Why I love synth/retrowave

[JimothyZombie]

Yes, people are insane for vinyl. I see copies of MAVS's 88:88 going for nearly 400 Aud (about 240 Euro) I really want an OG pressing, but not that much.

[nagoline]

makes things worse when you know people selling are just scalpers preying on collectors. if someone really needed money that much as to sell important memorabilia, they'd want fast money and wouldn't treat it lije an auction

[Sean2K]

that made me curious about stuff i have and is still sealed physical component from nin's not the actual events is at 100€ on ebay o.o do people really give that much money for a bunch of "artwork" without the audio that was like 10€ when it came out? if it jumps up 10x again in the next 5 years i may just sell it and make a fortune

I have that as well. I probably should be doing the same thing.

[JimothyZombie]

Scalpers have been going nuts since corona. I don't know where people are getting the money from, but apparently collectables is the new stonks.

[dreamshell]

imagine post-apoc ppl playing cyberpunk retrowave on a wasteland victrola

lustful sacraments is killer \m/

[JimothyZombie]

I could dig that. Dinosaurs, mirrorshades and flying motorcycles.

[JimothyZombie]

Of course the war with the machines rages on and there are orbital military light shows to hack.

[dreamshell]

cowborgs & indie kids

[JimothyZombie]

nailed it we should make one of those old school adventure games that's mostly text, a bare user interface and a few pixels of art to inadequately render the scene.

[nagoline]

that would be rad. choose your own adventure style and program dice in there to roll stats and stuff for character too

[JimothyZombie]

the stuff the 80s were made of. I suppose to keep in line with the retro wave thing it would have to be somewhat streamlined and take advantage of new technologies, just with the aesthetic trappings of the times, an extra helping of ham, and lash it together with delightfully absurd anachronisms.

[dreamshell]

[JimothyZombie]

Awesome. I live putting these in while working.

[JimothyZombie]

I words good typeface.

[JimothyZombie]

Beat it! Would anyone give this title to a song these days?

[dreamshell]

also i just learned there's a 3rd lost themes by john carpenter if u haven't, check the others out too

[JimothyZombie]

John Carpenter was such a weird treasure RIP old man <3

I need to see this also very fitting given the previous Carpenter ref.

[dreamshell]

he's not dead

that does look fun, tho. big event horizon vibes.

[nagoline]

he's looked like that since his teens

[JimothyZombie]

Fuck me. Everyone I think is alive is dead and everyone I think is dead is alive. I can't win. Also not jinxing Carpenter. DO NOT DIE JOHN CARPENTER OR I WILL KILL YOU.