I take it PureData is notoriously difficult or something...?
Stuff like PureData and Max/MSP (which PureData is a freeware version of) have a ridiculously high learning curve. Once you get good at it, you can do a lot of complex things, but unless you have someone to teach you or a lot of free time to trouble shoot, it's absolutely frustrating. I've been working with it for a year and I still barely know how to do anything.
I don't trust HPs anymore, but maybe I just had bad experiences with Pavilions (one had its power supply die on me, the other ended up in a state where it would BSOD every time I tried to play TF2 for more than 5 minutes).
These days, I just go with Gateway FX Series computers and iBuyPower desktops. The computers I have now aren't that powerful (my Gateway uses a GT 440, the iBuyPower I currently use has a GT 520), but they get the job done, in a way.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I like my stuff too. Unfortunately very few people do, and this shit is hard.
That's the core of the problem honestly, this is just too complicated for me. I don't know how people do it. How do you even get to the point where you can distinguish between notes just by hearing them? Because I can't. I can barely distinguish between notes at all. In fact, I really can't distinguish between notes at all.
Why? Because this shit is fucking difficult. If I wasn't such a stubborn ass in the fifth grade pretending I was too much of a badass to like music maybe I'd know a couple fucking things about it. I have no rhythm, I have no soul, I have no understanding of the fundamental concepts that underly music, and I have no one who will (or even should, honestly) teach me about these things, and the bottom line is that I fucking suck at this and always will.
I appreciate Naney's thoughts, but I dunno how to use this Reaper thing. This is the opposite of intuitive to me, probably makes perfect sense to everyone else, but I can't even figure out how to fucking change the pitch of something in this thing! This is just sad. This is stupid. I am stupid. I hate that I'm stupid.
I wish I was, I like to pretend I'm creative. But I'm fucking not. I can't write, I can't make music, I cannot draw, I would not even know where to start making a film, this just. This doesn't work.
I have imagination and no talent. If there was some kind of machine that could just convert ideas into art I'd be fucking set. But there's not, I can't do this.
Ugh. I'm...I'm sorry, I shouldn't be subjecting you all to this nonsense, I'm just gonna go away now.
Okay fine, I'm an emotional wreck with no self-improvement skills.
I consider myself stupid because there is no real reason I should not be able to do a lot of things I want to do, yet I can't do them anyway.
The few creative things I could do, I mean, how do you even do them? I have what I'm fairly confident is an airtight ruleset and neat concept for a card game, but how do you make trading cards? There aren't programs for that, I've looked, they exist, but the good ones are expensive, and even if I did have one, if I wanted to make cards I'd have to know how to draw, and I don't. OR, I'd have to have an army of people backing me up who do know how to draw.
And that's just one example of dozens. The card game isn't the point, the point is I just don't know...how to make things work the way I want them to. In general.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Sometimes I try making music; at times I want to pursue it as a serious hobby. I admit that I do it all by ear and should probably try to move on from that someday.
Also, ITC Kabel and ITC Benguiat Gothic in 2012, huh CA?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I associate ITC Benguiat Gothic strongly with The Sims 2, which uses it throughout the user interface.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
It seems like almost everyone's not feeling too well recently. Unfortunately, I'm starting to feel a bit down myself. I don't want to elaborate right now because I'm not sure if it would be in poor taste to do so, but there are a number of things that have started to get under my skin.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
You know I couldn't draw for shit whenever I started to try to draw comics. A large part of my problem was trying to skip past the basics to get the desired results and it just doesn't work that way. Here, let me show you something:
This is a page from Spike's Templar, Arizona comic. A few years ago I got to talk to her and asked her about how she went about doing such a clean inking job and assumed that she used Illustrator or some other program to get such clean ink lines. She informed me that the only way she inks is with india ink and a sable brush. When it comes to inking, nothing beats a brush. It gives you the best looking line that no nibbed pen or a stupid Micron could ever hope to match. It's also difficult as hell to master. She told me that she spent years simply practicing making lines with a brush -- a simple, fundamental thing -- before she felt that she could go about making her comics. She got so damn good at it that I thought she simply used Illustrator to produce such clean work.
Basically what I'm saying here is maybe you need to identify your problem and then break it down Barney-style to the most basic level and work back up from there.
Like I said before, I've been told that many, many times. It doesn't help that I know what the problem is (or in this case, problems are), I can't fix them.
I mean how do you seriously, like, how do you teach yourself the fundamentals of music? That just doesn't happen. The Beatles did it, but they're the fucking Beatles.
@ Imi: Recently, I've decided to split my prospective magnum opus into three books.
I realized that I was trying to cram too much stuff into one book. The narrative flow simply wouldn't work if I tried to put so much stuff into one book.
@ Super Lazuli: I can give you a few tips on Chord Progressions and the like. I took a few semesters of music theory, and I've attempted teaching someone else before (in fact, I need to get back to teaching that person)
As for writing, I can't really help you with that. I don't even know how I do it. I just get an idea of what I want to write and force myself to type until something usable shows up. Then, I edit as needed.
@ Super Lazuli: I can give you a few tips on Chord Progressions and the like. I took a few semesters of music theory, and I've attempted teaching someone else before (in fact, I need to get back to teaching that person)
As for writing, I can't really help you with that. I don't even know how I do it. I just get an idea of what I want to write and force myself to type until something usable shows up. Then, I edit as needed.
Editing would probably help me a lot in general. I've only legitimately started revising things recently.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Waffle Pants happened while I was gone and no one told me.
Stuff like PureData and Max/MSP (which PureData is a freeware version of) have a ridiculously high learning curve. Once you get good at it, you can do a lot of complex things, but unless you have someone to teach you or a lot of free time to trouble shoot, it's absolutely frustrating. I've been working with it for a year and I still barely know how to do anything.
These days, I just go with Gateway FX Series computers and iBuyPower desktops. The computers I have now aren't that powerful (my Gateway uses a GT 440, the iBuyPower I currently use has a GT 520), but they get the job done, in a way.
Ugh.
This is just. This is insane. I have really just no, no clue at all what I'm doing. None. Whatsoever.
It would be forever before I'd be able to viably make anything with this.
That's it.
I haven't been out of the house since I last told you guys about it to be completely honest.
I like your stuff though.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I like my stuff too. Unfortunately very few people do, and this shit is hard.
That's the core of the problem honestly, this is just too complicated for me. I don't know how people do it. How do you even get to the point where you can distinguish between notes just by hearing them? Because I can't. I can barely distinguish between notes at all. In fact, I really can't distinguish between notes at all.
Why? Because this shit is fucking difficult. If I wasn't such a stubborn ass in the fifth grade pretending I was too much of a badass to like music maybe I'd know a couple fucking things about it. I have no rhythm, I have no soul, I have no understanding of the fundamental concepts that underly music, and I have no one who will (or even should, honestly) teach me about these things, and the bottom line is that I fucking suck at this and always will.
I appreciate Naney's thoughts, but I dunno how to use this Reaper thing. This is the opposite of intuitive to me, probably makes perfect sense to everyone else, but I can't even figure out how to fucking change the pitch of something in this thing! This is just sad. This is stupid. I am stupid. I hate that I'm stupid.
Myself, musically, I'm content just to play other people's songs.
I'm not creative.
I wish I was, I like to pretend I'm creative. But I'm fucking not. I can't write, I can't make music, I cannot draw, I would not even know where to start making a film, this just. This doesn't work.
I have imagination and no talent. If there was some kind of machine that could just convert ideas into art I'd be fucking set. But there's not, I can't do this.
Ugh. I'm...I'm sorry, I shouldn't be subjecting you all to this nonsense, I'm just gonna go away now.
You're fairly articulate, and know where your weaknesses lie. I've never met a stupid person I could say that for.
Okay fine, I'm an emotional wreck with no self-improvement skills.
I consider myself stupid because there is no real reason I should not be able to do a lot of things I want to do, yet I can't do them anyway.
The few creative things I could do, I mean, how do you even do them? I have what I'm fairly confident is an airtight ruleset and neat concept for a card game, but how do you make trading cards? There aren't programs for that, I've looked, they exist, but the good ones are expensive, and even if I did have one, if I wanted to make cards I'd have to know how to draw, and I don't. OR, I'd have to have an army of people backing me up who do know how to draw.
And that's just one example of dozens. The card game isn't the point, the point is I just don't know...how to make things work the way I want them to. In general.
Also, ITC Kabel and ITC Benguiat Gothic in 2012, huh CA?
Man something is seriously wrong with me.
Gator, you worry way too much about poor taste given the site you're on, man.
Jeez, now I'm making everyone else unhappy.
Corporal: I know that.
Like I said before, I've been told that many, many times. It doesn't help that I know what the problem is (or in this case, problems are), I can't fix them.
I mean how do you seriously, like, how do you teach yourself the fundamentals of music? That just doesn't happen. The Beatles did it, but they're the fucking Beatles.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I realized that I was trying to cram too much stuff into one book. The narrative flow simply wouldn't work if I tried to put so much stuff into one book.
^That can help.
I don't understand how you people write so well either.
When I write it's like...choppy.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
As for writing, I can't really help you with that. I don't even know how I do it. I just get an idea of what I want to write and force myself to type until something usable shows up. Then, I edit as needed.
I don't have a guitar. :/
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
You don't need an instrument to learn the basics behind chord progressions. A guitar or a keyboard can help, but they're not fundamentally necessary.
Write on LSD, have no idea what you meant sober