irmoz @ irmoz @reddthat.com

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But I'm here saying that the age of the game doesn't matter and that it doesn't make them a loser like they imply

Sure, buddy. Nice try.

My point exactly.

Mate you're not gonna convince me that "tracker music" is anything but a vague term. You might have a point in it describing music made wth a tracker, but with Renoise existing these days, that isn't exactly very specific is it? We call these pieces "scene music", or even "keygen music" if you're new to it. It's as useful as saying "DAW music". The music made in the style of old retro games is more specific than just "it was made with a tracker". That is exactly why the term "chiptune" exists; it's music that is made with those old sound chips, or emulations of them. That gets to the heart of the issue.

I suppose you never discovered that MIDI can trigger samples, too.

You're telling me shit I already know and trying to twist the facts. Whether the NES and SNES used synth or samples is immaterial to how the music was programmed. Trackers are literally made for programming MIDI instructions, just as those old games had their music programmed.

The number of voices and voice type changes nothing. You're just trying to add in immaterial facts to add false weight to your assertion.

Trackers are direct replications of the software used to make retro game music; specifically NES and SNES.

Encouraging people to be themselves and not determine their worth based on the age of the games they play? Yes. People are more than this. It's sad as hell to put yourself down just because the game is old.

Chiptune only "specifically" means music produced the same way as retro games, which necessitates a tracker. If they're using a standard DAW, then it's basically "cheating" lmao.

“Im not as impressive as I first look”

It's not impressive either way, so why are they bringing status into it whatsoever? Older games are not "less impressive" to play, and that mindset should not exist in the first place.

Exactly! You never see someone saying "haha, watching a 50 year old film, oh crazy me!" when watching Star Wars.

Only much later did “chiptune” become a catch-all for all old computer music

It's much later now m8

If you wanna be pedantic, it's chiptune. You use trackers to make chiptune. And scene music is a niche within a niche.

They're presenting themselves as something "different" from other gamers... How is that not presenting yourself as unique and special? It gives "I'm not like other girls" energy.

But I AM! Enjoy things! Just don't expect to be called special because you do.

Haha how weird and quirky! A game from 2013? No one's ever played those before! You must be so special and unique! But not as special and unique as me, playing games from the 80s! Oh wait. There's nothing special and unique about any of this.

Rod Serling

Dude, this joke is both old and inaccurate.

Firstly, written language can be represented in binary without any loss of information.

It's still not language, though. It's just binary.

Secondly, audio of spoken language can be represented in binary with so little loss it's indistinguishable to humans.

Still not language.

written and spoken language are also just representations.

Of what? What does this need to be translated to for humans to understand it?

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Humans work with language itself: letters, words, speech. Computers work with binary representations of language: just 0s and 1s.