ProfessorProteus @ ProfessorProteus @lemmy.world

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I've been using Okular and so far it's great. I'll have to take a look at Sumatra as well. To hell with Adobe!

Love me some pickles, just don't give me those nasty sweet ones. Dill or death.

Also green olives! I can - and have - eaten an entire bowl of them 🤤

My pessimistic opinion is that they'll lobby ths shit out of governments to get laws written which make it illegal to circumvent this stuff somehow. I'm not sure that's even possible, but it's my irrational fear.

If it does happen, I'll convince myself that I don't care about any of the content on YT. Let's face it - 99% of the shit on there is emotionless-face-with-open-mouth-and-red-arrow/circle hot garbage. Sifting through that sewage is so exhausting.

!unsubscribe

PSO is such a gem from the Dreamcast / Gamecube days... There's something about the whole experience that I can't really explain or recommend to someone who didn't grow up with it. For instance, tying your attacks to a certain rhythm would be a game design sin nowadays, unless it's core to the entire concept (shout out to Chroma, what a fun alpha that was!). But it oozes early-00's charm in every aspect. And that OST!

I still hop on to Ephinea at least once a month because there's still a lot of stuff I've yet to achieve. I'll find my Heaven Punisher yet 😤

I played some of the English fan patch of PSO2 back when all the US players were on the SEA server. I thought it was pretty good, but obviously vastly different from the original. Then a few months ago I got curious and looked up recent gameplay. There's basically nothing that can tie it to the first one, and even on its own, it's utterly hollow and soulless. Watched someone just float in the air for several minutes killing hundreds of weird enemies wave after wave. Where's the fun in that? At least back in 2012-ish, PSE bursts brought some exciting moments. This video was just constant "action" with no ramp-up. Pure mobile gaming type garbage.

I'm sure nobody is down here after my ranting, but if you are, and you like games with a charming aesthetic and a slow-burn progression, definitely give PSO Blue Burst a try. It's 100% free with 0 microtransactions, and it's wholly run by fans. I don't really interact with the rest of the community, but from the POV of a forum lurker, they're all good people.

I don't often get to gush (pun not intended) about one of my favorite games ever. Can you tell? 😁

Sad to see Gaijin 4koma missing, but maybe it was underappreciated even in its time.

Or maybe I'm just that old...

Milhouse is not a meme, but "Milhouse is not a meme" is a meme

Not to detract from your argument (I agree completely), but indie game devs not only make actual games, but they tend to pour passion into them rather than a formula.

I agree that it's probably mostly children / teens that play those games, but I'm sure a non-insignificant portion of their player base is the type of person who is A-OK with listening to nothing but pop music.

Nothing inherently wrong with that, but they are either afraid of trying something new or they aren't interested in discovering what they may end up enjoying more than the same derivative time-wasters.

Why does it make you feel that way?

This is the one thing for which I want a concrete answer, and I feel like without the tools I'm currently gaining from these videos I can't really come to a satisfactory conclusion. Sometimes I'm able to find similarities between songs, like the same chord progression, or key signature, etc. but never the complete answer. I've come to the conclusion that I'll have to transcribe my favorite things and grind out the answers myself (I can also just search for the sheet music for some things, but I think I'd be doing my future self a disservice).

I agree though that it's one of the most fulfilling things to come to the conclusion on my own. I just need the right tools first! I'm no Beethoven after all 😁

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely check it out!

Thanks for the rec! Not sure why someone downvoted you, but I was able to find his playlist with music theory concepts after some digging. I'll use this to supplement the rest of the material I've found.

Thank you for the encouragement! I had attempted this years ago and bounced off, but at this point I have a muse that gives me a huge surge of momentum (plus I've grown into a much more patient person when it comes to my own artistic expression). It's such an incredible feeling

I'm currently trying to learn music theory. Finding it hard to concentrate at work because the pieces have finally just started falling into place in my monke brain and I'm sucking up as much content as I can find.

I'd like to compose stuff at some point for video games that I will eventually develop, but if nothing else I'm dying to be able to know why I like my favorite music other than "that part sounds good." There are too many "composer reacts" channels on YT and not enough people who truly break down the concepts. My favorites that I have found are 8-bit Music Theory and David Bennett.

I want to go back and start DBZ from the beginning, but my anime backlog is almost as bad as my video game backlog 😢. I'm currently trying to work through One Piece but I refuse to watch the dub, which means I need to give undivided attention 100% of the time, which is nigh impossible.

For DBZ however I think I'd be fine with the dub, since that's what I grew up with on Toonami!

The first game is multiplayer-only. I had also assumed this one was too, but it has a single player story.

I'm gonna play this game soon, but I wouldn't have even considered it - let alone buy it - before watching the first part of this video by tomatoanus, explaining the any% speedrun. I stopped watching before one mission that he claims is one of the best chapters of a video game he's ever played (and the chapter itself apparently has a Wikipedia page??). I'm pretty excited to play it based on that preamble 😁

ETA: It was on sale for $3 so that definitely helped

As the great Jerma985 once said, "Fuck Capcom!"

I would love to see Putin try to lift a sword against Zelensky

I'm sure he was "just following orders" 🙄

Henry Kissinger is apparently still alive, at age 100. There is no god.