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@Valmore Interesting! I'm very fond of Matthew Sweet's album Girlfriend, which seems to be generally regarded as his best, but I haven't even ever tried anything else, and I've often felt like I was doing him a disservice because of that. I'll give that album a spin. @Kawasumi - I picked up Uchu Conbini's first album a long time back. Great stuff. That song, especially, is perfect for when I'm in the mood for some prog rock. Their guitarist is something else, and I love the vocalist/bassist's voice. I haven't heard any of the other bands you linked before, though. Unfortunately, some of what you linked is blocked by record companies for me , including that second one. But I listened to the tricot song (which is great - fantastic musicianship and really unusual harmonic choices that are quite appealing) and the Cuushe song (which is really unusual, and I'm still trying to get a feel for). I picked up albums from both of them, though that Cuushe song is definitely stretching the range of what I normally listen to - but that's a good thing @Mugi letlive was interesting - at times they reminded me of Fall of Troy, but a little more listenable and with a little more range. Might keep listening to them. Hands Like Houses, the vocal style just didn't click for me. And, pssh, of course I've already got the Persona 4 soundtrack, and the P4 Reincarnation album, and both the OST and Reincarnation for Persona 3, and the Persona 4 DAN OST, and... I should just say, yeah, I like Shoji Meguro. The music is a big factor in my hype for P5

Promised follow-up: Everything Everything didn't click. Chvrches did click. Great voice with great synth complement. Still trying to wrap my head around Destroyer. My first thought when I heard the sax was OAR, and on that song it's definitely more than just the instruments that's making me think that - the whole song has that same vibe I associate with OAR as well. I'm iffy on OAR, so I listened to a couple more songs and got massively confused, because those songs sounded completely different from the one you linked, and also from each other. So it seems I can't pin these guys down at all, which is interesting. I really liked Kaputt, too, so I'm grabbing that album. Todd Terje - Yep, that's pretty funky. Done. Incidentally, this seems like the relevant time to ask if other people like Jamiroquai, or if that's just me. I'm a big fan of the album A Funk Odyssey, especially. Kamasi Washington - I'm a sucker for Latin jazz, so that percussion and piano grabbed me within a couple seconds. My older brother is a jazz pianist (not professional, just a hobby), so I heard so much stuff like this growing up that it's nostalgiac for me. I counter with Poncho Sanchez (his band is always awesome live - I saw him a month or two ago when they were in town). Tame Impala - the voice isn't working for me, even though I'm really digging the guitar sound. Will keep listening and see if it grows on me after a few listens, or if the rest of the album fits me better. Sun Kil Moon - interesting. Will keep listening later.

Comyu has definitely got its weak points (Ayaya's route and the antagonist in Mayuki's route immediately come to mind), but the way it all came together in the last route, especially the ending CG and music, was so damn good that I basically forgive all its shortcomings.

Sounds good - find a thread and tell us what you thought about Comyu at some point. I'm almost as big a Comyu fanboy as I am a Gahkthun fanboy, so I'm always curious to see what other people think of it (unless, you know, they didn't like it, in which case they can keep their opinions to themselves).

Because of the Audrey Fan Club, I have now found myself playing Huniepop for the first time. I started at around 8 PM last night. I wasn't able to make myself stop until midnight. That is so far past my bedtime it's not even funny. Curse you people for getting me hooked on a gem-matching game with cute girls. This may be even more addicting for me than Puzzle Quest was. Additionally, I'm really looking forward to the Destiny content patch landing in 10 days. Prison of Elders was my favorite Destiny release (I don't even know how many times I killed Skolas...), and I have a regular 3-person group to play with now, so we should have a lot of fun with it. The 6-person raids are just too much cat herding for my taste, and my group already does a lot of PvP together, so some fresh 3-person PvE content is pretty much perfect.

I also assumed it was a joke, or I wouldn't have given such a crass response initially. Actually, that's a lie, I probably would've said that anyway. But at any rate, take care. Hope to see you back around here soon.

@Nimbus, in case you haven't figured it out yet, you need to intentionally pull out the phone and send a D-Mail (at that point in time where he's saying he has to do it, even though he doesn't want to) to move on to the next chapter, instead of going down Suzuha's route. I was confused as well, the first time I finished a route, and almost went and played the whole game again (which is completely unnecessary until you are ready to go for the True End).

@TexasDice, I feel like you owe us a status update. Also, since it seems you've played Comyu (another deserving nominee) in the meantime, comments on that?

Maybe I'm just too dense to notice it, but I don't think there are any "big" allegories or complications that you should be looking for or be worried about, in Inganock. My feeling from both Inganock and Gahkthun was that the Steampunk series is actually about telling rather simple stories about human emotions and motivations, using a big, fantastic setting and somewhat complicated plot to really bring out the most of that emotional impact. At any rate, fiction is a work of art created by an author and a reader - so don't let me or anybody else take away from it what you found there

I caved and bought HuniePop because of this event. I ain't even mad.

This is a very good point, completely agreed. To be honest, since I have some interest in drawing but am terrible at color, I've been meaning to do a two-pronged attack of learning basic color theory and trying to train myself to recognize gradations in color using this method. The problem is that drawing is the lowest on my totem of hobbies and I'm a bit lazy, so if I ever do get up the energy to do something about it, I usually just, well... draw.

While I've never met Audrey, I am a member of the Audrey Fanclub Fanclub.

I haven't actually heard that before, though I suppose it's possible... The theory I prefer, though, is that everybody in this thread has the causality switched: you don't know the names for those colors, and therefore you don't perceive the differences. It's an interesting angle of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and there have been a number of studies backing up this specific example of it, in the last decade. Basically, if you start teaching yourself the names for more specific shades of color, you'll become able to perceive the differences between those colors. In cultures that have many words for a range of colors, where your language has only one broad word for that spectrum, everybody in that culture is able to perceive those differences, and you might literally not even be able to see the difference (I unfortunately can't find the article that had a rather shocking example of this, with some African tribe that had lots of words for shades of green, and an image where I literally could not see a difference between any of them, but according to the study some > 80% of the group surveyed had no problem identifying the different shade...). Anyway, there are tons of articles about this, many of them focused on how a lot of ancient civilizations don't have a word for blue, notably Greeks; people love to cite Homer's "wine-dark sea" as an example. Egyptians created a blue dye, so they had a word for it, but pretty much everybody else who was around at that time period didn't even have the word blue; so the sky was gray, or bronze, or some other weird color to them. Here's a passable article I found from searching around: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/hoffman_01_13/ Setting aside the actual physical condition of color-blindness (red/green, blue/yellow, or whatever exotic variety), people here who are saying they are "sort of color-blind" probably just haven't put in any effort on learning names for a larger variety of colors. Learn the names, and the perception will follow. Edit: here's a much better article to illustrate both the language focus of it and the overall weirdness of it: http://arstechnica.com/science/2007/05/language-influences-color-perception/

Confession: I find @Kiriririri's most recent avatar to be way too cute.

Literally Hitler. Bizarre habit I just noticed about myself: When I'm not in the middle of typing something, the home position for my left pinky is actually left shift. It only migrates back to 'a' after that first capital letter gets typed.

Thank you, @Decay, this is awesome. The first The War on Drugs song you linked grabbed me immediately, so that got picked up. Listened to a couple Strand of Oaks songs, including the first one you linked, but it didn't quite click yet. Might come back to it later. EL VY was an immediate fit. I especially love the instrumentation and the production, I think? Production these days often makes it hard to hear distinct instruments through the wall of sound, but everything's incredibly distinct in the song you linked, which gives it a really unique sound. And the instrumentation is great, so it really benefits from it. I listened to the same song twice Mikal Cronin - good. Nothing specific to say, but I liked it. Father John Misty - First two songs on the album sound fine, but the lyrics are just a bit weird for me. I enjoyed the third song on the album, but the fourth one completely threw me out of that mood again. I may be too sincere a person to enjoy this. I've listened to a fair bit of Modest Mouse before, and it's very hit-and-miss for me. Good News For People Who Love Bad News is by far my favorite album that I've listened to (I haven't heard the album you linked, yet), but even on that album I really enjoy only about half the songs ("Ocean Breathes Salty", "Float On", "The Good Times Are Killing Me"); some of the songs, like "This Devil's Workday", I find pretty grating. They definitely do meet the criterion of having distinctive vocals. I'll give that newer album a listen. Spoon was one of those bands I kept meaning to listen to and never got around to. The song you linked is great; I grabbed the album. Noise rock is somewhat relevant to my interests, actually - when I'm properly prepared for it, Sonic Youth's album Dirty does a lot for me. But I haven't found much else in this arena that I liked (tried Dinosaur Jr., couldn't get into it even though I like their distinctive guitar tone a lot; even other Sonic Youth albums around the same time, like Sister and Daydream Nation, don't appeal to me much). At any rate, I didn't really like "LIFE" that much, but I tried the album from the start, and I liked "STONEFIST", so I'll pick this up too. Grimes: this kills. Neon Indian - weird. But good. Titus Andronicus - not crazy about his voice, but the guitars remind me of what I like about both Idlewild and Hüsker Dü, and the songwriting especially is very Hüsker Dü-like, which is high praise from me... until it turns into Irish pub music, but that's all right too. Surf - listened to the first two songs. Amazing. This is definitely happening. Jamie xx - I agree with the assessment of it being incredibly listenable. I think I'm spent, after responding to this post for the last couple hours. I'll get back to your honorable mentions and the subsequent responses later today or tomorrow. Incidentally, because of this thread I've probably listened to more YouTube ads in the last 24 hours than in the entire previous month.

I don't think that's how the Law of Small Numbers works.

Can I have your stuff?

True, but the pinky isn't strong, so if you have to type something long in caps, holding the button down that long can get tiring. Then again, I just said that, and then I realized that I scroll around the text I'm typing by using the arrow keys while holding the control key the whole time, so that argument is obviously bogus. At any rate, CAPS lock usage is an aberration, and you crazy people need to repent and learn to type properly.

Ok, hold on. Is using the CAPS button for typing capitals actually a thing? And are the people who do it touch typists, or hunt-and-peck people?

While that was far from complicated, this is the first time I've successfully read and understood a whole moon rune utterance, so I'm marking this as a Read Letter Day (so to speak). It's April Fools' Day and the subject is obviously bonkers, how can there not be a joke

I don't get the joke

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Funny idea, but the fake quotations could be better. One of the better April Fools' jokes I've seen so far, though.