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Doom - Did You Know Gaming?

9547bis says...

Missed musical rip-off/homage: 'Rise' by Pantera (E1M4).

Bonus fun fact: the main level designer for Doom 1 and Doom 2 was Sandy Petersen, the author of the classic Chaosium RPG "Call Of Chulhu" (which is a pretty big deal if you're into that sort of thing, as I was back then.)

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Rick Rubin: Punk Rock, Hip-Hop, Advantage of Big Companies

9547bis says...

Of course, you can name a record producer who said such thing.

Do you never get tired of using the Straw Man fallacy? Or maybe you don't know what it is and can't tell the difference between what liberals actually say and what you fantasize they would say?

Trancecoach said:

But, of course, the envy-fiends have their "reasons" as to why they think they should be paid that kind of money and/or deserve (like mobsters do) to have a a piece of his pie.

How Sony's Betamax lost to JVS' VHS Cassette Recorder

9547bis says...

Yes, but if even John Carmack admitted that programming a VCR was too complicated for him, we might as well consider that this kind of feature was not available to the layman. :-)

SquidCap said:

BetaMax cassette was 1h with the short play (and better quality), 2h with long play (later over 3h). Even on that machine he demonstrated..

How Sony's Betamax lost to JVS' VHS Cassette Recorder

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The World's Smallest Nation Is For Sale - Sealand

9547bis says...

Back on topic: this is not "the World's smallest nation". It's a micronation, i.e. it has not been recognized by any sovereign state, ever. There are fishing boats with more people and room than that, and they don't issue passports.

The World's Smallest Nation Is For Sale - Sealand

9547bis says...

You'll be glad to hear that such attempts actually happened with other micronations, and multiple times.

My favourite was the tiny Pacific island of Minerva (my only grief: they didn't call it 'Aynrandia'), which libertarians with too much money built up by pouring a few boatful of sand on top of the underlying reefs.
But being libertarians, the had no taxes. Having no taxes, they had no security forces. And having no security forces, a patrol boat from Tonga arrived, reclaimed the place, and told them in no uncertain terms to fuck off. The end.

There were other attempts, none as comical, but all of them equally doomed.

newtboy said:

Teabagger wannabe ex-patriots take note, here's your chance to create your libertarian free market utopia.

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oritteropo (Member Profile)

9547bis says...

206? Ouch.
But my comment was more general: things I think won't make it may skyrocket (HR Giger, scary robot), while others I consider a slam dunk will stutter or tank (Black Sabbeth, Manborg).
Due to The Sift's community size, I suspect a lot of it as more to do with timing than anything else, tho.

oritteropo said:

I'll second that... and cite the 206 music sifts in my pqueue as examples!

That said though, if the video is interesting they can also do quite well... and besides, many of us enjoy seeing them posted here even if they don't shoot to the top of the charts.

Black Sabbeth



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