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For shnits and grigs,
List some of the weirdest/worst/awesomeblossomest comments you've received for liking/listening to/performing/composing/producing Chipmusic so we can all lament together and grow STRONGERRRRRRRR!
Mine,
Roommate: Banana flavoured food is horrible. Kinda like being put through an organized video game music festival *looks directly at me*
Needless to say I'll be moving out next semester.
Last edited by Jansaw (Feb 8, 2011 2:01 am)
Since I have only been using LSDJ for 6 months (and most of my friends here at the Uni. enjoy my stuff) I haven't had much time to get put down. However, one time, while chilling outside on our building's abnormally large fire escape, I was having my once-a-day cig and listening to music on old computer speakers I had duct taped together to form a portable unit. Some chick passing by looked up and yelled "THAT SHIT SOUNDS LIKE ROBOTS KILLING EACH OTHER"...and at first I laughed cause that's not necessarily a bad thing. But then I saw her face and she looked legitimately angry. I don't even know why. The speakers weren't playing the chip that loud and I wasn't like...spitting on her or anything. It was ridiculous. I wouldn't have even told this story if it wasn't for how absolutely offended she looked...as if I had worn a pink suit to a funeral or something.
Roommate: Banana flavoured food is horrible.
The only statement i disagree with in this thread.
Last edited by godinpants (Feb 8, 2011 2:22 am)
"You're the one who always listens to that macintosh music, right?"
"It's like mario on shrooms, except mario is a plumber so he's not made out for harsh drugs like that and he's having a bad trip."
"Fucking terrible."
Generally though, most people I expose to chipmusic like it, or at least understand it as a genre.
"So are you meeting up with your Guild and playing video game music again?"
Haha, oh man.
"ok...but what video game is it from." I've definitely experienced that.
I'm glad you put down some positive comments. I didn't mean for it to be all negative.
The most positive one for me would have to be form my sister:
"I FEEL LIKE I'M RUNNING ON A RAINBOW, LOOKING FOR THE LOST LAND MY ANCESTORS BELONGED TO." Something like that. I named my first chip song Running Rainbow after that.
"ugh please tell me people are not still doing this. chiptune or fakebit or whatever it's being called now is such a goony genre. what is the appeal? is it people who are like "video games?? i remember playing video games!!" who keep this style alive? this is the aural equivalent of the mengele experiments. i would rather perform a trepanation on myself with a cheese doodle than listen to another chiptune. in a hundred years we are going to look back on this the exact same way we look back on smoking ads from the 20s. "what the fuck were we thinking!" we'll say as we browse through some sperglords complete chiptune library on the hyper-3D-smell-o-scopic-internet of the 22nd century. People will use chiptune music as a form of torture for space terrorists. "did people actually ENJOY this kind of thing?" our space grandchildren will ask. imagining a human being who likes this stuff is like imagining someone who likes going to church. im sure these people exist but why do they do it to themselves??? im baffled. truly baffled."
"sure maybe if i was playing kirby on nes at age 7 i would have thought that it was ok but i wouldnt, a decade and a half later, actively seek out people who make standalone nes music because i remember bleep bloop shit from when i was an idiot baby. sure, im given to bouts of stupid nostalgia for shit that wasn't even good when it came out - i watch those miserable live action ninja turtles movies and i listen to the worst "alt-rock" the 90s had to offer. the difference is that im not at all fucking interested in the latest updates in ninja turtle live action movie technology. has it been remastered to blu-ray? i dont give a shit. will it be remade into a 250-million-dollar-budget hollywood summer blockbuster? i fucking hope not. I dont care if Local-H are going on tour. I'm not eagerly anticipating Harvey Danger's newest album. I'm not an idiot baby anymore - I'm an idiot grownup."
edit: source: http://www.bluekaffee.com/topicview.php?topic=103666
Last edited by jmr (Feb 8, 2011 4:39 am)
Damn, man. Seems to me like you ran into a pretty hardcore forum troll.
That sounds a lot like my roommate, haha.
Theres a couple people who get a little pissy when I play chiptunes in the car, and theres one friend who "just doesn't get that gameboy shit" but whatever. It doesn't happen too often anymore, most people who know what I do know that I do it very well, regardless of what it is. Back it up with awesome composition and the haters will just look like idiots.
I was once told it "sounds like the matrix raping the internet" at a soundcheck. I don't think it was an insult or a compliment, just an observation. I've also had the stuff like "mario on shrooms" etc. Which is a fair call. I guess that means metal is rock on speed or something.
Re: Chiptune concert.... "So it is kind of like a Lan-Party"
"have you ever thought about using world of warcraft in your music?"
actually, im sure ive had worse than that
Damn, man. Seems to me like you ran into a pretty hardcore forum troll.
He's actually a forum moderator...