at the airport

i still don't feel like i understand what people are referring to when they say something has "analog warmth"

selling a plugin that's just a waveshaper preset for $160 msrp in 2025 is not great but i guess maybe the knowledge and experience you need to pick that preset is worth that much. using a bunch of buzzwords and deliberately avoiding saying that it's just a waveshaper makes that price a scam though

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

videogames are *so* art they have attained the cultural position of being primarily an instrument of financial speculation for the already-wealthy

29 long years have passed since I founded the emulation archive, Zophar's Domain, on 11.9.96. To this very day, the site still stands as a testament to an era that never actually disappeared but continues to live in the hearts of retrogamers all over the word. Emulation Forever!

it's so frustrating how basically everyone working on technology "innovations" these days believes that we only think with words and that we only perceive the world with our eyes

It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves. A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...

finished my 3rd playthrough of baby steps. i wasn't able to complete every challenge but i finished a lot more of them than i did before, and i also beat the manbreaker, which they aren't kidding when they say that finishing it gives you one of the hugest feelings of accomplishment in all of gaming

To the charge that it doesn't fit in: I don't think it's supposed to. Sometimes we should add new idiosyncratic, monumental buildings/spaces

one of the most annoying things about youtube is non-optional auto-translation of everything on a page to your selected language and defaulting auto-dubbing to "on". It's practically a low-key insistence that no other languages exist. anyway I tried this extension to stop that bs n it seems to work

starting a 3rd playthrough of baby steps because i love this weird ugly game so much, definitely my favorite game I've played this year

autechre croptop...

looking at japanese flip phones again and wishing that they worked with non-japanese cell networks

just found out that this part of japan has so many golf courses what the hell

there is mechsploitation everywhere for those with the eyes to see them

it's that time of year again where I'm wearing tshirt shorts and mittens

watching someone perform with a laptop or a bunch of synths/keyboards is uniquely boring because just about every other instrument has the visually interesting part facing the audience, or at least decorates the part facing the audience

autechre live went crazy i was not prepared for it to be a 2 hour set though lol

thank you to the people who upload classical music recordings to youtube with a tasteful amount of compression so that you can actually hear the quiet parts when you're not listening on a dedicated home hifi system in a quiet house with your full attention

finally ready to share REGOLITH! download the .tic file here: tic80.com/play?cart=4290

maybe if i deepen my current interest in islamic art I'll finally have the motivation to sit down and learn arabic like I've been wanting to for years

📣 ICY TOWER IS COMING BACK Stoked to announce that we're making a brand new Icy Tower game, ready for the 25th anniversary next year! Check out the trailer, spread the news, and wishlist on Steam :D s.team/a/3014860 More in thread 👇🧵

listening to an album that has "been described as the best jungle album of all time by publications such as Fact, Pitchfork, and Freaky Trigger[citation needed]"

the guy who spent over 14 years walking to the minecraft far lands just made it!

i wish i was the type of person who went to clubs because one of the things i really enjoy whenever i go to london is hearing garage jungle grime etc from random places on the street

went to a skyscraper restaurant today and saw a bunch of people sitting at the coveted window tables barely looking outside at the view. bitch give me that table instead i will stare out that window for hours and appreciate the hell out of that view

there are nuances to be had in their use and equitable implementation but "turn off all the speeding cameras" is instantly identifiable as a chud opinion

on one hand learning the basics of dsp has probably saved me a lot of time and money by making me feel less insecure about the tools i use, on the other hand it has made me more cynical about how much of the plugin market is just marketing and graphic design

All of these employee-owned revivals of bought-out news outlets should go in on a print run. I can't pay $7 each for five websites but I would pay like $15 for a monthly magazine with the latest Defector / Aftermath / 404 / etc. articles in it. Hell subsidize it with ads. at least that would be cute

if you think about it all the generative ai image stuff is just creating a new category of ego-inflated dj, but for images instead of songs

on.soundcloud.com/4MO1J6wrrSkb... i remixed my vol 1 track for this compilation! check out the rest of the compo too!

🐸 NEW ALBUM 🐸 "STAFFcirc vol. 10 - STAFFcirc vol. 1 2" an album by @staffcirc.bsky.social STAFFcirc and Ubiktune reunite to celebrate the 10th anniversary of "STAFFcirc vol. 1" with a brand new album! ubiktune.com/releases/sta... 🎨 @corneaga.bsky.social 👇 DOWNLOAD/STREAM LINKS BELOW 👇

on.soundcloud.com/4MO1J6wrrSkb... i remixed my vol 1 track for this compilation! check out the rest of the compo too!

It's a pleasure to be partnering with Ubiktune again after ten years! Tune in to the release of our album this weekend: youtu.be/beEaIHIavNc

🐸 STAFFcirc vol. 10 - STAFFcirc vol. 1 2 🐸 STAFFcirc and Ubiktune reunite to celebrate the 10th anniversary of "STAFFcirc vol. 1" with a brand new album! Join the premiere on YouTube: AUG 31, 2025 @ 11AM PT / 2PM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=beEa... @staffcirc.bsky.social

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Save the date! STAFFcirc's 10th anniversary album drops on August 31st. Attend the premiere at 11am PT / 2pm ET via www.youtube.com/@staffcirc

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

The *scale problem* explains so much about American commerce/land use/transportation:/housing. We are missing something like the bottom half of the "scale ladder" for almost everything - streets, vehicles, homes, commercial spaces. thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/backyard-c...

I don't think children should have phones. They should have huge beige desktop computer with "Windows 9x Operating System", "Dedicated 3D accelerator", and "SoundBlaster compatible sound card"

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

HAPPY BELATED 810NICLE DAY!!! In the time before Doom, Pacific Rim, Transformers, and maybe even Spider-Man, Bionicle was my biggest obsession and motivator to become a storyteller growing up! There will never be anything like it!

full song: soundcloud.com/vincmg/livin...

coming from years of using mpt without vsts it feels so good to be able to sequence electric guitar solos that don't sound absolutely terrible

I refuse to read anything with bullet points. That's a slop indicator even stronger than the em dash, whether machine or human generated.

[grime rapper voice]