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by shelter
Wed Oct 15, 2025 5:35 pm
Forum: Mixed Media
Topic: Let's talk about music!
Replies: 14
Views: 577

Re: Let's talk about music!

rip d'angelo... one of the great geniuses of the last 30 years of music

by shelter
Mon Oct 13, 2025 7:56 am
Forum: Mixed Media
Topic: dragon quest
Replies: 10
Views: 457

Re: dragon quest

yeah koichi sugiyama is scum, rip bozo. i think his music works a little better in chiptune form, 11's soundtrack is dire.

from what i understand it dq2's notoriety mostly comes from the last dungeon, where there are tons of enemies per encounter and a lot of instakills, plus some obtuse ...
by shelter
Mon Oct 13, 2025 7:25 am
Forum: Mixed Media
Topic: the sony playstation 2
Replies: 21
Views: 489

Re: the sony playstation 2

i've cooled a little on the ps2 in recent years compared to psx and saturn but shin megami tensei nocturne is still my favorite game so i'll always love it. plus it's backwards compatible so it encompasses the psx library too. mgs2, ico, breath of fire dragon quarter, boku no natsuyasumi 2 ...
by shelter
Sun Oct 12, 2025 5:20 pm
Forum: Mixed Media
Topic: dragon quest
Replies: 10
Views: 457

Re: dragon quest

oh god yeah trying to decipher a famicom game with no kanji must be so difficult (admittedly most of my jp knowledge is kanji lol). if you want to play the original version of 3 and don't want to deal with that again i'd recommend trying the translation quest retranslation/restoration , though i'm ...
by shelter
Sun Oct 12, 2025 10:35 am
Forum: Arts & Crafts
Topic: Post A Painting You Are Thinking About
Replies: 12
Views: 320

Re: Post A Painting You Are Thinking About

i've been thinking about getting a print of paul sérusier's the talisman (aka the aven river at the bois d’amour), 1888 to put on my wall

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i saw it irl a few years ago and it's really tiny
by shelter
Sun Oct 12, 2025 10:03 am
Forum: Mixed Media
Topic: dragon quest
Replies: 10
Views: 457

dragon quest

i love dragon quest... let's talk about dragon quest.

i've been practicing the speedrun of dq1 (game boy color remake) and casually playing dq3 (also gbc remake) and watching my gf play dq11.

1 is a perfect, elementally simple game with perfect numberfeel and a perfect world map, and the gbc ...
by shelter
Sun Oct 12, 2025 4:46 am
Forum: Mixed Media
Topic: movie thread
Replies: 20
Views: 682

Re: movie thread


Mina rented all of the heisei-era Gamera trilogy, directed by Shusuke Kaneko and written by Kazunori Ito (of .hack fame, at the very least). those movies, at least the first and the third, are a hoot. the Kow Otani (Shadow of the Colossus, Gundam Wing) soundtracks also go hard. it makes so much ...
by shelter
Sun Oct 12, 2025 4:42 am
Forum: Mixed Media
Topic: Let's talk about music!
Replies: 14
Views: 577

Re: Let's talk about music!

had an emo moment with this one yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZYkrY9yxC0
by shelter
Sat Oct 11, 2025 5:54 pm
Forum: Mixed Media
Topic: movie thread
Replies: 20
Views: 682

movie thread

what's everyone watching?

some bangers i've watched this year (loosely ranked):

showgirls (verhoeven, 1995)
hours for jerome (dorsky, 1982)
flowers of shanghai (hou, 1998)
arbor vitae (dorsky, 2000)
in vanda’s room (costa, 2000)
floating clouds (naruse, 1955)
the thing (carpenter, 1982)
sang titre ...