{"id":8943,"date":"2022-10-23T19:18:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/23\/trombone-champ-but-its-the-liz-truss-resignation-speech\/"},"modified":"2022-10-23T19:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T19:18:02","slug":"trombone-champ-but-its-the-liz-truss-resignation-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/23\/trombone-champ-but-its-the-liz-truss-resignation-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Trombone Champ, but it&#8217;s the Liz Truss resignation speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\">\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sometimes, when things are bad, all you can do is laugh.<\/p>\n<p>So it is with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/trombone-champ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trombone Champ<\/a>, comedically absurd rhythm game (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-worlds-first-trombone-rhythm-game-is-instantly-a-goty-contender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and Chris&#8217; game of the year contender<\/a>) which is apparently guaranteed to make us laugh no matter what we do with it. At first we were just laughing at silly charts of famous songs. Now we&#8217;re laughing at world events.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the trombone champ chart\/disaster du jour is a \u00a0of UK Prime Minister Liz Truss&#8217; resignation speech. Truss came into office on 6 September 2022 and will now resign, a little more than a month later, holding the dubious honor of becoming the shortest-tenured Prime Minister in the history of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Trombone Champ has given us some real delights in the past month. First we had rhythm game required-listening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/anyway-heres-megalovania-in-the-silly-trombone-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Megalovania<\/a>, straight off the Undertale soundtrack. Then we had <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Zo7JG7WiadU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actual trombone professionals<\/a> at the Philadelphia Orchestra being terrible at Trombone Champ. Most recently, we had the Final Fantasy legend rock-operatic bombast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/trombone-champ-but-its-sephiroth-playing-one-winged-angel-badly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Winged Angel<\/a>, but with trombone toots. Now we have Liz Truss.<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded in many ways of a favorite Niels Bohr quote: &#8220;Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.&#8221; (The subject is trombones.)<\/p>\n<p>Worth nothing that this video is <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/TomDotBat\/AutoToot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AutoToot<\/a> enabled, so it&#8217;s not a human scoring all those perfecto notes. It is a robot. Just like Liz Truss, who I have on good authority was built by serpent people in a cavern deep beneath the Earth.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Trombone Champ, but it&#8217;s the Liz Truss resignation speech<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\">\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sometimes, when things are bad, all you can do is laugh.<\/p>\n<p>So it is with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/trombone-champ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trombone Champ<\/a>, comedically absurd rhythm game (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-worlds-first-trombone-rhythm-game-is-instantly-a-goty-contender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and Chris&#8217; game of the year contender<\/a>) which is apparently guaranteed to make us laugh no matter what we do with it. At first we were just laughing at silly charts of famous songs. Now we&#8217;re laughing at world events.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the trombone champ chart\/disaster du jour is a \u00a0of UK Prime Minister Liz Truss&#8217; resignation speech. Truss came into office on 6 September 2022 and will now resign, a little more than a month later, holding the dubious honor of becoming the shortest-tenured Prime Minister in the history of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Trombone Champ has given us some real delights in the past month. First we had rhythm game required-listening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/anyway-heres-megalovania-in-the-silly-trombone-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Megalovania<\/a>, straight off the Undertale soundtrack. Then we had <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Zo7JG7WiadU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actual trombone professionals<\/a> at the Philadelphia Orchestra being terrible at Trombone Champ. Most recently, we had the Final Fantasy legend rock-operatic bombast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/trombone-champ-but-its-sephiroth-playing-one-winged-angel-badly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Winged Angel<\/a>, but with trombone toots. Now we have Liz Truss.<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded in many ways of a favorite Niels Bohr quote: &#8220;Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.&#8221; (The subject is trombones.)<\/p>\n<p>Worth nothing that this video is <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/TomDotBat\/AutoToot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AutoToot<\/a> enabled, so it&#8217;s not a human scoring all those perfecto notes. It is a robot. Just like Liz Truss, who I have on good authority was built by serpent people in a cavern deep beneath the Earth.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}