Level 15 Holy Dragoon Kain

A guilty pleasure of mine is the WiiWare version of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. In this version of the game, the HP and MP growth for the Hooded Man and the Holy Dragoon forms of Kain differ. For optimal stat growth, the Hooded Man should be kept at his starting level (level 15) so that all of his level-ups occur after he transforms into a Holy Dragoon.

Is it worth it? No, lmao. You can farm consumable items that increase HP and MP in the late game. However, I thought I’d make this post anyhow just in case there are still other masochists trying to take down false Kain at level 15.

Synchro devlog 0

This post chronicles the background and rationale for my amateur development of Synchro, a digital phase modulation synthesizer. I haven’t yet finished Synchro; when I do, I’ll update this post accordingly.

Advantage & Disadvantage

Back in 2019, I started working on a hack of D&D5 in order to address some of the common annoyances that arose during my playgroup at the time. One of those perceived annoyances was D&D5’s “advantage” and “disadvantage” mechanic. In that game, you normally roll one d20 to determine the outcome of a check, but various abilities, spells, conditions, and environmental factors can impose “advantage” or “disadvantage”. When making a check with either advantage or disadvantage, you instead roll twice, and take the higher (advantage) or lower (disadvantage) result from among them. My frustration with the mechanic at the time was that it couldn’t apply more than once. If five different sources all give you advantage, the implied narrative is that your chances of success are more likely, but mechanically it is exactly the same as receiving advantage once.

What happened to Cubiicle?

Several years ago I made a few songs collaboratively with an individual who at the time went by the alias “Cubiicle”, and who has since largely vanished from the internet. They also went by “Teramiiko” and “Tagwail” at some point. I just wanted to collect some of the information about the work we did together, since I will likely be remastering/reimagining those songs, and I have no way to properly credit them for their artistic talent.

Cubician II

Cubician II is finally live on all major streaming platforms: Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon Music, and many more. It is also available for download for free on Bandcamp.

CD Collection

I have been cultivating a growing collection of CDs. I don’t have a convenient CD player, so I’ve been ripping them and putting their music on my modded iPod Classic, as well as my own Jellyfin media server. But why?