>>900 I like rice rice is nice

>>952 the 80s was basically the last era of innovation in the synth world. (PPG, D-50, DX7, EMUII, Juno). In the 90s and early 2000s you could pick up these keyboards/racks for dirt cheap compared to the boring array of Korg M1 clones and crappy virtual analogues. now the music (gear) industry has become reactionary to that era by shilling expensive analogue crap only to inflate the false dichotomy. "digital = cold, stale, thin, harsh, repetitive numbers in a computer" "analogue = mystical, warm, phat, fat, lush, authentic". Watching Dave Smith sell out with the Prophet 5 makes me cringe as he was always forward looking. To be fair, synth sounds have been so solidified in people's minds that people buy synths to make those sounds, not new ones, just as if they were buying a guitar / piano. Modern game / film composers all use the same 5 sounds. Imagine the opening to a new film, you can already hear the "felt piano" sample playing some pretentiously sparse lydian (meandering / uncertain) motif, followed by some ambiguous string drones, while the camera pans around some empty landscape to be met by the narration. Innovators like brian eno, michael cretu, depeche mode didn't give a fuck about technical details and just wanted to create. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08

>>952 makes me think of the faulconer score for DBZ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgJ1heSrskY&list=PL836DDC1A20726279

>>954 The faulconer score will always sound better on the GBA to me honestly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtbACzBwshc

>>953 >the 80s was basically the last era of innovation in the synth world. (PPG, D-50, DX7, EMUII, Juno). I agree. Even the digital Roland stuff from the '90s that I like was basically just following on from what they were already doing in the '80s with the D-50's LA synthesis. >In the 90s and early 2000s you could pick up these keyboards/racks for dirt cheap compared to the boring array of Korg M1 clones and crappy virtual analogues. Even digital rack synths are starting to go up in price now. >"analogue = mystical, warm, phat, fat, lush, authentic". It seems that when people say that they're missing the fact that there are limp-sounding vintage analogs out there. I own one and plan on getting rid of it. >Watching Dave Smith sell out with the Prophet 5 makes me cringe as he was always forward looking. The Prophet reboot honestly seems to be exactly what I've been hoping for in a synthesizer for years. The previous DSI/Sequential polysynths had way more features, but the Prophet 5 seems to nail the sound of the old Prophets in a way that the Prophet 08 and Rev2 didn't. That's not to say that they aren't capable of making good sounds, but I've always wanted something that sounded like an authentic, high-quality vintage analog polysynth right from the start. I want something idiotproof that I can just turn on and get convincing bread-and-butter patches from instantly instead of having to mess with a bunch of parameters trying to age or beef up basic sounds. It's expensive, but if I end up liking it it might be the only analog polysynth I'll ever want. A Jupiter 8 remake would be the only one that would really interest me, but I'm not sure if I'd feel like I'd need one. >Innovators like brian eno, michael cretu, depeche mode didn't give a fuck about technical details and just wanted to create. Being a gearslut really kills creativity. Being autistic over instruments can be an asset in terms of attention to detail, but it's highly detrimental in terms of actually getting things made.

L.D. 50 is a good mixture of heavy guitars, prog rhythms and experimental inclinations. Slipknot is childish in comparison.

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>>1007 this. come join us

>>1007 >>1049 just as dead shouldn't have left

>>1006 >>1007 >>1049 this anon has a point >>1050 tbh

>>988 It sucks what happened with him.

>>848 fuck niggers

The thing pisses me off is that Youtube actively burying the old content by making it harder to reach. Lots of old videos doesn't show up on the search results despite still existing on the web. A lot of them got deleted as well. Now you cannot even list videos from oldest to newest on a youtube channel. I wish there was a way to crawl old youtube videos for sake of nostalgia.

>>1045 yeah that shit is fucking gay there must be a browser extension im guessing that would allow you to do so.

>>1045 There is a way to find strictly older videos on YouTube by using a custom search query. Simply type in whatever you want to search and add "before:" to your search query. Include the colon. After the colon would be the year you want. For example, if I want to search "capirinha before:2008", it would fetch me videos about that old meme that were published before the year 2008. I hope this helps you.

>>943 It's absolutely necessary that people learn from experience, but at the same time I'm tired of people hiding behind seven layers of irony and acting like they're too cool for everything. Even I find myself doing that.

>>280 >That's weird. I just assumed the "scary logo" thing started with autistic Millennials. I swear I've seen a documentary out there about a couple of boomers who grew up scared of the Screen Gems logo, but because of how random and obscure such autism was they didn't have a real forum to discuss it until the 90s. Very interesting seeing logofaggotry was a thing since the 1960s at least!

>>319 >Remember when Cartoon Network tried to monetize flash games? Are you talking about Powerplay? I remember there was also a Nickelodeon version back then, as well as a LEGO spin on it, oddly enough.

>>994 >>995 I think the board has pulled up stakes and moved to Anoncafe, Anon.

>>996 Not him, but I only came back here because I saw some activity. Hopefully the anon.cafe board catches on.

>>723 They weren't "terrible quality" though.

>>723 When History Channel started they were mostly WWI and WWII documentaries, and they weren't "storytelling" ones, just cold hard timeline descriptions of movements and battle tactics. They had one about the naval battles on the Pacific, pretty slow and boring but had tons of direct information about how both operated, not being shy of saying the americans were just as brutal as the japanese by firebombing and burning entire islands even if they had civilians in it. At night the Eastern Front ones were shown, mostly dealing on why Germany became an aggressor but showing context from WWI and before, so not your usual "mustache man bad" but actual socio-economic justifications. As you can expect, that kind of format lasted one year or a bit more at most, later on it went Hitler UFOs and reality shows, but sometimes stuff like car shows, that ancient buildings show presented by Robocop, thematic investigations and so on appeared, those were really good but nobody watched them. We are talking 2003-2005.

>>725 >When History Channel started they were mostly WWI and WWII documentaries, and they weren't "storytelling" ones, just cold hard timeline descriptions of movements and battle tactics. They went heavy on the World War II stuff especially. I was always glad to see World War I stuff when it came on because it always seemed neglected to me. >but sometimes stuff like car shows, that ancient buildings show presented by Robocop, thematic investigations and so on appeared, those were really good but nobody watched them. That's too bad if nobody watched that stuff. I think that was the last good era for the channel.

>>504 There is also that Nitro service that seems to be doing them well for now. IIRC the service as a whole got sold to Microsoft semi-recently, knowing how well they've been keeping Skype around I can see them doing the same for Discord.

For a few years I've been lurking a community of WebTV/MSNTV fans that have made surprising strides to revive the service and make new content for it. Since most of the UI seems to have been Flash-based, emulation of it looks to had been coming along very well. With Flash now dead in the water I hope they're still continuing the WebTV preservationism in some form, there once was either some type of altchan/forum about it but that went down by the end of the 2010's it seems.

>>979 >Anoncafe had 404'd their webring.json file to help gain cover from the potential shitstorm that evil cakefat asshole on 8moe stirred when (((HBO))) interviewed him. I had the impression they would reenable it if a webring meltdown didn't ensue. Got it. That makes perfect sense. >It's primarily for the benefit of preserving the site, not as entertainment solely for myself. Thanks for doing it either way.

>>982 >Thanks for doing it either way. A pleasure. Just in case you ever need it, drop me a line over in >>>/robowaifu/8492 . I may miss it here or Anoncafe. Cheers /retro/ !

>>981 Good job, it looks like you succeeded.

>>984 Oh shit, nice. I can add volunteers if anyone wants to help out, just make an account on anon.cafe. >>974 Awesome, can you upload it?

>>985 >Awesome, can you upload it? Sure, glad to help. https://anonfiles.com/Gf30i8neu1/retro_210327_7z If you want to rebuild your entire board over at Anoncafe, then I'd just share that with the Admins there and explain your desire. They should have everything they need with that to script with it and populate your new board. Cheers!