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    Metal Appreciation Thread!

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    Hey guys,

     

    Anyone know this band, The Great Sabatini from Montreal? They put out an album called "dog years" 5 years ago that was all over the place and rather unhinged and that I therefore rather liked. Last year's followup was a bit more run of the mill, but, anyway: does anyone have any recommendations for further stuff in this vein?

    Thanks!

     

    Datach’i - Bones

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted

    First impressions of the thing as a whole: solid, very solid.

    Nothing truly stands out, though. It’s basically exactly what you’d expect from an album put together by someone really, really competent using only Eurorack hardware.

    I will probably be listening to this a lot, but I doubt I’ll grow to love it.

    Someone a few pages back said something about “dad idm”. That’s probably not far off the mark.

    What TV series are you watching at moment?

    in General Banter

    Posted

    Just gave up after one and a half episodes of The Dark. My goodness this is terrible. Laughably bad dialog, a cliché in ever scene and gratuitous 80s references all over. It’s like it was created by a committee that gets paid for how many pop culture references they can shove into the least amount of time. Awful.

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    Now Reading

    in General Banter

    Posted

    On 7/7/2019 at 12:33 PM, hello spiral said:

    Crash unreadable?!

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    *all but*

    Repetitive, formless and overly descriptive.

     

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    As she peered through the window at Vaughan's camera her canny eyes were clearly aware of his real interest in her. The posture of her hands on the steering wheel and accelerator treadle, the unhealthy fingers pointing back towards her breasts, were elements in some stylized masturbatory rite. Her strong face with its unmatching planes seemed to mimic the deformed panels of the car, almost as if she consciously realized that these twisted instrument binnacles provided a readily accessible anthology of depraved acts, the keys to an alternative sexuality. I stared at the photographs in the harsh light. Without thinking, I visualized a series of imaginary pictures I might take of her: in various sexual acts, her legs supported by sections of complex machine tools, pulleys and trestles; with her physical education instructor, coaxing this conventional young man into the new parameters of her body, developing a sexual expertise that would be an exact analogue of the other skills created by the multiplying technologies of the twentieth century. Thinking of the extensor rictus of her spine during orgasm, the erect hairs on her undermuscled thighs, I stared at the stylized manufacturer's medallion visible in the photographs, the contoured flanks of the window pillars.

     

    Your pointless thoughts & observations

    in General Banter

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Zephyr_Nova said:

    ...still going through that Ramones discog.  These guys probably have more potential hits that never got released as singles than any other band. 

     

    That's because it's all pretty much the same song. It's a really, really good song and I love it to death, but the fact that they kept doing it over and over again really didn't help.

     

    Forum Discussion/Issues

    in General Banter

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    * The smiley editor is borderline unusable (because very, very slow) on a reasonable mid-range phone (Moto G5 Plus).

    * It's impossible to remove smileys (say smileys that have been added by accident because of the issue above) on mobile (again on Moto G5 Plus, so mobile Chrome).

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    Can you give a better example of "borderline unusable" - is it the layout, etc.? You mention loading - is this when typing a colon and then the start of the emoji name, or the loading of the emoji window?

    It’s when opening the emoji window. This causes my mobile browser to pretty much lock up. This is on Android. iOS (iPad) is fine.

    Now Reading

    in General Banter

    Posted

    Went on a Ballard binge around a decade ago, liked most of it, but found Crash all but unreadable. The mid-20th century avant garde has not aged well. Luckily most of his other work has, so I'm not complaining.

    Forum Discussion/Issues

    in General Banter

    Posted

    33 pages, too lazy to search. Ignore if duplicate, I guess:

    * The smiley editor is borderline unusable (because very, very slow) on a reasonable mid-range phone (Moto G5 Plus).

    * It's impossible to remove smileys (say smileys that have been added by accident because of the issue above) on mobile (again on Moto G5 Plus, so mobile Chrome).

    Now Reading

    in General Banter

    Posted

    18 minutes ago, MadellisTheSixth said:

    finished down and out in Paris and London by Orwell.

    reading David Graeber's book on debt, thoroughly enjoying. also reading The Master and Margarita before bed/whenever I feel like fiction and its a really good read.

    Both (Graeber and The Master and Margarita) are excellent. Really enjoyed them ( for different reasons, obviously). 

    The first half of the twentieth century has been very unkind to Russians, but damn did it make them produce a lot of good writing.

    I’m currently reading The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Jevgeni Petrov, also from roughly the same period. It’s about the antics of a former nobleman who tries to hunt down twelve chairs (hence the title) that were confiscated from him after the Revolution. Very entertaining.

     

     

     

     

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

    in General Banter

    Posted

    9 hours ago, luke viia said:

    saw a how-to for this project in make magazine years back, thought about trying it too... sorry to hear it's such a PITA, don't give up!

     

    Well, giving up would be the sensible option, seeing as that you can buy timer computers for this purpose that cost LESS than an Arduino + parts

    They’re probably more reliable, too.

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

    in General Banter

    Posted

    Been spending some off time trying to build an arduino based garden sprinkler system. On paper this looks easy enough - wire up some sensors, write some simple code, send a signal to a pin to open up a valve, done.

    in practice the code examples for the real time clock are outdated and the wiring schematics incorrect, connectors are extremely flimsy and come undone at the slightest touch and worst of all the valve stops opening after a few tries.

    This is not what I signed up for.

    Celebrity Deaths

    in General Banter

    Posted

    3 hours ago, sweepstakes said:

    Schlitze, I usually give you a pass cos I actually appreciate most of your trolling, but fuck off m8, you're out of your element. Bourdain was a big deal because he introduced millions of fat, closed-minded Americans to parts of the world they never knew existed, and that's just what 40% of us need direly right now.

    RIP boobs tho

    I can’t shake off the suspicion that there’s a moral in there somewhere - fat closed-minded Americans only caring about the world if they find out you can have food there.

     

    I definitely enjoyed his shows, however.

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