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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 14h

I'm getting like maybe a 70% on this exam but I am walking in confident as shit and pretending like I can actually do well

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 14h

Nothing beats the feeling of doing study sets and actually understanding the material

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 14h

I know the style isn't completely gone btw, Balatro was the biggest indie of last year and entirely uses pixel art. I'm just personally more a fan of pixel art so I'm just always gonna want more of it lol

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 14h

All of those PSX-style 3D graphics are cool, but imo I miss the pixel-slop era of indie gaming. Games like Dead Cells and Celeste pulled off the style so unbelievably well and I wish more games leaned into it

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 14h

I played the demo and it felt like one of those Roguelike that has a gimmick that sounds super compelling, but isn't actually all that compelling. Maybe the full game is better in that regard though, I know people are liking it

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 14h

Been meaning to pick Blasphemous up for some time now because of how insanely good the pixel art looks,,,, good to hear the game isn't all vibes over gameplay.

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t have enough joy in my heart for that “sizzling fajitas” meme

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

Took my 3 hours to get thorough the other 2/3s lmao I'm still so cooked

Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

Typing up what will (hopefully) be my final draft right now and it's only taken me about 20 minutes to get through 1/3rd of the material I wanted to cover, I might be GOATed

Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

Like I'm literally reviewing an album I like! An album I've heard dozens of times! And it still took over 8 hours to even get some basic notes together!!! I spent 12 hours on the outline alone!!!!! I am not built for this shit at all!!!!!!!!

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

The main hindrance I'm having right now is that I am struggling hard with cutting down on my filler words. I did not realize how much of my writing serves literally zero purpose in the greater scheme of my papers. Pretty big reason why I can't seem to fit a thought in a single post here lol

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

That's the one nice thing about writing absurdly detailed notes. There is never a point in writing where I will need to stop and look something up. There is more often a point while writing where I look at my notes and think to myself "why the fuck did I include that, it wasn't relevant at all"

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

Typing up what will (hopefully) be my final draft right now and it's only taken me about 20 minutes to get through 1/3rd of the material I wanted to cover, I might be GOATed

Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

Like I'm literally reviewing an album I like! An album I've heard dozens of times! And it still took over 8 hours to even get some basic notes together!!! I spent 12 hours on the outline alone!!!!! I am not built for this shit at all!!!!!!!!

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

I should clarify I think I also fall into this category. I haven't fully pinpointed what my favorite kind of sound is. That's part of why I love music so much, it feels like constant self-exploration and I love it. It scratches such a unique itch I think most people don't even realize they have.

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

More than likely you haven't properly zeroed in on your favorite genre unless you just got super lucky. I think that's beautiful but also a bit horrifying. There is such a shear volume of easily accessible music out there that you probably haven't heard your favorite song yet.

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's a little odd how little genre-exploration people do. So many genres from the 1990s-2000s fit perfectly into so many different modern-day niches and yet there is so little attention on them. I always found that odd.

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

On that topic, is the Persona 5 soundtrack the most recent genuinely influential piece of acid jazz music out there? Because going through the tracks briefly makes it clear that it is predominantly acid jazz. I just need more people to get into the genre it'd be so cool.

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

Like 90% of the nerdy internet kids obsessed with Persona 5's soundtrack would adore acid jazz. I don't understand how a good chunk of them never made the jump over beyond like a single Jamiroquai song.

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

We need an acid jazz revival so bad it's what the youth needs. There's like a track or two off To Pimp A Butterfly which I think might fit that descriptor but it also came out over a decade ago so I struggle to count that.

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

The review is mid as fuck right now btw so I'm not gonna share it but it's for the first Jamiroquai album. Verdict is that the writing is a little cringy and sloppy but it sounds good so idrc. We as a population should listen to more goofy sci-fi acid jazz anyways.

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

Like I'm literally reviewing an album I like! An album I've heard dozens of times! And it still took over 8 hours to even get some basic notes together!!! I spent 12 hours on the outline alone!!!!! I am not built for this shit at all!!!!!!!!

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

Being forced to write an actual, professionally formatted review for my literature course this semester has been both a blessing and a curse because it has been such a fun thing to do as an assignment, but also such an awful thing to realize I am not good at it at all

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

There is an unbelievable amount of dopamine released in my brain when I feel like I made a good point even if I didn't at all lol. Breakthroughs of any kind just feel so good that even the ones that are kinda bad feel so fucking good.

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

Writing sucks for like 90% of the creative process except for that 10% when you finally figure out what you actually want to write and then it starts to hit like crack

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3d

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

Right now my team is just Chikorita and Venipede off-rip. Debating between Hawlucha or Riolu (whichever I find first realistically lol). Alakazam if I can find an easy way to get one. Next to that I have no clue, there's so many banger Pokemon in ZA (from what I've seen)

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Sully @gnokiaphone.bsky.social · 2d

7 YEAR OLD ME WAS OBSESSED WITH THAT POKEMON OH MY GOD HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT

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