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By the way people, how do you understand the title "Renegade"?

From dictionary:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/renegade

1 : a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another
2 : an individual who rejects lawful or conventional behavior


Is it definition 1 or 2 here?
Is he some "traitor" who left his gangster's life and started beating his former friends?
Or is he an outlaw who rejects social norms?
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Ralf wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2019 5:12 pm Is he some "traitor" who left his gangster's life and started beating his former friends?
Yes.
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[mention]yerzmyey[/mention] would be the man to ask, but I don't think he's been here for a while. The catchy AY on More Tea Vicar is a cover of something apparently. If I once knew — I've forgotten. Does anyone know what it's a cover of?
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R-Tape wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2019 8:55 pm @yerzmyey would be the man to ask, but I don't think he's been here for a while. The catchy AY on More Tea Vicar is a cover of something apparently. If I once knew — I've forgotten. Does anyone know what it's a cover of?
From http://www.speccy.pl/forum/index.php?topic=435.0

KOTO - Megamix
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Stefan wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:33 pm
R-Tape wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2019 8:55 pm @yerzmyey would be the man to ask, but I don't think he's been here for a while. The catchy AY on More Tea Vicar is a cover of something apparently. If I once knew — I've forgotten. Does anyone know what it's a cover of?
From http://www.speccy.pl/forum/index.php?topic=435.0

KOTO - Megamix
Ah thanks! It took me a while to make sense of this.

Dragon's Legend is a song recorded by an Italian band called Koto, and released in 1988. It contains samples from Dragon's Lair, a Speccy game that never made it to the arcades (ahem).

When MTV was released I remember someone comparing it to a god-awful remix of "I like to move it". For ages I wondered if it was that!

I love this track—Yerz's version is better than the original IMO. It sort of gets me dancing every time I play MTV, though it pains me to say that this guy in a tin can suit has better moves than me.
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0:00 - 1:48 is from Visitors
1:48 - 2:49 is from Time
2:49 - 5:24 is from Dragon's Legend.
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djnzx48 wrote: Sat Oct 05, 2019 5:07 am 0:00 - 1:48 is from Visitors
1:48 - 2:49 is from Time
2:49 - 5:24 is from Dragon's Legend.
Thanks. I see what you mean (at first I thought you were referring to references made in Dragon's Legend song itself).

So it's compound cover! Maybe it's just hindsight, but it does make sense — even to a non-musician there are at least two distinct moods there. The early bits of Dragon's Lair and Time in general (Yerz's version, faster, catchier) are the bits make me want to throw shapes the most.

Quite like Koto. Kraftwerk, but a bit more crazy.
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Does the little corpse collecting, head booting lizard guy in Barbarian have a name?
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R-Tape wrote: Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:57 pm Does the little corpse collecting, head booting lizard guy in Barbarian have a name?
Do goblins even have names?
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Ast A. Moore wrote: Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:53 pm Do goblins even have names?
He's a minion of Drax, there must be something at the top of the contract.
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R-Tape wrote: Sun Aug 09, 2020 11:14 pm
Ast A. Moore wrote: Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:53 pm Do goblins even have names?
He's a minion of Drax, there must be something at the top of the contract.
Hmm. Hadn’t thought of that. Could it be . . . Laurence?
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Whatever name he has, it's a hard job... badly paid, probably
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Well, in Barbarian the main hero actually has no name. We have Drax, princess Mariana but the barbarian is actually called Barbarian. He's an unknown warrior coming from the north.

Well, I suppose they couldn't use the name Conan ;)
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:31 am Whatever name he has, it's a hard job... badly paid, probably
In the c64 version he laughs heartily before dragging the body away, so he seems to enjoy himself at least. ;)
Ralf wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:31 am Well, in Barbarian the main hero actually has no name. We have Drax, princess Mariana but the barbarian is actually called Barbarian. He's an unknown warrior coming from the north.

Well, I suppose they couldn't use the name Conan ;)
The US release called the warrior Gorth, wouldn't say it's canon though.
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Ersh wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:19 pm
In the c64 version he laughs heartily before dragging the body away, so he seems to enjoy himself at least. ;)
So we're facing a badly-paid psychopath, definitely.
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:46 pm So we're facing a badly-paid psychopath, definitely.
i wonder where they're posting job offers like that. i mean, it looks like a great job for me, how could i apply?!
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