subversiveassetCheck out this relaxing jazz lounge style sax cover of "It's Raining Somewhere Else" from Toby Fox's "Undertale".
This laidback tune is brought to you by a laidback (???) skeleton. At least, I hope Sans is laidback for you, because otherwise, you're destined to have a bad time. If you are familiar with Undertale, you may recall that It's Raining Somewhere Else plays when you are at the MTT Resort on your dinner/date with Sans. (Date? With Sans? If you look at the game files, you will actually see that It's Raining Somewhere Else is labeled as "mus_sansdate." So, I guess that's Toby Fox's conclusive way of showing that you can date two skeletons with one bone. [Wow, the puns.])
This arrangement of "It's Raining Somewhere Else" was originally created by Will Springer/Skirmisher for piano and vibraphone. See his arrangement on MuseScore's website: musescore.com/skirmisher/its-raining-somewhere-else
As you can tell from this video, I modified the arrangement to include saxophone, but decided to keep parts for piano and vibraphone. The original song for It's Raining Somewhere Else just seems so perfect as a saxy jazz cover, doesn't it?
If you liked this, remember to check out the playlist "Undertale: The Musical" for other subversiveasset saxophone covers of Undertale songs. Other favorites include Snowy and Enemy Approaching!
UNDERTALE - Its Raining Somewhere Else [Sax Cover] | subversiveassetsubversiveasset2015-11-22 | Check out this relaxing jazz lounge style sax cover of "It's Raining Somewhere Else" from Toby Fox's "Undertale".
This laidback tune is brought to you by a laidback (???) skeleton. At least, I hope Sans is laidback for you, because otherwise, you're destined to have a bad time. If you are familiar with Undertale, you may recall that It's Raining Somewhere Else plays when you are at the MTT Resort on your dinner/date with Sans. (Date? With Sans? If you look at the game files, you will actually see that It's Raining Somewhere Else is labeled as "mus_sansdate." So, I guess that's Toby Fox's conclusive way of showing that you can date two skeletons with one bone. [Wow, the puns.])
This arrangement of "It's Raining Somewhere Else" was originally created by Will Springer/Skirmisher for piano and vibraphone. See his arrangement on MuseScore's website: musescore.com/skirmisher/its-raining-somewhere-else
As you can tell from this video, I modified the arrangement to include saxophone, but decided to keep parts for piano and vibraphone. The original song for It's Raining Somewhere Else just seems so perfect as a saxy jazz cover, doesn't it?
If you liked this, remember to check out the playlist "Undertale: The Musical" for other subversiveasset saxophone covers of Undertale songs. Other favorites include Snowy and Enemy Approaching!
Song: It's Raining Somewhere Else (On the Undertale OST, this is track 063) Game: Undertale Composer: Toby "Radiation" Fox
Hopefully, you're already well familiar with the source game, Undertale, by Toby Fox. If not, check it out: http://undertale.com
Cityscape sounds from McKinney Sound were sourced from www.freesfx.co.uk.
---------- EQUIPMENT (it doesn't require the best!) Instrument: Conn 24M Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece: Selmer S-80 C* Ligature: Rovner C1RL MK III Reed: Vandoren Traditional #2.5
Mic: Blue Yeti Camera: Canon EOS SL1/100D and Logitech HD Pro C920
DAW: Reaper Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CC #subversiveasset #vgmYouTube is Not Good for Musicianssubversiveasset2024-10-03 | Musicians need to learn that music sucks, actually. The algorithm has spoken; the audience has spoken. Music is boring and old news. Don't be a musician on YouTube. Do anything else. Maybe react to other people's music?
OK, to be slightly less clickbaity, here's the advice I've heard on how to be a musician on YouTube. You tell me if this still counts.
1. Do react videos of other people's music that people are already listening to/talking about. 2. Do fandom content of currently popular/currently discussed fandoms 3. Include "gimmicks" in music beyond the "standard MTV music performance video format." 4. Perform live shows as openers to more popular bands, and then include your social media for those shows 5. Collaborate with more popular musicians on YouTube, and then include your social media for these collaborations
If you use YouTube to discover new music and new musicians, please share what your process is!
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCWhen the end of the world comes, would you spend it making magic with me? [🎷📖]subversiveasset2024-09-24 | You would think that being able to attend the magic school of your dreams (one which had passed you by for so long, skipping over you to your sister) would be the dream come true...but as you walk the halls of the south dorms, you see that those gifted with magic share the same fears of inadequacies as all Ordinaries do.
You stumble upon a secret truth, which is that the world is set to end, and the current paradigm of magic will wind down. This explains the discovery of your new wild powers -- they are a harbinger of the world preparing for a rough world to come -- yet now that you have forged friendships at the magic academy, you do not want to forget.
...but even if you must forget and even if the world is doomed to end, you still wish to ask the person who has caught your eye...
would you spend the end of the world making magic with me?
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCReimagining the WORST NES RPGs Title Music & Story with new instruments & lyrics [🎷📖]subversiveasset2024-09-08 | Have you ever been inspired, nay, obsessed, with something that no one else could see? And that everyone else thought you were crazy to pursue? A relentless dream of a purple sea with endlessly glittering lights when everyone else sees gray. A dream that enslaves you, never allowing you to rest, and abducts you from your comfortable world?
This is for those who watch stars.
🎵 Song: Title Theme 🎮 Game: Hoshi wo Miru Hito 星をみるひと 🎼 Composer: Unknown
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCThe rise and fall of the Alternian intergalactic tyranny [Homestuck Gold Pilot lyric 🎷📖]subversiveasset2024-06-11 | Let me tell you about the space opera that is Homestuck. This is my second version of covering Gold Pilot, this time with original lyrics!
🎵 Song: Gold Pilot 🎮 Game: Homestuck 🎼 Composer: @firstturnfold
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCThe most devastating unrequited love story is in a kids game and I must sing about it [Kirby 🎷📖]subversiveasset2024-03-24 | This is the story of a spider boy out of his league trying to serve (i think that's all??) his royal bee queen.
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCKirby Triple Deluxe - Moonstruck Blossom Lyric Cover Story[🎷📖]subversiveasset2024-02-25 | How did everything go so wrong? I must trace the steps back to before you became queen, back when we were merely schoolmates at the academy. I saw the potential in you, the same way I saw that I would never have a chance to amounting at anything if it were not at your side. But infatuation led to obsession and this obsession led to ultimate frustration.
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCsoul searching for a youtube niche by analyzing my old videossubversiveasset2024-02-05 | today, i wanted to cringe by combining analysis, struggling with technology, and talking about video game music
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Canon EOS SL1/100D
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCsoul searching for a youtube niche by analyzing my old videossubversiveasset2024-02-05 | today, i wanted to cringe by combining analysis, struggling with technology, and talking about video game music
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Canon EOS SL1/100D
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCAlundra - Klines Nightmare [🎷📖]subversiveasset2024-01-15 | Imagine you've been the protector and defender of your town for dozens of years. You've trained hard, and it's made you an intimidating individual. But it's OK for you to be alienated, as you have your hut on the outskirts of town, because you will keep the other safe.
But eventually, the townsfolks become stricken with an affliction that you are powerless to do anything about. Totally different context. And some stranger shows up from nowhere with no experience saving the day. You are forgotten while he is the hero.
Will you too fall prey to your inner demons within a nightmare?
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCNone of us have friendships as PURE as this obscure Pokemon games & I must sing about it [PSMD🎷📖]subversiveasset2023-10-21 | The Partner's Theme from Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon, set to lyrics. These lyrics go beyond the particular scenes in the game that this piece plays in. Are they an accurate characterization of in game characters or just projection of my own psychological state? You tell me!
(There's a reason I shifted the lyrics. I think the iconic, paradigmatic, record setting cover of the Partner Theme is the one by @Fiddledo -- so you should check that one first. [ youtube.com/watch?v=UyxhFMaMiHI ] That's more aligned with the timing in game that this theme plays in. Consider this one more of a "spiritual sequel" as it were. But I do still hope that this is a good enough psychological exploration of the character. ;) )
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCTwo Trains Travel Side by Side, a one-man musical about the industrial revolution [🎷📖]subversiveasset2023-09-17 | It is the Age of Revolutions. The Industrial Revolution (and its many sociopolitical revolutions) brings promises, but also perils.
Very obsessed with the soundtrack of Vandal Hearts II recently. Decided to do an experimental story based on real life lore rather than in-game lore, although I do think the themes are relevant to the story.
🎵 Song: Two Trains Travel Side by Side 🎮 Game: Vandal Hearts 2 🎼 Composer: Hiroshi Tamawari
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CC✨the industrial revolution✨ if it were a one-man musicalsubversiveasset2023-09-08 | "why can't you clean up your desk"
"I'm using those things"
🎵 Song: Two Trains Travel Side by Side 🎮 Game: Vandal Hearts 2 🎼 Composer: Hiroshi Tamawari
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCThe most 😭 loss of childhood innocence story hidden in an obscure PSX SRPG [Vandal Hearts II 🎷📖]subversiveasset2023-08-11 | Most of you never played 1999 PSX strategy RPG Vandal Hearts II, so how to explain it?
Imagine you're a peasant teenager in France in 1561. You long for excitement from the normal day to day -- maybe you want to see what it's like in the royal courts or in the big city. Befitting your childhood innocence, you have a cute and upbeat battle theme to reflect that you are very much innocent peasant teens without much real care in the world. But little do you know that while you yearn for adventure, your country is about to be thrust in the middle of a civil war involving the meddling of outside powers and religions.
Be careful what you wish for, eh?
I'm not saying Vandal Hearts II is inspired by or fits the trajectory of the French Wars of Religion, but this was the closest analogy I could think to describe the feel here.
🎵 Song: Warfare on a Plain 🎮 Game: Vandal Hearts II 🎼 Composer: Hiroshi Tamawari
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCmaybe the real treasure were the KIND FRIENDS we made along the way #breathoffiresubversiveasset2023-08-04 | ...Inside this game are (at least) 2 Russian Dragons [Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter 🎷📖]subversiveasset2023-07-23 | You know the story. "there are two [MYTHIC CREATURES], one good and one evil. Which one wins?" But they are dragons, not wolves. And they are numbered, Odjn, Dve, and Chetyre. (oh god, where's 3???) And it's basically Silo meets Snowpiercer.
This is a tiny tale of time concerning war between friends. You and he were supposed to be inseparable. He would lead the world to a new era of brilliance, and you would be his right hand man.
But you couldn't be content with that. You had to upend the way of the world.
🎵 Song: Kind Friends 🎮 Game: Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter 🎼 Composer: Hitoshi Sakimoto
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCEyes open to your injustice [Homestuck - Terezis Theme 🎷📖]subversiveasset2023-07-17 | Terezi and Vriska were supposed to be closer than best friend -- they were supposed to be scourge sisters to enforce the law as legislacerator and gamblignant. But the two could never be on equal ground, separated as they were by class and blood. A highblood could get away with things that a low blood could never.
But this was important for Terezi. It was important for her to open her eyes to the injustice of her society and of the universe. And though the price for standing up would be great, she would never choose otherwise.
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCThe Wicked Weight of a Cursed Crown, a Magolor Opera 🎷📖subversiveasset2023-07-12 | In a universe where will power is a fundamental force, those with corruptible wishes can find themselves preyed upon by dark forces. In the past, objects of great power were used to contain this evil, but since the ancient civilization has fallen, the current denizens of the universe often forget that these were not artifacts of honor.
What happens when a young wizard dares to dream about being someone more...an heir to the Ancient legacy, a descendant of kings worthy of a master's crown? This is the Magolor Musical.
🎵 Song: Judgement of the Malus Pumila 🎮 Game: Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe (Magolor Epilogue: Interdimensional Traveler) 🎼 Composer: Yuki Shimooka
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCChrono Trigger - The End of Time [🎷📖]subversiveasset2023-06-11 | Imagine that you are there with your society's top scientists and the queen herself to launch the crowning technological achievement of your era...and not only does it break, but it blows a hole in spacetime itself. You will not find out for dozens of years (and you have all of time to learn this...), but some of your companions were sent to a post-apocalyptic future, while others a comfortable renaissance existence.
As for you, you the Guru of Time, find yourself in a curious place where the sky holds no stars. In this place, you neither tire nor hunger...only your thoughts allow you to recognize the passage of subjective time. Because you are at the objective end of time.
🎵 Song: The End of Time 🎮 Game: Chrono Trigger 🎼 Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCPokemon Uranium - Nuclear Plant Zeta [🎷📖]subversiveasset2023-04-28 | 10 years ago, the up-and-coming Professor Larkspur instilled hope in the residents of the Tandor region that they would benefit from a safe and ethical way to generate nuclear energy with the assistance of Pokemon. The robust reactor design at Nuclear Plant Epsilon was never in dispute, so the meltdown disaster was a particular blow to the pride of the people of Tandor and to Larkspur's reputation.
In fact, to this day, some suggest that the conventional narrative doesn't add up -- the meltdown couldn't have happened the way the traditional narratives say it did
...Further, while the discovery of irradiated Pokemon has been considered by most to be a purely natural reaction to low level radiation exposure, some suspect that these Pokemon represent unethical testing (perhaps by Professor Larkspur himself) to create "radiation cats" that would serve as a strong cultural ward against the investigation of nuclear waste disposal sites for thousands of years.
Perhaps when Larkspur's plans were rejected by the Tandor Nuclear Regulatory Agency, Larkspur engineered a way to commence the experiment anyway...regardless, we now must live with the phenomenon of nuclear pokemon.
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CChow to make a 10 out of 10 YouTube music video [🎷📖]subversiveasset2023-04-02 | Original piece. Here, I wanted to capture my creative process, and I felt I did it too well. This song ended up being a spell that cursed me, and it took forever to dust it off to publish it.
...Will it be another 10 out of 10, I wonder?
🎵 Song: 10 out of 10, will do again 🎮 Album: ??? 🎼 Composer: subversiveasset
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCpsa - new jazz vgm insaneintherain drop #octopathtraveler2subversiveasset2023-03-01 | octopath traveler 2 main theme jazz arrangement by insaneintherainmusic: youtube.com/watch?v=YvCPUHSV6PcENGAGE! #finalfantasy #finalfantasytacticsadvancesubversiveasset2023-02-17 | ...talking with Chat Bing be like... #bing #ai #chatgptsubversiveasset2023-02-16 | ...Undefeated Heart [Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 🎷📖]subversiveasset2023-02-05 | 🎵 Song: Undefeated Heart 🎮 Game: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 🎼 Composer: Kaori Ohkoshi
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCHeroines Theme - ft. GFPGAN Face AI [Tactics Ogre Knight of Lodis🎷📖]subversiveasset2023-01-23 | As a solo performer who wants to play music and tell stories that are bigger than myself -- but is too socially awkward to actually collaborate with other musicians, what is there to do?
For a long time, we have had virtual studio technology (VST) instruments, so we don't need to hire session players and so on. Thanks to MuseScore 4 and Muse Sounds, I can arrange and have something I am pretty happy with and really stick to live recordings of sax and vocals.
Normally, I play all the parts of the story myself, and this was no different, but I thought -- instead of just seeing my face, what if I made up a few actors and actresses to sing along?
It's not perfect. I definitely ran into things that made the various AI tools come up with very weird results. And yet...I also feel strangely enamored by this as a first attempt.
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCWhy is YouTube gaslighting me about how much I suck?subversiveasset2023-01-16 | When I was in math, I was one of those kids who annoyingly asked, "When will we ever use this in the real world?"
Now, thanks to the power of math, I can confirm that YouTube is lying to me about how much I suck as a YouTuber.
(P.s., if you are a math-y guy, please correct me on where I'm getting things wrong. I know I have to be making a mistake SOMEWHERE, but I cannot figure it out.)
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCI must sing the most tragic forbidden romance you missed cuz its in an obscure GBA SRPG [🎷📖]subversiveasset2023-01-07 | Imagine being a young lordling knight sent to a backwater island to pacify an uprising...but it turns out that this island is the home of a Mermaid Legend and the lore of fallen angels. But the Mermaid is not merely legend. Even today, the sea runs salty with the grieving mermaid's tears... This is Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis.
Lyrics:
Exiled from her kind for her Batraal/betrayal To the sea she hides so none may slay her She of golden scales lived for four hundred years Seas of the isle preserved through her tears
There...there will never be a different story Ev...ev'ry time the wheel turns it turns all the same! Mmm...the folly of every man, woman, fae, angel or demon: "Maybe we can change fate if our intentions are good enough... "Give us just a chance - another chance! - to make the world into a beautiful place for God's throne!"
*mermaid vocalizing* There...there will never be a different story Ev...ev'ry time the wheel turns it turns all the same The same! The same! The same every time it's THE SAME!
🎵 Song: The Mermaid Legend (track 20) 🎮 Game: Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis 🎼 Composer: Hitoshi Sakimoto
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCWelcome to my mysterious shop, traveler [Final Fantasy Tactics Advance🎷📖]subversiveasset2023-01-03 | What the kupo is a dabloon? Much like the mysterious "Dabloon" meme on TikTok, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance features the elaborate machinations of children inventing their own society and economy. What seems to be harmless fun escalates into a hyperinflationary hellhole of lawlessness and corruption.
🎵 Song: Mysterious Shop 🎮 Game: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 🎼 Composer: Hitoshi Sakimoto
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCChill Ogre - Transcribing a Tactics Ogre arrangementsubversiveasset2022-12-21 | I don't usually do this, but since MuseScore 4 came out, I thought I would do a bit of a stream for my transcription and arrangement process
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCTactics Ogre OST - The Warren Report [🎷📖]subversiveasset2022-12-19 | The Warren Report is an interesting mechanic and lore device in Tactics Ogre. This old star seer, Warren Omon, is tracking every person you meet, every piece of news, all the critical event. He even knows when you have made a choice that could have gone otherwise. It's only a matter of time before he will discover the WORLD Tarot -- the Way of Reordering Life's Destiny -- so that you can revisit your past mistakes.
Thanks to everyone who has ever contributed via Patreon, whether currently active or not: JazzPunker | Crescendo | Levi Bechtold | RhythmJigoku | Timothy Ball | zeppelin03 | Daniel Short | Richard Vs the Dark | Banjo Guy Ollie | KcHecKa | Alex James
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCThe Hero to Villain Pipeline [Live A Live Remake - Heroic Struggle 🎷📖]subversiveasset2022-12-10 | Every would-be Hero longs for the heroic struggle, the epic combat against the Lord of Dark that they hope will immortalize them as a champion of the people. But what happens when the struggle is lost? ...could it be that the heroic struggle ultimately only births villains? What happens if, in the pursuit of immortality, one learns that only hatred will accompany you as immortal companion in all times and places?
This cover story has 2 components: song lyrics (which are written below), and a prequel cover story. The song lyrics do not spoil the game, but the prequel cover story does spoil the late game for Live a Live. If you are worried about spoilers, DO NOT TURN ON CAPTIONS.
However, please be aware that the story and lyrics should go together. If you already are familiar with the game Live a Live or are not worried about spoilers, turn on captions to read the prequel story FIRST, then listen to the lyrics SECOND as a continuation of the story.
Let me know in the comments if you like this combination!!!
Lyrics:
From dawn to dusk, beset from every side The struggle never ends -- our foe immortalized How can we face him -- our hearts in turmoil? Our hatred aids and abets his retinue!
Hero! I won't let go! Donec coronatus es Domine Odium
The Lord of Dark /(just a humble servant!) Is there within my mind /(I have always been there) No matter what I do We are both intertwined /(cuz I am part of you)
How can I face him -- my heart in turmoil? /(look within yourself!) His embrace gives me the strength to continue!
Hero! My vessel, let's go! et odium nostrum nascatur in mundum.
🎵 Song: Heroic Struggle/Difficult Fight ( 凛然なる戦い ) 🎮 Game: Live A Live ( ライブ・ア・ライブ ) 🎼 Composer: Yoko Shimomura ( 下村 陽子 )
Thanks to everyone who has ever contributed via Patreon, whether currently active or not: JazzPunker | Crescendo | Levi Bechtold | RhythmJigoku | Timothy Ball | zeppelin03 | Daniel Short | Richard Vs the Dark | Banjo Guy Ollie | KcHecKa | Alex James
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCAlthough triumphant, I can no longer face my liege or myself [Live a Live🎷📖]subversiveasset2022-10-27 | It's your quintessential medieval fantasy. You have the strong, brave, handsome knight who will go out to fight the demon king and save the damsel in distress. He is hailed a hero by the entire kingdom...What more could a guy want?
But we know that the triumphant hero has gone into self-exile...but why?
This cover story is loosely based on Hasshe and Uranus backstory in Live-a-Live's Medieval Chapter. [oh oops, if you didn't know there's a medieval chapter, that's a spoiler. BUT this is not what the medieval chapter is about, so it's not really spoiling].
Some interesting things I learned that are relevant for this cover story:
1. Between the original SNES game and the Switch HD-2D remaster, the final boss before the Lord of Dark is renamed. In the SNES, it is Gynephobia (fear of women -- definitely relevant for my cover story...so I ran with that!). But in the remaster, it is Hygrophobia (fear of liquids).
2. In this story, the demon says that Hasshe's sin is anathema even to demon kind. I didn't make up that idea! Believe it or not, but in medieval demonology, sodomy was seen as too wicked even for demons. This changed only in the 16th century, when men started to be accused of witchcraft in Renaissance Italy, and they needed to also loop those guys in with demons just for the effect.
3. Finally, uhh, I'm not the only one shipping Hasshe and Uranus, am I??? this is a totally logical ship, right????
🎵 Song: Prelude to a Demon King/Epic of the Archon ( 魔王への叙曲 ) 🎮 Game: Live a Live ( ライブ・ア・ライブ ) 🎼 Composer: Yoko Shimomura ( 下村 陽子 )
Thanks to everyone who has ever contributed via Patreon, whether currently active or not: JazzPunker | Crescendo | Levi Bechtold | RhythmJigoku | Timothy Ball | zeppelin03 | Daniel Short | Richard Vs the Dark | Banjo Guy Ollie | KcHecKa | Alex James
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCwhat if I wake alone and lost to you?subversiveasset2022-09-17 | ...Our shared name a bane to me & a grace to he [Tactics Ogre🎷📖]subversiveasset2022-09-04 | In Tactics Ogre, the war situation is that a civil strife has burst from the ethnic fault lines of Valeria. But, curiously, two foreign knights of great renown, both named Lanselot, join the conflict. What are their goals and what interests of their countries do they represent in joining this foreign conflict? Lans Tartaros and Lans Hamilton discuss the War Situation.
(Hello everyone who is here waiting for Tactics Ogre Reborn -- definitely hoping that the remaster will get more attention and we'll get yet another take on the wonderfully orchestrated soundtrack!)
🎵 Song: War Situation (with a quotation from Krypton) 🎮 Game: Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together/Wheel of Fortune 🎼 Composer: Hitoshi Sakimoto (War Situation), Hayato Matsuo (Krypton)
Thanks to everyone who has ever contributed via Patreon, whether currently active or not: JazzPunker | Crescendo | Levi Bechtold | RhythmJigoku | Timothy Ball | zeppelin03 | Daniel Short | Richard Vs the Dark | Banjo Guy Ollie | KcHecKa | Alex James
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CConly sleeps embrace can overpower hers ft @Cavatina [🎷📖 Rhythm Heaven Megamix]subversiveasset2022-08-25 | I did not expect a 1.5 minute minigame from Rhythm Heaven Megamix to have such emotional depth, but as soon as I heard Blue Bear, I was obsessed.
So, I went overboard. I gave Beary and Bearbara a back story, the Integrated City, and ramped the emotions up to 11. Throughout this cover story, I played around a lot with questions such as: what sorts of misunderstandings would occur in a world in which animals have human-level intelligence, but still plenty of animal traits? How would they struggle to blend "traditional" animal traits to newfound human behaviors? Would anyone understand?
Major thanks to @Cavatina for providing fantastic vocals :D Check out her channel at:
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCA slightly more ethical monster catching game [🎷📖]subversiveasset2022-07-28 | Stuffing Pokemon into balls and keeping them away from their families is...ethically spotty at best. Today, I would like to share a different mechanic developed in the Keitai Denjuu Telefang series (or, better known by 2000s era teen pirates as Pokemon Diamond)
If Denjuu want to be your friends, they give you their phone numbers. And then, if you want them to fight with you, you call them up. But beware -- the Denjuu live at home, so the further away from them that you travel, the longer it'll take for them to join a battle!
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCThe Pokemon Diamond & Jade Only Early 2000s Pirate Kids Will Remember [🎷📖]subversiveasset2022-07-24 | Sometimes, Pokemon emulation was just early bad translations (like a translation of Gold and Silver where Pokemon names were limited to only 5 character...WANIN starter 4 lyf!!!). But other times, Pokemon emulation was much weirder.
This is Pokemon Diamond. Not THAT Pokemon Diamond, a bootleg of an entirely separate game called Keitai Denjuu Telefang: Power. (The footage is from a much more recent, much more faithful translation project.)
It's crazy how dominant Pokemon was because some of the other knockoffs weren't terrible!
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCHyness, Doom Officiant Hooded & Unhooded [🎷📖 Kirby Star Allies]subversiveasset2022-07-10 | The endless pursuit of knowledge -- knowledge of the arcane and its exploitation through technology -- derives from la follia d'amore ("the madness of love.") Should anyone heed Hyness's warnings on the unbridled pursuit of technological advancement?
Never forget that love involves an awareness and acceptance of the Other. When one reduces the Other to a mere object, one's own heart is forfeit into the void...
🎵 Song: Puppet Offering & La Follia D'amore (Hyness Hooded & Hyness Unhooded theme) 🎮 Game: Kirby Star Allies 🎼 Composer: Jun Ishikawa
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCKirby: Into the Dark Matter Hyper Zone [🎷📖]subversiveasset2022-06-20 | Although we cannot observe it (because it doesn't interact with the fundamental forces of electromagnetism [and hence emits no light] or wishpower [and hence is silent to our clockwork stars), we know that 85% of the universe is dark matter. Dark matter binds galaxies together, so we hypothesize we can warp through a dark matter hyper zone to achieve faster-than-light travel.
...this is a new item in my Kirby cover story series. It is a sidequel/sequel to my covers of Zero Two, Shiver Star, and Shiver Star Map Select, so please check those out as well!
0:00 - Hyper Zone 1 2:02 - Hyper Zone 2
Lyrics:
Into the Hyper Zone Where you'll end up, no one knows (No one knows!)
Could it be that the mysteries that you long to see from the galaxy are within me?
(or could the darkness completely surrounding you simply be self-doubts within your own mind?)
Into the Hyper Zone Where you'll end up, no one knows (No one knows!)
We cannot comprehend a state where your kind its nature transcends
And so we must -- with our utmost regrets -- inform you we cannot allow your world to continue
Inside the Hyper Zone Will we survive? No one knows! (No one knows!)
Inside the Hyper Zone Will we survive? No one knows! Oh Lord no...
Journey's coming to an end... Could we ever have hoped to be friends?
🎵 Song: Hyper Zone 1 & 2 🎮 Game: Kirby Dream Land 3 🎼 Composer: Jun Ishikawa
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCMy fortune is written in blood - but is it mine or my enemys? [Tactics Ogre🎷📖]subversiveasset2022-05-31 | Here is a medley/mashup of all the Fortune Teller themes from the Ogre Battle & Tactics Ogre series, starting with Alphonse from Knight of Lodis. One of my favorite things about the Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre series is the series' emphasis on choice, and the interplay of choice with concepts like destiny. Every game begins character creation, under the conceit of a fortune teller asking questions, and you as the gamer have your first choice -- do you answer these intuitively, or do you reach for a guide to figure out what stats, starting equipment, etc., will come with what answers?
But here's the thing: the fortune telling only generally affects the start, and each game then has numerous choices over the remainder of the game that can lead you in very different places regarding the buildout of your character, your army, and even the games' ending.
This medley of Character Making (from Tactics Ogre Knight of Lodis), Fortune Teller (from Ogre Battle), and Fortune Teller 2 (from OB64 & Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together) was arranged as an entry for #SoundoleChillout2022
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCThe Dark Knight who lived long enough to become the villain [🎷📖 Tactics Ogre]subversiveasset2022-05-03 | No relationship to that other Dark Knight, but Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together features the elite Dark Knights Loslorien, a crack team from the Holy Lodissian Empire who has been sent to...closely monitor...the powderkeg situation of video game pseudo-Yugoslavia. (No, seriously, definitely look up the history of Tactics Ogre's development...)
And they are led by their ruthless leader Lanselot Tartaros.
But what is the history of this villain? Well, eventually would be released the side game Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis. Sorry to spoil a 20 year old Game Boy Advance game, but surprise -- the Knight of Lodis was in fact a young, naive, idealistic fresh knight version of Lans.
This is the story of the Dark Knight (Loslorien) who didn't die a hero, but lived long enough to see himself become the villain. This medley is "Intro" from Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis, and "Catastrophe" from Tactics Ogre, Let Us Cling Together.
🎵 Song: Intro & Catastrophe / Theme of Black Knight 🎮 Game: Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis & Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together 🎼 Composer: Hitoshi Sakimoto & Masaharu Iwata
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCHow to contact YouTube (if your channel is hacked or suspended)subversiveasset2022-05-01 | When your channel's been hacked or suspended, how are you supposed to contact YouTube anyway?
Ultimately, if your channel has been hacked (which can result in a suspension, so if you think your channel was suspended "for no reason", then you might want to watch on), then only Creator Support can help you.
So, the first thing you want to see is if you can directly access the hijacking form here:
The correct page will have "Report a potential account hijacking to our support team" at the top and will have a form that requires you to answer several questions.
If you are redirected to any other page, then you need to keep watching on! The problem is: only YouTubers in the YouTube Partner Program have access to Creator Support, and if your channel never was in the YPP (or your YPP-enabled channel is the one that was suspended), then you will lose all ability to directly contact Creator Support.
So, what can you do then?
If you can reach out to TeamYouTube on Twitter and they understand what's going on with your channel, they can approve you for access to the hijacking support form.
But there are a lot of people on Twitter and not a lot of people in TeamYouTube, so they don't always have time to respond to every message.
So, what can you do then?
There is a YouTube Community Help Forum which has volunteers and fellow users answering. While this means that not every response will be on point, there are individuals called "Product Experts" who have been recognized by Google for their product knowledge. If a Product Expert (such as myself) sees your thread, we can ask for the relevant information and escalate your case to the relevant teams.
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🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCThe Actual Lore of Zelda II: Adventure of Link [🎷📖 Palace & Grand Palace Theme]subversiveasset2022-03-28 | Although we hear much of Princess Zelda in Hyrule legend, in only one story in the numerous disputed timelines of Zelda lore do we hear of a sibling: an unnamed prince in Zelda 2: Adventure of Link. In this cover of the Palace Theme & Grand Palace Themes, let's explore this accursed figure.
(The arrangement of Great Palace theme in the 2nd half of this video is based on a midi that was done by Ricoberto Dones, or rdones, on KHInsider. I have no idea if rdones has any stronger internet presence. I looooove the arrangement so much.)
🎵 Song: Palace & Great Palace 🎮 Game: Legend of Zelda II - Adventure of Link 🎼 Composer: Akito Nakatsuka
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCProtect your YouTube account! Stop downloading cracks & hackssubversiveasset2022-03-15 | I don't care about corporations, but y'all are getting your google accounts and youtube channels hacked because you are falling for scams.
(If you suspect your channel was hacked or suspended because of a hijacking, please write down your /channel/ URL as soon as you can! This is necessary for recovery. You can create a thread at the YouTube Community Help forum here: support.google.com/youtube/thread/new?hl=en
If you want assistance, please note that you cannot post links in YouTube comments (that also can get your channel suspended for spam.) Contact me at my business email.)
►Pledge on Patreon!◄ patreon.com/subversiveassetThe Ice Cream Factory Inspection [🎷📖] | Kirby Planet Robobotsubversiveasset2022-02-09 | Kirby News Network (KNN) reports: The new President of Haltmann Works Company, Susanna Patrya, has celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the completion of the Mechanizing Occupation Project. Rumors of a disturbance at the iconic Ice Cream Factory has inspired the secretary president to make a personal detour to visit the site.
In this Factory Inspection report, we discover the secret power source found from another long cold world that she took to power her empire. Environmentalists ponder: is Dark Matter a more sustainable power source than the conventional nuclear power that wish-giving nova stars provide most planets in the empire?
0:00 - Ice Cream Factory (੭。╹▿╹。)੭ 2:03 - F A C T O R Y I N S P E C T I O N ಠ_ಠ 3:46 - Inspect Harder! Faster! For the Glory of Haltmann Works!
🎵 Song: Time For Dessert (Ice Cream Factory/Dessert Area) x Factory Inspection/Studying the Factory 🎮 Game: Kirby 64, Kirby Planet Robobot 🎼 Composer: Jun Ishikawa, Hirokazu Ando
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCIve grown old and infirmedsubversiveasset2021-12-15 | If you're not watching Worthikids Bigtop Burger, you should.Bio Research Labs dark truths [🎷📖] SaGa Frontier - Alone ft @Zeldarockssubversiveasset2021-11-22 | I only wanted to know the truth. Could a human gain the immortality and strength of a mystic?
The glistening, modern city of Shrike presents itself as a jewel of the world. Unlike the gutters of Koorong, Shrike has no visible poverty, and in fact has a lovely modern playground and bookstore -- very peaceful! But also found within Shrike is the Bio Research Lab, where Nasheera finds recruits both human and mystic to determine if there's a way to graft the mystic talents into human hosts. What could have driven a woman to such a pursuit...? The pursuit of forbidden truths can not bear guests....one must traverse this SaGa Frontier alone.
(This cover of Alone is heavily based on the Romancing SaGa Re;UniverSe version)
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra (or Canon EOS SL1/100D)
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCThe Palace of the Dead [🎷📖]subversiveasset2021-10-27 | Do not fear the dead's groans as you descend into Hell, for as long as you hold steadfast, your mind will be protected from the insanity of the Palace of the Dead.
Today's Worldline Locale "The Palace of the Dead" is strictly off-limits to tourists. The Trans-Universal Travel Research Agency cautions that the Palace of the Dead is extremely dangerous and not to be visited until quarantined by the Agency.
The Palace of the Dead represents a crossing not simply from our Worldline to another, but the unprecedented crossing of two Worldlines independently to one another. Worldline 18971-XYTEGENIA (as documented in archival reports as "Tactics Ogre - Let Us Cling Together") is connected to a far disparate Worldline 27193-HYDAELYN (as documented in archival reports as "Final Fantasy XIV"). These Worldlines have low valence together and lack basic narrative compatibility. The presence of Tactics Ogre's Palace of the Dead in Final Fantasy XIV thus represents a highly anomalous, highly destabilizing occurrence that must be investigated and neutralized at any cost necessary.
Beware Agents...we suspect there is a strong counterforce engineering these developments by leveraging the burst of energy produced in the poignant transition between life and death itself. We cannot guarantee your safety in this realm.
Chief's Log: Tactics Ogre's soundtrack is probably one of my favorite of all time, and it bugs me that many people have not heard it because TO wasn't as popular of a game (even with PSP remake). But what I did like is that Square recognized the brilliance of the game's music and lore in bringing locations and characters such as the master necromancer Nybeth Obdilord to Final Fantasy XIV as a deep dungeon and bringing great remastered tracks from the PSP Tactics Ogre remake to the FFXIV OST.
How strange is it to have worldlines colliding like this?
Lyrics for this piece were: Fog of Phantom Place where the dead are denied rest
Welcome to the Palace of the Dead Here unto the grave of all of you fools who wantonly tread!
Welcome to the Palace of the Dead Here unto the grave of all who tread
🎵 Song: Fog of Phantom 🎮 Game: Tactics Ogre & Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward 🎼 Composer: Masaharu Iwata
🎤 Mic: Electro Voice RE-20 📷 Camera: Canon EOS SL1/100D
🎛️ DAW: Reaper 🎞️ Video Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro CCHomestuck - Get Up → Deltarune Chapter 2 - Faint Courage [🎷📖]subversiveasset2021-10-10 | The latest in the series about how Deltarune is a Homestuck, Here I would like to present two covers of pieces that Toby Fox wrote, the first a cover of Get Up from Homestuck Volume 5's OST and the second a cover of Faint Courage from the Deltarune chapter 2 soundtrack, representing "game over" type themes. Please let me know if you think these two pieces work well together as a remix!
🎵 Song: Get Up x Faint Courage 🎮 Game: #Homestuck x #Deltarune Chapter 2 🎼 Composer: Toby Fox