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So, in my free time I like to dabble in composition. I don't really have a style yet, as it's just for fun, and I don't know much about music production. I'm gonna start this thread with a song I started like 2 years ago and finally sat down and finished tonight. It's inspired from Castlevania music (specifically the soundtracks that Michiru Yamane worked on - Symphony of the Night, Lament of Innocence, etc.) It starts off like a requiem but climaxes like an overture. If you like organs, harpsichord, and choral music, you might dig it.

For just Japanese music, it'd probably be: [Band] Dir en grey They just scratch all the itches for me from early vkei metal to heavier more technical metal, some nice ballads and some decent remixes. I can pretty much find something to listen to no matter what mood I'm in. [Album] lynch. - The Avoided Sun It has the perfect balance of hard and soft, melody and screaming, and is extremely catchy. [Song] lynch. - ecdysis Love the groove on this track And for fun, Non-Japanese music: [Band] The Midnight [Album] Gost - Behemoth [Song] The Midnight - The Years (Prologue)

Getting excited for the full album release. I'm getting the feeling that it'll be a really good listen from start to finish.

I had a weird sensation earlier this week. As I fell right asleep, I dreamt I was falling through a hole and woke up immediately. Felt like I dropped right through my bed. The hole itself looked like the tunnel from Coraline. Probably the shortest dream I've ever had, literally felt like it lasted a quarter of a second.

Ugnh, the first minute and a half of this song riiiiiips:

Queue the wave of "ASMR" videos that have really taken off as of last season.

If you can imagine it, Japan's already got it covered.

Speaking of Ai Uehara, there's a vid where she does just that. Not a duet tho

Yeah, I wouldn't go as far to call it cheating, but I always just thought it'd be kind of weird to be turned on from the porn but also be doing stuff together. Kind of like being at a live concert but listening to music through headphones instead (if that makes sense). Huh, since you put it that way I can actually see the appeal. Sounds fun, especially with hentai. I might just pick a badly dubbed show and laugh the whole time though i dunno. Bible black flashbacks 😂

On that note, the idea of couples watching porn together is kind of weird I think. Especially while having sex. That's weird, right?

Had no idea she was out of the business. She (was, I guess) a thicc cutie.

Back with another drawing. I've always wanted to draw a desert landscape so this is my take on it. I started this one last year and then went into a slump. Finally overcame my laziness and finished it.

I had another series of unrelated dreams. Dream 1 I had some old acquaintances spending the night with me over at my parents place. However, they wouldn’t go to sleep. Our rooms were on the second floor and what they wanted to do is slide down the stairs belly first. They kept alternating, one person sliding down then the next person while I kept telling the two of them to go to sleep and that they would wake someone up. But just then, really loud music began to play from outside. We all went downstairs to investigate and noticed a bright orange light illuminating into the house through the window. By this time my parents were awake and also trying to find the source of the sound. We tracked the sound to our neighbors backyard where a large group of teenagers were having a bon fire and blaring music. We told them to keep it down and that there were people trying to sleep. They didn’t take too kindly to that and they all started to get up and glare at us. We hurried back inside and closed the door. Soon after the gang broke through our front door and started surrounding us. My acquaintances were no where to be seen and it was just me and my parents. Some of them began attacking us but they actually ended up being chumps and terrible at fighting. My dad would just grapple them or flip them to the ground and eventually they just all scrambled out in panic. Dream 2 Me and some random people were in a forest getting lessons. The instructor was some old man dressed up like the clown from the original IT (Tim Curry) and he was teaching us how to use HTML tags on a chalkboard. It was really weird and the lesson didn’t even make sense. Specifically, he was trying to teach us how and when to use block quotes. He asked one of the students a question and they answered incorrectly. He menacingly hissed at them that, “that’s the reason [he] hates children, because they are mindless little filthy bitches.” Then I woke up and found out I slept through all 4 of my alarms and was almost late for work.

We can hope! I heard that too. According to the band though, the song "doesn't fit" on the album anymore and that's why it's no longer included. Please though, it doesn't sound all that different than the other 2 singles.

Shoot, that's lame. I always like getting vinyl when I can so I pre-ordered that from their site, but I just assumed OTL would be on the album! I'm actually pretty excited for WANYK. I expected them to kind of just fizzle out after .5, but it seems like they're going stronger than ever.

Digging the new knot. Still bummed All out life isn't on the album any more. Thought it was better than Unsainted.

When it comes to physical music, if there is a vinyl copy available, most times I'll prefer listening to it on that format. That's only if the audio quality is better or on par to the digital version though. I've ran into some LP releases that sound very poor on vinyl and I'd rather have a CD version instead. I really only like CDs now for music that is hard to find online or if I want to be able to rip music in case I lose the digital copies that I have. Otherwise, I never actually listen to the CDs after ripping them and they take up room in my shelf. If it's a band I really like I like collecting CDs for artwork and photos. Which is why I actually like using streaming services because it allows me to listen to music in (depending on the streaming service) good quality and I don't have to worry about storage space or loading music on my player of choice manually. It's risky though since some day the streaming service can decide to pull some of your favorite releases off their platform and then you can't enjoy it that way. And when it comes to Japanese music, it can be difficult to find releases by vkei and indie artists. On very rare occasions, I like collecting cassette tapes too and other less conventional mediums like floppy discs and 8-track tapes. But one thing I can't still get behind is a USB drive. It's just a boring medium to store and distribute music to me. Last.fm integration is also important to me as I like to keep track of my listening habits, so I also like to just listen to digital copies I own on either my phone or laptop most days (although, with the direction last.fm is going I'm not sure how long I'll be able to keep that up haha)

I think I've got a pretty good handle on it. You can combine materials to create new items (e.g. melting bone + small webbing potion). And, with an item called alkahest, you are able to break down items into materials (potion breaks down into melting bone & small webbing). When it comes to shards, having multiple copies of the same shard will increase its grade which is linked to increasing the strength of the shard. You can also upgrade the rank of shards which will enhance the shard like adding more items for summoning shards or increasing range for projectile shards. I found the English voices to be grating and have been using the Japanese voice. Much better I think (relatively anyways). I don't know if it's just because I haven't played them in a while, but I've actually found it to be a bit more of a challenge than the Castlevania titles. Especially the boss fights. I wouldn't say they're difficult, but some of them have required some attentive focus.

I think on CDs, they're just okay. They can be hit or miss for me depending on the "type" of obi it is. And by that I mean, I've seen a few common types used. 1. Solid strip of color with some text 2. Have just the album name and band logo on the front. 3. Be an extension of the booklet artwork. It's nice when they're more fleshed out and have more info about release, add to the aesthetic of the overall package, or include easter eggs or photos like @Jigsaw9mentioned. But, either a) extra content is rarely included, or b) they're more often than not, boring. Here's an example of what I'm talking about (Please excuse the old and terrible photo): 2 out of the 4 CDs here that have OBIs are just a plain black strip with minimal text, and 1 is just an extension of artwork. The one on the bottom right I think is actually interesting to look at and it also has more information about the CD beyond just the band name and title. @Kaya-Rose-Addict & @Bear bring up a great point about obis on vinyl, which I also love. The medium allows for bigger OBIs, so I've seen some pretty cool stuff being done. These are a few of my favorite OBIs on vinyl releases (the first two are obis that slide onto the sleeve and stay on)