I've had the groove from Bleed stuck in my head for like 15 years at this point, it slaps, and it's the only djent song I'll ever need
AernaLingus
joined 3 years ago
...well that's embarrassing 
Thank you though! If you don't mind, I've got a few more for you. First one's another one where I felt stuck (9 mines remaining, if that helps), second is more just a little overwhelming and I couldn't figure out a good place to start:
I actually didn't realize it until looking over the two screenshots, but they both have a pattern that I dread: a T-shaped clearing surrounded by unflagged spaces. Outside of a few specific scenarios with easy solutions (e.g. 5 at the top) it's something I struggle with a lot, and I wonder if there are any specific heuristics that help in dealing with them beyond "clear stuff nearby until you no longer have a T."
edit: just figured out the first one (southwest of upper 3 can't have a mine otherwise the upper 3 can't be fulfilled) which allowed me to solve the rest in like 20 seconds:
but would still love some pointers for the second one!
Charles Cornell's forced YouTuber persona can be kinda grating, but he knows his shit and I really like the videos where he focuses less on the reactions and goes a little more in depth or plays at length (e.g. his video that looks at National Park and Ecruteak City from Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal and includes him playing around with the progression for a few minutes @6:43 or his video on Earth Wind & Fire's "After the Love Has Gone").
A great breakdown of another game which made excellent use of its 3+1 channels is 8-Bit Music Theory's recent video about the Pokémon TCG OST (one of my favorite games AND OSTs). That particular video is very accessible, but if you're also into the more technical breakdowns, I can't recommend his channel highly enough. Some of the stuff might go over your head depending on your music theory knowledge, but the more you watch the more you pick up, and once I started studying jazz the stuff I learned from his videos made it easier to learn the concepts. He's got a bunch of great videos, but some of my favorites are his videos on Baka Mitai and the Dolphin Shoals sax solo, both of which I was able to take things away from and incorporate into my playing as well as helping with hearing things in other music. More advanced topic, but his series on modes really helped demystify them and see how to use them.
Gotta get that up on MusicBrainz pronto
Oh god, he debated Destiny? That's gotta be an S-Class cognitohazard
Raden has this cadence and energy to her speech that really sucks you in--I've been really enjoying the clips of her doing art appreciation lectures, but it's nice to have silly clips like this as well!
Can you recommend any directories/webrings in particular? I'm obviously looking back on things with rose-tinted glasses--I wish Google would just work properly like it used to--but I think it's a good way to break out of the big tech bubble.
Damn that goes hard. I have so much respect for the people who put so much painstaking effort into restoring these old video game tunes--was really cool to see them explain their process.