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[Affeinvasion]

It's good to know after I die, someone might chop my decomposed head off and use my skull for his art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_God

 

[wild wild rice]

Why can't people be creative, experimental or just plain mess around with stuff without being called edgy? It's a lazy, thoughtless critique. In fact, knowing they did this opens up some new realms of interpretation.

 

[Killer Queen]

Why can't people be creative, experimental or just plain mess around with stuff without being called edgy? It's a lazy, thoughtless critique. In fact, knowing they did this opens up some new realms of interpretation.

It's probably more edgy to complain about things being edgy than most of the things people now consider edgy.

 

[Menitta]

Why can't people be creative, experimental or just plain mess around with stuff without being called edgy? It's a lazy, thoughtless critique. In fact, knowing they did this opens up some new realms of interpretation.

So edgy.

Spoiler

I agree

 

[wild wild rice]

Does'nt sound like he did it to be "edgey" at all.



I think it's pretty interesting.

Exactly.

 

[Jocund]

Yeah, this isn't edgy. It's an interesting technique, and if you listen to how the tracks sound through the skull vs. without it, the process yielded some very distinct results.

 

[30yearsofhurt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDoyZzD5YNI

 

[funkystudent]

I bet the Doom 2016 music guy is pissed his edgy ass didnt think of this.

 

[PtM]

As long as he doesn't put it in YT videos...

 

[TraBuch]

Do you have any other plans for your decomposed head?

Wouldn't mind going to have a few drinks. Need something to drink with.

 

[Reversed]

Spoiler

🎶🎶🎶

 

[Death Penalty]

The reason some may consider this edgy is because not only is the desired effect not achievable by recording through an empty skull (representing how things sound inside your head) but you can achieve the effect you got with the skull through conventional recording techniques. The skull is completely unnecessary except for the fact that it is unconventional and a skull.

 

[Principate]

Why can't people be creative, experimental or just plain mess around with stuff without being called edgy? It's a lazy, thoughtless critique. In fact, knowing they did this opens up some new realms of interpretation.

Because it id edgy under both common uses of the word (edgey wasn't always a negative phrase) do it's likely the person UN question put in his will you my skull as a instrument fir your game so you can use as a marketing point.

Hell would you like your skull to be used for this without your probable consent. I know I certainly wouldn't

 

[Monocle]

5edgy 7me.

 

[LapinAgile]

Playdead indeed!!

 

[nkarafo]

This looks like a case of an eccentric artsy person doing pointless artsy things only because it looks artsy.

Then again, i'm not a sound expert and the game was one of the best aural experiences for me so maybe i'm wrong.

 

[Spman2099]

Because it id edgy under both common uses of the word (edgey wasn't always a negative phrase) do it's likely the person UN question put in his will you my skull as a instrument fir your game so you can use as a marketing point.

Hell would you like your skull to be used for this without your probable consent. I know I certainly wouldn't

Can you have consent when you are dead? People are crazy with this stuff... Your corpse isn't you. It is incredibly silly to be offended by this sort of thing.

 

[Sephiroth_VII]

Because it id edgy under both common uses of the word (edgey wasn't always a negative phrase) do it's likely the person UN question put in his will you my skull as a instrument fir your game so you can use as a marketing point.

Hell would you like your skull to be used for this without your probable consent. I know I certainly wouldn't

I really doubt he acquired the skull through 9llicit means. I mean, he lives in Denmark for crying out loud, that's not something you get a hold of without proper permission.

 

[Emperor Bohe]

The before after comparison is pretty interesting

 

[Eylos]

 

[Zebei]

An idea that sounds better in your head

nice

 

[Principate]

I really doubt he acquired the skull through 9llicit means. I mean, he lives in Denmark for crying out loud, that's not something you get a hold of without proper permission.

I have no doubt he legally got after the person or their family donated body, I'm just doubting they had this in mind.

Can you have consent when you are dead? People are crazy with this stuff... Your corpse isn't you. It is incredibly silly to be offended by this sort of thing.

Depending on the country and to certain degree, yes what do you think a will is. Same reason a hospital often can't use your body for transplants unless you or your familh opt in or out depending on the country. That's not to say this was illegal but it's one of those fringe cases where I wonder if the person would have accept this specifically if they knew

 

[Spman2099]

I have no doubt he legally got after the person or their family donated body, I'm just doubting they had this in mind.

That being said, had they heard how bitchin' the soundtrack sounds, they probably would have been cool with it.

 

[Izuna]

The fans were the game developers?

Well, money has to come from somewhere

 

[abstract alien]

Nice. Everything about this game was so incredible, and details like this further cement that.

 

[Dash Kappei]

Dat skull skillz

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

The best Duke Nukem material so far.

 

[Jobbs]

Maybe they should have also let the skull design the brain-dead puzzles and encounters

 

[msdstc]

Why?

 

[Zolo]

I hope the skull got credit.

 

[atomic moth]

Why?

Read the article. Or the thread.

 

[msdstc]

Read the article. Or the thread.

I get it, it's really pointless though.

 

[wild wild rice]

I get it, it's really pointless though.

Why does there need to be a point? What often times fuels creative people is just curiosity about, "what would happen if..." regardless of whether people perceive a point or not. Sometimes it's just about process and experience.

Plus the point was explained in the article.

It's not like they recorded hamster farts in a toaster because teeheehee. Recording through a human skull makes perfect aesthetic sense with the feeling and motifs of the game. So why the hell not?

 

[batbeg]

So are the Flaming Lips going to distribute the soundtrack using some of their unsold skull USB sticks?

Cracks me up there are concerns of insensitivity around this, especially considering some of the other things skulls have been used for.

 

[SumptuousLemur]

This game was definitely my GOTY

 

[rockyt]

Interesting but not really sure why the need to use an actual skull remain.

 

[Ashtar]

Lmao

 

[Iva Demilcol]

The effects are pretty noticeable, and while I'm pretty sure he could've achieved the same results using more "traditional" methods, how would you even know how it sounds if you haven't even attempted to do it first?

 

[Obscura]

So I came across this article on PC Gamer .



There is a picture but ill leave it on the page for the squeamish among us (it's not that bad).

Really interesting idea, I do wonder about how exactly you go about acquiring such a thing though...

There are websites that specialize in selling human skeletons. The skull in the article doesn't look cleaned though leading to option two... A derelict graveyard. Particularly with open mausoleums.

I love when people try to devise new ways of recording familiar sounds. Very interesting idea.

 

[Killer Queen]

Because it id edgy under both common uses of the word (edgey wasn't always a negative phrase) do it's likely the person UN question put in his will you my skull as a instrument fir your game so you can use as a marketing point.

Hell would you like your skull to be used for this without your probable consent. I know I certainly wouldn't

You're dead
Not like you're using it for anything.

 

[Nowise10]

such cringe and edgy!!!

 

[Shadax the wizard]

Reminds me of the dude who did pinhole cameras with human skulls and red filters with a thin layer of HIV positive blood. I think it's cool.

 

[OrlanisWorks]

Pretty cool, like Giacchino using pieces of the plane in the soundtrack production for LOST.

I dig it.

 

[disappeared]

Didn't make the game any more fun though.

 

[| Praxis |]

Didn't make the game any more fun though.

Not sure it was meant to be "fun"

The same way Schindler's List isn't fun to watch.

 

[disappeared]

Not sure it was meant to be "fun"

The same way Schindler's List isn't fun to watch.

Interesting, then.

 

[KnightimeX_Legacy]

It's just a dirty skull.
I'm not impressed at all.

Cool but not scary or impressive.