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Half the posts are about israel and nothing is in order.

FYI, if you go to a Twitter profile without being logged in, instead of seeing the tweets in chronological order you get a bunch of random ones out-of-order, as you said. In the future, you can just replace x.com with xcancel.com to see the normal feed.

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Ooh, this one's going into my Watch Later. The PC-Engine is one of my retro gaming blind spots, so I look forward to learning more about it!

Somehow I kept meaning to reply to this and then having it slip my mind, but better late than never!

Confession time, I was going off the memory of playing early in the morning while half drunk, haha. And I was particularly fixated on the exact phrase you called out as being in Bb major... that F works too well and was really calling out to me there. I do remember thinking "maybe G minor?" but I was so wrapped up in that hook!

No worries! I myself only just got started on really focusing on music theory these past couple of years. I was always more of an ear/memory player—I'd either figure out the song by ear through trial and error, or I'd read the sheet music, but only for long enough to be able to memorize it and then never look at it again. In either case, if you were to stop me at any moment in a song and ask me what notes I just played, I honestly wouldn't know. And even if I had known, it wouldn't have meant much. I knew the basics: how to build major and minor scales, as well as how to build basic triads and seventh chords, but beyond V resolving to I (e.g. G7 to C), I didn't really understand what made songs flow. It's been really gratifying to do transcriptions and analysis of my favorite songs and figure out what makes them tick—and then recognizing those same patterns in other tunes.

while I still get things wrong I still enjoy learning through the mistakes!

This is so important! At first when I was doing analyses I would leave stuff blank when I wasn't sure about how to name a chord or what function a chord had, but I realized I was robbing myself of a learning experience. By committing to an answer and then having someone more experienced look over your work, you can figure out what error in thinking led you to a particular mistake and refine your mental model bit by bit.

One YouTube channel I heartily recommend is 8-Bit Music theory. He does some really great breakdowns of music and covers all kinds of theory topics. You're not going to come out of a video having mastered any particular topic (which is true of any YouTube video, I suppose), but by watching his videos and getting that first exposure to topics I was able to recognize things and go, "Oh yeah, I remember 8-Bit Music Theory talking about this!" and then being able rewatch the relevant video or search for more information since I had a label for the phenomenon. I think that's especially true of his series on the major modes which I keep coming back to and gleaning a bit more each time, although they might be less relevant for you depending on the kind of music you're playing. A great video to start with that covers a smattering of different topics is his breakdown of "Baka Mitai". Another top-notch one is his analysis of the Dolphin Shoals sax solo, which really changed how I listened to (and played) solos. And of course, you can just scroll through and see if there are any topics or games that catch your eyes.

The Doo Wop progression is one of my favorites to play around with

That's another great one! One unexpected place that it shows up is the classic Stage 1 song from Sonic Adventure 2: "Escape from the City". A YouTube creator I follow played off of that and did a doo-wop arrangement of it, which is how I found out about it.

Okay, I've really got to stop myself, but one more shared chord progression: the choruses of "This Love" by Maroon 5 and "Cruel Angel's Thesis" (the OP from Neon Genesis Evangelion) are both in the same key and have the same minor circle of fifths progression: i-iv-VII-III (so in C minor that'd be Cm-Fm-Bb-Eb).

(sorry for rambling—I don't really expect a reply, but I just wanted to acknowledge your comment and nerd out a bit more!)

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Hell yeah. I remember that the HD remasters were only available in that shitty crop at first, so it's good to see they finally made the original available. God forbid someone sees black bars on their screen...

And for what it's worth, the WHO still officially considers COVID to be a pandemic.

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The thing is, it's more efficient at doing a job that really shouldn't be done except in rare cases. Like, in practice, the vast major of "leaf" blowing is getting grass clippings off of sidewalks/driveways/roads, but those lawns shouldn't exist in the first place! In a better world, all those stupid-ass lawns would be replaced by native gardens/xeriscaping.

Goddamn, though, I really hate gas-powered leaf blowers especially. It's unfathomable that they're even legal, considering the noise and pollution they spew from their horribly inefficient engines. I've read about municipalities and counties banning them here and there (and they're banned for sale in California along with gas-powered trimmers), but it would be nice to just rid ourselves of them in one fell swoop.

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Wonderful to hear from you!! Wishing you the best with your new treatment