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derf82, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

My favorite video game as a kid was called Red Storm Rising, based on the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, and played on a Commodore 64. It put you in command of a submarine facing off against the Soviet navy. Graphics were very basic, but it had a very intelligent engine that lead to needing to use real strategy to win.

Almost no one else has ever heard of it.

mnemonicmonkeys,

Almost no one else has ever heard of it.

I dare you to go to NoncredibleDefense and repeat that

derf82,

Eh, they talk about the book. The video game is far more obscure.

zero_iq,

You should take a look at the game Cold Waters, if you haven’t already.

Vandals_handle, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
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Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio. Try and grow a city-state by strategically distributing resources. Poor distribution results in death by famine, disease or invasion. Good distribution keep state growing and eventually become king to win the game. I played it on a Commodore PET.

devilkitty,

I remember that. (I was a senior in high school when I first saw it on TRS-80 model 3s, so it must have been 1985 or so.)

I also remember editing the source so you could both pick any name for your country and skew the RNG results in your favor with a flag.

DLSantini, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

There was a local band where I am 20+ years ago called Naucet. With songs such as “This is Not a Convenient Time to be Stabbed”. I have absolutely no idea what happened to the band, where they went, what they did. I can find no reference to them anywhere online whatsoever. I have a musician friend who was friends with them(maybe just one of them, I forget at this point) and has copies of their music on an old hard drive somewhere in a closet. Been a number of years since I’ve seen/heard from said friend, so I can only assume whether or not he still has that old hard drive. If he does, then for all I know, that might be the only place in existence that you can find that music.

grumpo_potamus,

I love stuff like that. I’ve got demo tapes and 7" records from local punk bands from the 90s. Some were kids from my school or kids I used to skateboard with.

A lot of it is just rubbish, but it means something to me. I’ll put a few songs on every couple of years, laugh at the hand-drawn artwork, reminisce, and sing along.

Pretty sure there’s very few, if any, other copies of some of that stuff around anymore.

brygphilomena, in Who in your opinion is the modern day equivalent to Mozart?

Jack Antonoff has some incredible talent. He’s written and produced a lot of iconic pop music.

QuikxSpec, in Who in your opinion is the modern day equivalent to Mozart?

Jacob Collier

knobbysideup, in best app for lemmy?
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Boost

seaQueue,
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Boost gang 🚀

Synthead, in Who in your opinion is the modern day equivalent to Mozart?

Squarepusher cones to mind

SharkAttak, in best app for lemmy?
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Is there really the need for an app specifically for it?

Railing5132,

I found that trying to access via FF on my Android would cause my cpu and data to peg out at 100% almost immediately. The phone would get hot and I could watch the battery % drop. I’m grateful for an app.

SharkEatingBreakfast,
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There’s no “need” for it, but some give extra features that I find useful, such as post hiding and things like that.

XTL,

Clearly yes

Shalakushka, in Who in your opinion is the modern day equivalent to Mozart?
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David Bowie, few have his range and talent.

JungleJim, in Who in your opinion is the modern day equivalent to Mozart?

I’m learning lots of good music here, but I was really hoping Surfan Stevens was a surf-rock cover artist of Sufjan Stevens and Cat Stevens.

theJWPHTER88, in What is the best modern song for a door bell?
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For a complete surprise, just the few intro part notes of bo en's "My Time".

Uranium3006, in Who in your opinion is the modern day equivalent to Mozart?
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ZUN.

Drusas, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

The movie Tampopo, about ramen. Great film.

Toughlovekb,

I love this movie

The restaurant in London wagamama was inspired by this movie and I used to work their when living in London in the late 90s

Drusas,

That sounds like it would be a great experience.

I think everyone should at least watch that scene where the guy first shows you how to eat ramen. First you touch everything, just so....

Waterproof, in Is jornaldund a pedo?
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Yes

qantravon, in best app for lemmy?

Since I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, I’ve been using Liftoff for a while now, and I’ve found it to be a fairly good experience. My main annoyance is that, if I open a notification of a reply to a comment, the process to see the original context for the reply is…convoluted, to say the least. Other than that, great app.

Redditgee,

Liftoff is dead, I believe.

criticon,

Liftoff has not been updated in a while and I think it’ll have issues with v0.19 (not exactly sure, read it in another thread)

I experimented with boost, sync and Voyager and I liked Voyager the most

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