pieceofcrazy

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

I’m trying to use this whole reddit madness to quit using the internet for anything that isn’t intentional. The fact that I’m here writing a comment shows that it’s not going perfectly, but so far reducing the time I spend scrolling or watching YouTube has definitely improved my headspace.

The simple act of not using my phone or any other screen until I get out of home in the morning makes me so much more energetic and my mind more clear.

It’s a fucking addiction and most of us have it without realizing. The horrible part is that quitting cuts you out of so much stuff, but it really is worth it.

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

I’m not OP and no, TikTok is absolutely a no-go for me. I couldn’t care less about trends tbh.

I don’t think giving up completely is the goal, it’s just a temporary measure. When you’re used to spending two hours a day on YouTube, you can’t just watch a video because then you’ll just watch another and another and another for two hours

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

Some months ago I had a Tetris phase and it was super fun! I had never tried to play it in a more hardcore way, let alone multiplayer, and it’s simply the perfect arcade game

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

I don’t quite get how a “collective art piece” could get “hijacked”. If it can be hijacked than it’s only collective and collaborative for the ones that Reddit likes.

Of course this is the only way they could present it, but as far as I’m concerned the cool thing about r/place, in principle, is that you can see the chaos of the world, with opposite views, opinions, goals, tastes, interests sharing the same space, the same place, and interacting with each other.

I’d much rather see swastikas alongside sickles and hammers, stickmen being murdered alongside unicorns, dirty jokes alongside the Mona Lisa, than this corporate PR stunt.

I think it also shows that the protests have been somehow successful. Sure, Reddit won’t fail, but if they decided to do another r/Place it’s only because they know how loved it is by the community and hope to make people forget about the disaster.

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

Damn I didn’t know about it and now I want it!

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

I didn’t know soulseek and downloaded music for the first time in ages, tried listening to some FLACs of songs I only ever streamed and damn now I think I understand audiophiles

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

I read a lot of people claiming that waterproofing technology has come to a point where this isn’t too much of an issue, but that’s as far as my knowledge goes

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

I think I only saw a trailer when it was announced. It looked kina horrible to be honest, but after reading this I’m imagining it like one of those games that are kind of bad by usual standards and that you can’t really recommend to anyone like you would recommend any other game, but that is just so unique and special in its own way that it sticks with you. Something like Pathologic maybe, but without the depression

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

I’m lazy, so I was hoping to find some comics-specific tool that searches the web for the right filenames.

I remember there being something like that for games on the Wii homebrew channel when I was a kid. You would select it from the menu and it would look online for the right name and cover

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

Yes but not really? I’m really struggling to remember my dreams, but I have a recurring dream of not having any balance but acting as if everything is ok. It’s a dream I had a lot as a kid, and then started having it once every few years.

I often have a lot of dreams in what feels like the same location in specific periods of my life. Now I think it’s a mega city I don’t know but I’m kind of familiar with, probably because I’m moving to a new city in a couple of months (but it’s actually a smaller city than the one I live in right now)

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

I don’t believe in omens (or anything “magic” or “paranormal”) as they’re usually intended, but surely my brain is saying something.

I don’t know what dream you’re referring to, but if it’s the one about balance I’m sure that’s a pretty straightforward metaphor of my childhood since my parents were divorced and I moved a lot between their respective homes while never manifesting my malaise. So I felt without balance while acting normal.

The one I’m having right now… I don’t know. Surely I’m afraid about a new city, and the dreams all have this weird atmosphere that isn’t happy but neither of fear or discomfort (now that I think about it, it’s similar to how I felt whenever I changed school, so a weird mix of optimism and worry of novelty). I can’t quite explain the big city, but maybe it’s just how big the challenge feels. I also remember the last one being about finding landmarks (some kind of skyscrapers), and I was moving to Seoul with my girlfriend (we’re moving together and she’s been to Seoul for three months for university last year).

Dreams are weird, but so freaking cool

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

La “comodità” è di non dover stare dietro a resistenze che si bruciano, vetrini che si rompono e liquidi che finiscono. Da ex fumatore incallito di tabacco e attuale fumatore di sigaretta elettronica classica, oltre che uno spreco inenarrabile mi sembra anche una cosa assolutamente inutile e fine a sé stessa: paghi sta cosa tipo 8 euro per una sigaretta elettronica con nicotina bassissima che se sei un fumatore dopo una giornata devi buttarla. Ho l’impressione che il loro mercato non siano neanche gli ex fumatori, ma chi il tabacco non l’ha neanche mai toccato

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

Sì io ho vent’anni e ho visto gente fumare abitualmente le sigarette elettroniche usa e getta senza aver mai toccato tabacco in vita propria.

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Neanche troppo, dai. Io la mia l’ho pagata una sessantina di euro ed è un compromesso perfetto tra il non avere il Millennium Falcon in tasca e il non fumare da un bastoncino che fa meno vapore dell’acqua sui fornelli.

Poi, facendo un discorso più generale sulle sigarette elettroniche, credo che l’approccio migliore sia di essere cauti e considerarle alla stregua del tabacco: le ricerche dicono tutto e il contrario di tutto, e in più se non sei del campo (come me e la maggior parte dell’utenza) non solo è difficile capire materialmente cosa dicono, ma è di fatto impossibile distinguere una ricerca autorevole da una che non lo è (oltre al classico metodo del “è citata da tutti, quindi cazzate non dirà”, ma anche lì hai sempre il rischio di essere finito in una bolla di ricerche che si citano a vicenda), e con un argomento così sensibile è difficile anche affidarsi alla divulgazione.

Nella mia esperienza aneddotica posso dire che se mi capita di fumare un paio di sigarette (che se c’è di mezzo l’alcol è praticamente inevitabile) per le seguenti 24 ore o più ho il fiato corto, tensione al collo e un generale senso di stanchezza e malessere, stando attaccato alla sigaretta elettronica decisamente più di quanto dovrei invece nulla di tutto ciò. C’è da dire anche che la nicotina non è di per sé il problema (e anzi, ha proprietà quasi benefiche in alcuni ambiti) quanto piuttosto tutti i prodotti della combustione. Il punto è capire quanto dannose siano (perché di certo bene non fanno) le sostanze prodotte dalle sigarette elettroniche. Io nel mio piccolo ho smesso di usare gli aromi, perché da quel che so sono l’unico elemento variabile dei liquidi e ogni produttore fa un po’ quello che vuole (in più uccidono le resistenze nella metà del tempo e, onestamente, se per anni non solo ho sopportato ma ho addirittura apprezzato il sapore di carta e tabacco bruciati non vedo la necessità di inalare “mix biscotto alla vaniglia e bubblegum tropicale” o cazzate simili, che sono solo un modo per fare fumare i minorenni imho)

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

Ma anche perché è probabilmente dove girano più soldi in Italia tra i settori colpiti dalla pirateria, e se non erro la legge è firmata da niente popò di meno che Claudio Lotito. Non sarei sorpreso se poi si soffermassero più sul calcio che i film

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

I recently started listening to classical and boy does it require a completely different listening approach! I’m listening almost exclusively to Mahler’s No.5 since my attention fades away after the first movement and I need lots of listening to know what’s actually going on

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion!

Since you look much more knowledgeable than me, could you help me understand how to navigate the overwhelming amount of different versions for every piece of music? For now I’m completely ignoring who’s playing and conducting and sometimes I timidly try to listen to another version, usually just to come back to the comfort of the first version I listened

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

I live at the top of a hill and keep thinking “oh it’ll take no time if I shield surf my way down”

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

I’m using Top 6 Hours since I’m trying to not use my phone that much, and when it gets boring I switch to Hot or New.

Sorting by New is particularly refreshing since the communitoes are smaller and it doesn’t feel as a depressing ocean of posts no one will interact with.

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

La loro strategia è quella dell’Embrace, extend, and extinguish (EEE).

È essenzialmente un cavallo di troia per uccidere la concorrenza mentre è ancora in fasce. Bisognerebbe non solo evitare questo Threads come la peste, ma anche sabotarlo attivamente nel nostro piccolo scoraggiando la gente dallo scaricarlo.

Chiaramente non si può vincere una guerra contro un gigante e il corporate web è una realtà che non farà che rafforzarsi in futuro, ma l’obbiettivo è quello di preservare e fare crescere spazi come questo per garantire a chiunque lo voglia un internet diverso

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

I think I might be a bit of an atypical user since most pd users seem to be on much higher level. I haven’t really made music in a long time (and even when I did I really didn’t go much further than playing around in FL Studio and making a couple of things that sound nice) and I’m using Pd more as an hobby in of itself. I always liked tinkering with technology (recently I tried getting into synth diy, but it felt like too much all at once, and I’d also have to spend money I don’t have right now) and I like the idea of creating not only a sound, but the tool to make it itself. It’s also a good way to relearn music theory with a different perspective.

I was curious if I could use it as a way to get into music production again, so using it as VST seemed like the most obvious path. Maybe it’d be better to use it as a diy DAW? Of course it wouldn’t have a traditional workflow at all, but it’s more about the process of creating something listenable

pieceofcrazy, 10 months ago

What concepts would you suggest looking into to start entering the audio data rabbit hole

So far I did very basic things such as a multi voice synth that plays chords starting from the root note or hi-hats using [noise~] and [vline~]. I was thinking about looking into granular synthesis next, but I’d also want to gain more fundamental knowledge (the kind of stuff that once you know it, you can apply it to do all sorts of stuff).

I started reading The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music, but it’s very technical and mathematical from the very beginning and it feels a bit overwhelming for someone who had to google “cosine” to remember what it was.