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@Felthry@awoo.space
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Plural system of three, Felthry, Alaric and Rosemary. We'll sign posts with a -F, -A, or -R.
Autistic, 20-something, anxious mess
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#FelthrysVGMSelection for my music picks.
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Really, the instrumentation of this piece and how so many disparate instruments work together so well is fascinating. I haven't even had space to talk about the melody itself, which is fantastic, as expected given its composer.
As an aside, I've realized there seem to be three types of Felthry's VGM Selections: ones where I talk about the melodic structure of the music, ones where I talk about the instrumentation, and ones where I talk about the game it's from.
This melody is paired with a continuous rising-and-falling arpeggio in the background (which gets hard to hear at times over the rest of the music), a high-pitched synthesizer filling the role of the 'bass' despite not being bass by any stretch of the imagination, a small amount of choir to give that added bit of finality to it, the occasional orchestra hit, and fast-paced percussion under it all.
In The Final
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Yoko Shimomura
You know a game has good music when Shimomura is on the team, and this is no exception. This piece is a very appropriately climactic final boss battle theme, with an interesting choice of instrumentation; the leads are an electric piano and a string section, which play in tandem for a pretty neat effect, combining the piano's sudden attack with the timbre of strings behind.
I wonder if anyone else was ever very confused by the way the GBA version of Mario Bros (the arcade game) called your score "PI"
it just never clicked for us until like, today, that that's supposed to be P1 as in player one, not PI as in π
suddenly feeling all melancholy for some reason... x.x
Is anyone on here aware of any scientific labelmakers? Like, ones with dedicated buttons for common symbols like Ω and μ so you don't have to go through menus to get them
That said we'd also appreciate one that just had those symbols as an option, the documentation of these things never seems to mention its character set
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luxray drawn by @rumwik@twitter.com, one of the most important images ever
so, there are penguins, but where are all the pencilguins?
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My local independent coffee shop has this on their register right now and I think everyone needs to be reminded of this sometimes.
why are we feeling all on edge today, small things are bothering us a lot
lb: still really proud of this joke
since mastodon is obsessed with jeans I feel like it should be pointed out that there is an astrophysical term, "Jeans instability"
Electrical engineering people on here, does anyone know of a really simple way to measure current of up to a few hundred mA that may be positive or negative on a rail that may be anywhere from +12V to -12V, and put it into a microcontroller with ADCs that only work up to 3V and can't go negative?
I'd prefer a simple integrated solution and the ACS70331 looks perfect except no one stocks it in SOIC and I don't want to hand-solder a WQFN, especially when the circuit needs four of them
okay seriously why is it having so much trouble, I can't get it to load at all
why does Newark run so slow
fun activity: annoy physicists by using the wrong symbol for everything. "Let q be the speed of light", "f is used here to denote the velocity, or fastness, of the object", "given a sphere of total charge n and radius p,"
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@Tryn is a very silly shoulderdragon with a very cute and very *her* computer "desk"
Some chips, like the LM741 and the NE555, are very popular among hobbyists but never used in professional design anymore.
Others, though, have retained their usefulness for a very, very long time. You still see 2222s and 3904s in transistor part numbers, the 1N4001 and 1N4148 are still some of the most common diodes around, the LM317 even finds its niche from time to time.
I don't know where I was going with this. Just some ponderances I suppose.
Ferrocerium!
- Pronouns
- for Fel: It/its or they/them/themself. For Rose: Zhe/zhir or she/her.
- Gender
- your guess is as good as mine
- Timezone
- UTC-8 or UTC-7 (DST)
Bot
Plural system of three, Felthry, Alaric and Rosemary. We'll sign posts with a -F, -A, or -R.
Autistic, 20-something, anxious mess
Please introduce yourself before sending a follow request.
#FelthrysVGMSelection for my music picks.
Current avatar by @hi_cial
Joined May 2017
