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Which language is easiest to learn has complications, IMO:

• It's easier to learn French or Spanish if you know the other language.
• It's easier to learn German or English if you know the other language.
• It's easier to learn Japanese if you know English and/or Chinese.

There's a fair chance I'm abstaining from this question as a result.

Not to mention that it's much easier to learn a language when you're exposed to it daily (here's looking at you, French on Canadian food labels).

(That's not a baseball, that's a...)

...a bat!

That's not a bat, that's a ____!

I've actually made some mostly-done to needs-revision-but-listenable piano transcriptions of this piece. I should try transcribing the quasi-solo runs from 0:37-0:53 a third time, though--I've lost the files for this piece twice, and when I finally restored them, I found that my first two cracks at the runs were not the same.

I've figured out that the piece is nearly all in 5/4 (with two 6/4 bars thrown in), and it's in C minor with prominent D flat usage (to the point where the quasi-solo runs are in the C minor blues scale with an additional D flat thrown in). The repeated notes at 0:28-0:30 are completely aggravating to transcribe rhythmically accurately, though, and I think I'll have to stick with an inaccurate transcription of them that doesn't have its tuplet cross bar lines.

15. Kirby Super Star - 5
19. Mario Kart: Double Dash!! - 6
24. Pokémon Emerald - 3

Yeah, my points distribution is skewed by the facts that the first Pokemon game I actually played (sadly the last one so far, but Gen 7 Pokemon Showdown is fun) is Pokemon Diamond, I've played Kirby Super Star for, like, 10 minutes on an emulator, and I've played MKDD for a snot-ton longer than that.
(The KSS play session was with my cousin and we fought against Dyna Blade. Trying to control Plasma Wisp wasn't so fun, and I found I preferred playing as ground-bound helpers. We never did play the Revenge of Meta Knight sub-game together...)

15. Kirby Super Star - 6
19. Mario Kart: Double Dash!! - 7
24. Pokémon Emerald - 6

I think Gm-Eb-F-D is less of a cliche, though.

Right now, I'll gamble that using TEC (from Paper Mario TTYD) is a good idea. At the very least, I'll have interesting interactions with that computer.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/fats-domino-new-orleans-rock-pioneer-piano-prodigy-dies-89-n814186

I thought Fats Domino was dead already.

- 50% of the Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge OST is in A minor

And I thought Kirby OSTs spammed the snot out of C major, A minor, and C minor (to the point that even other closely related keys, such as D minor, are underrepresented).

Yeah, I'm sorry, but I thought the average game score was supposed to be lower than 15 at this point.

15. Kirby Super Star - 6
19. Mario Kart: Double Dash!! - 5
24. Pokémon Emerald - 7
26. Shovel Knight - 14

To be fair, I hear Smash Bros. 4 has a more balanced competitive scene (so far) than Brawl.

15. Kirby Super Star - 11
19. Mario Kart: Double Dash!! - 5
24. Pokémon Emerald - 10
26. Shovel Knight - 12

12. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 6
15. Kirby Super Star - 13
19. Mario Kart: Double Dash!! - 7
24. Pokémon Emerald - 10
26. Shovel Knight - 14

Sorry, but something's getting hurt.

12. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 4
15. Kirby Super Star - 13
17. Kirby's Return to Dreamland - 2
19. Mario Kart: Double Dash!! - 10
24. Pokémon Emerald - 13
26. Shovel Knight - 12

My avatar is a parrot in the spooky world from Paper Mario TTYD.

I confirm that the parrot exists and is from that spooky chapter. Dang letter P...

I published my March of the Empire composition close to Halloween last year. It's apparently one of my most popular pieces now. I suspect I'll be releasing a new minor-key composition in time for Halloween, but this time, it'll have more tricks.

12. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 8
13. Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but Subspace Only - 4
15. Kirby Super Star - 12
17. Kirby's Return to Dreamland - 8
19. Mario Kart: Double Dash!! - 12
24. Pokémon Emerald - 11
26. Shovel Knight - 10