unorthodox approach to analyze a trace, but this helped me get comfy with x64 instructions overall (excluding sse/avx/etc lol), cleared up A LOT of misconceptions I had regarding VMP, and helped me not be as spooked as before about trying to use complex libs
plugin for neat tool here: https://github.com/teemu-l/execution-trace-viewer
07/17/23 - first log [original wip w/ no cleaning; keep for future reflection LOL]