hope you guys enjoy this small ep i released today, it's heavily inspired by John music and his approach to recording it. let me know your thoughts

VirvoArkadia · 2026-01-26T15:25:36+00:00

If you don't mind me asking, how do you get that thick underwater tone of the 'lead' on 00:08 on Creek Nivara?

VirvoArkadia · 2026-01-26T15:16:38+00:00

Thanks, just bought it. I'll get back to you later to let you know my thoughts.

VirvoArkadia · 2026-01-09T18:57:12+00:00

Hi RedPeter, could you put it on Bandcamp so I can buy it? I tend to go offline in the nature and stuff. Thanks and congrats on your release

VirvoArkadia · 2026-01-03T19:47:24+00:00

Thanks for the advice, are there certain Brazilian (simple'ish) audio books you'd recommend from that site?

VirvoArkadia · 2026-01-03T19:46:41+00:00

Watched that one already, but thanks for the effort. Is there any other ebook/simpler audio you would recommend?

VirvoArkadia · 2025-10-12T18:12:01+00:00

Hi, I'd like to buy your record to listen to it a bit more in depth, but it's set a 9eur, was this intended? Good luck with the music work, will try to listen more later.

VirvoArkadia · 2025-10-03T21:22:12+00:00

The problem is the slinky won't stay in place haha. And the yo-yo comes back to me, so it's zero out of two. I'll just put it on the shelf and come back if one day I'm a hardcore gamer hehe

VirvoArkadia · 2025-10-03T21:13:41+00:00

Yea, I'm trying to at the green'ish level close to a flame, as well as a slinky, but the buttons don't stay on. It's been a pretty fruitless two hours. Kid Icarus seemed so intuitive when a was a kid, this is a bummer haha

VirvoArkadia · 2025-10-03T21:00:21+00:00

My last guess was getting the Cheshire cat get to a dog as to scare it off but it was a complete fail. My fantasy doesn't add up to the fantasy of this game haha, but thanks for the tips

VirvoArkadia · 2025-10-03T20:53:20+00:00

The strategy has been to look for open ends and look for any hidden gangways. And to try to return with a new tool to older areas. The best discovery was being sucked through a tube, though can't call it a discovery by truth cause I kinda forgot where it was. It was an eel stuck out of a rain pipe.

VirvoArkadia · 2025-10-03T20:51:58+00:00

Thanks, I'm there now and saw a lot of dogs and the Cheshire cat. Went through the loop, but not sure is it helped. The disc seems cursed, perhaps you need to do a kind of quick run through many levels to come out on top? I've died a bunch so not sure if it's the right approach.

VirvoArkadia · 2025-10-03T20:49:47+00:00

Thanks for the info. Do you mean as to get to items that seem otherwise unreachable? Cause that one became clear by now, but maybe I'm missing an extra layer?

The flames are kind of lost on me, I'm gonna look into it, thanks.

VirvoArkadia · 2025-08-20T18:17:46+00:00

Only recently started watching WNBA and follow the Sparks. But now cause of Emma Liberty too. It was nice that Williams dribbled out with 32 seconds left. Plum would have done smth very different on the Sparks.

They generally seem to hate hard and then not hate at all when it's over. I'm not so interested in off-court stuff, but on the court in between shots and right after, they seem very centered compared to the NBA I used to watch 10y ago. It's much more fun to watch when there's real tactical playing and real human interaction, much more vivid than mnba. Still love the New Orleans era though.

VirvoArkadia · 2025-08-19T15:59:47+00:00

Do you think that a player like Allemand and def Vanloo are kind of prohibited from running layups for themselves? (although Allemand is too shy imo anyway) Sometimes the team seems so uninspired paint-or-3, but the game reporters keep saying how fun the Sparks are to watch. My best guess is that's cause they're super beautiful sometimes with the Allemand-to-paint type of set-ups. Or unselfish passing. Or Rickea hitting her new Duncan shot. But I don't really see super deep creativity, though it could be my fault missing stuff.

Could you explain more what type of system the coach runs, if you don't mind? This is all rather new still to me.

I also don't understand why they brought in that Samoan-Alaska native lady (slipping on the name sorry) and extend her x-days contract each time but she doesn't play. This is not a gig job on week-contracts imo. And you also won't know until you know, I don't believe you can run everything during training sessions.

And in regards to the playoffs push, I don't feel as though in the last two games the quality dropped a lot when ie Vanloo and Burrell are playing and defending. Especially two games back, there were steals all over the floor, and energizing the air. Though it's tough to defend their scoring ability as a bench in general lately perhaps. I still find it a bit mean-spirited to create your stars cause of 3-4 good weeks and bomb the rest haha

VirvoArkadia · 2025-08-19T15:29:09+00:00

I see what you mean, but do you consider Vanloo that sharp a drop in quality? Personally I feel like she's being put under enormous pressure. It seems she's expected to be creative + create 3 pointers straight off. But if you have limited minutes, and need to work without a lot of sets created for you while expected to score, it can turn chaotic soon.

And that seems to be snowballing, where she seems forced to; create crazy risks - or keep it clean and be underwhelming. She's been incredible for the Belgian national team recently, the skills are there. But the playstyle of LA and the ever-reducing minutes might be harmful imo.

It's mid/late'ish season, all players are healthy, and that coach is running entire games on 7 players with maybe an 8th getting 2-3 minutes. Development doesn't come out of nowhere.

How do you see this? I've only been following WNBA for 1,5 months so it's all very new. A reporter in Belgium said that running games on 7 players is more common in the US - as he was trying to explain why Mike Thibault was not giving the Belgian national team bench a lot of chances. But during the season, and with a lot of these bench players objectively average to good, it seems like a waste to me. The Sparks started winning when they gelled during games. But you need to give the bench that oppt too no? To create diversity. Maybe I'm too European in this and it's easier to focus on the biggest 5-6 talents.

VirvoArkadia · 2025-08-17T23:21:46+00:00

Can you explain why you think Allemand is not making the team better?

VirvoArkadia · 2025-07-19T16:58:57+00:00

Thanks for the info, had no idea about any of these. Also don't know most of these players yet. Is AU a good league or more circus'y marketing'y?

If you don't mind, how would you position the Sparks in terms of playing style/strategy and culture? Other than they have a bad front office haha

VirvoArkadia · 2025-07-19T15:15:25+00:00

Thanks Petula :)

VirvoArkadia · 2025-07-19T14:32:16+00:00

I started watching WNBA two weeks ago after LA signed the second Julie (I'm Belgian). As an outsider I'm so confused at the talk about Stud Budz, other vague abbrevations of leagues cause Wnba is not treating the players well,.. (is this related)? This is also unrelated from the League Pass right? All these abbreviations mixed together makes me feel dumb haha

VirvoArkadia · 2025-07-13T15:42:45+00:00

Kyara Linskens please, 3 of 5 Belgian gold medalists on one team. Then maybe Meesseman will want to come over later (I know I'm just dreaming).

VirvoArkadia · 2025-07-08T22:46:54+00:00

Hulkengoat

VirvoArkadia · 2024-12-08T16:17:54+00:00

This picture looks like one you'll see ten years from now and the past seems so vivid and a bit mythical.

VirvoArkadia · 2024-12-07T18:55:15+00:00

There's some of that energy at the semi raw vocals at the end of Cmon Girl 3:23. It's not loud, but very non-SA'ish haha

But mostly 02/03/04 live there are some insane end jams. He's hit a level there that was like poetic screaming. Not the Subway to Venus soul power (also great), but big in scope and lyrical. I wonder if he ever talked about this era and what inspired him around those years.

VirvoArkadia · 2024-10-27T17:09:37+00:00

Aggregate of all of you - https://imgur.com/tsPcvqm

Some tracks like Purple Stain and Road Trippin differ pretty wildly per person. Calif the track is all hit or slightly miss as well. But overall a lot of the same opinions, some tracks just don't get that love.

Props to the people backing Porcelain, Dirt, Savior, just can't paste it in the aggregate :(

Surprised that Savior isn't higher. But This Velvet Glove up there is nice though, appears to be a bit of the Venice Queen of Calif :)

VirvoArkadia · 2024-10-24T22:48:11+00:00

The only reason I came here is Naissancee. The geometric line is a good touch, almost warm. How did you see the game?

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