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    Free Exclusive Autechre Track '6852' With Japan Benefit Ticket Purchase

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    Definitely one of my favorites. I forgot to listen to it for a year once, and that year sucked. Can’t be a coincidence, scientifically.    

    I get some “early exai-nts system” vibes from the stuff release in this period.

    On a related note, did anyone ever figure out who was behind the “After the Quake (Sendai 2008)” track credited to just “ICASEA” on the Benefit Compilation for Japan?  I’m guessing it’s a collab, but I still get big bladelores vibes from some of the production.  Whoever it is, it’s another of my favorites from that time period. 
     

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    Ableton Live 11

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    I’ve been using Reaper for ages simply because Live is fucking expensive.  But I may be able to swing it with money from a little gig coming up — which I had initially planned to allocate to some hardware synthery. 

    I like Reaper for straight live recording and it’s nice for mixing. But it doesn’t always feel like a great workflow for working with samples and softsynths with the odd bit of hardware thrown in.  Using Reaktor in Reaper has been a bit awkward, too, and a lot of midi setup seems to just disappear on a whim.

    I dunno, I can try a stripped down version of Live but it’s really the stuff in Suite that seems interesting, but even with the discount it’s fucking pricey.

    Not really sure what I’m saying here. Talk me out of it I guess?

     

    Autechre - PLUS 20.11.20

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    Posted · Edited by baph

    This one is tricky for me and I haven’t been able to sit with it yet as much as I’d like.  But except for the three long tracks (all of which I’m enjoying quite a bit) nothing else feels quite... there yet. It’s not cohering.

    It’s working as a companion to SIGN, maybe even a bit of a foil, but SIGN feels whole and this feels unbalanced, which isn’t a bad thing, just a thing. 

    Something prickly about the track order here that I can’t quite put my finger on.  I’d love it completely if it were an EP with just ecol4, X4, and TM1 open with maybe marhide as a breather somewhere.

    I’ll probably change my mind in a week once I can break out of the prison of my own expectations or whatever.  


     

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by baph

    14 minutes ago, hijexx said:

    Confusion like Joe exhibits is a symptom of cognitive decline regardless of whether you think it's "stupid" to note that or not. I believe you're taking my observation of Joe Biden personally. As far as I know nobody here has said that your symptoms are symptoms of cognitive decline. I wouldn't even know about your sitch if you didn't say something about it.

    I voted for Joe anyway so it wasn't a deal breaker but it's something I'm concerned about. If you're not concerned, that's cool, carry on.

    I don’t take it personally at all. The point is that all of the symptoms you say are evidence of cognitive decline are symptoms of something else, which other people with stammers and disfluency deal with all the time, and which is not indicative of any cognitive impairment. But you’ve made up your mind, so that’s that. 
     

    edit: randomsummer said what I want to say way better than I did 

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by baph

    1 hour ago, randomsummer said:

    Thanks, baph, for sharing.  My stammer definitely sounds more severe than yours, and has evolved quite a bit over my lifetime.  Every time I try and develop strategies to overcome it, it seems to find new ways to circumvent that.  I had it tackled pretty good in my 20s but I've lost ground the older I'm getting (39 now).  Social situations with new people give me so much fucking anxiety because I know what the look on their face will be when they see me stammer for the first or second time.  People aren't mean about it for sure, but every time I see that face on people that gets quickly hidden once they realize my problem and try to hide their confusion, I just feel like a failure.  Not going for sympathy here, it hasn't really held me back at all, I mean I was able to get a PhD in Chemical Engineering and I work for a huge company and have to give presentations to management all the time.  Funny thing is that for me I think it's almost 100% psychological.  When I'm giving big presentations I kind of get in "the zone" where I can speak very well, then when I'm chatting with friends afterward and I get excited it's a total fucking mess lol.

    Regarding BIden, as baph said, I'll guess at least half (if not more) of Biden's mental energy is just going toward speaking when he's giving speeches.  Using the mechanisms he's developed, trying to keep a rhythm, using certain physical movements at key points of speaking like sentence beginnings and certain hard consonants or consonant blends.  The primary goal is to just keep going, just keep going.  Because if you falter and start to stutter, man does it just get fucking worse so quickly from there.  So these "gaffes" probably come from him expending so much energy just speaking, then maybe not finding the right word and faltering and quickly substituting perhaps a wrong word.  In his mind I'm sure saying the wrong word and keeping the speech going is preferable to a stammering blubber.  A good example of that is his famous, "For every man, woman, oh you know the thing..." or whatever gaffe.  I'm telling you 100% he knew he was about to stammer so he just said something that he could say cleanly to keep the rhythm going.

    Glad you wrote that; I know I’m super marginal and I can’t even imagine how much harder it is to evolve coping/corrective strategies with a more persistent/pronounced stammer.  Even with my marginal case I can’t watch Biden speak without recognizing it, which is the only reason I had to chime in — it’s just about the most obvious thing in the world when you can recognize it, and know how exhausting it must be.  

    (also, I’m 39 too and feel like I’ve gotten worse this year after having the issue kind of unnoticeable for most of my working years. And holy shit yeah, can I rattle out a lecture fine (well, sometimes) but then totally bungle a simple sentence to my wife when my guard is down later on. “I’m feedl... the gat-cat food now” or something, lol, which I’ll stew on in my head for hours and she probably didn’t even notice.) 

    Like, guys, this is the one thing that actually makes me sympathetic for Joe Biden.  If you want to criticize on policy that’s fair game, but to call it a symptom of cognitive decline is just stupid. 

    I’m sure a lot of us have dealt with dementia/Alzheimer’s in family members at this point.  I just watched my grandmother go from sharp as tack to completely absent and confused. It’s heartbreaking and it’s obvious when it happens. It’s even heartbreaking to watch in a person you don’t love — even someone like a shitty boss (been there too) or a political opponent. 

    If Biden starts screaming for butterscotch pudding in the middle of a speech, then let’s talk about it.  

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, hijexx said:

    lol ok, every time Biden does this it's just a speech impediment then ? No offense to people who struggle with that problem, not trying to throw shade on you at all or even bring you into the conversation (even if you're doing so yourself) but please just keep an open/critical mind over the next four years on this one.

    flol

    thanks for being a paragon of open mindedness on this issue, I will do my best to live up to your fine example.

     

     

     

     

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by baph

    I’d imagine establishing Trump News Network would be step one given his typical MO, especially with the cracks starting to show in his relationship with Fox.  

    I don’t think the GOP will abandon its current trajectory. Trump wasn’t the cause, he was just the figurehead and an indication of where the Republican base is (and they’re neck deep in that shit).

    Edit: in other words, I don’t see a post-Trump GOP in January; the relationship is still mutually beneficial. Trump however will pivot to whatever platform amplifies his voice loudest, because being the loudest voice in the room and promoting his brand is all he really cares about.

    edit 2: then again, what could be more lucrative than sucking at the udder of a Perpetual Campaign cash cow for the remainder of your life? Can any amoral old politician resist that sweet-sour pull once he has supped upon campaign finance’s fecund tit?

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by baph
    Reason for edit? Dementia probably.

    41 minutes ago, Hugh Mughnus said:

    @baphthank you for sharing your personal experience and sorry you had to go through that (and still struggle). The trumpists focus on that has always really bothered me too. I haven’t seen much chatter about it here though.

    Thank you, dude. I’m definitely not trying to get folks to feel sorry for me; it’s not that serious and not a huge daily struggle, just something that sits in the background and rears its head seemingly only when the embarrassment would be maximized.  It was worse when I was an adolescent and teen and didn’t really know how to deal with it.

    Usually the biggest tell I have is a kind of slurring disfluency, which also seems to be Biden’s major issue.  I feel like that old dude from Jackass sometimes, and I know how dumb it sounds as I’m saying it. Like I’m drunk or brain damaged.

    The stuff that seems more aphasia-y is more rare but really disconcerting when it happens — I know it’s happening in real time too (and Biden’s self-correction shows that he does as well). 

    But at the same time, I hear everyone bungling words all the time, and maybe I’m just self-conscious about it because of the other issues. Maybe it stands out more for people like me and Biden because the speech itself is just off enough to highlight “misspeaking.”

    It’s not like Trump doesn’t do it too, and certainly W was worse than even Biden at getting coherent sentences out. 

    Anyway, my parents never took me to any kind of speech pathologist or anything and I’ve just sort of learned to deal with it, which is fine, but it also means I don’t really have any scientific insight into what’s going on beyond confirming that I’m not in cognitive decline despite sometimes struggling with verbal communication.  

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted

    I absolutely say the exact wrong thing and stumble over word choice.  Half of my thought process is probably devoted to monitoring what’s coming out of my mouth and making sure it’s aligned to what I’m trying to say and that I’m saying it correctly. I can’t remember the last time I actually had a stereotypical st-st-stutter but the spoken word still gets away from me all the time, especially when I’m tired or anxious.  And when things do go awry and I try to self correct it can look even worse. The message gets garbled, I doubt what I said, and sometimes the wrong word comes out.

    I slur words together sometimes, which makes me sound really stupid, and Biden does it too.  The word order in sentences gets garbled, and Biden does that too.  I don’t see a single thing in either of the videoclips posted that I haven’t done, right down to fucking up proper names, which I do every single day and I don’t know why, but when it happens Biden and I both try to self-correct, sometimes disastrously.

     

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by baph

    Man, the stuff about Biden having dementia really rustles my jimmies. I’ve had a mild stutter/stammer all my life, and I can recognize the same issue in his speech patterns. I grew up being called a “retard” and was dumped into remedial classes in frigging kindergarten, with my IQ seriously called into doubt, until a few years later when everyone suddenly noticed that I was actually excelling academically.  

    Getting around the stutter is still a struggle, even after years of public speaking, work as an attorney and a professor, etc.  It still makes me feel stupid, or like I’ve had a stroke, or some kind of aphasia.  And it’s mild for me. 

    I’ve had trouble getting ahead in my professional career because of the first impression I make with interviewers, etc.  

    I don’t particularly care for Biden (although the strategy of running him against Trump was clearly sound), and  have had enough of old white men in the WH (Bernie would be absolutely included).  

    But this line of attack needs to fuck right off.  

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    2020 US Election

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    1 hour ago, sweepstakes said:

    Joe got me verklempt. I can't wait to have a REAL PRESIDENT again. FUCK.

    Just having a normal person saying normal things and doing their part to move the Overton Window back to normal would be great, what with daily Vox pieces currently going “sure Trump is an authoritarian, but he isn’t a fascist because he hasn’t installed a one-party system yet so don’t call him a fascist he’s an illiberal constitutional democrat, don’t say fascist it’s not that yet so it can’t ever be that, it’s not fascism no, that would be like calling every ethnic cleansing a Holocaust, it’s ignorant”

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

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    35 minutes ago, Extralife said:

    You pretty much got it. I grew up the Buckeye State.

    I think Earthquaker Devices is in Akron.  So they’ve got that going for them.  

    That’s all I got here.

    Just now, Rubin Farr said:

    Google is saying 264

    TV is saying 253

    bork

    That’s Arizona, which places like CNN are being cautious about calling too soon. 

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