Sounds like their disk was very fragmented. Especially at 4:48

Great music for programming, really gets me in the mood

Really nice :-) I'm hearing echoes of the Thunderforce IV OST (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLDBwMusg4o) which can only be a good thing.

What's that base64 string all about? A naive decode just produces what looks like binary gibberish

On the face of it, it's regular ASCII code. But I wonder if they hid something inside?

Thank you so much for this pointer! It's glorious.