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| Topic | POLL: Best '90s FPS |
| sellerdore 02/15/22 8:51:32 PM #16 | Answering doom, but man do I love me some Descent. I know a lot of people don't like the 6DOF thing but it was a lot of fun to maneuver around, and it allowed for some really creative level design. Killer soundtrack too Overload, the modern-day successor game built by the same devs, is also excellent and worth your time if you ever liked the Descent games --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | What do you think of virtual real estate? |
| sellerdore 01/31/22 2:07:52 PM #5 | the book Snow Crash deals with this issue pretty interestingly. IIRC, there's like a central "band"/"road' that extends infinitely in both directions, and then virtual real estate branches off of it, also infinitely. But properties that are closer to the central band are more valuable It's been a while since I read it, so may be getting the details wrong, but it was very cool --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | Post your top 10 favorite music artists |
| sellerdore 01/17/22 11:49:00 AM #30 | hmm like all time? maybe... Jon Hopkins Aphex Twin Buckethead Tycho Purity Ring Opeth In Flames Porter Robinson Rival Consoles Four Tet --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | What do you people think of The Weeknd's new album? |
| sellerdore 01/07/22 6:18:27 PM #3 | added it to my list of stuff to listen to later! seems like a number of solid producers are involved. e.g. Oneohtrix Point Never --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | ITT: Post an odd fact about yourself |
| sellerdore 12/18/21 1:36:26 AM #29 | Since middle school I've built up a pretty large digital music library (I do still buy/DL all of my music), which is just over ~9000 songs now. I'm also extremely anal about the metadata (which I partially attribute to my increased interest in last.fm data tracking) and have spent many, many late nights tracking down proper the names/years of various releases, as well as album art and what not. --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | Apple Music has one of the most egregious UI no-nos I've seen in an app |
| sellerdore 12/02/21 12:15:16 AM #4 | cuh posted... Today has not been a good day for us Apple Music users my heart is heavy for your lossLol, guessing you're referencing all the "wrapped" stuff. Well at least I track my listening via last.fm, so I do have pretty good listening stats I can look at whenever I want. But even they don't generate their annual reports until after Dec 31... So I don't have anything to share today --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | Apple Music has one of the most egregious UI no-nos I've seen in an app |
| sellerdore 12/02/21 12:10:50 AM #1 | https://i.imgur.com/jrfnGu4.png When you right-click anywhere in the (quite giant) header of any playlist, the very first option in the context menu is "Remove Download". This feature removes local downloads of any song in the playlist that is associated with your account. This isn't quite as bad as it sounds, since these songs can simply be re-downloaded. However, for playlists with 1000s of songs this can mean a significant chunk of time and bandwidth lost to this action. And given the ubiquitous prevalence of "fat finger" mistakes with humans in general, it should be pretty obvious that the top of a right-click context menu -- mere pixels away from where a user just clicked -- is going to be susceptible to misclicks. Even worse when you find out that there isn't even a Yes/No confirmation dialog; it just goes rgiht ahead with the nuke. The icing on the cake is that any locally downloaded song removed by this method is ALSO automatically removed from every single other playlist that it exists in. So all the playlists you've painstakingly accumulated over years just got eviscerated. In other news, I am seriously pissed off at my cat right about now... (Before someone says "lol why are you still using Apple Music you idiot", I have my reasons... Playlist creation/management being one of them. The UI is just definitely very much NOT a reason.) --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | What old video game would you want remastered to perfection ? |
| sellerdore 11/16/21 7:15:56 PM #32 | Prime Trilogy! My dream would be Prime done in the idTech engine (DOOM 2016/Eternal /Wolfenstein etc) but obvs that won't happen. Honestly with remastered assets the Prime Trilogy could compete with many modern games for immersion --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | When should I watch The Animatrix if I'm going through the series? |
| sellerdore 11/15/21 12:49:34 PM #12 | it's intended to be the connective tissue between 1 and Reloaded, I believe. In fact IIRC one of the shorts is a direct prequel to the initial, inciting plot point of Reloaded. --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | Post folk/acoustic/chill music here |
| sellerdore 11/14/21 10:50:39 AM #54 | How about this? Kings of Convenience - I Don't Know What I Can Save You From (Ryksopp Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTlr0t_7dnk --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | 5 years later, how is Xbox Game Pass? |
| sellerdore 10/19/21 8:00:19 PM #4 | GallisOTK posted... Really good.we call that the "kaepora gaebora" https://media.giphy.com/media/AxdEgrzNMzC5G/giphy.gif --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | Some weird music I like |
| sellerdore 10/19/21 7:48:11 PM #15 | I know this topic seems to be metal-leaning, but hopefully there's some interest in some cool electronic stuff that's off the beaten path, so to speak. KOAN Sound - Intercept (this one does have metal influences, so that's why I put it first) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWZsLegslJw Aleph - Noise Floor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ZALqr4to0 Machinedrum - Inner Ear (feat. Chrome Sparks) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp7JkxeyzJs And to end on something groovy, Frequent - Ganymede Station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paac9SJnGOU --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | California topic |
| sellerdore 10/15/21 3:34:27 PM #32 | Heading back there next weekend actually! 5-year alumni reunion at Stanford (well, technically 6 years, but COVID.) I was there also about a month ago for Second Sky fest in Oakland. Loved the Bay Area and the time I spent there. --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | Currently re-reading Wheel of Time, just got to book 5 (spoils thru book 4) |
| sellerdore 10/11/21 1:04:09 AM #4 | ThePieReborn posted... I will say that 19 year old me found the last three books by Sanderson to be a satisfying conclusion. I don't have the best recollection of the actual books, but I remember going to sleep at 6 AM on a Saturday very satisfied after having finished A Memory of Light.Nice! Yeah, from reading general sentiment online, I get the sense that the ending was at the very least a suitable conclusion, which is heartening to see. --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | Currently re-reading Wheel of Time, just got to book 5 (spoils thru book 4) |
| sellerdore 10/11/21 12:38:38 AM #2 | Tangentially, I watched the trailer for the Wheel of Time Amazon prime TV show adaptation, and I'm ... whelmed? I mean, it certainly has potential, and I can vibe with the casting for the most part, but it does come across as trite and/or trying to fill the void of GoT... I'm worried that the budget/audience won't be able to reach the proper scope of the series. I mean, it does start out relatively quaint in the Two Rivers, and the plot is overall more character-driven than "world"-driven like, say, LoTR (I would say it's halfway between LotR and GoT in that respect) but there's some proper high fantasy epic shit going on throughout the series as well. Even so... I do remind myself that even the production value of GoT season 1 was limited by its budget in ways that later seasons were not, so I will hold out hope that it turns out good! In the meantime I'll probably tune into the TV adaptation of one of my other favorite childhood series (Foundation) ... --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | Are you waiting on any new albums? |
| sellerdore 10/09/21 1:27:33 PM #13 | Yep, really looking forward to Jon Hopkins - Music for Psychedelic Therapy (November) and Rival Consoles - Overflow (December). Both in the ambient/electronica space EDIT -- As for recent albums, I've really liked Fred again.. - Actual Life, DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors, and Kunzite - Visuals --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | Currently re-reading Wheel of Time, just got to book 5 (spoils thru book 4) |
| sellerdore 10/09/21 1:23:47 PM #1 | When I was much younger I had read up until Jordan's last book, but when he died I was skeptical that the series would be properly finished, so I never finished it. Now I'm giving it a shot again (especially after having read Sanderson's original work), and really enjoying it. I mean, it's chock-full of common Tokien-esque fantasy tropes of the time; like, the "Dark One", orc-like bad guys (Trollocs), lethal black-robed agents of the dark (Myrdraal), simple farmer becoming a 'chosen one' type, etc etc. But it's like, Jordan has produced the best-quality version of those tropes, so I don't mind it at all. Right now, I especially am enjoying the Forsaken characters and their role in the story. Again, very trope-y to have some elite group of evil magic-users that are the "mini bosses" of the story... But the way that they are weaved into the pattern (lol) of the story is really cool. Like for example, in book 4, how one of the Forsaken just kinda steps into the story as an unnamed woman and compels Nynaeve and Elayne to tell her everything they've been doing, and then blocks their memory. That episode/scene is then not referenced for several chapters until a pivotal moment where Nynaeve is suddenly able to remember it again, and it's like, Holy shit, that was Modeghien! (Who up until that point, unless I'm misremembering, had not been introduced to the reader yet) And of course, the 'reveal' at the end of the book, where Rand is able to trick Lanfear and sever Asmodean from the Dark One's influence -- again, just a really cool scene that raises the stakes of the story and makes you want to know what kind of crazy shit Rand is going to get into by learning from one of the Forsaken. Just goes to show... You don't always need to be flouting common convention in a given genre "Game of Thrones" style in order to be compelling. With enough narrative/writing skill and a unique perspective, you can make most any type of plot device work --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | So, where does one buy MP3s (or similar) these days? |
| sellerdore 09/30/21 4:09:47 PM #18 | Even though I use Apple Music for my library, I've stopped using their store to purchase. Bandcamp is my first choice always, but if not available there, then Amazon, or maybe beatport --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | For anyone into the rave-y side of electronic music, here's a Jon Hopkins set |
| sellerdore 09/29/21 6:29:48 PM #6 | I saw Hopkins back in 2018 and this guy DJ Seinfeld opened for him -- his new album Mirrors is a seriously sweet vibe, highly recommend: https://djseinfeld.bandcamp.com/album/mirrors --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | For anyone into the rave-y side of electronic music, here's a Jon Hopkins set |
| sellerdore 09/28/21 6:31:30 PM #5 | TheGoldenEel posted... I dont typically do drugs so live dj sets dont interest me too muchOh I am by no means a festival go-er ... For most of my life I've enjoyed music primarily through headphones. I've only been to a handful of live concerts/festivals in my life, and as far as drugs, at most I've done edibles for certain shows. However, I'm a massive Jon Hopkins fan, and several of the artists on the Second Sky lineup (including Porter Robinson, the headliner) are known for having live sets that are highly curated experiences that go beyond what you'd hear on the album. (Which was definitely the case) FWIW, Jon Hopkins' material does indeed sound good in quality headphones -- really masterful sound design on his last two albums especially --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | For anyone into the rave-y side of electronic music, here's a Jon Hopkins set |
| sellerdore 09/28/21 5:04:34 PM #3 | CRON posted... The forced "I need to be doing something" dancing made me cringetbh the dude's just vibin --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | For anyone into the rave-y side of electronic music, here's a Jon Hopkins set |
| sellerdore 09/26/21 6:35:57 PM #1 | Behold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSzxxQByQbI I was fortunate enough to be at second sky (day 1 though) to see this live. Unreal Surprisingly this was only my 2nd favorite despite Jon being one of the reasons I got tix in the first place. Madeon's Good Faith Forever show blew everything else away! --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | Seeing a live concert again was so amazing. |
| sellerdore 09/16/21 10:45:46 PM #14 | I'm going to Second Sky festival this weekend in Oakland, run by Porter Robinson and featuring a bunch of great electronic acts. Particularly pumped for Jon Hopkins - should be an amazing day, can't wait! --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | What is the best movie to watch while drunk |
| sellerdore 09/04/21 7:17:41 PM #14 | NecroFoul99 posted... I got drunk while watching Mulholland Drive for the first time.Coincidentally, I watched that movie at like, 6am, hungover in bed after a night drinking. Not sure why I did that, but I was definitely in a weird mental state -- waking up with the sunrise, not quite sober and a little disoriented -- and it definitely messed me up too (in a good way). --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | time travelers must sound fucking insane lmao |
| sellerdore 08/30/21 3:48:20 PM #3 | You should watch 12 Monkeys! Great/often overlooked sci fi movie with Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, a few others. It deals with this exact thing --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
| Topic | Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point has been shut down for the rest of the year |
| sellerdore 08/20/21 11:31:10 AM #5 | Oh wow, that's one of my favorite rides there. Surreal to go on it at sunset/night --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 |
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