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vintage-tech · 3 months
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storytime: a surprise at the end of hardware hacking
So many of you know that when it comes to DVDs, they are "region encoded" -- short version, hardware to play DVDs has something built into them to only play disks from a specific area, and the world has been divided up into six areas. North America is Region 1, the UK is Region 2, Australia is Region 4, etcetera. And a few of you know that there is also a Region 0 with no limitations, and it is Desireable to have a DVD player that can operate regionless should you be someone who watches anime or other stuff imported from elsewhere.
There were DVD players by at least a couple makers that had a simple trick to set the player to regionless: if you put a CD in the tray that contained a file with a specific name (the one the player would be looking for if a firmware update was available, I presume) but it wasn't an update data file, a hidden menu would come up and allow you to change the region from any number between 0 and 6. There was a file going around for years with that name that people were downloading to burn to disk. [Somebody figured out all you really had to do was make a short text file and give it that name, so this file going around wasn't actually necessary.] For reasons I bought a player that used this method and downloaded the file, finding it on the third place I looked because the first two sites linked went defunct.
I threw that file into Notepad to see what kind of code would trigger the menu... hmm, the first line in it says "EXIF Canon PowerShot G5" followed by garbled stuff. Wait a damned minute, this is a JPG!!
So under the cut is what people have used for at least 15 years to hack their DVDs players to become regionless:
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o-i-w-u · 1 month
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rythmicjea · 15 days
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On the last day of summer vacation... The Writer and His Muse
Full disclosure, I wrote another version of this last night. It was... factually correct. But it just wasn't good. So I saved it and took a few steps away and realized what I was supposed to be writing. I apologize now this is going to be long.
When I came up with the idea to write this series, I wasn't sure of the structure. If I'm honest, I still don't know lol. And after being called the "Riverdale Analysis Auteur" (thank you @storkmuffin ❤️), I promise to do the utmost to put forth only my best for you. There isn't going to be an uploading schedule so follow the tag "Code Word Jeronica" to see when I post.
My intention with this is to show that from the pilot there has always been the opportunity for Jeronica. I know what you're saying "there's an opportunity for ALL pairings."
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And, yes, while you are correct. There were some possibilities that were more feasible than others (Sorry Jarchies!). For the skeptics out there, the showrunners did chemistry tests with so many pairings. Cole even admitted that he did one with Cami and he was open to a Jughead/Veronica relationship "It's the CW, anything can happen"! Coding isn't always intentional or needs to be taken seriously. And that's okay. As a writer myself, I understand the "side character curse" all too well.
With all of that being said, I will only be focusing on the evidence we get in the show itself. I may reference the comics sporadically (like how Jughead and Veronica have been paired up/dated several times in the comics, throughout the comic's history. Below is a picture from Pep #154 in 1962!) but I'll never reference anything outside of the source material as evidence.
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The Writer and His Muse
It's established from the pilot that Jughead is a writer, an aspiring novelist. All writers need a muse. Something that inspires them to put pen to paper. In Greek Mythology, Muse was a Greek Goddess who gave inspiration to all. Often, a muse is referred to as a beautiful woman but it can be anything. The show Riverdale is the muse for fanfiction writers who write in the universe. Jughead has several muses throughout the show. He goes through various tribulations with his writing. We see him suffer with writer's block, make a deal with the devil (both Jugheads in Rivervale), and we know that the story that put him on the map was a telling of him and his friends.
In the overall show we know of five big stories that Jughead writes. Jason Blossom's murder, The Red Dahlia, Killing Mr. Honey, The Outcasts, and Bend. Towards. Justice. All follow a pretty basic plotline. Something happens, a group of teens have to investigate, there's a surprise twist, and then a resolution.
But, through all of these he has one muse that is constant. Would you believe me if I told you it was our fair Veronica? Because it is. Before you ask "What about Betty?", let me ask you the same. What about her? She is a character in his stories. Sometimes she's the main character. But being the main character and being a muse are two very different things. Veronica's presence in his stories symbolize different major elements to a story. More than any other Riverdale character.
Throughout the series we see Jughead struggle with his writing. His father tells him to keep writing as a way to get out of Riverdale and not get caught up with the Serpents. We see him have profound writer's block, plagiarize another author, change the way he writes due to his disability, and physically lose his ability to write. His writer's block, and the complications with it, start in season 5 and aren't resolved until season 6.
Here's an unexpected bonus from helping Veronica...
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...I started writing again.
She is, and has always been, his muse. This is the first time he acknowledges it, but the clues have been there since day one.
Jason Blossom's Murder
The first story begins with the pilot's very first scene. It also introduces the audience to a concept called "The Center of a Story". The center of a story is just how it sounds. It is the element that brings everyone together. However, while this can be the main character and what that character goes through, it can simply be a person or place that has very little interaction at all with the main story. In a murder mystery, which Season 1 is, the center of a story can be the murder victim. In telling that story we can either have flashbacks of the person's life up until they are killed; or, they are simply the reason why everyone comes together (and not even just to find out why. Sometimes the why isn't necessary).
Jason Blossom is the center of the story. It's all about finding out who killed him. But the muse of the story? The hook? The character's entrance that actually connects everyone together? That's Veronica. "On the last day of summer vacation, a new mystery rolled into town." Jason's murder is the B-plot of the season. It might have kicked everything off, and the action might be connected to him, but it's not the entire reason why Jughead is writing this book. In fact, the opening soliloquy says:
Our story is about a town, a small town, and the people who live in the town. From a distance it presents itself like so many other small towns all over the world. Safe, decent, innocent. Get closer though? And you start seeing the shadows underneath. The name of our town is Riverdale.
The story was never about Jason Blossom.
The Red Dahlia
I'm not going to touch on this much, because I have a whole post planned just about this episode. But, I want to point out that out of all of the stories we see him write, this is the only story that focuses solely on one character. It's completely about Veronica. She, like Jason, is the catalyst. The difference is that, unlike Jason, she plays a major role.
Killing Mr. Honey
In his last story to submit to the University of Iowa, it's about how seven teenagers try to get rid of their unethical and overbearing principal. We have known up to this point that Jughead loves horror. He likes to write "Lovecraftian" style stories. The difference between the two are HPL rejected morality. He considered himself a "Morality Atheist". Jughead, on the other hand, loves morality tales. (In 1955 there's a whole episode about it.) This is most evident in this telling. Each character represents an architype. Veronica, arguably, is the most important architype. She represents morality. She's the only one who really challenges what they are doing. Specifically, Jughead. At face value someone can go "Well, Jughead and Veronica aren't friends so it makes sense". First off, no, they very much are friends. But, second, if they weren't, why put her in such a place of honor. In actuality, given his character in the show (and the comics), Archie should be the moral compass of the story.
The Outcasts
The Outcasts is really the only story that we have very little knowledge of. I freely admit that for evidence, it's the weakest of the five. It presents coded details for the audience to infer their meaning. Jughead is the Viper Leader, the Serpents are the Vipers, but is Betty The Homecoming Queen? Most likely. The co-ed he takes home tells him that he wrote a "very sexy book" in regards to the Viper Leader and the Homecoming Queen. However, in his drunken voicemail, he lambasts Betty. One line in particular stands out "You're a cold, fake, duplicitous bitch. And once people read my book, everyone's going to see that". Now, we don't know what is in the book (Kind of wish they'd released it) and it could end with the Homecoming Queen cheating on the Viper Leader with the Football Captain (I'm inferring that that would be Archie's character). Or, they could have lived happily ever after. Or... using the ambiguity to stretch the possibility... the Homecoming Queen could have been Veronica.
Why? Well, there's a reason why the Enemies to Lovers trope is so popular. What better way to get back at your ex for cheating but to immortalize their best friend (who was also cheated on by your best friend) as the true-love-fairy-tale-princess of your wildly popular NYT best seller?
Bend. Towards. Justice.
The last story we see Jughead write is when they've been taken back to 1955. 7x01 is very reminiscent of the pilot. But, for Jughead and his writing, it's always been in the details. Season 7 is my favorite season, and trust me, I have a lot to say about what happens. So, I'll keep this brief. Even when he describes Tabitha it's very factual. There's no emotion. He lists who she is and the reason why she might know what's going on. Please don't take this to mean that at this point he isn't still in love with her, because he very much is. When he sees her, he doesn't know the 1955 version isn't his girlfriend. He keeps all of his emotions bottled up until he can figure out a plan. And to spare her from any craziness because her memories also might be gone. Up until this point, everyone's description is "This person is here, and this is who they are". Including himself.
For starters I live in an abandoned train car with Hot Dog which... actually tracks... Betty and Kevin aren't merely friends, they're dating. Cheryl's twin brother is alive, but he's not Jason, he's Julian. No sign of a Reggie yet. But Archie exists and he's pretty much a teen Charles Atlas... I've been waiting to reconnect with the one person who might shed some light on our predicament because she was both Chronokenetic and the town's guardian angel. My girlfriend, Tabitha Tate.
He mentions that all of this information is "overwhelming, heartbreaking". But he doesn't say why because there are many reasons why. His best friends don't remember anything. Do they even really know him? With one one question he realizes that the person he loves doesn't love him back. But he breaks this way of introducing the "characters" when he introduces Veronica. It's all emotion. There's even a sexy jazz trumpet riff announcing her.
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"Damn..." His thoughts whispered to him breathlessly. "Even in 1955, Veronica Lodge still knew how to make an entrance." He goes from boredom to attention. He straightens his shoulders, he sits up to see her better, and he doesn't blink. Like everyone else, and very unlike him, his whole attention is on her.
THE PILOT
Now that we've gone through the five major stories we know he writes, let's go back to the end to see the beginning. The last episode of the entire series ends with a typewriter. All of the stories mentioned above are stories written within the main one. Riverdale itself is a story (possibly Archie Comics fanfiction) written by Jughead.
The pilot itself, as all TV shows, has a narrative woven throughout. There's characters, conflict, plot, etc. Though the episode opens with Jason's murder the pilot was never about that. Hell, Jughead is barely featured in it. We see him two significant times. The first time is two minutes in, where he's drinking his coffee writing his story. And he says the classic line, "We were still talking about the Fourth of July tragedy on the last day of summer vacation, when a new mystery rolled into town." We are introduced to Veronica Lodge, by Jughead, right after we're introduced to him. At this point he's only named Cheryl and Jason Blossom as that is the impetus for this show/season. "There needs to be a dead body".
The pilot is about Veronica. She moves to Riverdale, she meets Archie and Betty, she mentions Our Town, and her desire for Archie is established. Compared to Veronica, it takes 8 minutes to mention Jason again and 10 minutes to bring him back into the plot. Then nothing significant happens with him until the very end of the episode! But even after that brief interlude it's only 5 minutes later Veronica is given her first conflict. And by the halfway point, she's thoroughly decimated said conflict.
So, Miss Auteur, why are you bringing this up?
Because Riverdale was supposed to be about Archie. But by the end of the first half of the first episode Veronica is the only character to have a full plot arc and even an epilogue! More importantly, she is immediately woven into the fabric of the town. Even though the Varchie romance is introduced we must remember how the episode is being framed.
If you compare the narration to the writing on Jughead's laptop, it doesn't match up. Cole Sprouse might have read everything on said laptop and it was shortened for time. But, I wouldn't read too much into the discrepancies. I mean, the previous two pages are exact copies of each other lol. And while there might not be numbered pages it's at least four and I'm baffled about what he could have written prior to the opening lines. Also, as a writer, there are the things we think we're going to write and the things we actually do write (For example, I wrote a 16 chapter 100k+ Zack and Cody fanfic, and I didn't know the show existed! The Suite Adult Life). Our thoughts vs our words carry weight to a story. An argument can be made that either position is the most important. Is it better to write out that which we keep so closely guarded so it may live on in infamy? Or are the most profound thoughts those we keep closest to our chests?
Though one little line stands out when I do read it...
"See, the Blossoms had their tendrils wrapped around the entire town - no one wanted to make enemies of them."
Who is the person not wrapped up in their tendrils? And who immediately made an enemy of Cheryl Blossom?
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Bisous, Bisous... Votre Auteur.
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floofe-trans-doggie · 8 months
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I think one of the characters with the most interesting development in Emesis Blue was Soldier.
Even from the start, it's clear he doesn't even like Archibald despite going to great lengths to save him, as evidenced in his line to the Spy where he asks if Archibald had put him up to killing his own men before (which we later learn he has.) The scene where he asks Medic who ordered him to kill the Conagher brothers shows that he really doesn't quite grasp acting outside of orders.
Then at the end of the film in the funeral scene, he directly refuses his orders, only laughing at the lines he's meant to speak. He even pulls the pin out of a grenade before Medic pops out of the coffin and kills Spy, acting for himself and not anyone else. He goes as far as to kill Blutarch, his own higher-up and employer as well.
I think this is part of what makes him standing on the street watching himself in the car in the past really work. It's showing that he's become a stranger to himself, someone completely different.
I really like this movie.
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extrashortshorts · 9 months
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Refering to: this and this post
No surprised that all of the tests/quizzes are not accurate enough and never will be for a lot of reasons like fact that they made by fans and every media character is specifically made to have more extreme personality. But i wanted to analyse the results i got out of all of them. By that i mean finding the one core element that connects them in some way
I got:
Doflamingo
Perona
Chopper
Cavendish
Its not all of them but this four got a theme of infantilism. Very different type of infantilism actually 🤔
Chopper is a baby by nature. He is responsible and smart but his existence is tied to having a little guy persona
Perona tries to play the specific role of a innocent cute gothic girl. Surrounding herself with a brand of childish cuteness that doesn't come as natural to her. There is definitely more to it
Doflamingo is a walking tantrum in a glasses with a fake calmness on top. Puppeteer theming, desire of full control and arrogance. Looks like something that he didn't get over in any way since childhood cus it's a very strong wants and feeling that easily lead to self-destruction
Cavendish is... Cavendish. First introduction tells a lot
And then there is characters that i got with a polar opposite type, like marko and rayleigh.
..... Quizzez make me feel insane, don't trust quizzes just have fun with them, idk, i am not your parent, i can't tell ya what to do
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tabieeee · 5 months
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[STM anon says sup]
I feel like people who shit on ST didn't even watched series past (somewhere) first 30 episodes.After that series becomes more serious and plot actually starts. They just hate it because they only see "singing head coming out of toilet".Plus its popular to hate something that everyone hates.
If original skibidi toilet was only contentfarm kind of Elsagate junk,there wouldn't be such big and creative fandom. Fandom doesn't consist only of 5 years old "sigma" iPad kids. There's so much cool fanarts,fanfiction,ocs,animations, even COSPLAY. People on Tumblr are so nice and fun (idk about other social media,I've just seen ppl whining about it on tikki tokky). And all of that came out of SHITPOST. It just so obscure and wonderful at the same time.
After all,it just some guy creating something using GMOD models,sfx and maps. (I'm not actually sure ab that,feel free to correct me) Sorry to write whole essay,just wanted to talk ab this topic. Anyways,cringe is dead. Your drawings for this fandom are amazing.Keep drawing and creating whatever the hell you want,have fun/gen.
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Agreed! I fully expected Skibidi Toilet to be an oldschool SFM shitpost like Gorgeous Freeman, but then I was hit with The Plot™
(You're partially correct! SFM is Source Film Maker, a program made by Valve that lets you use their game assets to make animations. ST uses HL2/GMOD assets mostly)
Old SFM never got this mainstream popular before I don't think, I barely bat an eye at the idea of "singing head in a toilet", I've seen weirder SFMs. But for people who didn't grow up watching that type of goofs? They're confused as shit.
Plus, anytime something is popular with kids, or popular in general, it gets posted around everywhere. And because it's everywhere, people that don't care to see it start to hate it (among other stupid reasons).
The fandom is delightful and surprising, I wish Tumblr was more active but that's alright, I still prefer it here than on Twitter
And thank you so muchhhh🥺🥺 I've been too tired and busy with uni to draw lately but I still wanna draw goofy robots once I got the time and energy for it.
Glad you found my doodles fun, y'all (tumblr) have no idea how much all the nice comments and reblogs motivate me to throw more art at this fandom lmfao
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whokows-anymore · 5 months
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Alright!
This is my second attempt at a blog, my first was @sweet-shining-arceus and if anyone here knows about it, you’ll know how it ended.
Moving on now, I realized I’m going to post about whatever I’m currently into at the moment, rather than make the whole blog about one specific character.
That being said, here’s my list of past hyper fixations in order from most recent to oldest:
- The Outsiders (Two-Bit and Dally specifically)
- The Dark Knight (Heath Ledger’s Joker specifically)
- Arcane (Viktor specifically)
- Pokemon (Ghetsis specifically)
- Marvel (Loki, and Tony Stark specifically)
- Hollow Knight (Pale King specifically)
- The Dragon Prince (Aaravos specifically)
- Avatar the Last Airbender (Zuko and Ozai specifically)
- Netflix She-Ra (Hordak and Horde Prime specifically)
- Star Wars (*cough* Darth Vader *cough*)
Those are the main ones anyway. (Keep in mind that some of these are really old. For example Star Wars was from 4th grade) I might come back to them, talk about them, etc., but for the most part they won’t be brought up very often.
I’ll take requests, questions, etc.
I will not respond to and will block anything negative about race, feminism, the lgbtq+ community, etc. THIS IS A SAFE SPACE!!! (I also don’t take nsfw or anything like that)
I think that’s all I really wanted to say, other than my last thing:
My current writing, drawing, imagines, character that I’m a little in love with, is Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame! 🥳🥳
Thank you very much for reading my long-ass shpeal
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scudmcphuck · 9 months
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Soundtrack to Reflection (Too Little, Too Late) - 2021/2(?) - Micron 01 Red Pen, Micron 005 Black Pen on Bristol Paper
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fervency-if · 10 months
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Your friend obsessed with Narciso, does he know about... how many times Narciso can make MC... I shant say. 😳
If you're referring to something that has to do with the most recent love scene-update regarding the Pearlmoor-path, since you're mentioning numbers... No, he's wholly unaware of that!
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buginateacup · 1 year
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I am very tired and would like to please rent a cottage in the bush for a weekend and take myself on a writing retreat
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fancy-gay-bird · 10 months
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Convergence!! Rambling
I don't know where else to dump this but my brain needs to empty itself so haha uhhhh hey
But usually and most of the time still I have a *really hard time* accepting compliments. I get all awkward and don't know what to say to them and just sort of follow a weird script of what I think I'm supposed to say.
This weekend, though, felt like it helped me cut through some of that with all of the compliments and kind things people were telling us. my partner and I sold at a local con over the weekend and everyone was so incredibly nice!!! It is unreal to me how someone could feel that way about what we do but then it sort of hit me.
If I keep putting myself down, I'm also unintentionally putting my partner down and that's not okay. I put our combined efforts down and that isn't okay either. I'm also putting down the people who take the time out of their day to support us with their kind words, and I'm not okay with that!!!
A part of me started to really believe what people were saying, or at the very least, could make a genuine attempt at having good faith in others when they gave us compliments and encouraged us. It was as though that part of me thought, "Okay but if you can't believe in yourself, then believe in others" (a la Gurren Lagann, I suppose) and so I just have to trust the process.
I have to trust that what I'm doing and where my work is at and where it's going and the efforts both my partner and I are putting into this little art studio is worth it and it's speaking to others and other people can see what all we're putting into it.
IT SOUNDS SO MUSHY, but it's definitely the vibe I'm getting? I don't know. I just wish I had the words to properly express how thankful I am to everyone and how much their words mean to me. I've been on this art journey for a long-ass time, and it feels good to know that what I do not only means something to me, but that it means something to someone else.
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o-i-w-u · 3 months
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okay so hear me out
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if THIS mf is getting therapy, and is complaining about trying to get bloodmoon to stop blatantly trusting people, what are the odds stitchwraith sends him to therapy too..? like, if stitchwraith doesn't want bloodmoon to be a little psychopath out in the wild, but is also sick of him, what if he sends him to therapy?
i mean i genuinely don't know how he would get bloodmoon to go to therapy,, or get him to not slaughter earth & lunar on the spot, but hey it could be possible !
i also don't know how well lunar or earth would react, considering bloodmoon has torn them both to shreds in front of eachother, causing copious amounts of trauma to them both. so no clue how that would go lmao
but its such an interesting idea, it would be such an interesting development to see him (begrudgingly) get some help from someone he hates, i mean earth let the stitchwraith get therapy even though he's a big bad villain (though i know they're not on horrible terms with each other), so why not give bloodmoon a little chance?
though then again the bloodtwins have hurt/traumatized almost everyone in the celestial family already so ehugh--
i prommy this isn't just me adoring bloodmoon and looking for any excuse for him to be in a video (...says the guy who started kicking their feet when bm was mentioned for a minor moment in this vid AHM)
this is all just a stupid rant ignore lmaoao :> (i have no clue what i'm talking about or how to word things hush)
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extrashortshorts · 10 months
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It happened a month ago, its just about drawings and fandoms
I mentioned before that big fandoms never been my thing, and i rarely stuck around for long anywhere anyways. Restraint is a must for me in this regards.
So i forgot how differently people can view the same media, not talking about the good kind of different tho
The series can push the narrative of being positive, making things better and all that, but for some reason there still be part of a fanbase drowning in stupidity and hatered for everything the media itself presented. While convincing everyone that it IS the right way to consume it
while scrolling half asleep i stumbled upon a drawing, it was a nice drawing, just a one piece fanart + some other different stuff
but something felt not right
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i could not even remember what exactly but i did an extremely rare thing and went to check the artist page on other social
and...
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There was some really awesome takes on a lot of stuff, pretty ratty, not "right in your face"(probably to avoid the ban) but when you know you know
Like imagine having a worldview that every kid tv show villain has, just with a few fancy excuses on top🙄
I still don't check anyone for anything much, but gut feelings are important i guess
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disney when they spend exactly $2 promoting their new movie and release it during a busy weekend and then it flops
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indietapes · 4 months
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Many Words - Operation: Explore The Goods (Synth | Indie Rock)
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🕑 1 min / Text: Adrian Release Date: Jan. 05, 2024 Here's a pretty short but absolutely fantastic instrumental arrangement that grabbed my attention immediately: "Operation: Explore The Goods" by Many Words features some really outstanding synth work. All that I know is that I need an extended version of this beautiful 1-minute piece of art. It starts off with a smooth pad before the powerful percussion and distortion sounds kick in and add an anthemic flavor to the track. I love the classic analog textures, and it's exactly the kind of music that makes me want to buy a synth to create experimental sounds all day long. If you dig it too, make sure to stay tuned for Many Words's upcoming mixtape (Feb 2024). Stream: https://open.spotify.com/track/7HgJI6TH75qDg2p1QuIEYA Follow: https://www.instagram.com/manywordsmusic ✔️ Available on our Indie Playlist on Spotify.
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