Melissa Avery-Weir 🎮 @melissa@irrsinn.life

Hot Blog Summer continues with some thoughts on one of my favorite games, "Paradise Killer": https://irrsinn.net/2022/06/06/the-facts-and-the-truth-are-not-the-same-paradise-killer/

I also seem to have gotten my blog's ActivityPub feed working well enough as @admin to be worth mentioning. 🥳 (Mastodon mentions are a Whole Thing, especially for a feed like that. at-admin@irrsinn.net, if the above isn't clear/usable.)

The song of this week is definitely Unlike Pluto's "Everything Black", mapped by nolan121405: https://bsaber.com/songs/2596b/ (h/t to some Beat Saber Discord I'm in for this being their level of the week/month)

The patterns are simple—I almost got an SS on E+ (my first ever!?) on my first play of the song—but the song is a real banger and the map is dancy. I played it three times in my session today. 😅

#beatsaber

Well, this turned out super long and super dense, but if you're interested in setting up #pfsense to route incoming VPN connections to an outgoing 3rd party wireguard connection, plus have Android automatically switch wg connections on your Android when you enter/leave range of home...

*deep inhale*

...I wrote about how to do it: https://irrsinn.net/2022/05/23/network-routing-and-automation-fun-with-pfsense-wireguard-and-tasker/ #networking

On a semi-related note, sometimes it's really nice to see a playthrough of a song by someone that isn't perfect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J-t7UCVbEM is a play of "a.i.ngel (Become God)" by someone who does great (they get an "A") and who fucks up in exactly the ways I do. 😂 I have to move my body a lot more to land some of those hits, but it's interesting to find out which segments are also difficult for other people. My essay on failure in BS will need to touch on that feeling of isolation... 🤔

Monday's session heavily featured the aforementioned "a.i.ngel (Become God)" by Virtual Self (https://bsaber.com/songs/5d71/), which I did beat on E+, and "Weight of the World (JVNA Remix)" (https://bsaber.com/songs/5d1f/), which is incredibly fun.

Both of those maps also hold up at their easier difficulties, although the Expert "a.i.ngel" map was maybe too hard for that label? That's okay, Hard was still good. "Weight of the World" has a great one-saber mapping with some good fast bits on E+, too.

The highlight of my last couple of sessions is definitely "a.i.ngel (Become God)" by Virtual Self (https://bsaber.com/songs/5d71/), which I stumbled upon in the Anniversary Pack playlist last night. I haven't been able to beat it on E+ yet, but holy shit, I'm having fun trying. 😁 Highly recommended. #beatsaber

I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play Can Androids Pray: Blue: https://www.twitch.tv/averymd #magic

I only did a few songs, and enjoyed both the brain issue of everything being flipped, plus the switch in difficulty. For instance, on "Balearic Pumping" (E+), it was a little easier when my right hand was doing some of the complex asymmetrical shit, but the slowness of my left arm made the cross-body swings real tough.

I guess I'll keep playing around and see where this goes. 🤷🏾‍♀️