The Gamecube Startup: A Critical Analysis
What is the greatest startup for a game console? It’s hard to pick. Gaming fans are sure to have strong opinions. There’s so many great ones, from the well-known classics to the lesser-known gems. But perhaps one of the most iconic has got to be that of the Nintendo Gamecube.
Musically, the Gamecube startup sounds scattered and perhaps disorganized. But in fact, it is deliberate and careful, employing numerous modernist techniques to give it its unique sound. The xylophone is a mainstay of Nintendo’s soundtracks, and evokes whimsy. It’s ostinato is composed of whole tone clusters, which undergirds it with a cavalier sound. And the main melody, which seems to go all over the place, is actually almost entirely made up of perfect fourths going up and down with occasional jumps, making it actually quite similar to the opening motif from Emerson Lake and Palmer’s Tarkus; this makes the melody unpredictable but not quite atonal. Those jumps also give the melody an irregular pulse, as if it’s changing time signatures. While generally considered to be in 7/8, the rhythm can be broken into irregular subdivisions (see figure 1). It then completes on a triumphant — but not resolute — Fsus4Δ chord (which itself is made up of a perfect fourth and an augmented fourth). All of this, despite sounding complex and discordant in theory, are able to sound instead whimsical and carefree.
Let us consider the Gamecube’s animation: the conceit of the animation itself is clever: drawing the logo of the cube with a smaller cube. But watch the weight of the animating cube, note how it falls on the invisible logo with firm, confident landing, before flipping weightlessly across the surface. As it leaps into the air again, it gains weight again and solidifies the logo and lands back down. This dynamic animation is both playful and delicate. The logo itself is excellent: it is a cube, drawn by a cube, that contains a cube, and spells both a G & a C, the initials. (See figure 2)
But see, the animation goes even deeper. Its not too tough to recognize that the flipping of the cube is synced up with the rhythm of the melody (one note per 45° rotation), but a closer look will show not only that, but the aforementioned irregular pulse of the melody and is in fact synced up to the turns the cube takes. (See figure 3) The music and animation are directly informed by one another, creating a cohesively effervescent startup.
the centrality of the perfect fourth is the nexus of all of this. It is creating a quatral universe. This kind of quatral emphasis is one was employed in Schoenberg’s 1st Symphony. But the fourth, as the inverse of fifth, is a shadow that lingers in all Western music and much music across the globe. It’s EVERYWHERE, and the Gamecube start up is just making that known. The music and animation do not accompany each other they are each other made manifest to the senses. It is the cube.
This five second film is not just a console startup. It is in fact an ode to the cube.
Behold the cube
Fourths, and 4 sides to a square. 6 subdivisions of fourths, and 6 faces to a cube. The sum number of cubes by the end of the animation is 16. 16 is a square number, its root being 4, the fourth. how many bits does this console have? 128 Another number in a lineage of powers of 2. 64 bit, 16 bit, and 8 bit. 8 is 2³. two cubed.32 bit console the SAME number of edges on a tesseract. It is the cube. I MEAN THIS. the cube logo contains a cube. it is made of cubes, and is a cube, and has a cube. a symbolic fractal of the cube. Yes, yes, both zahir and aleph.
15 launch titles on game cube. 3 times 5. judges 3:5 “The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.” 6 tribes. 6 faces on the cube. last game released for the gamecube was madden nfl 08 (two cubed) madden is named john like the baptist. NFL = N(e)F(i)Lim the giants of the torah. DOSHIN THE GIANT WAS OF THE NEPHILIM THE FALLEN ONES. the nephilim are first mentioned in GENESIS 6:4… NINTENDO 6:4… the nintendo genesis SEGA genesist was 16 bit. but it hasd blast porcessing. remember giant world in super amrio 3? that was the 4th world. FOURTHS. big bertha cheep cheep ius leviathan. who is behemoth and ziz? what do you know about the fermat, about wittgenstein? cant yous ee how those are directly related? nostradamus wrote in QUATRAINS, stanzas of fFOUR. 4 = 26. (I will explain later.) 26 letters of the alphabet. and thus GEMATRIA is born. 4 = D. 4D, D4, opening chess move? the 4th star wars movie is phantom nmenace. episode 4 is the first movie. one of the launch titles for the gamecube was STAR WARS GAME. but thats not important. let me get back ont rack: startup animation has 3 cube sides, 4 squares then 5 then 6,\… 456 is the gematria numbere for YOSHI. Yoshi is a dinosaur (ALLEGEDLY) jim hensons dinosaurs ended with climate change killing all the dinos. (could prophet mani have predicted it? everybody walk the dinosaur) climate change is buring oil which is made from dinosaur bones. yoshi = climeate change (REMEMBER THIS) a cube is a platonic solid. PLATO WAS PROBABLY RIGHT BUT PLOTINUS MORE SO. the shadow of a cube is a square but shadows on the wall are not enough
henri bergson got it all wrong. HUZZAH!!! time is elastic like laffy taffy. like those chew airheads. gene ray said time is a cube. morning afternoon evening night. one side for each. brahma has the same number of faces as time. TOP AND BOTTOM ARE NOT SIDES. “a mother and a child are the same age”. the CUBE is sensible, it is stable. 4 (which is basically 8) is secure, like a triangle in a bridge. 8 legs on a spider… is it spider grandmother? or is it anansi? ask me about this later, i promise i will have an answer. 100 is an overrated number. add 8 to it. 108 is a holy number, not just in buddhism. SIDE = 108. cubes have sides. but no matter how fucking hard i try i CANT make the fibbonaci sequence fit. maybe pisano periods??? but YATAGARASU is the 8 span crow, 3 legged crow (cube) and listen, even nietzche knew that zoroaster was onto something. miyamoto probably knew, too. like im not making this shit up you can see this in porn i s2g. okay, more numbers: eu release of gamedcube is may 3 2002. MAY THIRD = 632 = HOMER SIMPSONS…. now we’re fucking geting somehwere!!! GURU GRANTH SAHIB = 833 = joe rogan = electromagnetic pulse. an EMP would shatter the world, i mean really it would be like the real Y2K of our generation if a global EMP hit us like in that one movie. you couldnt play luigis mantion you couldnt play ANYTHING. unless it was sticks and rocks games lol. nothing would work anymore, not even record players. vinyl is a disc. a disc is a torus. a sphere is topologically identical to a CUBE. and a torus is identical to the GAMECUBE because of the handle that sticks out. and it eats discs and makes game happen.the gamed cube has smaller discs which some people say was the main failing of the console. discs are flat but cubes are 3d. 3d (cube) 4d (tesseract) 4 dimensions for each side of square. a klein bottle is hard to get water out of. K+L+E+I+N = 84 = MADDEN = 84 = BIG COCK. (you can look it up its true) a klein bottle is two mobius strips togethewr. mobius strip has 1 side that is 2 sides. 2 squared is 4. tesseract is a platonic solid of the forth dimension. it is the shadow of a 5thdimensional cube but fuck that. the 4d is 2d squared and 2d is 1d squared (i think) derives from the monad of 0d square. you cannot draw a cube. a cube is three dimensional. you will only draw a shadow. THERE IS NO DEMIURGE THERE IS ONLY THE CUBE AS IT IS MANIFESTED IN ALL ITS ITERATIONS. all else is a parasite. a parasite or a symbiote? not a brood parasite like the sphere or torus, but an endoparasite, like the mitochondria of yore. an intratrophic thing. Cubivore was a survival game for the nintendo gamecube released in 2002 at 1st developed for the nintendo 64 ((2³)²) (also 6 and 4 (cube))in japan its called dobutsu bancho which kinda means like “animal boss” and you play as these gemotetric aminals and fight and eat and ive always wanted to play it sinc ei saw th estatue or trophy i mean in super smash bros melee for the nintendo gamecube but ive never played it but i could play it now or even right now maybe i will soon…………
…………….when i look at a cube i do not feel anything. i do not feel whimsy (that is the object of dreamers) i do not feel fear (that is the object of wizards) instead there is only in me the sore skin of night the wandered minds of fourths and more. my heart is full of rancor and i cannot calm it. these things cannot coexist, if the pauli principle is to be believed, however i choose to interpret it for my own needs. the perfect fifth, the perfect fourth. i meditate on this and i play my guitar. i listen to schoenberg and write words down. i contemplate mario. What? why mario? I contemplate mario. The question block. The fourth is the shadow of the fifth. We must consider the quantral universe. i close my eyes. i imagine knowledge in its primordial state. it is massive and yonic and fecund. this is false. this is some archon, jahannam behind silk curtains. i must construct a cube. i see the sides and they come together. a cube is more than six squares. they are unified by the ligfht. a shadow of the cube is the square. but the shadow of the tesseract is the cube. the cube is INSUFFICIENT but it is NECESSARY. and then you ask, why not mario? of all things? the world is a blistering wind tunnel of particles, abrasions on skin, and why shouldnt it be mario of all things, that gives the kaleidoscope its lense? metroid prime, wind waker, super monkeyball, nba 2k4, viewtiful joe, crazy fucking taxi. it can be that for me. the gamecube arrives on 14 Sept 2001. remember this. i remember the startup. the cube, the fourths. we use the cube to ground ourselves. when i consider a mirror, when i consider what is in it there is that same yawning pockmark. clean, unclean, deconstructed. my mind is smooth plucked. i can admire myself as the egg through which ataraxia can burgeon and fester. there is nothing here but the arcing electricity between gyri. i cannot imagine anything beyond the kali yuga, and it sickens me. but then i can i kiss the cube. mathematics gives form to what is already known; but it also does the opposite of a photograph: it reduces the transhistorical to the event. a swap, a changeling of ontology. the petty brands of the aughts are galvanized into… i cannot give it a name. but it must be the biggest things, no matter how small we start. everything must be connected so the red string can wrap around our fingers. we must construct a cube. what knowledge is needed? only that. yet, if we were laplaces demon we could know from the merest mote the infinite construction of the cosmos. but we are not laplaces demon, and so until we play charon his due, we must do with shadows. The shadow of the question block. The cube is a shadow of the hypercube. It spins, it bounces. The Gamecube penetrates all things; panentheistic geometry. We make out the shape of da’at. The shadow of the cube is the greatest kenosis. The cube is SUFFICIENT but it is UNNECESSARY because the LIGHT of what you can call AHURA MAZDA if you wish pierces EVERYTHING of MALKUTH and MARIO.
the gamecube was released on 9 14 2001. 9 + 14 = 23. sum digits 2001 is 3. 23 + 3 is 26. 26 IS the gematric number for the TETRAGRAMMATON the true name of hashem. TETRAGRAMMATON. THE FOUR LETTERS. 26 = 4
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