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    Concepts/things that should have word representation in English.

    in General Banter

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    Greek has many of these, and in the Orthodox Church we simply use the Greek words to describe them.  An example is philotimo, which is a certain kind of geniality that comes from complete simplicity and honesty, and which spurs one to any amount of self-sacrifice for one's neighbors.  Russian also has the word prelest, which is a kind of spiritual delusion that happens when people believe themselves to be receiving divine visions or miracles when they're actually just very gullible and prideful (and this is very, very common among "spiritual" people both inside and outside of the Church).

    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    4 hours ago, zkom said:

    From the same year also Death Wish II, The Dark Crystal, Conan the Barbarian, First Blood, The Thing and Tron. All have a kind of early 80s grittiness. Even fantasy movies were kind of dark and brooding when you compare to later movies like LotR.

     

    There's a special kind of mood that comes from the classic special effects that sets '80s fantasy films apart.  I've always thought those felt much more magical and more faithful to the fantasy genre.  The limitations engendered by the technology (both in terms of FX and low resolution) also made the characters' struggles seem more grave and helpless.

    Films Recently Watched

    in General Banter

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    I just went to the cinema for the first time in four years to see Fantastic Fungi.  I regret that decision.  It was a 90-minute advertisement for psilocybin that for some reason was being marketed as if it were a nature documentary.  I learned nothing interesting and had the same few points drilled into me for the entire length of the film.  What a massive waste of money.  I was intending to stay for the Q&A with the producers but had nothing nice to say about it so I left early.  That film was an atrocious example of poor film direction.

    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    Posted · Edited by drillkicker

    On 10/13/2019 at 4:54 PM, ambergonk said:

    Yesterday I spend the day in a seaside resort town. For lunch I went to a local pizzeria, and the waitress who served me looked oddly familiar. After a moment of pontificating, it donned on me that she looked like the Cake Farts girl. (NSFW if you've never seen the vid) She was super friendly tho.

    Afterwards I visited the aquarium/marine life conservation center in the same town. And I watched a ringed seal face me upside-down and shit in the tank whilst submerged. Pretty sure it's not the first time he's done it.

    I used to spend a lot of time at that aquarium as a kid.  Actually, I think I slept overnight there on a field trip once.

     

    Looks like I'm the third one ITT who's been there.  Sealife Center most IDM 2019.

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    The starship of ten thousand years, (scifi ost project).

    in Your Latest Creations

    Posted · Edited by drillkicker

    Your sound design and composition here is spot-on for a spacey sci-fi story.  The main thing that I think it could benefit from is more spacial mixing.  I'd say the higher lead synths could do with some reverb, and maybe a subtle layer of broadband noise would help smooth out the mix.  The high-resonance filter (0:40-2:15) and the fast arpeggio (0:30-1:20) are the two things that I found myself getting bothered by, and they were distracting from the other interesting sounds.  It seems like there are a lot of sounds occupying the same frequency range in the first half, so there's a lot that's barely audible.

    I love the bass synth, but between 2:00 and 2:30 sounds like it's bleeding through the filter somehow and letting unpleasant mid frequencies through, which sounds kind of like some sort of AC power interference.

    We Are The Music Makers | Volume Two (PLANNING & DISCUSSION)

    in EKT General Discussion

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    Sounds good.  Audio does need to be mastered differently for vinyl, which would bring the cost up, as well as the time that it takes.  It would probably be at least $1500 for a small vinyl release, probably more like $2000 for a double LP.  I guess there would be the question of whether the digital release should be delayed to wait for the vinyl to be done or could the vinyl release happen after the digital.

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