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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I just accidentally discovered that clicking on your username on the forums main index takes you to your profile. All these years whenever I had to find it for some reason I'd go hunting for one of my posts so I could click the profile button. The logout link is the one that makes (made) your wildest dreams come true. e: Didn’t Jeffrey rename it to something boring for a while? It’s back. 
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I knew about that one, i just always assumed the username was also a secret logout link
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Feb 12, 2021 07:54
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rydiafan posted:That's not a pun. It's a metaphor
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Feb 12, 2021 10:40
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I just accidentally discovered that clicking on your username on the forums main index takes you to your profile. All these years whenever I had to find it for some reason I'd go hunting for one of my posts so I could click the profile button. Yeah, and since Jeffrey took over they switched the "Clicking here makes all your wildest dreams come true." link to the new Greatest Hits of the Comedy Goldmine sub. It's pretty great, you should check it out.
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Feb 12, 2021 11:35
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CleverHans posted:Yeah, and since Jeffrey took over they switched the "Clicking here makes all your wildest dreams come true." link to the new Greatest Hits of the Comedy Goldmine sub. You know as recently as late 2020 I got someone with the old "hey if you type /camp into chat, you make a campfire and it shows you your statistics for this session!"
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Feb 12, 2021 11:37
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rydiafan posted:That's not a pun. Sure it is, it takes advantage of the multiple meanings of the phrase "going to market" with the different contexts.
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Feb 12, 2021 14:05
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Baron von Eevl posted:Sure it is, it takes advantage of the multiple meanings of the phrase "going to market" with the different contexts. That's more word-play than a pun. I always think of puns just involving one word.
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Feb 12, 2021 14:27
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105 hours in, and I've only just realised that the symbol on Charon's obol is not an exclamation mark, but just Hades' symbol. https://hades.gamepedia.com/Charon%27s_Obol
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Feb 15, 2021 11:23
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I've started playing games again after a very long hiatus, and weirdly enough, a specific game sound effect keeps popping up in my memory. It's the sound of a heavy metal door being opened and closed. I just this minute remembered that it's from Far Cry. Its a genuine relief to remember, because how the heck do you look up "sound of heavy metal door opening and closing" in a productive way.
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Feb 15, 2021 19:20
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For me it's always the wilhelm scream which is thankfully an easy one.
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Feb 15, 2021 19:33
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I'm absolutely amazed it came back at all, it must be close to 20 years since I played Far Cry. I kept thinking it might be from a Resident Evil, but it just didn't feel right at all, far too sunny. Memory is a very strange thing. Edit: for the curious, it's the sound of opening a door on one of the beached ships in Far Cry. Pookah has a new favorite as of 19:53 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 19:41
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Sound effects from the original X-Com UFO Defense (1996) continue to pop up as audio clip-art in TV, movies, radio and seemingly anywhere else people need techy bleep blop noises
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Feb 15, 2021 19:48
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The lasers sounds / bird scream / monster roar from the old Flash Gordon cartoon intro was also used in pretty much every fantasy/scifi cartoon in the 70s and 80s (they're probably a lot older than this specific show) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pPk1JBGGRo&t=40s
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Feb 15, 2021 20:05
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There's a monstery-organic-splatty noise a lot of shows and movies use that I always recognize from Creatures 3. 
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Feb 15, 2021 20:42
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They were also all done by the same studio, so they all used the same lovely sound library. They also recycled a LOT of animation clips like running, fighting, talking, etc... I want to say Funimation, but I know that's not right. It was something like that. E: Found it. It was Filmation. They did a poo poo-TON of 80s cartoons. Proteus Jones has a new favorite as of 21:10 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 21:07
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flakeloaf posted:Sound effects from the original X-Com UFO Defense (1996) continue to pop up as audio clip-art in TV, movies, radio and seemingly anywhere else people need techy bleep blop noises Are you sure that's where they're from? Rather than just from some commercial sound effects library that they happened to use? I know one of the "alien dying" sound effects shows up absolutely everywhere. Actually it showed up in Blake Stone as well, and that was... ...1993. So there you go. See also: the sound Doom II's Icon of Sin makes when it shoots out a monster cube. I've heard it used elsewhere for a "sudden burst of fire" noise.
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Feb 15, 2021 21:38
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I keep hearing that old Windows 98 metallic Restore Up sound from the Robotz theme in all kinds of futuristic "portal opening" settings, even in Isle of Dogs. And a really generic door-opening sound that I think is in the Silent Hill games (not that that's where it's from originally)--hell, I heard that in an early '90s episode of Homicide the other day. Drives me crazy.
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Feb 15, 2021 21:47
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Hirayuki posted:I keep hearing that old Windows 98 metallic Restore Up sound from the Robotz theme in all kinds of futuristic "portal opening" settings, even in Isle of Dogs. Oh yeah, this one absolutely. I feel like it got altered slightly and then used for unit sounds in Total Annihilation, too.
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Feb 15, 2021 21:54
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Proteus Jones posted:They were also all done by the same studio, so they all used the same lovely sound library. They also recycled a LOT of animation clips like running, fighting, talking, etc... Hanna Barbera had a sound library which got a LOT of use over many many decades.  You can actually buy a multi CD set that has a lot of them on it, if you're a fan 
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Feb 15, 2021 22:01
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Hirayuki posted:I keep hearing that old Windows 98 metallic Restore Up sound from the Robotz theme in all kinds of futuristic "portal opening" settings, even in Isle of Dogs. And a really generic door-opening sound that I think is in the Silent Hill games (not that that's where it's from originally)--hell, I heard that in an early '90s episode of Homicide the other day. Drives me crazy. It's real similar to the Doom door noise which gets reused a LOT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-HUM65Wwig&t=2692s
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Feb 15, 2021 22:08
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Pookah posted:I'm absolutely amazed it came back at all, it must be close to 20 years since I played Far Cry. I kept thinking it might be from a Resident Evil, but it just didn't feel right at all, far too sunny. There's actually a commonly reused "squeaky gate" stock effect that people have latched onto like the wilhelm scream too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-HUM65Wwig
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Feb 15, 2021 22:11
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There's nothing like watching some tense movie and then hearing a door opening sound from World of Warcraft to pull you completely out of the moment. It was probably from that Hannah Barbera collection though, why re-invent the wheel when you don't have to.
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Feb 15, 2021 22:22
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Hyperlynx posted:Are you sure that's where they're from? Rather than just from some commercial sound effects library that they happened to use? My dumb rear end put the game two years in the future, but yup that's still after Blake Stone came out. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn Microprose just licensed some sound files out of a library. I'd be less surprised to learn they'd just copied them 
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Feb 15, 2021 22:26
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Hyperlynx posted:I mean, no reason why it shouldn't mean that. The other one "stays home", not "isn't eaten". The next two eat or do not eat roast beef, and that's not exactly regular pig food, is it? It's totally just some anthropomorphised piggies. Possibly relatives of the ones who lived in increasingly well engineered houses. Another thing a lot of people don't realize is that the little piggy who cried "wee wee wee" is usually said phonetically, when the read of it is supposed to be the sound of a piglet squealing. It's easy to make the sound by doing a vocal fry inhale, but most people just literally say "wee".
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Feb 15, 2021 23:10
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I stumbled into tab completion by accident after over half a decade or so of working with command line applications. The feelings I felt at the time were a curious mix of “this poo poo is a game changer” and “oh my god I want to die”.
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Feb 15, 2021 23:27
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Warbird posted:I stumbled into tab completion by accident after over half a decade or so of working with command line applications. The feelings I felt at the time were a curious mix of “this poo poo is a game changer” and “oh my god I want to die”. Holy poo poo. How did you survive this long without just dying of pure frustration? CLI without tab completion is hell.
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One of the soap operas here in Australia had a war PTSD sub-plot where the character would have flashbacks where they would look off into the distance and war sounds would play. The sound effects were GDI Minigunners and Grenadiers from C&C 1.
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Feb 16, 2021 01:58
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Hyperlynx posted:Holy poo poo. How did you survive this long without just dying of pure frustration? CLI without tab completion is hell. A lot of careful typing and dying inside.
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Feb 16, 2021 06:03
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Pocket Billiards posted:One of the soap operas here in Australia had a war PTSD sub-plot where the character would have flashbacks where they would look off into the distance and war sounds would play. Oh poo poo you are right!
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Warbird posted:A lot of careful typing and dying inside. You poor, poor bastard.  Just in case you don't know (because I can't bear the thought that you might not): you can copy and paste in CLIs, too. Pocket Billiards posted:One of the soap operas here in Australia had a war PTSD sub-plot where the character would have flashbacks where they would look off into the distance and war sounds would play. I know I've heard those sound effects in another game, too. I can't remember what it's called, but it was a top-down shooter that was supposed to be I think hot seat keyboard vs another player. Army themed, green army vs brown army, and you could be a helicopter or a jeep or two other kinds of vehicle I can't remember. And you spawned out of a bunker, where you picked your vehicle in a side-on view, and then went up the lift to the surface. And when you died there was this skull that laughed at you, with this really odd cadence. Like "ahhh HA ha ha HA HA!"
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Feb 16, 2021 10:59
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Feb 16, 2021 11:36
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And it had classical music and poo poo? Like the 1812 Overture? There are some serious memories coming to the surface here.
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Feb 16, 2021 11:58
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There's also this sound effect for children playing that has this distinctive laugh that gets used a lot, and of course there's That loving Hawk Again If you've ever seen any media with any bird of prey in it, or even just an establishing shot of a desert or an abandoned wasteland, with no birds visible in shot, you've heard That loving Hawk Again
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Feb 16, 2021 18:57
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Phy posted:There's also this sound effect for children playing that has this distinctive laugh that gets used a lot, and of course there's That loving Hawk Again That's the cry of a red tailed hawk! They do sound like that... but they're the only birds that make such a noise. Bald eagles, for comparison, sound more like seagulls.
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Feb 16, 2021 19:11
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Phy posted:There's also this sound effect for children playing that has this distinctive laugh that gets used a lot, and of course there's That loving Hawk Again It was in the intro for Are You Afraid of the Dark?, probably the first time I remember noticing a sound effect in multiple places, and I then noticed it in basically every commercial for/featuring kids. And there's the "generic cop on the radio" sound that I first learned from Sim City 2000 that's used like 5x an episode for any cop show.
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Phy posted:There's also this sound effect for children playing that has this distinctive laugh that gets used a lot, and of course there's That loving Hawk Again The red-tailed hawk stock sound is also used for pretty much any high altitude shot of any landscape. It's synonymous with height, basically. Assassin's Creed has used it for years whenever you do a big jump off a synchronization point (despite eagles being more commonly associated with the Assassins). The sound effect I notice most is that there are about 2-3 baby crying noises everyone uses, as well as two very distinct children giggling sounds. Once you hear them, you can't unhear them. It's like the Wilhelm Scream.
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Feb 16, 2021 20:15
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Red-Tailed Hawk screams are always substituted for eagles because eagles just make squeaky gull sounds.
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YggiDee posted:Red-Tailed Hawk screams are always substituted for eagles because eagles just make squeaky gull sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy_9b58o99Y&t=25s TIL I have specific memories from a camping trip of hearing something more like the red-tail hawk call, and looking up to see some nesting eagles. Must've been another bird hiding somewhere doing the audio.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Probably return fire https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jf9ckrE4Res That's the one! ...huh, I don't remember the classical music or the 3D graphics intro either. I think I only had the shareware version.
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Assistant Manager Devil posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy_9b58o99Y&t=25s The eagles were probably just playing with a soundboard. They do that sometimes.
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