The respected General continues to enact humble miracles
September 11, 2014 7:03 AM Subscribe
HEAVEN'S COUNTRYLAND: your 8-bit animated guide to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. (MLYT)
Produced for Adult Swim by David OReilly (previously) (previously).
Produced for Adult Swim by David OReilly (previously) (previously).
AAAAAAAGHHH internet! Stop using '8-bit' as a lazy shorthand for 'retro computer graphics and audio'. Almost everything I see described as '8-bit' has a palette and resolution that would be unachievable on any actual 8-bit machine, it would be 16-bit era Amiga, ST at a minimum and maybe even early VGA PC. So STOP IT.
Don't get me started on the lazy use of 'surreal' to mean' sort of odd'.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 7:43 AM on September 11, 2014 [11 favorites]
Don't get me started on the lazy use of 'surreal' to mean' sort of odd'.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 7:43 AM on September 11, 2014 [11 favorites]
Nice.
posted by benito.strauss at 7:54 AM on September 11, 2014
posted by benito.strauss at 7:54 AM on September 11, 2014
"How are you supposed to love a heptagon? Do not answer."
posted by tonycpsu at 9:12 AM on September 11, 2014
posted by tonycpsu at 9:12 AM on September 11, 2014
These are very... Adult Swim, but O'Reilly is definitely capable of plumbing some real depths. In particular, I find Please Say Something heartbreaking in a strangely raw and immediate way.
There is an edge to his work that I don't entirely trust, but I respect his voice.
posted by louche mustachio at 10:47 AM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]
There is an edge to his work that I don't entirely trust, but I respect his voice.
posted by louche mustachio at 10:47 AM on September 11, 2014 [1 favorite]
Oh, man. It took me up to episode two to figure out that the Korean voiceover is machine-translated. I just thought my Korean had gotten really bad (it's my first language).
posted by tickingclock at 10:48 AM on September 11, 2014
posted by tickingclock at 10:48 AM on September 11, 2014
AAAAAAAGHHH internet! Stop using '8-bit' as a lazy shorthand for 'retro computer graphics and audio'.
internet won't stop using it that way because that is what the word has come to mean. The English language loves shorthand words and is constantly evolving in ways that can sometimes drive us crazy.
posted by eye of newt at 8:47 PM on September 11, 2014
internet won't stop using it that way because that is what the word has come to mean. The English language loves shorthand words and is constantly evolving in ways that can sometimes drive us crazy.
posted by eye of newt at 8:47 PM on September 11, 2014
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