Bechuga
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You'll have a good time! Mason & Dixon are a regular pair of knuckleheads.
I still think Vineland is super underrated. All the talk I hear of it is that it's bad but it's just as well made as anything else he's done.
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Gravity's Painbow
410 pages into Against the Day, 660 to go...
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I have this longing to find and read some mysterious book that's never been read before, or only by a very small amount of people.
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Pre-ordered Jerusalem by Alan Moore. The hardcover is 1200 pages.
*orders wrist braces*
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There really should be more Aphex stuff on Mu (obviously won't), seems like it would be a good match.
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Pre-ordered blue
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Quality Visual Novel
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I think I'm putting my money on a double album and it being their final one
How much money have you lost so far on these Tool bets?
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Plastic baggies in the produce isle are too difficult to open! It's as though I have some congenital fingertip skin anomaly where I cannot get a grip of the plastic in order to disassociate the two sides to open the bag. Everyone else around me has no issue and others have tried to show me techniques but nothing works.
Lick fingertips > extra grip > open bag > produce safely bagged > suicide averted
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Cities Skylines is VERY RAD.
it's mostly a take on the most recent Simscity game but where you can make massive sprawling cities instead of shoeboxed squares ... (not that i was ever very good at making cities big enough or successful enough to be massive). not sure how it compares to Transport Tycoon but it did have a pretty involved transport system in it .. plotting the stops and managing the services lol
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Downloaded Pay Day 2 again, might as well delete all my other games. Welp.
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i recently brought 2 more of his (Colorless Tazaki and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running). something about his stuff keeps pulling me back in despite me never being sure if i like him or not. i enjoyed South of the Border right up until the end - it ends just when it gets going and it doesn't answer anything (typical Murakami).Finished Purity by Franzen. Not as good as Corrections / Freedom (no surprise, they were excellent) but it was definitely enjoyable.
Started on South of the Border by Haruki Murakami and is looking to be as melancholic as his other work. And short too, which is a plus! Too many eight hundred pages books to read atm.
No-one quite does melancholy that isn't teenage angst type pretentiousness like Murakami. Tsuru Tazaki I loved, even read 75% of it in one night until it was finished and felt ruined, but in a good way. Should really get onto reading Wind-Up Bird Chronicle / Norwegian Wood.
Murakami doesn't resolve certain stuff, but I feel that is the point, especially with something like After Dark or (my favourite heartbreaking book) Sputnik Sweetheart. It does make me scared to read him, because he inflicts such perfect psychic damage on me, but I keep coming back too.
Spoiler: Tazaki does not feature many, if any cats. Does feature a vinyl record. And salad.
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Finished Purity by Franzen. Not as good as Corrections / Freedom (no surprise, they were excellent) but it was definitely enjoyable.
Started on South of the Border by Haruki Murakami and is looking to be as melancholic as his other work. And short too, which is a plus! Too many eight hundred pages books to read atm.
and perhaps an AI thread is in order, because it's such a rich topic that has implications for economics, global politics, labor, democracy, Utopia and Distopia, actual immortality, nuclear game theory, art and music, right-libertarianism vs socialism, psychology, morality, etc etc...I mean, if word got out that someone was currently developing super-intelligent AI, it might set off a chain reaction that destroys the world before the thing is even built. The perception would be that whoever develops it will rule world for the rest of time, I mean just imagine if it's the Chinese gov't or Solicon Valley Right-libertarians who get there first...neither strike me as the type eager to donate the fruits to humanity and create a work-free utopia for all...and that's assuming that whoever makes it would have any measure of control over it, which...the 'control problem' is an open problem that I would bet good money that it's unsolvable...like, you would have to design an elaborate system of incentives and failsafes that was immune to exploits, human error or corruption...a super-intelligent AI is gonna find elaborate, domino-like exploits that humans could never imagine...
That's a lot of what if's. And my current thinking is an uncontrollable superintelligence has GOT to be better than the UK Conservatives. Even if they implement a system of blocking out the sun for their power source: the weather's shit enough as it is.edit: the quantum mechanics confusion reminds me of when I listened to the Dalai Lama's autobiography, read by Richard Gere. When the book gets to the section about quantum physics--which the Dalai is well versed in--Richard Gere can be heard audibly struggling to process what he is reading aloud. Quite amusing, worth a listen (and not just because the book is good).
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Congrats Bech!! Do you get some time off work etc to get fully unpacked and settled in?
When I moved, I didn't have much time to settle in. So I lived out of boxes for awhile.
I've been slowly moving all my stuff (95% cds 5% everything else) up since I bought the place but now I fully live here, had the day off to see an engineer about an internet wire.
I've got a lot of boxes still! None of the CDs are leaving their boxes until I get eight hundred CD racks to keep them all in. Welp.
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Finally moved into my sweet pad.
Time to get fucked up! (on cookies)
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art means he does whatever the fuck he wants
Oh come on man please this is just not a helpful response. Of course that's the case. But art also means we can all have our own opinions and expectations of it. I'm not calling up richard personally and telling him to step his game up!
Definitely, I have my own opinions also, certainly wasn't meant to suggest that you're a dick for thinking so. Just saying that Aphex makes what he makes and, if he gets round to it, we get to hear it too.
Certain songs on the new Plaid album aren't entirely what I hoped for, so I'm no different.
Also, my avatar makes my posts read a little harsher than they seem. I'm not being aggressive or anything, just sparring. :D
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Rich: "I like 'Goldie Presents Folk'."
Rich: "That's true! I was tripping oh acid at the time. I beat him in the Arizona desert."
Rich: "Listen to Mr Impregnator! Actually, I've been thinking about calling an album 'There Goes My Knob'. I also like knobs, you see. I like to have all my favourite ones in front of me."
I have 3 question, what is: 'Goldie Presents Folk', Arizona desert and Mr Impregnator?
'Goldie Presents Folk' is fake and likely taking the piss out of musician curated albums. 'Jeff Mills Presents The Best Techno Ever' etc. The idea is that Goldie presenting an album of folk music is contrary to his image, thus amusing. Goldie is not in fact gold.
The Arizona desert is a desert in Arizona. The location likely does not factor into the game of chess itself.
Mr. Impregnator is a man who has impregnated a woman. In the interview, Mike's then girlfriend was soon to give birth, so Mike P is the Mr. Impregnator in question. Aphex stating 'Listen to Mr Impregnator' is not a musical recommendation, unless you've never heard of µ-ziq. So you should go listen to him.
Also, a knob is also slang for a penis. Aphex is talking about his penis in a humourous manner.
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Please change thread title to 'Unreasonable Expectations Discussion'
Also I should pre-order this already...
I mean, if you disagree with the expectations that's fine but i don't think they're unreasonable. It's like if i bought a can of beer from my favourite beer company, took a sip and there was orange juice inside. Turns out the company's switched to producing oj instead. Sure it's gonna quench my thirst, but i'm not gonna get all the fun extra things that came with drinking beer. So i'm disappointed because i wanted a beer from my favourite company. The company's done nothing wrong, i'm just a little sad.
Aphex Twin is not a production line based company, he's an artist. There are musicians who work this way and release another album in the comfortable old style (AC/DC and others), but I have never expected Aphex to be this type, as with Squarepusher and others of that ilk. I can be disappointed too if it's not quite what I hoped, but to expect it to match my own invented / preferred ideal is unreasonable.
At no point had Aphex ever promised or advertised himself as a beer supplier: we get to drink what he serves (and I prefer OJ to beer anyway). Syro wasn't what I was expecting*, along with certain other music he's made, but then, there was never any formal customer / supplier contract stating what I was to receive. I can lump it or leave it, I can be sad, but there was never any promise made to be broken. Any promise was in my head and nowhere else.
*although I love it just dandy now**, having erased my own expectations and come to love what the album is, not what it wasn't
**sounds better on vinyl***
***imo
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Please change thread title to 'Unreasonable Expectations Discussion'
Also I should pre-order this already...
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Two games I've been waiting to be made have been released: VA-11 Hall-A and Mighty No. 9.
One of these games I've been looking forward to more than the other.
Mighty No. 9: not as horrendously awful as some would lead you to believe, but it's a shame about no more dark aesthetic from the early days. The dash feature makes it a really fast game, easy to complete a level should you die on bosses (like I have...too many times...) Could definitely see myself finishing it. Shame about ultra generic designs on the humans and bland voice acting that you can't skip.
Verdict: buy on sale, which it will be...very often...
VA-11 Hall-A: a visual novel about serving drinks to robots, sex androids and other weirdoes in a cyberpunk setting. Well worth the year wait: lush music, relaxing atmosphere and slow paced engaging story. Good stuff, worth the wait!
Also, you serve corgis alcohol.
Verdict: 10 corgis out of 10
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You must have made him angry
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This thread makes me tear up a bit
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Cheetah leak
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For the last two months, there has been at least an hour of unscheduled overtime after work due to how busy and understaffed we are.
I'm looking forward to the overtime in my pay, but fuck I'm starting to really detest starting the day.
Just knowing that, no matter what we do, we're going to be late is majorly depressing. Why even bother trying to get it done early?
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Vineland to me is summed up thus: it's a three hundred page flashback with a sixty page conclusion. And the section where he compared the states of being alive and dead to that of binary codes, and 'what kind of programme was the government creating out of the ones and zeroes of all the dead' was a highlight for me. Definitely underrated and misunderstood.
Hope he publishes one more before he passes on!