Nap Time

A fishy hades drawing for the start of Mermay

Happy 6th anniversary to the greatest song of all time and that one game it released with

Someone should really put some pillows on that spot

You have waited for aeons, but the results of the great sneezing poll are finally here! With a whopping 98 votes cast*, the hk community has banded together to answer the great question: how do vessels sneeze? (*For all responses where multiple options were answered without one being clearly stated as the final choice, all mentioned options were assigned a full vote) Let's take a look at how many votes the original options got:

People really seemed to prefer the most violent option! Vessels can't catch a break, can they? But wait, there's more! The math wizards out there may have noticed the above votes don't add up to 98. And that's because some brave souls stood up for their beliefs and added their own options, let's take a look at those:

These are all great, valid options and I'm glad they weren't left out thanks to the caring gamers in the notes - even option F, which is frankly horrifying!

One person even went out of their way to illustrate their own option themselves, very considerate:

Of course this came at the cost that they (consciously) chose to use the letter "D" for their option, which was kind of already in use. I am no man to play god, so I had to leave this unchanged. Why would you do this to me? Now that we have the votes for all 9 options, it's time for an analysis! This, naturally, means colorful plots:

Wicked! D seems to be clearly winning, but I can't call this a real analysis without any statistics, so I ran 100 runs of 10 000 simulations to estimate the p-values that any of the original 4 options had a higher probability to be voted than by chance (other options excluded as they had the unfair disadvantage only people browsing all the notes could vote for them - I'd have to redo this poll for them to have a real chance). This resulted in D being indeed the only outcome significant under the 5% significance level (with a p-value of ~0.000002). In other words, violence wins! Here's a celebratory sketch of one especially funny vote for the winning option:

It's worth mentioning that this assumes only one answer is correct, which doesn't necessarily have to be the case as one wise scholar pointed out:

Maybe they're all winners, what a nice thought to end on!

I really wasn’t sure what to call this one. The working title was “Earth, Wind & Toby”, but I have another version called “September 15th”. Anyway, this is an a capella version of “September” with “His Theme” as the accompaniment. In this version, both songs play at their original tempos. In the other version (which I’ll post shortly), “His Theme” is sped up. Thanks to @lunathrix for the idea.

Couple other things: I’ll be making a master post with all my cursed mashups in a little bit. It’s not ready yet, but look for it at https://sudoscience.tumblr.com/cursed-mashterpost. I’ll also put a link in my bio for mobile users.

Lastly, I do take suggestions, but not commissions. If you have an idea, shoot me a message, and I’ll try to make it. I don’t take payments for a couple reasons: the big one is that this feels like it’s kind of a legal gray area (watch RiP!: A Remix Manifesto for more information), especially since I don’t actually have a spare $450-$750 to drop on Ableton Live . I feel like as long as I’m doing this for free, the worst that’ll happen is I’ll get a cease and desist letter.

The other reason is, I’m not really doing all that much. Mostly, I just look for an existing a capella version of a song, drop that into a DAW that I may or may not have found floating in a certain bay, then add the other song and try to line them up.

This just happened today and I feel compelled to share

Stargazing

How pk figured out void can be made into babies: An essay in four panels

why is he so small. i love him

It’s uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Fun fact: this song has 14* parts, so I changed the instruments to make them stand out better. To that end, I also made some adjustments to the mixing. Furthermore, I added dynamics because I figured out how to do that in Ableton. Unfortunately, I no longer have any idea what genre this is. It’s not 8-bit anymore, but it does have some pretty sick guitars.

Anyway, this should hopefully be the final version for real this time. Oh, and I also made an arrangement of this piece for solo piano.

Sheet Music | Ko-Fi

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