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Why'd it have to be THAT song?
08-11-2005, 04:30 PM
Oddball question: does Doug have to *like* a song to get an effect? I don't have any particular song or power(s) in mind, here, but my sadistic sense of humor just won't let go of the notion of Looney Toons discovering that a song he absolutely *hates* gives him a power or set of powers comparable in magnitude to "Lightning's Hand."
Since his subconscious controls the powers, maybe he just *can't* get anything if it's a song he doesn't enjoy hearing. Still, I snicker at the thought of him realizing with horror that only *that* song will give him just what he needs to clobber the villain of the moment -- and at that point, Doug's bad-mood meter goes off the scale.
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Re: Why'd it have to be THAT song?
08-11-2005, 07:04 PM
Well, on the gaming level, it was always songs I liked that I wanted to use in play. I don't think there's a song he doesn't like in his repertoire at the moment. I think it's pretty likely that one of the criteria used by his subconscious to determine what songs turn into powers is indeed whether he likes it or not.
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Re: Why'd it have to be THAT song?
08-12-2005, 04:01 AM
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I think it's pretty likely that one of the criteria used by his subconscious to determine what songs turn into powers is indeed whether he likes it or not.
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Pity, although I suspected that. But I was getting wonderful mental images: "*You're* responsible for me having to listen to this crappy song! It'll take two days for me to get these stupid lyrics out of my head! Aaaarrrrgh!"
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Re: Why'd it have to be THAT song?
08-12-2005, 04:20 AM
Well, if, as seems to be the case, a song's power is fixed once it's been tried, then what about those times when Doug's opinion of it -changes-?
That is, that silly little jingle you liked so much when you were twenty isn't neccessarily going to seem so engaging fifteen years later...
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Re: Why'd it have to be THAT song?
08-12-2005, 02:05 PM
Oh, I don't know. I've been playing Doug for more than 15 years and I don't think there's any particular piece of music from 1987-1990 that I stopped liking, "power song" or not...
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