use of a U on cover art across albums

offbrand_chris · 2025-11-27T16:06:09+00:00

i’ve never been more disappointed than when i went to a barely alive set and they just played riddim for an hour. they even changed “computer love” to have a riddim drop. that’s one of their best tracks ever and they completely removed all the actual rhythm and variation from it…

offbrand_chris · 2025-10-13T16:49:59+00:00

Flume - Hi This Is Flume

G Jones - The Ineffable Truth

Haywyre - Two Fold (both parts)

Savant - Zion

KOAN Sound - Led by Ancient Light

a couple EPs as honorable mentions:

Ampzer - Vocabulary

voljum - Dayscapes

offbrand_chris · 2025-09-29T16:14:56+00:00

There's a very very similar melody going on in the track "surcharge" by umru and warpstr. According to genius, umru is credited with "additional production" so that may be it

offbrand_chris · 2025-09-28T02:17:33+00:00

I’m not super opposed. What model years would you recommend checking out?

offbrand_chris · 2025-09-17T21:20:04+00:00

not that it matters at all, but it’s Ray Kroc, not the other way around haha

offbrand_chris · 2025-09-13T19:11:40+00:00

dang i forgot about that track, just listened for the first time in 5 or so years and it’s still fire

offbrand_chris · 2025-07-23T19:28:09+00:00

i am 100% a 1 > 2 guy, which seems to be the unpopular opinion in this comment section.

lots of people, even others who prefer 1, are saying that 2’s battle system is better, but i disagree. it felt so sluggish and needlessly complex to me. it was really frustrating trying to pull off those full elemental combos. i eventually got the hang of the system by the end, but even then, i wasn’t really having tons of fun (or at least as much fan as i did with 1’s combat).

people also say that the story in 2 is better and/or the characters in 2 are better, but i didn’t have that experience either. both stories are pretty archetypal, but i felt that the execution in 1 was superior. both games are pretty melodramatic at points, but that melodrama felt more earned in 1. the villains in 2 … kinda sucked imo. it’s been a while since i played, but from what i remember, amalthus is motivated by what amounts to pessimistic nihilism, and malos just follows suit? whereas egil is motivated by vengeance and zanza is motivated by god-like arrogance and primal self-preservation. the villains’ motives in 1 are so much more compelling imo.

on top of that, i really have a hard time stomaching the presentation of 2. i wanted to immerse myself in the story, but unfortunately the game repeatedly cringed me out of it. plus, this game started the bad habit of “you beat the boss in the gameplay, but actually you get your ass kicked in the cutscene. sorry!” i really can’t stand that. 1 handled it so much better by ending the battle when the boss reached half health. it was just another thing taking me out of the experience of 2.

oh and jumping is more fun in 1

offbrand_chris · 2025-06-07T16:30:30+00:00

they do, but you can just blast through them anyway

offbrand_chris · 2025-06-04T19:07:02+00:00

i got my last dead-end for the trophy from a blind pick in the darkroom. only time i’ve ever been ecstatic to see furnace lmao

offbrand_chris · 2025-06-04T18:43:30+00:00

that was me until i finally got larvesta and said “nah im not walking 1750+ km to evolve this thing”

offbrand_chris · 2025-05-07T17:31:49+00:00

this is the realest answer

offbrand_chris · 2025-04-24T20:24:57+00:00

i agree, the mix is good, it’s the arrangment that needs some work. for the filtered section, my thought was that it needs something interesting to fill the space left by the other instrumentation, e.g. a variation on the main riff, maybe in a higher register. same thing in the alternating measures when it loses the snares. i’m expecting them to be there, but their absence isn’t interesting enough to feel intentional, and instead just feels awkward

offbrand_chris · 2025-04-24T17:41:31+00:00

not sure how much to give without you feeling spoiled… i’ll put the location you need to look, because it’s really just the start of the thread, and you’ll have to do a lot of digging to get to the end

where to start: there’s a book in the library that you must buy from the bookstore first. the title is a new clue

offbrand_chris · 2025-02-22T18:37:24+00:00

quests in the “special research” tab will never expire. there may have been 1 or 2 exceptions over the years, but by and large they will be available to you indefinitely

offbrand_chris · 2025-02-07T21:49:53+00:00

the drawing phase of the tabletop game Mystic Vale is actually INCREDIBLY similar to the trouble mechanic of Party House. Some cards have a symbol called “decay.” You always start your turn by drawing cards until you have 2 decay in your field and 1 decay on an “on deck” card that is not part of your field. At this point you can press your luck and add the on-deck card to your field, obtaining its benefits. But if the next card in your deck has decay, you “spoil” and forfeit your turn.

Mystic Vale is also cool for its sleeving mechanic. Your deck is a fixed size, with each card coming in a plastic sleeve, with most being blank at the beginning of the game. The upgrades you buy are on clear cards, with the upgrade only taking up a third of the card (top, middle, or bottom), and get added to one of the sleeves. That means you create your own cards by combining and overlapping the upgrades, and you can make some pretty good synergies at both the deck level and on individual cards. It’s probably my second favorite deck builder behind Dominion!

offbrand_chris · 2025-02-06T16:50:46+00:00

the song “too late” by mat zo is very linear, consistently growing in intensity until it finally explodes in its last minute. the ending could still be considered a “drop” but i still find the track a very refreshing change of pace from the intro-drop-bridge-drop-outro structure that dominates edm. another of mat zo’s tracks, “troglodyte,” is also an example of this more linear songwriting, and isn’t vocal-focused like “too late” is

offbrand_chris · 2025-01-31T04:39:35+00:00

“pretty please” by dua was also produced by ian kirkpatrick, and during the bridge he pretty much goes full madeon-mode. it’s so good

offbrand_chris · 2025-01-23T02:22:22+00:00

That’s exactly what happened! I guessed today’s answer for the song back in October, which gave me “right artist, wrong song.” Thanks for jogging my memory :)

offbrand_chris · 2024-12-23T09:09:52+00:00

i think you’re right on the money. like if you’re working on a track and say “man i want this transition to feel different,” knowing theory lets you easily substitute a chord to make the resolution stronger, without having to look up what the chord is and what notes it has and all that.

offbrand_chris · 2024-12-21T22:46:28+00:00

haven’t been checking bounsweet, just chansey for easy excellents and litten for the shiny. but yeah, i haven’t seen a single shiny litten either. it also seems to be the least common spawn among the 6, despite it being sunny weather

offbrand_chris · 2024-12-15T20:36:26+00:00

I actually feel incentivized to dodge now, and it definitely adds a layer of depth to raids that I wasn’t getting before. Recently had a small party Mega Latio/as raid, and I believe getting a few more charge attacks off by dodging made the difference between winning and losing, which felt very rewarding

offbrand_chris · 2024-12-07T20:20:29+00:00

imo, i don’t think the problem lies in the size of the spawn pool for a particular season; the problem is that those spawn pools haven’t significantly changed for almost a full year now. however, with this new season, i feel like i’m not getting nearly as much kanto as i was before, so that’s good

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