Fraston

Completed an essay on Elton John’s “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me” and now I never want to hear the song again. 

Hmmm...

Who would have thought that Google Drive would have qualms with me for uploading a 16 minute-long video to it?

Not me, that’s for sure!

I made a Let’s Play of sorts for a game I have been playing too much recently. Parts 1, 2 and 3 are up right now, while part 4 will be up about 8-12 hours from now (as soon as I access my phone/computer basically)

I’m really proud of part 3 and unreleased part 4, so I hope y’all will enjoy!

Infrequent VGM #4: Touhou day 1 (since I have been listening to the music too much recently for inexplicable reasons)

So sorry for lack of variation.

Any who listen to the first loop of all of these are blessed by Hatsune Miku, author of Harry Potter and creator of Minecraft.

I am back after a smol break. 

Sorry for the lack of Daily VGM today, I only  submitted the final assignment of [redacted] and completed [redacted] for the entire year, no biggie.

Daily VGM(I’m serious) #3: Awesome final boss themes, part 1 (part 2 will come a bit later)

(things I have already posted in stuck in head songs within the last 3 months are exempt)

Oh yeah there will be a lot of Touhou here since there are like 35 final/extra boss themes to choose from

I’ll shut up.

“If you listen to all of these, you will certainly not get a bag of occult balls.”

-Sagume Kishin

Since I was a bad boy yesterday and forgot about my daily music thing I’m going to post two of them today. And you [waves index finger in the air blindly] can’t stop me!

Daily VGM (for real this time!) #2: Cool area themes, I don’t know

Do I seriously have to describe why Sky Station Galaxy qualifies as a “cool area theme”? I just won’t. Figure it out by yourself.

This theme is my favorite of Undertale’s area themes. The icing on the cake is that it continues to play during monster encounters oh my god 

Small but awesome details aside, this theme nails the “final area, you can do it!” vibe more than A New Home or True Lab, even if they are the final areas of the routes of the game.

My favorite area in the game, and matches the “COOL area theme” (haha) even if that “snow” is actually the ashen remains of a long-dead ancestor. The music is so calm, befitting a calm stroll through the area once all those damned Great Hoppers and Primal Aspids are dead.

This isn’t even the game’s final form! Well, It’s the 4th level before the final boss, but whatever. Hearing this blare while you dodge almost screen-size asteroids to get to the next part of the level is quite the experience, to say the very least. The string and brass in this one are some of the most on-point I’ve seen in a Kirby game.

Contrary to the name, this is no boss fight. It’s the final area theme, and one of the most climactic ones at that. At this point in the game, it feels like you, the player, are the most powerful being on this shimmering battlefield, and this music is what the cannon fodder spirits before the final showdown hear.

If you listen to all of these, then you get an internet bag of 1-up mushrooms.

Daily music (mostly VGM since I sacrificed some sanity to become gamer) I might just call this “Daily VGM” if I get tired of typing this long-ass title #1: Rainy Edition.

It’s cloudy and depressing outside where I live and it will likely rain tonight. Here’s some music. I really dunno.

I have a stupid idea for a daily status game.

Each day I post like 3 or 4 random YouTube song links into a spoiler, not embedding them, and then outside of the spoiler I put a cryptic description of them, not in order of course. It’s pretty dumb, I know.

Since this is a thingy now apparently and I feel like asking it...

(those who are confused, read through @HansonKerman‘s status)

It’s a huge clump so I don’t have to post these in sketchy individual ones, so feel free to cherry pick those to answer. I’m expecting some interesting responses.

What is the general opinion on...

Team Fortress 2

Touhou Project

Spaceflight Simulator

Universe Sandbox 1 & 2

A Hat In Time

Factorio

Half Life

Happy forum birthday to me

2nd one!

Should be playing KSP more this afternoon, and I have some ambitious plans for a Duna mission!

In the mean time have some cursed Touhou meme or something

”Hey so um”

”There’s this dead Buddhist priest”

”And uh”

***LOUD CURVING LASER SOUNDS WHILE 

PLAYS***

This is an alternate response to a StudySync assignment I wrote up in 25 minutes, the actual submitted answer was far more deadened and censored of truth (also had no unprofessional but highly applicable video game reference at the end) and did not attack the counterpoint writer as much, don’t worry. “Think of the teachers!” The assignment was over 2 short papers, a point and counterpoint (you will see this one be fired down with at least 4 flak cannons), which were both concerned with “how gaming helps communication, and the question was “which paper do you agree with more” This was reassigned to me lately because many classmates who got this assignment never finished it before break (not me thankfully) so I made another go at it:

I would say I am highly inclined to agree with the 1st article due to my bias and experience with what the author of the counterpoint believes is selling your soul to the devil. Of course the counterpoint does make a precious few alright points that aren’t simply applying an insulting stereotype that depicts “gamers” as nasty and highly illiterate pigs who take pleasure in  insulting one another, but even these can be fired down by simply stating that being on the internet does not mean you have to be actively involved in the “wretched hives of scum and villainy” that they believe to be every single online community. The original point hits harder to me now during quarantine than it did at the time it was assigned, due to my only interaction with my friends being now through the program Discord (which it goes without saying that the author of the counterpoint would throw blows with those who even bring it up in conversation) and I am totally unable to see them in person. The technology brings people together, and the author of the counterpoint would argue “iT wEAkEns yOu’rE boNd wIf yOu’Re fAmily” This is not applicable because this is functionally the same as making up the time with your friends that an absence of real schooling removes. If anything, this time of quarantine is development of bonds between you and your family, and weakening bonds between friends. If the counterpoint’s author isn’t happy right now from that, then I don’t know what will. You pulled a full Sagume on us and predicted the antithesis of the future. Also, a little extra (you can read about it if you add another extra), when were the point and counterpoint written? I would like to know, due to the main point almost being written in commendation of an almost more modern era than the counterpoint tries to discredit and verbally eviscerate. 

thank you for listening to my heresy and I will see myself out to my blast bunker plated with adamantium where I will wait out the impending fallout of the counterpoint writer’s anger.

Did the forum go down for a few minutes?

A discord invite has been placed in my signature so that's fun

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Do not go gentle into that copyright strike, rage, rage against the dying of the site!

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EVERYBODY! THE LIKES ARE BACK!