Boxus
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I'm really gonna miss House of the Dragon. Loved the whole season. Finale was great. Nice to see an adaptation of such a sparse text where the show actually gives so much more nuance and character development than the source material. Really great cast all around, loved the performances.
Also very impressive that they managed to pull off telling 20 years worth of story in a single season. Reading the book I really couldn't see how they'd be able get the setup right. Of course the time jumps had some rough edges and there were bits that felt underdeveloped but it's such a tough thing to do narratively that I'm just impressed they handled it as well as they did.
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I still listen to them now and then and always enjoy the experience. SIGN feels so familiar by now and has such a unique, surreal kind of beauty. I feel like I'm still picking out new bits and pieces to appreciate, especially in the most dense tracks like esc desc and schmefd. I will say I've re-listened the first three tracks more often than the full album - as much as I love the whole thing, the trio of m4 -> f7 -> si00 is just incredible and I always love to return to those tracks.
With PLUS I don't listen from the start as often but ecol4 has become one of my absolute all-time favorites, so I often start there and let it play through the rest. I do like the first three tracks a lot too, but usually when I get the desire to hear PLUS it's really ecol that I'm craving. The melodic tracks after x4 have grown on me too, I know a lot of people were underwhelmed by them but I've really come to love them, they're beautiful.
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Gang Starr - Step in the Arena
for some reason Autumn gives me 90s east coast hip hop vibes
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On 9/26/2022 at 12:13 PM, o00o said:
Is House of the Dragon worth watching?
I love it. But I'm a big fan of the book too and it's a great adaptation so far.
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12 hours ago, Squee said:
The big one with the nvme drive and then an 512gb microsd for ROMs and games from other platforms such as GOG and Epic.
My plan is to use it as my indie game and retro “console”.
Mine (256gb model) is supposed to arrive this Friday, I'm very excited!
I'm currently obsessed with Zachtronics Solitaire Collection, specifically the beautiful new tarot-based variety. Highly recommend for puzzle game fans, challenging but rewarding
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I've been loving House of the Dragon - as a fan of the book it's everything I hoped it would be so far. A very faithful adaptation that hits all the beats of the source material, but expands it to give the characters depth and explore their personalities and motivations in a way that the book just doesn't have time for (being a history text where a few years can pass in a single paragraph). The cast is great and matches really well with my conception of the characters. And although we've only seen a couple of dragons so far it seems like they're handling them right - giving each one a distinct color, size, and personality.
I think it will fare a lot better than GoT in its later seasons too - it's a much tighter story, so it shouldn't become anywhere near as bloated with extraneous character arcs and abandoned threads. And the book gives a pretty clear roadmap for events so I'm optimistic they can avoid late-stage pacing issues.
I'll probably watch Rings of Power too, though I'm not as invested in the whole LOTR canon. The idea of these shows being pitted against each other as rivals is so pointless. They're completely different stories, and I'm glad both of them exist. Having a bunch of big-budget fantasy content in production is great.
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Truly incredible track. Can't call it my favorite when there's so much other gold abound but it is one of the great ones. LP5 is usually the album I recommend to new listeners, I've always felt like it's their pop album in a way.
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I think I joined originally in 2002 or 2003 when I was first going down the rabbit hole with Autechre et all (original name was Nirqbomb). I was more active in those early years and haven't posted as often since but it's been a regular part of my web browsing diet for about 20 years!
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incredible show. kind of indescribable. I was definitely not expecting the level of emotional resonance I got from it.
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brilliant finale, refreshing to see a series end without the forced theatricality of most prestige dramas, in a way that was understated (as the show has always been) but still deeply satisfying for how honestly it explored the characters and their growth.
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love this album, fav hip hop album of the year so far
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just caught up on the latter half of the season, really excellent episodes. The last one before the time jump especially, such delightful slow paced scenes that carried so much emotional weight.
The most recent episode was a major highlight too, I love what they did with Kim's arc. Rhea Seehorn has been amazing this season.
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this is basically all the music I've made for the past five years or so
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52 minutes ago, springymajig said:
As far as I understood, Sean did say that elyc6 0nset was his (and that is was done in one day!). Does that qualify as a "beast"? I feel like it should...
hell yes elyc6 is a beast and a half. a titan. a big squiggly god.
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Neon White was the game of the summer for me, the most pure fun I've had in a game in ages.
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I've been trying to get as much value as possible from a month of Apple tv+ - I loved Severance and Slow Horses, currently really enjoying For All Mankind. Pachinko is the last one on my list to try to get through before I cancel.
I'm also really excited for House of the Dragon. I hated the last couple seasons of GoT but I'm a big fan of the book series and loved Fire and Blood, so I'm cautiously optimistic about this - it's a much tighter, less sprawling narrative, fewer characters and arcs to juggle, so hopefully they'll get the pacing right this time.
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Just a minor thing but it was cool to hear he's a fan of Bojack Horseman, I love that show so much.
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I love this album. So lush and carefree. I like that it embraces its nostalgia so confidently, it feels like a love letter to the past in a really genuine way.
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SIGN is such a water album. 100% ocean vibes. Sun shimmering on the surface, waves breaking against the rocks, bioluminescent deep sea creatures.
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9 minutes ago, CarpetSoup said:
He mentioned listening to https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/ which was new to me.
I'm really loving their music, Visiting Narcissa is so good.
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I like his answer to the early question about hyperpop, where he talks about genres being a cheap way of identifying music but sort of a necessary evil for artists to successfully carve out a space, and compares it to their experience being lumped into IDM
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40 minutes ago, usagi said:
holy shit this was fantastic. best point and click I've ever played, does so much with so little. mendbending insanity towards the end. and the closing music made the hairs on my arm stand up.
totally agree, I loved this game so much. Great writing and worldbuilding, gorgeous pixel art, excellent music. Been listening to the soundtrack a lot since playing through it.
Played Citizen Sleeper next, that was also very good. Now I'm clumsily dismantling spaceships in Hardspace Shipbreaker.
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cool to hear about recordings of an oil tank being used on tankakern (and I think he said they were on tangle ill and the skeng remix?)
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lmao "we had just done an interview with this guy who tried to get us to shoot computers with a rifle in his garden"
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What Video Games Are You Currently Playing
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I've been playing more games than usual since I got a steam deck. I love this thing. It took some time for me to get used to how it feels in the hand, but it's grown on me and now it's feeling pretty comfortable to hold even for hours-long sessions.
Currently finishing the RE2 remake on it - it plays so well on the deck, great experience.