Hmm. I wasn't too sure about this. I love indie games that focus on gameplay/style/story, but don't have the budget for high quality art/graphics, so I was afraid this might just be copying the style.

Nope. The orginal won a 2014 cyberpunk game jam written in 6 days by two brothers, playable here:
https://timsoret.itch.io/the-last-night

I haven't played through it yet, but this shows promise.

Incidentally, it intentionally copies the styles on Blade Runner and Flashback.

This is on a late night satellite TV pay channel called BSスカパー. BS = Broadcast Satellite; スカパー = Scupper (?).

The show's title is 徳井義実のチャックおろさせて～や, which roughly translates to "Make Tokui Yoshimi's (the host's?) zipper come down!"

It is probably most akin to the soft core porn that airs late night on Cinemax or other pay channels in the U.S. (anyone remember HBO's "Real Sex" series?).

Nothing this raunchy is ever shown on broadcast TV anymore. 20 years ago it was a completely different story though... man that was a great faptastic time to be a teenage boy in Japan!

BTW, this show won BS Scupper's 2015 Adult Show Award.

EDIT: Turns out Scupper is actually an abbrieviation of the channel's orginal title: Sky Perfect. I guess the proper way to write it would be SkyPer.

I won't go on about the worst as I'm just trying to forget them and it's boring.

FILMS
Dredd. Well cast, looks great, a lean story and a well wrought vision of Mega-City One. Loved it. The soundtrack is great as well.

The Avengers. More superhero films should be made like this, particularly when handling multiple characters. Better than any of the preceding films that built up to it.


GAMES
Far Cry 3. Haven't finished it but this is a wonderful open-world shooter/stalker/explore-em-up. A self-contained world that totally convinces.

X-Com. Great remake/reboot/whatever. This could have gone wrong so easily but speaking as a fan of the orginal 1994 classic, this got far more right than it got wrong.


BOOKS
Sadly, I don't recall reading much this year. In fact I may not have read a book at all. A friend is obsessed with Murakami so I may start there in 2013.


MUSIC
I'm accumulating music fairly organically and randomly from Youtube viewing, games and other sources. But I can't really recall any of the big releases this year. The one thing that made me smile though was Gangnam Style.

TV
Just Breaking Bad. TV is so bad in the UK right now I've long stopped watching it.

I understand when converting from digital to analog that quality is lost. But I never said anything about converting digital to analog...just analog vs digital.

I was mainly adressing the comment you made that "they were talking about transferring the recording from PC onto the disc" which is not what they said. It's what you assumed...and you could be right and you could be wrong. You also said "would it be stored somewhere first....say....in a digital format?" that is also an assumption...it could be coming from a digital format, it could be coming from an analog format...we don't know...they didn't say.

Believe it or not but it's not unheard of for an artist to provide master analog tapes when they know they will be putting their music to vinyl. It's also very common for reissues of of older recordings to be done using the orginal master analog tapes.>> ^charliem:

Oh dear...
How do you think the artists voice is transferred to the LP in the first place? Do you believe they do it straight from an analogue circuit through the mic to the LP, or would it be stored somewhere first....say....in a digital format?
If the conversion from analogue to digital is what 'ruins' the quality....then how can the quality be possibly restored by putting the digital signal onto an analogue format? Surely the missing information doesn't just appear out of quantum strangeness.....
Think about it for a minute.....and if your argument doesn't change, then perhaps you need to redress the way in which you consider yourself to think critically.
>> ^Grimm:
I missed that bit...the only thing I heard about a computer was when he said "a computer monitors the cuting and adjusts the spacings between the grooves".
Also don't confuse digital audio as being superior sounding to analog audio. It has taken many years for digital audio to compete the the sound quality of analog audio. Some audiophiles argue that it still isn't as good. But just because it's "digital" doesn't automatically make it sound better then analog. The real advantage that digital has over analog is that it does not degrade over time or from copy to copy.
Personally I think if you have a really good system I don't think you can tell the difference between a really good analog recording and a digital one except that over time the analog recording will degrade. I think the reason vinyl is making a comeback is that people who grew up with it miss the ritual, the touch, the smell, of taking a record out and putting it on the turntable and placing the needle on the record.
>> ^charliem:
>> ^schlub:
People "refuse to buy into the digital revolution" by purchasing an analogue medium produced from a digital source. Yeah, good work.

No kidding!!
I got to the bit where they were talking about transferring the recording from PC onto the disc and was thinking....hang on.......your reducing the information by quite a huge amount of the original recording, by going from digital to analogue....what?
WHAT? I dont get it.

What's an "orginal"?

Little dark but all I could find at the time that was in the orginal english.>> ^carneval:

dead and i really wanted to see this....

I had to listen again--Ha, you're right!

>> ^MarineGunrock:

Anyone else thinks this sounds like @dag?

My son has the toy version of this...it used to be called Superplexus too...now they call them Perplexus and they don't have the cleaner seamless look that the orginal had.

http://www.amazon.com/Superplexus-3d-Game-of-Skill/dp/B000063JOZ

I was thinking the same thing>> ^Grimm:

I think it has something to do with how their eye focuses on things. I think pigeons have it to. I always thought chickens and pigeons "bobbed" there head when they walked but after seeing this I think they are just holding their head still while their body moves.

>> ^kymbos:

They discuss it for all of 15 seconds!
Lucky for you Lewis Black is funny no matter what he's talking about.


Lucky for me? I didn't make the title, I only copied and shortened it from the orginal YT poster.... Please address your comment appropriately.

>> ^MaxWilder:

I like all their stuff, together and solo. I'm surprised this hasn't been sifted before now.
Also, I found a video with the original song (I think).


Yep, that's the original. There's also a Peter Gabriel version, but yeah, no.

I like all their stuff, together and solo. I'm surprised this hasn't been sifted before now.

Also, I found a video with the original song (I think).

while finishing up my university education, i found work in honolulu in a very upscale restaurant overlooking waikiki beach -- this place had fantastic food, an unbelievable view and a great reputation, such that their employees (particularly waitstaff) stayed on for years and years - the average age of the waitstaff was ~35-40, and this was their career, not just some tide-me-over summer work -- as well, they were all very well educated, with most speaking at least 3-4 different languages

of course i couldn't enter the job at the waitstaff level, because those at the top of this hierarchy never left -- i began as a dishwasher, and learned as i worked 'how to' and 'all about' every aspect of the restaurant's food service and preparation business - we 'lower levels' would be routinely quizzed by the chef and management about such bizarre things as wine varietals and the history of the different wine-making regions, the history and ingredients of things like 'worchestershire sauce', as well as every ingredient and what amounts in each and every dish our restaurant prepared, as well as our knowledge of the hawaiian islands and interesting places our, primarily tourists, customers could enjoy -- i worked hard at this and eventually excelled over my co-workers, thus quickly rising to a position of 'senior' busboy - then i was allowed to clear plates and refill water glasses

i eventually rose to the position of 'backwaiter' whose job was basically to do all the 'dirtywork' of a 'frontwaiter' - the frontwaiter being primarily the frontman of a closely knit team overseeing the pleasurable dining of those customers assigned to us of a particular evening (this was done very carefully, going so far as to assign a german or japanese speaking waitstaff team to a german or japanese-speaking table of tourists, respectively)

continuing to learn and display an ever-growing knowledge of foods, wines, liquors, local culture, as well as as decorum and panache... i eventually was promoted to frontwaiter when one of those coveted positions opened up because of a staff member being hurt in a terrible car accident -- this meteoric rise took me almost 2.5 years

as a frontwaiter, i had the ultimate responsibility for my server team - such that i could, at an appropriate remove, watch my tables and anticipate any and all needs of my guests, dispatching my team members with a nod, a glance, or a simple unobtrusive gesture to immediately comply with whatever i felt needed to be done to make our guests' experience perfect - like a team of spies, my staff would report to me, e.g., which of our guests was eating the most slowly... so that i could anticipate when the last dish of the previous course would likely be cleared away so that the next dish could be served in as timely a fashion as possible - we all knew the cooking times of the next course, and would instruct the chef's team of when to begin the preparation of the next course based on which dish of said course would take the longest to prepare - as well, replacement cutlery was already on its way to the table before a guest's implement had completed its fall to the floor due to a patron's clumsy elbow or the like

after another year of this, i was promoted to assistant manager of the restaurant, where i would oversee the 'front of the house' and the individual frontwaiter teams working seamlessly with both the kitchen and barstaff

i say all of this as a way to make some here understand that, imho, there was simply no way that an hourly wage or salary could have created the pride and dedication to excellence that the tips from our commensurate service often brought - it would boggle your minds to know the number of times our customers showed their generous appreciation of our attempts to make their evening (and entire vacation in the islands) as memorable as possible

on one particular evening, an elderly australian couple came in for dinner, obviously tourists - the hostess informed me that they had presented an 'entertainment card' upon being seated -- now, this e-card is a popular facet of tourism locales, whereby the tourist buys a fat book of coupons for both goods and services available around the islands - this typically cost them us$30 and it came with a sort of credit card that could be presented in lieu of toting around this cumbersome book of offers -- in our case, the e-card entitled the holder to one free entree of equal of lesser value for every regularly priced entree purchased - the book further stipulated that a condition of using this offer, the e-card holder 'could be' automatically service charged (15%) as a gratuity, and that to be in compliance with the offer, the gratuity would be based on the original, undiscounted total of their meal

as we were very near our closing time, and my staff had had a long evening of it... as well as the pugnacious and crass demeanor of the elderly australian gentleman, i offered to serve as their front waiter, rather than have one of my hard-working staff suffer under his tight-fisted and surly deprecations

i proceeded to give them, imho, one of the best dining experiences of their lives, and at the close of the evening, i presented the gentleman with his check... noting both the orginal and discounted bill, and that the check had been service charged at 15% of the original total - he paid by credit card, and after i had returned to collect the signed credit card slip, i noticed that he had 'lined-out' the place on the slip where the gratuity was printed, and then 'corrected' the total -- when i returned to top-off their coffees, i enquired if anything during their evening had been amiss - they responded that everything had been perfect -- i then politely broached the subject of their not leaving a tip -- the australian gentleman then garrulously countered that he didn't 'believe in tipping' - i gently pointed out the e-card policy through which they'd received the discounted price, and he responded with an obscenity

i asked him to produce his e-card again, and i quickly went to my office, photocopied the relevant pages of the entertainment-card book, the credit card slip with the the tip section lined out, and cut his e-card in half... the last of which i returned to him

the next day, he complained to the restaurant owner and the e-card company - but when i produced the relevant details, both of the above sided with me

was i in the wrong? imho, the fact is that there is service and then there is 'service' - the latter of which should certainly be more commensurately rewarded than the former... but some people just refuse to see it this way

>> ^Sarzy:
>> ^deathcow:
damn its like a "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" type musical affair, they are pretty F'ing serious about their musical numbers I guess

It is a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang musical affair.
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You can watch the original here.
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Oh, and parody.


Reminds me more of Step in Time from Mary Poppins...

And I love how the Cheer ad comes up for me when they say cheer in the song.

>> ^deathcow:
damn its like a "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" type musical affair, they are pretty F'ing serious about their musical numbers I guess


It is a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang musical affair.

<shameless self promotion>

You can watch the original here.

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Oh, and *parody.