On the Nature of Things | Forum

back when I was younger and smoked, quake 1 was my comfort food game, Id hate to think how many hundreds of hours ive put into that. download a new level, have a bit of fun, nothing to learn, just indulge primal brain for a period. nowdays, its all about the balance between level gating and grind - ...

last time i checked the sun was already free and made it to the earth just fine. so, the mundane question is if putting and maintaining a complex array of lossy sattelite grids is cheaper and easier than batteries or terrestrial grid transmission. i suspect the answer is obvious. https://www.bloombe...

Yeh not sure its all about the maximalist/completionists - the comfort food endgame people arent aiming for that, but they are looking todo another round of gameplay loop, so it does give them a token reward. For the older games with this endgame feature, you had to invent your own reward like doing...

Physics always turns wireless power into a scams, they cant be made more efficient

Its always either

1) logarithmic dropoffs
2) you are creating a death ray

some games do slip into comfort food status, the kind of thing you can fire up for 20 minutes and play for a bit long after its "finished"

sounds like that game is aimed at that outcome.

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/when- ... andardized

another article (with stats) on the enshittification of music,

when we try and enforce intellectual property patents on our computers with China, you also rubbish us - this is all nonsense and you know it, I dont think you even read what your write. doesnt matter who does what, doesnt matter if america elects the greatest human since the dawn of time, an irian ...

still blaming the white man - its boring and not worth the effort to type. their a more chinese and indians living the good life now than europeans, this is the rise of the global south. find me a chinese man who wants his family to live poorer so an african kid gets more food, and we can continue a...

I have no idea how his politics is going, but the dude is 100% meme gold.

it was very regimented and graded for me - certain amount of scales, techniques and standard tunes which must be played and sight read for every level, and then when you hit the right level you can get an offer to leave the school band and instead join the school orchestra, oohh allal. handel and ha...

yeh, tabs for me is a song I already love listening too, and I want a second opinion on fingerings or chords to what Ive managed to work out by playing along. a great tool for speeding up that process - so the rythmic information isnt essential, I know that internally already. their is no doubt that...

funnily enough, I do look down on the tab equivilants for piano.

and I also play piano by only caring about getting the phrarsing and rythym right, then dragging the midi notes up and down in the editor.

so my opinions on this are chaotic, hypocritial and borderline absurd.

Though I do think working out a "When the Saints Go Marching In" or "Greensleeves" by ear is not a bad way to start. not that their is anything wrong with that (tm) :) and yeh, everyones expeirence, everyones use of language and reference points.. all very different. Ive spent t...

Well, previous 20 odd years are Europe in "end of history" mode - all the twaddle about good trade relations and dependancies stopping war and creating endless peace - only the eastern europeans knew the world hadnt really changed. Now they realise Russia is stil lliving 100 years ago and ...

once i have the YMMV disclaimers, and politieness out the way. all those arguments to me a strawman filled and clouded with personal predjudices - my experience has been the opposite the folks that want to learn *more* about their instrument and theory are not held back by starting with pentatonic b...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7lNtFnrHMA

the kills are kinda fun

I thought that in addition to the Tantacrul videos posted sometime last year, someone posted his video about the false assumptions made about musical notation and the problems with alternative systems (often the same chromatic sort of thing suggested again and again for 1000+ years). I finally all ...

beene njoying this meme on youtube as it expands

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... +im+afraid

showing my age and lineage

Azari, you are not aware of the actual picture. I couldnt give a lavender if all the europeans and iranians nuked each other and only exist as historical records. Putin will be the death of europe, not the savior - he is all that is the worst of that places history, when all the other countries had ...

Im just posting whats happening in Europe, on the Europe thread.


crazy concept, I know, when I should be posting mullah/putin progropanda to all threads.

i apologise.

the EU is shifting to a wartime economy. https://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/news/eu-plans-to-boost-ammunition-production-with-war-economy-industrial-plan/ Germany and Finland have already started. https://www.hasepost.de/rheinmetall-plant-massive-ausweitung-der-munitionsproduktion-in-de...

Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 4:29 am
Only wise solution is a "Republic" with 2 provinces .. like Canada

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yep, zionists running one place, and hamas running the other.

Bud Powell has so far gone unmentioned like the phrasing. the youtubes offered up this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu5uRiEuPFg which is him, and mingus and dolphy (also so far unmentioned) their are only a handful of jazz albums Ive completley hammered until I know them inside out, out to lunc...

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:24 am
I've been dipping into Maps by billy Woods and Kenny Segal but can't really get into it.

the trying to be michael franti trying to be gil scott heron trying to be hip preacher thing is not working for me.

the self serious pretentious preacher thing is done to death.

Thanks once again