Masahiro Ikariko – Theme Of Solid Snake

Thank You Scientist – Swarm (8-Bit Version)

Thank You Scientist is a seven-piece band playing jazz fusion progressive metal, my favorite! Their new album is streaming in lots of places including YouTube. The band’s drummer, Faye Fadem, thought Swarm would sound cool as a chiptune, so she made it happen. The title says “8-Bit”, but the SNES samples and K.K. Slider vocals say otherwise.

Source: Thank You Scientist Bandcamp

Junko Shiratsu and Mariko Nanba – Door Into Summer

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 23: Underrated music From Knuckles’ Chaotix (32X, 1995)

Chaotix nicely uses the extra sound channels that went unused in most 32X games. I think I ought to give Chaotix a chance.

Source: YouTube, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun

Adam Ruins Everything

I love it when people quickly drop knowledge and debunk misconceptions with proper research, and we need it now more than ever. Here is Adam Conover, a comedian who can appear in any unfair situation and demolish it with cold hard facts whether you like it or not. This show started as a CollegeHumor series before getting a remake on Court TV or something.

Source: CollegeHumor via Jiko via Reddit?

Edit: CollegeHumor has better YouTube clips than truTV

Here Comes a New Challenger!

I don't update my web site or my Facebook enough, so I'm starting this WordPress blog. Unlike my old blog, this one is mostly pictures and videos from the Internet and not much text. Unlike the Bakamo Studios site, I plan to put up new really short, informal posts about 2-5 times a week.

Source: Screenshot of GGPO FBA running Super Street Fighter II Turbo

(I’m re-posting the entire content of my old WordPress blog to Tumblr, for about 170 posts, starting with this post. This will make all of my old content searchable here, and I think I’m going to have all of the WordPress single post pages meta redirect to Tumblr posts. This behavior might change later, we’ll see.)

Common MythConceptions

Information is Beautiful is here to tell you you’re wrong. This infographic goes over dozens of common misconceptions in an easy-to-read color-coded format. Read it; you might learn something!

Six video posts in a row? Really? You guys seem to like the image posts more, so I'll try to do them more often. Click this to go to the full infographic.

Source: Information is Beautiful via several Tumblr users via Kuroutsubasa; infographic sources Wikipedia

Stupjam – mfw nintendo direct

(My original Wordpress post about Stupjam was a bunch of Tumblr oEmbeds rather than my usual re-posts, so I didn’t write specific mouseover text for each image. I’m writing a little bit now so I don’t break my post format too bad.)

Source: Stuplr via Yumi’s Odd Odyssey leaderboards (records) and his comment on my video

mfw nintendo direct

Tool-Assisted Speedruns Out of Context

In only one week, @TASNoContext speedran becoming my new favorite Twitter account. TASVideos publisher EZGames69 posts short clips of old games freaking out when they receive frame-perfect sequences of gamepad input. Already, the tool-assisted madness has consumed Contra III, Sonic 2 and 3, Pokémon Yellow, UMK3, Donkey Kong 64, and dozens more.

Edit: In less than a year, the Twitter account is retired because some idiot billionaire bought Twitter and did his own speedrun of destroying it. Tool-Assisted Speedrun Clips has moved to Tumblr.

Source: @TASNoContext media posts after their clip of pirohiko & FinalFighter's TAS of Mega Man

Lagwagon – May 16

Most of what I know about punk rock came from the Tony Hawk games. I’ve been listening to punk on SiriusXM and Spotify and I keep recognizing songs from Tony Hawk games. This one’s from THPS2. That one’s from Underground 2. That one’s from Downhill Jam. I didn’t realize that these songs were icons in the wider punk rock community, to the point that May 16 is now “Lagwagon Day“. Is it like 20, November for Bemani fans?

Source: Moshcam via YouTube search

ComboVid.com style exhibition v.two

This blog's cross-posting to Facebook is making me rethink how I want to post things. You should subscribe to my RSS feed instead, but I have too many friends that just use Facebook, and I want that to look nice too.

Videos cross-post well, right? Enjoy some tool-assisted goofing off in fighting games.

Source: ComboVid.com style exhibition v.two (TFC2k13) - YouTube via Shoryuken.

Ken Block’s Gymkhana Eight

Ken Block’s Gymkhana series shuts down streets and drives a tiny Ford like crazy like it’s Grand Theft Auto Online. This time, he takes us on a whirlwind tour of Dubai.

Source: Ford Performance via Top Gear and TwistedSifter