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TMNT with Jeremy Powers (Zenspath Entertainment Network)

Let’s talk about the year 2007, when Ubisoft looked at Konami’s TMNT license, going up for grabs after three straight beat-em-ups, and said “yeah, we’ll take it,” the video game equivalent of adopting somebody else’s very large, very established pet. They tied the whole thing to Imagi’s brand new fully CGI turtle movie and then, in an act of scheduling chaos I can only respect, shipped the game three entire days before the film hit theaters. Bold! Confusing! Possibly the result of someone losing a calendar!

And then, because apparently one platform was never going to cut it, Ubisoft just kept going. PlayStation 2! GameCube! Xbox 360! Wii! PC! A PlayStation 3 version that got paraded around at trade shows like a prize pony and then quietly put out to pasture, never to be seen again! And just when you think the roster’s full, Nintendo DS and PSP roll in with an entirely separate game wearing the same name tag, because why make one turtle game when you could make several turtle games and let the consumer sort it out. Also, bonus points to whoever in marketing decided the title needed zero subtitles, zero colons, zero numbers, just “TMNT,” like it’s the only one that’s ever existed. Confidence!

Climbing out of the sewer to help me survey this multi-console fever dream is Jeremy Powers, host and creator of the Zenspath Entertainment Network, a man who apparently collects retro hardware, works as an engineer, and still finds time to run a podcast, which is either elite time management or a full refusal to acknowledge the concept of a day off.

So track down whichever version of this thing actually ended up in your house back in 2007, because statistically there’s a good chance it wasn’t the same one as your neighbor’s, and let’s find out if TMNT earned its spot in the turtle hall of fame, or if it should’ve stayed a trade show prototype.

Learn such things as:

• Do we ever stop to think that maybe the people making these games knew what they were doing all along?
• Will we ever get that chance to see Splinter and Iroh together?
• How much retreading is acceptable when you’re the new guy making things?
• And so much more!

You can find Jeremy on YouTube @Zenspathcom and of course at the Zenspath Entertainment Network.

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You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Behold! and The Last Comic Shop for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who dips pizza in honey mustard.

So I got this EPS16+ sampler now, and it did come with a sample library, but unfortunately that sample library was mostly the official EPS and ASR libraries plus a couple of fancy sound sets (OB8, bosendorfer, etc). Also an FX library that I haven't looked at yet.

I was hoping to find some of the common floppies that were going around in the day, like rips of AoN's "Hey" and chainsaw samples and Trevor Horn's "Doh"s. Alas, no luck. (I guess it's feasible that I sampled those myself?) But also there were a bunch of FX ones floating around for Mirage and EPS.

Anyone have a pointer to existing good-quality versions of that sort of thing?

#Ensoniq #EPS #Mirage #syntheiszer

Renoncer à être heureux

T’es-tu déjà demandé si tu atteindras un jour le bonheur tel que tu l’as toujours imaginé ?

Dans cette vidéo, nous plongeons dans la philosophie d’Arthur Schopenhauer – l’un des penseurs les plus lucides et impitoyables concernant la nature humaine – pour comprendre pourquoi nous restons prisonniers d’une illusion façonnée par le désir.

Découvre pourquoi le bonheur promis par la société n’est qu’un mirage… et comment la souffrance pourrait être la clé d’une vie plus consciente, plus silencieuse, et paradoxalement, plus libre.

Schopenhauer et la vérité dérangeante sur le bonheur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGKCMOmRgCE

Friday, December 12, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/12/friday-december-12-2025/

strong recommendation ...

a wonderful experience in

#sound #drums #percussion #ancestralModernism

http://www.yinghsuehchen.com/

#music #musicians #shaman #mirage

VARNING XVII: Friday Night

Piranha Bar, Friday, September 12 at 06:30 PM EDT

A VARNING FROM MONTREAL XVII: Friday Night

VARUKERS (England)

LANGUID (Edmonton)

INNOCENT (Boston)

PUFFER (Ugly France)

MIRAGE (NYC)

EPAULET (Toronto)

VENENÖ (NYC)

PSYCHIC ARMOUR

EULOGY

At Piranha Bar
Doors 6:30pm, Show 7pm
$35
Tickets: https://thepointofsale.com/tickets/py4250911001

A VARNING is more than just a punk festival—it's a gathering of hearts and minds from across the globe, rooted in D.I.Y. ethics, loud music, and loud resistance.

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/varning-xvii-friday-night

In 1987 there was a (very) limited release of an arcade cabinet called "Moonquake," I have just discovered. Within, was a rather novel hardware arrangement.

This was internally an Amiga 500 with an Ensoniq 5503 DOC (the sound synth chip in the Apple IIgs and Mirage synthesizers) interfaced to it for audio. On the Apple IIgs, the DOC had one 64K sound bank. The chip supported two such banks, but the 5503 in Moonquake apparently had 512K of sound RAM -- each oscillator (or channel (sorta)) had its own 64K of RAM to pull from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPe9An3I2Ak

Thanks for the info on this, Ians Schmidt and Brumby from the Apple II slack.

https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/moon-quake

This unique system is supported under MAME.

#arcade #arcadecabinet #gaming #games #gamers #retrogaming #retrogames #Amiga #AppleII #AppleIIgs #Ensoniq #Mirage #emulation #Moonquake #chiptune #audio #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

#GLaDOS #I.R.I.S. #MendicantBias #OffensiveBias #QAI #Sovereign #JohnHenryEden #LEGION #CL4P-TP #TheGuardianAngel #Serina #AuntieDot #EDI #Harbinger #Harmonia #Legion #TheThinker #YesMan #ElizaCassan #ADA(ADetectionAlgorithm) #DCPU-16 #Roland #M.I.K.E. #ctOS #ctOS2.0 #Rasputin #Ghost #XANADU #TIS-100 #GovernorSloan #031ExuberantWitness #Kaizen-85 #MS-Alice #VEGA #Athena #SAM #GAIA, #SAM #A.R.C.H.I.E.Three #TheAutochthon #TheComputer #CrimeComputer #Deus #Mirage #Megara #OmegaVirusBattlestat1 #Zoneminds #SARA #Walter #TheCENTRALSCRUTINIZER #Tandy400Compy386Lappy486CompéLappier #HyperHegel #A.J.G.L.U.2000 #Li’lHal #CADIE