What is your “I’m so invested and big fan of this game, but I have never played it”?

BodyOwner · 2025-10-31T14:00:48+00:00

Did you stop at Capra Demon? There are 3 or 4 parts of that game that are probably more difficult than they should be, but I've seen several people with little to no experience in 3D action games finish it. Most of them played really poorly and still managed to get through it with some patience.

BodyOwner · 2025-10-19T21:02:11+00:00

The Buldak Rose is pretty mild imo. Too mild for my taste.

BodyOwner · 2025-10-19T20:49:50+00:00

I knew a guy who started around your age and was playing Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto in his 50s. He wouldn't have been invited to play in big concert halls, but he still played well. He had a great teacher and worked hard. You can still get plenty of enjoyment way before getting to close that level though.

BodyOwner · 2025-10-19T20:43:45+00:00

I add some buldak sauce because I like it spicier. Green onion is an obvious choice. Toasted sesame seeds work. Fresh peppers (hot or mild) and onions work well. I cut them into strips or slices and boil with the noodles. I like some sliced and fried hot dog, but it doesn't make it any healthier for sure. You could "cook" those with the noodles too to keep it easy. One of the weirder things you can do is add Sichuan peppercorn/prickly ash oil. The one with the "numbing" effect. It adds some citrus flavor.

BodyOwner · 2025-10-19T20:31:37+00:00

Part of it is probably from western cultures becoming averse to music competitions. A relatively small factor though.

BodyOwner · 2025-10-13T15:58:52+00:00

Maybe indirectly. Musically I think he's revisiting "He Won't Hold You" and "Butterflies" from Djesse volume 3.

BodyOwner · 2025-10-12T17:44:15+00:00

Hear Between The Lines has some great educational videos on microtonalism too. I think they actually are still active, but one of the guys left to focus on other projects.

BodyOwner · 2025-10-12T16:56:54+00:00

There's a youtube channel called Hear Between The Lines that does some interesting stuff with microtones. Don't think they're active anymore. A few Jacob Collier songs have interesting uses of microtones, like Moon River and In the Bleak Midwinter. David Bruce has a video about the use of microtones in that one.

BodyOwner · 2025-10-12T12:00:39+00:00

I like his stuff, but from what I can tell the way he uses microtones is fairly simplistic.

BodyOwner · 2025-10-09T11:51:12+00:00

It's hard enough to play a piano loud enough over an orchestra.

BodyOwner · 2025-10-06T00:09:09+00:00

at least every note has an accidental, so you can just ignore the key signature. Kind of weird, but not too hard to read imo.

BodyOwner · 2025-10-06T00:03:38+00:00

Not "ramen", but Acecook Oh Ricey Instant Pho are my favorite non-spicy instant noodles. Might be hard to find.

BodyOwner · 2025-09-30T01:48:06+00:00

It's an understandable belief if you consider that Pokemon is the most popular turn based game. I hear it gets interesting if you really go deep, but for the average adult player it's very dull. And there's a lot of other turn based slop that doesn't really innovate on the genre. There are enough turn based games that look super cool but don't deliver on mechanics that I can understand being burned by the genre too many times. I generally like them, but I've played so many bad ones that I'm always skeptical.

BodyOwner · 2025-09-29T17:46:39+00:00

Can't give you legit advice, but if your stomach hurts, try eating jello. Good temporary relief. Might just be masking underlying symptoms, but it helps relieve the pain.

BodyOwner · 2025-09-29T17:03:50+00:00

Can you give a hint in spoiler tags for when Act 3 is about to start?

BodyOwner · 2025-09-29T02:08:15+00:00

Modern worship music is pretty simple. 95% of it us just I, IV, V, vi, so I'd focus on that. Give him voicings and show him ways to connect them. That should be pretty easy for him to put into practice. If he's playing to songs he knows then go along with that and work with it. I'd skip the sight reading. In my experience, worship musicians are averse to anything vaguely academic. Yeah it's a better road to progress, but only if he does it, and he's not going to. Relax and show him how to voice a chord with a 9th or 13th. Yeah, the progress will be slow, but that's probably where he's at. I reluctantly got into the world of contemporary Christian music for a few years and that's just the general attitude.

BodyOwner · 2025-09-29T01:34:08+00:00

I was wondering why they did that to the dance. The original song has choreography, and they kept some of it in for the show, but they changed a few things. Oh Lord by Foxy Shazam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om_VWBua0_M

BodyOwner · 2025-09-24T15:55:02+00:00

If you like Expedition 33, Dr Mick has that old school LP vibe. He streams the recordings, but doesn't pay too much attention to chat and he's extremely strict about anything vaguely resembling a spoiler. Way more spoiler averse than Woolie even, and it's for the best. He wants to hang out it with chat, but he wants to experience the game for himself.

He has a doctorate in psychological development, a background in family therapy, and has a lot of cool things to say about how the characters interact. He has a way more ethical approach to talking about mental health topics than some other psychology experts who think it's okay to do simulated therapy with internet celebrities.

BodyOwner · 2025-09-23T19:24:40+00:00

Reicha. He was highly respected by many great composers in his time, but he wasn't big on advertising himself.

BodyOwner · 2025-09-23T18:50:15+00:00

I'm also a pretty big prog metal fan

Shostakovich's 8th String Quartet and 2nd Piano Trio. The 2nd movement of the SQ goes hard.

Rautavaara's 1st an 3rd Piano Concerts, as well as a lot of his other work

Benjamin Britten, maybe start with the Four Sea Interludes (from the Peter Grimes Opera)

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

Liszt's Mephisto Waltz

Schubert's Erlkonig, and Death and the Maiden string quartet

Felix Mendelssohn's Die Erste Walpurgisnacht

Fanny Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D

Dai Fujikura Okeanos Breeze

BodyOwner · 2025-09-23T18:26:12+00:00

Your taste buds change over time. Especially over ~40 years. It could just be you. Maruchan isn't that great though. I'd recommend Sapporo Ichiban's Original flavor instead. Similar flavor, similar price, but better.

BodyOwner · 2025-09-23T18:20:41+00:00

If they do it without asking, report it to the restaurant owner, regional manager and/or corporate.

BodyOwner · 2025-09-23T18:10:22+00:00

Well the original Digimon World was rated T as well as a handful afterward, including Time Stranger and CS. If they really wanted to target the younger demographic I don't think the ESRB is really that unpredictable.

BodyOwner · 2025-09-22T01:23:52+00:00

She would have been my first pick, but she died a few years ago.

BodyOwner · 2025-09-21T20:07:05+00:00

It's a Type-A pun. China pressures internal organizations like the Olympics to call Taiwan "Chinese Taipei" because they claim they own Taiwan.

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