The Blog Where You See If Jordan's Posted Anything Lately

Jordan, or DJay. Cis he/him. In my thirties. British. I make so much stuff.

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4 albums! 2 EPs! 2 secrets!

9 hours of music, and all of it bafflingly good!

11 years in the making!

1 brand-new creepy little horror story for you to find!

you have no idea how much effort this has taken!

if you're new to the Sunsetters Project, you'll find a thorough and very-readable summary on the website! welcome to the midi machine!!

if you're a returning listener, you'll find a whopping 32 of the 40 old songs are new again! plus the new stuff! and just look at that website, seriously!!

guys this has been a nuts two months, I am so tired!! I did it all for the art!!

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been trying to get back to writing sunsetters.

album 5 is really.. intimidating, now that we're in the middle of it. not even the size, but, the standards, it needs to be polished and impressive, and. I look at these scores, and what we have already is really fucking solid, but how can I add onto them? it's been months since the latest of these were written, and I don't think it was clear where they were going when they were stopped before. where can the music go from here? it's not complete, most of these songs need to continue, but how?? how do I approach that? anything new I write sounds like a child tinkering with a keyboard.

where did my inner voice go? where did djay go. I'm just jordan right now and I need to be djay.

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I'm not seriously worried. well, I do feel it, I feel deeply worried about this, but I also know we're on album 5, I know that every album to this point has had moments like this, I know I've been here before. the albums always get made. one day I will see a way through. it'll be miraculous. it'll light a fire in my brain and the same things that are intimidating now will be thrilling, and for the same reasons.

but I wanted to.. make a post about these feelings. I wanted to express this worry. this fear. can I even articulate the actual fear? that.. I led myself down the wrong path, that I can't continue, that the interest was fleeting and the skill level too high, that I'm at a dead end, that I'll let everyone down, that I'll find there wasn't even anyone to let down and this outcome was expected, or that I'll find there were people to let down and this outcome was still expected but not hoped for. that my creations will never be as delicate, intricate, and interesting as I want them to be.

none of these fears are really about this album. so none of them will really have anything to do with finishing it. and the fears in my life are assuaged by varied routes. many of my fears dissipate with time, subconsciously, are resolved by small details in my life and I don't even notice their passing. other fears are resolved quite consciously, by pushing myself to do things I think are scary, though that bravery isn't something I have inside me every day. I think I've had a little bravery lately though. I think it's taken a little bravery to open up musescore every day and earnestly look at these scores. all these songs...

when album 5 is done, it's going to feel surreal. I can't presently imagine the finished product. I need to keep trying. I want people to like it.

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another wednesday, another episode of Metroid Dread!

today Nathan struggles in a whole new area, and he fights a big boss!

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windows

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I finished it

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tricky tony randomly dropped a deltarune update today, with mainly just bugfixes, but also just casually inserted some new shopkeep dialogue with niche conditions for encountering...

and it's tantalizingly creepy dialogue...

it amounts to "lol the last two chapters are going to fuck you up, a predator is going to hunt you for protein, they gonna eat you boy"

this is just some fucking Thursday

thank you tricky tony for making this random Thursday much better

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Nathan's Metroid Dread playthrough continues!

today things "click" for Nathan, and he starts making real progress. he sees the light now, he sees a glimpse of how awesome this game can be.

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DREAM✧DIARY - 22✧YEARS

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just finished playing yume nikki for the first time this game has changed me i think

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if you go on duckduckgo, the search engine, and search for "ralsei," the little tiny duckduckgo logo at the top dresses up like ralsei

why? I dunno!!!

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and now for the feature presentation.

that's right. I finally got Nathan to play Metroid Dread.

this is part 1. there's gonna be several parts. in this part, Nathan is getting his sea legs. he gets to see why this game is titled "dread." in future parts he will get the hang of the gameplay and make progress much faster.

this game is Fucking good. it's so good. ugh. the vibes are perfect... the plot is intriguing... the game mechanics are delicious... it's just a Really Good action/metroidvania.

see you next week.

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right, well, yeah there was a UK heatwave last week, and it ended on sunday (this week has been entirely normal human temperatures), but I've still been recovering. been pretty dead to the world. so I missed two videos, which I will be posting. here's the first.

Nathan plays The Beginner's Guide! it's an hour and a half, it's by the creator of The Stanley Parable, and in my opinion it's Better than that game. the vibes are very different. there's a great story here, told in a great video game kinda way. if you don't know this game-- like Nathan didn't-- you gotta check it out. god it's so worth it.

this was the end of our little "intermission" between big full-length games.

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my Yume Nikki tribute for the anniversary <3 I'd like to say I was very tired and sad about my art, thinking about it, doing art… it's not easy for me. I did this fanart to start working again on it. Even if my eyes are tired (that's why I didn't added so many details on the shoes for example), and even if I'm nervous about posting.. I know nothing's wrong with madotsuki. And people in X are liking it, it seems.. so… I hope you like it. I hope you REALLY like it.. not just the likes itself, but you really stop and see my art, and feel something.. it's not easy for me

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age 31.

I am finally going to accept it.

Sonic 06 is kinda ass.

I still maintain that the vibes of the game are perfect. hell, I will die on the hill that the *story* of the game is perfect, it is the single best story we will ever get out of a sonic game, it is rife with themes to interpret and they're wonderfully consistent.

but. the proof of the game is in the playing. and specifically in playing the objectives and obstacle courses and sequences that the designers set out for you. and *those*... well, okay, the actual *design* is possible to defend, it is a recognizably 3D-Sonic kind of game. but it just.. it absolutely.. it wasn't Finished. the gameplay was not Finished. the way things interact with each other, the way *you* interact with objects and enemies, the way your moves are supposed to combo into smooth movement... that shit isn't there. collision is unpolished. there definitely ain't any shmovement. and the actual playing of the game, doing what the design presents to you as What You Are Supposed To Do, forces you into that. it does not even try to hide it. the gameplay is ass.

there you go, world. I see it now. I can say it now. I can't object to it.

I mean I will still fight anyone regarding the Story. but I also acknowledge that Story is not what people play sonic games for.

le sigh. u_u

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well, since I'm on a roll, I had to do my beloved btbam too.

Anatomy Of shouldn't really be in B, but it's.. it's a cover album. it doesn't really fit in the actual tier list. I do love about a third of it, and I don't know the other two-thirds of it. I mean I have listened to it all, many times, just, I feel no connection.

Coma Ecliptic should really be in S. but something feels appropriate about putting it there instead.

Automata is right at the top, no question. I've been certain of that since it came out. Colors II did not dethrone it, though it did dethrone the original Colors. Hypersleep Dialogues, despite being at the bottom of the Really Super Proggy stuff, is still very high in my estimation. and so are the earliest albums! just, a tier list needs ranking.

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and then this one.

I actually don't think I'd change anything here. but I might clarify this one as "really they SHOULD all be in S tier, but in this order."

but hey, The Blue Nowhere! new album! where does it go? well I've given it quite a few listens over the last year, and only want to listen to it more and more, and. I'd put it on-par with The Great Misdirect. could be higher or lower, depending on my mood.

(........maybe the silent circus could go above Alaska... that one is also a Depending On My Mood decision.... the silent circus has aged really well, is a simply FASCINATING album....)

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little comment to really make with this one.

autechre is very hard to compare, with anything else and within itself. this is just a ranking of how often I personally am in the mood for each album.

and note that LP5 is in A tier. it's a black cover so it's hard to distinguish. I originally did not like that album much at all but, credit where credit's due, it fucking grew on me.

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and then this fucking thing!

fun fact: I somehow completely forgot Chiastic Slide when I made that. *that's* an S album, for sure.

Draft 7.30 is at least an A. Confield is at least an A. Exai is an S.

..I don't know if I'd change anything else. but if I did make a new tier list, I might try to include the EPs on it, to give me a real challenge.