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#1 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Super Hero Movie Epidemic » 336 weeks ago
I went from movies being my favorite form of art to watching maybe 5-6 a year. I have a giant DVD collection. Movies today are totally fucked because of these comic book and cartoon nerds.
#2 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR soundchecks Slither » 337 weeks ago
Brett wrote:Guys, the Slither videos were recorded worse than my flip phone in 2006... are we really gonna judge anything based on that bullshit? Yeah, Axl sounds like shit on it and so does everyone else, that's how fucking shitty the Slither videos are. At least wait and hear half decent shit before you start crying like schoolgirls.
Fernando, is that you?
Good going, dipshit. You proved everything I said.
#3 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR soundchecks Slither » 337 weeks ago
Guys, the Slither videos were recorded worse than my flip phone in 2006... are we really gonna judge anything based on that bullshit? Yeah, Axl sounds like shit on it and so does everyone else, that's how fucking shitty the Slither videos are. At least wait and hear half decent shit before you start crying like schoolgirls.
#4 Re: The Sunset Strip » Ghost » 338 weeks ago
I’ve given the album two good listens since it came out today.
It’s pretty good but i have a few complaints.
-First, at 40 minutes it’s a little short, especially considering 3 of the tracks are instrumentals.
-We already heard the best songs before we even had this. Rats and Dance Macabre are just incredible tunes, but the drop off to the next tier of songs is steep.
-Too ballad heavy. It needs a Mummy Dust-type rocker. If it had one more heavy tune, it solves all three of these issues.It’s ballsy having two full-length instrumentals. I like that courage. 30 years later i’m still waiting for Slash to have that type of courage.
Slash did have "Watch This", which was awesome, but at the same time, I think the best riffs you have should go to create the best song - and that's usually with lyrics.
Thanks for the review, bud. It put my expectations in check for this album and since I did buy it on vinyl, I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than disappointed from too high expectations. Not that my expectations were super high, but I would have been a little irked at 3 instrumentals considering didn't the OG band quit before this release?
Either way, I'm still looking forward to it, I'll post in when my shipment comes in a week or so!
#5 Re: The Sunset Strip » Ghost » 338 weeks ago
Yeah, the video is also a reference to "the dancing plague" where people would just dance for no reason until they died.
That is a very interesting tidbit that is certainly well deserved, but I like to call it "paying tribute to Thriller" haha. This guy knows exactly what he's doing, he's taking inspiration from the best and I'm fine with that because the other option is depressing metal with overly violent/hard imagery just for the sake of it and because they don't understand the material they're inspired by. Kind of like Necrophagia would take quality b-horror films and make them look imbecilic with their dumb shit, these guys actually give respect and I'm ok with that.
#6 Re: The Sunset Strip » Ghost » 339 weeks ago
I learned about this album here, I think, and I randomly saw it on my Amazon thing and I thought... fuck it, I'm giving these guys a chance. The vinyl is beautiful and they have all the old school horror vibe (they steal everything visually in the Rats video from other horror films - but at least they are artistic and visual about it, like KISS, but to a hardcore horror fan, despite the average viewer not having a clue it's all stolen). At least it isn't Rob Zombie retardation... well besides the white horse in the video... which is also akin to spaghetti western ideals where he who rides the white horse is a ghost.
#7 Re: Guns N' Roses » Unseen footage Pro Shot - Saskatoon, SK, Ca 1993 » 339 weeks ago
Someone on youtube re-uploaded this (in addition the OG upload), and if he's here, thank you. This is the show from my neck of the woods my uncle went to back in the day. Gonna get him hammered and stoned some day and show it to him. Downloading it now.
#8 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 346 weeks ago
I really like your pinball machine, Brett. Is it just a flat screen turned sideways?
Yeah, it is. And for what it's worth, you can use the larger sideways screen to run vertical games like Donkey Kong or Centipede in an aspect ratio more suitable for the games, if you wanna slide a new window down to it. It's kinda cool, but I usually just run it off the "backglass" anyways.
Great to hear the Pi is even doing N64 decent enough these days. If I didn't have an iCade I bought (it's basically a mini bluetooth arcade cabinet to use with a tablet), I'd want to build a bartop cabinet, but it's overkill and wasting money at this point with the amount of stuff I have. I have a Hori Tekken fightstick that's wireless for PS3 that works with my Ouya and it's kinda hard to not want to play games on the huge screen with a wireless stick in comparison to building a smaller screen bartop.
I'm kind of surprised so many people here have cabinets though, for such a small forum. Pretty badass.
#9 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 346 weeks ago
IRISH OS1R1S wrote:Been wanting to do this for a few years and decided this is the time. Took about 2 weeks in total. 10,000+ games so far on her.
Friday drinking nights just got a lot more fun.
Very nice! You using a raspberry pi? I built something very similar a few months ago. It’s a lot of fun.
I really like your led buttons. You using Japanese or American style controls?
Do you guys find the Raspberry Pi good to use when running a lot of games. I have so much crap like this, but I have yet to try the Pi method. I know my Ouya that I use for emulation (and my Galaxy tablet for my iCade) won't run games like WWF Superstars, which isn't a really intensive game graphically for some reason and was worried about the Pi being similar.
I already have so many ways of playing these games, even a cost effective Pi seems like a waste of money. But I still find myself wanting to get one if only to tinker with.
I built this (I don't have any good pics on my PC) 
and it plays Virtual Pinball and I can make it run arcade and console games on the "backglass" if I so choose. I don't have a frontend set up and I feel like that'd be easy on a Pi since you can download packs with it being done for you from what I gather.
#10 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 352 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:https://www.yahoo.com/news/listening-se … 54901.html
So...this was probably pretty predictable...
I think we're going to have a pretty hard time making the distinction between school and prison in the near future.
I don’t understand why putting armed police officers or trained and armed teachers in the class room is so controversial. Either you want practical solutions or you don’t. There’s over 300 million guns out there. They’re not going anywhere.
Get a job you fucking idiot.
