Aalasteir's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Fall Away]

The song has great energy and powerful vocals. There's a lot of variation in the soundscape, making it a well-structured composition with well-defined, balanced, and organized strong tonalities that contribute to a high-intensity environment. Excellent teamwork!

ADR3-N responds:

Thank you! The whole project really came as a shock, more so than usual even. I feel like @SkankyMojo was the glue that tied it all together, the secret sauce. Without him it'd just be another unfinished project, or lyric files sitting in the corner waiting for an inspired beat! He did a fantastic job with the chord progression and bridge, which exceeded both of our expectations. Really floored me the first time I heard it and is still my favorite part of the song!

[Animation Industry Podcast 252: Celeste Art Director Pedro Medeiros & How To Become A Professional P]

Terry, you are a great animator, a great person, a great listener.

You are awesome. The skill, dedication, and passion you have for expression are extremely humbling to witness. Your ability to appreciate art and give artists honest and sincere appreciation is deeply admirable. Thank you so much for starting conversations, and listening to awesome artists.

Pedro Medeiros has some of the best pixel art tutorials I've ever seen!

I'm extremely happy to hear about Medeiros' experiences with creating amazing pixel art and his journey and advice. I really appreciate his advice on creating mock-up game scenes!

An amazing artist with great passion and lots of respect for the arts, and we are all so lucky for his interest in expressing and creating games. It is so true that it's easy to neglect technical skill and the power that giving a bit of curiosity to see what craftsmanship and being inspired by different types of art and creating more unique games instead of just trying to do the same thing that everybody else is doing, which is just going to feel dated. But what's not going to feel dated is passion, expression, and telling a story that resonates with oneself. That takes a lot of strength, the willingness to be vulnerable in art.

Thank you so much, Medeiros! Absolute Legend.

terryibele responds:

Wow! What a great message to read. Thank you so much for the kind words to me and Pedro. Appreciate you tuning in a lot! I'm very happy I got to come on your show as well. Best!

[The Josh Abatecola Interview]

Josh Abatecola @guyfromKillerRAT is insightful. I feel that his perspective on: GG Allin; instead of trying to be offensive, is expressing himself, even if it's with smashing his head with his microphone and defecating on stage. It's still better than most pop musicians.

Regarding Toaster Love and Furry Avore (Vore Request), I was surprised by how funny the songs sound. I actually thought they were quite good with interesting backstories as well.

I'm happy Josh's music is still available, and the fact that I got the opportunity to listen to You too talk. Is amazing!

But when will the transcription be added? Does that need to be a transcription?

Lots of good talks about the backstory of his songs were very interesting. You asked really good questions, and I appreciate the fact that you listened and valued the information that was given. You showed interest, and that means a lot. The respect you showed for his craft is very nice, and the atmosphere of the conversation was great.

@Cyberdevil How did you decide to create interviews? I would say it sounded very professional and extremely well-made.

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@Cyberdevil

Now, what I've done some research GG Allin did admit to rape people on Jerry Springer. His birth name is Jesus Christ Allin. He has undoubtedly done vile actions. I have read on a Reddit the most trustworthy source, there is a lot of false information about him, though even if 5% of it is true, then he is still gross. And dead.

Perhaps someone can explain the sources and what actually happened.

But he is very much dead and he may rest in piss, literally people were pissing on his grave. It's still better than most pop musicians.
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Thank you @guyfromKillerRAT you are right. That is his main selling point as an artist, it's pretty difficult to completely blame him for acting inappropriately, if that is a large component of his performance. If the man who is known for throwing poopsie surprises at the crowd is doing something awful, I don't think people should be surprised. That is true, we don't know what type of activities he got up to, when no cameras were around.

Cyberdevil responds:

That he is! Ah GG Allin... didn't recall him being referenced here. Was reading up on his story just recently. Expressing yourself - no matter how extreme said forms of expression may be - is fine by me, but raping and hurting others in the process of expressing yourself... his path seems a more questionable one to me after recent research. Maybe I'm reading the wrong sources.

It really was a grand debut, and Josh still is making music if you want to check out the new stuff!

The transcription thing's still in my bookmarks. XD I tried running the audio file through an automatic service to get that, but it didn't work so well, requires a looot of manual adjustments, still do plan to get to this eventually it's just way back on the backburner now.

Appreciate the commentary Aalesteir, and glad you enjoyed this! The incentive's all thanks to Josh actually. :) Personally I'm not super proud of my interview tone, I get unreasonably jittery and/or silent with any kind of directed speaking, but it was a good experience! Glad we got it out there; hopefully it helped sell a record or two too. :P

[Episode 37 - Flash Revolution 2020 (w/ Cyberdevil)]

Thank you!

@Cyberdevil You're really good at making reviews. I'd like to be more like you and also get into the practice of making reviews and sharing how I feel about the projects people have made. You have a great voice and I feel that you are extremely articulate. I absolutely love Better Than the Book as well. @Jabun is an amazing musician! As well as being an amazing person! Meteor Shower is a great song with strong energy.

It's really annoying that there were people who deleted your submissions because they were unkind and didn't like you. Having so many deletions for such a reason seems very stupid. That simply creates a bad environment for everybody because we are all here to have fun, and it's not cool to act like that. If the administration gave me a message like the one you got, I would be upset and I would have beef too. It's good you got support from the administration when your account got hacked the second time.

You are right, stuff like that is luckily a lot less common because NewGrounds now has much better security. I feel most people, if they got hit with those attacks, would not be able to withstand that as well as you did. I really appreciate you sharing those experiences, as they can be difficult because they are quite negative, though it is immensely good that you do because it gives a good perspective of what it was like in 2009.

It's very sad because a lot of people have a negative view of NG because of rude people like that back in the day who would just cause trouble and be really unpleasant. I'm happy that users now are much kinder, and the veteran users understand the power of kindness and how it creates a better environment for all to be in.

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Motherload is absolutely a classic. Skye Boyes proved that amazing games can be made. I am very sad that he passed away. He was an amazing artist, one of the greatest Flash developers who ever lived. Even an absolute cunt like me can recognize that.

Hell yeah! @ChazDude great sense of comedy, great creativity, and a level of dedication, passion that deserves all the respect. The Soviet Onion! I wish my dreams were like that instead of being just horrific nightmare stay out at least funny horrific nightmares.

@Little-Rena is the founder of @SoupSquad there's one about Pico tasting soup that is definitely impactful with themes!
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@littlbox @GoodL thank you for creating the episode. You make a great team. It's super awesome to have Weird Al as the first concert experience, and it's awesome that he also came to Sweden.

I'm aware that there's not going to be a season 3, but a spin-off about cuckolderie, I would say, that would be quite epic. You could advertise that on Reddit; you would get all the upvotes!

Cyberdevil responds:

Thank YOU! :)

[The space collab]

Congratulations, everyone! There is a lot of variation!

Aalasteir responds:

nice

[fulp_Track_1]

You made an expertly good song, and the commentary that you utilized, including the tags, definitely introduces a high level of narrative for the King himself. What can I say? I am surprised this is skill level 200. The ending is quite abrupt, which I would say is a thematic decision, representing a swift BBS ban.

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EDIT. @SamaadBae5 that is very unfortunate :(

SamaadBae5 responds:

He said he didn't want me to keep the end where I recorded audio of him screeching in euphoria

[dont sell no weed]

The melody and chords flow well, great combination of instruments. It's good that there's a strong start, and there's a buildup to when the beat drops, which is a good choice.

oChron1cTQ responds:

Melody and chords, especially instruments, are a big part of Lone's vibe, so I'm very glad it goes well!

The start is also a rap-type start, pretty common in trap and phonk beats. The drop at the end (1:40), is sooo fire imo, every time I hear it I go crazzzyyyyyyyy

btw, the producer tag still hasn't changed, idk really how to get a better one, my voice and microphone wouldn't be suitable (at least yet), so I just use the bad one cuz it's better than getting my beat stolen

Thank you!

[Mutilate]

Good bass, the melody is cool, and there are good changes in the arrangement, which brings a lot of style.

oChron1cTQ responds:

The bass is supposed to be really loud and kindof unleashed, 'cause it's Freddie Dredd, but I still do have sidechaining, which keeps it from sounding too muddy, however due to the nature of F-Dredd beats, the high end is reduced, so it obviously still is pretty muddy

Melody is just VK, It's pretty much just on the semi-tones, for that dark, killing vibe

Arrangement at the start is definitely different, follows a lot of hip-hop rules

[Green and Black]

That is a good balance in the instruments, and it's a very unique combination of sounds, creating an interesting atmosphere.

oChron1cTQ responds:

Thanks! Wouldn't expect that, I honestly didn't think it was the best, (especially the newjazz part) but ig it is a pretty good balance, I tried to keep it minimal so it's very uncluttered

Thanks!

[Blue River (feat Aalasteir)]

Thank you so much! The song sounds awesome! I'm really happy we could collaborate.

PapoFuradoPA responds:

I had fun with it! Thank you!