kenlasalle
kenlasalle t1_iugwfpd wrote
Reply to Do you make the background music first or the lyrics of a song? I'm so confused!!! by Energite0
When I was writing songs with the bands I was in, I would pen the lyrics and have a general sense of the tune. The trick, then, was getting the band into it enough that they started adding their parts.
All the best.
kenlasalle t1_iugw9y1 wrote
Reply to Why is gaming special to you? by Batknight23
When I was 7 years old, my family was very poor. We couldn't afford much.
That was the year Pong came out. And I scraped for a single quarter. Didn't often get one. I watched a lot more than I played. That's how arcades were for a poor kid.
Then, the Atari 2600 came out (though it wasn't called that to start). I couldn't afford one, knew a bunch of people who had one, so I saved every penny for literally years so I could purchase a used Intellivision. My friends and I shared cartridges and played all we could.
As the years passed and I matured and made more money, I was able to play through all of the generations going from a SNES to a Genesis to the next and the next. I had a PS1, a Dreamcast, an Xbox, a WII, a PS3, a Switch, until my present system, a Series X.
Video games have been a huge part of my life. And now, as I near 60, my abilities are falling off and I play slower games. But thanks to GamePass, I get to try a little of everything. I might not be good but I figure you don't have to be good at rides in an amusement park so I can goof off on whatever game I like.
I recently got addicted to Dysmantle, btw. It's cotton candy for the OCD brain.
kenlasalle t1_iudl6g2 wrote
Reply to Halloween, 1984 style by RebaRocket
I clearly went to the wrong parties in 1984.
kenlasalle t1_iuc6j1k wrote
Best movie I've ever seen? Easy. 1971's Duel. Steven Spielberg's debut film was a TV movie and I was 6 years old. My mom had no idea what we were about to see and, though I was 6 or because I was 6, that film was tense, riviting - and very unlike anything else on TV in 1971. It came completely out of nowhere and I still remember how great it was all these years later.
kenlasalle t1_iu44uto wrote
Reply to [Image] “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot by Butterflies_Books
Until you're dead, that is.
kenlasalle t1_iu30gsw wrote
Reply to comment by Doctor_Loggins in Putin claims West seeks global domination by using Ukraine by Gopu_17
That was totally by accident. I didn't see it when I wrote it but I totally see it now. Thank you! I needed that!
kenlasalle t1_iu1nhkh wrote
Sure, the country who didn't invade Ukraine is always more at fault than the country that did.
Because it's Opposite Day!
kenlasalle t1_irn9w6n wrote
Reply to New licensing round for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea "good for the environment” insists UK climate minister by WilliamMorris420
I'm sure the "environment" around his bank account is doing just fine.
kenlasalle t1_iugwxfg wrote
Reply to Under Putin's new martial law decree Russian forces can legally loot art in Ukraine by hieronymusanonymous
Everything becomes surprisingly legal in war, especially that which isn't.