Hi!
For a ton of reasons, good, bad, and ugly, Nerd Noise Radio went dormant for a while. It was only my inability to bring myself to actually pull the plug that kept the blog, twitter, and everything else NNR with the lights shut off, rather than altogether bulldozed. It was my hope that someday down the road that spark would come back, and the lights would come back on.
I am pleased to tell you that day has arrived! :-)
I only have 10 minutes left of a lunch break, so this has got to be super short, but I wanted to post today in part simply to make a "good faith deposit" on my intention and desire to revive the blog. But I also wanted to let you know that the Twitter page is back up and running at full steam, as well as make an EVEN MORE exciting announcement: after four years of saying I was eventually going to do it, THE NERD NOISE RADIO PODCAST IS HAPPENING!
Episode 1 is already recorded, slated for a release on all the major podcast outlets Thursday, January 5th! I also hope to get maybe four more episodes recorded between now and then so I'm well ahead, and not racing a deadline!
And once I've got a bit of a leg up on the podcast and am scheduled a few weeks in advance on the Twitter page....I plan to turn my attention back to blogging, and bring you more content! My planned first article will either be to talk about the upcoming podcast, or to follow-up on my XB1 vs PS4 blog post from May 2015, having had the benefit of a year and a half to not only find the answers to the questions it poses - but also find ourselves in some sense in a completely different world, with things like PlayStation VR, PS4Pro, Windows10 NXOE integration, and Project Scorpio in the wings. There's a lot to talk about there.
Whichever one isn't first will be second. Also, I still want to retool my old RetroGaming Times Monthly series on the 16-bit console wars for a blog format, and share that with you as well. Plus I have one or two other surprises planned! :-)
It may be a few more weeks, or even a month or two before the blog is back up to full steam. But please take this blog post as a down-payment on my promise that the Nerd Noise Radio blog is back from the dead, and I very sincerely look forward to what's coming next!
Cheers!
-John - Chief Nerd at Nerd Noise Radio
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Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Monday, May 25, 2015
The [proposed] new week on Nerd Noise Radio
On our Twitter feed we have for the past month or so had a week that looked like this:
Mon-Thu: No theme, just share tracks. Anything goes so long as a) no soundtracks, b) no reusing tracks featured in the last six months, and c) no FACE-OFFs.
Fri: Replay Friday - self explanatory, right? Anything can be refeatured - tracks or soundtracks, only nothing new.
Sat: Soundtrack Saturday - also self explanatory. Only soundtracks.
Sun: Theme Sunday - once again, intensely self-explanatory. Every post has to fit some topic. Could be genre of game the music comes from, could be series of game, could be system, could be composer, or could be something geeky, like yesterday's Theme Sunday, which featured only tracks that use prominent FM. Also, FACE OFFs could be a theme, like weeks before yesterday's "PC Engine vs the World"
That's the week as it stands.
But not only in the name of having tighter themes, but also to satisfy my burning urge for good alliteration, here is what I'm planning to change our week to:
"Mishmash Monday" - This is the old no theme M-Th, exactly like the old M-Th.
"Tech Tuesday" - Some geeky, tech related theme.
"Wayback Wednesday" - Formerly known as "Replay Friday", otherwise unchanged.
"Theme Thursday" - Formerly known as "Theme Sunday". Focus is narrowed only to something not-tech (like composer, genre, series, system (system can work for both Tue and Thu). Also, no face-offs, and only video game music (no chip tunes, covers, or other kinds of VGM-related-non-VGM)
"Face Off Friday" - self explanatory, I found a way to work my beloved FACE OFFs into twitter!
"Soundtrack Saturday" - in every way unchanged from before.
"Scene Sunday" - Chiptunes, Covers (whether they're chiptune covers of [quote unquote] "real music", or [quote unquote] "real instrument"/"real band" covers of VGM, or heck, even chip covers of VGM (I.e. a YM2612 version of an SNES track), and non-VGM music somehow connnected to VGM either by sampling VGM, being sampled by VGM, being clearly inspired by VGM, clearly an inspiration to VGM, or simply non-VGM music composed by VGM composers (I.e. VGM composer Martin Iveness does non-VGM under the name Atjazz).
I'm going to wait a week or two to implement any of this on Twitter, though. I want to give people a chance to tell me they don't like it, and either offer alternate suggestions, or ask that things remain the way they are. I want to give people a chance to "vote no", that does NOT involve "voting no" with the "unfollow" button, if you know what I mean.
But barring significant outcry, within the next week or two, this will be the new face of Nerd Noise Radio on Twitter!
Like? Dislike? Disdain? Too complicated? Or sheer genius? Blow up the comments!
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Mon-Thu: No theme, just share tracks. Anything goes so long as a) no soundtracks, b) no reusing tracks featured in the last six months, and c) no FACE-OFFs.
Fri: Replay Friday - self explanatory, right? Anything can be refeatured - tracks or soundtracks, only nothing new.
Sat: Soundtrack Saturday - also self explanatory. Only soundtracks.
Sun: Theme Sunday - once again, intensely self-explanatory. Every post has to fit some topic. Could be genre of game the music comes from, could be series of game, could be system, could be composer, or could be something geeky, like yesterday's Theme Sunday, which featured only tracks that use prominent FM. Also, FACE OFFs could be a theme, like weeks before yesterday's "PC Engine vs the World"
*************************************************************
That's the week as it stands.
But not only in the name of having tighter themes, but also to satisfy my burning urge for good alliteration, here is what I'm planning to change our week to:
*************************************************************
"Mishmash Monday" - This is the old no theme M-Th, exactly like the old M-Th.
"Tech Tuesday" - Some geeky, tech related theme.
"Wayback Wednesday" - Formerly known as "Replay Friday", otherwise unchanged.
"Theme Thursday" - Formerly known as "Theme Sunday". Focus is narrowed only to something not-tech (like composer, genre, series, system (system can work for both Tue and Thu). Also, no face-offs, and only video game music (no chip tunes, covers, or other kinds of VGM-related-non-VGM)
"Face Off Friday" - self explanatory, I found a way to work my beloved FACE OFFs into twitter!
"Soundtrack Saturday" - in every way unchanged from before.
"Scene Sunday" - Chiptunes, Covers (whether they're chiptune covers of [quote unquote] "real music", or [quote unquote] "real instrument"/"real band" covers of VGM, or heck, even chip covers of VGM (I.e. a YM2612 version of an SNES track), and non-VGM music somehow connnected to VGM either by sampling VGM, being sampled by VGM, being clearly inspired by VGM, clearly an inspiration to VGM, or simply non-VGM music composed by VGM composers (I.e. VGM composer Martin Iveness does non-VGM under the name Atjazz).
*************************************************************
I'm going to wait a week or two to implement any of this on Twitter, though. I want to give people a chance to tell me they don't like it, and either offer alternate suggestions, or ask that things remain the way they are. I want to give people a chance to "vote no", that does NOT involve "voting no" with the "unfollow" button, if you know what I mean.
But barring significant outcry, within the next week or two, this will be the new face of Nerd Noise Radio on Twitter!
Like? Dislike? Disdain? Too complicated? Or sheer genius? Blow up the comments!
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Twitter "Replay Friday" 05/08/2015
Just as the name implies, this is sort of a weekly "mini-greatest-hits" of the Twitter page. The tracks don't have to be taken from the same week, though, and as such, are not just redundant of "The Week of".
Here's this week's "Replay Friday":
Streets of Rage - Genesis - Stage 8 theme:
Castlevania II - NES - Full Soundtrack:
Final Fantasy X - PS2 - The Burning Sands:
Contra: Hard Corps - Genesis - Jurassic Dope:
and finally:
Ballblazer - Atari 5200 (etc) - Theme of the Grid (NTSC):
And that was this week's "Replay Friday" over on the Twitter page! See you next week!
Here's this week's "Replay Friday":
Streets of Rage - Genesis - Stage 8 theme:
Castlevania II - NES - Full Soundtrack:
Final Fantasy X - PS2 - The Burning Sands:
Contra: Hard Corps - Genesis - Jurassic Dope:
and finally:
Ballblazer - Atari 5200 (etc) - Theme of the Grid (NTSC):
And that was this week's "Replay Friday" over on the Twitter page! See you next week!
Friday, May 8, 2015
The Week in Twitter 05/04/15 - 05/07/15
Hi Kids!
As I have mentioned before, I want to have more interaction and overlap between the blog and the twitter feed. I'm sure I'll think of ideas later that are better than what I currently have...or perhaps one of my readers may have an idea worth its weight in gold, and we implement it.
But for now, on the "blog-to-twitter" side, when I post a blog entry, I point people to it in a tweet. what I'm thinking of on the "twitter-to-blog" side is thus:
- Repost the tracks shared on "Theme Sunday" as a blog (I've done this once before.)
- Repost the soundtracks shared on "Soundtrack Saturday" as a blog.
- Repost the tracks shared on "Replay Friday" as a blog.
- and finally, Repost all the "ordinary" tracks that appeared on the "ordinary" Mon-Thurs of the week.
If anyone has any ideas that I can pursue to further/better link the blog and twitter page - OR, if you think one or more of these ideas should be abandoned, please, light up the comments.
Meanwhile, here's our inaugural "The week in Twitter..." post. These are all the tracks that were shared on Twitter this past week M-T:
Super Star Wars - SNES - Intro and Theme (May the 4th be with you!):
Streets of Rage - Genesis - Stage 8 Theme:
Kid Icarus - NES - Underworld Theme:
Rockman and Forte - Super Famicom - Tenguman Theme:
F-Zero - SNES - Mute City:
Metal Stoker - PC Engine - HES 73 (Unknown Track 73):
Phantasy Star 2 - Genesis - Restoration:
Guacamelee - Multi-platform - Forest del Chivo:
Street Fighter 1 - Arcade - Bonus Theme 2:
and finally - Spellcaster - Mastersystem - Adventure Screen:
So, let me know, gang! Great idea, terrible idea - the compiling of the week's twitter tracks into a blog? It seems like a great idea to me, but I don't know if that's sage wisdom on my part, or the ravings of one who doesn't know how to work the internet unless you guys pipe up and let me know! :-)
In either case, I hope you enjoy the music. I try to keep things a good mix of all systems, styles, and eras, with a smart mix of famous and obscure tracks, and an emphasis on 8-bit, and most especially, 16-bit era music. Hope you like this week's offerings.
Cheers!
As I have mentioned before, I want to have more interaction and overlap between the blog and the twitter feed. I'm sure I'll think of ideas later that are better than what I currently have...or perhaps one of my readers may have an idea worth its weight in gold, and we implement it.
But for now, on the "blog-to-twitter" side, when I post a blog entry, I point people to it in a tweet. what I'm thinking of on the "twitter-to-blog" side is thus:
- Repost the tracks shared on "Theme Sunday" as a blog (I've done this once before.)
- Repost the soundtracks shared on "Soundtrack Saturday" as a blog.
- Repost the tracks shared on "Replay Friday" as a blog.
- and finally, Repost all the "ordinary" tracks that appeared on the "ordinary" Mon-Thurs of the week.
If anyone has any ideas that I can pursue to further/better link the blog and twitter page - OR, if you think one or more of these ideas should be abandoned, please, light up the comments.
Meanwhile, here's our inaugural "The week in Twitter..." post. These are all the tracks that were shared on Twitter this past week M-T:
Super Star Wars - SNES - Intro and Theme (May the 4th be with you!):
Streets of Rage - Genesis - Stage 8 Theme:
Kid Icarus - NES - Underworld Theme:
Rockman and Forte - Super Famicom - Tenguman Theme:
F-Zero - SNES - Mute City:
Metal Stoker - PC Engine - HES 73 (Unknown Track 73):
Phantasy Star 2 - Genesis - Restoration:
Guacamelee - Multi-platform - Forest del Chivo:
Street Fighter 1 - Arcade - Bonus Theme 2:
and finally - Spellcaster - Mastersystem - Adventure Screen:
So, let me know, gang! Great idea, terrible idea - the compiling of the week's twitter tracks into a blog? It seems like a great idea to me, but I don't know if that's sage wisdom on my part, or the ravings of one who doesn't know how to work the internet unless you guys pipe up and let me know! :-)
In either case, I hope you enjoy the music. I try to keep things a good mix of all systems, styles, and eras, with a smart mix of famous and obscure tracks, and an emphasis on 8-bit, and most especially, 16-bit era music. Hope you like this week's offerings.
Cheers!
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