Recent content by tahutoa

My mom actually came up with mine. I was 7 years old and was eager to join in on the Webkinz trend at my elementary school. I loved Bionicle and my favorite number was 30, so she swapped Toa Tahu's name and title around then put 30 on the end. These days, saying my name is like saying Elizabeth...

That'd be more like a type of articulation (like staccato). That sounds awesome. You should read off a monologue for something. Also, they actually *did* have acoustic guitar in the orchestra, sort of. It wasn't common at all, because most orchestral colors disagree with it (and even today it's...

This is actually a reference to Greed Loves Old People except it's the opposite

Wario grabs a fire flower and bursts into flames

Up until now, I've always been stuck in those liquid crystal displays, but not anymore. the part at 1:15 sucks though because they made the harmony WAY louder than the melody, making it sound off-key almost at the start

My essay on WL4's sound design got mentioned in that video : )

the guy killed it on the music

Xander Xereusson is the same guy who made the Smash Flash Mario sprite... and the Dorkly Mario sprite (which is actually quite good. the way they animate is what makes it seem iffy)

Not a sample, because that would involve directly using a clip from one of World's songs, but that's definitely the main musical motif for World. Its purest form is found in Greenhorn Ruins, but it's also in plenty of other tunes, including the Mean Emcee's boss theme. It is possible that...

in 2007 when I was 7 years old, Webkinz was the new craze sweeping through my grade school and I wanted in on that (partly because the idea was freaking cool as shit-- basically anti-NFTs: they were real things that you owned that could then enter cyberspace). I was really into Bionicle-...

Yeah, that's exactly it. I can't really picture Yoshitomi getting fancy with it, save for maybe adding a big wobbly vibrato on everything to bring dizziness to mind.

well, it's been a while :jermaWalk: still fuckin' got it