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Archive for May, 2011

The (Shorter) Life of a Demoman

Team Fortress 2 – The (Shorter) Life of a Demoman This is one of my favorite replays.

Songs to Test By

Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory – The Courtesy Call Volume 1 of the official Portal 2 soundtrack was released last week, containing the music from the first third of the game. Eventually, there will be two more volumes. The Courtesy Call is my favorite piece from this segment of the game. Hard Sunshine is close, though.

Best of WVR #190

Borderline Celestia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si5kzfV9zjM Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccee!

Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles

The Secret of the Unicorn – Official Trailer The Tintin series of comics are some of my most beloved stories ever. While I was growing up, I spent hours reading all 21 of them dozens of times. Literally, dozens of times. (And there are actually 24. My collection did not include the first two stories, […]

Phantom Ensemble

UI-70 – 幽霊楽団 ~ Phantom Ensemble UI-70 – 幽霊楽団 ~ Phantom Ensemble Listen to one. Listen to the other. Then listen to them together. It’s tricky to get them to line up perfectly, but the effect is SO WORTH IT.

Best of WVR #189

Handwritten Map http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7UEkeK1uN4 About time we had another really great VY1 song.

Thanks, Buddy!

Thanks, Buddy! My first test of the TF2 replay system.

The Subterranean Prominence

The Subterranean Prominence A very good retelling of Subterranean Animism. Locker Room Productions always make great videos.

Lunatic Eyes

Mohican Sandbag – 兎ノ姿煮狂喜造 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwQHh8n_ZHI Sequence of events of my first listen: 1: Start the video 2: Scroll down and read the description/comments 3: Wonder why the commenters were scared of the picture 4: Scroll back up 5: “That picture isn’t very sc-” 6: Picture changes 7: WAUGH! Anyway… Mohican Sandbag again. With awesome.

Best of WVR #188

498 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYNStwIMAPg Mozaik Role was bumped off this week. 42 straight weeks in the top 30 ain’t a bad record, though. Meanwhile, a new wowaka song got 1.6 million points. New world record. Oh well, at least this one’s better than the last one.