Rhythmically Gaming

A combination of music, games, and drumming, here's a blog for folk who like variety. Ask me anything at rhythmicallygaming.tumblr.com/ask

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1920x1080 Custom Undertale Wallapapers

A few weeks back, I experimented with the idea of taking scenes from Unertale and making them into full 1920x1080 wallpapers. Here are some of the ones I’ve made.

I have plans to attempt to make some more this weekend :D

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Here’s a pretty slick bass cover of Queens of the Stone Age’s No One Knows from CoverSolutions.

I would honestly suggest to check out his channel. He’s done a lot of these covers with the tabs on the screen, and they’re pretty fun to watch, in my opinion :P

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Indie Game Review - oO

TL;DR: Good, short game. Try to pick it up on sale. Solid soundtrack that fits well with the game. 8/10

Full Review: ~ Description ~ oO is a 2D game where you're a ball on the perimeter of a circle, and with a click you switch from either going around the inside of the circle or the outside . This is used to travel between circles and progress through the levels and to avoid spikes on your way.

Continue reading by either clicking below, or go to my Steam review directly here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Advanst/recommended/367570/

~ Gamemodes ~

4 levels of increasing difficulty and new obstacles every level.

Endless mode, which gets harder as you go on, and every circle you progress through increases your score by one.

Bonus versions of each level, where everything has a wobbly effect, causing it to look like the ball is speeding up/slowing down, but it's still moving at the same consistent speed as in the normal levels.

~ Pros! ~

I picked up the game for only $0.89 when it was on sale

Good music that didn't get annoying throughout multiple hours of playtime.

Amazing level design and cycles that are easy to understand but hard to master

Very simple controls. Literally one button. (Space bar or Left Click)

When you die, you go back to the most recent checkpoint, and it restarts the cycle at a specific point, which makes the game far less frustrating than it may first seem.

~ Meh's... ~

I feel like the game scammed me a few times when switching from circle to circle, but that's probably just me trying to find an excuse to say it wasn't me.

When you use the menu button in the upper left corner while in a level, your ball switches sides of the circle before the menu pops up. It's a minor bug but it can screw you over sometimes.

No way to save your progress mid-level, but it doesn't really matter since the levels are somewhat short and can be done pretty quickly if you have practice and you know what you're doing.

~ Cons! ~

There are only four levels, plus the Endless mode, and no level creator/editor, making the game quite short.

The game may trigger motion sickness on the later levels if you're a bit sensitive to it.

~ Achievements ~

There are 6 achievements, one for beating each of the main levels, one for hitting a score of 15 in Endless, and one for hitting a score of 100 in Endless.

It may be due to my lack of experience in the game and/or just sucking at it in general, but hitting a score of 100 in Endless seems practically impossible to me at the moment.

~ Conclusion ~

If you really want the game, you can go ahead and pick it up for the full $3, but I would honestly wait for it to go on sale at least a little before getting it. I picked it up at the end of the Steam Winter Sale for just $0.89 and I'd consider that absolutely worth it.

The game itself is pretty entertaining and also got intense for the last two levels. Easy to pick up, difficult to master.

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Here’s a great acoustic cover of Feels Like We Only Go Backwards by Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner.

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Monday wallpapers

All of them are 1920x1080, in-game screenshots taken by me.

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Very mild Undertale spoilers 

Ghost Battle (Napstablook/Mad Dummy theme) by Insaneintherainmusic

This relates to a thing I’m gonna do for the text post tomorrow. Look forward to it :3

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1920x1080 Undertale Wallpaper

This was hand-made from some in-game screenshots in paint.net.

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Overall fun song. Tenacious D is usually pretty nice to play, and I would like to own more songs from them :0

Tenacious D - Rize of the Fenix

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A cutscene from Transistor.

1920x1080 wallpaper

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In theme with the biography post yesterday, here’s a Guns N’ Roses song :D

Guns N’ Roses - Shackler’s Revenge

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Wednesday People Facts: William Bruce Rose Jr.

More commonly known as the vocalist of Guns N' Roses, here's some facts you might not know about Axl Rose:

 Axl Rose, as a part of Guns N’ Roses, holds the all time record in the U.S. for most units of an album sold. Appetite for Destruction, GNR’s first album, sold 18 million units in the U.S. alone.

Back in 2012, Axl Rose was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with the rest of the Guns N’ Roses crew, but Axl declined and asked to be excluded from the Hall of Fame.

Axl Rose isn’t an only child, technically. He gained a brother and sister due to his mother remarrying after he was born.

Even though he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Axl Rose claimed that he was in control of his moods.

He is cited as one of the greatest vocalists of all time by several famous media outlets, one of which being The Rolling Stone Magazine.

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Difficult intro riff, but the rest of the song is pretty fun to play.

Rush - Spirit of the Radio (Live version)

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Monday Text Post: Possible stream schedule

I may try to keep up a schedule of streaming games and such over on my channel at www.twitch.tv/ACESZ_Advanst

It’ll need some ironing out after I start it, but I’ve been thinking…

Monday - Thursday: 7PM - 9PM

Friday: 7PM - 10PM

Saturday/Sunday: Wildcards, could stream all day or I could take the entire day off.

I don’t think I’ll stay strictly on shcedule, so there will be a bonus time kind of thing afterwards, so I don’t have to end right away at 9PM or 10PM.

I’ll try to get this working ASAP, but no garuantees as to when I’ll actually start it, unfortunately.

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Friday Text - Redefining my text post

Just as a clarification, and I’ll try to remind myself of this, text posts will be about gaming/music news that I pick up, or about personal stuff that’s going on with me. It just depends on how slow the week is for news.

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Drums + Memes + Cobus Potgieter = A medley of popular Youtube videos made back in 2012

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Wednesday Biography: Temple of the Dog (Band)

Note: This is my attempt at a new format of the biography posts. I personally think it’s a lot more tidy, and works out way better than a massive wall of text.

Essentially what I’ve come up with is to get together as many noteworthy facts about the current band members I can. I’ll still do the big single-person bios, but I feel like this will be far more interesting.

Chris Cornell - Lead vocals/guitar/harmonica/banjo

Active in the music industry since 1984, starting at the age of 20.

Does vocals for two superbands, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog, and also for the band Soundgarden.

His parents’ professions are a pharmacist and an accountant.

Birth name wasn’t Chris Cornell, it was Christopher John Boyle.

His past includes working as a sous-chef at a seafood restaurant.

Originally did both drums and vocals for Soundgarden, but was later replaced by Scott Sundquist in the drummer role, so he could focus on vocals.

Mike McCready - Lead guitar

Active with music since 1979, when he was 13.

Formed his first band in 8th grade.

Plays more by ear than by written music.

Has played in a band called Walking Papers, which includes Duff McKagan, who is a former bassist for Guns N’ Roses.

Is currently working on a solo album, which was revealed on a San Diego radio station.

Eddie Vedder - Vocals

On top of vocals, also plays the harmonica, ukulele, accordion, and electric sitar for various Pearl Jam recordings.

Takes a large influence from Jethro Tull’s early music, specifically his album Stand Up

His second solo album was titled Ukulele Songs, and consists of solo covers and original songs, all performed on a ukulele.

Birth name wasn’t Eddie Vedder, it was Edward Louis Severson III

Enjoys surfing in his off time.

Is vegetarian, but enjoys eating ham.

Stone Gossard - Rhythm Guitar

First band was named March of Crimes, and in it was Ben Shepherd, who was to become the bassist for Soundgarden.

As odd as it sounds, his first name really is Stone.

Majorly influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen, Kiss, and Led Zeppelin.

Formed the record label Loosegroove Records.

Performed for Neil Young’s album Mirror Ball, and then went on an 11 date tour in Europe with him.

Matt Cameron - Drums

Born in late 1962, and started playing drums when he was 13.

Is credited as the current drummer for both Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

Performed on the first recordings by Queens of the Stone Age.

Has contributed two songs to Peter Frampton’s album Fingerprints, as well as For Martha on The Smashing Pumpkins’ album Adore.

Is well known for his usage of tribal patterns, and heavy usage of paradiddles in songs.

Jeff Ament - Bass

Born in 1963 and grew up in Big Sandy, Montana, a town that has a population of less than 700.

Started playing bass as a teenager, and began with playing along to The Ramones, The Clash, and The Police.

Has a solo album named Tone, which features songs that had been written over a span of 12 years.

Is interested in skateboarding, wakeboarding, snowboarding, basketball, and graphic design.

Has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in support of Save the Children, an organization that promotes children’s rights.

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Quite a challenging custom that I have. I’m glad I got it. About 13 minutes of solid drumming. Haven’t found a song like it, other than 2112, so far.