it's the best kept secret. why am I doing this to myself?

The 800 viewers to this video might have assumed that the Russian is just a translation of the English text

...but let me just say that all of those viewers making that assumption would be wrong. 😎

alas, how many people will run the Russian through image recognition then through translator?

I like to tell a story with my music covers, so for this one, I wrote a story summarizing the basic interpersonal character drama of the game. But if you watch, you'll see that in addition to English text, there's Russian text baked into the screen.

But to add insult to injury, the 5th game in the series, Dragon Quarter, split the fandom. It had a very different setting, very different art style, very different battle system, and many BoF fans didn't like it.

...but it also had a soundtrack by Hitoshi Sakimoto, so I couldn't not like it.

Inside this game are (at least) 2 Russian Dragons [Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter 🎷📖] YouTube video by subversiveasset

Let's talk about how rare this is.

The Breath of Fire series never got as much traction as the numerous other rockstar JRPG series. Everyone knows Final Fantasy. Many people know Dragon Quest. Not as many know Breath of Fire.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RY4...

While sometimes I get bummed out by low views on music videos that are (admittedly) really niche, I still like stuffing in secret messages and codes even though it is unlikely that anyone will ever decode them.

Today, I got a comment on my Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter cover that made my day

Candid photo of subversiveasset at brunch

Glad to be discovered, and thanks for tagging me.

text from a word document with the following: Romancing Saga 3 Undersea Palace HERMAN: “Have you ever heard of the palace that’s under the sea? It serves as the fortress to an abyss gate with Forneus as its Dark Lord trustee” JULIAN: “But how can we make our way to this palace hidden below …Where no man can go?” How can we prevail against demon lords who are beyond reach Of earth, fire, sky and sea? HERMAN: “Please take me with you to destroy this fiend of the sea” JULIAN: “What can you do, you old man?” HERMAN: “I am not as weak as I appear; I have faced him before, and he’s stolen my youth from me!”

NO ONE:

ABSOLUTELY NO ONE:

ME, a psychopath: I don't know how many people watched the actual romancing saga 3 stage play, but I bet doing a one-man romancing saga 3 fan musical would be a great idea

Ok, so YouTube music is just putting AI generated music in my feed 🫩

NO ONE:

ABSOLUTELY NO ONE:

ME: the existence of christmas in deltarune means that dark sanctuary can be a black gospel song .

A screenshot showing a reddit to up votes section, showing that the post has been down voted to 0

Never change, Reddit, lol

Deltarune Ch. 4 - Dark Sanctuary (with lyrics) [🎷📖] YouTube video by subversiveasset

Thinking about what it would be like to be Ralsei with another lyric cover story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysZL...

i made an oopsy. I forgot that the Z fold 7 ultrawide camera is absolutely garbage when it comes to taking sharp video footage. oh well.

A screenshot of Comments on "QuasiSpace [Star Control II with lyrics]". The comment reads: "I don't know how you come up with the idea, but this is beautiful. Summer'93, playing StarCon2 with my friend... all the Universe is before us and we're going to live forever..."

Sometimes I feel bad that my music covers of 30+ year old games predictably only get 12 views, but then when someone comments with view 13 it feels worth it.

beginning lyrics: "Chromas weave into Maelle's Phoenix Flame Then she Sparks into a Defensive Change" but that's all i got so far

i'm a psychopath, but hear me out....Alicia from Expedition 33 but in the style of and mashed up the SSBU theme song, complete with reinterpreted lyrics for Lifelight

I can feel the mania coming on...I want to create a pseudo musical of an utterly unlicensed video game that wasn't very popular to begin with, with animation. There's no way this will get more than a few thousand views at max. It would literally just be setting cash on fire for personal enjoyment

i can't tell if this is just part and parcel of Twitter itself becoming insufferable though.

Chrono Trigger - Secret of the Forest x Secret of Mana - A Bell is Tolling [🎷📖] YouTube video by subversiveasset

Can y'all check something out for me? In this video, if u go to settings, do u have the ability to change the audio to Canadian English?

If so, can you listen to the piece 2 times: 1st with original language & 2nd with Canadian English and let me know your thoughts!

youtu.be/CtKpVfT5jnY?...

hello everyone who was searching for @insaneintherainmusic.com 's Determination cover after 10th anniversary stream and instead found my cover instead lol

hope ur disappointment isn't immeasurable

a screenshot of a file titled "Chrono Trigger - Secret of the Forest_additionalVOX_vocals_Additional_Full_v5.mp3"

"You should let old music lie and focus on new releases"

ACTUALLY ME:

What if a Japanese zaibatsu metastasized into an intergalactic civilization? What culture would such produce? What would be the lyrics of a pop ballad produced by loyal corporate accountants lamenting their struggles to work their way into the innermost clique?

Chrono Trigger - Secret of the Forest x Secret of Mana - A Bell is Tolling [🎷📖] YouTube video by subversiveasset

someone asked me what my favorite cover has been, and I correctly guessed it must have been one where i wrote sung lyrics.

The answer is the utterly unlicenseable mashup of Secret of the Forest (Chrono Trigger) x A Bell is Tolling (Secret of Mana). Peak performance www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtKp...

1. the pokemon sleep team knows exactly what they are doing here

2. *glances nervously at Bewear pokedex entries*

A thread from Reddit asking, "If I change my password on gmail does it forcibly log out everyone? I just want to know because a friend when I was dumb I gave him my password (it's not my main gmail just my gamer one) I stopped being his friend and he tried to unblock himself using my gmail"

People be like: "I don't want to give YouTube my ID, what if YouTube gets hacked?"

Meanwhile, people also be like:

I'm at a point in my artistic life where I have more fun sharing recordings with like, 5 people in a private forum than publishing to YouTube. I'll still get around to it eventually, but I know the latter is going to hurt me psychologically lol

vagueskying: "oh, have you figured out how to pay people reliably?"

Gemini thinking about whether it should just lie to my face before deciding otherwise. (It actually still lied. Gemini can access YouTube videos but whatever)

Why yes, I am going to put this mix I'm working on repeat because I like it.

Why no, I'm not going to share it to the internet because then the bad views would be depressing.

I think we'll be seeing more of this. As I opened in the start, lawyers will have to engineer more friendly ways to discuss legalese

"Because your content is yours, we need a license from you to provide you with our service. The language regarding licensing didn’t actually change in substance compared to the previous Terms of Service."

translate: "yall got upset about a lot of stuff that didn't actually change"