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I liked Christmas Vacation okay last year when I saw it finally, and it decidedly didn't live up to my parents' hype for it. I thought parts of it were funny, like the snotty neighbors getting karma'd over and over while their beatnik asses get confused and angry with each other for it, and I thought that one little girl was a bit adorable, so she gets a pass, but I hated the rest of her family, the dad and brother especially-- Clark passively talking about his wife's sister being an idiot (when the subject of family visiting comes up) for marrying that guy is something I liked a bit because it reminds me of my mother's sister. I also liked when that Uncle Luigi or whoever tossed a match or whatever and the cat exploded into a pile of fluff accompanied by a "mREOW." My memory on that movie is kind of hazy but I remember getting heartachey at the home movies in the attic part, and I liked the main guy MOST of the time.

Oh, and-- I can't remember, but wasn't his daughter hot, as well? I remember liking her character at least somewhat, and remember I could relate to her on some level as well, so I can get behind that. I remember flip-flopping on whether I disliked her brother, but I think by the end I'd settled on 'y--... yeah, okay, alright,' y'feel me? Not too commitant, but not too blowoff-ish either, my position on him.

Anyways. This movie gets a pass, though I can't see MYself making it into a holiday tradition. now Miracle on 34th Street, that's another story-- even Stamper liked that movie, and he hates Christmas (to a point). I love that movie so goddamn much-- it's one of the only subjects I can give a definitive answer for when I get "what's your favorite X" questions.

Billy has more toys than you!

Interesting fact about the second Wah Thang, aka the Peaceful Villa: for the melody, all I did was go into Chords under Piano Roll, click on scale, then placed a note down on the first key that played for whatever other instrument, Eb or F# or something like that. From there, it was just me copy-pasting different parts of the scale, editing lengths, etc., and yet I still ended up with a decent-sounding melody.
I'm only just now starting to reach toward my actual potential when it comes to composing, so the fact that I did as well as I did there gets my past self a little pat on the back

Oh no, the new likes system ruined the graphics ratio for the Greedy emoji :C

This latest piano piece is really simple and should NOT BE THIS HARD.

NNEEHHNGG, why is piano so haarrrrd ; __ ;

*Looking at childhood photos* "Man, I was such an ugly duckling!" - Wario, probably

One thing really cool that I've discovered is that Bing Crosby-era songs, even when slowed to my usual 0.707x editing speed*, the sound quality doesn't suffer barely at all. The brass in this one song I'm listening to literally just sounds like the band decided to play it slower and in a different key.

*0.707x / -29.287% is the best speed for making MIDIs at, in my experience, because it balances speed and sound quality with hearing more stuff at once; same thing with 1.41x, since that's the same thing only it's an octave on the other side of the base sound clip, know what I mean?

I like that the sound of a piano is so distinct that I can turn this audio track to -13db and not hear the normally overpowering electric guitar anywhere near as much as I can nearly *every* piano note. effects, compression and all other additive/compromising circumstances aside, the thing is literally impossible to not recognize

Man, when is Hardee's going to learn that you do not put sweet bread on a burger, it's completely overpowering

Sice you seem to know a lot about game music, I have a question for you:
Do you know which sound or what sound settings are used in this track https://youtu.be/zBPTJI2shxs?list=PL65A509B85621C5BB between 0:19-0:22 and 0:26-0:30? And do you know of any other 8-bit tracks that use this particular timbre? I have never heard a more ear-pleasing sound coming from my GBC, and it seems to be fairly unique, as I've never heard anything close to it in other games.

So, today I discovered that if you put a Low-Pass filter on the Wildflower Reed preset and set the frequency to ~1192, it sounds like a bassoon or an oboe, one of the two.. or a clarinet, admittedly but that one's definitely a stretch.

@Robin if you want some dope synth sounds FluidR3_GM is the way to go-- that Saw Wave is killer especially, it's so dope paired with a Synth Bass 2

Damn, I am feeling really torn on Touched's instruments, because some of them are fantastic (pretty much any stringed instrument, bassy-sounding organs, Wario's heavenly voice), while others are just flaming garbage (they thought *that* could ever replace the Hall of Hieroglyph organs??), and this is just while looking at the Sound Bank for the title screen.

Also, apparently there are a lot of DOPE synth sounds, though they kind of dangle WL4's cool-ass Deow Bass in front of you by having it only play on the keys where it sounds kinda terrible.

Oh okay apparently Masked Dedede is here as well.

Moving onto BANK_crygor_demo (cuz that's a damn fine midi), why would they include two separate instances if it's the same trumpet?

Currently going through the audio files for Touched with VGMTrans (going to attempt to make a soundfont... eventually... sigh...), and I must say, I really appreciate that the voice for Ashley, you know, actually sounds like a kid?? (Glares at Brawl)

I dreamed that David and Shane from the upside down show were playing dark souls II and were doing better than professional players.

I'm only so hard on Gold because I *know* it had the potential to be one of the greatest WarioWare titles ever created

Ay yo I just tried to leave a review on Robin's WW title recreation to tell her those preset recreations were pretty dope (except for the Deow Bass which was only *kinda* dope but that's excusable because I don't know if recreating such a concentration of distilled radical is even possible) BUT THE REVIEW DIDN'T POST ;_;

To this day it fills me with great pride that the impression I made upon joining WAA Forums I'd handled so well that it even had the Big Boys (Magma, 3WB, Good King CM30, etc.) collectively going like "who's *this* guy?" I'd never felt so welcome or so proud to be who I am, I think. Even if everybody on the forums tends to be about as active as I am, it's nice to know that everybody's on the same page. Very nice community here, and I like to think my year on the forum has had a positive effect on me. So, thank you all

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Does anyone know if/where I can find a Wario World soundfont? I'm asking because there's a Luigi's Mansion soundfont (I know because I have it) and the two tend to be seen as sister titles