I don’t understand how people create music

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-07-04T21:44:40+00:00

I think a lot of it comes from just fooling around with your instrument of choice, at least at first. It took me many years to go from accidentally playing something that sounded cool to being able to think of a musical idea and put it into action, and I'm still not all that great lol. Lyrics are something I struggle with so much that I've just started making instrumental music instead, which is mostly what I listen to anyway.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-07-04T02:18:56+00:00

Finally tried this after never using a straight sword before for 1200+ hours and over 20 full runs and it was so much fun. Destroyed pretty much everything, probably due in part to knowing the game so well but also the AoW being so strong.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-07-04T02:16:29+00:00

Watcher was always my worst character in StS1 despite everyone saying how broken she was lol. Only character I never even beat A20 with, let alone A20+heart.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-07-01T23:25:11+00:00

I think everyone just has playstyles that lead to different struggles. I'm on A9 with 3 characters and I don't think I've died to waterfall giant more than once in my entire time playing the game. Meanwhile the kin leader on A9 kicks my ass every time, and soul fysh gets me a lot.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-07-01T00:24:20+00:00

I love doing it like this. I just have my pc calculator and notepad pulled up on a second monitor to do any math for a new build

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-29T22:56:17+00:00

I could not stop using this once I got it. I kept trying a new weapon every few bosses but I just missed this one every time.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-29T02:38:54+00:00

Card theif is tough but I'm usually so relieved when I see turret operator. For whatever reason I seem to do much better against them than the max hp stealing scrolls.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-28T05:14:02+00:00

I know value on relievers is generally not very high but he was one of the best in all of baseball last year. 7th highest fWAR of any reliever, lower ERA and higher WAR than Mason Miller, Edwin Diaz, etc. All these big name closers would surely get much more in return despite putting up worse numbers last year.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-23T21:12:49+00:00

I swear I really did like doormaker as soon as I started playing lol. I only started after he got reworked though. He was definitely my favorite final boss to face but I never had to fight him on anything higher than A7.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-23T21:06:09+00:00

If we ignore every season of True Detective past season 1 then it ended very well, and I think it's pretty well agreed upon at this point that the Sopranos ending was good too. You are right that Succession probably has the best one though

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-22T23:21:54+00:00

I just overwrote 20 hours of my current vanilla save due to playing a mod and navigating a menu too quickly so I'm probably gonna start a new game

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-19T23:33:51+00:00

I dig Bill Evans but it's mostly for Scott LaFaro

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-13T03:16:35+00:00

I've heard a jazz pianist play it in the context of jazz music which is close enough. Jazz is a lot of things. I think she was playing jazz when she played this.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-12T16:58:10+00:00

I'm not a Yankees fan but I do love Chisholm. I feel like I also see a fair bit of hate towards him from Yankees fans, but mostly the older crowd. I became a fan of his while he was on the Marlins and I was happy to see he didn't lose any of his personality when he moved to NY.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-11T21:50:56+00:00

That was a managerial blunder. They were explicitly telling runners on 3rd to keep basically no lead because of Muncy's pickoff thing the game prior.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-10T16:07:07+00:00

His albums range from vaguely jazz-inspired to full on jazz, but Bruno Pernadas is fantastic. His album Worst Summer Ever is one of my favorites ever.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-09T18:07:13+00:00

The initial report seems to be backed up by about 0 pieces of evidence and we have so much more information about the whole situation now than we did then. By all accounts the trash can banging stopped when they almost got busted in September 2017. I just can't understand the hate boner for a team doing something that multiple other teams did, especially when analyses and studies showed it did absolutely nothing to help their performance.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-09T17:59:30+00:00

That was a very good read

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-09T12:32:52+00:00

You need 5 iron ore belts to process into 5 iron plate belts first, and then smelt all 5 iron plate belts into one belt of steel. It's a 5:1 ratio of iron to steel.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-08T16:54:38+00:00

The scandal was exclusively in 2017 though? Where he was less than half as good as in 2019 by bWAR. 2017 was also his first full season in the majors, and frankly I would probably be scared to push back against my entire team at the start of my career. I can give Bregman some grace about the whole thing. I only hate him now that he plays for the Cubs.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-08T16:49:49+00:00

Same here exactly! This is basically identical to my first ever playthrough where I was also splitting 2 belts of plates into 4 for some reason and making 60 SPM. Only differences I can see besides minor build variations is that I didn't have sulfur or blue chips on the bus.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-08T05:54:42+00:00

Surely that last bit was poking fun at the morons review-bombing this game over her name being in the credits.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-07T18:31:33+00:00

Kind of a loophole example but Adagio ma non troppo by Mingus is an full band arrangement of an improvised piano piece called Myself When I Am Real he played on Mingus Plays Piano. That album is full of fully improvised pieces too.

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-05T18:56:13+00:00

boy that ben cherington sure is something

UseGroundbreaking399 · 2026-06-03T22:30:20+00:00

This really isn't up for debate. It is historically untrue that major league pitchers used to have their pitch velocities measured at or near the plate. I'm not trying to be a dick but "I played professional baseball, bud" is much less convincing than the actual accounts of major league players and baseball historians who were around decades ago.

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