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TopicFantasy book recommendations?
NFUN
04/16/24 2:18:24 PM
#5
Malazan is tough to get into, but it's solid. It's kind of in the weird realm of magic that's powerful that you don't really understand (at least as of two books in), so if you liked Sando's magic hardness it may be a little unsatisfying

Wheel of Time is a very obvious suggestion. Strong and coherent magic that is core to the story and world, and of course Branderson finished it. Riftwar is perhaps a bit weaker than WoT in general, and in some of the later arcs a lot of the characters are more mundane, but it's also worth a shot. Vigor Mortis is 1st person so that's a no

and you can of course reread cosmere a bunch more. Maybe try my "The Kaladin Chapters Only" Stormlight reading order, or https://youtube.com/watch?v=6hmCAKlcr7M

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TopicFandom bans politics on GameFAQs (outside of Current Events)
NFUN
04/16/24 12:02:38 AM
#173
Yesmar_ posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/10-ask-the-mods/80748163

WOT is still around?! This is now in the running for most shocking thing I've head all day.
wheel of time finished like a decade ago

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TopicNews Containment Topic 1: Just the Facts
NFUN
04/15/24 11:44:56 PM
#14
IfGodCouldDie posted...
Actually CE is the only board where politics is not banned.
Is that... commentary?

Get out

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TopicNews Containment Topic 1: Just the Facts
NFUN
04/15/24 10:24:23 PM
#11
Fandom has banned politics and "hornyposting" on GameFAQs, while restricting access to the Current Events (CE) board

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TopicBluey is emotional terrorism for parents.
NFUN
04/15/24 7:23:47 PM
#19
ZaziGuado posted...
My dad called Bluey a Communist. Is Bluey political?
Well the show is apparently terrorism, so I'd say so!

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TopicWho are you voting for in the American presidential election?
NFUN
04/15/24 5:09:42 PM
#10
Probably Enderman

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TopicI will hit the 10k mark after Tax day.
NFUN
04/15/24 1:26:09 PM
#13
hold vgmc there

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TopicFill in the Blank 255: ___ In
NFUN
04/15/24 7:58:30 AM
#33
Kotoku

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TopicWhens the next Great GameFAQs Character Battle?
NFUN
04/14/24 8:30:49 PM
#4
two weeks ago. you just missed it

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Topic[VGMC] Video Game Music Contest 18 announcement!! Noms are 4/17!!
NFUN
04/14/24 6:50:12 PM
#45
-Chaos-Zero- posted...
Why not have people submit songs with the voting a week or two later then? You could easily have a master playlist for people to listen to in that time and also give folks a chance to think.

The bracket takes ages anyway, so does a bit of extra time for people to get invested at the start really hurt the whole process?
we did that once. it had a couple problems (some already ameliorated) and nobody cared enough to try to work them out (though I think it's worth another shot)

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TopicMount Rushmore Stats & Discussion
NFUN
04/14/24 10:08:29 AM
#240
nominate contest updates

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TopicNFUN ranks Rwlh nominators {Rankings}
NFUN
04/13/24 6:48:23 PM
#14
bebr117
11/61
Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia - EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob7Y3r5JqA8

I will play the Chronicle Key. Ar tonelico spoilers: I love how obtaining this song was the culmination of like the first half of the game, the panacea that would totally solve the plot and required the de facto sacrifice of Misha... and then she stops singing it. IIRC, you meet up with her outside of the chamber and she's like "??? idk whats-his-face told me i could stop for some reason so i did". Anyways pretty standard Hymmnos fare, which is above the standard fare of most anything else

MacArrowny
10/61
Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5 - Lightning Dance(GameVersion)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9jQCrrU1JI

whoa I was not expecting Newgrounds trance. What the absolute hell? And that melody is definitely from a Touhou song somewhere. And something something old bemani probably. I've heard a few Wangan songs but this is throwing me for a loop so hard. Yeah, that's what you can say is creative. Man I love cheesy shit that is specifically like this

pyresword
9/61
REFLEC BEAT colette - Lilieze to enryuu Laevateinn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-gCackdMks

Now this is some good goofy shit. How did I miss this in colette? It has that great bemani prog vibe to it, a track I'd only be able to stumble upon accidentally and would be pleased with my fortune

Mihark
8/61
7th Dragon 2020-II - Shutoko - Spiral Maze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu9wS4WcBQw

yeahhhhh koshiro. yeahhhhh. Great buildup, and especially great that after the tension reached the first climax, it kind of faded away without some kind of drop that wouldn't really fit the song, which made the sustain of the second that much more powerful. Very interesting construction, and lots of great parts scattered throughout. The mixing is a bit messy towards the end when it's louder, but the tradeoff is worth it. I listened to this almost exactly a year ago for some reason. I probably like it more now than I did then

TunnelScene
7/61
REFLEC BEAT groovin'!! - Avalon no oka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrPoROVMuzE

Hamauzu is my dad, but Nekomata is my uncle. This is only the short version btw

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TopicNFUN ranks Rwlh nominators {Rankings}
NFUN
04/13/24 5:23:50 PM
#13
Fluttershy_Pony
16/61
Quadralien - Main Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh2TE8VQWZg

oh boy a 10 minute Amiga song. Love 1:00, the mood combined with the evil low-quality guitar. Panning is a bit rough but that can't be helped. Jesus Christ 2:03. Giygas just attacked me or something. Okay it's looping. Very great moodiness to it, the kind of "you're probably fucked, but keep pushing forward anyway" vibe that's all too rare to find. Could do with a bit more variation. Whatever. Surprised you didn't rank this higher

kamakazilika
14/61
Genetos - Price of Prosperity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2nRIyjMowg

Show me your Genetos. UF8 leads me to believe I should play this game, so I've held off listening to the soundtrack. I love how earnest Koyama's music sounds. It always seems like he's really pushing for some emotion in all of them. I also love how unnecessarily goofy all of the instruments sounds; there's no way he couldn't find "better" VSTs.

Isquen
14/61
Children of Mana - Monster of the Forest / Forest of the Sickle Weasel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbjtJwSxJv4

Very cool start. As somebody who doesn't know Klonoa music well, kind of reminds me of Klonoa music. Some very cool adventury vibes in here, with the not-quite-prog progressions you get in a lot of songs in whatever genre or category this is. Neat stuff... this is definitely reminiscent in parts of Baladium's Drive, a song I hardly remember and will not look up to verify

-Chaos-Zero-
13/61
Blast Corps - The Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIDIPigiWdk

And people say the N64 doesn't have good music (I presume they also don't know who Hanazawa is). This is doing very nice old school RTS music things. And also Amiga things. Those are good things to be doing!

DragonGargoyle
12/61
Muramasa: The Demon Blade - Natural Life A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqbKBg9NEjQ

This song has always sat in a strange place for me. It's going for kind of a unique vibe, and doesn't really place nicely in any easy to define category. It's not weird enough to get my prog hackles to rise, not exciting enough to get my blood pounding, not calm enough to get my breathing to slow, not dreamy enough to take my mind to a faraway place. It's refusal to act like most anything else I've heard, even standing separate from other Basiscape tracks, is a worth all its one, yet one I can't always connect to to its fullest

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TopicRank the Tracks 160: Knower - Knower Forever
NFUN
04/13/24 10:44:10 AM
#9
  1. Do Hot Girls Like Chords
  2. Crash the Car
  3. It Will Get Real
  4. I'm the President
  5. The Abyss
  6. Nightmare
  7. It's All Nothing Until It's Everything
  8. Ride that Dolphin
  9. Real Nice Moment
  10. Knower Forever
  11. Same Smile, Different Face


They clearly just made this album to have a good time. It was all recorded in Cole's house with goofy videos and excessive solos that take up half of some of the songs and a good portion of the time they're intentionally making the songs stupid as fuck. And you know what? That's perfect. Sometimes straddling the boundary between shit-ass and great makes a product that can't be matched.

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TopicWhat's the most technically impressive Sega Saturn game? (Day 9) + PS1 final
NFUN
04/13/24 7:48:21 AM
#6
people still abbreviate it as PS

PDS

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TopicWhoa or Woah
NFUN
04/13/24 7:47:04 AM
#6
FUck off , Troll

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TopicRate the Ace Attorney case: Turnabout Ablaze (E1-5)
NFUN
04/12/24 8:28:53 PM
#8
I played like half of this case then got bored and wandered off. Last thing I remember Badd got arrested

Is it worth replaying and finishing?

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Topicaw yeah only 10 games left in my Steam backlog
NFUN
04/12/24 3:50:31 PM
#11
Kenri posted...
Oh for real? I assumed I had just missed it because I never backtracked to talk to anyone.

Kinda lame to lock that behind a second playthrough but glad I got the intended experience I guess

you have to backtrack like 5 minutes after it drops you off and you get a phone call telling you exactly what to do

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Topicaw yeah only 10 games left in my Steam backlog
NFUN
04/12/24 2:40:46 PM
#9
Kenri posted...
I kinda disagree with that because I played it once "normally" and didn't like it nearly enough to play a second time, and the ending I got was pretty disappointing neutral pacifist, for those curious

That said I don't know the game well enough to list the reqs for the different endings.

you have to get that ending first. you have to "replay" it to get the true ending. you just have to go do alphys's date, which is locked until you've beaten the game

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TopicWhat four movies are on the Time Travel Movies Mount Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER
NFUN
04/12/24 10:53:59 AM
#81
LightningStrikes posted...
The big thing about Interstellar is that its quite unique in that its a time travel movie mainly concerned with travelling FORWARD in time. It has a very notable take on time travel.
so is almost every other movie

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TopicFill in the Blank 253: Blood ___
NFUN
04/12/24 10:21:00 AM
#56
Dragon

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TopicNFUN ranks Rwlh nominators {Rankings}
NFUN
04/11/24 10:54:15 PM
#12
banshiryuu
21/61
Megido 72 - Crafty Reverse Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7D7pRrD4cM

EVIL PIANO! I love evil piano. And then the evil piano starts doing jazzy things. Great funk at :45. I don't really like the string too much though, except when they're copying the piano. Sounds a bit too big band, which is not the mood I was looking for out of this song. If the strings were also totally evil this would be far cooler

handsomeboy2012
20/61
Pinball Dreams - Light of Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dErnfo6eyew

This song has a name?? Man I love Amiga music. I almost went on a journey to imitate Tunnelscene and listen to every Amiga song I could find (but instead imitated Se7en and did a 1000 track ranking). I still can't believe steelchambers retired. This doesn't quite reach its highs but shares the same blood. Like to hear the mood swings; emulating Onestop.mid is generally a good call (I do not know which came first nor do I care)

MaxGalactica
19/61
Deemo - Reincarnation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMCWuEZzBL4

Deemo songs make me happy :)

Prody_Parrot
18/61
The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince - First Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFF-nfPKZDk

"Fairy Tale" isn't my favorite genre. OTOH, it's still Akiko Shikata

JONA
17/61
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity - Glacier Palace ~ Eastern Spire
https://youtu.be/I106TjiEsuw

I have some weird hangup about PMD Gates music. The theory is that I keep expecting it to sound like the old games, given the compositional simularities, and am subconsciously upset and thrown off when it isn't. My trick is to just pretend I'm hearing DS quality sound and it's suddenly much better, though I do feel there are some meaningful differences in chords or something that I just like less. The obvious point of comparison to this is Treeshroud, which is just *better*

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NFUN
04/11/24 9:38:21 PM
#10
azuarc
26/61
Mamorukun Curse! - YO-KAI Disco (Hell's Entrance World)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-PZixk0UgQ

YASUI YASUI YASUI YASUI YASUI

NFUN
25/61
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - Way to Fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POp9lVSRrG8

Ah, Tarantino ending music (I bet some people just got very upset at that description). A lot better than I was expecting--I was expecting to be angry that this was my lucky song. I'm sure I'd adore this if I'd actually played and beat this game. WHOA 3:08. Interesting change of pace. Kind of makes me want to listen to In the House, In a Heartbeat for some reason

tgs2
24/61
Lunistice - Forest (Melancholy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ9XoO6G2Uk

For whatever reason, I'm just not really connecting to this. It's got a lot of elements that I should love, and yet.. i dunno, maybe i'm looking for more Chicory or more Hamauzu or more actual fusion to be here

bea
23/61
Super Kiwi 64 - Desert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIG_W7WSc2I

good drums good vibes

sergiocornaga
22/61
Super Mario Odyssey - Bowser's Castle 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rbRYsv4jY4

I could've had 500 guesses for what this song would sound like based on the title and none would've been close. Very good percussion throughout this. Cool flute too. Strings feel a bit perfunctory. Melody could use some work

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TopicRate the Ace Attorney case: Turnabout Reminiscence (E1-4)
NFUN
04/11/24 9:37:54 PM
#15
3/10

I remember Yew and I remember being annoyed at some of the ridiculous contrivations of the case and thinking this case shouldn't really exist in the lore, even if it was technically not forbidden by Edgypoo's backstory

...Yew is actually decent but

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TopicIf technology allowed you to crap your pants would you do it?
NFUN
04/11/24 9:25:15 PM
#2
Ah, the Harry Potter Dilemma

I have played too much Don't Shit Your Pants to do this. I've been conditioned very hard

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TopicWhat four movies are on the Time Travel Movies Mount Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER
NFUN
04/11/24 8:40:48 PM
#5
Back to the Future
Groundhog Day
Bill & Ted
Terminator

can't think of many more honestly (that doesn't use time travel in an awful way) and I haven't seen Primer

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TopicWhat RPG should I play next?
NFUN
04/11/24 8:34:21 PM
#5
ftr a vote for Shining in the Darkness is a vote for MMBN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg61DWzNsgw

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TopicWhat RPG should I play next?
NFUN
04/11/24 7:44:25 PM
#3
out of these, Cold Steel 3 if you've never touched another trails game. Kondo says it's a great place to start!

but if you have played the other games it'll just disappoint you

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TopicHot take, but the US should absolutely be sending troops to Ukraine.
NFUN
04/11/24 9:47:28 AM
#10
I'm relatively sure most historians would rate Lend-Lease (especially in the East) as being a more significant US impact in Europe in WW2 than our sending of troops

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TopicI'm moving to New Mexico (for the 2nd time)
NFUN
04/11/24 9:35:27 AM
#18
EightBoarder posted...
yes. that is the problem they have with that spelling.
well unless they're complaining to me in Spanish, I don't really mind that I just used an English word while speaking English, and I will very likely tell them to get bent in English too...

how do they pronounce "chiles" anyway?

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TopicI'm moving to New Mexico (for the 2nd time)
NFUN
04/11/24 9:26:47 AM
#16
EightBoarder posted...
they would also have your head for spelling it 'chilis' instead of 'chiles'. very fussy about this sort of thing here.
ok but that's how it's spelt in English so

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04/10/24 11:02:57 PM
#9
skulltrumpets
31/61
Billiard 2008 - Menu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWFaeqybQZo

I have never before heard a song that sounds drunker. I am extremely impressed

Bitto
30/61
Teen Titans Go!: Stellar Showdown - Space Mode
https://youtu.be/LAGH8CTk5VA

YASUI YASUI YASUI YASUI i dont care if it's not yasui YASUI YASUI YASUI YASUI

DeviDoesNothing
29/61
Stonefly - Leaking Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyLoD3egO-I

Where do you even find this? Great percussion, solid bass and synth. This genre I can never really connect to out of game, but I see a lot of people liking this a lot. If you like.... uhh Sable and maybe Chicory and other well-produced songs that would sound good exploring, check this one out

Waveshine_2001
28/61
Captain Tsubasa 2 - Kojiro Hyuga's Theme (Toho Team)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wORTwHqcP3U

Wow those sure are some faces. Pretty good NES song! Some real drama in there, with good arpeggiation (that's a real word now) and effective if simple tension building

Chaeix
27/61
League of Legends - Login Screen (ARCADE 2019: ULTRACOMBO)
https://youtu.be/EeyPmIssreo

eww a non-champion theme (aka fake music). This reminds me of something strongly. Obvious thing to guess would be Ys, but that's not quite it. Maybe I just think it's generic idk. Solid but I obviously feel as if I've heard this quite a few times before. Pretty solid melody; might just be drawing a connection between the melody and Unisuga. Update: Probably the Limits of Strength from Ys vs Sora no Kiseki. And this is also hilariously close https://youtu.be/zukZtQQ2hDU

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04/10/24 5:10:10 PM
#8
MargaretAnnMid
36/61
Blinx the Time Sweeper - Forge of Hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bRANXnW_88

ONLY ON XBOX. Most of the elements in isolation I like and thing are pretty cool. Together, somehow, something is lost, and the gestalt is much more generic than it really should be

Snake5555555555
35/61
familiars.io - HOWDY DOCKS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taNWYpXpKaQ

Fun chiptune. Still a chiptune in this style, which I've mentioned is a tough barrier to exceed in most cases

DanKirby
34/61
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine - Miles of Smiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHg0qKpg5zU

Solid but unremarkable. Hard to mess up this genre

FL81
33/61
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - Yoshi's Island (World 6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4VFWXwW3lY

I watched a video with this song in it yesterday, and somehow didn't know or completely forgot where it was from. Very memorable melody that lacks proper support. The backing is too subdued, whatever their intent was

PIayer_0
32/61
Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter - Lifeline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egz-iIQoqcU

Pretty standard creepy dungeon music into 1:06, when it suddenly sounds like it's from another decade. Absolutely love these synths. That section is great, if tragically too short. Can't quite carry the whole song, sadly

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TopicI'm moving to New Mexico (for the 2nd time)
NFUN
04/10/24 9:54:32 AM
#14
tex-mex with green chilis instead of jalapeos still sounds really good

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TopicRate the Ace Attorney case: Turnabout Airlines (E1-2)
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04/10/24 8:38:19 AM
#28
6

i actually remember it at least

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TopicFill in the Blank 251: ___ Soft
NFUN
04/10/24 8:28:40 AM
#45
Hudson Soft

(aka Bumbler Interactive)

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TopicWhat four monuments are on the United States Monuments Mt. Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER
NFUN
04/10/24 7:45:36 AM
#82
NFUN posted...
so true

Statue of Liberty
Lincoln
Vietnam Vets
Mothman Statue

how could we all forget...

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TopicPolitics Containment Topic 412: A Bad Deal on the Good Book
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04/09/24 9:58:22 PM
#170
Blaziken posted...
I generally give AP and Reuters a bit more leeway, so I'm trying to think of another verb that could work without swinging the pendulum in the other direction. Maybe affected?
How about "biden-seeks-cancel-some-interest-student-loans-aiding-23-million-americans" as a headline?

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TopicWhat four monuments are on the United States Monuments Mt. Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER
NFUN
04/09/24 9:52:19 PM
#50
changmas posted...
They literally took the liberty bell on a tour across America around the late 1800s and early 1900s as a symbol of freedom to gigantic crowds (for the time) and it was also a major cultural moment when they were transporting Abe Lincolns body back to Illinois, post assassination
You're just begging the question!

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TopicWhat four monuments are on the United States Monuments Mt. Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER
NFUN
04/09/24 9:02:34 PM
#38
StifledSilence posted...
Removing legacy and popularity from reasons why a monument is important is a strange choice. Especially since a monument is generally created by the people to commemorate something important.
Legacy and popularity are important, but so is the monument and what it is itself! You can say the "etymology" doesn't matter anymore, it just is what it is now, but I'm never going to be able to respect something that's, essentially, popular because it's popular as much as I would otherwise.

It's the Kardashian of national monuments

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04/09/24 8:57:45 PM
#36
hylianknight3 posted...
Like all symbols, obviously.
No, there's a degree of abstraction there you don't usually get. You can have direct, declared symbolism: the Statue of Liberty was created to be a symbol, WYSIWYG. You can have it becoming a symbol because of its context: the Confederate Flag is a symbol because of associations of who used it and why and how. Here, the Liberty Bell is a symbol not because it was created to be one (it was just a bell), or even because of its use lending it power (I don't think its use as a way to bind that community has any relevance or thought in our minds at all), but because of the other people using it as a symbol who decided it was a symbol.

It's like the Gadsden Flag now; most people don't think about its use in the revolution, they think about the libertarian dipshits who ruined it. It's not a symbol of what it's actually a symbol of, it's a symbol of the people that took it as a symbol. A symbol of what it was a symbol of. Its original birth is gone. It's just a symbol that's a symbol because it's a symbol now. It's a symbol of those civil rights groups, and if they used a cool-shaped rock it'd be just the same, and I'd be hesitant to go venerate that rock

symbol symbol symbol. I'm so semantically satiated it's beyond belief

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TopicWhat four monuments are on the United States Monuments Mt. Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER
NFUN
04/09/24 8:40:17 PM
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StifledSilence posted...
In the 1700s, it was originally used as a way to alert people to go to town meetings. So it was an important symbol of community unity. Later on, it came to be known as a symbol for freedom and equal rights. Campaigns to abolish slavery, give equal rights to black people, and suffrage to women all featured the bell as a symbol of freedom. Pretty important Id say.
so it's an important symbol because people decided it was an important symbol

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TopicWhat four monuments are on the United States Monuments Mt. Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER
NFUN
04/09/24 8:32:39 PM
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Kenri posted...
Maybe a hot take but Mount Rushmore is a shit ass monument and does not deserve to be on the Mount Rushmore of monuments.
so true

Statue of Liberty
Lincoln
Vietnam Vets


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TopicWhat four monuments are on the United States Monuments Mt. Rushmore? +TIEBREAKER
NFUN
04/09/24 8:24:08 PM
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all y'all liberty bell voters better be able to tell me why we care about it

"it has a crack!" is not a valid answer

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TopicNFUN ranks Rwlh nominators {Rankings}
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04/09/24 8:16:32 PM
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Disillusion
41/61
Mega Man Zero 3 - Cannon Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9_KLdeaijs

The overdriven guitars of MMX and Zero never seem to be utilized well. They also just sound goofy and their effect is flat. Until the piano, the song is repetitive and boring, but the piano section actually has impact and an effective melody

Arti
40/61
Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland - Dark Domain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X21ig41AFe4

oh I forgot this was playing. That's not really fair but I'm only listening through each song once!

OrangeCrush980
39/61
Famicom Tantei Club 2 - Confession of a Murderer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL4hR-Hj2O8

Holds on to the main motif way way too hard. Spooky tremolo and square waves are good though

cakophon
38/61
Sonic Rush - Ethno Circus
https://youtu.be/ENTZ6IJQCtw

Even for Naganuma, this is particularly obnoxious (not saying that like it's a bad thing). Pretty solid, but far from his best. Mostly makes me wat to listen to VENDOR POP

Bane_Of_Despair
37/61
Chicory: A Colorful Tale - Wielder Temple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrBvPtVHxmU

Nice mood but doesn't do much with it

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TopicNFUN ranks Rwlh nominators {Rankings}
NFUN
04/09/24 6:35:53 PM
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xx521xx
46/61
Ragnarok Online - Not So Far Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDkdyEWQY3U

Thanks for reminding me I'm supposed to be listening to KMMO music instead. I like the... gamelan-y zither-y thing this has that I don't have a name for. Otherwise, fairly pedestrian

Not_an_Owl
45/61
Mad Rat Dead - Dark Fear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdYehwvgKVw

The lead instrument is kinda annoying. Bwaaaaoo. Otherwise, eh

Prince46
44/61
Mega Man X8 - Jakob Space Elevator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wefklTWaoic

How does MMX have almost as many games as the regular series?

Place
43/61
Castlevania - Wicked Child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byRbiPxNuA8

James Banana??? You can't be serious. Above average NES chiptune, which doesn't say too much. Fun enough, I guess

Collen
42/61
Chroma Squad - Monster Jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3V3j1cgEnQ

syea

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TopicFearless Year of Shadow the Hedgehog
NFUN
04/09/24 6:28:03 PM
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colliding posted...
Shadow is a guest fighter in Tekken confirmed
shadow vs kuma at the waffle house

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TopicWhat is the most technically impressive Gameboy Color game? (Day 5) + GB Final
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04/08/24 9:41:56 PM
#5
https://youtu.be/FWm2S1DVuHA?t=1619

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TopicFill in the Blank 249: ___ Battle
NFUN
04/07/24 11:36:59 PM
#9
goKINGjo

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