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I felt a similar feeling when a few oldbys started showing off eurorack synths and the more of these stories I hear, the more I am torn between two thoughts:

This is inevitable, and part of pushing the envelope of a style

And

This style has passed its zenith and is about to land on the other side of the shark.

John Cage has a quote about doing something repeatedly until you don't find it boring anymore. A teacher of mine warned that looping on the sequencer is like this, so it is better to record to tape or write on paper than to hear things repeating until you think your riff is good just because you don't remember what anything else sounds like.

Therefore, when you work on a piece until it grows better, it is not a nostalgia effect, unless you haven't done anything to improve the song. For me, especially in chipmusic when working in a strict format, it is more like sculpting.

It's not always easy, possible, or necessary, to find someone who can give the right tips to help you improve. Consider noobstar's last line, if you're going to ask for help, are you going to practice the techniques and obey the advice, or are you just going to do whatever?

I don't remember if you were around for the "foot is on the coffin" thread, the main point of debate I wanted to raise was, are the main artists of this board a patrician class of sorts, where by the time a novice is good enough to deserve recognition, this whole chipmusic thing will be a stone dead pile of nobody cares? If you like making your music enough that it doesn't matter where you share it, carry on, and don't worry, you won't need a mentor for most of your trip.

The similarity to a brand of tequila probably doesn't hurt. I also think it may help avoid certain issues I had with donation fraud. It just needs to be more like providing a service and less like begging.

How does someone win a Swimm Prize?

Plain wire is in electrical section of any hardware store. Any home electronics store should have paired speaker wire and any music store will have guitar leads/cables.

I thought daft punk used a talk box, which is when you stick a hose with the sound in your mouth and record it from a mic? The sound is different from vocoder and quite distinct.

To my ears, the vocal in Something About Us is pitch corrected (auto tuned at 100%) and then put through a bandpass filter for "telephone noise," but I could be wrong, there are a few ways to get that tone.