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Re:Opa Gangnam Style by anigbrowl on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:21PM (#4645972)
That's cute, but your loop stutters. If you're going to loop a sample, make sure you understand musical time first.
Re:Opa Gangnam Style by mcmire on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:26PM (#4645995)
Here is the actual home page when you've gotten the joke: http://opalang.org/index.html
Re:Opa Gangnam Style by rjernigan on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:25PM (#4645992)
Why is this news? What's funny about this? Seems like marketing bullshit to me...
Re:Opa Gangnam Style by hbbio on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:14PM (#4645943)
Somehow our viral marketing campaign went beyond expectations :-)
Re:Opa Gangnam Style by thesorrow on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:30PM (#4646013)
I wonder if they have the appropriate licence to do this kind of things... Especially in France...
Re:Opa Gangnam Style by eik3_de on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:51PM (#4646099)
"Opa" is the german word for grandpa, this makes reading about The Opa Framework somewhat funny..
Re:Opa Gangnam Style by anonytree on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:31PM (#4646019)
That's cute and everything, but it's "Oppan."

Not "Oppa" nor "Opa."

Re:Opa Gangnam Style by creatrice on Friday October 12, 2012 @06:59PM (#4647228)
Do you think it's worth to rename the framework?
Re:Opa Gangnam Style by jsbit on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:25PM (#4645990)
*Oppa
Re:Opa Gangnam Style by Toshio on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:35PM (#4646038)
Would someone care to explain why Gangnam Style has become such a meme that tech startups are tempted to reuse it for marketing purposes? I mean I listened to the original song on Youtube and it didn't strike me as particularly worthy of listening to again and again, let alone bringing it up in conversations with other people.
Re:Opa Gangnam Style by trhtrsh on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:39PM (#4646059)
Because it's popular, so it gets clicks. It's popular because it's the fad of the moment. It's a fad because it snowballed. It snowballed because something has to be snowballing, as people want to pay attention to something, and they want to do that as part of a group. This is that something because it's cute, nicely produced, vaguely edgy but not threatening to anyone, and it got lucky.
Re:Opa Gangnam Style by commentzorro on Friday October 12, 2012 @03:35PM (#4646495)
>> because it's cute, nicely produced, vaguely edgy but not threatening to anyone, and it got lucky.

Are we talking about iOS games now?