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#a response to jan misali's poll#i don't think it was deranged enough#jan misali#tara says shit#tumblr polls#polls
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As someone who has watched @janmisali's "how many Super Mario games are there" video several times and is eagerly awaiting the sequel (don't worry, I filled out the new survey already), I noticed something interesting in the beginning of GMTK's newest video. During the intro, he says he's played "... every single mainline entry in the Super Mario Brothers series". Naturally, my first reaction was to figure out what exact list of games that is. During this scene (mostly as a gag), he's set up a stack of games on the side. From bottom to top, they are:
Super Mario 3D World
New Super Mario Bros U
Super Mario Galaxy 2
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Galaxy
New Super Mario Bros
New Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario 3D Land
Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS
Super Mario 3D All-Stars
Super Mario Maker 2
Super Mario Odyssey
Super Mario Maker
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Bros 2 (aka "USA")
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
2 Unidentifiable SNES/Super Famicom cartriges
Super Mario Land
This is mostly similar to the "popular" 18-game list in the jan Misali video, with a couple differences. GMTK does include all 3 Maker games, which is completely fine since it's consistent.
While making this list I learned that the European SNES used the same design as the Super Famicom. I think this makes it likely that one of the unidentified carts is The Lost Levels, which would make the list otherwise match Misali's. I think the best candidate for the other cart is Yoshi's Island. Both of those appear in the video footage, but I don't know how to confirm either guess.
If someone has Mark Brown's contact and wants to waste his time asking for his justification on the enumeration and classification of the mainline series of games within the Mario franchise, let me know.
He also includes the following games in the video as footage, although seeing as the video also includes a lot of non-Mario games this probably means nothing for GMTK's opinion on what games are part of the mainline series:
Super Mario Bros Wonder
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Super Mario Bros Deluxe
Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels
New Super Luigi U
New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe
Super Mario Run
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#toki pona#imagine dragons#radioactive starts playing#jan misali#cute frauds#dreams of our generation
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Caramelldansen, the Disney Channel theme, & obfuscated authorship
Kevin Perjurer's Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery and jan Misali's who wrote Caramelldansen? feel like complimentary opposites.
Both are videos about the authorship of music that lots of people have heard but few people think about. But the similarities end there. (Aside from some fairly petty stuff like "both have iconic associated choreography, if the wand thing counts as choreography".)
Perjurer expresses frustration that, for all the artistry he puts into this and his other documentaries, he will be remembered as a YouTuber or a content creator, not a documentarian or a filmmaker. For all the work jan Misali puts into his craft, he embraces the fact that he makes YouTube videos. It's not easy to remix "Die Young" and "Hare Hare Yukai," but Misali did it...and what kind of documentary would have a 13-second title card in the middle with a mashup of a J-pop song and an A-pop song playing over it?
(Are American pop songs called A-pop? They should be.)
On a related note: Perjurer's documentary seems to have that tension as its primary theme. The tension between the effort and artistry that goes into something like the Disney Channel theme, and the disrespect it receives for not even qualifying as "low art". The primary theme of Misali's video seems to be more along the line of "It's worth remembering random facts about the world," expressed through his frustration at Remix Records, his frustration at how much Caramelldansen ("I would absolutely love to play the garbage Caramelldansen rhythm game!"), and the random facts he dug up while researching and chose to share for no other reason.
(There's a decent argument that who wrote Caramelldansen?'s primary theme is more along the lines of "'Caramelldansen''s original authorship is irrelevant, because the meme is what makes it 'Caramelldansen'," but that theme doesn't really appear outside the video's conclusion.)
Another stream-of-thought association: Perjurer has nothing but respect for the work of Alex Lasarenko, both his contributions to the Disney Channel theme and his broader work. Misali has nothing but shade to throw on the work of Giovanni Sconfienza, both his "contributions" to Caramelldansen and his broader work, and especially his attempts to take the Caramell out of Caramelldansen. I feel both of these are 100% justified, given context, but it's another interesting contrast!
Perjurer assumes that the audience will accept that the Disney Channel theme's importance is obvious to the viewer, and understand what made it so prominent. It was played on one of the biggest kid's TV networks of the 21st century! Misali focuses most of the video on why and how Caramelldansen rose to prominence, because for a lot of people it's just "that song that plays for ANIME LOL".
The obfuscation of the Disney Channel theme's authorship comes down to Disney being Disney and not saying anything about non-Disney people who make Disney Disney. (And, to be fair, broader industry trends.) The obfuscation of "Caramelldansen"'s authorship comes down to some rebranding done years after the fact.
Misali is (I feel, rightfully) critical of [name]. Perjurer is (I feel, rightfully) respectful towards Alex Lasarenko and the music he directed/composed.
Most obviously: It takes months of research, correspondence, interviews, and so forth before Perjurer can figure out who wrote the Disney Channel Theme. Misali identifies Caramell as the creators of "Caramelldansen" in the opening seconds of the video. (Also, it's in the song's title.)
Now, you might reasonably wonder why I wrote this post, comparing two random YouTube video essays on similar topics. I'd like to provide some grand thesis statement that ties my conclusions and process into some statement about the nature of art. However, at the end of the day, this is more of a jan Misali post than a Kevin Perjurer one. But I think both would agree that this kind of little thing has merit. (Nowhere near enough to ask for their opinion or assume they'd have one, of course.)
#jan misali#defunctland#youtube#caramelldansen#disney channel theme#random thoughts#unusually random this time#video essays
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How many Sonic the Hedgehog main series video games are there?
Hello, I am trying to find out which Sonic games are mainline. If you've seen jan Misali's video on which Mario games are mainline, it's like that. Please leave your honest answers in the following form if you wish to contribute: https://forms.gle/9dBHotFbsnbXvyVM7
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Oh my god januaryMisalignment
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Me playing my submission to the @janmisali Super Mario Bros. Ground theme quiz on the soundboard. (Recorded before actually making the submission- some parts are incorrect.)
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"Your name is MISALI VÖTGIL."
(love jan misali's videos, and now that i have a sideblog where i can post homestuck without shame i can draw their fantroll ^_^)
#mine#fantrolls#jan misali#misali vötgil#misali votgil#im a bit excited to have finally drawn them#a video abt homestuck is very good. so many inside jokes/references
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can you please blend jan misali from youtube
jan Misali from Youtube is being blended!!
You cannot save them.
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