Fun stuff you've just found (music, games, etc)

[Callum Todd]

Couldn't find a thread for things like this so started a new one.

Yesterday I was introduced to a new musical genre that goes by the name of 'bardcore', or sometimes 'tavernwave'.

This is an absolute banger. The concept was introduced to me as a sort of funny meme thing but I think it's genuinely brilliant.

Haven't found any other examples as good as this yet but I shall keep mine ear out.

[Mark James]

https://aaron-demeter.itch.io/lee-carva ... -challenge

[Marc Meakin]

I like choral versions of hits like Creep and Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Also Elvis impersonators version of modern

[Gavin Chipper]

Couldn't find a thread for things like this so started a new one.

Yesterday I was introduced to a new musical genre that goes by the name of 'bardcore', or sometimes 'tavernwave'.

This is an absolute banger. The concept was introduced to me as a sort of funny meme thing but I think it's genuinely brilliant.

Haven't found any other examples as good as this yet but I shall keep mine ear out.

That's pretty good.

https://aaron-demeter.itch.io/lee-carva ... -challenge

Tough game to master. Spent 7 hours on it.

[Matt Rutherford]

Couldn't find a thread for things like this so started a new one.

Yesterday I was introduced to a new musical genre that goes by the name of 'bardcore', or sometimes 'tavernwave'.

This is an absolute banger. The concept was introduced to me as a sort of funny meme thing but I think it's genuinely brilliant.

Haven't found any other examples as good as this yet but I shall keep mine ear out.

Nice to see Pumped Up Kicks and We Need To Talk About Kevin getting their long awaited crossover episode.


Music-wise, Max Richter's re-doing of Vivaldi's Four Seasons from a recent LinkedIn advert is one of the nicest bits of music I've heard for a while-so relaxing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXXm0ppMvT0

[Callum Todd]

Just listened to that Matt, it's great. Will listen to the other seasons too when I get chance.

[Andy Wilson]

That is brilliant Callum, fair play. What next? Baroque and roll?

You've just reminded me about Max Richter. Fell asleep to a broadcast of his 'Sleep' on RTE lyric a few months ago. Off to get it now and do the same again.

[Phil Reynolds]

During lockdown our local paper has been printing several extra pages of puzzles, quizzes, crosswords etc. One puzzle that I've become addicted to is called Gogen - I think it appears in lots of papers but I hadn't come across it before. In its basic form it's a 5x5 grid of cells into which the letters of the alphabet (except Z) have to be placed so that each word in a given list can be spelled out by moving from cell to cell in any direction. Some letters are already placed to start you off. Anyone else into these?



And one that I've rediscovered and become addicted to all over again is the word puzzle that goes by various names, but in Radio Times it's called The Enigma Code. You've probably seen these; it's where you have a standard crossword grid with each square containing a number from 1 to 26; each number represents a letter of the alphabet and you have to solve the code and complete the grid. Unlike Gogen, which is a pure logic puzzle and uses letters/words only as meaningless symbols (in the same way that Sudoku is not a number puzzle), the skills needed to solve Enigma Code puzzles include vocabulary, knowledge of letter frequency distribution etc. The RT publish a difficulty level and target solving time with each puzzle which is good for testing yourself against.

[Matt Morrison]

Codewords I've always called those ones (your enigma code)

[Callum Todd]

The maker of the song I linked in the original post has just uploaded a new one, this time it's 'Somebody I Used To Know'.

I spent the first two minutes wondering how they were going to tackle the 'have your friends collect your records line'. I wasn't disappointed.

[Marc Meakin]

Kiss from a Rose by Seal was ahead of the game

[Callum Todd]

This German (I think) Christmas TV advert is nice.

[Mark James]

https://youtu.be/Vk-ZBYyjsko

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

Peak bardcore!

[Gavin Chipper]

This German (I think) Christmas TV advert is nice.

I mean, it's not the John Lewis one so I don't have to hate it out of principle, but it's just another "feel good" story used to cynically sell a product that has nothing to do with the content of the advert. And that's how companies do Christmas adverts these days.

[Gavin Chipper]

Couldn't find a thread for things like this so started a new one.

Yesterday I was introduced to a new musical genre that goes by the name of 'bardcore', or sometimes 'tavernwave'.

This is an absolute banger. The concept was introduced to me as a sort of funny meme thing but I think it's genuinely brilliant.

Haven't found any other examples as good as this yet but I shall keep mine ear out.

Try the same song in this format too. Don't spend too much time listening to these though because they destroy your brain and stop you getting to sleep at night.

[Matt Morrison]

Blob Opera - https://artsandculture.google.com/exper ... Gbw?cp=e30