Doolanzer

A place to show my interest in strange movies, music, games, and all that junk.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

25 albums that I heard as a teen that drastically changed how I viewed what music could be structurally.

Funny how time changes things. Nowadays I sometimes forget that other people have zero idea how to approach these sounds. It's all easy if not old hat for me by now. :P

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

@Crossy_C98 Having parts of a game made, or localization in the USA doesn't really mean anything despite the nuance. Nasir Gebelli was surrounded by Japanese people, working on games in a clear Japanese/anime style. He's important, interesting to note, but it's not suddenly not a JRPG.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

The thing is that it depends on which console. Xbox was majority Western RPGs, most of which were at least fairly jank diddly. Yeah, it was just "RPG" when I was young, but JRPG and WRPG makes more sense than "console RPG" in retrospect.

[Crossy @Crossy_C98]

Oh cool, the term "Console RPG" was still being used in 2008 by Eurogamer instead of everyone calling things JRPGs. I know a lot of peppe won't care but this is one of those niche nerdy things I've got an interest in. The history of console or J RPGs.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

@Crossy_C98 Nobody thinks that JRPG only means Turn-Based, lol. Whoever decided JRPG meant that specifically is wrong by history in retrospect. J ARPGs aren't the same as Western Hack n Slashes like Diablo or Action Dungeon Crawlers. King's Field is FromSoft which was a minority outlier.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

That being said, this will stay as one of my favorite RPGs that I've beaten this year. Played on hard it's actually a really solid, shorter and to the point RPG where you do have to strategize how you use/build your party as all the girls have different skills.

[♱ 𝔬𝔫𝔶𝔵𝔦𝔠𝔠𝔞 ♱ @onyxicca]

“Gaming is a man’s hobby” is such a fascinating fossil of an opinion.

I play ARPGs, RPGs, MMOs, Soulslikes, the list goes on. And somehow every few weeks some guy crawls out of a vent to explain that women only play cozy dating games and are ruining “his” hobby.

No, you built an imaginary version of women so you could stay mad at her. Women have always played games. Women play hard games, ugly games, violent games, competitive games, weird games, lore-heavy games, spreadsheet games and yes, sometimes cute games too.

The problem was never that women entered gaming. The problem is that some men confused “I used to feel centered here” with “I own this place”

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

@AdHocEmilie Yes, hipsters occasionally touched on styles like Noise, but they universally created soft versions of it that weren't approved of by the deeper Noise scene. This is essentially how it was when hipsters touched any underground genre, they curated safer, more digestible versions.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

Last post about this crap. This is for people that think being into any obscure/underground music is the way of hipsters. Hipsters always had a trendy, highly curated, safe within it's parameters link to Metal. They often weren't really Metalheads, just into very specific bands.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

@_bitchsword Damn, it's been ages since I heard the name Fuck Buttons.

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@_motherslug The stuff that got popular with Animal Collective is super corny. Haven't heard them in near 15 years after someone played them on a jukebox at a bar once.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

@godspeed_aflame I've gotten very seasonal as I've aged.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

This Exxul album is pretty good proof of what separates hipster music, and Metal. This album was near the top of the RYM year charts for a month or 2, but hipsters don't like Epic Doom ala Candlemass with Power Metal influences.

Now it's dropped from the top 10 to 249th.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

@mirandareinert It'd be nice if the house didn't ever win, but it always wins even if it doesn't win. Playing hooky from watching these god forsaken sports finals, and now we got the gagifying World Cup to ruin the summer.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

@funkentechno The difference between what was (is) and wasn't (isn't) to me is pretty obvious, it just never mattered that much. It's not like any music scenes are out there dramatically changing the world because they are or aren't full of hipsters. Most of them center around dive bars.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

The gnarliest dragon to ever dragon.

[🕹 ᄃӨᄂӨПΣᄂ FΛᄂᄃӨП 🕹 @ColonelFalcon]

If you see this post a dragon!

#gaming #GamersUnite

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

In the 90's IDM was a looser term. By the 2000's there are certain sound sources, or rhythmic patterns that are linked only to IDM.

The great thing about Electronic music in general is that you can't predict what you'll hear exactly outside of the more popular EDM genres.

[🥸 @JumpJetTiger]

@theneedledrop This is why we all need to obliterate IDM as a genre because comparing boards of Canada to Autechre is dumb as hell, apples to oranges. The both scratch entirely different itches

And Tim hecker makes electroacoustic / ambient stuff, also incomparable to anything BOC has done

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

This looks like the kinda absolute goofiness that I go for.

https://t.co/3uK0iRY5um

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

@prinSNESs It's got Beetlejuice pants on, how splendid.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

@orbalology I kinda draw the line at Magical Vacation. The characters in this game look like those butt naked Hallmark Angels auntie used to hang from the Christmas tree in the 90's. The game was OK, it's not really the graphics, but that character design makes me gag.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

The new BoC had more purpose than a lot of the later period albums of classic IDM projects. I did dig the Matmos from last year though for example. In 90's terms BoC was quite overrated in the wider IDM "field" though, yes.

[Joshua Minsoo Kim @misterminsoo]

i would take the boards of canada discourse more seriously if music twitter also mentioned other idm artists. one million tweets about them and i never see any about bola, plaid, phoenicia, arovane, xela, jega, freeform, mira calix, richard devine, jetone, ilkae, syndrone, etc.

[Doolanzer @doolanzer]

Switching it up with a WRPG for PS2. I think I'll play this then hit Star Ocean 3 again as the summer gets more summery, and I'm listening to Space Rock anyways.

Not really a USA comics guy, but I did always think X-Men was cool with it's band of mutants with different powers.