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- Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:12 am
- Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
- Topic: POTUS Election 2024 | Here we go again . . .
- Replies: 136
- Views: 18894
Re: POTUS Election 2024 | Here we go again . . .
Oh! A new jeremaid with all the facts marshalled to justify abuse of a segment of people because they will not follow diktats.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:39 am
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Computer Games
- Replies: 755
- Views: 783681
Re: Computer Games
Even as a kid any 100+ hour tradeoff just to cross something off a checklist would've been preposterous. 10 hours would've been too much. The time commitment and resource-gating suggest to me that there is no expectation for a normal person to, say, "upgrade every bit of armor," and it is ...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:40 am
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Computer Games
- Replies: 755
- Views: 783681
Re: Computer Games
I 100% Tears of the Kingdom and It Destroyed Me This is the type of player I have in mind. The value-fan is a different sort of thing in my head. But it is an important aspect too because x amount of content is expected for high price point games. ---------- Nowadays the guy in the video above is a...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:21 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Political Levitas
- Replies: 2369
- Views: 402433
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:07 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Dark humor
- Replies: 121
- Views: 45671
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:17 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3033
- Views: 1237657
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:20 am
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Computer Games
- Replies: 755
- Views: 783681
Re: Computer Games
Yes, and I underestimate the number of players who approach games like that, finishing the narrative start to finish and then returning to reach 100% completion status. The Zelda series famously doesn't save anything past the end boss since the SNES days, so obviously a number of players have always...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:11 am
- Forum: Art + Architecture
- Topic: Computer Games
- Replies: 755
- Views: 783681
Re: Computer Games
We are still grinding through Tears of the Kingdom. It's way too much. We have taken several breaks from it and as I argued, I'm at the point where if we put it down again, I'm out- I don't want to string it along for years just to get some fake sense of completion. I checked out reddit to see what ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:09 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, and other Looney Tunes
- Replies: 678
- Views: 71970
Re: Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, and other Looney Tunes
It's not the 19th century anymore and the orientalism fervor has broken on subsequent recoveries and sobrieties. Avestan literature, outside some poetry, is not old enough and compiled selectively in late antiquity (though there are those who disagree). The Sassinids made it the state religion; its ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:00 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, and other Looney Tunes
- Replies: 678
- Views: 71970
Re: Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, and other Looney Tunes
Yes, let's get around to the indigenous: the Samaritians. :) The great irony is that there is an avenue of argument for those into all speculative manner of higher criticism, that the obsession with matching a land & people was the cardinal influence Persia had on the Jewish religion. That and/o...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: Sports
- Topic: Football [American]
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4804
Re: Levitas
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3033
- Views: 1237657
Re: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
I hear about people who had music classes and teachers who'd drill them on stuff and I wonder how I got stuck with several variations of "Everyone's okay, I don't believe in grades" teachers several times over. We were one of the last classes to have mandatory public school music classes, ...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3033
- Views: 1237657
Re: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
Yep, the Clash conundrum. The minute some experience is gained, the move is away from just making noise. ------------------ I can read sheet music; sight-reading may be too much for me. My musical training was a few months, if that, of violin and flute lessons. At this point I can't say why it was t...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:35 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3033
- Views: 1237657
Re: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
Tabs have always made me anxious. The information, especially with guitar, I always want to see as a skeleton is the rhythm. There is plenty of guitar junk out there where the recordings are super soupy and if I am singing and playing, I want to know how the melody pockets exactly. Obviously not a t...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3033
- Views: 1237657
Re: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
This is the shared monologuing, I don't think we're talking about the same thing or people here.
And I don't have formal guitar training in mind.
Though I do think working out a "When the Saints Go Marching In" or "Greensleeves" by ear is not a bad way to start.
And I don't have formal guitar training in mind.
Though I do think working out a "When the Saints Go Marching In" or "Greensleeves" by ear is not a bad way to start.
Re: Europe
So basically the status quo. "Will they/won't they if Russia attacks" is not a news story when it's been the standard anxiety for 70 years now.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:35 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3033
- Views: 1237657
Re: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
I think he is spot on that tabs don't really familiarize someone to the instrument. This gets into the weeds of a million different experiences, so when it works for someone, it works and it's not a big deal. It is a big deal when it becomes a crutch or get people in guitar hero mode: "the guit...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:11 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3033
- Views: 1237657
Re: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
My problem is orchestral.
Interesting watching Rudness explain how much work goes into matching his keyboard to the timbre&texture of guitars.
Interesting watching Rudness explain how much work goes into matching his keyboard to the timbre&texture of guitars.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:51 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3033
- Views: 1237657
Re: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:33 pmIs this a Spengler reference?the bearded lady comes out and plays a digression on harpsichord
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:35 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Dark humor
- Replies: 121
- Views: 45671
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:14 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3033
- Views: 1237657
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: Tea Time
- Topic: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
- Replies: 3033
- Views: 1237657
Re: Musicology | Love 'em, Hate 'em
Rudness, who is Juillard trained (as he kept reminding us peons watching his video), has a wonderfully developed right hand. Not that he is anywhere near a slouch with either but watching him play, a lot of it is 1 hand keyboard man soundscape/aural stuff.