He's saying his exposure to the more refined version of OOT, Twilight Princess (and to lesser degree other modern Zelda games) made OOT just seem outdated to him.

People who were first exposed to OOT can't understand this position, as probably a lot feel OOT is a better game and that Twilight was a good copy but not great, even though it fixed a lot of the smaller issues.

Also OOT felt a lot more epic when it was released, both due to the current gens age back then and also just because back then it was epic in comparison to the games around it. Now it feels positively small and if you're going from modern games, back to old games, without a nostalgic experience to blend the flaws of time, you don't quite "get it" and would rather play the modern versions.

As he highlights, the Water Temple has some enigma as being brutal but I just played through it last night and he is pretty much bang on, it was hard for kids. I only played OOT when it came out so I had remembered nothing, it was brutally easy, I was actually kind of sad, I was some what looking forward to the hellish experience I remembered.

As I play OOT 3DS, I still think "Wow this really is the best game ever" but he still has very valid points.
>> ^direpickle:

Wait. Is he saying that he liked it, or that he didn't? I'm totally confused.

I know full well my procrastination habits, and my main method of getting rid of them? Don't... sort of... I write off the first hour or so of a working day to checking email, checking facebook, checking videosift, checking engadget etc. etc. And once that's done the new things to see and read etc. are pretty much all gone (and being on Austalian time, and most of the stuff coming out while I'm asleep, it doesn't drip feed that fast during the day) then I can really get stuck into work... plus I have sufficiently slacked that my mind is into a really good 'right, I'm relaxed and feel I need to be productive' mode.

It's that whole 'getting into the zone' thing with coding (yes, I'm a coder by trade).

So... yeah.

But I completely agree with his tips as once you're IN the zone you don't want to be out of it... and I find that headphones and music help a lot there. I have some albums that I have listened to literally THOUSANDS of times now (The first Enigma album is one)... because I can put them on, they get me into the right mindset and I stay there.

And I found his style charming, he's got a talent there

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kulpims is an enigma wrapped in a catfart.
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Wait, @kulpims promoted and downvoted...I am so confuzled.

A little background for those who are interested.

During the beginnings of WW2 the Polish saw that the Germans were amassing armies of some magnitude and were certain that they couldn't hope to fight them. So they worked on cracking the codes that the Germans were using for communication. This was a fantastic piece of mathematics and was eventually put into practice via a machine called the Bomba.

The poles handed a copy of their findings to the British intelligence through a man called Knox, who would eventually become Turing's superior at Bletchley Park. It was later found out that Knox was also a homosexual, despite being married.

The enigma machine was altered after the Bomba was made, Turing analysed the code and mathematics and created a machine known as the Bombe. This was capable of cracking the enigma code by looking for contradictions.

This machine was later re-invented as The Colossus machines by a gifted engineer, Tommy Flowers. These machines were capable of cracking an enigma message in roughly 10 minutes. By the end of the war, the British were cracking the broadcasted Enigma coded messages before the Germans could themselves as they decoded messages manually using the enigma machine.

In 1945, Turing was awarded the OBE for his wartime services. He committed suicide in 1954, although this is disputed, especially by his mother.

In 2009 as the result of a petition, a government apology was issued by Gordon Brown for the way Turing had been treated.

"Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him ... So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to Alan's work I am very proud to say: we're sorry, you deserved so much better."

I've had the chance to learn a lot about Bletchley park in my studies of computing history, and what a remarkable man Turing was.

A personal hero of mine too. *promote

That's a great idea! A similar thing happened in my elementary school for a mentally retarded kid. Their parents made a short documentary about what everyday life is like for him, how he perceives the world, and his helper dog and everything. All the kids in school watched it, and the teachers talked about it with the kids with a sincere attitude. People seemed to react in a considerate fashion instead of with hostility, and the kid made it through school just fine.

>> ^bareboards2:

Seems like there are two types of comments here -- ones that look at the moment on the video, and those that step back and put the video into a larger context and pontificate on the larger context.
And then there are arguments about who is right, when it isn't the same topic.
Bullying has always been a problem. No one has ever addressed it. How could we address it?
I read about a program in a UK school that tackled gay bullying, and it was pretty successful. The solution? Mandatory education on the contributions of gays to society. For example, they taught the kids about Alan Turing, the mathematical genius who was crucial to the Allied forces breaking the Nazi Enigma coding machine. Who was subsequently harassed and whose life was destroyed because he was gay.
That great post by the teacher shows change can happen if someone takes steps to make changes.
Humans have human responses. Casey did what Casey did.
What do we do now?

Seems like there are two types of comments here -- ones that look at the moment on the video, and those that step back and put the video into a larger context and pontificate on the larger context.

And then there are arguments about who is right, when it isn't the same topic.

Bullying has always been a problem. No one has ever addressed it. How could we address it?

I read about a program in a UK school that tackled gay bullying, and it was pretty successful. The solution? Mandatory education on the contributions of gays to society. For example, they taught the kids about Alan Turing, the mathematical genius who was crucial to the Allied forces breaking the Nazi Enigma coding machine. Who was subsequently harassed and whose life was destroyed because he was gay.

That great post by the teacher shows change can happen if someone takes steps to make changes.

Humans have human responses. Casey did what Casey did.

What do we do now?

I see this more as the scoring of a promo (it's only 1:43 after all) as opposed to a more indpendent music track, and in that context it's fine. I kind of enjoyed it too.

And yes, I could name off a bunch of electronic artists as well.. what if Plaid or Amont Tobin got their hands on scoring the film? Hmm.. would VNV Nation be up to the task? Screw it.. go with Curly M.C. and let Enigma score it.

Daft Punk is a good pick, they have a thing for using very old samples in their music.. and this movie hails from a very retro-film. ...did you notice the piece from the original score resampled into this music?

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Ditto Ryjkyj, ditto, plus I'm going to go and listen to Enigma now.

For Enigma the original always is, except maybe T.N.T. for the Brain and Sitting on the Moon.. this is, however, one of my favorite Enigma remixes.


Nice art too.

>> ^Hybrid:
Aaah, this brings back memories.
promote





I was just going to say that

Me too, thanks for the promote

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Aaah, this brings back memories.

*promote

Enigma is/was the pwn in the 90's.

He should look up "quantum critical states" and the relationship to the natural number e (golden ratio/spiral, Fibonacci sequence); also, e8 symmetry. Physics may get very interesting in the next decade.

Very nice cover, sounds "Enigma'ish".