Things like movies, books, games, songs, etc just what was the best one you even experienced that you kinda wish you could do for the first time again, also what made it so good?
One of the most eye-opening and clever articles I’ve read. It’s still a good read, but it was totally mind-bending the first time.
Bach’s Chaconne from his violin partita in D minor.
It’s a song that was written around the time when Bach’s wife died, and if you listen hard enough, you can almost hear that it’s about her. It sounds like there are two voices, a low voice and high voice, who meet and fall in love with each other, and experience all the highs and lows of life and then are torn away from each other by death in the end. And it’s all done with just notes on a violin. And what’s more, it was written 300 years ago! It trips me out thinking about how somebody can write something so epic for a single instrument so long ago.
Jacsha Heifetz’s version of it is my favorite. Some people don’t like how fast he plays it, but he does the ending the best, in my opinion. You can hear the pain and denial and chaos of the two voices trying to enjoy their last moments together and leave nothing unsaid between each other most clearly the way Heifetz plays it.
Itzhak Perlman’s version is very good too. He plays at a slower pace than Heifetz, and has a more epic sounding tone. The highs and lows are generally more epic sounding the Heifetz, but I don’t quite understand how Perlman plays the ending. I have no doubt that he’s trying to tell the same story as Heifetz, but there isn’t any of that pain and chaos like Heifetz has. I’ve seen interviews with Perlman, and he seems like a very happy and well adjusted guy, so maybe that explains why his ending is so different. Maybe that’s just how the ending is for happy people like that, and I can’t comprehend it.
There are other good renditions to check out too, but Heifetz and Perlman are my favorites. Hillary Hahn and Nathan Milstein are other popular ones. Plus a bunch of others. That’s another cool thing about Chaconne. Everybody has their own rendition.
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Breath of the Wild. Game just blew me away when I first played it. The Switch was an amazing new console and this open-world adventure with its intricately crafted world was amazing to explore on the go. I couldn’t put the Switch down and finished this game way too quickly.
Fuck Ted Faro. Great game tho.
I think you replied to the wrong comment? This is not about Horizon.
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Disco Elysium for sure.
I consumed the last 80ish% of The Martian in one barely interrupted (personally irresponsible) session. It hooked me hard and I couldn’t put it down. I’ve had a fondness for novels written serially ever since.
Loved reading that book
If you enjoyed the Martian, I highly recommend his newest book Project Hail Mary.
Games: Outer Wilds and World of Warcraft.
The former because it’s an experience unlike anything else I’ve ever had in gaming, and the story and meaning stays with you for years afterwards (possibly forever, but it’s too soon to tell.
The latter because the very idea of being able to really explore Azeroth after years of playing the Warcraft games was the most exciting thing ever, and the moment I first exited the orc starting area and looked at the map and saw how big the world was will never leave me.
Books: The Hobbit. Read it when I was 4, with a not insignificant amount of help from my dad. It was fun, it was thrilling, it was scary, and it kicked off a lifelong love of reading. For an adult it’s a very short read that will probably only take a couple days, which is also a big plus.
Honorary mention to Thud! by Terry Pratchett. Really the Discworld series as a whole, but that one particular book is the absolute perfect blend of comedy, social commentary and downright horror. Again, very much stays with you afterwards.
The Lateralus album by Tool. Specifically the songs Parabol and Parabola as they transition. Pure bliss and goosebumps.
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Hardcore history was the first podcast I got into back in like 2018. It’s so captivating - I’ve listened to many episodes more than once.
It’s as good as any audio book in my opinion - months of research and editing go into every episode. Some are extremely hard to listen to though, he definitely doesn’t hold back when it comes to telling the bad parts of history. The recent one on slavery comes to mind - truly some of the worst descriptions I’ve heard.
Red Dead Redemption 2. I’ve never had a game impact me as much as it did.
Matilda, both the book and the movie.
Ultima Online. This is the OG MMO. It was the Wild West, it had to make all the mistakes because there was no one else really before them to learn from. It was so new and interesting and was a blast the first few years.
I remember my Diablo guild all moved over to UO by beginning of 98. Great times, but jesus christ did I waste a lot of hours playing that.
Same, my HS grades definitely took a hit
would you suggest other such as me play this then also i heard its a hard game is that true?
It wouldn’t be very interesting for you to play UO now. Graphically it’s going to look dated obviously and they botched their successors. The original still lives on I believe on some level, but that experience of it being so fresh and new is long gone.
The perverts guide to ideology with Slavoj Žižek is a documentary / informational movie I keep going back to. Just makes you think about a lot of stuff in a different way.
Disco Elysium was just mind-blowing good
Kon Ichikawa’s Revenge of a Kabuki Actor reconfigured my entire life trajectory. Ever since watching it for a global film course I’ve devoted myself to the study of Kabuki theater and gender subversion.
Games mainly, transistor, gris and inmost comes in mind, all of those titles talks about loosing someone or something, diferent points of view of the matter, its like it touches your soul in the process, even if you hadnt suffered the same way.
Songs, i prefer to say the artist, Tash sultana, its music was like catharsis on a gloomy months of my life, lets say it is alternative rock, charged with a bit of sadness but with a special emotional proyection in the vocals that in my case gives me chills.
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