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Disco power songs?
05-23-2008, 07:03 PM
Bob, have you ever thought of using any disco songs like "Disco Inferno" or "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor?
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I really have to update the list stickies...
IIRC, Staying Alive makes everyone in the area of effect unkillable while it plays. (Not invulnerable, just unkillable. Ouch.)
Other than that, I don't know of any disco in Doug's Arsenal. (Mainly because so many disco songs don't really have lyrics, just a single repeated line...)
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Quote: robkelk wrote:
I really have to update the list stickies...
IIRC, Staying Alive makes everyone in the area of effect unkillable while it plays. (Not invulnerable, just unkillable. Ouch.)
Other than that, I don't know of any disco in Doug's Arsenal. (Mainly because so many disco songs don't really have lyrics, just a single
repeated line...)
If you're talking about Disco Duck, yeah.
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Not just Disco Duck. I have to agree that most Disco songs really are mostly instrumental with a single line or two of lyrics repeated over and over.
Rather like "Do the Hustle" and such... Even the Village people songs which actually had a story to them tended to repeat lyrics a lot even outside
of the choruses...
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As in Weird Al's parody, "This Song's Just Six Words Long."
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Quote: ordnance11 wrote:
If you're talking about Disco Duck, yeah.
Bob, I just want to point out that I wasn't the one who mentioned the Duck song first in this particular thread...
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Quote: ordnance11 wrote:
Bob, have you ever thought of using any disco songs like "Disco Inferno" or "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor?
On a related note, I think I once suggested Staying Alive (by the Bee Gees).
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I know that there is at least one song in his arsenal that acts like Emergency life support for the duration, effectively keeping the subject9s) at 1 hp... I
also seem to recall one that Bob described as sort of a Weeble effect... you know... Weebles wobble but they dont fall down?
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Quote:I know that there is at least one song in his arsenal that acts like Emergency life support for the duration, effectively keeping the subject9s) at 1 hp... I also seem to recall one that Bob described as sort of a Weeble effect... you know... Weebles wobble but they dont fall down?
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I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down
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Actually, Doug has had "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor in his repertoire since his creation. As the original character sheet put it, it produces
"V&V Adaptation power, with side effect of obnoxious self-sufficiency."
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Oh, and as for other songs, "Disco Inferno" certainly has some potential. I don't have any other explicitly disco songs in my lists for him, but
that doesn't mean there aren't some among the thousands in his helmet.
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