#also this means that there's 2 in game mass destruction remixes now

[mymp3]

I've been trying to listen to the new mass destruction, because apparently it doesn't play naturally in battle. And it's taking me a while to get used to it. I really do hope there's a way to switch it back to the original, almost like the p2 remaster in a way.

[steve0discusses]

Yugioh Ep33 S4 pt 1: Deus Ex US Military

Been a little distracted but was reminded--yo--I gotta finish S4 of Yugioh this year. I think I can do it. There’s like...what...two episodes left? Three? Like I don’t want to tempt 2020, but like...I think I can finish this thing.

That and a bunch of my Photoshop files corrupted, I don’t know why, I’m very scared for my hard drive, and I need to do a big ol defrag and hope that’s enough. Really hoping this is my bad and not my computer’s bad. I’m pretty hard on this computer when I paint digitally.

and I was immediately gifted by the anime gods because yo, it’s my favorite storyboarder! They're back to carry me through my election burn out, every episode they touch has so much style and no matter how freakin weird or confusing the plot is, this storyboarder/animation team doesn’t seem to care. They will this kids show about cards with this attention to detail. They just have a lot of enthusiasm and that’s a thing about anime that I really like to see. No matter how weird it is, you gotta go 150% without any shame. Love it. Love to see em back.

First off, that earthquake from last episode?

Just a little bigger of an earthquake than I originally thought, coincidentally, this is when Roland shows up, only to realize that he’s like...10 minutes to late.

Well, maybe a little longer than 10 minutes when you consider that Mai freakin died and Yugi almost died, and Joey is absolutely dead and being carried across Tristan’s back.

Anyway, Roland just walked into a whole lot and is just trying to process his life. Roland is all of us in October/November of 2020.

If Roland only knew how many times Seto and Mokuba have totally biffed it when he wasn’t looking.

Like for reals...how is Roland still alive? Like...I don’t think the guy has ever died. Not even once. Maybe that’s Roland’s superpower as the secret FourthKaiba, by just being the only one to stay very far away from the constant BS strewn at this family.

Roland is just...too inept to die. He’s always too far away, he comes after the big bad has already murdered a few people, he’s just...too bad at his job to ever be a target. Live long, Roland. The Kaiba who was the smartest of all by actually being the dumbest.

Also, look at him parking far enough away on the actual helicopter landing pad. He is the only ‘Kaiba’ that follows the law. This could also be the other reason for his secret to longevity.

(read more under the cut)

Faced with a stairwell between their freedom and this weird earthquake chasm that just opened on the top story of this building, Yami decides it’s his job to carry...................

...................Raphael.

(Never forget that we know the exactly weight of Yugi Muto.)

And like Yami is weirdly strong because of magic powers but like...maybe Yami should take Joey and then Tristan should pick up Raphael? I’d say Tea could also pick up Raphael, but I feel like she just wouldn’t want to.

TBQH maybe the reason that Yami is carrying Raphael is because literally no one else feels like it? Like no one likes this guy?

Just kinda feels like Yami is holding onto Raphael out of a sunk-cost fallacy. He’s already done so much work to this guy, can’t lose him now. Gotta save Raphael to make up for killing Gurimo, Weevil, and Yugi. Can’t fail a fourth time.

Anyway, you know what else this storyboarder is good at?

How did they even get reference for drawing this? They didn’t, right? They’re just so good at art that they were like “I can draw ANY person in ANY outfit straight up the crotch, I dare you.”

Seto decides to...not help out, much like virtually all of Yami’s other friends, who also just kinda...yelled and cried at this situation instead of...helping.

Which is fine, because the stairwell gave out and then Raphael decided to uhhhh throw this directly at me.

Just one more yeet for the road. Youknow this guy has yeeted the Pharaoh not once but twice in one season, and both times he just chucked him like he was made out of foam core. (Also, please admire the millennium puzzle in this shot going out at like a 90 degree angle. Just...A+, this storyboarder is hilarious)

At first, I really thought Yami was dabbing his way over that ledge.

In a moody shot with his hair and his jacket swaying in the breeze, almost designed for you to lift and stick into your Youtube AMVs, Seto looked onward and seemed...kind of bored because no one’s throwing any cards. And like who can blame him, he has been on the top of so many ledges and so many buildings that he’s seen Yami make this same speech of “DON’T DO THIS DAMN LEDGE THING I SWEAR TO GODS” like...so many times.

He just immediately accepts Yugi died and is like “Well I guess that makes me king of games.”

And Raphael, after like several minutes of begging Yami to just let him die, decides to let go of that ledge on his own, because this is Yugioh, and you gotta fit in that suicide within the first 10 minutes of the episode. Which, PS, is not the weirdest thing that happened this episode.

And because Roland is freakin late to everything, he showed he could have done this the entire time. Honestly I think Roland just didn’t want to deal with Raphael. We can blame this on Roland, right?

PS we never see this building again in this episode.

I don’t know........why they bothered showing this. If anything it makes the next plot twist more weird because it’s like...what was the point of the random ass earthquake and the random ass concept art building if we, in fact, aren’t coming back here???

I mean I guess it’s a nice shot for your Artstation portfolio, good on you, Yugioh background artist.

Unfortunately this chip contains Seto Kaiba’s greatest weakness. (SanDisk card? Jump drive? Which PS--if they had jump drives this whole time, why was Seto using floppies earlier in the season? Like what happened there?)

And then, with the hatch of their helicopter just wide open, no one in a seat belt, and walking away from the destruction of one of the largest buildings in San Fransisco, finally the cops showed up. Real cops this time, not possessed cops. Also, it’s the Marines.

Am I going to get my Monty Python ending? I mean...if cops can recognize these kids in this universe...I might get my Monty Python ending. :) :) :)

For some reason, back on the mean streets of San Fransisco with no people left alive in it, Rebecca just kinda started losing her mind. Maybe this was to make up for the 2 seasons I had to watch Duke Devlin flirt with a 12 yo? That now we have to suffer Duke saddled with this small crazy person?

This small crazy person who is painted as this intolerable person next to Duke Devlin, but is also a love interest for the main character? Like Yugi’s into some weird ass angry girls.

PS the orcs were no longer needed for the plot so they have turned into streams of light in order to join with the Leviathan mass. So now Rebecca and Duke Devlin will just have literally nothing to do for the rest of the season. I guess they can go to Ghiradelli square...someone’s gotta eat that ice cream before it melts.

Also this happened.

In case you were like “Wow Rach, you didn’t update the Death Count, how dare you”--it’s because I uh...completely forgot that the Oricalchos crew is immune to fall damage. Raphael’s just fine now. He fell down 50 stories...and then 50 stories fell on him...but don’t think about it.

Meanwhile, on the back of some aircraft carrier, far into international waters, the kids get recruited into the military of a foreign country and it’s just as weird as you think it is.

Hey guys.

So, Bandit Keith was weirdly in Hell this season for no reason, right? What if he died offscreen because, earlier in the season, the US military threw him at Dartz because they couldn’t get a hold of Yugi or Kaiba? What about that headcanon? What if that’s why his angry ghost wanted revenge?

Anyway, they join the ranks of Shadow T. Hedgehog, which makes sense because...these guys look like human OC’s of Shadow the hedgehog already.

Sorry I just had a moment because Shadow uses guns a lot despite not needing them at all so “people won’t get uncomfortable with how powerful he is” while in Yugioh they can’t even...show a gun. That really is...you ever think about how weird that is? That Shadow the Hedgehog, a strange remix of a 90′s sega mascot, has a million giant guns but Kaiba’s actual gun (which, apparently he does have in the Japanese version of this show) got edited out completely?

Sometimes it just dawns on me and I have a moment.

Now the US Military just hand delivering them to Dartz is so wild because their reason for the USA not doing anything on their own with their fleets and fleets of ships is:

Have you MET the US? I live here, and if we were like given the choice to shoot the ocean...or just die...we’d be like “wait...for reals? So no one gets hurt, we just shoot guns at the water? You mean we finally found our true calling? For REALS? I just shoot this water bucket!??? FOR REALS????” and it would become a national holiday. All pop songs would be devoted to it. Our ancestors would make movies about it.

I mean, our dumbass president considered nuking a hurricane in 2019...in case you forgot because damn, it’s been a STUPID 4 YEARS. (And you better have voted already because for reals do not make me go through 4 more years of this. I do not think this blog would survive it...or the hurricanes that will keep getting nuked.)

Also....the show actually threw the word “proof” out there. Seriously show? You OK?

I figured the mind control situation would be a better reason not to arrest Dartz other than “Dartz is just so good at covering up his tracks” when the TRACKS have a broken down Caltrain on one side of them, and the other side of the tracks have the rest of that same Caltrain at the bottom of a river.

Seto is not amused but he never is. He will take this Nobel Peace Prize and step up to the microphone at the UN and be like “I WANTED IT TO BE A CARDS PRIZE.”

PS--we HAVE a map already, right? Raphael died to give us this map--and then didn’t die, but it’s not like anyone else here knows that. So like...why did we need the US Military to show up at all? Why is this scene important? Other than to look cool, I guess? Like...

...why is the US military here we already have a Deus Ex Machina delivered by Raphael? At least that one was deserved--the whole point of that duel was to get this MAP.

A map that we are never going to use.

...There’s a good chance that two writers wrote this episode in two different buildings and just...glued the two halves together. Animation is wild. Weird ‘Cinema sins’ things like this happen...all the time. This one though, this one is kind of funny because it’s a ton of wasted effort on the very best storyboarder.

Anyway I broke this up into two segments because I’m tired, and also, while a lot of people like long posts, the smaller posts are kinda easier to read. More will be upcoming in like...I dunno it really depends on a lot of things right, now, I’ve been having a time, but at least Yugioh is always there to enjoy. Maybe I’ll need so much distraction you’ll get an update tomorrow? Good things can happen, and it’s not like I get to do anything else for Halloween.

Happy Halloween Y’all! Lets make the most of it!

(here’s a link to read these in chrono order)

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

[cinaed]

2017 Theater in Review

How many plays seen in 2017?

 Twenty-nine shows! Doing a quick count of 2016, that's down from 36, but that's also mostly because this time I didn't exhaust myself trying to see like 20 Fringe Festival shows. Still a pretty good number.

Fiction/Non-Fiction ratio?

All of them were fiction, though several of them used elements of history. Or, with the life of Aphra Behn. Ladies in Waiting, which was a very cathartic show where all of Henry VIII's wives got to yell at him in the afterlife. Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra both involving Shakespeare playing with history. The Devil's Music, with the life of Bessie Smith.

Male/Female playwrights?

Whoops, that's not really something I pay attention to, other than to keep an eye out for favorite playwrights. Looking at them now, it fell out as:

Female: 2

Male: 16

Multple f/f playwrights: 2

Multiple m/m playwrights: 4

Multiple m/f playwrights: 2

...Yikes, I am going to have to work on that. 

Favorite plays watched?

Or, is one of my all-time favorite plays, so I was delighted to see it back in my area! The last time I saw it was probably 2011 or so at a community theater. Twelfth Night is also my favorite Shakespeare, so it was fun to see it again. The Devil's Music: The Life & Blues of Bessie Smith and Neverwhere were probably my favorite first-time watches. 

Least favorite?

Release, a Rock Opera was a mess. There were a few absolutely gorgeous songs, and the actors did their best, but there were problems with audio, and the story itself was a mess and infuriating. Also, Shakespeare is always hit or miss for me, and I didn't really enjoy three of his I saw this year: Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Timon of Athens. I admired Arden Now for what it was trying to do with pronouns and gender, but it ultimately didn't work for me. The rainbow cake they passed out at the end was some of the best cake I've ever had, so there's that going for it. 

Oldest play watched?

 Julius Caesar, beating out the other Shakespeare plays by a year or so. 

Newest?

Mean Girls I know for certain, but I believe Arden Now and The Changeling Child were both premieres as well. 

Longest play title?

Ladies in Waiting: The Judgement of Henry VIII tried, but ultimately The Devil's Music: The Life & Blues of Bessie Smith wins. 

Shortest title?

 Liz Duffy Adams' Or. 

How many re-watches?

 I saw Mean Girls twice, once with a theater subscription and another with my manager as a good-bye gift after she was transferred, but six I've seen at least once before (or in Les Miserables ' case, uh, this was my fifth time). Twelfth Night, As You Like It, RENT, Or, and Fun Home. 

Most plays seen by one playwright this year?

 Five by good old Mr. Shakespeare. Seven, if you take into account both Arden Now and The Changeling Child being remixes or sequels of A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like It. 

Any in translation?

 Not quite, though The School of Lies is adapted from Le Misanthrope by Molière. 

Any musicals?

 Uh, yes. I am very much a lover of musicals, haha. I saw twelve this year. 

Plays that most changed my perspective:

Neverwhere was my first experience with immersive theater, and I loved it a lot. It definitely made me want to try more immersive theater. 

Play that made me laugh the most:

Noises Off! was hilariously zany, and The Book of Mormon was so much fun to see live. So many jokes that couldn't make it onto the casting recording that made me laugh. I don't know if The Changeling Child was a good play, but it was an AMAZING one. I loved Puck being annoyed about developing feelings and being more of a parental figure to Raj, and the relationships between Raj/Pyramus and Velena/Gaitana. Plus, canon sex pollen and mass orgies, oh my. 

Saddest play:

 Oh boy, how do you choose between Cabaret, which is about the rise of Nazism in Germany and the miseries dysfunctional people can inflict upon each other; Ragtime, which is about racism and anti-immigration sentiment in early 1900s America; or Death of a Salesman, about pride leading to a man's self-destruction and all the damage you can do to your children? I'll just go with all three. 

Favorite set design:

 I loved everything about the immersion theater of Neverwhere, but I also really loved how Mean Girls used technology to add extra layers to the musical. And I really loved the Twelfth Night��design, even though my show had, er, some technical difficulties. 

Favorite choreography:

The Book of Mormon had great choreography. The Pajama Game was very 1950s in tone, but the actors were amazing and the dancing was fantastic. The Devil's Music also had some very sexy dancing involving a saxophone that managed to be funny and hot all at once, so kudos for that. 

Favorite character:

 Questions about favorite for individual people are always hard for me, but I'm going with Biff Loman from Death of a Salesman as a character who stuck with me. His disillusionment with his father as well as his realization and eventual acceptance that he's an average guy and that his parents placed a burden on him to be special was very moving to me. Despite the ending of the play, I think he, out of the surviving cast, is going to be okay. Also I read some gay subtext into his relationship with his old high school friend, so my mental fix-it is that he buys himself that ranch he wanted and ends up falling for one of his ranch hands and lives happily ever after. 

Favorite actor:

 Syesha Mercado as Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon. "Sal Tlay Ka Siti" was turned into something incredibly moving thanks to Mercado's aching sweetness and optimism for a better life than the one she's living. Just wonderful. I loved her fierce but kind and uncompromising nature. The entire cast was excellent, but she was the standout for me. 

Favorite scene:

 The end of Ladies in Waiting. Without spoiling, it felt inevitable after Henry VIII arguing with all the women whose lives he'd ruined, and was cathartic as hell after all the nonsense we've had to deal with in 2017. 

Favorite quote:

 I mean, one of my favorite lines of any Shakespeare play is "I am all the daughters of my father's house, and all the brothers too," because it's telling the truth while also telling a lie, and holds a world of meaning and grief and longing, so I'll go with that one from Twelfth Night. 

Most inspirational in terms of own writing?

 Er, none really? I had a bad year of pretty much no writing outside two Adventure Zone fics and finishing a Les Mis fic, so maybe 2018 will give me some inspiration. 

How many you'd actually watch again?

 I always see Twelfth Night, Les Miserables, Or, and Fun Home every opportunity I can, but I'd also watch Neverwhere, Ragtime, Book of Mormon, and Ladies in Waiting again if the opportunity came by. 

Full list of plays seen:

Antony and Cleopatra, Arden Now, Assassins, As You Like It, The Book of Mormon, Cabaret, The Changeling Child, Death of a Salesman, The Devil's Music: The Life & Blues of Bessie Smith, Footloose, Fun Home, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Julius Caesar, Ladies in Waiting: The Judgement of Henry VIII, Les Miserables, The Lover & The Collection, Mean Girls, Neverwhere,��Noises Off!, Or, The Pajama Game, Passing, Ragtime, Release: A Rock Opera, RENT, The School of Lies, Timon of Athens, Twelfth Night, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

[bladeoftruths]

possible dance tracks for p3d

note: this is entirely my predictions so please don’t kill me if they don’t actually come out in the actual game.

will be revisiting this post once they fully confirmed all the tracks.

from the main/FES soundtrack, alongside with their remix in reincarnation album and later remixes: also, bolded ones are officially confirmed.

- burn my dread (reincarnation and spring of birth remix not sure, prolly there will be another remixed version too) - mass destruction (original, lotus juice remix, atsushi kitajoh remix and reincarnation not sure, but prolly there will be another remix) - heartful cry - want to be close (reincarnation version) - when the moon’s reaching for the stars (reincarnation) - unavoidable battle (reincarnation and power remix) - deep breath deep breath (reincarnation and lotus juice remix) - changing seasons (reincarnation) - a deep mentality - master of shadow - jika net tanaka (i’m not surprised if they’re releasing a vocal version given that junes’ theme gets one in p4d) - master of tartarus - iwatodai dorm - living with determination (iwatodai dorm arrange, reincarnation and mellow velvet mix) - battle for everyone’s souls (reincarnation) - burn my dread ~ last battle ~ (reincarnation and future arrange) - kimi no kioku (reincarnation and movie remix) - brand new days

p3p tracks, assuming if atlus is bringing FEMC (I’d be mad if they didn’t bring her in): - soul phrase - wiping all out - danger zone - time - a way of life - sun

movie tracks: - fate is in our hands (movie 2 main theme) - light in the starless sky (movie 3 ending theme) - one determination (movie 3 hanged man battle scene theme) - sound of the beast (movie 3 ikutsuki’s betrayal scene theme) - self redemption (movie 4 SEES’ persona 2nd awakening during the final battle theme) - storm of a butterfly (movie 3 chidori battle scene theme) - boku no akashi/my testimony (movie 4 resolution scene theme) - more than one heart (movie 1 ending theme) - temporary vacation (movie 2 yakushima trip theme, arrange version in movie 4)

spinoff tracks (arena, ultimax, q, including their remixes): - maze of life - laser beam - best friends (p4arena theme) - now i know (p4arena ending theme) - break out of... (p4arena ultimax theme) - today (p4arena ultimax ending theme)

extra: trinity soul, though i’m pretty sure they might not add these: - breakin’ through (opening theme 1) - word of the voice (opening theme 2)

also, i might assume that some of these tracks might get a remix so eh, let’s just stay tuned for more p3d updates in the mean time.

these might be too much but who knows?

extra notes worth reading: - reincarnation: burn my dread ~reincarnation~ album - burn my dread has a spring of birth remix for the 1st movie. also coupled with more than your heart. - mass destruction has a lotus juice remix in the 2nd movie theme’s single, while the kitajoh remix is from the persona 20th anniversary album if you buy the japanese version of p5′s take your heart edition. - unavoidable battle’s power remix is from the 3rd movie ending theme’s single. - deep breath deep breath lotus juice remix is from the 2nd movie theme’s single too. - living with determination’s mellow velvet mix is also from the 3rd movie ending theme’s single. - burn my dread last battle future arrange is coupled with p3m4 theme, boku no akashi/my testimony single, alongside with kimi no kioku’s movie remix.