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what is ur favourite colour combo? also squares or circles?

i genuinely love the instagram gradient colors, theyre just really pretty

also, squares. for obvious reasons

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hi! I’m getting project arrhythmia today and I was wondering if there’s any levels/series’s that you’d recommend i check out? The only 4 I can think of are Black Heart, Dark Delirium, the pack with Kitcat and the series with Pandex (can’t remember the names 💔). I know there’s more I liked but I can’t remember them for the life of me

MY TIME HAS COME. LEVEL RECOMMENDATIONS. YES.

First off, play the base game's story mode so far. It's come a long way, there's a proper tutorial there and proper easy levels that should get you eased into how the game works. Though I feel like that's obvious, but people do like to jump right to customs since they're the most popular.

So...some stuff I'd recommend. I'll start off with stuff that isn't a story, like creators or "recommendation collections" pooling together a bunch of levels in one place:

Anything by MysteriousShep. They're a really good new creator who's been putting out awesome levels with really fun gameplay. A lot of fun gimmicks going on here, and they have a really good visual style where it's enough to be interesting but virtually never gets in the way of you playing a level.

MotionIII is another one of the newer creators who's insanely underrated for how fun his levels are. He makes awesome stuff, go play it.

The same goes for Mr. Neon. I'd say pretty much anything by him is worth checking out too, though Lights and Limit Break in particular are his best work.

Jolly Jack's levels are absolutely beautiful, and they play well too. Absolutely give them a look.

The No Boss Zone collection is a collection I've organized of every good level without a boss fight that I can find on the workshop. If you ever want a change of pace or want to see the stuff that's unfortunately less popular, go check that out!

Now....storylines! I recommend a lot of these for their story, their gameplay, or both.

The Cracked Masonry is a complete three level "mini-storyline" with three short levels. It's a short romp with fun gameplay that's honestly a great start as far as playing storylines goes.

The Crystal Monarchy has a really interesting story it's building up and has insanely fun levels. It's setup so each set of levels is a "world" in a different location. It also spaces out the boss fights a little bit with "mini boss" levels in between most of them (usually each world has 1 boss and 1 miniboss)

Aetherborne Collection is a bit weird as a "story". This is an ongoing project to make levels with all of the songs in the Aetherborne album by Chime, with its own original story that follows after the album's plot closely. The problem with that is, they're being made out of order so there's a lot of gaps, but I still 100% recommend this as a pack of levels to play. Plus, most of the story relies on the music and visuals rather than dialogue, which is super unique!

Void Untold has the thing going on where its earlier levels are kind of bad because they're the first the creator (dragonw1414) made, but the later ones are REALLY good. Only the first 2 levels here are bad honestly, so you might want to skip them/play in zen mode esp since you're new to the game the rest are freakin' awesome. It also has my favorite antagonist in a level storyline.

The Polygon is super fun and has Enchart's great visual style throughout. It recently got its first level in years, so absolutely give it a play.

Heartstrings. This has INCREDIBLE story and worldbuilding for a PA storyline, but a lot of it is in supplemental material like video cutscenes. I recommend checking those out on noodlekin's youtube channel if you can, but even without those, you can enjoy the story a lot by itself - it's great. Though unfortunately, it's cancelled...but what there is done of it is awesome.

And last but not least, Khed's JSAB Pack has some of the best JSAB-styled levels on the workshop if you ever want something like that game.

Hope all of these recommendations are useful, please do let me know what you think of these as I always want to improve my recommendations to people. I know this is a lot - I definitely recommend just going down these lists, I put the sort of better stuff to start with at the beginning. Thanks for asking me for suggestions :)

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Damn, I didn't know the main man himself has a Tumblr. How's life?

I've had the Tumblr for a good while now!! I'm just not as active as I'd like to be on it because i can never decide what to Post. I'm more often on twitter, bluesky, and toyhouse (though the latter is just updating character profiles, so like...)

Also, my answer to "how's life" is that I'm not a man. No hard feelings for missing that though.

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are you the guy who made the Synthwave Trials by DXL44

YES. I AM THE PERSON WHO MADE THE SYNTHWAVE TRIALS BY DXL44. FINALLY. FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT RIGHT. I CREATED THE SYNTHWAVE TRIALS BY DXL44 AND NOTHING ELSE. YOU SHOULD PLAY IT. NOT YOU WHO ASKED THIS - YOU'RE COOL. YOU HAVE EARNED AN EXEMPTION FROM PLAYING THE SYNTHWAVE TRIALS BY DXL44.

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buddy u went HAM in that new level

also offical dxl huminoid design?? yes sir

LOVEEEEEEE the new level <33

thanks so much <3

the design is...sort of official! it's more of noodlekin's take on how the official design would appear in-game as she made the model. the official one is actually below. it's not that great because im not a great artist but it has been around for a while lmao. i just dont talk about it much or force it on people because its more fun to see people's own interpretations.

either way yeah, canonically he's Just A Guy.

i think noodle's take was actually real interesting - it's far more geometric, which makes it fit ingame super well

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I think it's important you know that you have A: peaked my interest about CMD/CTRL and B: gotten preacher stuck in my head for the past month, so keep up the good work :o)

ITS WORKING

THE CMD/CTRL PROPAGANDA IS WORKING

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Looks like you’re stuck here now, fool!

I'm not stuck here, everyone on this site is stuck with me