz cigarettes and make it happen

apparently "lo-fi hip-hop for study" style covers of shadowbringers songs is

an oddly fruitful niche subgenre?

https://youtu.be/mB0qToExuRI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyupzA-JacA are both brilliant

the top comment of the second one sums it up as "Lo-Fi hip hop (Beats to Craft and Gather to)" which is fantastic

and there's even canon precedent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcHjxOKN0Pk so i guess this bubble isn't entirely unexpected but y'know what? i can groove with it. jazz cover album when s-e #ffxiv

@nuttgodd i don't know much either, other than occasionally reading things about how it presents differently in afab folk and going "oh no i resemble these remarks" (though i still think that if you picture an autism spectrum as a graph, i'm not on there, but just barely not on the page to one side of it lol - but it's all a little "this woulda been useful when i was in elementary school i guess" now)

so i am perhaps not the best arbiter of if something is allistic or not LOL

@InspectorCaracal out of "things kids eat or at least attempt to eat" i feel like colored spaghetti is pretty on the "this is fine" side of the spectrum honestly

DID SOME PEOPLE JUST GO "jello would be fun to mush around" AND THEN REALIZED THAT IF THEY WERE IN BIKINIS THEY COULD GET PEOPLE TO SUBSIDIZE THIS DREAM

oh my god i think i've found some secret truth of the world

WAIT A SECOND IS THIS HOW JELLO WRESTLING STARTED

ofc the times i've seen that the autistic-kid-mommy-bloggers have been all "but how do i keep my child from eating the cooked, colorful spaghetti i made for him to play in?!!"

ma'am you made a kiddie pool full of food. just call whatever your kid eats an appetizer and it's gonna be fine even if there is food coloring ok

@nuttgodd see i've seen it as like a stimming thing??? and unfortunately sometimes the Autism Mommies like to praise themselves for inventing ideas like "i made a kiddie pool full of cooked spaghetti colored different colors for my toddler to play in"

but personally i choose to believe that the urge to just bury your arm in the tank full of polished rocks is more universal and we should all embrace it as part of humanity because hhghgnghhh i wanna tuch the it

it's still a good idea though

"let us all go stick our hands in this pool full of beans because it's oddly satisfying" would be a great icebreaker