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RE: WTF Bites
What am I missing?
Put your cursor halfway through the last line in the document, then hit "Page Down" and see where the cursor ends up.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra Couldn't you just periodically store a bunch of zeroes?
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RE: I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this
@Magus said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
It's just a bad situation, and there isn't a way to fix it.
You could just not play badly-designed games. There's lots of other games out there.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@pie_flavor (You do realize that response is a ripoff of The 40 Year Old Virgin, right?)
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@El_Heffe I'm amazed grocery stores in the South even have vegan sections.
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RE: I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this
@Magus I like SMITE, but not the DOTA-like mode but the Arena mode which is way better and there's no such thing as "feeding" so people aren't as dickish.
(It actually has opposite-feeding, where the team doing worse has faster hero respawns to try to even up the competition.)
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RE: The minor rants thread.
@Tsaukpaetra It's filler. The real gem is that video!!!
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RE: Group SMS between Android & Apple?
@anotherusername Just to pile on, my Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 had no problem with this either.
I think there was one time where the non-Apple users got dropped from a group chat because iOS had converted it to a "iMessage" chat instead and everybody who didn't have iOS just got the big middle finger, but I'm not sure if that was a bug in iOS that was fixed or my dad (whose phone it was) flubbed something. (IIRC it stupidly sent me an email telling me to download an app that didn't run on my phone, or something equally retarded.) Either way, it's only happened once AFAIK.
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RE: Group SMS between Android & Apple?
@Lorne-Kates What's preventing this from working now? I've had tons of group chats between my Android phone and a mix of iOS and Android phones over SMS.
@Lorne-Kates said in Group SMS between Android & Apple?:
All iPhoners use iMessage, and add my phone number as one of the contacts in the group
I install some group-messaging app like the built-in message app, or Pulse SMS or something. Whenever I send a group SMS, it'll hit all the iPeople. When they reply, everyone else will get their iMessage, and I'll get a text (which goes into the group, so when I reply it's a group text).So the solution is... just do it? I'm really confused about this.
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RE: Google planning to shut down Inbox app
@e4tmyl33t Didn't they JUST release it? Christ.
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RE: Microsoft seems desperate
@MrL Windows Phone was already practically dead by the time 10 even came out.
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RE: I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this
@Groaner said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Because we do not live in an ideal, just world.
Some people don't agree that the correct response to "the world's a shitty place" is "well do nothing about it".
@Groaner said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
They have every right to complain. Thing is, there are plenty of sexist, toxic companies in [$CURRENT_YEAR], some of them sexist and toxic in ways you might not expect, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I've seen enough dysfunctional workplaces in my short time in this industry to realize that it's easier to swap your employer than to change your employer.
It's a hard problem to solve therefore nobody should ever try to solve it.
@Groaner said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Not buying the milk is how you exert leverage over the deliveryman.
I disagree that that's enough.
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RE: Microsoft seems desperate
@cartman82 Edge isn't bad at everything. Apparently it has the most accurate CSS renderer too (not that that matters really).
If Microsoft released it as a new browser today, it might even be well-received. It just went so long being shit that its name is in the gutter and it's going to be a long crawl to get out of the gutter and MS will likely rebrand it 27 times before that happens anyway.
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RE: I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this
@Groaner said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
But of all companies, why Riot?
Because it got press.
@Groaner said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Riot's recipe has clearly worked, as they wouldn't have risen to their market position if they had a faulty business model.
This is like people saying PHP is a good programming language because Facebook was made in it. It just raises the obvious question, "yeah but how much BETTER would Riot have been if they didn't have these issues to begin with?"
@Groaner said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Perhaps they have a toxic company culture, but their customers have heretofore accepted it, much as how consumers willingly buy sweatshop garments to save a couple bucks.
Two points:
- Their customers are LoL players, aka the worst garbage on Earth
- The customers by and large didn't know any of this was occurring until it got press
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RE: I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this
@Groaner said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Whatever happened to "fit in or fuck off?"
This is one of those "why should you have to?" things.
@Groaner said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Did it occur to these complainers that they have the option of working at a less-toxic company?
Did it occur to you that it's right and proper for people to complain about a sexist toxic company even existing in 2018?
That's like saying "sure the milk deliveryman whips his horses but you have an option not to buy the milk." Well ok, but why don't we focus on the problem of the horse whipping too?
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RE: I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this
@boomzilla The original headline in the tweet doesn't clarify that she was hired by Uber to fix their culture. Thus the reaction.
They've since updated the headline, it looks like.
That said, Uber is still a garbage company. Maybe she's tried her best, but.
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RE: In other news today...
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I remember the days when one of those added hotness points.
The car of choice for the Teenage Dirtbag's nemesis:
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RE: Microsoft seems desperate
@Rhywden At least when Microsoft had a monopoly in this space the worst thing they did with it was "rolled out updates kind of slowly". Google's been far more disruptive and controlling.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@HardwareGeek There's a solution for that, it's called "electro-mechanical relays". Good luck flipping one of those, cosmic rays! (Might slightly increase your satellite's weight allowance.)
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RE: Microsoft seems desperate
@TimeBandit Meh. I mean at least it's based on something. And Microsoft does own one of the best anti-virus products, so it's not outside the realm of possibility.
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I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this
Wat???
"Our culture is bad, so let's hire an executive from the company that literally stole medical records to cover-up a rape to fix it!"
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RE: Microsoft seems desperate
@TimeBandit They do have some study that shows it blocks more malware, thus "safer". As for faster, I'm guessing you could tweak the test parameters to show any browser is faster than any other browser.
The real problem with Edge is that Microsoft released it a FULL YEAR before it was ready to be released to the public, when it was a buggy piece of shit. Now everybody just thinks it's a buggy piece of shit. Teams has the same issue.
The brilliance of "release early, release often!" It should actually read, "release your broken unfinished garbage, everybody hates your product".
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RE: Visual Studio Live Azure DevOps Hyper 365 .NET
@TwelveBaud If I have to re-do my build and release configurations I'm going to be very angry. I JUST got them working and correct.
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RE: Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...
Hey maybe talk about 3D printing?
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RE: Project in progress
@masonwheeler Then why are you using it if it's obviously unfinished?
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RE: UI Bites
@TwelveBaud said in UI Bites:
I'm also willing to bet that the reason the submenu replaces the main menu, rather than flying out,
HOLY SHIT I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THAT.
They aren't just broken, they're mega-broken. What. The. Fuck.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Benjamin-Hall It doesn't matter what you do, but if your workplace doesn't have any procedure in place for people getting sick in the middle of the day, it's ass. I bet it does, you're just unwilling to use it.
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RE: Project in progress
@masonwheeler Can't you use the browser's debugger? Using, for example, a .map file like both Vue.JS and TypeScript generates?
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RE: UI Bites
What's the deal with these Firefox "Quantum" menus that aren't menus?
Click the triple bar thing, hover your mouse over "More", there's an arrow like there's a submenu, but the submenu never displayed no matter how long you hover. Huh? You have to click it, that's the only way to show the submenu. I wonder how many people even think to try that when faced with, what looks exactly like, a broken-ass menu.
When was the submenu invented? Like... 1985? How do you fuck up implementing that.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Cough, sore throat, and intermittent fever. Still at work because taking sick days is more stressful than being there. <sigh>
Physically at work? Or just working?
If you're passing your germs around, you're an asshole. Go the fuck home.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@topspin I love that bit where he goes to fix a light bulb and ends up repairing like the entire house:
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RE: Game Deals Thread
If you have Battlefield One on Xbox One you can get all the DLCs for free One if you act quickly One.
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RE: Me making a big mistake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tkJqqPwbso
The best Xena scene.
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RE: WTF Bites
@hungrier Somehow I've managed to never make that mistake, I wonder why--
Oh right. I use an OS that doesn't suck ass.
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RE: Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
@Applied-Mediocrity The platform have no paging or process separation, or even privilige levels.
So it's basically "imagine if you wanted to rebuild Mac Classic from base principles, but you lived in 2018 when memory was cheap as shit".
I was about to ask what happens if a program requires more memory than you have but then I realized: at Mac Classic levels of functionality/utility and 2018 levels of hardware, that would literally never happen.
It's like if someone wanted to build a Sopwith Camel, but instead of putting in the original 1917 150 HP engine they put in a modern 450 HP engine of the same weight. Then you come into a forum and you're all like, "why do you need all these complex new fighters when you could just fly a Camel!" ignoring that the Camel you have uses technology not available in 1917 and also ignoring that it still really, really sucks compared to, say, an F-22.
(Actually it's not like that because the Camel's wings would just instantly collapse. But it's about that level of ridiculousness.)
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
Originally i planned to ask permission from users if a process wanted to access outside its directory or in cases like that... But i realised its futile, and i didnt added anything like that.
Futile because you don't need it, or futile because you can't make it work?
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RE: Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri
@Onyx said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
WaitNextMouseMove()
Theory 2:
"All programs are written by the same person so you can guarantee the mouse refresh function gets called quickly enough"
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
@blakeyrat The os can use mouse layer supplyed by the hardware (or emulator).
Theory 3:
"Surround it with a Somebody Else's Problem field and invent an imaginary 'mouse layer' (which is totally a thing computers have BTW) that takes care of the problem"
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
If you dont use this feature, then yes, it will have to render it, and then it will stutter. The mouse and keyboard press are being polled approx 120 times per second, depending on the speed of the system.
What if it's running an unfriendly app?
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
Tell us more about data security of this particular solution approach.
That's a good point, there's also no MMU. I assume that means there's no multi-user functionality or memory protection at all? If there is, how do you prevent processes from dipping into each others' memory? This really is Mac Classic.
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RE: Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
@xaade In 2000 you were able to play 360p videos on a 300 mhz amd cpu.
You could do this on a Mac II series or most Amigas in the early 90s. If you're really interested in OSes, you should study non-Windows/Intel ones.
If you're interested in smooth video playback, you should take a look at BeOS which have a scheduler just this side of magic and could do things like play 4 MP2s simultaneously on a 400 mhz CPU with no hardware acceleration and no frame drops.
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
Then different technologies got common, like the flash player, and you suddenly had to buy a pentium3 to watch the same movies (usually in different format).
Right; it's impossible that people were simply optimizing for storage space. Obviously Flash player just made video worse for absolutely no reason at all.
Look, compared to early video codecs, MP4 is a miracle. It's able to encode the same raw video at twice the quality and a third the file size compared to MP2. Does it require more CPU power? Yes. Of course. But there's no conspiracy here.
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
I dont think however that this is some intentional conspiracy in this case, its just the stupidity of the developers...
Again: when the rare resource is CPU power, you optimize for CPU use. When the rare resource is storage/bandwidth, you optimizer for storage/bandwidth. This is how things work. This should not surprise you.
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
In the case of $30k servers (ok, since that text, probably another extra 0 is crawling on the price) thats just raw corruption.
You think people are buying $300,000 servers to watch 360p videos without stuttering?
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
@Cursorkeys its not co-operative, but its not hardware assisted.
How?
Do you require setting aside one entire CPU core for the OS and scheduler? (I think the PS3 did that, IIRC.)
Does it even run on a 1-core CPU?
@admiral_p said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
Anyway, what's with the weird love for anime by IT workers? I like me some DragonBall (original series and Z) but it's like /r/unixporn is one big love letter to Japan.
I have no idea. I can't see how anybody could love that horrifying green thing pictured up-thread.
@admiral_p said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
@wger4 yeah but why anime? They all look the same, they're all the same (overly theatrical kiddie shit) and, yeah. What you really want to say is that
Once in a blue moon there's a good anime. Like Cowboy Bebop. Mostly because it throws away almost all anime conventions and acts like a western animated show.
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
@admiral_p Anime is very diverse, just like movies. But i cant give detailed explanations, i am personally not that big weeb, but it helps bonding with the community.
Really.
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RE: Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri
@PleegWat said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
Can you even do pre-emptive multitasking on that architecture?
Presumably it's co-operative like in Mac Classic or early versions of Windows, where each application has to frequently run a "do OS stuff" method. (
GetNextEvent()
orWaitNextEvent()
if i remember my Mac Classic.)But what puzzles me is how do you keep mouse movement smooth in a cooperative multitasking environment without interrupts? I assume the answer is: you don't, and mouse movement is janky as shit.
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RE: Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
@blakeyrat According to his profile, he got triggered on something totally irrelevant to softwares or tech, and he annouced his quit.
Aw that's too bad.
We need another agent to infiltrate OSNews, those posts were pretty good.
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RE: Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri
@Onyx Wait, did ScoliosisRHEA get banned? When did that happen?
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/24469/geri-the-subleq-guy/4 <- Hey look I'm a pretty funny guy
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RE: EU bans content in online video streaming platforms
@sockpuppet7 said in EU bans content in online video streaming platforms:
Don't you want to be notified when people write something about you?
No. Why would I? I don't get "notified" if they do it in Slack or Skype or face-to-face, either.
If you're asking me a question, then go ahead and do it. But if you're doing literally anything other than that, then don't. And BTW that applies on Discord and Steam too, you jerkwads.
@remi said in EU bans content in online video streaming platforms:
I could comment and point out that @admiral_p was mostly highlighting the fact that I responded to @blakeyrat () without mentioning him and that, essentially, I should have, which is fair point.
Maybe; but what fucking business is it of his? If I'm interested in the topic, I'll come back to the topic and I'll see the text. If I'm not, I'll just get annoyed by the notification of a topic I'm no longer interested in. Why is some third party who isn't either of us telling you to annoy me? This the "fuck you".
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RE: Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri
@blakeyrat Oh man every release in the change log has its own creepy-eyed anime:
Does the cartoon this one comes from even claim the character is human?
Because holy fuck.
Also look at the log entry attached to that abomination upon God:
2018, aug 31. - Critical bugfix
-Fixed a scheduler malfunction that sometimes illegally scheduled processes to the 0th core on SMP systems, causing stall. Every user must update to this release.
Right; you're still making critical fixes like that, but be assured: Dawn is done! Finished!
EDIT: Holy shit, the FAQ on the website is a gold mine too.
Come to think of it, I do think someone's posted this here before, because it's starting to look familiar:
Everything is fun and happyness under Dawn, which is a love-child of a game console and office software rendering environment, with a minimalistic stable API and large program-set.
Like a sentence like that you just don't forget.
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RE: Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri
Oh good, an anime's talking to us about OSes.
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
Dawn operating system is a high-level, multitasking, SMP capable general purpose GUI operating system, designed for the SUBLEQ architecture.
Well "SUBLEQ" is such a hugely popular computer architecture, how could this fail? I went to Best Buy the other day and it was wall-to-wall with "SUBLEQ" laptops, the Intel ones were nowhere to be seen.
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
This operating system was already posted here by a troll with vague intentions, who tried to introduce this operating system as some kind of morally flawed act and with fake informations, and who is alreday expelled from this site long time ago, so here is the real thing.
What?
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
Dawn operating system is designed for everyone who wants to experience some simpler architecture than the currently popular ISA-s.
So... nobody?
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
Dawn brings back the architectural complexity to the level of the people, the big-endian 64 bit SUBLEQ instruction set which Dawn relies on, does not have various cpu modes, have no multiple instruction sets, it does not have DMA, interrupts, MMU or paging, and goals the transistor count and power consumption of a Tamagotchi.
(That is all one sentence.)
How does it work without interrupts? All the other stuff mentioned seems pretty optional (I mean, Mac Classic ran without any of them-- but it required interrupts, as has literally everything).
Does it also have the utility of a Tamagotchi?
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
Mouse
KeyboardBut without using interrupts?
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
64-bit sound input and output on 8 channels
4 force-feedback joysticks
16 RGB camerasWhat's the deal with these random limitations? What prevents it from talking to the fifth joystick exactly?
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
P2P wireless networking protocol based on geolocation
Note that the feature list doesn't include normal wifi. Just this whatever this is.
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
Up to 100 individual disk-drive
Another random limit, and this one not even a power of two. What prevents it talking to disk 101?
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
C/C99 compiler
Does it support any programming languages that don't suck?
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
Dawn operating system is finished,
Really.
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
download: http://gerigeri.uw.hu/DawnOS/index.html
I don't have whatever Martian space architecture this thing runs on. I wager the same is true of approximately 100% of the people on this forum.
@Jaloopa said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
Does it run Skyrim?
Who needs Skyrim when you have Amoeba!!!
@wger4 said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
It runs chess and snake.
But not Amoeba!? Sigh...
Just as a big FYI, but the best way to get me to respect your product announcement is to set your avatar to this:
Nothing bad has ever come from a person with a creepy anime as a avatar!!!
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RE: EU bans content in online video streaming platforms
@Tsaukpaetra said in EU bans content in online video streaming platforms:
He doesn't like people mentioning him for no reason.
I'm not a big fan of the entire concept of mentions in the first place.
But if you're going to mention me, make sure you're actually talking to me. Don't do it just because you type in my username. That's a total dick move and I'm not sure why other people are ok with it.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Cursorkeys I bought a copy of Rocksmith, but I never got around to actually using it.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Holy bells, you didn't aim for the low numbers, did you.
I have no idea what that means/implies.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah.... Wait, you play trombone too??? TIL....
Not... really? Like I said, trombone is pretty shit for a solo instrument and I'm not in any bands. It was cool when I was a kid because:
- Riker on Star Trek played it
- You could use it in the jazz band at school (which was far cooler than the regular symphonic band or marching band)
- Because it looks simple (fewest moving parts of all instruments), I thought it'd be easy to play (actually the fact that you can "tune" it on-the-fly to literally any note makes it pretty damned challenging-- trumpets, which their handy-dandy valves, more or less force you to stay in tune at least with themselves if not with the rest of the group)
I don't know if you mean "play" as in "can play". I'm pretty competent at it. But I don't play it and haven't in years. (Since I got the guitar. Which I'm still shit at.)