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Frasier Fantasy
- urbandw311er 3y agoWhere oh where are the lotus files?!
- COGlory 3y agoThis is truly incredible, an absolute labor of love. I am so happy I clicked that link.
- eugenekolo 3y agoPlayed it for a few minutes, quite enjoyable, very well done.
- krumpet 3y agoExcellent work. Hidden sherry acquired!
- tetris11 3y agoI suddenly feel a need to acquire art to mask my drinking problem
- nvy 3y agoI don't know what to do with those tossed salads and scrambled eggs.
- wahnfrieden 3y ago[flagged]
- crazygringo 3y agoNot sure how that's at all relevant to somebody's labor-of-love game here. Also, yes he was accused, but he was never even indicted for it. The grand jury didn't think there was enough evidence to even warrant going to trial. His defense claimed it was an attempt by the babysitter to extort money. Obviously nobody will ever know what really happened, but it's hard to see how it has any connection to this videogame at all.
- cmiller1 3y agoHow about when he was given a light sentence for driving while drunk and on coke because he was a beloved actor on Cheers but then spent decades espousing conservative tough on crime rhetoric. He sure seems to like progressive sentencing when it benefits him.
- panzagl 3y agoHis sister was murdered in Colorado, so maybe his views were complicated.
- evan_ 3y ago> mentioned because Grammer has been on PR tour for a new movie He has? During the SAG strike? What movie?
- wahnfrieden 3y agoBefore the strike
- dudul 3y agoA lot of people get accused of things. Sometimes they're found guilty, sometimes non-guilty, sometimes it doesn't go to trial. No idea why it needs to be mentioned and what it has to do with this game about a show/fictional character.
- jdlyga 3y agoThis is the most unnecessary thing I've ever seen. I love it.
- 5cott0 3y agohttps://vineyardgazette.com/news/2016/03/25/where-everybody-borrows-your-name https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2016/03/25/where-everybody-... Fun fact (or conspiracy), Cheers and by extension the character of Frasier Crane were plagiarized from a late 70s local Boston sitcom called Park Street Under.
- robertlagrant 3y agoVery interesting, but I'm not sure that follows, unless there was a Frasier Crane-style character in it, which that article doesn't mention.
- 5cott0 3y agoNot mentioned in that article but Part Street Under even had the mailman & the psychiatrist!
- robertlagrant 3y agoOh. Wow!
- jancsika 3y agoApparently they had a psychiatrist character named Harvey Dorfman: Harvey: “Look, I’m Dr. Harvey Dorfman. I wrote the book Success Through Fear. [Audience laughs.]…I live in the South End, so perhaps I can help you. And I’m a psychologist, so I’m qualified to help you. And I’m sympathetic, so I’d like to help you. Can I help you?” I love the line about "Success Through Fear." I'd be curious to know if Dorfman had a Boston accent. Frasier's character worked because he was an outsider to Boston. Also, IIRC his references to psychiatry were supposed to come off as earnest-- and often pretentious-- setups for the other characters' punch lines, unlike this quote.
- tomjakubowski 3y agoDorfman's tone lacks the subtle disdain Dr. Crane has for his radio callers. I think one of the most interesting things in Frasier is his struggle to find his identity, between radio host and psychiatrist. As far as I remember on the show he never had any "real" patients, just his callers.
- seehafer 3y agoThis evokes the Internet of the 90's, when it was home mostly to misfits, nerds, and outcasts. A simpler time. A happier time.
- rajin112 3y agoYes creating for the sake of just creating and having fun! Any other mods like this, its good!?
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- themagician 3y agoI watched Frazier as a kid and thought it was kind of funny. Rewatched as an adult and it hits different. It’s like watching a show about a psychopath. You could replace the laugh track with an internal monologue American Psycho style and it makes so much sense.
- yareally 3y agoEh, Frasier is definitely a narcissist, but I wouldn't go that far. He means well, but typically only if it also benefits him. That tends to be most protagonists in sitcoms though. Frasier was a static character and didn't really grow as the show went on. Compare that with Niles who grows throughout the show after losing everything. Niles at least realizes being rich isn't important if you're not happy.
- Tabular-Iceberg 3y agoNo, Frasier is just a pompous but ultimately harmless asshole. It’s the Niles character I take issue with. The weird-nerd-with-oneitis who-gets-the-girl-in-the-end trope of 90s comedy is to a large extent to blame for the current incel crisis. It’s not misogyny, narcissism or a sense of entitlement. It’s that these boys were raised by the TV and socialised into a system of courtship based on putting in superficial acts of niceness and receiving heartfelt love and affection in return. Regrettably when they find out the truth they often lash out at the women, because who would do such a thing as go on TV and tell lies?
- cmiller1 3y agoOh no, I though Maris was the final boss and used up all my items on her...
- Decabytes 3y agoPeople really love Frasier. I feel like I should watch it at this point with how many times I’ve seen it mentioned
- Waterluvian 3y agoIt’s very clever. But what I enjoy most is that it’s just completely low stakes. There’s never any real troubling story arc. It’s all just silly harmless fun. This makes it “cozy TV” for me.
- thsksbd 3y agoHarmless fun? If you're able to empathize and have a bit of social anxiety Frasier is the most high stakes show ever. The brothers get themselves into the stupidest situations, make asses of themselves, and never come out on top. Its the opposite of Seinfeld( great show).
- Waterluvian 3y agoYeah, totally fair. If one is very emphatic to that kind of thing, it can definitely be uncomfortable. What I generally intend by "harmless fun" is exemplified by the episode where they buy and ruin a posh restaurant in a day, but you never hear any mention of the financial ruin from that. Whether they're super rich or not is simply not explored in the show because it's not relevant to the goals of the storyteller. It's like a cartoon: they've just got infinite resources whenever a plot calls for it. That's quite unlike Bob's Burgers, for example, where they're constantly pointing out that they can't even pay rent on time and there's a constant looming anxiety about finances (which to the credit of the show, contrasts meaningfully with how the children are happy and healthy and want for little)
- sheepybloke 3y ago> That's quite unlike Bob's Burgers, for example, where they're constantly pointing out that they can't even pay rent on time and there's a constant looming anxiety about finances To your point, like Fraiser, it's often used a plot device in Bob's Burgers and generally, like Fraiser, everything turns out OK. For me, a lot of it is more defining the social class and context of the show. Will the character be comfortable in a wine club? How will they interact with this setting? What problems would they have?
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoI love the incongruity between the source material (a sitcom about and popular among middle-aged, middle-class types) and the media format (a video game). This reminds me of the scene in the film Waiting for Guffmann where a character runs a shop selling Remains of the Day lunchboxes and My Dinner with Andre action figures.
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- asveikau 3y agoMakes perfect sense when you consider that kids who owned a Gameboy when it was current (the time when Frasier was on the air) are now in their 40s.
- tsunamifury 3y agoIt's actually quite incredible how Fraisers plot lines work so well as an RPG. The random tasks, the sneaking, the subterfuge all for low stakes games. It's also an interesting coherent world they made for the sitcom so the many locations can be expended to the Opera, the Symphony, Wine Club and on and on. I would pay for these 'episodes'!
- swayvil 3y agoAI generated Frasier episodes. It is algorithmically inevitable. Mark my words. Within the decade. Seasons of the stuff. And it will be pretty good too.
- smsm42 3y agoTo be honest, I'd take that over about 90% of what I get on offer now, at least the new stuff. With one condition - no one ever tries to "improve" or "modernize" it.
- afavour 3y agoI was with you until "it will be pretty good too". Maybe you're right. But I'm yet to see much evidence that AI is actually good at comedy. It's something a whole lot of humans can't do either.
- greggsy 3y agoTo be fair, there’s a significant proportion of sitcoms that are just regurgitated formulas. Some studio is almost certainly feeding sitcoms and standup comedy into some horrific LolLLM, but it would almost certainly reject prompts such as “The gang goes black” or “Frank gets molested”, and the outcome of “The gang makes Lethal Weapon 6” is unlikely to be even half as entertaining.
- kridsdale3 3y agoSignificant portion of sitcoms are formulaic yes. But Frasier was upper crust legitimate good writing.
- tomjakubowski 3y agoSee also the brilliant short Grunge Frasier, also known as "Black Hole Sons" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl1vN-3jiT4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl1vN-3jiT4
- steviedotboston 3y agoNIRVANA
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoRelated recent thing you might enjoy: Our Frasier Remake - crowdsourced, collaborative art project where more than 130 animators, filmmakers, and Frasier fans from 11 different countries have remade the Seattle Psychiatrist most meta episode... one frame at a time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37918268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37918268
- smegger001 3y agoThat was truly a thing of glory
- jakebasile 3y agoI remain steadfast in my belief that Frasier is the peak of the sitcom genre, never to be topped. This looks great, I'll play it when I get home for sure.
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- neontomo 3y agoWell done, so much attention to detail here. Makes me wonder how much can be done with existing stories that people know about, in new mediums. Love your Monkey Island poster too.
- flanbiscuit 3y agoI recently found this on Reddit (via /r/chiptunes[1]) and played through it all. Very well done! If anyone was curious how this was made, it looks like it was made using GB Studio (according to the creator's posts on reddit[2]) Also wanted to point out that Frasier is coming back on Paramount+[3]. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/chiptunes/comments/175owc6/frasiers_tossed_salads_and_scrambled_eggs_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/chiptunes/comments/175owc6/frasiers... 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/gbstudio/comments/174wrwh/frasier_fantasy_rpg/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gbstudio/comments/174wrwh/frasier_f... 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz--6tGukuw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz--6tGukuw
- chrismaltby 3y agoAs the creator of GB Studio and a fan of Final Fantasy and Frasier (though can’t bring myself to check out that new season!) this is pretty awesome!
- sandworm101 3y ago>> can’t bring myself to check out that new season! You aren't alone. I got maybe ten minutes in. It is the now Kelsey Grammer show. He is surrounded by actors that do not challenge him at any level. In Frasier, it was a groups of actors/characters, each of which could carry an episode on their own. Frasier also did edgy stuff, for the time. This new thing is just another rehash of "old guy revisits past acquaintances", akin to Picard but without the trek ornamentation and excitement.
- afavour 3y agoI don't really think you can dismiss an entire show and cast based on ten minutes of viewing. I wasn't blown away by the first episode but I'm interested to keep going. People often forget the the first season of many shows (comedies particularly) are particularly ropey while the writers and actors find their groove. That said I'm considering it an entirely different show to the previous Frasier, much like Cheers was. I'm kind of glad they haven't gone directly back to the old well.
- kderbyma 3y agoI feel like moments like this are bizarrely coincidental. I was just watching Frasier for the past few days, playing retro emulators and working on my own game....weird
- Minor49er 3y agoClassic synchronicity at work
- unethical_ban 3y agoFraiser has a spinoff now where the title character hangs out in Boston with his son.
- shimonabi 3y agoFun little game. I played it on my Miyoo Mini+. The blinking contest is the end, isn't it?
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- thom 3y agoLove everything about this, especially the chiptune renditions of the various themes. Channel 4 in the UK has a couple of episodes of Frasier every morning, and whenever it rolls over from the last series back to the first episode, everything just feels right in the world.
- twic 3y agoThis is only tangentially related, but I Hear The Blues A-Killin' (or: Frasier Meets Columbo) is a short comic which i think manages to capture to feel of both Frasier and Columbo remarkably well: https://nitter.net/joechoui/status/1582419562242273290 https://nitter.net/joechoui/status/1582419562242273290
- black_puppydog 3y agowow, that comic nails the chemistry of the brothers! thanks for the share! <3
- dylan604 3y ago"Maris is perparing her big bell" All your base are belong to Maris
- hyperific 3y agoUnbelievable My sister and I have been watching Frasier for over 20 years now. It's our comfort show. She had a Frasier themed birthday party. I'm so excited that this exists
- pinkbluered 3y agoBrilliant!
- anshulbhide 3y agoThis has very Pokemon Gameboy 2000's vibes.