right. not a cover, but also not a Smash Mouth invention.

nope. walking on the sun was a song written for (and rejected by) another band. so okay, not a cover. but still not an original work by Smash Mouth.

see below.

okay, not exactly a cover, but it was written in 1992 for a totally different band. then Smash Mouth came along 6 years later and the guitarist showed it to them too.

But without this band, the world would have never been blessed with the knowledge of this man's genius:

Walking on the Sun was also a cover.

Wall-e better be number one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch…

You're thinking of The Brave Little Toaster.

By the way this is why voice recognition will always and forever be an inferior interface to fucking buttons, let alone a good old keyboard.

To be fair, voice recognition is fucking hard. We don't actually make audible pauses between words or come close to pronouncing things consistently or distinctly. Humans can only understand each others' speech because our brains are super good at automatically deciphering intent based on shitloads of context…

Apparently their startup script is named after an xkcd comic — Correct Horse Battery Staple.

Ahaha I just listened to them trade rick astley lyrics for five minutes.

well, the reputation was well earned, wasn't it? i mean i don't want to hurt curly quotes' feelings, but they have historically been a pain in the ass. the more times a block of text gets copy-pasted across various applications or operating systems, the greater the likelihood of the curly quotes being translated…

exactly. as anyone who is tech savvy knows, the primary reason to avoid curly quotes is to maintain compatibility across different systems, and to prevent it from getting fucked up if you copy-paste the text or export it or whatever. it's not necessarily laziness or lack of design sense. it's safety.

in that case, i'm completely confused by your comment saying you wonder if you should revisit it, and i regret taking your comment at face value. if you hate the idea of a mindless hack and slash so much, then why on earth would you want to revisit the most iconic example of the form?

haha, nah. Diablo 2 was locked in to 800x600 resolution (and I think that was only after the expansion - before that it was 640x480 only if i recall correctly).

Clash of Clans is nice because it really is one of the least greedy of the pay-to-progress style games. you will progress for free, you will just do it more slowly. also you can pretty much play as much as you want, and there is an actual element of skill to both attacks and setting up your defenses. there are…

Diablo is really hard to get through from a modern context, because there is no run button and your character does this weird walk-waddle everywhere, including around town, and it's painfully slow.

i wouldn't pop the champaign yet. that doesn't really mean much in this situation.