I mean, yeah, it’s retro music now. And in my opinion is best played on a retro Sony Discman with appropriate retro headphones. I mean, how else can I best enjoy my For Squirrels CD or Blues Traveler or Local H or… you get the point!
Only problem is the fact my discman is a battery hog.
There have definitely been songs, especially of the vocalsynth kind, where I avoided them any time they’d be recommended to me on yt because the thumbnail alone didn’t make it look all to enticing. Especially compared to other songs with more enticing thumbnails.
I mean, load the thumbnail for this video and tell me you would be enticed compared to this video. Ignore that I commented on the first video since I eventually did watch only to find it’s a good song.
It’s definitely a unique fandom when compared to any other music genre fandom. Nowhere else can you find singers who can sing any genre and be both the best and worst singers ever.
As for anyone who doesn’t like things like the squeaky voices, there are songs that don’t have them tuned that way if you look hard enough. One of my favorites is In Verbatim by SteamPianist and Clockwork. A kind of jazzy song. Either that or this slower song, a cover of a song called Star Story done by one メープル ( Maple ).
I recently got into a Toontown rougelike ( rougelite? ) fan game called Toontown Grindworks. It’s available for free on Itch. Ypu run from floor to floor climbing the corporate tower, fighting cogs ( basically businesspeople robots ), avoiding traps, and collecting gear and new gag tracks ( weapons/upgrades ). All to get to the final boss of the tower. I’ve only had a single run where I got to the final boss, but failed there because I got really unlucky.
There is also the current demo of Plants vs Zombies Universe, which jas a fair bit of content that can last a while if you don’t speed through it. The game is basically devs wanting to create a PvZ fan game where it’s basically content from all the games rolled into a single PvZ title. Meaning you get the exclusive PvZ Online plants/worlds/zombies, exclusive PvZ2/2C plants/worlds/zombies, etcetera. All while being a bit more balanced as of now to create a genuinely challenging game.
I was gonna say development is on indefinite hiatus, but it seems a 1.2 update was released about a week ago! Sadly, unless you already have the link, you need to access their discord for the download, from either google drive or mega, if that would sway anyone away from it. That, or I’m sure they have a QQ group set up, but I ain’t creating an account just for this game.
Other than those, the only other games I could recommend are pokemon fangames or well known open source games like Mindustry ( has a steam version, but that’s only for supporting the devs and getting steam workshop content, if you even care ) or SuperTuxKart. That, and a few furry visual novels on Itch that aren’t completed yet that I like.
Not gonna lie, your comment led me down a rabbit hole. Couldn’t remember the name of the guy from Naruto Shippuden who is basically that: Deidara. Took me down a rabbit hole of reading a chunk of the wikipedia page on Naruto characters.
Had to look up CD skips to be sure we were thinking of the same thing. Pretty sure you can emulate that using a similar setup to what I have: a portable LG USB disc drive and VLC. IDK if this is a me issue specifically, but VLC loves to cause the first few seconds of any song on CD to skip when using that portable disk drive of mine.