Go through the rest of the Deathbolt soundtrack for more of this style by Chris Christoudoulou, and then listen to the Risk of Rain 1 and 2 OSTs for a more prog rock style from him.
In terms of approachable jazzy ish OST, maybe Halo ODST's OST, even though that's way more downtempo. It's hard to think of other music that hits exactly this level of chill, but energetic and inspired. Bluesy, but electronic.
In terms of an utterly standout OST that features some jazzy tracks you could check out Katana ZERO's OST. there's multiple composers there and so more genre variety but it's an incredible soundtrack with a few jazzy pieces like Snow's Theme or Rain on Brick or End of the Road, but there's also more synthwave stuff on there that's all just standout.
Usually a rebrand signifies a change in the direction or focus of the brand. I don't keep up with it much, so on a surface level this rebrand seems like more of a "I like it better this way" on Elon's part than a true rebrand with a point and reason.
Knee jerk reactions are easy, all you need is emotion and a single impetus. Nuance is more complicated and can be difficult to fully express. Most people don't try to make things more complicated than they need to be and don't put thought into everything they say or post.
Absolutely medical things are the best reason. Anywhere like that from which you can get a note proving the event happened makes it excused in my workplace.
Workplaces would handle it differently. At my current one, you could do that exactly one day, two days and that'd be termination for two no call no shows. If you called in on those days then you could stretch it.
I think you should try piano in a way that works better for you. Piano is not too difficult, you press a key and a tone comes out. Keyboard will let you get so many different sounds, too, and keyboard is fun to play with other instruments or alone.
I agree with almost everything except that I think the game's most clever piece is that the choices don't matter. At the time that The Line came out choices in games had taken the industry by storm, games like Heavy Rain and Mass Effect 2 were on people's minds.
The game pretends to give you choices, but the reality is that engaging and going deeper down the path the game and story lay out for you are a recipe for evil, no matter what you think you should be able to control within the game.
The true choice is whether you play the game or not. Do you continue to go through with the whole thing, commit those crimes and destroy that world, and then blame the game for not letting you stop, when the pause menu and a quit to desktop was seconds away at all times?
It's not a very mechanically unique game, there's no mechanical enjoyment pretense to justify seeing it all through, you do it through your vicarious, detached interest. Essentially whether the horrible events that occur unfold or not entirely depend on whether you allow the game to fabricate the scenarios by your implicit enabling.
I think whether that was intentional or not just heightens the intrigue of the entire thing. All that being said, it's a shit game, but its execution and moral message dovetail, intentionally or accidentally, in an extremely unique way that'll never happen again. That fragile balance of unknown intent and message will be upset if ever they were to remaster it.
I'd say Arkane's Prey hits that for me. The feeling of isolation, not only on the station, but by virtue of being in space, and the story itself. The mechanics of the mimic enemies can create emergent jump scares, but I'd definitely say it's not a horror game.
I'd also say Death Stranding, at times. While the human NPCs are very wholesome, the atmosphere and experience of delivering the packages out through the timefallen wasteland and that isolation lends itself well to introspection and the BTs are pretty creepy and axiety-inducing until you're used to them and can fight them.
Here's that link to register for their next apps. not sure what they're planning, whether it's something for Lemmy/Kbin or something totally unrelated, but I loved the shit out of Joey and if they go on to make an app like that for the Fediverse I'm right behind them.
The only time I've ever used swipe was when Nintype/Keyboard69 was still supported. The two finger swipe was the only time swipe could keep up with my tap typing speed, and sometimes exceed it, but since then nobody has come in and done anything as revolutionary with the typing game, and Nintype is simply too out of date and buggy, but man, I really miss it.
The only time I've ever used swipe was when Nintype/Keyboard69 was still supported. The two finger swipe was the only time swipe could keep up with my tap typing speed, and sometimes exceed it, but since then nobody has come in and done anything as revolutionary with the typing game, and Nintype is simply too out of date and buggy, but man, I really miss it.
You could take that to a logical extreme and have companies providing valid product solutions to user problems, while conveniently making it seem like their product is the best choice or deal, while purposefully obfuscating or omitting other products that are actually a better choice, or even just a better choice depending on the user.
Ideally, a neutral user involved in the industry or hobby being asked about would offer general best purchasing advice based on their experience through a willingness to help people like them.
A company would have an extremely apparent incentive to only promote their products, and perhaps even leave out potential issues or caveats with their products since it'd reduce likelihood of a sale.
Again, this is all worst case, and not to say that doesn't already happen by concealing the company rep behind a seemingly anonymous user account, but allowing companies to dilute advice with monetary incentives seems a slippery slope.
I should've just not typed all of this and said: conflict of interest
If people are going to advertise on an instance I'm involved with I would prefer they go through the instance owner and it be an avenue to fund the instance. I dislike that people want to basically plug themselves and use the instance space to advertise without paying the instance owner for it. If we have to see ads, I'd rather they help the instance exist than just be an eyesore for no gain
It's more the tone, it's respectable to say "it's a bit outdated, but I'm not quite done using this phone yet, so I'm trying to explore other options for YouTube without a full upgrade", a little less to say "... For a fuckin app bro, christ".
The other person did have a pretty flat tone that you could interpret as blunt and uncaring, so as the internet tone police, I say everybody is going to jail here!
Go through the rest of the Deathbolt soundtrack for more of this style by Chris Christoudoulou, and then listen to the Risk of Rain 1 and 2 OSTs for a more prog rock style from him.
In terms of approachable jazzy ish OST, maybe Halo ODST's OST, even though that's way more downtempo. It's hard to think of other music that hits exactly this level of chill, but energetic and inspired. Bluesy, but electronic.
In terms of an utterly standout OST that features some jazzy tracks you could check out Katana ZERO's OST. there's multiple composers there and so more genre variety but it's an incredible soundtrack with a few jazzy pieces like Snow's Theme or Rain on Brick or End of the Road, but there's also more synthwave stuff on there that's all just standout.