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
Ugh, had a nightmare
Or...whatever you call a nightmare that happens in the morning
I managed to free myself by realizing it was a dream and consciously ending it, but I'm not sure I want to go back to sleep right away
Digital pirates. Scum with no respect for the lawr. I just want to grab them and yell, "Stop! You violated the lawr! Your stolen goods are now forfeit! Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence!".
If anything, the area that uses it underserves it.
Here's what I've imagined: You have an area in what is otherwise a run-down-looking part of the castle complex, but this area looks really shiny and clean and well-kept.
But once you go through a door, you find that it is decaying and decrepit and has walls and floorboards that are falling apart.
You go through another door and once again the building is shiny and clean and well-kept. And this keeps happening for this entire area in the castle.
Welcome to the Arena of Illusions. Set that music to this area.
And perhaps the boss will be Paranoia, so that you can win from it a magic mirror that allows you to flip between the two "sides" of the Arena of Illusions at will.
(The inspiration was a new and strange building that was built on the site of what used to be an old, long-standing (for several decades) building, albeit one designated as temporary from its start. The old building was torn down, and the new one was erected...but in Dracula's Castle, things do not just die, or go quietly.)
That sounds similar to what it was originally used for in CV4, which was basically "SNES tech demo tower." :3
Well, the tech demo tower was actually pretty cool, and also this wouldn't really be a tech demo, but more so an exercise in maze-planning. Or not even maze-planning if you're a designer who doesn't mind players looping odd numbers of times through the rooms and getting powerups early.
1.) be able to name the notes on the staff which uses the G clef. Since the notes go forward alphabetically as they ascend, all you really need to do is identify one line or space and then be able to count from there
2.) add the durations of the notes given in a measure of score to determine the meter. If you know the durations of the notes, all you need to do is add for the sum. For example, if there are four quarter notes in a measure and each is worth one beat, then the meter is 4/4.
3.) be able to recognize a musical symbol and tell what it does. The symbols could range from a clef or rest to a tempo or dynamic marker (loudness or softness)
4.) be able to identify a meter upon hearing. All that is required here is that you count along to determine which fits best, a 2 count, a 3 count, or a 4 count.
I haven't read about any of this.
I am 100% unfit to take this exam but I have to, and am going to fail it.
I could help you with these things. I would be glad to help you with these things. I am really good with these things and I think that if they were explained well to you they would come even more naturally to you than to me.
you know the PBS Ideas Channel guy irritates the heck out of me... he probably shouldn't, but he does
i don't think it's pretentious to call Homestuck postmodern, postmodern doesn't automatically mean fine art, and the concept of fine art isn't postmodern
saying it's the new Ulysses... yeah, no.
I can understand that.
You are correct there. Quite correct.
I don't think that was the point of the piece. It's a comparison between things with similar qualities in different media.
...although as far as literary comparisons go, if one wanted to be so reductive, Gravity's Rainbow is a much better parallel. Or even Breakfast Of Champions. Ulysses is never quite so meta even when it is being extremely reflexive and cheeky, nor does it have as many characters or, for obvious reasons, as much fictional world-building. Hussie's humour does have its Joycean moments, however; both love fusing crudity, verbosity and the absurd.
I don't think that was the point of the piece. It's a comparison between things with similar qualities in different media.
...although as far as literary comparisons go, if one wanted to be so reductive, Gravity's Rainbow is a much better parallel. Or even Breakfast Of Champions. Ulysses is never quite so meta even when it is being extremely reflexive and cheeky, nor does it have as many characters or, for obvious reasons, as much fictional world-building. Hussie's humour does have its Joycean moments, however; both love fusing crudity, verbosity and the absurd.
True enough.
i'm fairly sure i take PBS Idea Channel more seriously than you're supposed to, as i do with most things. It's a bit of nonsense, but to me it just sounds like trendy oversimplifying anti-intellectual garbage, and it just grates.
Actually, part of what made me fall in love with St. Vincent's music is the fact that several of the songs on Actor, particularly "Black Rainbow", absolutely nail what being severely depressed is like.
i'm fairly sure i take PBS Idea Channel more seriously than you're supposed to, as i do with most things. It's a bit of nonsense, but to me it just sounds like trendy oversimplifying anti-intellectual garbage, and it just grates.
"Anti-intellectual"? Interesting accusation. "Oversimplifying" I definitely get, though.
I'm ambivalent toward it, not having seen enough to judge, but said friend introduced me to JonTron and the Game Grumps (and urged me to continue with Kill la Kill despite my reservations about it) so I respect his taste
NOTE: I don't know quite why I feel so good today. My meds haven't changed, it's nothing like that. It's mostly the glorious sensory experience of new fresh air and a dazzling blue sky, and it is getting a little warmer. Snow's starting to melt (the mountains will still have snow until June, but there will be no inversion). Still darn cold, but not as cold.
It's just, it's well, it's like being colorblind for months and then finally being able to see color; or needing glasses for months and finally getting them, everything is much more real, much more vivid and intense and bold and wonderful.
Sorry, sorry, I know I'm probably annoyingly cheerful right now, and I know this is probably somehow offending someone, but THE BIRDS CAME BACK A FEW DAYS AGO! BIRDSONG!
Oh, just you guys wait a couple weeks or months until the trees start to bloom.
Sorry, sorry, I'll shut up.
Actually, no I won't!
You guys probably have no idea how good good air is after months of inversion.
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
"Anti-intellectual"? Interesting accusation. "Oversimplifying" I definitely get, though.
missing the point, i know
but when i see someone pull out citations from Judith Butler or JS Mill in support of what sounds like a troll argument, i just cringe
like it makes a mockery of the whole exercise
The thing is, it's not a troll argument, just some guy thinking hard about something that may not warrant it in a way that makes those ideas and thinkers accessible to people who would not normally come across them. And really, it's not like he's citing these things to further anything especially negative, like the kind of people who use "death of the author" to make a text say anything that they want.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Or...whatever you call a nightmare that happens in the morning
I managed to free myself by realizing it was a dream and consciously ending it, but I'm not sure I want to go back to sleep right away
I long for the day when such is purged from the world.
i simply acknowledge that, as far as our best knowledge can tell us, it is a thing that is happening.
Burn in hell, Buzzfeed.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
So good.
I can see the bold blue sky, so big, so great, so good.
Ain't nothing in the world what can ruin my mood now.
Ah, the joy of new air in my valley.
I am happy.
It's the birthday of one of my friends!
I wish he was here to see this sky with me.
Today is the best day.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
It's just, well, it's just, I don't want to go back there in my life, you know.
True enough.
i'm fairly sure i take PBS Idea Channel more seriously than you're supposed to, as i do with most things. It's a bit of nonsense, but to me it just sounds like trendy oversimplifying anti-intellectual garbage, and it just grates.
there's something kind of vaguely consoling about seeing that kind of thing expressed
but if you're less depressed it can kind of suck you back in
missing the point, i know
but when i see someone pull out citations from Judith Butler or JS Mill in support of what sounds like a troll argument, i just cringe
like it makes a mockery of the whole exercise
I'm ambivalent toward it, not having seen enough to judge, but said friend introduced me to JonTron and the Game Grumps (and urged me to continue with Kill la Kill despite my reservations about it) so I respect his taste
It's just, it's well, it's like being colorblind for months and then finally being able to see color; or needing glasses for months and finally getting them, everything is much more real, much more vivid and intense and bold and wonderful.
Sorry, sorry, I know I'm probably annoyingly cheerful right now, and I know this is probably somehow offending someone, but THE BIRDS CAME BACK A FEW DAYS AGO! BIRDSONG!
Oh, just you guys wait a couple weeks or months until the trees start to bloom.
Sorry, sorry, I'll shut up.
Actually, no I won't!
You guys probably have no idea how good good air is after months of inversion.
I'll go now.
Yay! The sun! It's still there!
on your funeral day
spurious yet provocative claims, backed up by just enough argument to make them sound halfway credible
but it irritates me, all the same