I'm a big game music nerd, and I'm definitely a fan of the Follins! Not all their stuff is super memorable from a composition standpoint, but the arrangements and production are indeed legendary for pushing the NES and SNES audio hardware to the limit.

Damn, the soundtrack to that game is amazing though. I can still remember most of the character themes 25 years later.

What amuses me about the bassist is that he appears to be playing something like Flight of the Bumblebee in the video, yet I don't even hear an electric bass in the song itself.

Is that what the YMCA scene in Wayne's World 2 is a parody of?

There was a time when critics didn't like them, sure, but was there really a time when Zep wasn't cool in general?

That was what I thought too. Everyone would probably be shocked if morphine was in her medicine cabinet, but isn't fentanyl far more potent than morphine? Do doctors just routinely prescribe things like that these days?

Sure it has ice in it and otherwise looks exactly liked iced tea, but that beverage there is totally Colt 45.

I spent a long time planning a similar system, only to discover how far online backup services have come (I use Crash Plan, and no I don't work for them). It has the major advantage over a homegrown system of being offsite, but the main thing is that it makes it so damn easy. I admit that it used to take several…

OK, we can agree to disagree. In my opinion the pictures alone are in no way adequate for understanding the task, and frankly I don't see how any reasonable person could consider them to be so. Furthermore, in my opinion, a reasonable, non asshole of a person might assume that the intention was for the pictures to…

You started this thread by calling the writer "fucking stupid" for finding that the pictures are inadequate instructions for the task of preparing and using musical bottles. But now you're saying that it just gives a vague sense of what is supposed to happen (which I agree with by the way). So which is it boss?

It's not as cryptic as the airplane instructions, but is a kid who's never seen people using bottles as instruments before really supposed to understand that #3 means you have to purse your lips and blow across the mouth of the bottle? It's just kind of weird because it's useless both to people who can read (the…

The Rapture is insane, and I love it. It's like an entire indescribable movie genre containing just that one movie. And yes, the best part is how it has the guts to take everything to its logical conclusion. I'll never forget the feeling I had as those credits rolled in dead silence.

Just give the money to those fans who are trying to acquire the rights to Manos: The Hands of Fate.

Absolutely. I'm excited for the revival not so that we can get more of the same, I'm excited because now Lynch doesn't have network TV restrictions holding him back.

It's Unix, not Linux.

Are you talking about the hell scenes, with spikes and maggots and people impaled in various ways? I could be wrong, but I think most of those shots are actually in the theatrical cut, they're just extremely brief, almost subliminal.

Silent Hill is not a terrible movie, and in fact I frequently cite it as perhaps the best video game adaptation yet. I think maybe I just like more intimate moments than big CGI spectacles. For example, I don't remember the transformation of the town specifically, but I do remember the scene in Silent Hill when that…

I was always squarely in the Nintendo camp, but even I have to admit that Sonic was way cooler.

Over 30? Pffft. Might as well be dead.

It seems like determining the intent is what's critical when judging talent. If their sound was intended to be mainstream, and they were just really bad at it, then we could safely say that they have no talent. But because, as outsiders, their sound is so unusual, it's hard to say how successful they are at the…