Edit: I'm the wrong one here!
Nemo
joined 2 years ago
There is a lot of confusion on this thread between "slop" and "drivel", for sure.
Edit: I read the comment wrong and replied in error. That's selling it short: I was a dumbass.
Don't comment before coffee, kids.
If I can't hear it close, how do I know it's closed?
I need that sensory feedback.
Even just looking at the sprites, that's really impressive.
Ursula LeGuin
Margaret Atwood
Diana Wynne Jones
and for personal preference, Robin McKinley
I can hear baselines (from blocks away!) that my family can't hear at all. Or, hear isn't the right word, but I feel it as an ache in my ears and head.
For me, the game Pierce's eccentric millionaire father privately commissions in Community.
Oh no the corruption is real! It's the violent crime thing that's propaganda.
IDK but unfun fact: Anytime anyone wants to talk shit about Chicago, you can point to Boise as one of the dozens of American cities with a higher violent crime rate.
He didn't ghostwrite that, his name is on it. He also worked closely with Harriet, and had access to Robert's notes including whole sections already written. See also Brian Henson making Muppet Christmas Carol and Treasure Island, or Christopher Tolkien publishing supplements to the Silmarillion. Care, authorship, and intimacy abound. Not slop.
Compare with "New Hardy Boys" or the Dune prequels (which may have Brian Herbert's name on the cover but was clearly ghostwritten in large part). Slop.
It happens when the cars with the aftermarket sound systems roll by, because it still happens when we can hear it, but it also happens when it's too far away for anyone else to hear. I associate it with deep bass, but I don't actually know what's causing the effect.