the cloud/aerith stuff gets even weirder when you remember how many character traits of aerith fans actively erase so that she's just innocent smiling wife girl
I very much remember her as being that way and I've been trying to deconstruct why that's the case ever since I listened to the recent Waypoint
I mean that's basically how she's portrayed in every appearance outside of FF7 itself.
And just old fashioned cultural osmosis
Kind of like coming into EVA in 2019 and wondering who the fuck thought deeply traumatized adolescents were the perfect vector for merchandising everything.
I mean, isn't America just now getting over a big trend of that in YA books starting with like, Hunger Games?
I love that this episode went from jokes about leaving Stir-Fry to die to him delivering the best material in the show so far. Tim is incredible at adapting, Spiders aren't dads is the best laugh I've had in a while.
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the cloud/aerith stuff gets even weirder when you remember how many character traits of aerith fans actively erase so that she's just innocent smiling wife girl
I very much remember her as being that way and I've been trying to deconstruct why that's the case ever since I listened to the recent Waypoint
I mean that's basically how she's portrayed in every appearance outside of FF7 itself.
And just old fashioned cultural osmosis
Kind of like coming into EVA in 2019 and wondering who the fuck thought deeply traumatized adolescents were the perfect vector for merchandising everything.
I mean, isn't America just now getting over a big trend of that in YA books starting with like, Hunger Games?
Not even close to the same kind of saturation and missing the mark on characters:
the cloud/aerith stuff gets even weirder when you remember how many character traits of aerith fans actively erase so that she's just innocent smiling wife girl
I very much remember her as being that way and I've been trying to deconstruct why that's the case ever since I listened to the recent Waypoint
I mean that's basically how she's portrayed in every appearance outside of FF7 itself.
And just old fashioned cultural osmosis
Sure, and either of those might be it (although I think the only outside material I consumed would've been Advent Children), or at least might be part of it.
I'm also considering the person I was as an eleven year old, and how his perceptions may have shaped things. Like, I played the game a couple of times in middle school (and maybe early high school), but I have not interacted with it in any way since then, aside from like, general cultural stuff and living on this message board for all these years.
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cultural osmosis version of FF7 done the original work dirty.
the cloud/aerith stuff gets even weirder when you remember how many character traits of aerith fans actively erase so that she's just innocent smiling wife girl
I very much remember her as being that way and I've been trying to deconstruct why that's the case ever since I listened to the recent Waypoint
I mean that's basically how she's portrayed in every appearance outside of FF7 itself.
And just old fashioned cultural osmosis
Kind of like coming into EVA in 2019 and wondering who the fuck thought deeply traumatized adolescents were the perfect vector for merchandising everything.
I mean, isn't America just now getting over a big trend of that in YA books starting with like, Hunger Games?
Not even close to the same kind of saturation and missing the mark on characters:
I listened to two podcast episodes that have people from the forums, first Teenagers With Attitude 199:
"Tell me more about this 'brunch of grown adults.'"
"Brunch is basically an excuse to get drunk at ten o'clock on a Sunday, right?"
"I remember maybe three or four episodes back."
"Where did Katherine get these children?"
"I don't ever want us to just let slide the fact that she got thrown into the future and aged ten years. I do not want us to ever let that go."
"If you have a device that you point at something and then activate and it turns that into gold, that's not a curse. That kicks ass."
"Bulk and Skull have discovered a device that can make infinite wealth, and the first thing they do is buy hot dogs." well hot dogs are pretty good
"they're gonna say 'golderize' about a hundred times"
"My guess is it's more expensive to paint the suit than it is to paint him." you know Austin St. John's just gonna have to wash that paint off on his own time, he's not getting paid for that, and they would have to pay people to wash the suit
"This is the most powerful thing they've fought yet, and it's just a fucking statue, and I love it."
"Katherine gets off on humiliating the men in her life."
oh no they're let's placing characters
"I'm gonna save us some time and just tell you I'm gonna be voting against Tommy for the rest of the bracket."
"Even if it weren't racist it would still be bad!"
"I'm gonna let you know I'm gonna vote Skull for every single one."
"My only experience with ranking in this way is Let's Place, and I always feel dirty after Let's Place"
"We're about to do our 200th one of these fuckin' things y'all."
and second, a new podcast, Eidolon! It's an actual play podcast with two campaigns on alternating weeks, Eidolon Pop, which is a persona-style one, and Eidolon Rock, which is a jojo one. These are my notes for Eidolon Pop episode 0 (the episode 0s are character creation episodes like in FATT.)
"I don't know if people have like, watched any news at all lately, but, um, hell is happening"
"my character came up with a class with the hopes that no one would get into it, so he could just kind of chill, and have a free period"
naruto is kind of persona if you think about it
"I'm very cool and I know all about music."
"you can't just go turning people into apples on me"
"He doesn't have a nickname but he really wishes he did."
"Big furry party here."
"So cards on the table, I wanted to kind of make my character a bit like the Clock King" okay that adds up
"a topic on which your brain is a comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium" god damnit
"Let me summon my giant spider to tie up those loose ends."
"I did have a philosophy course in college that only had three students in it."
"I keep giving my characters hobbies I don't know anything about"
"You can relate to multiple people on similar levels." "I can?"
"We both love The Matrix."
"Bugs are people too."
"I'm gonna print up t-shirts that say 'Circumstances Happen.'"
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the cloud/aerith stuff gets even weirder when you remember how many character traits of aerith fans actively erase so that she's just innocent smiling wife girl
I very much remember her as being that way and I've been trying to deconstruct why that's the case ever since I listened to the recent Waypoint
I mean that's basically how she's portrayed in every appearance outside of FF7 itself.
And just old fashioned cultural osmosis
Kind of like coming into EVA in 2019 and wondering who the fuck thought deeply traumatized adolescents were the perfect vector for merchandising everything.
I mean, isn't America just now getting over a big trend of that in YA books starting with like, Hunger Games?
Not even close to the same kind of saturation and missing the mark on characters:
I'm playing skyrim on ps4 with mods while listening to punch up the jam
I'm also doing the first half of this which means I've just been messing with mods all morning and now I think I'm finally done. Are you using Forests of Skyrim because it's crazy how different it makes parts of that game feel.
I just keep adding more shit and messing with load order and watching youtube reviews of ps4 mods and barely playing the game, thankfully I have a pretty limited selection of good mods on ps4
I am using both forests of skyrim and MAP project hippie and various town mods that also add trees and it is wild how just putting a bunch of trees everywhere makes everything look better, fuck tundras
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one could make an argument that evangelion merchandising has eclipsed neon genesis evangelion itself and become the primary text, such that rei and asuka are understood as fred flintstone of pebbles commercials or snoopy of metlife are by people who know nothing of the flintstones or pebbles
My thoughts on this very serious matter are that I would obviously choose Tifa over Aerith.
But I'm not Cloud.
And I think Aerith is better for Cloud.
Aerith is bringing in some baggage into their flirtation that is hard to get into without getting too spoilery. But yeah, she is definitely the more fun-loving, snarky of her and Tifa. It's oveshadowed by a lot of the other plot with her in the game, but early on she's a pretty fun and friendly character. You get to see more of it in Crisis Core, if I remember correctly as well.
My thoughts on this very serious matter are that I would obviously choose Tifa over Aerith.
But I'm not Cloud.
And I think Aerith is better for Cloud.
Aerith is bringing in some baggage into their flirtation that is hard to get into without getting too spoilery. But yeah, she is definitely the more fun-loving, snarky of her and Tifa. It's oveshadowed by a lot of the other plot with her in the game, but early on she's a pretty fun and friendly character. You get to see more of it in Crisis Core, if I remember correctly as well.
My thoughts on this very serious matter are that I would obviously choose Tifa over Aerith.
But I'm not Cloud.
And I think Aerith is better for Cloud.
Aerith is bringing in some baggage into their flirtation that is hard to get into without getting too spoilery. But yeah, she is definitely the more fun-loving, snarky of her and Tifa. It's oveshadowed by a lot of the other plot with her in the game, but early on she's a pretty fun and friendly character. You get to see more of it in Crisis Core, if I remember correctly as well.
Crisis Core: a shockingly good game
Eh...the gameplay had its moments, and I enjoyed a lot of the stuff with Zack when it came to expanding from the original game, but everything with Genesis was baaaaadddd.
honestly i had no idea until recently that ff7 starts you out as part of an ecoterrorist cell
that's the part i feel like cultural osmosis shorted me on, like, what the hell. how could half watching my roommate play kingdom hearts fail me like this
Aerith was in a relationship once, but it went south when her boy died, and now she's very—we'll say she's goals-oriented, and not looking for a relationship
now I also listened to Totally Reprise 142 because I'm trying to fuckin finish persona 3 the answer
"I think they were stale but I just kept eating them."
"Jesus does literally send a bunch of demons into a group of 30-50 feral hogs, so I mean, I think there's some rich ground here."
"Maybe we need some more Christian memes, hang on."
"Moses, shut up and get the fuck out, I'm about to worship this golden idol."
"'Anime fighters that don't look like anime,' I'm looking it up right now." "Great. Good google search."
"Their whole idea this time was 'what if we drew Clover like a sexy pirate,' huh?" "Yeah, that was pretty much the whole episode."
"He's just like the human pirate that would host Spongebob Squarepants specials." fuck that is him
"Someone was going into the wrong theater, and I just went arr, you're going to the wrong port."
"I haven't had oranges in 50 years, girls."
"And then the next 15 minutes are useless."
"I want to play the Obra Dinn game of this."
"I'm extremely pro-theft these days."
"Everyone on Earth is dead now." it's one of those episodes
"The sun can't get SMALLER."
did I know about the president wanting to buy greenland? I can't even remember anymore
"I tried to drink LIQUID with PAPER, how do you think it went?"
"and then Clover swordfights Captain Salty for, 7,000 years."
"pirates have pacts with old sea gods that everyone's forgotten, and that's gonna come in handy."
"Kairi Sane feet"
"Y'all fuckin' suck."
Playing 3 going on 4 Trails games this lockdown has taught me, your own true love is either your step-sister, childhood friend, or someone you accidentally groped.
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Do the Tips at the Table podcasts cover any of the technical aspects of using Roll20? I've just started to do that and I'm finding myself a little overwhelmed with it.
@SirEtchwarts listen to the latest episode of Tips at the Table.
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I'm playing skyrim on ps4 with mods while listening to punch up the jam
I'm also doing the first half of this which means I've just been messing with mods all morning and now I think I'm finally done. Are you using Forests of Skyrim because it's crazy how different it makes parts of that game feel.
I just keep adding more shit and messing with load order and watching youtube reviews of ps4 mods and barely playing the game, thankfully I have a pretty limited selection of good mods on ps4
I am using both forests of skyrim and MAP project hippie and various town mods that also add trees and it is wild how just putting a bunch of trees everywhere makes everything look better, fuck tundras
This is what I'm rocking right now:
Unoffical Skyrim Patch
Phendrix Magic Reloaded Parts 1 & 2
ELE Interior Lighting Overhaul
Skyrim Restored
Magical College of Winterhold
Real of Lorkhan
Immersive Citizesn - AI Overhaul
Point the Way
Rain and Snow FX
Realistic Conversations
Better Loot Treasure Hunter Edition
Forgotten Dungeons
Hold Border Banners
Fallen Trees
The Midden Expanded
Better Horses
Better Vanilla Perks
Lattathunz
NPC Follower Gear & Gender Animation Tweaks
Sea of Ghosts
Dense Grass
Dragon Encounter Tweaks
Unlimited Spriniting
Dragon Priests Gear Overhaul
Riverstone Hut
Skyrim is Windy
The Valley of Peace
Were-Beast Encounter Tweaks
Immersive Patrols
Looter's Cave
Genuine Giants
Borderlands of Skyrim
Bridges of Skyrim
BIG: Ultimate Kills
Fantasy Followers
Fats Travel From Interiors
Tel Mos
Blackreach Map Markers
Improved Sounds
H.A.S.T.E
Lampposts of Skyrim: Special Edition
The Great Cities By Soldierofwar
Rich Merchants of Skyrim
Hold Riders
Caves of Morrowind
Extra Map Markers
Skyrim Vanity Kit
Path Stalkers
Various Wild
TNF - Whiterun
Weapons And Armor (SkyHBlades)
GET No More Dead Followers
Diverse Creatures and Bosses
New Grass / Green Skyrim
FOS Forests of Skyrim
IA92's Additional Face Presets
Obsidian Weathers
Lore Based Loading Screens
Original Race Heights (Morrowind)
DLC Integration
Character Editor - All In One Customization Pack
Project Hippie
Supreme and Volumetric Fog
Guard's Armor Replacer - Unique Looking Factions
Underwater Grass Deleted
WATER
Better Dressed NPCs
Frost Giants
Hearthfire Roads
World Map Clear
World Map Vibrant
Hobbitan by Ozymandy
Re-Color Replacer Pack
True Alteration Armor Visuals
Epic Realistic Enchantment Effects
JK's Skyrim / The Great Cities Compatible
Katana Pack
More Skeleton Avengers
Etheral Weapons
Missing Tempering Recipies Fix
Insignificant Object Remover
Vampire Knights
Wolf Blooded
Better Dark Elf Presets
IA92'S Epic Hair Colors
And the I think I'm done and I can actually play the game?
???
maybe
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ive actually been listening to less podcasts while at home. it was easier to absorb podcasts while doing mindless office work than it is while playing crusader kings or red dead redemption
If I've learned anything from media consumption it's that the childhood friend is who the protagonist always end up with, regardless of if they're actually the best choice.
Do the Tips at the Table podcasts cover any of the technical aspects of using Roll20? I've just started to do that and I'm finding myself a little overwhelmed with it.
SirEtchwarts listen to the latest episode of Tips at the Table.
There is a segment of Yakuza 5 that is what I wanted from Tokyo Mirage Sessions
It's really weird to be kinda let down by a game, and then play a whole-ass other game and go, "Oh, here's the thing I wanted"
It's ESPECIALLY weird when the franchises exist in entirely different genres
how many times have you heard the song by now
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Is there a Skyrim mod that just makes cities bigger
I get that they're supposed to be allegories of cities rather than cities proper but having a whole-ass world that's to scale and then having to pretend a place with 10 homes together to be a major urban center is jarring to say the least
Is there a Skyrim mod that just makes cities bigger
I get that they're supposed to be allegories of cities rather than cities proper but having a whole-ass world that's to scale and then having to pretend a place with 10 homes together to be a major urban center is jarring to say the least
I had a hard time understanding this as a kid and found jrpgs very confusing
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I mean, isn't America just now getting over a big trend of that in YA books starting with like, Hunger Games?
Steam Switch FC: 2799-7909-4852
Not even close to the same kind of saturation and missing the mark on characters:
Sure, and either of those might be it (although I think the only outside material I consumed would've been Advent Children), or at least might be part of it.
I'm also considering the person I was as an eleven year old, and how his perceptions may have shaped things. Like, I played the game a couple of times in middle school (and maybe early high school), but I have not interacted with it in any way since then, aside from like, general cultural stuff and living on this message board for all these years.
Ah yeah, fair enough, I forget how huge that marketing blitz was
"Brunch is basically an excuse to get drunk at ten o'clock on a Sunday, right?"
"I remember maybe three or four episodes back."
"Where did Katherine get these children?"
"I don't ever want us to just let slide the fact that she got thrown into the future and aged ten years. I do not want us to ever let that go."
"If you have a device that you point at something and then activate and it turns that into gold, that's not a curse. That kicks ass."
"Bulk and Skull have discovered a device that can make infinite wealth, and the first thing they do is buy hot dogs." well hot dogs are pretty good
"they're gonna say 'golderize' about a hundred times"
"My guess is it's more expensive to paint the suit than it is to paint him." you know Austin St. John's just gonna have to wash that paint off on his own time, he's not getting paid for that, and they would have to pay people to wash the suit
"This is the most powerful thing they've fought yet, and it's just a fucking statue, and I love it."
"Katherine gets off on humiliating the men in her life."
oh no they're let's placing characters
"I'm gonna save us some time and just tell you I'm gonna be voting against Tommy for the rest of the bracket."
"Even if it weren't racist it would still be bad!"
"I'm gonna let you know I'm gonna vote Skull for every single one."
"My only experience with ranking in this way is Let's Place, and I always feel dirty after Let's Place"
"We're about to do our 200th one of these fuckin' things y'all."
and second, a new podcast, Eidolon! It's an actual play podcast with two campaigns on alternating weeks, Eidolon Pop, which is a persona-style one, and Eidolon Rock, which is a jojo one. These are my notes for Eidolon Pop episode 0 (the episode 0s are character creation episodes like in FATT.)
"my character came up with a class with the hopes that no one would get into it, so he could just kind of chill, and have a free period"
naruto is kind of persona if you think about it
"I'm very cool and I know all about music."
"you can't just go turning people into apples on me"
"He doesn't have a nickname but he really wishes he did."
"Big furry party here."
"So cards on the table, I wanted to kind of make my character a bit like the Clock King" okay that adds up
"a topic on which your brain is a comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium" god damnit
"Let me summon my giant spider to tie up those loose ends."
"I did have a philosophy course in college that only had three students in it."
"I keep giving my characters hobbies I don't know anything about"
"You can relate to multiple people on similar levels." "I can?"
"We both love The Matrix."
"Bugs are people too."
"I'm gonna print up t-shirts that say 'Circumstances Happen.'"
IS, really. It never really stopped.
Tifa/Aerith though
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go on
But I'm not Cloud.
And I think Aerith is better for Cloud.
I just keep adding more shit and messing with load order and watching youtube reviews of ps4 mods and barely playing the game, thankfully I have a pretty limited selection of good mods on ps4
I am using both forests of skyrim and MAP project hippie and various town mods that also add trees and it is wild how just putting a bunch of trees everywhere makes everything look better, fuck tundras
Yeah but Cloud is the worst part of Final Fantasy 7
Why would you want to do what is best for him?
HE'S MY BOY
Aerith is bringing in some baggage into their flirtation that is hard to get into without getting too spoilery. But yeah, she is definitely the more fun-loving, snarky of her and Tifa. It's oveshadowed by a lot of the other plot with her in the game, but early on she's a pretty fun and friendly character. You get to see more of it in Crisis Core, if I remember correctly as well.
what if the girls held hands and kissed
(I have never played more then a few hours of FF7 and know only through culture osmosis and gay fan art)
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Crisis Core: a shockingly good game
Eh...the gameplay had its moments, and I enjoyed a lot of the stuff with Zack when it came to expanding from the original game, but everything with Genesis was baaaaadddd.
that's the part i feel like cultural osmosis shorted me on, like, what the hell. how could half watching my roommate play kingdom hearts fail me like this
Yeah I don't know Cloud, outside of Smash Bros and Kingdom Hearts
So all I know is that he's edgy, his Player 2 outfit is better, and that Lance Bass wants to kick his ass
god if ONLY they got lance bass back as sephiroth for ff7r
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I'm surprised they brought this back. It just seemed to not gel with the 2-3 hour format at all.
"Jesus does literally send a bunch of demons into a group of 30-50 feral hogs, so I mean, I think there's some rich ground here."
"Maybe we need some more Christian memes, hang on."
"Moses, shut up and get the fuck out, I'm about to worship this golden idol."
"'Anime fighters that don't look like anime,' I'm looking it up right now." "Great. Good google search."
"Their whole idea this time was 'what if we drew Clover like a sexy pirate,' huh?" "Yeah, that was pretty much the whole episode."
"He's just like the human pirate that would host Spongebob Squarepants specials." fuck that is him
"Someone was going into the wrong theater, and I just went arr, you're going to the wrong port."
"I haven't had oranges in 50 years, girls."
"And then the next 15 minutes are useless."
"I want to play the Obra Dinn game of this."
"I'm extremely pro-theft these days."
"Everyone on Earth is dead now." it's one of those episodes
"The sun can't get SMALLER."
did I know about the president wanting to buy greenland? I can't even remember anymore
"I tried to drink LIQUID with PAPER, how do you think it went?"
"and then Clover swordfights Captain Salty for, 7,000 years."
"pirates have pacts with old sea gods that everyone's forgotten, and that's gonna come in handy."
"Kairi Sane feet"
"Y'all fuckin' suck."
It's really weird to be kinda let down by a game, and then play a whole-ass other game and go, "Oh, here's the thing I wanted"
It's ESPECIALLY weird when the franchises exist in entirely different genres
@SirEtchwarts listen to the latest episode of Tips at the Table.
This is what I'm rocking right now:
Phendrix Magic Reloaded Parts 1 & 2
ELE Interior Lighting Overhaul
Skyrim Restored
Magical College of Winterhold
Real of Lorkhan
Immersive Citizesn - AI Overhaul
Point the Way
Rain and Snow FX
Realistic Conversations
Better Loot Treasure Hunter Edition
Forgotten Dungeons
Hold Border Banners
Fallen Trees
The Midden Expanded
Better Horses
Better Vanilla Perks
Lattathunz
NPC Follower Gear & Gender Animation Tweaks
Sea of Ghosts
Dense Grass
Dragon Encounter Tweaks
Unlimited Spriniting
Dragon Priests Gear Overhaul
Riverstone Hut
Skyrim is Windy
The Valley of Peace
Were-Beast Encounter Tweaks
Immersive Patrols
Looter's Cave
Genuine Giants
Borderlands of Skyrim
Bridges of Skyrim
BIG: Ultimate Kills
Fantasy Followers
Fats Travel From Interiors
Tel Mos
Blackreach Map Markers
Improved Sounds
H.A.S.T.E
Lampposts of Skyrim: Special Edition
The Great Cities By Soldierofwar
Rich Merchants of Skyrim
Hold Riders
Caves of Morrowind
Extra Map Markers
Skyrim Vanity Kit
Path Stalkers
Various Wild
TNF - Whiterun
Weapons And Armor (SkyHBlades)
GET No More Dead Followers
Diverse Creatures and Bosses
New Grass / Green Skyrim
FOS Forests of Skyrim
IA92's Additional Face Presets
Obsidian Weathers
Lore Based Loading Screens
Original Race Heights (Morrowind)
DLC Integration
Character Editor - All In One Customization Pack
Project Hippie
Supreme and Volumetric Fog
Guard's Armor Replacer - Unique Looking Factions
Underwater Grass Deleted
WATER
Better Dressed NPCs
Frost Giants
Hearthfire Roads
World Map Clear
World Map Vibrant
Hobbitan by Ozymandy
Re-Color Replacer Pack
True Alteration Armor Visuals
Epic Realistic Enchantment Effects
JK's Skyrim / The Great Cities Compatible
Katana Pack
More Skeleton Avengers
Etheral Weapons
Missing Tempering Recipies Fix
Insignificant Object Remover
Vampire Knights
Wolf Blooded
Better Dark Elf Presets
IA92'S Epic Hair Colors
And tonight I'm gonna add
Supreme Storms
Volumetric Fog
Dual Wield Blocking
Bonemold Armor Retextured
Enhanced Draw Distance
Scholar's Eye
Modified Inns
Effective Blocking
Mage Grip
And the I think I'm done and I can actually play the game?
???
maybe
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
I'll drop it in the queue, thanks!
how many times have you heard the song by now
I get that they're supposed to be allegories of cities rather than cities proper but having a whole-ass world that's to scale and then having to pretend a place with 10 homes together to be a major urban center is jarring to say the least
I had a hard time understanding this as a kid and found jrpgs very confusing
Oh somewhere close to infinity
That's... interesting, though
I think the biggest thing jumping out at me about FF7 is that it's WAY goofier than its reputation
Like the game just played a joke on me during a huge dramatic moment where I had to literally run up 60 flights of stairs
That's silly in a way I never realized this game was
Also so far it's just kind of making me wish I was playing Arc the Lad 2 instead
Fuck that game's good
http://www.audioentropy.com/