The collected works of commodorejohn - Page 7

Cowboy Bebop is the goods. NGE is more hit-and-miss, but when it's good it's pretty damn good.

Anyway, I just finished powering through K-On! and revisiting Nichijou . Good fun all around.

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This reminds me, I really ought to get something running on my 9000/425t...

Heh, I've toyed with that idea in my various notes towards hobbyist OS development. Never knew that it saw production use in a professional OS.

Y888099 wrote: So, is it similar to byte-code?

"Bytecode" is just a generic term for the machine language of a virtual-machine architecture, so, yes.

I'm curious, does it always do the translation dynamically on loading, or does it cache it in the filesystem somewhere?

There's a surprising number of Nekochanners who are into synthesizers, actually. I have no idea why this should be the case, but there you are.

Anyway, the FB-01 is a fun little box Nowhere near as flexible as their professional-level FM keyboards, but plenty flexible enough to play around with, plus it's pretty well exactly the same voice architecture as the OPN chip in the Sega Genesis. Good stuff!

ibmfiles wrote: OPM and OPN actually do share more differences than you'd expect (and the OPN implemented with TDM distortion on early Genesis cannot be replicated with anything else unless you use the same amplifier). That's not my forte though since I get most exposure from the OPL series (*drool* OPL2 *drool*), I'm reciting what my 'OPx' buddy always tells me.

True enough, but it's still about the closest you're going to get in a MIDI-capable instrument, unless someone has hacked up an interface for Genesis & flashcart (which wouldn't surprise me.)

And yes, OPL2 is its own special kind of magic

Hah, I haven't seriously dug into Portuguese since years ago when I was translating some of my cousins' Aninha comics.

After like a year waiting for Sweetwater to get them back in stock, I've finally plunked down for an Oberheim SEM reissue (patch-panel edition.) Looking forward to finally getting this

Yeah, that's why I didn't get a Volkswagen until I moved out to California. Woulda just been eaten away...

Raion-Fox wrote: That's right, you have a bug right? Pics please! Do you do your own work on it?

Heh Here she is. It's a 1969 Beetle with a rebuilt 1971 1.6L engine from the previous owner. Not the prettiest, but under the pockmarks the body's in good shape, and it runs very well. (For being almost fifty years old, it's been the most reliable car I've ever owned Far better than any of the mid-'90s sedans I drove prior to this.) My dad assists with the maintenance as he cut his teeth on vintage VWs (I'm gradually getting a handle on doing it myself,) though the most involved we've had to get thus far was a carburetor rebuild when I first got it. We replaced the distributor with a Pertronix electronic model, so I don't have to adjust the points; beyond that, regular oil changes and tappet adjustments and the occasional tightening up of the brake drums have given me two years of regular usage without any major issues...by this point, each of my previous cars had started in on their final death-spiral, and they were all thirty years younger.

Lain is definitely worth a go. It's like David Lynch directed a cyberpunk anime.

It's tempting for me to think "well, if it means the end of everybody including a hundred megabytes of Javascript on every site..." But we all know that won't happen, and this'll only make things worse. And yes, browser-as-OS can go die in a fire.

Also, am I correct in gathering that this is a Firefox-specific extension and not a browser-independent standard? That's definitely going to make everything better forever.

I've been surprised by how easy plain mechanical steering is to get used to. I don't miss power steering at all - and certainly not what happens when the power steering fails and you're left working up a hernia trying to horse the wheel off to one side or the other because the damn thing wasn't designed to fail gracefully.

1280x1024 is as high as anyone actually needs outside of medical imaging anyway.

I'd encourage you to stick with it. It starts slow, but the reveal of what's really going on and the gonzo lengths it goes to while remaining remarkably self-consistent (and the depth of background material it weaves in) are fascinating when you get towards the end and look back at everything that's built toward it.

VenomousPinecone wrote: Now I see what you mean by David Lynch. I can certainly keep watching.

Yup. It's funny because I only really noticed the connection when I watched Fire Walk With Me and noticed the similar fixation on power lines, and I'm still not 100% certain the other similarities are deliberate, but there's enough there to make me wonder.

I really should give FLCL a shot sometime. I have a limited tolerance for self-conscious extreme wackiness, but every now and again I run into something like Nichijou or Excel Saga that's totally worth it anyway...

John C. Dvorak should be pleased.

...dear God.

Newest member of the family: a Hofner violin bass. (Not sure exactly which model, but it's one of the fully hollow-body ones, not the one with a sustain block inside.) Picked it up because I've been wanting to try one and a guy on Craigslist was offering a good deal since he's in a Beatles cover band and already has two others. It's a bit scuffed up, but overall in good shape, and it sounds sweet as hell Pure bass on the lower strings with a nice woody pluck on the upper ones, plays beautifully, and sounds good even without an amp hooked up

Yep, another ESR "pay attention to meeee!" stunt.

Win10 is sooo broken. The Settings application in particular is absolutely maddening to deal with.

LarBob wrote: I've switched to Linux only before but haven't stuck with it. I kind of should... The only reason I haven't is that it just seems inefficient and annoying to have Linux as the host and have to boot up a Windows VM just to play games.

Win10 was what finally got me to make the switch. It became abundantly clear that once it was no longer possible to use XP as a daily driver, my options were going to be "clunky and suboptimal" versus "awful beyond all belief," so I just went ahead and made the jump. Of course, it helps for my use case that WINE seems to finally be reasonably stable on x64 and I don't do anything with modern gaming anyway.

I'm running Devuan (Debian with the systemd dependencies removed.) It's pretty solid and updates come through pretty regularly.

I came here, read a hamei post, then went and watched the newest Twin Peaks episode and got pretty much the same thing courtesy of Russ Tamblyn. Serendipity!

Thanks It's been all kinds of fun so far.

Oh, do share when you've got them recorded

Precisely. All is well and good until the connection goes down, or the infrastructure has technical difficulties, and then you're completely SOL. And then everybody acts totally shocked and surprised like nobody could possibly have seen this coming.

I just plunked down for an SX Andromeda II from Rondo Music. It's basically the 4-string deluxe version (single-piece neck, high-mass bridge, better tuners) of their Jazz Bass clone I already own. I've found that to be a majorly sweet instrument, but after some serious consideration I find that the low B-string mostly just gets in my way and rarely gets used for anything other than a makeshift thumb-rest. I figure I'm going to sell off my little Ibanez and try this; if I don't find myself seriously missing the 5-string, as I expect I won't, I'll probably sell that as well, and be down to one really nice hollow-body short-scale bass and one really nice solid-body medium-scale one (and have a little more space in my living room!)

Interesting! I only found out about them when I got that 5-string Jazz Bass clone off of Craigslist, but I've been genuinely amazed by how nice an instrument it is considering they sell for $150-250 depending on the model. I went down to a pawn shop this afternoon just to satisfy my curiousity by trying a genuine Fender version, and it really wasn't any nicer than their clone. Looking forward to seeing what the deluxe model is like.

Man, I need to fix my Sega CD (I think a fuse blew in it.) Lots of strange, interesting stuff for that system, especially for fans of early-'90s anime aesthetics (and early-'90s anime dubbing!) Keio Flying Squadron alone is worth the price of admission.

Dodoid wrote: It doesn't really make any valid, sensible, or grammatically correct points, so I don't think it really counts.

That's not a disqualifier in politics these days, it seems...