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I didn't know for sure in what thread to post this but I guess it kind of fits.
Two World Maps in Cartogram form showing population density and GDP density. (based on data from 2016)
Pretty cool. (or not cool, because of the inequality obviously)
Here's a normal map btw:-
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4 hours ago, usagi said:
this was a stupid post. Blasphemous ended up being one of my favourite games from that year. people should stop using the term "metroidvania", it says nothing about what a game has or doesn't have to offer other than that it's a 2-d sidescroller with combat.
speaking of which, Dead Cells just got an update.
Yeah the term Metroidvania is kinda dumb.
It expects you to know what kind of gameplay Metroid and Castlevania have.
It's not a very descriptive term.
Some other video game genres have the same problem: Souls-like, Rogue-lite, Doom-clone,...
I haven't seen an alternative term for Metroidvanias yet.
These are what I think are core elements:
• large interconnected dungeon-like/maze-like world
• locked doors/gates/hazards/challenges require certain skills/upgrades
• lots of secret areas with smaller upgrades
• explore at will, exploration is rewarded
• non-linear
• backtracking after getting a big upgrade
• gradual difficulty when only following the main path
• side paths are more difficult but can be used as cool skips
• usually side-scrolling view
• lots of platforming, overcoming them better and better using movement skills/upgrades
• lots of combat, overcoming them better and better using fighting skills/upgrades
• sometimes small puzzles or small challenges to get smaller upgrades
• a simple map
• different environments
• challenging bosses
• character progression
• emphasis more on gameplay, somewhat less on story
• almost any narrative setting is possible
I feel like a descriptive term might be too long.
Exploration-Action-Platform-RPG ? -
gf decided to watch Fate: The Winx Saga (2021-...) cause she used to watch Winx Club as a kid.
Well, it's absolute shite. Complete and utter trash. The writing is abysmal. The dialogue is unreal.
Some real quotes form the first episode:
• "Quit perving on the first years."
• "Must be emasculating to be replaced by a teenage girl."
• "I have to be a basic bitch like my mom was."
• "She’s crazy hot but the emphasis is squarely on crazy."
• "- I mean, it's five girls in an enclosed space, so it's a matter of time before we descend into a Lord of the Flies situation and kill each other. - Lady of the Flies, sweetie. Don't be sexist."
• "Don't you feminist with me."
• "How very American of you. Shall we?"
• "And yet I saw no less than three people updating their Insta stories."
• "Are you the one person in the universe who's never read Harry Potter?"
• "People have seen me in this outfit already."
• "I'm literally your biggest fan."
• "Probably shouldn't have said arsehole in front of the headmistress!"
• "I literally went out earlier today."-
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World - Map of country 14-day covid-19 case notification rates per 100.000.
Europe - Map of provincial 14-day covid-19 case notification rates per 100.000.
USA - Map of county 14-day covid-19 case notification rates per 100.000.
World - Map of country Total Deaths per 1.000.000.
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What I can find on the net:
- Their last release was Vytear - Kingtrips EP2 Cat#OR0027 on 15 Jan 2020.
- On 16 April 2020 they announced on facebook a new distribution partnership with Morr Music, also making all their releases digitally available on boomkat, spotify, apple music, tidal, deezer,...
- On their Soundcloud it says they're not accepting demos at this time.-
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4 hours ago, headplastic said:
- Would you consider the IDM community a diverse social space? Is it a cohesive community or fragmented in some way?
- What constitutes "popular music" in this digital age? Is IDM popular music?
- Does the online underground exist? What kind of impact does it have on listeners?
Okay, I'm just going on a hunch here. Just what I think. I have done no research in the matter.
I'm not sure there even is a clear-cut IDM community. Isn't it just people who happen to be attracted to the same kind of music? I feel like the IDM community is rather small pockets of friends, or acquaintances finding out about a common love for the same kind of music, or even just individuals, rather splintered over the real world. More-so, I think they find connection on specific places on the internet (like WATMM I guess), or on gigs of IDM-like artists, or on festivals which happen to cater IDM-like music, or on certain record labels. My guess is that it's not a very diverse community. However I do think it's splintered over the world making it somewhat diverse, but only a little bit. I think there are some common parameters among people who like to listen to IDM-like music. Maybe it has to do with something going on in the brain, the heart (however, that's the brain too), something cultural, the background in music, upbringing, certain patterns in (electronic) music? IDM to me is not a clearly defined genre of music. IDM might have some sort of core concept, but I personally find it to be more eclectic, experimental, fuzzy. I think it uses, incorporates, molds and experiments with other music genres. I think closely-related electronic music genres borrow from IDM too. I feel, more recently, Pop music also borrows a bit from IDM & co. I wouldn't define IDM as popular music though. Very few people seem to know of the term IDM, or only know of one or only a few IDM-like artists. Most popular radio stations don't play IDM, or very few of it. I feel like one almost has to actively search for IDM-like music to find it, or find out about it. Me personally, I only first found out about IDM from an Art Teacher who played music in the background from Lusine (L'usine) during some of the art lessons.
I'm not sure if this helps in any way. Just my two cents.
I could be completely wrong though.
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7 hours ago, Nebraska said:
full list of pardons served up hot off the stove. even Harry O from death row records gets the T pardon treatment.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-012021/
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Trump might as well just release all prisoners from jail. Why even have jails or courts?
Really WTF. This is beyond insane. How is this legal/constitutional?
Nobody should be above the law.-
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18 hours ago, onecaseman said:
I could not figure out what to do and kept dying, so turned it off LOL.
You can choose a different mode at the start which turns off Hunger and Water requirements.
The game is challenging enough with those, so I can recommend playing that way. (On your second play-through you could try playing with hunger and thirst.)
I also suggest drawing a Map for yourself with your base / starting location in the centre and with the big crashed ship to the right.
This helps immensely. As you can get lost very easily, especially when it's dark.
Mark the different Biomes on this map. They contain different materials, creatures and plants. They are key to your progress.
Try to find all crashed escape pods. They will give you hints and progress the underlying story. They will also help you find new biomes.
And explore every new wreck you find completely. This way you'll be able to unlock all sorts of cool new stuff, allowing you to get new tools, base expansions, etc...
Most importantly upgrades allow you to dive deeper and deeper...
Diving deeper = Progress in this game. Really cool and innovative design imo.
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10 hours ago, usagi said:
my hot tip for this one: allow yourself to type in reddit.com in your browser when you feel the urge, allow yourself to click Go, allow the page to load even, and then close it without looking at anything. for some reason deflecting the urge this way worked for me. it may take several weeks of doing this but eventually you'll forget about it, your brain will start to regrow as you stop taking insta-opinions from the ADD college kid hivemind.
I think youtube, which doesn't fall in quite the same category as FB or Twitter but is definitely at the forefront of disinformation propagation, is the hardest one to beat overall. I'm not going to kill my yt account with my 5000+ favourites playlist that I've built over 13 years. at least it's easier not to engage with others on it but there is so much bullshit content and their leadership doesn't care at all.
I didn't have an immediate improvement and there was a cost to pay in terms of my social life, but I decided that if a connection could not be maintained without FB then it was an acceptable cost given the bigger problem. over time unplugging from that shit helped realign some of my perceptions. that was a few years ago, shortly after Cambridge Analytica which I naively thought would have been the nail in the coffin for a lot more people but which was basically ignored.
About YouTube:
Use an Extension/Add-On like Clean Up Youtube.
It allows you to:
Only watch your subscriptions -or- videos linked from watmm.-
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On 1/18/2021 at 1:40 AM, onecaseman said:
I beat Resident Evil 3 remake. I thought it was great, so I don't get the hate. Yeah, it is shorter than RE2, but pretty fun. I think I'm going with Subnautica next since people seem to be suggesting to wait on Fallen Order until I can get my hands on a PS5.
Loved Subnautica. Underwater Exploration. Immersive. Mystery. Survival. Crafting. -
4 hours ago, ignatius said:
lol+facepalm+sadface @ that tweet of Mike Pence:
"I’m proud to report with just a few days left in our Administration, our Administration is the first in decades that did not get America into a new war. That’s Peace through Strength."
Isn't it just plain sad that not starting a war (or for that matter being involved in an undemocratic foreign regime change) in a period of 4 years is now seen as an accomplishment?
Well, maybe it actually is sort of an accomplishment if you take a glance at this:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
Also, they almost started a war in their own country, and attempted a coup in their own country.
So... yeah...
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11 minutes ago, rhmilo said:
Wandering Earth (2019), a Chinese hit film based on a Liu Cixin (he of Three Body Problem fame) short story.Lots of explosions, people screaming and cgi. Entertaining, though.
omglol @ the short description on IMDB:
"As the sun is dying out, people all around the world build giant planet thrusters to move Earth out of its orbit and sail Earth to a new star system. Yet the 2500-year journey comes with unexpected dangers, and in order to save humanity, a group of young people in this age of a wandering Earth fight hard for the survival of humankind." -
Watching The Boys (2019)
It's okay. I kinda like it. Maybe a bit overhyped though.
I do like the idea that most superheroes evolve from wanting to better the world as a child, to becoming absolute a-holes who abuse their powers once they start working for corporate, and for some only later on understanding their mistakes.
I imagine this is what would happen if there were indeed superheroes in the real world.
Power corrupts.
However, one major oversight most superhero movies/shows/comics have imo:
In a world with policing superheroes people with less-than-honourable intentions would probably figure that traditional crime is just too risky, and that cyber-crime is the best way to go... There seem to be very little Cyber-Crime Superheroes...
Just like in the real world: "Cyber-Crime already surpasses Traditional Crime, in terms of impact and monetary cost..." -
Some scientific but clear info about those Covid-19 virus mutations making headlines in the news:
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Star Wars - Battlefront II (2017) is free on Epic Games this week.
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/star-wars-battlefront-2/home
Bomber Crew (2017) is free on Humble Bundle.
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/bomber-crew-free-game-
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On 1/13/2021 at 11:10 PM, toaoaoad said:
What's with all the deftones hate? Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you need to be a prick about it
Oh wait this is watmm
Short Answer: It's the internet.
But I feel like WATMM is still quite well moderated in that regard.
Sure there are some new trolls, haters, shit-posts and even heavy insults from time to time but they tend to get moderated / banned, as one can always report replies or ignore users.
I don't think rudeness online in general will ever really change. That's the nature of the beast.
In this case here I think the comments were quite tame. (no direct insults to you?)-
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On 1/13/2021 at 8:06 PM, perunamuusi said:
CN - NU (2014) is the best album from that whole period though so all of these lists are void
Sorry
Mods please delete thread
It's in the top 5 of 2014 according to WATMM. I love that album too.
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On 1/13/2021 at 1:37 AM, toaoaoad said:
So did you only count the ones that had two or more nominations? I don't see the Jonas Munk album on your list
Jonas Munk (Manual) - Minimum Resistance has 1 nomination. (toaoaoad)
Full list is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15K9YXfSWbGORA6juBPnx9u0DDti2P8geEMhnEg6BoNU/edit#gid=0On 1/13/2021 at 2:28 AM, perunamuusi said:Does anyone have a list of all the album of the year winners (or top 3) of every year that watmm has compiled such a list?
For the years 2011 to 2021 I use WATMM as a base for my big-ass list of music:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C4EuNqCyg6AmScJXHWXEdDvah4IRPcojjyX49gyTqZ0/edit#gid=29851072-
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On 1/13/2021 at 12:55 AM, perunamuusi said:
so let me get this straight, deftones got more than zero nominations
Yup, deftones got at least 4. (Zephyr_Nova, toaoaoad, kirm, beerwolf, scumtron)
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On 1/12/2021 at 10:14 PM, demo said:
Bit late but these are my personal favourite albums of the year
1. Figueroa (aka. Amon Tobin) - The World As We Know It
2. Wagon Christ - Recepticon
3. Autechre - Onesix
4. Squarepusher - Be Up a Hello
5. Autechre - SIGN & PLUS
6. Daniel Avery - Love + Light
7. Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic
8. John Frusciante - MayaI'll add these to the list.
On 1/12/2021 at 11:16 PM, Ivan Ooze said:so let me get this straight, arca - kick(i) didn't even get 3 nominations
As of now it has 2 nominations. (Ivan Ooze, Ayya Khema)
On 1/12/2021 at 11:23 PM, Ivan Ooze said:would add playboi carti - whole lotta red to my list 2
not joking
Adding it to the list.
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2 hours ago, Echolalia said:
Using CEMU? What controls are you using Maarten?
Yup Cemu 1.22.4.
Game is Europe v208.
Xbox 360 controller emulating the Wii U GamePad with Xbox One UI Complete GUI mod.
I use my phone as a gyroscope for some puzzles. (MotionSource apk)
Mods / Graphics Packs:
- Camera: Classic FOV
- Enhancements: Clarity Serfrost's Preset (Dim Display), No Depth of Field
- Graphics: Resolution (2560x1440)
- FPS++: Camera Sensitivity (1.4x), Day Length (48 minutes)
- OpenGL Workarounds: Nvidia Explosion Smoke, Nvidia Stretched Clouds, LWZX Crash
Looks and plays better on PC than on WiiU/Switch imo. -
We're continuing our playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017). (on pc, lol)
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Maybe, but most dead people in this thread are remembered for their contributions to entertainment as a whole but also for their contributions to our own enjoyment, not?
When an aspiring artist dies young, is it not natural to think of what more they could have accomplished and could have brought in terms of enjoyment to our lives?