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toaoaoad

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  1. Yeah I did the first time I posted about the issue. @cruising for burgers 's "Animals" thread was an obvious example at the time, looks like he's gone back and re-edited the post to replace the missing emojis. Bro do u wanna confirm this? Here's another example. It's something you might not notice if you're not looking for it, but occasionally it makes a post not make sense anymore if the emoji was an important part of the message, and you're wondering why the poster apparently put a bunch of question marks. Reduces the intelligibility of older posts. Again this appears to have only affected standard emojis (not the watmm-specific ones) and applies to all posts prior to the August 2023 forum update.
  2. You will be missed! But this is a smart idea. I might not be far behind tbh. Good luck in your endeavours.
  3. How is your piece coming along, drill? I was thinking about this post yesterday. I've been pretty creatively dried up for the past few months. For most of June and early July I was trying to do daily tracks again - that is, to have a finished wav file at the end of each day, although a lot of the work was focused on finishing up pre-existing unfinished things because sometimes I feel crushed under the weight of how many unfinished tracks I have and what is the point of continuing with any of it if a) I just keep starting new shit and finishing so little of it, b) no one is listening anyway lol and c) the impermanence of all things and ultimate futility of it all, making music as merely a distraction and frivolous entertainment to pass the time in an otherwise meaningless existence. A track being "finished" meant that the wav was the final result and I wasn't going to work on that track anymore. Lots of it was still just garbage, lots of very short tracks (under a minute) and many are just beats with no harmony/melody. But it helped to know the thing was "finished", like I was gradually clearing up the pieces. But then I also wasn't starting any new tracks anymore because of the burden I had taken on of "needing to finish these" and ultimately stopping again altogether sometime around mid-July because none of this was appealing to do anymore. Meanwhile I acquired the keys to a relatively private space where I could get an actual piano and move some other keyboards in and stuff, and ultimately was going to create a studio there, all starting back in June. At the time I was so excited, it was like this massive step forward in my life as a musician, after feeling stifled for over 2 years in my current apartment where I can't make any fucking noise at all without the neighbours bitching (which actually has a huge amount to do with how blocked I've become overall) - but my enthusiasm for it wore off quickly and it became just another thing I've been putting off. I'd go there and all I would do was practice this one piece on the piano, a relatively difficult piece and especially for me as my training is in jazz, improvisation from chord charts etc is my MO, and so learning fully written pieces note by note and all the embellishment and mastery that has to go into something like that is a pretty novel challenge for me. A similar thing happened in early lockdown although I wasn't creatively blocked at the time, I was still improvising, I just wanted a new challenge. This time has been different, like an obsessive fixation. Learning a jazz tune you just memorize the chord progression and the melody and then you "know" the tune. But something like this is a never-ending spiral of perfecting this and that, maintaining accuracy and nuance at faster and faster tempos, and then just keeping the skill up over time because it can go away so quickly. And it has been all I've wanted to do when I go to this place that is a blank canvas for a whole new era of creativity for me. Just working on this one goddamn piece, hammering it out. If I "zoom out" and look at myself in this situation this piece has very clearly been an outlet for all my frustration and stuckness. It has been fun and rewarding of course and now I can play this complex fast piece and impress people or whatever lol, whatever that's worth. But I now see it as this kind of phenomenon that encapsulates the overall massive blockage I'm experiencing now, after 3 years of pandemic, stifling living conditions, heartbreak and sexual frustration, disillusionment. I'm glad I was able to stay musical at all during this time, but I can't help but wonder when my passion for making tracks, writing new music, pursuing "professional" musical opportunities again, will come back. I just can't be bothered with any of it right now. I still work on tracks (like I say the unfinished pile is always there waiting for me) and have even made a couple that I really like over the summer. But for the most part I'm still avoiding all of it. Anyway thanks for reading lol
  4. fwiw this issue still exists, any luck seeking a fix?
  5. Splesh. More than just a "silly/annoying" Ae track. There's so much cool stuff going on in here.
  6. Fucking immense track. Such a great album.
  7. Thanks for this, I have one of these lids somewhere but never used it. I thought it seemed like too much work but it's probably not actually. It's a great idea. What kind of sprouts do you make? As far as I know, alfalfa and mung bean are the most common but I believe you can do just about anything (quinoa? other seeds?) On a somewhat related note I recently got back into lacto-fermentation, which I was really into many years ago but eventually stopped also due to laziness. Turnips are my favourite. They're so good, they have just the right amount of bitterness that combines with the sour and effervescence to make them so delicious, I'll just eat it by itself right out of the jar lol. Filtered water and a bit of sea salt in a good jar is all you need - cabbage and turnips work the best, other veggies might need a bit of a boost (some kind of probiotic or a bit of brine from a previous batch). Hell yeah hippie food.
  8. That opening tone around 0:06 is strangely haunting
  9. I can assure you no one cares
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