#Play Sound Records

[rocals]

CDs are obsolete because the sound quality sucks

yeah sucks me good and hard through my jorts

[lizzybeeee]

DATV explaining the 'Regret Prison'

A REGRET PRISON IS STUPID AND I'M TIRED OF PRETENDING THAT ITS NOT

TL;DR: a prison can serve as a metaphor but it shouldn't be entirely comprised of a metaphor.

From what I understood from what the game gave us: Solas has made a new prison to move the God's too - since bringing down the veil would free them from the Black City. This new prison is separate(?) from the fade or so far removed/contained that bringing down the veil would not compromise it...apparently. We interrupt his ritual, Solas gets sucked into the new prison he made, and the elven gods are free.

When Rook gets kicked into the fade they're physically there - which means it's a physical place in the fade, like how it was a mixture of physical/thought when we entered it in DAI. Which makes sense - the gods are real and living beings, they need to be in a place, there must be some aspect of physicality to it.

Alright, cool, it's a Black City 2.0 - I assume it's better defended to prevent people breaking in/out again?

NOPE.

We get there and it's a 'regret prison'?? It's tied to the regrets of those within it? Composed of regrets??? Solas had to wait for the right moment for Rook to be sufficiently 'full of regret' that they could switch places?

So is the prison tied to Solas's regrets? If so, how can Rook escape? The prison seems to work around the idea that it relies on the regrets of the person it's holding to work - which is how/why Rook was able to be trapped and later free themselves (along with whatever remains of the team apparently being able to do something on their end, not that we hear about it).

WHICH IS STUPID!

Are you telling me the prison intended to hold to megalomaniac elven gods was going to imprison them based on their own regrets? Is Solas assuming that Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain are as self-pitying as he is? They'd break out quicker than Rook did! He made a time out corner for the elven gods to sit in and gave them an out if they reflected on their emotions/regrets or decided that they don't regret what they did. Elgar'nan, a spirit of tyranny, is not going to 'regret' his actions - he is going to justify them by telling himself and others that he knows what's best.

We can come across some of Solas's regrets in the prison if you run around a bit and explore:

Remnant of Failure - talking about the orb from Inquisition.

Remnant of Parting - talking about Mythal

Remnant of Reflection - more vague, talking about the Titans I believe.

So maybe he altered it - maybe he intended the prison to be 'locked' with his own regrets because after a millennia of having a pity party he still can't bring himself to self-reflect and look to the future. But what if Solas died? Or if his guilt lessened - would it diminish the strength of the regret prison?

We already have pre-established lore (though DATV has shown they don't really give a crap tbh) that once the being that has claimed/altered an area of the fade is slain, it's influence diminishes both in and outside of the fade. So if the prison was tied to his regrets then it would require Solas to basically live forever to keep it stable - especially if he brought down the veil and removed the one barrier that kept the world and the fade apart.

Rook and Solas needed some assistance to exit - but it doesn't seem like it was much! Solas used his dagger and Rook just...got out through a fade tear? This is Solas's 'more secure' second prison? It has a worse track record than the Black City! If Rook - who is not an elven god - managed to escape the regret prison what is to stop anyone else from breaking in and out of the prison?

And what did Solas intend to do with the blight - the bulk of which is apparently in the black city?? If bringing down the Veil would free the gods in the black city doesn't that mean that the blight would also be released?! Did he have a plan? Why does he go fully ahead with bringing down the veil at the end if the black city is still there and filled with blight?!

I get it: the 'regret prison' is a metaphor for how Solas holds onto the past and how Rook can move past their regrets and grow. He's trapped by the past - it's a prison. Cool. But this prison is supposed to by a physical place to contain the gods - not just to solely contain Solas. The mission is literally called 'A Cage for Gods'.

The Black City is an actual place that's so far out of reach of anywhere else in the fade that no mage can ever reach it while in dreams - let alone physically, which was only done once and took tremendous effort/blood sacrifices. It made sense - it was cool to see floating in the sky in DAO!

Though it's not said specifically, it's strongly implied that Arlathan is the Black City. You can see in the concept art that floating elven city is exactly the same as the black city in DAO! It's this foreboding thing just lurking in the sky - a constant reminder of the sin that led to the horrors of the blights and darkspawn. A real place with lore and history that also serves as a metaphor for the hubris and destruction of those who call themselves gods and act as tyrants -> for both the evanuris and the magisters.

I WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS BIOWARE!

WHAT IS THIS KINGDOM HEARTS NONSENSE???!!

[mintjeru]

i've been streaming a blind playthrough of hollow knight to 2 groups of people for the past month and a half and i really wanted to share some of my favorite experiences ><

open for better quality | no reposts

[scoriarose]

She came up with a new activity

[risingshards]

I replay MNOG every Christmas Eve and I want to draw attention to the Le Koro band going hard and Taipu dancing his lil heartlight out

[xray-vex]

[source]

[toastereno]

i said i would post my piano covers here, so...what better song to start with than the iconic one from psmd? :'^)

this was all done by ear (except for the beginning where i used bespinben's score because those chords are tough to figure out, so shoutouts to them)! this song holds a special place in my heart for many reasons: it's the reason i played psmd and restarted playing the piano, just to name two!

by the way, there's a little surprise at the end 😊

[cordatumcape]

✨ happy anniversary and many thanks to octopath traveler! may the road ahead bring us joy and all the more stories to tell 🐙🗺️

[daddy-long-legssss]

carlos o'connell from fontaines d.c. talking about borrowing alex turner's guitar for the recording of romance [x]

you can see the album credit here

thank you to ratiomonkeys on twitter and tbhc.love on ig for finding the clip!

[doctorwhoisadhd]

i saw who in a dream?

[himluv]

HIMluv (actually) plays piano

Okay, so I've officially had access to my work's Steinway for like... a week now? I've managed to play I think three separate times, each for only 15 minutes while I'm on break. So, now that I'm not fucking up because the sound quality keeps startling me, I can finally share some recordings! (please note, these are recorded on the basic bitch voice recorder app on my phone and I am completely self taught - I'm just having fun here, folks, and hopefully sharing some joy!)

Here's some of what I played today :)

This is a little rework of the Lost Elf theme I've been playing for years now, back when I truly believed there'd be no happy ending for Solavellan. Maybe I'll rework it again in the future...

Oh my goodness I haven't played this song in FOREVER but it just sounds so good on the steinway I can't help myself.

So, back when Hozier's Wasteland Baby! first came out, I was fucking OBsessed with Shrike, but there weren't any piano tutorials available on youtube yet (my ability to read sheet music is limited). So.... I cheated and pulled guitar chords off of a tab site, and figured out the chords for piano and basically wrote out the most buckwild notation for myself. It's been YEARS since I've played this, but, again. It just sounds so pretty, even just goofing around like this.

So, now my new goal is to start relearning/remembering a lot of the songs I used to know so I can play them on the steinway haha.

[thirdset]

AUSTRALIAN OPEN FINAL 2015 | Serena Williams defeats Maria Sharapov 6-3, 7-6

[beneaththebloodylake]

its a bit baffling when ace attorney fans talk about that fan timline. not only do i have no idea when theyre talking about, but it doesnt actually really have a bearing on the games. the fans extrapolated it from one date, but even though itd technically be accurrate its clearly not something that was considered relevent to the games setting. i dont know why they put that year there but the games are really more written as set when they were made, so its so weird to fans talking like theyre actually set later

[bmpmp3]

now im learning. phoneme editing for english is fun as FUCK in sv2

[goldensunset]

AGHHHH. the use of ‘embracing one’s duty’ again. SOOOOO good. this is n’s theme, to me- it’s him as a hero. in the first game maybe he was the misguided antagonist you had to stop but even so he fully believed he was doing something good. and this theme reflects that. now it’s used again and it’s fully him, having come into his own… there’s no better song they could’ve possibly picked for his triumphant return. plus it only played in one tiny area last time so now they’re doing it justice!!!!

[samsayswhatever]

When Edwin was talking about a "Victrola" I thought he was talking about something much older. But it's just a record player lol