I can’t deny that I’d be here for Vinny as a proper middle aged man youtuber putting out videos of all his hobbies.

God, that Vinny laugh during all of the old PC game videos where he’d just be cracking up at Dave getting mowed down by an old woman in the original Police Quest SWAT.

I know it’s selfish of me to think this, but I really hope Vinny still does forward facing stuff after this, because he was always the one who felt the most like if he could stop doing content in front of a camera, he’d do it in a heartbeat. I’ve just always loved the vibes he brought to the gaming space and I’d be…

I mean as these large groups continue to dissolve I think it’s inevitable that the spectrum of content creator POVs widens. So while many youtubers might annoy you, there’s gotta be at least a few that you might enjoy.

It won’t be like a weekly thing, but you know me by now. This is my kinda thing.

Thanks, I read that and commented that IPPO’s Phantasy Star IV intro theme was very distinctive.

I didn’t realize that you and Kotaku were trying to get more composer interviews into the article flow. This is great stuff! I hope to see more such interviews.

Strong agree. We had a cool piece on classic Sega’s Izuho “IPPO” Numata last week too!

Excellent and informative interview! We could use more composer interviews on gaming sites in general.

You hate people liking thing? Or having enough time to work on things they like? Zombies? Resident Evil in general? Residents? Evils? Maybe you hate blogs and just like making weird comments?

OMG OMG this woman is legendary! I have her album Three Movements hanging on my wall! Everyone says the MM2 soundtrack is the best in the series, but outside of a few standout tracks (Wily’s Castle) the superior collection is the first game! Of course, her contributions to MM2 don’t go unnoticed.

Adobe did something similar through the education system, turning it into the software powerhouse that it is now. Granted, that took at least a decade to really get its root in so deep that its products were intertwined with every industry remotely related to its software.

Yay! Thanks for sharing!

“that I’ve had to get over and train myself out of (coming from a “serious” classical music background).”

I have some internalized dismissiveness about video game music that I’ve had to get over and train myself out of (coming from a “serious” classical music background). It has helped me to realize what a rich field of composition the 90s provided, and that composers really made interesting things with the limitations…

I hear these Phantasy Star IV tunes and I just have to drop everything I’m doing and listen. It instantly teleports me back 25+ years.

I think about this a lot with my very first breakup, when I dated someone for like a day in 6th grade and how when we ‘broke up,’ it was astonishing how sad I was because that had never happened before. And every subsequent breakup hurts in different and, like, far more serious ways, but there’s always that little…

I wish I could relate to this, but between the drugs and the trauma, I’ve pretty much completely forgotten everything that happened between when I blew out my shoulder at age 14 in the spring of 1992 and when I started to come out the other side of late adolescence—my memories resume in the late summer of 1996, a…

“a tortured cis guy moaning out his pain”

I can’t believe I had so many feelings that felt like such big deals, so unaware that in my adulthood, I’d have less feelings but they’d all be way more serious, so much more complicated and full of consequences.

Me after hearing Drew is leaving Giant Bomb.