Joseph Parello

Big Nintendo fan who also enjoys Sony. I drink much coffee and good beer. Metal is life.

[Kevin @linguinelabs]

sorry I had to make this edit

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

This is obviously sweet but the reveal of the duck is Arrested Development-esque

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Classical music has never paid for itself. Ticket sales cover roughly a third of an American orchestra's budget, and that's the healthy ones. Since 2010, orchestras in Philadelphia, Louisville, Honolulu, and Syracuse have all filed for bankruptcy. Then gamers started buying tickets.

The model was always subsidy. Beethoven lived on an annuity from three Viennese aristocrats. Wagner had a Bavarian king paying his debts. The modern version swapped princes for donors and endowments, but the arithmetic never changed. The music on stage loses money and someone rich covers the gap.

Video game concerts broke that arithmetic. The Legend of Zelda's Symphony of the Goddesses sold out most of a world tour. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth sold out the Royal Albert Hall. Sonic filled London's Barbican for three straight nights. Same players, same halls. Different composer names on the program, and suddenly the box office covers the cost.

The audience explains why. The average classical subscriber is near retirement age and the field loses old attendees faster than it gains young ones. The Zelda crowd shows up in their teens and twenties, some in costume. A Royal Philharmonic poll found more young people now discover orchestral music through games than through live concerts.

So the annoyance is aimed at the wrong people. Koji Kondo and Nobuo Uematsu built the biggest onboarding funnel orchestral music has ever had. The 19-year-old hearing a 90-piece orchestra play Zelda tonight is the only plausible Mahler subscriber of 2046.

Haydn needed a prince to fund a symphony. Zelda fills the hall at face value. In 300 years of orchestral music, this is the first time the audience paid the whole bill.

[𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕣 𝕘𝕝𝕠𝕨 @phosphor_glow]

losing my mind

[Joseph Parello @jmparello]

@antdude92 My back hurts just thinking of this

[Feliciaaa @WeveGotTrouble]

In 2024 I had a short phase where I’d just put Banjo Kazooie sfx whenever I found a video of a bear

[Joseph Parello @jmparello]

@SIACTRO Really enjoyed Saturn and, to be honest, all your games. Wishing the best for you, whatever you do next or whatever comes next

[Joseph Parello @jmparello]

@Wario64 The story in this game was SO good. While playable, it ran a little rough on switch 1 though so this is good.

Too soon for a second playthrough for me, story is still pretty fresh in my head

[Joseph Parello @jmparello]

@miilkbit @Bonniec07657922 Mario Kart World is on cart

[Supper Mario Broth @MarioBrothBlog]

Previously, I posted about how Yoshi's Island bosses are shaped dynamically from cones. It turns out there is a way to see this in-game. If the cartridge is pulled out during a boss battle (PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS), the boss will revert back into its true cone form.

[David @TheNord06]

I printed and gave my switch cases spines and OH MY GOD IT GIVES THE COLLECTION SO MUCH LIFE

[Here's What I Reckon: @angryaboutbikes]

My favourite firework video on the internet is this one, where 45 minutes worth of fireworks are accidentally detonated all at once on July 4th 2012 in San Diego. I had tears in my eyes, sobbing the first time I saw this. The sound is magnificent. It's the end of days.

[Joseph Parello @jmparello]

@PhysicReleases @DiPWarlock Vanillaware make great games. I've been hoping this would get ported to modern consoles and preordered day 1 it was available. I'm all in.

I've bought games i normally wouldn't from marvelous day 1 because I really respect this effort. And I'm really excited for this one.

[emz 😼🍓 @emzberry]

ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

[okbilly91 @okbilly91]

THEY WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG

[Getlucky @Getlucky12341]

I printed out a bunch of new spines for my Switch 1 games, and man my collection looks SO MUCH BETTER!

[Napalm por la Tarde @InstigacionLib]

¿En qué diablos andan las 3 grandes de la industria de videojuegos?

🟢 #Xbox: cerrando estudios de desarrollo y despidiendo empleados

🔵 #Sony: cerrando estudios, despidiendo, subiendo precios y matando el formato físico para siempre

🔴 #Nintendo:

[rohit @krishnanrohit]

We're all looking for the guy who did this

[🎃Big Gleb🎃 @GlebMelnikov8]

Ace Attorney ass situation

[Jon Cartwright @JonComms]

All future consoles may cost a minimum of $1000 but at least you can ask chatgpt if it's raining outside