One of Kenji Kawai's best scores, right after the original Ghost in the Shell.

I'm forcing all my goddamn normie relatives to watch the entirety of The Red Spectacles.

I don't know, I'd like to think that I have a pretty open mind. Sure, someone hypothetically comes to me and says "Hey fella, I'd recommend reading Mein Kampf." I'll probably tune out what they say.

But that's like, the obvious transgressive answer. If someone is genuinely making an effort to share something with me that they love, I think that effort deserves to be encouraged and rewarded with real consideration. Even if I don't end up reading whatever novel they recommend (it's incredibly rare for me to read non-fiction) I feel like I owe it to them to at least look into it. As someone who is generally very closed-off and private, I can appreciate the effort it takes to open yourself up even a little bit and share something that you enjoy. It makes you vulnerable and opens up a path to rejection. Of course, rejecting of a thing you like isn't rejection of you, but it can still hurt. A paper cut isn't much damage, but it still hurts.

I think a more positive version of this question is "is there a book or author suggestion that makes you immediately trust a person's recommendations?" For example, if someone recommended me a Clifford Simak novel, I'd want to spend some time with that person.

Edit: Upon rereading your post, I may have misinterpreted. This isn't really about the personal level, is it? It's more about recommendations and lists from social media users. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

So long, Internet Archive.

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Best part about the movie is you don't have to read Vandermeer's prose.

The future of literature is the future of every other entertainment medium: homogenized and controlled entirely by giant corporations that will flood the market with machine-generated content because paying a human to make it would cut into their profits. I give it twenty years at most before every industry is infected beyond a cure, and if you want human-generated content you'll have to look to the past and use physical media from the past.

“There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than ‘Cheer up!’ The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying ‘cheer up’ had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.” - from Spiral by Koji Suzuki.

Because people like OP click on the video. They engage with the video by commenting. It feeds the cycle.

The TV Tropes page for leitmotif in film.

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but a good starting point.

Slay the Spire.

Same. Unless YouTube counts, but I don't really interact.

>Stay off of social media.

That's pretty solid life advice in general.

Hearing Making of Cyborg from Ghost in the Shell is guaranteed to send shivers down my spine.

He read the script.

This and Fantastic Planet are two of my favorite European animated films. Laloux did some really interesting stuff.

Assuming you mean a licensed track, I'd have to say "Cliffs of Dover" from Guitar Hero 3.

If you mean something original for the game, the song that gives me the most intense emotional response is "Giselle" from The House in Fata Morgana.

"An Out of Body State" from Shin Ultraman was pretty great.

I don't know about every Argento movie; Simonetti kind of phoned it in on Dracula 3D and Mother of Tears.

That said, Phenomena and Suspiria are my favorite Goblin scores. Both are fantastic, and I swear I hear some Phenomena influences in Michiru Yamane's work for Castlevania.

Depends. Is the first date at a hot dog eating contest? Because she needs to know I play to fuckin win, dude

Not a problem, happy to help.

That could be any number of MMOs. I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say Neverwinter? It has a "Shadow Wolf" mount and would have been released in roughly the right time frame, but I have no idea when that mount came out.

I just reread OP's post, so it still doesn't really fit. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said anything, I'm sure I came off like an asshole.

Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim. There's also Online, Blades, Battlespire, Redguard, and Legends (I think that was the name of the online TCG).

I'd argue that Smile's trailers do such a bad job of representing what the film is that seeing them doesn't really matter.

No. I'd be intimidated by the responsibility if it was to happen, though. I'd probably do what I could to get them professional help. Two people that can't swim will both drown; I'm not equipped to help in that kind of situation.