Post by Ben Menix.

You know what hurts the most about Guild Wars 2?

The story is soooooooo baaaaaaaaaad.

UPDATE: Pardon my language, but I now have to use mouthwash after every cutscene and stretch my jaw a bit, cuz I spend so much time sucking Trahearne's ****.

F** you, Arenanet. F** you to hell. This is bullshit. Making the player character a subservient ass-licker to the writer's Mary Stu god-like nigh-perfect avatar is the laziest, stupidest most offensive prison ass r*** you could have done to the player. Jeeze, did not ONE F****** person every say during the writing process that this was NOT A GOOD IDEA!?! THAT IT'S STUPID TO MAKE THE PLAYER WORSHIP SOME NPC IN THE MOST GROVELLING WAY POSSIBLE?

Post by Ben Menix.

Videos below the fold. This is the kind of thing I actually spend a lot of time thinking about. Anyway, in the full post is a list of songs/videos found on Youtube. One can flowchart through these songs explaining what they all have to do with each other. This flowchart also, incidentally, explains the point in time when New Age and Synth Pop started transitioning to a new sound. If you're a fan of 80's music, none of these songs is a prime example of, I guess you would say, the fundament of what people think of with the 80's sound. However, most of this music represents a point at the sharpest part of the curve into a new style. In that, these songs are the most extreme marriage of Synth Pop, R & B and and Hip Hop. Well, in the context of the times, anyway.

For what it's worth, this was my favorite year.

Music can be accessed by clicking the link.

Post by Ben Menix.

This was too good to pass up...


Literally, the President is making a speech about how successful his foreign policy has been, while preparing to withdraw all U.S. civilians from Libya (via Marines) because the post-revolution country he helped create is falling apart.

Post by Ben Menix.

Brickmuppet shared this a few weeks ago. Not remarkable unless you like the song, but the timing and arrangement is good. Reminds me that I ought to try finishing Asobi ni Iku Yo someday. I just don't like harem anime, no matter how it's presented.



I've seen bits of this one before, but not all of it. Or rather, I think I've seen this same concept before. This particular video was done in the last few years.



And now for something completely different:



Incidentally, I have suspected for a while and just now confirmed that the twitter feed to the right is still not working.

Answer is below the fold...

I always liked Taylor Dayne. I've been working through her complete discography to try to figure out how such a brilliant performer, with a unique voice, never had a good album.

Weird, innit?

Well, maybe not.

Kind of common, really.

Incidentally, the VEVO mix is terrible. I had the cassette single, which was a much better mix. Of course, the dynamic range was crap...