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R.I.P. Jerk Your Own Adventure, another web 1.0 treasure is gone. At least archive.org still has it. (ED: this thing was made ins something like 2002 so obviously it's, umm, problematic so consider yourself warned if that bothers you.)

These were just a few from the top 50 or so, there are so many more like this. The Creed one, on the other hand, sounds almost identical to real Creed. https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=787962418 EDIT: this Wiggles one is kind of hauntingly beautiful i wish they hadn't taken the Musenet program down, I'd love to run some of the portastudio stuff my friends and I did in high school through this.

OpenAI Jukeboox deep cuts: Hip Hop in the style of Kanye West Synthpop in the style of Magnetic Fields Pop in the style of Bing Crosby Hip Hop in the style of 2Pac Folk in the style of Donovan I'm impressed! EDIT: not a joke, these are some of the only AI generated things I've heard that I actually like.

I fucking love Graham Oakley. I still have most of his books from when I was a kid, but it turns out they're petty hard to get hold of now unfortunately.

All I know is apparently there's melee combat, and I need to at least get far enough to try that.

Still playing America's Next Top Model on the Wii. It's an experience.

To this day I still divide raincoats into "KLF would wear this" and "KLF wouldn't wear this."

The WCCA Worcester, MA public access collection is amazing. The trick is to sort by date, oldest to newest, and find the stuff from the 80s and early 90s, where this stuff lives: https://archive.org/details/organicvapor4 https://archive.org/details/staticfusion54

Replaying Earthbound (emulated on the Wii) on the sidewalk CRT. Closest I'll ever get to seeing it how it was meant to be seen, and it's close enough.

None of the links on their site actually work in my browser (probably adblock related), but I'm guessing it's a VCV Rack type of model where the plugin is free but people can charge for their libraries. Which is still a big improvement over Kontakt's model, and I'll definitely be giving it a try.

Crossposting from the Renoise forum: Tons of unusual sound generators and plugins on here, with an emphasis on physcal modelling. I haven't gotten to try any yet but there's some pretty interesting stuff (the physically modelled bubling liquid sounds synthesizer is the first one that caught my eye).

https://archive.org/details/inourgarden

Going to start one of these this week but I can't decide which one. Probably Top Model.

I was just talking about how the world needed more pin-matrix patching options with a friend at practice last night. I didn't know about this one! I think I already mentioned it, but I realized a little while ago that I can use the old Roland M160 (basic 80s line mixer, 16 inputs with othing but level, 4 aux sends and panning) I got cheap and recapped about a year ago ago (but don't use because it hums a lot in my setup) should work as a 16x4+2 matrix mixer if I ignore the dedicated returns, but I haven't tried it yet.

I'm impressed by the SNES emulation on this Wii. It's been a few years since my actual SNES worked, but Snes9x on the Wii with the Trinitron I found on the sidewalk last month is just about indistingushable from the real thing (I say "just about" because there must be differences since it's not the most accurate emulator in the world, but I haven't noticed them yet). I guss when you get rid of USB controller latency and display latency, on top of whatever else a multitasking OS adds, the actual emulation latency is irrelevant. It feels completely natural, which I've never managed to get on any PC emulator, even for 8 bit games. EDIT: I played through the first three levels of Ninja Gaiden, since I know that game really well, and the NES emulation is very good, too. The sound isn't quite right (it never is) but visually it's perfect and as far as I could tell it plays jsut about the same. It might have been just a tiny bit less responsive but I can't really tell until I get a proper controller instead of the wiimote. Even as it is now, though, it's more than close enough. Between that and fairly easy access to something like 2000 titles between the Wii and Gamecube libraries, it's the best $50 I've spent in quite a while and I definitely recommend it! I've already got a pair of sketchy Gamecube controllers that were on eBay with no description for less than the usual cost of a single one in the mail, but so far it works well enough I might go all in and get a hard drive, second Wiimote, and a pro controller or two over the next couple months whenever I can spare a little money. So I guess right now I'm playing Super Mario Galaxy.

There's a push to legalize recreational psylocibin getting in gear now where I am. Since they legalized recreational cannabis last December it seems like half the people I know are getting multiple ounces for free.

Seems decent for under $20. Full price is a hard sell when you can get Melda Multiband Delay for $52 (or les swhen it's on sale), though.

Ordered a 1st gen Wii for $50 the other day. Assuming it actually works when it shows up next week I'm going to softmod it and load the entire Gamecube library on there.

I've got a copy of Vampire Rain arriving tomorrow, don't judge me.