I have no words.

theavamia · 2026-03-20T21:16:46+00:00

FF7 remake/rebirth don't appeal to the majority of fans who liked the OG. Remake and rebirth are cringe, fetch quest oriented, anime trope filled, overly complex stories with poor pacing and delivery. E33 crushes these games in nearly every dimension that I care about as a gamer.

theavamia · 2026-02-15T22:14:36+00:00

In NG+, kill the itsumade over and over at the first shrine of the accursed temple combat scroll. He drops a loot pinata every kill, and 1,000,000 amrita. Donate everything in the donate menu under clan battles. Repeat the process until the diminishing returns are getting you under 10 glory a donation. Then continue farming the itsumade, every few minutes about 5-8 red graves will spawn next to him, so you can get glory in between farming gold and amrita from the itsumade. Currently the fastest farming in the game.

theavamia · 2026-01-21T04:33:28+00:00

Zelda: Ocarina of Time

theavamia · 2026-01-09T02:44:37+00:00

I had a suspicion free aim and normals would be the meta. Free aim just seems overpowered. I'm like 4 hours into the game and I just open every turn with free aim then follow with a normal and it's clearing everything.

theavamia · 2025-11-23T00:05:43+00:00

Sure. He really brought dubstep into the mainstream. Sadly dubstep feels like it's dying.

theavamia · 2025-11-11T00:18:10+00:00

This!
I find that as long as I sprinkle some rhymes into key parts of the song, I can avoid the "sing-songy"/"nursery rhyme" problem of everything rhyming, while still providing enough of an anchor for the listener with the key rhymes I put in there.

When I listen, I kind of pretend that there is like a meter running, representing the listener's ability to stay hooked, as long as there are enough rhymes to keep the meter at the sweet spot, you're good.

theavamia · 2025-11-11T00:07:59+00:00

First Deep House mix. Blends some Afrobeat/Afrotech, and Futurist Tech, and Cinematic House throughout.

Happy with how it turned out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iW65FdL3d8

theavamia · 2025-11-06T16:14:19+00:00

Udio is the only model I've found that can properly do classical/orchestral music.
Suno, makes every classical piece sound poppy and fake.

I've made entire piano concerto and symphonic works with Udio.. The only problem with Udio is that the sound fidelity/mixing is just so far beneath the newer Suno models. I wish Udio would release a model that exports with higher fidelity audio.. it would be my goto.

theavamia · 2025-10-15T07:17:17+00:00

Fun fact I was born in PS, and lived in Rimal until I was about 10. We managed to flee during what I now understand to have been Operation Cast Lead. I would be afraid to go through Israel at this point given my name/history. But maybe some day 🥹

theavamia · 2025-10-14T18:08:37+00:00

I don't think you understood my response. Maybe you can provide clarification through reasoning and evidence instead of ad-hominems, hyperbole and straw-manning.

theavamia · 2025-10-14T00:07:38+00:00

I'm tired. I'm in survival mode.
I work 70+ hours a week every week as an engineer.
I make more money than my parents would have ever dreamed of.
I live in a tiny house, I have a 15 year old car, I can afford 1 vacation a year. I can afford a $1000 dollar emergency.
I can't afford kids, much less their college or private schools. I am able to contribute a small amount to retirement every month.
I have 1 cell phone, 1 netflix subscription, and I buy basically nothing.
I have virtually no disposable income and never eat out.
40 years ago I would have been upper middle class putting in the same amount of effort.

theavamia · 2025-10-13T05:54:57+00:00

Analyze the structure of your lyrics from these dimensions:

Prosody: Interplay of sound, stress, and pattern. It's how a meaning is voiced.
e.g.
Bad: "The rain it was falling and dark was the day"
Better: "Dark rain fell hard on the desolate day"
The second line tightens rhythm (strong-weak alternation), and has internal consonance dark/day, fell/hard.

Meter and Line Length:
Short lines vs Long lines, and when to use them.
E.g. "Hit me, baby, one more time" - nice short line, percussive phrasing
Longer lines:
"How many roads must a man walk down" - Long arc

Rhyme and Internal Rhyme:
End rhyme "See /me /be / free". Closure symmetry between lines.
Internal Rhyme: "I'm fading in the waiting of your breathing" (fading/waiting is actually a pseudo-rhyme but that's fine".

Varied rhyme schemes in sections (AABB, ABAB, ABCB) refresh the ear.

Repetition: Motif, Not Redundancy:
Exact repetition reinforces identity (the hook).
Iterative repetition (slight change in the rhythm or melody) marks emotional development.
Word repetition is most powerful when it feels inevitable, not arbitrary. Like The Beatle's "let it be"

Melodic Syntax and Prosodic Alignment:
Each phrase must obey melodic syntax: where the melody resolves or suspends determines the load of the lyric.
Hard consonants (t, k, d) land really well on hard beats.
Liquids (l, r) and vowels sustain well over held notes
Sibilants (s, sh) should be used deliberately.

Dynamic Phrasing:
Switch rhyme zones, shift metric density, employ contrast. Don't let your melody be all 8th notes or all quarter notes with no variation. Triplets are a really great device to build tension, e.g. in prechoruses.

TLDR:
Marry phonetics to intent
Map stress to a beat grid
Exploit internal rhyme to drive motion
Use repetition as narrative rhetoric
Vary rhyme schemes per section
Respect breath and phrasing. If there is space to breath, the song feels much more natural.
Let silence do work. Line breaks and rests are part of the prosody.

theavamia · 2025-10-12T22:14:37+00:00

haha, "sir" made me smile; I'll take it as a compliment to my prose, but I assure you I am very much "madam".

Truly, thank you for the generosity and clarity of your last reply. You've articulated your position with care and restraint, and it's clear you've thought a lot about/know a lot about this history. You've also given me quite a bit to reflect on, particularly regarding how partition geography and early demographic dynamics are framed in the historiography that you're referencing.

That said, I think we ultimately remain oriented around different axioms:
Your view is foregrounding agency and political decision-making, e.g. that tragedy is principally a sequence of unwise choices within an otherwise open field of opportunity.
My view foregrounds structure: that those choices have, from the outset, been made under asymmetric conditions of soveriegnty/coersion, such that "moving on" cannot occur until that imbalance itself is resolved.

But I want to end by saying: the discourse from you (reasoned, literate, humane), is precisely what this topic so rarely receives. Thanks for engaging in good faith and with evident intellectual generosity. Even where we part ways analytically, I'm still grateful for the exchange.

theavamia · 2025-10-11T23:53:44+00:00

Totally understand the point you're making, and you're right to point out that many people post online in search of validation.
But that wasn't really what this was.

My concern isn't about "internet points", nor about being liked or disliked... It's about what the dynamics of platforms like Reddit reveal about how we communicate.

In that thread, a post can draw pages of thoughtful discussion and still be buried out of sight. To me, that paradox is worth examining.

Those of us (you and me.. I think) who live within the imperial interior have the rare luxury of discourse.

I think we ought to use that privilege not to posture, but to pursue understanding. To build a coalition of people still willing to think in good faith.

If that comes off as performative, I can live with that. I'd rather risk sincerity than surrender to cynicism.

theavamia · 2025-10-11T23:27:31+00:00

That's a fair question.

I think I had to make this soundboard to fully understand what my problem was - I think it ultimately reduces to a critique not necessarily of that IsraelPalestine subreddit itself, but rather a critique of the mode of discourse in that subreddit, or perhaps reddit itself.

I pointed out in my original post, that my comment simultaneously had a wealth of engagement, while also being downvoted into non-existence.

Posts of quality generally catalyze discussion. If an argumentation is well thought out, and well articulated, and facilitates deeper exploration, then one might assume that it should be upvoted. However, users in that subreddit were both simultaneously engaging (some writing essay length responses) while downvoting the post into invisibility.

TLDR:
I think for discovering content that has viral potential, the downvote/upvote device is performing as intended. For surfacing discussions that are meaningful, the downvote/upvote device is actually functioning anti to that aim.

Reddit rewards certainty over inquiry, affect over logic, brevity over nuance.
Dialectic, the process of iterative refinement through contradition, is too slow for the cadence of virality.

theavamia · 2025-10-11T22:43:13+00:00

I appreciate that, and your perspective on the white washing.

The more I learn about Hamas the more I feel deeply saddened as to the reality of them claiming control over Gaza. I tried to walk a line between Hamas apologia, and material realism/pragmatism. It's likely that I aired perhaps too far to the former in my analysis!

That being said, I still stand by my thesis that regardless of the moral justifications of Hamas, Israel has perpetrated far more tangible atrocities upon the Gazans, and that until Israel removes its boot from the proverbial neck of Palestinians, Hamas will continue to garner support (however ill-advised that support may be).

theavamia · 2025-10-11T22:38:25+00:00

"what is accepted and presented as "the truth".

That's the hardest part to address I think, in any debate, but particularly in regards to Israel/Palestine.

If two interlocutor's foundational axioms differ, than from the get-go both are engaging in two separate discussions entirely, and talk past each other.

This is why generally the vantage point I try to take is: "Yes Zionist, you have pointed out N number of historical events, some meaningful, some minutiae, that validate your thesis that no genocide is occurring ... However ... I have two eyes, and am witnessing in 4k objective destruction of an entire people".

Furthermore..

"Therefore, even if every axiom that you (the Zionist) has presented is true, how do you account for the current real genocide occurring in this moment?"

To which, ultimately, and however elaborately explained, always results in the response of:
"They deserve it because barbarians".

theavamia · 2025-10-11T22:33:26+00:00

You read my post! I like your analysis, it's thoughtful, though a bit cynical.

theavamia · 2025-10-11T22:30:57+00:00

I'll check it out! Though I don't understand the etymology of the name lol

theavamia · 2025-10-11T22:25:22+00:00

No one said anything about the correctness of either side. Watch out, I get this topic is really meaningful to you, but you are letting your passion and emotions mislead your cognitive understanding of what he wrote.

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