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Yeah the term Metroidvania is kinda dumb. It expects you to know what kind of gameplay Metroid and Castlevania have. It's not a very descriptive term. Some other video game genres have the same problem: Souls-like, Rogue-lite, Doom-clone,... I haven't seen an alternative term for Metroidvanias yet. These are what I think are core elements: • large interconnected dungeon-like/maze-like world • locked doors/gates/hazards/challenges require certain skills/upgrades • lots of secret areas with smaller upgrades • explore at will, exploration is rewarded • non-linear • backtracking after getting a big upgrade • gradual difficulty when only following the main path • side paths are more difficult but can be used as cool skips • usually side-scrolling view • lots of platforming, overcoming them better and better using movement skills/upgrades • lots of combat, overcoming them better and better using fighting skills/upgrades • sometimes small puzzles or small challenges to get smaller upgrades • a simple map • different environments • challenging bosses • character progression • emphasis more on gameplay, somewhat less on story • almost any narrative setting is possible I feel like a descriptive term might be too long. Exploration-Action-Platform-RPG ?

gf decided to watch Fate: The Winx Saga (2021-...) cause she used to watch Winx Club as a kid. Well, it's absolute shite. Complete and utter trash. The writing is abysmal. The dialogue is unreal. Some real quotes form the first episode: • "Quit perving on the first years." • "Must be emasculating to be replaced by a teenage girl." • "I have to be a basic bitch like my mom was." • "She’s crazy hot but the emphasis is squarely on crazy." • "- I mean, it's five girls in an enclosed space, so it's a matter of time before we descend into a Lord of the Flies situation and kill each other. - Lady of the Flies, sweetie. Don't be sexist." • "Don't you feminist with me." • "How very American of you. Shall we?" • "And yet I saw no less than three people updating their Insta stories." • "Are you the one person in the universe who's never read Harry Potter?" • "People have seen me in this outfit already." • "I'm literally your biggest fan." • "Probably shouldn't have said arsehole in front of the headmistress!" • "I literally went out earlier today."

World - Map of country 14-day covid-19 case notification rates per 100.000. Europe - Map of provincial 14-day covid-19 case notification rates per 100.000. USA - Map of county 14-day covid-19 case notification rates per 100.000. World - Map of country Total Deaths per 1.000.000.

What I can find on the net: - Their last release was Vytear ‎- Kingtrips EP2 Cat#OR0027 on 15 Jan 2020. - On 16 April 2020 they announced on facebook a new distribution partnership with Morr Music, also making all their releases digitally available on boomkat, spotify, apple music, tidal, deezer,... - On their Soundcloud it says they're not accepting demos at this time.

Okay, I'm just going on a hunch here. Just what I think. I have done no research in the matter. I'm not sure there even is a clear-cut IDM community. Isn't it just people who happen to be attracted to the same kind of music? I feel like the IDM community is rather small pockets of friends, or acquaintances finding out about a common love for the same kind of music, or even just individuals, rather splintered over the real world. More-so, I think they find connection on specific places on the internet (like WATMM I guess), or on gigs of IDM-like artists, or on festivals which happen to cater IDM-like music, or on certain record labels. My guess is that it's not a very diverse community. However I do think it's splintered over the world making it somewhat diverse, but only a little bit. I think there are some common parameters among people who like to listen to IDM-like music. Maybe it has to do with something going on in the brain, the heart (however, that's the brain too), something cultural, the background in music, upbringing, certain patterns in (electronic) music? IDM to me is not a clearly defined genre of music. IDM might have some sort of core concept, but I personally find it to be more eclectic, experimental, fuzzy. I think it uses, incorporates, molds and experiments with other music genres. I think closely-related electronic music genres borrow from IDM too. I feel, more recently, Pop music also borrows a bit from IDM & co. I wouldn't define IDM as popular music though. Very few people seem to know of the term IDM, or only know of one or only a few IDM-like artists. Most popular radio stations don't play IDM, or very few of it. I feel like one almost has to actively search for IDM-like music to find it, or find out about it. Me personally, I only first found out about IDM from an Art Teacher who played music in the background from Lusine (L'usine) during some of the art lessons. I'm not sure if this helps in any way. Just my two cents. I could be completely wrong though. ?

Trump might as well just release all prisoners from jail. Why even have jails or courts? Really WTF. This is beyond insane. How is this legal/constitutional? Nobody should be above the law.

You can choose a different mode at the start which turns off Hunger and Water requirements. The game is challenging enough with those, so I can recommend playing that way. (On your second play-through you could try playing with hunger and thirst.) I also suggest drawing a Map for yourself with your base / starting location in the centre and with the big crashed ship to the right. This helps immensely. As you can get lost very easily, especially when it's dark. Mark the different Biomes on this map. They contain different materials, creatures and plants. They are key to your progress. Try to find all crashed escape pods. They will give you hints and progress the underlying story. They will also help you find new biomes. And explore every new wreck you find completely. This way you'll be able to unlock all sorts of cool new stuff, allowing you to get new tools, base expansions, etc... Most importantly upgrades allow you to dive deeper and deeper... Diving deeper = Progress in this game. Really cool and innovative design imo. (this game has tons of secrets)

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Loved Subnautica. Underwater Exploration. Immersive. Mystery. Survival. Crafting.

lol+facepalm+sadface @ that tweet of Mike Pence: "I’m proud to report with just a few days left in our Administration, our Administration is the first in decades that did not get America into a new war. That’s Peace through Strength." Isn't it just plain sad that not starting a war (or for that matter being involved in an undemocratic foreign regime change) in a period of 4 years is now seen as an accomplishment? Well, maybe it actually is sort of an accomplishment if you take a glance at this: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change Also, they almost started a war in their own country, and attempted a coup in their own country. So... yeah...

omglol @ the short description on IMDB: "As the sun is dying out, people all around the world build giant planet thrusters to move Earth out of its orbit and sail Earth to a new star system. Yet the 2500-year journey comes with unexpected dangers, and in order to save humanity, a group of young people in this age of a wandering Earth fight hard for the survival of humankind."

Watching The Boys (2019) It's okay. I kinda like it. Maybe a bit overhyped though. I do like the idea that most superheroes evolve from wanting to better the world as a child, to becoming absolute a-holes who abuse their powers once they start working for corporate, and for some only later on understanding their mistakes. I imagine this is what would happen if there were indeed superheroes in the real world. Power corrupts. However, one major oversight most superhero movies/shows/comics have imo: In a world with policing superheroes people with less-than-honourable intentions would probably figure that traditional crime is just too risky, and that cyber-crime is the best way to go... There seem to be very little Cyber-Crime Superheroes... Just like in the real world: "Cyber-Crime already surpasses Traditional Crime, in terms of impact and monetary cost..."

Some scientific but clear info about those Covid-19 virus mutations making headlines in the news:

Star Wars - Battlefront II (2017) is free on Epic Games this week. https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/star-wars-battlefront-2/home Bomber Crew (2017) is free on Humble Bundle. https://www.humblebundle.com/store/bomber-crew-free-game

2020 - 43 - Autechre - SIGN, PLUS 2020 - 20 - Squarepusher - Be Up A Hello 2020 - 13 - Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never 2020 - 9 - Autechre - AE_LIVE 2016/2018 (Live) 2020 - 8 - dgoHn - Undesignated Proximate 2020 - 8 - Monolake - Archaeopteryx 2020 - 8 - Morphology - Horta Proxima 2020 - 7 - Actress - Karma and Desire 2020 - 6 - Against All Logic - 2017-2019 2020 - 6 - Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 4 2020 - 6 - Andrea - Ritorno 2020 - 6 - Atom™ - <3 2020 - 6 - Daniel Avery and Alessandro Cortini - Illusion Of Time 2020 - 6 - DJ Python - Mas Amable 2020 - 6 - Hum - Inlet 2020 - 6 - Kruder and Dorfmeister - 1995 2020 - 6 - Rian Treanor - File Under UK Metaplasm 2020 - 6 - Synalegg - Beating the Odds 2020 - 6 - The Fear Ratio - They Can't Be Saved 2020 - 5 - Beatrice Dillon - Workaround 2020 - 5 - Daniel Avery - Love + Light 2020 - 5 - Deftones - Ohms 2020 - 5 - Grischa Lichtenberger - Kamilhan; il y a péril en la demeure 2020 - 5 - Machinedrum - A View of U 2020 - 5 - Nathan Fake - Blizzards 2020 - 5 - Shinichi Atobe - Yes 2020 - 4 - Aleksi Perälä - Spectrum 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 2020 - 4 - CS + Kreme - Snoopy 2020 - 4 - Domenique Dumont - People On Sunday (Soundtrack) 2020 - 4 - Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans 2020 - 4 - Gábor Lázár - Source 2020 - 4 - Grimes - Miss Anthropocene 2020 - 4 - Lorenzo Senni - Scacco Matto 2020 - 5 - Luke Vibert - Recepticon 2020 - 4 - Melted_Self - Spectral Disorder 2020 - 4 - Pole - Fading 2020 - 4 - Richard Devine - Systik (EP) 2020 - 4 - SDEM - ZNS 2020 - 4 - Ulla - Tumbling Towards A Wall 2020 - 4 - Volruptus - First Contact 2020 - 4 - Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind 2020 - 3 - Asa Tone - Temporary Music 2020 - 3 - Carl Finlow - Apparatus 2020 - 3 - Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now 2020 - 3 - Cindy Lee - What's Tonight To Eternity 2020 - 3 - Cylob - 54 Minute Mirage 2020 - 3 - Darren Nye - A Clear Vision Organically Modified 2020 - 3 - Deerhoof - Love-Lore 2020 - 3 - Fleet Foxes - Shore 2020 - 3 - ignatius - Bundle Drift (EP) 2020 - 3 - Ital Tek - Dream Boundary (EP) 2020 - 3 - Jam City - Pillowland 2020 - 3 - John Beltran - The Season Series (Compilation) 2020 - 3 - Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle 2020 - 3 - K-Lone - Cape Cira 2020 - 3 - Kate NV - Room For The Moon 2020 - 3 - Kettel - Dwingeloo Life Extension 2020 - 3 - Kiln - Astral Welder 2020 - 3 - Krust - The Edge Of Everything 2020 - 3 - Minor Science - Second Language 2020 - 3 - Nebulo - Parallaxes 2020 - 3 - Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V Together 2020 - 3 - Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 2020 - 3 - Pontiac Streator - Triz 2020 - 3 - Rafael Anton Irisarri - Peripeteia 2020 - 3 - Rob Clouth - Zero Point 2020 - 3 - Roger Eno and Brian Eno - Mixing Colours 2020 - 3 - RX-101 - Serenity 2020 - 3 - Shackleton and Wacław Zimpel - Primal Forms 2020 - 3 - The Future Sound Of London - Cascade 2020 (Rerelease) 2020 - 3 - The Orb - Abolition Of The Royal Familia 2020 - 3 - Vladislav Delay - Rakka 2020 - 3 - William Basinski - Lamentations 2020 - 3 - Zenker Brothers - Cosmic Transmission 2020 - 2 - Aleksi Perälä - Oscillation 1, 2 2020 - 2 - Cignol - Guidance Release (EP) 2020 - 2 - 1995 epilepsy - 1995 epilepsy 2020 - 2 - AceMo - Mind Jungle 2020 - 2 - Actress - 88 2020 - 2 - Andras - Joyful 2020 - 2 - Anunaku - Stargate (EP) 2020 - 2 - Arca - Kick I 2020 - 2 - Atom™ and Jacek Sienkiewicz - STAL 2020 - 2 - Autechre - AE_ONESIX_EXCLUSIVES 2020 - 2 - Bibio - Sleep On The Wing (EP) 2020 - 2 - Boris Divider - Generative Operations (EP) 2020 - 2 - Boxcutter - Béaloideas 2020 - 2 - Buspin Jieber - V.H.S. Volcanic, Harmonic, Sounds 2020 - 2 - Caribou - Suddenly 2020 - 2 - Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B 2020 - 2 - Celia Hollander - Recent Futures 2020 - 2 - Chris Douglas - Anam Dubh Marbhtach 2020 - 2 - Chris Douglas - Lsnsp Plsns 2020 - 2 - Chromeo - Quarantine Casanova 2020 - 2 - Cignol - Radiant Process (EP) 2020 - 2 - Colours Of Infinity - Ekeu 2020 - 2 - Craven Faults - Erratics and Unconformities 2020 - 2 - Critical Amnesia - Critical Amnesia 2020 - 2 - Cut Copy - Freeze, Melt 2020 - 2 - D.K. - Live At The Edge (Live) 2020 - 2 - Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar 2020 - 2 - Datassette - Void Fill Product 2020 - 2 - Digitonal - Set the Weather Fair 2020 - 2 - DJ Metatron - Loops Of Infinity 2020 - 2 - DMX Krew - Ghost Bubbles 2020 - 2 - DuMa - Duma 2020 - 2 - EOD - Zone (EP) 2020 - 2 - exm - LS16 (EP) 2020 - 2 - Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters 2020 - 2 - Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist - Alfredo 2020 - 2 - George Clanton and Nick Hexum - George Clanton and Nick Hexum 2020 - 2 - Halt - Memory Fields 2020 - 2 - Hypna - Data Recovery (EP) 2020 - 2 - Jerry La Flim - Just Connect 2020 - 2 - Jodey Kendrick - FTP 2020 - 2 - Jodey Kendrick - WTFLOL 2020 - 2 - John Frusciante - Maya 2020 - 2 - Jon Collin and Demdike Stare - Sketches Of Everything 2020 - 2 - Jon Hassell - Seeing Through Sound 2020 - 2 - Kassem Mosse - Scorched Erden 2020 - 2 - Keith Fullerton Whitman - Resonators 2020 - 2 - Kelpe - Run With the Floating, Weightless Slowness 2020 - 2 - Khruangbin - Mordechai 2020 - 2 - Legowelt - Pancakes With Mist 2020 - 2 - Low Budget Aliens - Junk DNA 2020 - 2 - Luke Abbott - Translate 2020 - 2 - Luke Vibert - Presents Amen Andrews 2020 - 2 - Matmos - The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises In Group Form 2020 - 2 - Melted_Self - ONE.LINE 2020 - 2 - Melted_Self - PATTERN SHIFT 2020 - 2 - Mong Tong - Mystery 2020 - 2 - Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo 2020 - 2 - Nicolas Jaar - Telas 2020 - 2 - Oval - Scis 2020 - 2 - Paul Hierophant - Utopian Dystopias Part 3 2020 - 2 - Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately 2020 - 2 - Primitive World - The Revolt Of Aphrodite 2020 - 2 - Real Estate - The Main Thing 2020 - 2 - Regis - Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss 2020 - 2 - Roméo Poirier - Hotel Nota 2020 - 2 - rRine - Eaciv+ (Rerelease) 2020 - 2 - RTR - PlanetX 2020 - 2 - Run The Jewels - RTJ4 2020 - 2 - Russ Gabriel - Ancestors, Aurology 2020 - 2 - Scanner - An Ascent 2020 - 2 - Sewerslvt - Draining Love Story 2020 - 2 - Shifted - The Dirt on Our Hands 2020 - 2 - Slikback - /// 2020 - 2 - Special Guest DJ - Spring, Summer 2020 2020 - 2 - Squarepusher - Lamental (EP) 2020 - 2 - Stazma - Shapeshifter 2020 - 2 - Steve Roach - Tomorrow 2020 - 2 - Tame Impala - The Slow Rush 2020 - 2 - TASE - TASE 2020 - 2 - Taylor Swift - Folklore 2020 - 2 - The Black Dog - Fragments 2020 - 2 - The Microphones - Microphones in 2020 2020 - 2 - The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? 2020 - 2 - The Weeknd - After Hours 2020 - 2 - Thomas Köner - Motus 2020 - 2 - Torn Hawk - Here Comes Language 2020 - 2 - Undiagnosed - We Are 2020 - 2 - Various Artists - Still in my arms (Compilation) 2020 - 2 - Vladislav Delay, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare - 500-Push-Up 2020 - 2 - wAgAwAgA - omkajikijai 2020 - 2 - William Tyler - New Vanitas 2020 - 2 - Wire - Mind Hive 2020 - 2 - Yaeji - What We Drew 2020 - 0 - Pye Corner Audio - Where Things Are Hollow 2 (EP) 2020 - 0 - Heinrich Müller and The Exaltics - Dimensional Shifting

Short Answer: It's the internet. But I feel like WATMM is still quite well moderated in that regard. Sure there are some new trolls, haters, shit-posts and even heavy insults from time to time but they tend to get moderated / banned, as one can always report replies or ignore users. I don't think rudeness online in general will ever really change. That's the nature of the beast. In this case here I think the comments were quite tame. (no direct insults to you?)

It's in the top 5 of 2014 according to WATMM. I love that album too.

Jonas Munk (Manual) - Minimum Resistance has 1 nomination. (toaoaoad) Full list is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15K9YXfSWbGORA6juBPnx9u0DDti2P8geEMhnEg6BoNU/edit#gid=0 For the years 2011 to 2021 I use WATMM as a base for my big-ass list of music: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C4EuNqCyg6AmScJXHWXEdDvah4IRPcojjyX49gyTqZ0/edit#gid=29851072

Yup, deftones got at least 4. (Zephyr_Nova, toaoaoad, kirm, beerwolf, scumtron)

I'll add these to the list. As of now it has 2 nominations. (Ivan Ooze, Ayya Khema) Adding it to the list.

Yup Cemu 1.22.4. Game is Europe v208. Xbox 360 controller emulating the Wii U GamePad with Xbox One UI Complete GUI mod. I use my phone as a gyroscope for some puzzles. (MotionSource apk) Mods / Graphics Packs: - Camera: Classic FOV - Enhancements: Clarity Serfrost's Preset (Dim Display), No Depth of Field - Graphics: Resolution (2560x1440) - FPS++: Camera Sensitivity (1.4x), Day Length (48 minutes) - OpenGL Workarounds: Nvidia Explosion Smoke, Nvidia Stretched Clouds, LWZX Crash Looks and plays better on PC than on WiiU/Switch imo.

We're continuing our playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017). (on pc, lol)

Rewatching Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009) for the third time now. ? Love it.

Game of Thrones Absolutely loved Seasons 1, 2, 3, and 4. Great writing. Actions have consequences. Intrigue. Season 5 drags a bit, but still has some intriguing moments imo. Season 6 has more things going on, but the writing is clearly crumbling down. Disappointing. Season 7 is bad fan-fiction. The writing is abysmal. Plot-holes. Instant Teleportation. Good vs Evil. Season 8 is unwatchable. So utterly awful. ?

Listed and counted all Nominations in this Thread. There were a total of 926 Votes over 715 Unique Nominations. Link to Google Sheets Document So without further ado: WATMM Best Music Release of the Year 2020 / WATMM Album of the Year 2020 (DuckDuckGo search links included) 41 - Autechre - SIGN, PLUS 17 - Squarepusher - Be Up A Hello 12 - Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never 8 - Monolake - Archaeopteryx 8 - dgoHn - Undesignated Proximate 8 - Morphology - Horta Proxima 7 - Autechre - AE_LIVE 2016/2018 (Live) 7 - Actress - Karma and Desire 6 - Hum - Inlet 6 - Nicolas Jaar (Against All Logic) - 2017-2019 6 - Synalegg - Beating the Odds 6 - Daniel Avery and Alessandro Cortini - Illusion Of Time 6 - Kruder and Dorfmeister - 1995 6 - Rian Treanor - File Under UK Metaplasm 5 - Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 4 5 - Andrea - Ritorno 5 - DJ Python - Mas Amable 5 - Atom™ - <3 5 - Deftones - Ohms 5 - Machinedrum - A View of U 5 - Shinichi Atobe - Yes 5 - The Fear Ratio - They Can't Be Saved 4 - Beatrice Dillon - Workaround 4 - Daniel Avery - Love + Light 4 - Domenique Dumont - People On Sunday 4 - Grischa Lichtenberger - KAMILHAN; il y a péril en la demeure 4 - Luke Vibert (Wagon Christ) - Recepticon 4 - Melted_Self (Melted Self) - Spectral Disorder 4 - Richard Devine - Systik (EP) 4 - Aleksi Perälä - Spectrum 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 4 - Lorenzo Senni - Scacco Matto 4 - Pole - Fading 4 - Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind 3 - Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now 3 - Cindy Lee - What's Tonight To Eternity 3 - CS + Kreme - Snoopy 3 - Deerhoof - Love-Lore 3 - Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans 3 - Gábor Lázár - Source 3 - Grimes - Miss Anthropocene 3 - Jam City - Pillowland 3 - Kate NV - Room For The Moon 3 - Kiln - Astral Welder 3 - Nathan Fake - Blizzards 3 - Nebulo - Parallaxes 3 - Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 3 - Rafael Anton Irisarri - Peripeteia 3 - Real Estate - The Main Thing 3 - SDEM - ZNS 3 - Shackleton and Wacław Zimpel - Primal Forms 3 - The Future Sound Of London - Cascade 2020 (1993) (Rerelease) 3 - Ulla - Tumbling Towards A Wall 3 - Volruptus - First Contact 3 - William Basinski - Lamentations 3 - Zenker Brothers - Cosmic Transmission 3 - Cylob - 54 Minute Mirage 3 - Darren Nye - A Clear Vision Organically Modified 3 - Fleet Foxes - Shore 3 - ignatius - Bundle Drift (EP) 3 - Ital Tek - Dream Boundary 3 - John Beltran - The Season Series 3 - Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle 3 - K-Lone - Cape Cira 3 - Kettel - Dwingeloo Life Extension 3 - Krust - The Edge Of Everything 3 - Vladislav Delay - Rakka 2 Votes (honorable mentions) (hidden)