Kubilay Üner

I have learned, today, of the existence of Kubilay Üner, who is apparently the guy who composed that Bill & Ted Face the Music track I posted about last week (and which I've been listening to on loop in Winamp[1], off and on, for most of the past week).

I don't have the time at the current moment to really look into his stuff (which mostly seems to be from movie soundtracks?), but when it's described as stuff like "electronic noise score" or "oompah meets cowpunk" or "instruments, tones & ancestral vox" or "post-apocalyptic sci-fi - epic electronic" or "music for the stories in your head," then... it might very well be right up my alley. What little of it I have listened to so far has indeed been that, yeah.

[1] - Yes, I still use Winamp to listen to music on my desktop PC. If it ain't broke...

"Face the Music"

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Oh, and I meant to post this one the other day, too. This is, essentially, supposed to be what it would sound like if Jimi Hendrix, Mozart, Ling Lun, Louis Armstrong, and... a literal cavewoman on the drums... ...and also pretty much everyone else in all of existence... got together with Bill and Ted to have a jam session, for the intended purpose of saving the universe and time from collapsing in on itself. Somehow.

(Honestly, I still like "That Which Binds Us Through Time" better, though.)

"Capcom stirs the pot, saying 'game prices are too low'"

"And doesn't think a recession will stop people spending money on games."

Come on, modern video game industry crash.

C'moooooooooooooooon modern video game industry crash.

Seriously, I am so fucking sick and tired of that banal, worse-than-worthless "oh back in the old days we used to pay hundreds of dollars for video games (if you account for disgusting, ridiculous inflation) so really it's an absolute steal that new video games today 'only' cost $60-$100-plus[1] if you think about it actually" argument that keeps getting trotted out like some diseased, malformed show pony at least once every year or more.

Especially when "back in the old days" they had to pay for physical cartridges/discs, packaging, manuals, and other supplementary physical material, whereas today, they're just slapping some code up on Steam or GOG or their own proprietary online shops or whatever (and I don't give a flying fuck if it's code that "thousands of people spent billions of hours working on," it's still just fucking code).

Well, Capcom can charge whatever the fuck they want if they really feel the "need" to do so, I suppose, but I sure as flying fuck ain't paying it and haven't been paying it for over a decade now.

[1] - Which, of course, does not include any additional nickeling-and-diming-and-dollaring-and-"price-of-an-entire-full-ass-game-all-on-its-own"-ing microtransactions/DLC that is probably also involved after the initial too expensive purchase of the game itself, given that it's the goddamn modern video game industry after all. (And yet, morons stupidly buy that shit for that price, so why wouldn't they sell that shit for that price?)

"Kamiya Leaves Platinum, Blows Out Underwear | Castle Super Beast Clips"

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Out of all the games made by PlatinumGames, the only ones of them that I own are the first Bayonetta (I bought it on Steam a couple years ago for $5.33 [tax included] and have yet to even install it, let alone play it) and that kind of shitty The Legend of Korra game that doesn't even have a Steam page at all anymore (I got it for $3.74 on Steam back in 2015 and played it for a total of around two hours, according to Steam).

Basically, all I know about Platinum is the shit I've heard from the former Super Best Friends Play guys like Pat and Woolie here, and also Matt and Liam, talking about how great Platinum supposedly is/was.

That said, of Hideki Kamiya's Capcom/Clover games, Okami was great (enough so that I bought it three times for three different platforms over the years), and Viewtiful Joe was... ...uh... okay, I guess? And I played the first Devil May Cry game. I didn't and don't have any interest in playing any of the subsequent Devil May Cry games. And... I guess I played some of the earlier Resident Evil games back in the day, too? *shrug* They were all right, I suppose. I own a shit ton of the more modern RE games on Steam after buying them for dirt cheap, but I haven't felt bothered to play any of those. *shrug again*

"Should You Have A Baby? – SOME MORE NEWS"

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"Hi. Conservatives sure want Americans to have more children, but they don't seem to like children at all or want to support them in society! In today's episode, we look at the many challenges Americans face if they want to become parents, and the questions one has to answer to make such a decision."