S2: "thrust α"

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You
may notice that the dates of the demos are all mixed up. I was still pretty new to taking my TF2 production more seriously and at the time edited in whatever looked the best, not worrying too much about chronological order. Overtime (from S2 to S3), I got more focused on chronological order first, then whatever was best for the video (some exceptions are allowed but chronological comes first).



I think I had a big break from TF2 before I discovered the thermal thruster+new pyro weapons. Maybe 1-2 years? I don't remember exactly when I took my breaks. Maybe I wanted to do this before the more conventional Pyro frags (flares, axtinguisher, etc.) since it was more new and unique to me. Why I took a big break? Maybe a story for another time, along with more TF2 history before all of this...



For the music choice, I went further and made a music cover. I like deadmau5, and I happen to know one of his songs "Cat Thruster" which could fit in with my video, having thrusters an all. Even further, I made it into a Mother 3 cover, since sketchek seems to like using tracks from the Mother series in his videos.

Cat Thruster Mother 3 cover project in FL Studio

The cover wasn't very complicated, as I just had to copy the melody of  "Cat Thruster" and adapt it into a Mother 3 cover with a soundfont, portmanteau and some basic volume automation curves. When I do covers like this, I try to first copy the melody by ear first to add extra experience and familiarity with the track before giving up and finding a midi file to help me. A homage to deadmau5, Mother 3, and begrudgingly, sketchek (since season 2 onward is post sketchek apology).



Of course, naming convention of using Greek letters for numbering videos in a series was inspired by sketchek doing the same, who was inspired by the Mother series which used Greek letters for PSI tiers. I feel ok doing this since I have the entirety of Mother 2 (Earthbound) & 3, and some of 1 (will try to finish it in future).



I'm not sure if I will continue the same kind of naming conventions as sketchek in the future as I would like to be more my thing, but saying that, I have kind of inherited his characteristics; his abilities. Perhaps this is my stand ability - to take other's abilities and make them my own.



Hopefully I didn't inherit his bad parts. I may have put that in a more joking manner but I do worry about me somehow becoming a horrible criminal or doing horrible things since there are bad people in the world who exist. I see it as a "if someone can do it, so can I" sort of thing - good or bad. It is foolish to ignorantly thing that you are incapable of such horrors 'coz nek minnit, you're head of an international crime syndicate, complete with human trafficking and drug trade (half joking).



Looking at how I communicate, it seems like I try to soften the blow with jokes when I'm trying to be real because when I'm being real, it tends to be too much, especially those oblivious/don't care about the world outside their one (I don't mean this in an insulting way, it's just how it is).



I know that I could probably structure the demo info below in a more neat fashion, but I don't have the brainpower to do it now. I'm focused on getting all these blogposts done for closure, so I can move on to bigger and better projects.



Note that the info below is for archival/historical/informational purposes. Just because I took a short time/long time making things, doesn't automatically make it more valuable/better. The end product is what you should judge in the end, and the process is just something nice to reflect upon, seeing the process and all.

Additional video info

Project editing range: ???

Music project date range: 2019/04/06 - 2019/04/06

Video publish date: 2019/03/29

Demo file information

Numbers will appear next to dates if there are demos recorded on the same day:

YYYY/MM/DD [1]

YYYY/MM/DD [2]



0:00: 1_pyro_thrust_intotripleaxe_0-1600.dem, 2018/08/04

0:17: 2_pyro_thrust_heavykillpuff_200-1100.dem, 2018/07/22

0:25: 3_pyro_thrust_escapepyroaxetrolldierpuff_200-1200.dem, 2019/12/28

0:34: 4_pyro_thrust_quicksneakaxesniper_1300-2100.dem, 2019/02/08

0:41: 5_pyro_thrust_comebackbackburnpyro_0-1200.dem, 2019/02/12 [1]

0:50: 6_pyro_thrust_doublestomponekill_0-1300.dem, 2019/02/12 [2]

0:58: 7_pyro_thrust_predictionthrustscout_0-800.dem, 2019/02/18

1:04: 8_pyro_thrust_snipthrustblastintoaxecropend_1400-2200.dem, 2019/02/19

1:11: 9_pyro_thrust_axesnipertofalldamage_1200-2300.dem, 2019/01/01

Music used

"Cat Thruster" by deadmau5 but it's a cover using Mother 3 Instruments

Cover by Bing Soy

Original by deadmau5

Other resources used

Mother 3 Soundfont

fluidvolt (more credits in link)