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@Beckett_Short

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welcome to the beck zone / creative director (formerly with riot games music) / portland to chicago to los angeles

Los Angeles, or "LA" for short
Joined September 2009
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@Beckett_Short
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3 years
It's 2012, and you just showed up to a New Years Eve party on the Oregon coast wearing the absolute sickest winter fit of all time. The Gresham degens and Hilsboro bozos in North Faces laugh at you and call you "Edward Cullen," but joke's on them b/c Fear Is The Mind Killer.
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@Beckett_Short
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And of course Baekhyun -- he was fantastic, pulling off the prechorus and lead chorus sections excellently and it was incredibly special to have him on this. The dude is an Ezreal/League fan and absolutely bodied this role. I love his high notes - he sang his ass fully off.
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This project will always be special to me. High concept, low brow, big dumb fun, every boy band/himbo/boy-joy trope in a blender, and Sauvage nailed it. PARANOIA is the weirdest song Iโ€™ve ever worked on and easily the most fun. Itโ€™ll be polarizing but I love it. Hope yโ€™all do too
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HEARTSTEEL - PARANOIA OUT NOW //
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This is always awkward for me, but wanted to share some older (non-Heartsteel) work from my time at Riot. There was a time when I wrote, directed, and produced lots of gonzo campaigns and videos:
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@Beckett_Short
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I've been impacted by the Riot Games layoffs -- thanks to everyone I got to chat with on here about our music. Sending love to everyone else I know affected.
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I loved directing the Pentakill III: Lost Chapter campaign. Wrote a 45-minute rock opera live show and got to work with awesome writers like Graham McNeill on stuff like "Accounts," inspired by Hieronymus Bosch + horror podcasts:
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@calscruby killed it, writing a lot of these lyrics (Kayn, Sett, Pre-Chorus Ez) and suggested the song idea. There is a ton of nuanced character-specific references and detail here without being clumsy or overt, and it'll be fun to see them parsed through
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I was the CD for "Sessions" (Vi, Diana, Taliyah), though the mind behind this idea was my creative partner/product lead, someone who was also let go this week.
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@Beckett_Short
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Next, this is part of a personality test I designed that judged your "tilt type": Four archetypical figures that represent different ways all of us as players are susceptible to tilt, how we react to it. Anger, addiction, justice-seeking etc.
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@Beckett_Short
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@arteapotstudio Hey, I used to work on that program & did the site -- send a ticket to support, include a creative (or shitty ms Paint) doodle or anything similar (we have a giant art gallery of that stuff in the Riot lobby), and you should be good haha.
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Here's the RP Art video, the first thing I made for Riot back in 2015. We still have all your amazingly janky MS Paint art hanging on a wall in the campus lobby. I smoked a lot of cigarettes this shoot day.
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@Beckett_Short
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And yeah, ร˜ZI rules. The petulant voice he does, the way he changes the tone of his delivery during the toy piano part of Sett's verse, etc. That part needed some hammy acting chops while still being clean in the pocket, and he really delivered. Huge props to every artist here.
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Cal was awesome, an exceptional, clever writer who really cared about getting character-based inspiration & references as he worked on this. Can't say enough for how cool it was to collaborate with him. His music slaps btw.
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This image was used throughout the music video brief for โ€œPARANOIA,โ€ and I often think about its profound meaning and sublime depth
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@Beckett_Short
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Thanks for letting me walk down memory lane! Will be back once the dust settles -- in the meantime, I hope everyone who enjoyed the projects I got to work on at Riot remembers me like this:
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Rob Russell, meanwhile, got the final piece in place with a chorus that everyone felt nailed the ethos of our chaotic fellas. The "oohs" are friggin spicy my boyyyy. SAINt JHN wrote a bridge I find really poetic while also nicely understated -- Tobi brought it to life perfectly
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Also, the studios we partnered with on some of the above work: We Are Royale (Pentakill) West Studio (Tilt Types) Trizz (VILLAIN) The Line (Sessions)
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Back in the day, I wrote/directed a short film on the importance of wired ethernet connections. We shot this in a motel on Santa Monica Blvd, and I accidentally broke an overhead light and stained the sheets with rose petal goo:
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@Beckett_Short
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Sending y'all out there tons of love from the whole @riotgamesmusic team and the amazing artists behind #Pentakill #LostChapter - it's beyond fun to see people enjoying the album. It is also my official position that 1:50 - 2:20 of "Aftershock" is the sickest shit of all time.
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@Beckett_Short
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@papuchochoe Doing it for the pun, the holy triumvirate of edgy cringe and based (also Kayn definitely would follow Cacophoni)
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3 years
This deserves a Pulitzer.
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@arteapotstudio @riotgamesmusic Blake, Bosch, Dorรฉโ€™s โ€œDanteโ€™s Infernoโ€ sketches were all big inspirations for the creative brief here ๐Ÿ™‚
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Also @RiotVe1vet and @RiotMoosey were brilliant dork-ass himbo accomplices on this, it was a crazy year but one of the most creatively fulfilling ones making this together
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@mooncakephel We here at Riot Games are committed to yeeting someone into a void in each piece of content we produce
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We really love these characters and had a blast with Sauvage in making them do crazy dumb fun shit like true pals
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@Beckett_Short
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@arteapotstudio @riotgamesmusic 16x9s of these three illustrations can be found here btw!
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@Beckett_Short
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3 years
Had a great time answering questions today -- thanks to everyone who participated! Mostly wrapping up, but some folks will be continuing to chat off-and-on for a bit.
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@TBSkyen @agoodshrubbery Waiting til live! Excited, will be lots of fun stuff to dig into.
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@Sgtspacedad76 This is maybe my favorite sequence in the whole thing other than the bell-ring
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@Beckett_Short
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@arteapotstudio @riotgamesmusic Definitely hear this and thank you for voicing it. I speak for everybody when I say looking through fan art has been and continues to be one of the most heartwarming/fun/validating parts of making *anything* and I'd love to find better ways to celebrate that.
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@aphelionaphelia This is really really lovey, thanks so much for sharing this.
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@riotgames @riotgamesmusic Honestly just vibing rn
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My heart goes out to Ukraine and everyone who has friends or family there. This is bullshit and scary and I don't know what else do say. Please pay attention to this, because it matters a lot, even though a lot of stuff feels like it does right now.
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@Beckett_Short
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@toadunn Less a moment more a movement.
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As a pale skinny guy who likes boots and vests, something that's compelling about #Arcane is the sheer amount of pale skinny guys with boots and vests.
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This is a disgusting fucking farce of a pretense for war, and I hope anybody cynical about Iraq and Afghanistan can see that this is different. I don't like being emotional about current events on Twitter that much, but this is a big deal and legitimately scary with real stakes
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@milkybeverage @Spideraxe30 @mmalloyart @misadvencherus @riotgames You killed it! We stan our problematic Dissonant king.
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@Necrit94 @riotgamesmusic Wow thanks Necrit guess we all serve the Dissonance now jeez
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@Beckett_Short
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One of the darker, funnier, and most cathartic articles I've read recently -- articulates a queasy and distrustful feeling I've had ever since I got diagnosed, first in 2004 and then in 2017 as an adult.
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@pengulican Honestly though The Master of Metalโ€™s Drum Doth Go Dum
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@Beckett_Short
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@papuchochoe Loved getting into it with y'all with everything from PK:III to HS -- thanks a ton for the kind wishes and for caring about what we worked on. We'll always have Mordekaiser's big ol' yeeks emerging from the earth!โค๏ธ
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@pengulican "Alright so depending on which team wins the final vote battle, we need to figure out how their respective God of Metal would treat a captive Viego. Skipping to slide 23, these crude sketches illustrate the various possible fates in store." "Beckett this is a contracts meeting."
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@Beckett_Short
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@papuchochoe Ezreal being so earnestly passionate about Brands remains the lowkey funniest line of those calls to me
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@Beckett_Short
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Be careful assuming you're done growing - I thought I achieved a solid level of maturity and self-actualization when I turned 31, and six months later I was going on a remorseful tangent with a psychiatrist about "my GameStop phase" and whether I'm susceptible to cults.
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@papuchochoe The theme of this album was actually Politeness
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I also like trolling through underground caves to find strange men doing science experiments, drug addiction, and coughing up blood late at night while my friends make cosmic love with politicians, so honestly it's relatable on so many fronts.
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@dinkakay @riotgamesmusic @LaurieGoulding @ianrunshispen This is so awesome to see, happy you're stoked for the show - all the settings and stages and story and interactions are rooted in the worldbuilding and story stuff we've all been diving into with PK, and it's just great to see people enjoy it this way ๐Ÿ™‚
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@sandisticx "Just out here playing keys and vibing" -Sona the Stringstress
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@riotgamesmusic "Viegoโ€™s limp form was seized, dragged through the streets and pelted with insults and scraps of garbage. At the end of this abusive parade, the city gates were flung wide, and he was thrown into a crumpled heap in the dust beyond them." talk about a rough day!
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@lukeoneil47 Legit devastated Mac Jones couldn't end up 1/1 with the win.
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@absofacto BAAAACKFIRE
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3 years
Found my ancestor Charles Snedekerโ€™s Civil War diary today. It vacillates between descriptions of battlefield gore and frequent progress updates on his hobby of drawing clothing items.
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@vampreds Something I always got from this shot is how subtly pleased/smug Sett is to his gym buddy about being so buff & jacked that he can catch his massive frame with ease. For all the proselytizing from K about dry scoops, perhaps this wet scooper had it right all along?
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@riotgamesmusic I love all the Noisome Host's children equally โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅโ˜ ๏ธ
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@ianrunshispen @riotgamesmusic @LaurieGoulding @GrahamMcNeill Big thanks to y'all and the team for the wonderful wordsmithing throughout -- so much fun bringing these to life and all being on the same creative wavelength the whole time.
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@sandisticx Sona's expression is profoundly canon.
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@tellesmith Was gonna talk shit but Trevon Diggs intercepted my tweet wtf
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@papuchochoe On behalf of the music team I canโ€™t tell you how full our hearts are are today. Thanks so much for coming to this wild-ass ride, hereโ€™s to many more. ๐Ÿ™‚
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@arteapotstudio @riotgamesmusic Haha, hadn't occurred to us but I'd love to explore making/doing something that gives a peek at the guts of the creative process so to speak for all these! Was a really interesting experience and a ton of fun refining the aesthetics of the vids/Gods, etc.
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ain't nobody bringing us down down down down down down down down down down down
@riotgamesmusic
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๐Ÿ’Ž๐Ÿ‘‘๐ŸŽค๐Ÿงฌ GOES GOLD. Congratulations to @KDA_MUSIC on their Gold Record for #POPSTARS ! Stream POP/STARS to celebrate๐Ÿ’ฟ โ†ณ
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Wow that's crazy I guess the Lost Chapter concert video is now high-qual and has timestamps built in, damn.
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@papuchochoe Always enjoy hearing y'all's feedback! Obviously we love to see hype, but it's also really helpful to get a sense of how things land with folks, and why (or why not)
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@arteapotstudio @riotgamesmusic Hey that's really awesome to hear - we're so happy people seem to dig it so far. I will definitely relay that to the artists and writers (and our amazing sound/VO team) who worked on this stuff.๐Ÿ™‚
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@arteapotstudio This is AWESOME. Great art choices, too.
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@umiscar Meanwhile I'm over here with a docket full of "cool worm-based campaign ideas (dark & siccck)" thinking of ways we could ruin our careers with avant-garde worm vids.
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@volpinprops @sew_angry These are insane, wonderful work! Totally capture the vibe of her claws and why she'd want to lounge in a garden with giant decorative versions of them.
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I love my Sessions children equally but this one has burrowed into my brain
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@riotgamesmusic variable, but aftershock gathering storm and EoN are the holy triad
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@papuchochoe Plenty of story threads and sounds to potentially explore. Weโ€™ll see where the music takes us! As for Viego, you should probably ask Cacophoni? ๐Ÿ˜
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@EmmanDaBomb I mean this along with aftershock are that good, ear-scorching shit.
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@Awktopian *Rel has died of dysentery*
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@TBSkyen Given we're in a hell-world culture so permissive to fraud, it's especially satisfying to see this taken seriously in such a comprehensive, patient, scathing way.
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@vampreds (None of that ^ is necessarily canon or anything I just love that shot and its character dynamics/am drinking a smoothie)
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@draggles @pengulican Seraphine is LIBERAL ZAUNITE PROPAGANDA......im sick of unity bs zaun is a CRIMINALS PLAYGROUND BAD VALUEs and NOT refletive of what PILTOVER should bee..seraPHOOL and her racey TATOO GIRL KISSING SONGS are GROSSER THAN ZAUN AIR (L.Ol>) and she shoulld be BANED.
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@toadunn Love you Toa, thank you for everything. Grateful for the awesome run we had.
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@ianrunshispen So do you think the Rectifiers of Stentorus delivered their percussive beatdown of Viego in 4-4 time or waltz time
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@agoodshrubbery @umiscar โ€œPeople like worms, Dune showed theyโ€™re sick. But what if worms hadโ€ฆ soundtracks?โ€
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Everything is moving fast and info is flying everywhere, so if you want to get a sense of what's happening in Ukraine, here's a list of Twitter feeds to start with. @IAPonomarenko as well, highly recommend. And yeah, Fuck Putin.
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@arteapotstudio @TreWatsonMusic I hadn't noticed until now and did the same thing, so Tre's just going to have to trust that we were on a pretty fun riff there and let's all just have a good day and never speak of our shared shame again.
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@Awktopian I'm gonna be that old narrative writer guy in 30 years Rel
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@draggles OK but why did you send an email BCCing the whole company
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@umiscar THE LOFI GIRL WRITES HER NOTES IN BLOOOOOODDDD
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@cuscopapi POP OFF FUCK BOSTON PRAISE HIM(my)
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@chargers "Dear Justin, I feel like I can call you Justin because you and me are so alike. I'd like to meet you one day, it would be great to have a catch. I know I can't throw as fast as you but I think you'd be impressed with my speed. I love your hair, you run fast."
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@Skiz0h This is wonderful!
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@arteapotstudio @TreWatsonMusic LOL "Not to be rude, and I do respect your point of view on this of course, but if one truly ponders the question, are we truly any 'different' from, say, a common animal? Sorry to bother you! Warm regards, Mutaris The Dissonant One"
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@TreWatsonMusic @riotgamesmusic "Damn, Beckett, your playlist consisting of emotionally ambiguous Zella Day, flor, CLAVVS, and Allie X songs is just what this party needed!" - something people have definitely told me i am pretty sure
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@arteapotstudio @TreWatsonMusic "We felt 'Last Stand' put too much pressure on the listener, so in the re-release we'll be amending that song title to 'Friendly Reminder Stand.'" k i'm done
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@kohnnor @papuchochoe This is awesome! And the lightning is a very nice touch haha.
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@Medaforcer Profound.
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