Worth Playing: 06/27/2014

@patrickklepek I feel exactly the same way about anime and Cowboy Bebop. The general popularity of anime baffles me - I just don't get it. But Bebop is fucking awesome.

Samurai Champloo is also more tolerable/good than most "anime" animes. I say this as a guy who isn't really into anime either, but it's a bit ignorant to assume all anime is tentacle porn/hentai. It's a medium with which many people make many different kinds of things. It'd be like saying all movies are pornography because there's a lot of porn made with cameras and actors in them. One could argue The Boondocks is anime, given the visual style and obvious homage.

In case anyone else's ears perked up at the riff playing in Wayward & Torn's opening, it's pretty much Slinger's Song from Bastion.

@copo said:

It's a little similar to Slinger's Song, but with all due respect to Slinger's Song (and the opening riff in Wayward & Torn's opening), that's kind of what all the music sounds like in recent works of Wild West fiction. Like, play the guitar and bend notes constantly: ta-da! Sounds like the old west.