Desert Palace, which is just a Sandopolis themed race but with a better song, is pretty nice. Pretty poppy again.
Then there's Endless Mine, which... goddang we gone way past funk into goddamn Samba territory or something, i like it. And then the results go full funk again.
There's like, a series of musical directions here and it's kinda fascinating to actually sit and analyse it.
Sonic 3's final boss music is infinitely superior tho ngl. Big Arms is a fuckin great boss track.
...oh yeah the 2p vs mode maps have a rather mixed bag of tracks too. like the first two are high energy af, Chrome Gadget tho is veering back into The Funky Zone, with a really nice poppy sorta sound. a funky , poppy sound... a funkopop s-wait no.
( I don't like Sandopolis Zone can you tell lol. I fuckjin' hate the Instant Death Failure State speed-puzzling sections, and I hate the darkness mechanic, and I hate the fucking unkillable ghosts and just... god
fuck that entire pair of stages oh my god.
They shoulda taken notes from Sonic 2's Dust Hill Zone and just... not.
Actually on that note... the Sonic & Knuckles portion of Sonic 3 is... very different in style
All the Sonic 3 levels and Sonic 3 specific musics are funky as hell, Ice Cap excluded.
In fact, Ice Cap's two tunes sound honestly more like they belong in the Sonic & Knuckles' portion. They're all higher energy tracks... ASIDE from Mushroom Hill Zone which is still funktacular.
*Sideeyes Sandopolis Zone,... narrows eyes* you sit the fuck down.
(( I mean not to say that's not a fuckin' sweet track in its own right it's just... not funky like the rest of the OST. XD It's more high energy and stuff! ))
(apart from Ice Cap which is legit an actual song as it turns out; Hard Times by The Jetzons.)
I mean, god, so much of the ost to that game was like... the funkiest 16 bit jams imaginable.
fuck sonic 3 & knuckles had some great fuckin music like I could just fuckin jam to Hydrocity Act 1 all fuckin day god just listen to this glorious funky beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K1rV9kFs6I
UK Census 2021, trans
A good reminder over on Reddit:
The 2021 census includes:
""Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth? -> This question is voluntary" and provides two reply options:
* Yes
* No, write in gender identity (and provides a box to write down your gender identity)"
As they note, it's useful to fill this out accurately if you /are/ trans:
"There is a lack of information on how large the trans* population is the UK, and estimates vary a lot - and are often disputed. Resourcing and funding for GICs and other services are based on population sizes. Both the government and transphobes tend to push down estimates of how large the trans* population is as a reason to under-fund GICs and services. If the size of the UK trans* population is more accurately known then the government will have less excuse to continue to under-fund and under-resource GICs and services, and transphobes will be less able to claim that 'there aren't many trans* people in the UK' and then claim that 'services aren't justified for a small number of people'."
if your cat often bothers you at your computer and walks all over your keyboard, it's because they're trying to join you and do what you're doing. It's a sign of affection! One way to mitigate disruption without pushing away your cat is by buying your cat their own laptop and plugging it in next to yours. make sure the laptop has wifi, a VPN, and access to the darkweb
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.