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Ah no, sorry. It's a dance game. Years ago they made a level based on Miku's version of Ievan Polkka, back in 2016 when it was really popular. Gosh I'm feeling old. Ah, I should probably give the disclaimer. For a few years now they've had several deals with game companies, mainly Project Moon, which means most of their output in recent years has been songs made for those games, which in turn means those songs can be confusing without context about the game. Through Patches of Violet is one of those. (I don't like to gatekeep but I do miss when most of their songs were fully their own and when people in the comment sections talked about the songs themselves instead of just references to game characters. Now even their older songs are bearing the brunt of that) For more original examples of their songs I would say, Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery (a witch constantly resurrecting a knight that tried to kill her. weird we love each other but want to kill each other situation), Camelia (abusive paternal figure and its consequences, tw: sa), Bathtub Mermaid (this one gets kinda raw, girl who thought "I can fix him" and ended up messing up herself), Sleep Talk Metropolis (about how we live our lives lightning fast, chasing an ideal future that may never come). Those are good and self explanatory. There's a bunch but to get an idea of their style I'd say any of these work (totally not just plugging my favorites). Obviously it's fine not to like it, but I felt it was worth mentioning that maybe Through Patches of Violet is not their best entry point. I'm not fully sure if Snake is my style, but I see what you mean about the voice. Whatever witchery is going on there, I hope they keep going. Also love the trend of making videos without titles with cool songs in them. Butcher Vanity was good. If I had a nickel for every Vocaloid song about cannibalism I've heard, I'd have two. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice. I'm in Love with the Cannibal Girl is kinda fun. Though the voice is severely outdated, (as I understand it it's a deliberate choice by the producer, but idk) Honestly I'm still working on finding stuff to fill the list. I did start listening to this stuff last year but I don't really look for it. I just trust the almighty algorithm to bring it to me. Uhhh like a day ago I found Whodunit by MonochroMenace which was really fun. Same with Gambler's Fallacy by Azali and stickii, that was a good double find. Spoken For is good, damn I'm noticing Jamie P is involved in a lot of these. Entertainment Echoism is really catchy, Magical Girl Retirement Toast, Star Echo, ok wow, a lot of these I had only listened to once, clearly I forgot what gems were hiding in my music playlist. Shrimp Miku Falls in Love is totally a meme song but it's legitimately cute, same with A Chud Like Me. Machine Love is well known but probably worth mentioning. I'm Too Complicated with Teto is good too. Nisemono no Ori and Giant Hornet on the Japanese side of things. Just now thinking about how it's cute that they name the songs "...feat. Kasane Teto", like they're actual singers. But this tripped me up because for quite a while (before I started listening to her) I thought Teto was an actual person, like a vtuber or something. It was only when I found like 3 songs with her, from different artists, released in the space of like 2 weeks, that I decided that was maybe a little too much output for one person. One google search later I was feeling pretty dumb.

Just Dance map was so fun. I like that the song is sad but it's like meant to push you in the opposite direction. Like you don't have to be like the pov in the song. Good stuff. sigh I'll confidently say I don't, then realize half my favorite stories and songs are sad as hell. I mean Mili is my favorite band, and that song you recommended, Problems, I ended up loving. So I guess, I don't look for depressing stuff, but I find it anyway and it tends to be really good, I guess. Oh, apparently I have a song from Reclaimant of Life in my list. I'm Tired of Acting Like I Don't Want To Trigger Any Self Harm Flags on the Shard. To be perfectly honest I thought the lyrics were pretty bad, but the music itself was a banger. I'll check out some of their other songs.

Same kinda? I never really listened to Vocaloid much because I didn't like the way the voices sound in general. I mind it less than before, but still do. Hell, I only got into it last year because newer Teto songs use SynthV which sounds soooooo much better. Oh and a little before that Utsu-P because metal. We need more Vocaloid metal. Woah, that actually sounds pretty good on the voice. It takes work to make her sound less robotic. Honestly both are fine, but I do like that Japanese songs tend to be more serious while western songs are sillier. Vocaloids, and recently Teto with her surge in popularity, have a much more, uh, meme-ish image in the west, so the lyrics tend to reflect that. I think that duality is really fun. For the Japanese side there's stuff like the one I mentioned, Kuchisake, which is this really cool metal song about Kuchisake-onna, while here we have stuff like, Poteto Chip? I liked you better as a femcel? Although even those have pretty good lyrics, kinda depressing too. Why do we like making these voice banks suffer so much...? Also, as a Spanish speaker, it's fun to see how a lot of the Vocaloid stuff from around here is just covers of popular songs. It's wild finding a Miku cover of a song you had only heard from your grandma. Or finding some song that was popular when I was in middle school that I never really liked, and that now I kinda dig exclusively because it's Teto singing it this time (that would be Tu Falta de Querer). And tangent I suppose but on the topic of digital singers I think there's something to be said about Neuro-sama. It's mostly just covers but some of them stand on their own honestly. They have the only version of Aishite Aishite Aishite I like. And the originals are pretty good too. "Boom" and "Life" I really like.

Utsu-P supremacy, not a big fan of Miku either but I like her when he does it. Dude does Teto songs too, Kuchisake is great. Also from Teto, Birdbrain might be my most listened song this year so far.

Ah, I feel targeted. Dropped this show on like episode 10 or something because I'd spent 5 or so episodes watching chunks of 25 minutes being spent on like 5 minutes of progress. I like slow stories mind you but this was more like a fast-paced story being told reeeeal slow for no apparent reason. Also abnormally long still shots. I guess I'll give it another go sometime.

I'd heard the Persona 4 Golden anime was not worth watching, but it was honestly pretty good. Last episode is weak, first one is atrocious but fun. The rest are all pretty good, with two of them being possibly the best pieces of animation the series has produced. Marie has some good protagonism here, which the game doesn't give her. Hell for all the screentime the game gives her they might as well just cut her out. This show is more in line with what I expected from her. Also I like that most of the show works as a complement to the og anime. If you remove the first and last episode, plus the 2 culprit episodes, you're left with 8 that could be perfectly integrated into the original show. Gonna try that on my next rewatch.

Ahhhh crap. We just lost Falcom Music Channel. Actual terrible loss.

Watched The Ocean Waves. Absolute dumpster fire of a romance, loved it. Not even badly written I think, it's just what happens when you throw a bunch of young and hot-headed characters into a story, set the genre to romance, and watch the fireworks. Just beautiful. The least Ghibli-like Ghibli movie I've ever seen. High recommend for a boring afternoon.

How to make me respect the hell out of a random character I (probably) just met: the fight.

Spoilers for a possible twist in Curse of Strahd

Yeah and when Pomni was revealed to be Scratch's reincarnation who came back to fulfill his undying love for Kinger that was sick.

That's both for the best, and totally reasonable considering we're like 3 days away.

Ending good. And that's all I'm legally allowed to say I guess.

Finished Persona 4 Golden. Mixed feelings about this one. Some of the new events I loved, some didn't do much for me. The concert event annoys me tho that's just nitpicking. The new character feels... absent? If you don't deliberately spend time with her she might as well not exist. And the story attached to her is in a similar place. It's not a new story per se, but an addition to the plot of the original, but since that story was very much complete, it doesn't feel like this really adds anything. It starts suddenly, ends suddenly, and back to business as usual. I was confused when P5 Royal decided to make the expansion story independent from the main plot but I see now that's the better move. About the new social link Also, speaking of nitpicks. The graphics and the music! HD textures were such a big mistake. The whole game looks so weird, especially the school and any place with grass. A picture of real grass does NOT work as a texture for an anime game. As for the music, it's the dimming. Every time a character talks the music dims. Which is normal, I'm pretty sure P5 does it, but it's so extreme here. Volume goes so low it practically mutes the music. Vanilla didn't do that, why change it? As I said, those two things are nitpicks, they're small stuff. But they're also constant. They remained annoying throughout the whole game, just minutes ago I was watching the final cutscene, and even then I was distracted by the music disappearing every couple seconds. Epilogue was great. Not too long, just enough to give some closure. Or remove it maybe? It's a good thing either way. Good game I suppose. There were as many good additions as there were bad ones, so that leaves it on par with Vanilla. Curious to see how much of this revision ends up in Revival.

Just played RE8's dlc, Shadows of Rose. That was beautiful, the original ending was good already but this makes it almost perfect.

Man, trying to come up with even one is kinda difficult. Maybe Skinamarink? Super unique, cool concept, but it should have been like 25 minutes, 30 tops. Watching this for almost two hours is incredibly boring.

Twinkle considered it for a second, and concluded they probably wouldn't listen. Then again, Glint looked like he could use the reassurance. "Sure, I guess I can do that..." she hesitated. Would not being violent imply not fighting Voidbringers? Reasoning with Rob instead of hunting him? She couldn't deny that sounded wonderful, but it was unrealistic. The more Twinkle thought about it the simpler it got. She was scared. The previous weeks hadn't been bad really. Sure, there had been fighting. Sure, their lives had been at constant risk. But at least they were united, like a tightly knit tapestry. Violence itself wasn't the issue. But now one of the threads had broken loose, and it had taken another one with it, burned it to ashes. And she was afraid the whole thing would unravel from the tear they left. She was scared. Well that wouldn't do, would it. She stood by her earlier resolution to trust Ed, but she didn't have to do it passively. None of them did. It was a spren's role to support their knight, and that included keeping them in check when needed. Trust was a two-way street after all, watching in silence would just make things harder for both parts. Rob had betrayed Cup. The spren had to make sure their knights knew they were not allowed to let it happen again. "You know what? Yeah, I think that's a good idea. I'll talk to Ed. I'm sure he can handle not being violent, he's not that good at fighting anyway." elsewhere in the room, Edwin sneezed "And you can talk to Ben, I don't think he'd hurt you, but you make him listen anyway! You're there for him, I'm sure he'll be there for you. Maybe they can talk to the other knights, make sure they all remember to care for their spren!" That had cheered her up for some reason. It was a bad day and about to get worse. So letting herself be a bit more assertive, just trying to grasp that chance at being able to trust the remaining members of the group. Well, that sounded nice, even if it was a small hope. She laughed softly, and it was more genuine this time. "Thanks, Glint."

Super tangent but look at them, they're so cute! You can make anything on this thing istg. Desperately need a frilly dress for Renne.

Finished Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, Canon of Vengeance route. This one took about, 55 hours almost to the minute? I did play on Casual this time, not about to stress over optimizing builds for fights I already won. Naturally didn't touch the superbosses... It's really impressive how much better this is than the original story. They probably knew it wasn't that well received and instead of just adding an extra story at the end with the signature "Atlus rerelease girl", they tweaked the original. A what-if scenario regarding said girl, and how things can change if she's present. It was absolutely the right call, the highlight of the game was seeing the same scenes I had seen already, play out differently thanks to Yoko's influence. Granted, it wasn't all her doing, some scenes were changed just because, but even those were great, the result is overall better written characters. Ending is a bit disappointing, all ending cutscenes should be a little longer I swear, it was over in seconds. Give me an epilogue! Also the soundtrack! The original was an instant favorite, and this one managed to be a step above. It's great. Some of the best battle themes I've ever heard, and there's like 40 of them. Great game. Now back to the drawer until Atlus remembers the main series exists again in 10 years or so.

Where was this artist my whole life? I keep finding gems.

I keep hearing that. Like half the fandom was disappointed with Crimson Sin but then Horizons blew everyone's mind. And then Falcom took a year off to do Xanadu which is kinda funny but good for me.

Watched Lupin the IIIrd: The Immortal Bloodline. That was awesome, peak Lupin right here, with an incredibly weird plot which is honestly what I've come to expect from the franchise. The bigger the project, the weirder it gets. Plus this movie comes around only to say there is a sixth entry coming to this particular saga. Can't wait to wait six years for this one.

I read something about how Dimitri's route relies on certain things remaining a mystery, things that apparently the other routes explain, so playing it later would diminish the impact. Allegedly. Also I'm disappointed that only MC gets S supports. On the other hand, what in the Cold Steel is this progression? Free days? Bonding points? And of course, I'm a teacher. Not to mention I've been at this for hours and only done like 3 short main maps. Not complaining though. Just based off my experience with Awakening, that game's plot went blazing fast since it was just map after map. These breaks make it feel like time is actually passing.

I guess I am now trying out Fire Emblem Three Houses. I should probably commit a little more than "trying out" but too many games on my plate atm. Tho there's always the chance I'll get addicted against my will anyway. Currently trying to figure out a good route order, so far I've gathered that apparently Dimitri is the best first route. Also planning ships already. That's a top priority of course. You can't drop like 30 characters on my plate on chapter 1 and not expect me to do that.

That's interesting. I always figured first person would be harder because you're stuck with the information the character has. In third person if you're struggling to convey something from the character's pov, you can just zoom out and go omniscient for a bit to say it. Hell, I actually struggled a lot to write in general because I tried so hard to stay within the character's head. Only when I decided to play around with going back and forth between ground level and omniscient narration did it become easier and a lot more fun to write. I don't really think one is better than the other tho. Purely preference.