Things like movies, books, games, songs, etc just what was the best one you even experienced that you kinda wish you could do for the first time again, also what made it so good?
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The Muv-Luv trilogy, or rather Muv-Luv Alternative in particular. I just went into hermit mode for the full 60 or so hours it took me to read/play all of it.
It still has its flaws of course but the worldbuilding and character interactions with such a dark and conpelling but not edgy story are something that nothing else has matched for me.
Matilda, both the book and the movie.
Ultima Online. This is the OG MMO. It was the Wild West, it had to make all the mistakes because there was no one else really before them to learn from. It was so new and interesting and was a blast the first few years.
would you suggest other such as me play this then also i heard its a hard game is that true?
It wouldn’t be very interesting for you to play UO now. Graphically it’s going to look dated obviously and they botched their successors. The original still lives on I believe on some level, but that experience of it being so fresh and new is long gone.
If you like retro games it’s definitely worth a try, I actually started playing it last year and I’m loving it! there are lots of free shards(servers) to play on that are only PVM, so you don’t have to work about PKers. Insane UO is where I play, and there are lots of friendly people there to help out the new folks!
I remember my Diablo guild all moved over to UO by beginning of 98. Great times, but jesus christ did I waste a lot of hours playing that.
Same, my HS grades definitely took a hit
Kon Ichikawa’s Revenge of a Kabuki Actor reconfigured my entire life trajectory. Ever since watching it for a global film course I’ve devoted myself to the study of Kabuki theater and gender subversion.
Breath of the Wild. Game just blew me away when I first played it. The Switch was an amazing new console and this open-world adventure with its intricately crafted world was amazing to explore on the go. I couldn’t put the Switch down and finished this game way too quickly.
Fuck Ted Faro. Great game tho.
I think you replied to the wrong comment? This is not about Horizon.
Ope. My bad.
Whiplash (2014)
One of the first things that popped in my head was this web series called Worm by Wildbow.
There was an epic moment there an Endbringer and Scion that still lives rent free in my mind. I remembered shedding a tear because of how awesome that moment was.
Another was my experience in watching The Disapperance of Haruhi Suzumiya. Right now I don’t even know why it was such a great experience but I’ve been chasing that high ever since.
Worm is p fun. Great piles of fanfic on space battles and sufficient velocity
One of the most eye-opening and clever articles I’ve read. It’s still a good read, but it was totally mind-bending the first time.
Red Dead Redemption 2. I’ve never had a game impact me as much as it did.
The Lateralus album by Tool. Specifically the songs Parabol and Parabola as they transition. Pure bliss and goosebumps.
Bach’s Chaconne from his violin partita in D minor.
It’s a song that was written around the time when Bach’s wife died, and if you listen hard enough, you can almost hear that it’s about her. It sounds like there are two voices, a low voice and high voice, who meet and fall in love with each other, and experience all the highs and lows of life and then are torn away from each other by death in the end. And it’s all done with just notes on a violin. And what’s more, it was written 300 years ago! It trips me out thinking about how somebody can write something so epic for a single instrument so long ago.
Jacsha Heifetz’s version of it is my favorite. Some people don’t like how fast he plays it, but he does the ending the best, in my opinion. You can hear the pain and denial and chaos of the two voices trying to enjoy their last moments together and leave nothing unsaid between each other most clearly the way Heifetz plays it.
Itzhak Perlman’s version is very good too. He plays at a slower pace than Heifetz, and has a more epic sounding tone. The highs and lows are generally more epic sounding the Heifetz, but I don’t quite understand how Perlman plays the ending. I have no doubt that he’s trying to tell the same story as Heifetz, but there isn’t any of that pain and chaos like Heifetz has. I’ve seen interviews with Perlman, and he seems like a very happy and well adjusted guy, so maybe that explains why his ending is so different. Maybe that’s just how the ending is for happy people like that, and I can’t comprehend it.
There are other good renditions to check out too, but Heifetz and Perlman are my favorites. Hillary Hahn and Nathan Milstein are other popular ones. Plus a bunch of others. That’s another cool thing about Chaconne. Everybody has their own rendition.
I listened to both. I see what you’re saying about Jacsha Heifetz’s version, it almost cuts through you. Emotions like pain and grief don’t hit slowly in the times of death. Great links, thank you.
Glad you liked it! Yeah, I love Perlman’s rendtion, but Heifetz’s just takes the cake for me. The ending is too real.
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Hardcore history was the first podcast I got into back in like 2018. It’s so captivating - I’ve listened to many episodes more than once.
It’s as good as any audio book in my opinion - months of research and editing go into every episode. Some are extremely hard to listen to though, he definitely doesn’t hold back when it comes to telling the bad parts of history. The recent one on slavery comes to mind - truly some of the worst descriptions I’ve heard.
Games mainly, transistor, gris and inmost comes in mind, all of those titles talks about loosing someone or something, diferent points of view of the matter, its like it touches your soul in the process, even if you hadnt suffered the same way.
Songs, i prefer to say the artist, Tash sultana, its music was like catharsis on a gloomy months of my life, lets say it is alternative rock, charged with a bit of sadness but with a special emotional proyection in the vocals that in my case gives me chills.
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I consumed the last 80ish% of The Martian in one barely interrupted (personally irresponsible) session. It hooked me hard and I couldn’t put it down. I’ve had a fondness for novels written serially ever since.
If you enjoyed the Martian, I highly recommend his newest book Project Hail Mary.
Loved reading that book
Disco Elysium for sure.
