etherphon

I too missed out, I played Phantasy Star Universe on the PC some years after it came out, the single player campaigns were still a lot of fun though but it was such a cool universe I’m sure online play was pretty rad.

Fuck off to mars already.

I’ve used it and it’s nice but I still prefer to have the actual modules in front of me to patch, and there is something going on with the circuitry of the non-DSP modules that make it a bit special. There’s some subtle modulations and such. Software does attempt to emulate this with complex maths and circuit models but it doesn’t seem quite the same to me personally.

Sure you can do everything in software, there’s some great sounding virtual synths nowadays. I prefer the tactility of hardware and just plugging this into that and seeing what happens, away from a computer which has taken over virtually every other aspect of life. Plus blinky lights pretty lol. I don’t use a computer for anything except to record a stereo mix. It’s mostly just to unwind and space out anyways. If I wanted to put together a song with a traditional structure I would probably use a computer. Anyways, I guess a lot of people also feel that way because the market for new hardware synthesizers has been expanding for years now, seems like there’s more new stuff coming out all the time, there’s a lot of boutique makers in the analogue and modular spaces, guitar pedals as well.

I’ve been finally realizing my dream of having a home studio filled with all sorts of synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, effects, mixers, etc. Pretty frustrating since now that electronic music has been incorporated into mostly every genre and there are also a lot of collectors all the now vintage pieces that my favorite artists used back in the day are priced insanely out of reach. Upside is there is a ton of cool new stuff coming out, too much cool new stuff.

Of all the things how’s a father/daughter Spaceballs Halloween costume duo gonna make me kinda regret not having kids lol. Really clever and adorbs.

Thanks haha, I was never really rah rah into reddit itself but it had a lot of cool niche subs for hobbies and such and that’s where I spent most of my time not even in the default or political subs.

For wishing an old man would have a heart attack and leave the world peacefully.

Wasted 15 years on that site to be banned for one fucking comment, burn baby burn.

Feels like they’ve been adding more ads, but still they have a ton of stuff, the movie selection is far better than most services particularly if you like not so new movies.

I’ll treat myself to some takeout tonight, what should I get? I dunno, let’s think about it until everything is closed.

Ah somehow I thought we had passed that time, granted its been probably 40 years since I’ve seen the cartoon. I don’t think I’ll make it 37 more years lol. But then as HST says, too weird to live, too rare to die.

First no flying cars now this, the Jetsons really set me up for disappointment.

Cultural force? There is no culture today, it’s all just recycled garbage.

Tired of sacrificing? Try sacrificing with enchanted apps!

I don’t really like much of anything Google is doing with Android but the UI refresh does look pretty nice even on my old 6a.

I assumed that’s why they all started to get into drugs and burning man and all of that, to try to be interesting and cool.

Of course there’s always lots of cool stuff going on in the fringes but as far as mainstream society goes with this consolidation of power and wealth and so many mergers eating up any decent competition it does seem pretty bleak. I’ve pretty much eschewed any new stuff from big tech for a while now, it’s was very sad to watch the web turn into a place of such open and creative expression into what it is today full of rigid standards, bloated frameworks, bots, AI, endless advertising, bland design, spam, spam, spam, bacon, eggs and spam.

Those of you of a certain age like myself have to feel like you are eating crazy pills at the current state of things, it’s almost like they are building some kind of… new… world… order. Something they fucking were talking about being some evil government/Democrat plot for decades now. What a ride. Did not see Trump at the head of it though.

The movies at Cannes don’t even have to make sense really, it’s a celebration of art, film, the spirit of human creativity, of humanity. It’s a bit of a slap in the face imo.