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Jun 27Liked by James Francis

"most of us aren't really up for Faustian bargains or music lessons"

Amen to that, brother!

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Thanks! I've long been intrigued by how often deals with the devil seem to align with playing a musical instrument. I used to play the violin as a kid. Instruments are hard! I can imagine superstitious folk just assume that to be good, you gotta have some divine intervention. In fact, the Romans very much believed that...

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I am so bummed my computer decided to die on me, this looks super fun!

I am reminded (and dating myself) of a CG animated music video that used to play with a show called ReBoot. It's cool that you can make your own version of that!

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I remember ReBoot, though I can't recall a music video. Sorry to hear about your PC. What broke?

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I may be misremembering if it was actually a part of the show or whether it played as sort of a commercial/interlude.

I think my primary drive got corrupted combined with a RAM failure…I still have to take it apart to dissect but it gets hung up on the BIOS screen :(

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There may have been more promotion for Reboot that I just never saw in my market.

It's never fun to see something hang at the bios. Hopefully, it's just your hard drive and not your motherboard!

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Wow, this looks amazing. Flashbacks to Maxis’ SimTunes from 1996.

https://youtu.be/_d1uA9XuUwo?si=4yoyqy1u3yr7ZA9-

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Wow, cool! I haven't heard of SimTunes before - thanks for sharing!

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