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.
Disco Elysium for sure.
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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I listened to both. I see what you’re saying about Jacsha Heifetz’s version, it almost cuts through you. Emotions like pain and grief don’t hit slowly in the times of death. Great links, thank you.
Glad you liked it! Yeah, I love Perlman’s rendtion, but Heifetz’s just takes the cake for me. The ending is too real.
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.
Ope. My bad.
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.
If you enjoyed the Martian, I highly recommend his newest book Project Hail Mary.
Loved reading that book
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.
Red Dead Redemption 2. I’ve never had a game impact me as much as it did.
By far for me it’s the Dan Carlin’s hardcore history podcast but more specifically “The blueprint for Armageddon”.
Absolutely incredible
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.
One of the first things that popped in my head was this web series called Worm by Wildbow.
There was an epic moment there an Endbringer and Scion that still lives rent free in my mind. I remembered shedding a tear because of how awesome that moment was.
Another was my experience in watching The Disapperance of Haruhi Suzumiya. Right now I don’t even know why it was such a great experience but I’ve been chasing that high ever since.
Worm is p fun. Great piles of fanfic on space battles and sufficient velocity
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.
Reverend Insanity is probably a strong contender. The world building is super well done. The characters actually plot against each other. Not just the protagonist. It feels very lived in.
Princess bride the book. Indigo and fessik backstory. Parentheticals. The author tone and style is so much fun.
Matilda, both the book and the movie.
Dunno if I’m biaised because it’s recent, but books :
Foundation cycle from Asimov.(especially the original trilogy). It’s SF from 1940’s. Yet it holds superbly well , minus the absolute lack of computers. The universe it depicts is absolutely stunning, and some characters (salvor <3) are absolutely amazing.
I haven’t read (or to be precise, listened to) the robots cycle, because it’s not yet available in french. I did listened to the empire cycle, and it was WAY more underwhelming. Also the two sequels for foundation are just plain bad (but I love the prequels)
Jeez, won me back at the last second there. I don’t particularly like the first book, but I thought the sequels were maybe the worst sci-fi I’ve ever actually sat all the way through. Never read the prequels.
I’ve seen a lot of people mad that the Apple TV show isn’t a faithful adaptation, but I don’t think they really had any choice. The first story in the first book has the strongest hook of any of them, and kinda has to be where you start. The sequel books are basically not adaptable by virtue of being borderline incoherent. So that leaves you with more or less just the first book, which would already be a complete mess to adapt faithfully because you’d have to completely restart the show over again and shift POV to Salvor after the very first episode.
What you call the first book is maybe the integral trilogy?
To me the first book ends with hober mallow, and the trilogy ends with arkady.
The prequels follows hari seldon and is kinda neat, it’s kinda more adventurous and less political but very pleasant to follow.
Dors venabili best girl, can’t change my mind.
I sometimes forget how many different ways Foundation has been published. By the first book, I mean the first compilation from like 1951 just called Foundation. It’s got five stories, most but not all of which had been published before. It starts with Seldon getting exiled in “The Psychohistorians” and ends with the fall of Korell in “The Merchant Princes”.
I guess you don’t like what they end up calling “mentalic” then?
By sequels, I was talking two propers novels about the chase for earth, not “foundation and empire” or “second foundation” (which I both really like)
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.
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.
If you like retro games it’s definitely worth a try, I actually started playing it last year and I’m loving it! there are lots of free shards(servers) to play on that are only PVM, so you don’t have to work about PKers. Insane UO is where I play, and there are lots of friendly people there to help out the new folks!
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
