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Is there more like this?  It's hard to come up with the words to describe it.  Dread and uneasiness, going on an adventure into the heart of darkness.

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Don't know what Metal subrenge this is, but I really enjoy this game's OST.
Unfortunately due to my ignorance, I haven't been able to find anything like it. Even the artist's previous work is different.

>>316449
I don't have any videos sadly but look up Secret of Evermore. The composer was totally green and didn't like the rock/J-pop and jingles that dominated games so he came up with this super ambient score that does a great job of radiating menace in the dungeon areas. Naturally he got targeted by a woman in 2019 after 20 years working on everything from Total Annihilation to Skyrim and his career is dead.

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Reposting by question from the bottom of last thread, hopefully not a faux pas:
The OSTs of Metroid Prime 1-3 are amazingly unique music. They perfectly embody the atmosphere of the games, teetering between beautiful enigma and tragic fury, almost more than the rest of the game can hold, through a shimmering cascade of ethereal synths.

Composer Kenji Yamamoto offers little insight on any possible influences that I've read, and I've never found anything much like it, aside from the (probably coincidental) OST by Peter Miller for the movie Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds (Warning: Contains Australium) that I stumbled across. I'm admittedly not much of a music person, so my range of familiarity might be the problem here, but it seems unlike anything else.

>>316350 (OP) 
>Whatever happened to OCremix
Still going strong

>>316368
>2nd song
>it's real
Reminds me of Robo's Theme from Chrono Trigger

>>316451

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>>316359
My post was about the first image, not the second, and I mentioned Bananamatic because that was the Shmups Forum user it quoted.
Also, taking breaks is a good strategy if it's preceeded by sustained focus, as that focused effort primes your mind to work on the problem in the background in a more diffuse way while you rest. I forget the neurological explanation for it, but it's why the pomodoro technique of breaking up work into ~25min segments with 5min breaks is so effective, and part of why you sometimes wake up with the solution to a game puzzle you were stumped on the night before.

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If we're talking shmups, anyone got anything to say about Hellsinker? I'm struggling to find a working link anywhere for it that isn't IGGGames spyware and I just want some takes on it to see if it's worth the effort to really go digging to find it.

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>>316407
It's a masterpiece way more innovative than any CAVE slop.  Find it and play it, you won't regret it.

>>316389
>you sometimes wake up with the solution to a game puzzle you were stumped on the night before.
Did exactly this to get the Bahamut zero materia off the rocket ship in FF7. Fell asleep/woke up right at the panel, threw in the code then boogied on outta there. Real smooth. Was resetting all night before that.

>>316407
>Hellsinker
Found this while checking cs.rin.ru Haven't been there in quite some time so I can't vouch for this site, use whatever caution/safeguards you see fit
https://gamebounty.world/hellsinker-free-pc-download

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>>316442
I could listen to the whining all day why zoning out in some vidya if I weren't busy. What I find worst is that it gives off rent seeking vibes since their income relies on that one video game. 

> I am all for freedom of choice until things get worse for me too because retards are too braindead and have no self respect.
> Fuck them.
Very yes. Normalfags did the plastic age of vidya. 

>>316441
This is why the group or their press toady said it would only happen if any of the members was caught. Imagine a suicider barging into your house and say that he gonna blow up both of you if you don't order Pizzas for the entire town and also pay for them. That's situation Cocksaar finds itself in. 

>>316444
They. They also nuked all their crypto tokens yesterday.

>>316395
I hate anons like you.

>>316445
>They
Excuse me it is thon/thon

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>>316447
No, it's just that it's a team effort.

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>>316445
rare ENA mention

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>>316347
>entrap devs into my shithole country to make
It worked for North Korea.

>>316366
I want to fuck that fox.

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>>316412

>>316412
You shouldn't post ALL of your Ls. You should keep some of them to yourself.

>>316412
Anon, you don't want to fuck that fox. You want to fuck the fan art version that Captain Jingo made and are projecting that onto the original design.

>>316394
Everyone--EVERYONE used to have pretty interesting personal websites. I remember even Youtube channels used to have their own personal websites that were pretty interesting. Then there were those odd, popular one offs like homestarrunner, random individual webcomics, Geocities blogs, etc..
I remember frequenting a guy who would make weekly animated funny sonic gifs. Then he had a HDD crash, and everything was gone and he just quit after that.
I used to like finding very low viewed webcomics so me and like two other people could have our own little "club." One in particular the person had a webforum, and it was basically just me, some other guy, and the author, and that was it. It was really fun. Then one day the author made a bunch of really dark suicide-themed comics and stopped replying to the two of us, and we went our separate ways.
I used to have a personal webforum for some people I knew in High School.
Just personal shit like that, you know?

>>316432
This is another reason why everyone who ever had any level of decision-making authority at Google needs to go to the torture chamber, but I think there's a more prosaic explanation - the global economy was suicided twice in the back of the head and suddenly nobody had the time or energy to waste on anything other than releasing dopamine and making ends meet. Social media is designed to release dopamine, actual good shit isn't. You also have to consider the imposter effect of the professional-level comics like Girl Genius and even blogs like (to name a mainstream example from the time) Daring Fireball making it seem like you had to be as good as them or it wasn't worth your time to try, which isn't guaranteed to be intentional but was definitely damaging.

For what it's worth, FC2 still has 1GB of webspace for free, just like Geocities.

>>316435
>imposter effect of the professional-level
Now that most people online are totally aware of it, that seems to have been consciously taken to heart anyways, even moreso for social media compared to your own website, not as a disincentive to post but as a disincentive to be genuine.

The whole "gen z aspiring as children to be streamers instead of astronauts" thing

>>316435
>This is another reason why everyone who ever had any level of decision-making authority at Google needs to go to the torture chamber
This reminds me of so many more websites. Like now if you search Kirchoff's law on Google, you get Wikipedia, and then like a bunch of professional tutoring academies. It used to be if you searched Kirchoff's law on Google you'd get off color personal University websites like this:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Class/Etron/p3500Lab1.html
Or if you search a movie, three of the top ten results would be fan sites of the movie. Like really personal fan sites made in some dude's garage.
If you searched FFIV, you wouldn't get the Fandom ad infested garbage, you'd get a guy's fan Geocities websites in the top ten.
I've been trying to find ways to filter out "corpo" websites (that's not a great name for them, but you get what I mean) for years, and I've had mixed results. Webrings, curlie, and Wiby are about the only things I've found. Even stuff like Millionshort keep bringing up these "corpo" websites. Even SearX instances don't really work.

>>316400
Do you happen to know the source of this.

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>>316291
No, it was due to an accident involving a warp bubble experiment by the doctor's son. It trapped her in an ever-shrinking parallel pocket universe that retroactively eliminated anything outside itself from ever having existed within it, except for her memories.

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>>316300
Man, Wil Wheaton just destroys everything he touches. (Still better than nu-Trek though.)

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>Double Fine you pay twice goes independent again becuase they lost their suger daddy
>fire most if not all the white straight men left
>do a kikestarter
Wait, didn't they have their own version of kikestarter to scam devs and gaymers?

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>>316414
Did they actually announce mass layoffs when they had the perfect moment to sweep it into the general purge at microshaft right before they were spun off?

>>316423
Yes, they went independent and then they fired devs.

>>316289
I saw 6 uniques + myself and I'm just cooking up some snacks right now

three

zero

>not q3 or ut99/ut2004
:(

Damn

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>>316297
The price of everything, including food are going to go up. Maybe there will also be shortages of food, depending on where you live.

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>>316306
Just think: the PS5 is so worthless that you probably won't even be able to trade it for food in a famine.

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>>316304
Sure, but I think they need to go all the way, pop the screen off to go as cheap as possible. With all the Lepton/Fex work they've been doing for the Steam Frame if x86 isn't cheap enough they could outright get commodity Android SoCs and slap SteamOS on the things.

>>316303
Is it strange that I feel consoles should have some kind of fun gimmick as a rule? Otherwise, why would you get that over a decent PC?

>>316308
Even years ago I though they should just slap the Steam Decks chipset on a mini-ITX board and sell it to kids who are playing on second hand office PCs, as that would have been a decent upgrade before the prices went crazy.

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>>316296
That's not bad. Still not going to play it though.
>>316153
It kind of puts it into perspective how minor our differences and fights are once a real bunch of obnoxious fags roll into town.
>>316040
I'd probably like you to tell me the sauce on that.
>>315716
pic related

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>>316311
>I'd probably like you to tell me the sauce on that.
It's Naga from Slayers

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>>316312
Well I know that!

>>316313
I think it's just from the manga but I don't know the source

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>>316313
>click "Reverse" link
>1st result
It's an illustration from the 4th Special novel, sadly that was beyond what they adapted as OVAs.

>>316040 
Patrician taste, BTW.