Underwaterbob
@Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
- Comment on Relatable 1 week ago:
Maybe we should be trying less hard to not hurt ourselves. 😝
- Comment on Relatable 1 week ago:
I stumbled a few months back stepping over a rope that was about fifteen centimeters off the ground and cracked a rib or something. I didn’t even fall, just kinda leaned forward the wrong way a bit. Pain for weeks.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, a good example of auto-correct being - as is more typical - useless.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 3 weeks ago:
I feel like it’s gotten better. I certainly don’t miss the days of “definately”. I feel like that one was everywhere. Its death is maybe the one good thing auto-correct did for the world.
- Comment on Do it 3 weeks ago:
Belly Dance in my ass.
- Comment on What TV series or seasons you've watched do you think needed a rewrite? Or any TV series taken a writing turn you didn't expect? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I remember the episode where they go faster than warp 10 (an impossibility by Trek’s own lore) and Janeway and Paris “evolve” into lizards that make babies. It’s terrible, but I’m actually kind of looking forward to it to alleviate the boredom.
- Comment on What TV series or seasons you've watched do you think needed a rewrite? Or any TV series taken a writing turn you didn't expect? 4 weeks ago:
I’m trying to get through Voyager again, and Trek writing really took a nose dive after Deep Space 9. Not that TNG or DS9 were perfect or anything, far from it, but Voyager just doesn’t seem to earn any of its emotional moments like those that made TNG and DS9 great.
It feels like they shot all of season 1 at the same time, and then just shuffled the episode order or something. After the premiere, everyone is slotted neatly in their places. There’s a little bit about Torres having to earn her keep as head engineer, but that’s it. Everyone just automatically accepted Chakotay as first officer. There’s talk of Maquis and Federation conflict in the crew, but we don’t see any.
They seem determined to focus on Neelix and Kess who are quite possibly the blandest pairing ever conceived in Trek. It’s just all so mediocre compared to the last couple of seasons of DS9 which were legitimately great. It’s taking me forever to get through season 1 because I’m just not motivated to watch it at all anymore.
I thought I liked it more than this, but I guess it has been a few years since the last time I watched it.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I love Morphine, and “happy” is quite possibly the last adjective I would use to describe them. Some of it’s kind of playful maybe.
- Comment on 6 years and 1 prolonged delay later, Xbox is still calling "incredible" Hollow Knight: Silksong one of its "upcoming games" 1 month ago:
Power to them. I’m sure Hollow Knight made them all independently wealthy. I’d be hard pressed to bother to work too hard, too.
- Comment on New social experiment 4 months ago:
/stuff/stuff stuff/
Source: myself a number of years ago…
- Comment on Okami sequel - Project Teaser Trailer 4 months ago:
Well honestly, I’ve got enough Steam games to last me the rest of my life probably. If I ever really get the urge to play Okami again and it’s still not available here, I’ll explore my yo-ho-ho options. Still, I’d rather throw them the $5 the price regularly gets down to on Steam for the convenience.
- Comment on Okami sequel - Project Teaser Trailer 4 months ago:
Still waiting for the first to be available on PC in Korea. It’s weird. They registered it here, then never released it. No clue why not.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 5 months ago:
I don’t mind. Fewer choices. It’s only on Epic? It doesn’t exist.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 5 months ago:
Weird they’re forward thinking enough to let people code oscillators and effects for their synths, but so backwards as to make the software you have to use to get access to those synths horribly out of date and painful to use.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 5 months ago:
Next time I boot up my pc, all usb devices are mixed again
Oh shit, really?!? I only did it the once to update the firmware on the NTS-3. Whelp! Guess I won’t be coding any LogueSDK anytime soon if I’m not even going to be able to transfer the results to the machine without a huge pile of hassle. Kinda baffling anyone is coding for it.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 5 months ago:
Haha! No, I understand. I rave about something I like, too, and then immediately feel like a salesperson or something. I’m not a power user exactly, but I can usually figure things out pretty quickly and have no trouble typing commands into a terminal and slinging a little code. I’ll have to look into what kind of audio people are doing in Linux and see where it takes me.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 5 months ago:
Haha! I was not prepared. I got an NTS-3 recently, and Korg’s own software wouldn’t recognize it if it wasn’t in the first ten MIDI devices in Windows. I had to delete MIDI devices until it got low enough on the list. The 10-MIDI device limit hasn’t been a thing for, uhh, decades? I was planning on coding some LogueSDK, but the initial experience has killed almost all desire I have to do that anymore.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 5 months ago:
Yeah, it’s pretty stupid my machine isn’t capable of running 11. It’s a fairly modern machine. AMD 5600X, RTX 3080. 32gb of RAM. I guess it might just be some bios setting I’d need to change to make it compatible, but I have heard precisely nothing about 11 that makes me want to actually do that. Hopefully Microsoft will follow their trend and 12 will actually be good. I doubt it, though.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 5 months ago:
Well, the PC isn’t used only as a DAW, so I might still need Linux as opposed to FreeBSD. I’ve been running some form of Linux for a long time, now. I’ve never tried FreeBSD. Don’t even know what it is, actually.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 5 months ago:
Reaper is my DAW of choice, actually. I haven’t tried it in Linux, though.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 5 months ago:
I’ve got an Oxi One and go “DAWless” occasionally, but I find it very limiting compared to what can be done in a DAW. I just have to hope Reaper works well in Linux. MIDI routing and what-not is pretty fickle with some of my hardware, now. (Not to mention some software that doesn’t work at all in Linux, like Korg’s dinosaurific software used to edit NTS-3 settings and patches.) It’s a bit terrifying to think what’s going to happen with an entirely new OS.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 5 months ago:
I had just hit the button on a recording session last night, and a fucking full page “ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE EOL OF WINDOWS 10!!” (paraphrased) popped up over my DAW. Yeah, I’m prepared alright Microsoft. I’ve got a flash drive with Linux ready to install if you keep pulling shit like this. It’s going to suck because a lot of audio software developers are garbage with Linux support, but if Windows is just as garbage, there’s no reason not to migrate.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 6 months ago:
Hmm. I made no effort to advertise at all. I came during the Rexodus last year after the API kerfuffle. Initially, it seemed promising, and I didn’t think I’d need to, but activity died down quite quickly. I’ve never moderated a community before or anything like that. I certainly don’t want to it to become a full time job. I have enough of those.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 6 months ago:
Welcome!
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 6 months ago:
Welcome to the club!
- Comment on Read-onlys are cancer. Post stuff you want to see. 6 months ago:
To everyone saying that someone has already said what they want to say: post anyway. You’d be surprised how significant tiny differences in perspective can be.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 6 months ago:
I did. There’s almost zero engagement. My most popular thread is a meta narrative about me being in there talking to myself. There were at least two other attempts that are even more inactive. Not enough of y’all are into synthesizers.
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 6 months ago:
There’s a Julia Donaldson - Axel Scheffler children’s book called “Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book” in which the sound a frog makes is “reddit”.
- Comment on hard to argue with 6 months ago:
I think you’ll notice both of those places have very low birth rates these days. Almost like people don’t enjoy being crammed in like sardines and having to compete in the workplace like rats fighting over the last rotting morsels.
- Comment on Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release 6 months ago:
I’m sick of this magnetic tape revival! It’s happening in music, too. People releasing cassettes again. It was good for its time, yes, but it’s a shitty, failure prone medium.