Pretty much every district of Japan has raised the AoC on a district by district basis to 18.

“It wasn’t against her will.”

This. The lack of self-awareness in the following quote was telling:

Just throwing it out there: they account for about 8% of the sales.

maybe because i’m asian american but x in america is cancel as well, and o in american is connect to “on” as in close circuit. In america we cross things out with an x and select things by circling them.

“Foreigners should become uniform with Japan.”

“This means that the circle on the Japanese flag is now ‘cancel.’”

I have never had a good experience with this game that wasn’t immediately tempered by someone being an asshole.  I gave it up, but I’m not built for a PvP-based game.  I could not stand losing hours worth of work to someone who had obviously been playing longer than me because ‘pirate game’.

Yeah and hippies werent exactly the cleanest people and still arent. Sorry but walking a round a store with no shoes on is a big no no.

Seems reasonable. They’re a private entity and can make up any rules they want. Kind of like stores with signs No Shoes, No Shirt, No service.

Nobody owns arpeggios.

Seriously. Musically illiterate people are how we end up with shitty lawsuits.

That arpeggio style is associated with Final Fantasy, but not only is it not the first thing to have ever used it, it’s not the first thing to have ever used it with the specific chord progression it uses either, and…

Considering the FF song is just arpeggios (and from common scales at that), it’s not that shocking to hear a similar concept sound, well, similar. They use some of the same chords and chord progressions, but it’s not quite plagiarism.

All that I’m getting from any of this is that the music is really good.

That’s a fairly beautiful arrangement, actually. It makes me want to play the game more than I had. Huh.

It’s pretty different from the FF theme. It’s a harp walking up and down the scale, that’s it - what makes the FF theme unique is everything else going on, which isn’t included here. 

Did a quick search and yeah, it’s a set of “arpeggiated chords known collectively as the 50s progression” as apparently it was popular in 50s and 60s pop music (though it can be found in classical music as far back as the 1700s), done in the key of Bb major. Did a search of that chord progression and yeah, it’s a…

For sure. It’s special because of the association, but as a piece of music it isn’t exactly groundbreaking or terribly original.

isn’t the prelude theme just a common arpeggio anyway? I think I remember something about it from one of those music theory channels on youtube.

it’s not identical but it is bloody close. Trent Reznor included something almost identical in the NIN song All Time Low.

Dammit, I got excited by the anime segment at the end, thinking that maybe we’d get a Let’s Go series that didn’t feature Ash. But nope, Nintendo just made an animated music video for shits and giggles.