Is anyone having trouble with Apple Podcasts? I've been subscribed to the show but it stopped updating on ep 257. I thought everyone was on vacation!
After looking into it, I see there's another listing for Insert Credit in Apple Podcasts, this time with a black logo. That one is updating properly but the app crashes anytime I try to subscribe to it.
@DaveedNoo Final Fantasy IX is also my favorite game and the correct favorite game for everyone.
@radicaledward BINGO!
this question can‘t be answered yet. maybe if it does poorly and people don’t like it and it turns into a joke, then an argument could be made it‘s the duke nukem forever of movies. but what if it’s great?
panzer dragoon and panzer dragoon zwei are both well known, but how many people have actually played them? and i don‘t know how accurate it is, (and i’m not looking it up), but panzer dragoon saga felt, at the time, like it took forever but when it did come out it was great.
and the avatar world has dragons…
The dichotomy of Avatar is that it was immensely successful and seen by loads of people but, outside of spearheading the 3D revival, has had a comparatively tiny cultural impact… now that I'm thinking about it, I wonder if Wii Play, the early tech demo collection bundled with a second wiimote, might be the equivalent, with the sequel (completely ignored by most of the ~ 30M buyers of the original) being The Way of Water.
(I was almost inclined to just suggest Wii Sports/Switch Sports, but I genuinely think Switch Sports cut its own legs off by minimising Miis, whereas I am confident the Avatar sequel will maintain the inclusion of Blue People, ie the one thing anyone can recall about that universe.)
i didn‘t like avatar at the time, but i’m having trouble thinking of something along the lines of avatar–big budget scifi action summer blockbuster type movie–that‘s any better or any more memorable that wasn’t a movie that came out when i was a kid, and so i remember it like i remember things that came out when i was a kid.
honestly, what's the cultural impact of any movie anymore?
maybe what characterizes avatar is that it was the last collective movie-going experience. everybody saw it, anyone could reference it and be understood, people were talking about it. there aren‘t movies like that anymore. we’ll see if the new avatar changes that.
question is, has there ever been a videogame like that? maybe _pacman_. so maybe the new _avatar_ will be _pacman 2_.
@GreenBurai This crash is an issue with the Apple Podcasts app. First remove the old feed. Then add the new feed https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-insert-credit-show/id1651429066. There is some kind of issue with Apple Podcasts where can‘t add two of the same podcasts on different urls. I don’t know why that is but there's nothing we can do about that. Sorry!
Last year, I listened to the much older podcast episodes of insert credit from before I found out about it. One episode of which I can’t remember the number, I recall Tim saying that he would enjoy Minecraft a lot if he were 13-years-old. This struck me because I was 13 when Minecraft came out on the Xbox 360.
I have many fond memories of playing that with my friends. All the excitement of survival and building along with new updates adding to the formula. I still play it on occasion but there is this odd nostalgia I have for the older, more clunky iterations with the less complex mechanics. I liken this feeling to those who loved old World of Warcraft, RuneScape, Team Fortress 2 etc.
Nowadays I look back at games I never played from before my time or those I didn’t pick up at the time. I think it’s given me much more of an appreciation for the medium.
Interesting question.
Maybe it's tough to wonder about this. Perhaps since the thawing of McCarthyist attitudes in cultural products, movies (at some point (mostly (kinda))) gained some kind of social/humanitarian/environmental conscience, and at least examples I can think of are often weirdly critical of, like, unspoken core tenets of the dominant ideology. But in a way that capitalism can safely innoculate itself from any possible major influence, of course. disco-elysium-capital-subsumes-all-critique-into-itself.jpg
Like, really, movies that portray western masculinity as irredeemably toxic haven‘t solved gender problems, movies about war being bad haven’t stopped wars, movies about how capitalism is killing us socially and just like physically aren't starting any revolutions, Fern Gully somehow did not prevent 30% of Borneo's rainforest being destroyed since 1973.
Yet, idk, it‘s also the case or at least it seems it’s the case that a slow burning fury at the form our society has taken is on the rise, and, surely, being shown at least through allegory in movies must contribute to that at least a little, right? Like, I doubt any liberals were radicalized by watching Parasite, but it doesn‘t mean it doesn’t maybe nudge anyone who watches it with a critical eye just a bit further down the class consciousness path.
well JOKER (2019) made me very angry because of how fuckin shite it was
@rootfifthoctave i've been meaning to see that…
Good god, are you meaning to tell me that this is @pasquinelli , pre-Jokerification??
This was always my favorite videogame ad.
I didn't have a Turbografx growing up but this ad made me want one. [upl-image-preview url=https://i.imgur.com/Sh9Z40S.jpeg]
i only have my own perception to go off of, but i feel like maybe 60% of adults saw independence day, whereas i'd guess maybe 12% of adults saw parasite.
circles are smaller than they used to be, and there are more of them. when i question if a movie can make a cultural impact anymore, i don‘t mean a movie can’t touch an individual, even profoundly. i just wonder if a movie can be a reference point for everyone, the way movies used to be able to be.
i chose to be bimbofied rather than jokerfied.
You can always be bimbofied and jokerfied
I have never seen Avatar and I intend to keep it that way. My favourite game when I was 13 was Majora‘s Mask and to this day remains one of my favourite games, and has comfortably my favourite Zelda long before internet revisionists were saying "but it’s actually good, actually". Maybe I'll write a big post about it one day.
Re: flying, I also immediately thought of Pilotwings but I gravitated towards the N64 game. I love the different kinds of resistance that you feel across different modes of transport. I have vivid memories of one of the hang glider stages starting with jumping off a snowy mountain, immediately making a vertical drop, and navigating through rings that are a hair's breadth away from crashing into the mountain before dramatically pulling up before crashing into a mountain. The tension coming from the feeling of resistance as you try to maintain your course without crashing is a thrilling flying experience.
Favourite game at thirteen was probably Majora‘s Mask, FF VII or VIII (I didn’t play IX until I was fourteen.).
My favorite game at 13 was probably FF3, which I got for my 12th birthday and remained emotionally invested in through my early teens because I wanted to argue with people on AOL that it was better than Chrono Trigger.
It could also be Earthbound, which came out the summer before I turned 13 and which was probably my most anticipated game ever because all of the preview hype in Nintendo Power somehow exactly worked on me.
By the way Nintendo Power was a good video game ad that we all paid for.
