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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30613646

Bandcamp for the album, Metallum for the band I'm not usually the biggest modern tech death person, but there was just something about this album that did it for me. Entire album is just under 28 minutes, definitely recommend a listen.

Not really tech death, but close enough that I thought it'd be good to cross-post.

Guide to the song from the youtube comments:

0:00 the random intro

1:32 earrape

1:54 I THIS FRACTAL ILLUSION

2:54 lead over catchy riff

3:33 the not so catchy but more meshuggah riff

4:31 THIS IS AN ANOMALY

4:56 "Tight as frog butthole" (c) Ben Eller

5:39 Chaos cranked up to 11

6:18 RE-DESINTEGRATION

7:07 string skipping... kind of

7:46 unsettling clean theme 1

8:39 brr da brr da da brr da brr da da

10:15 from chaos to chaos to chaos

10:32 brainmelting 4/4 riff

11:31 waaa weee wooo trem lead

12:00 I - THE NIHILIST

12:39 contacting aliens like Fredrik

13:31 MIRACLES INVERTED

14:06 0s longer than grindcore songs

14:42 unsettling clean theme 2

15:59 winding up the djenerator

16:51 djenerator at full power

17:45 CONCEPTION DERIVED FROM MISCONCEPTIONS

18:20 EMERGENCE OF DOOM COMPLETE

18:35 IIIIIIII

20:19 eternal 0

Also a good interview where they talk about the track:

Did you guys ever do I live?

No, no. That whole track was written and recorded just on random. Me and Fredrik would just jam on something, and when we found something that was kind of cool, he would walk into the control room. I would just record drums and it wasn’t a set pattern, I would just kind of stray away from the pattern, but just keep going in that vibe. Then we had to chart everything and go bar by bar to record the guitars afterwards, because it’s all just random.

In doing it that way it’s also really, really hard to learn it. Even for us. I know parts of it, just because I’ve listened to it a lot, but it would be an awesome challenge to try to pull that off live, and it would take a shitload of rehearsing to get it down.

Guide to the song from the youtube comments:

0:00 the random intro

1:32 earrape

1:54 I THIS FRACTAL ILLUSION

2:54 lead over catchy riff

3:33 the not so catchy but more meshuggah riff

4:31 THIS IS AN ANOMALY

4:56 "Tight as frog butthole" (c) Ben Eller

5:39 Chaos cranked up to 11

6:18 RE-DESINTEGRATION

7:07 string skipping... kind of

7:46 unsettling clean theme 1

8:39 brr da brr da da brr da brr da da

10:15 from chaos to chaos to chaos

10:32 brainmelting 4/4 riff

11:31 waaa weee wooo trem lead

12:00 I - THE NIHILIST

12:39 contacting aliens like Fredrik

13:31 MIRACLES INVERTED

14:06 0s longer than grindcore songs

14:42 unsettling clean theme 2

15:59 winding up the djenerator

16:51 djenerator at full power

17:45 CONCEPTION DERIVED FROM MISCONCEPTIONS

18:20 EMERGENCE OF DOOM COMPLETE

18:35 IIIIIIII

20:19 eternal 0

Also a good interview where they talk about the track:

Did you guys ever do I live?

No, no. That whole track was written and recorded just on random. Me and Fredrik would just jam on something, and when we found something that was kind of cool, he would walk into the control room. I would just record drums and it wasn’t a set pattern, I would just kind of stray away from the pattern, but just keep going in that vibe. Then we had to chart everything and go bar by bar to record the guitars afterwards, because it’s all just random.

In doing it that way it’s also really, really hard to learn it. Even for us. I know parts of it, just because I’ve listened to it a lot, but it would be an awesome challenge to try to pull that off live, and it would take a shitload of rehearsing to get it down.

well. to my everlasting shame it was the very website this post features. I got hooked in when it was still part of reddit. I was an angry young adult coming out of a terrible home situation and their collective “righteous fury” was appealing. after the move to a separate website, it just got worse and worse. hexbear, formally known as chapochat, had destructive drama outburtsts every single week right from the start.

I think it started with thousands of active users and rapidly dwindled down to only a few hundred because of how hostile and rigid it was. I was one of the few who stuck around because my warped sense of the world didn’t reveal how bad it was yet. I thought about quitting during many of these ridiculous “struggle sessions” as they called them. but something kept me hooked.

when the current ukraine-russia war started, the cracks were widening. a subsection of hexbear started to dominate. they were more openly bloodthirsty. they stopped pretending to care about the common people, which is what I cared about, and were cheering on the killing of civilians and conscripted soldiers. they posted videos of ukrainians getting shot and blown up accompanied with the site’s absurd emojis and weird in joke phrases. they were also just extremely hostile to anyone who wasn’t lockstep with their view. they would use vicious insults and accusations against naysayers and the mods would almost always rule on their side.

I rarely ever participated in the arguments up to that point because I didn’t see a reason to, but I got in fights with people about this. they were treating war like a football game and it really rubbed me the wrong way. but then that subsection of the site started to contain themselves mostly to the “news megathread” which I could easily ignore.

I became less and less interested in hexbear as time went on. I think other people were noticing these disturbing trends too because the number of active users dwindled down to around 150-200. the remaining users were the worst of the worst. so fucking mean and nasty, in that abusive family type of way. they proclaim themselves to be friendly, proclaim hexbear to be a welcoming and caring community, tightly knit, when behind the curtain they are horrible to each other. of course I had only ever known that type of life so I didn’t see it for what it was and continued to use the site.

I finally had a breakthrough internally and got the courage to go to therapy and try to reckon with the damage my upbringing did to me. and once that started to work, hexbear’s rose tint rapidly faded.

now I look back on my several years as a hexbear user with so much embarrassment. I can’t believe how much hatred was in my heart. I try to forgive myself and remember that I was young and broken and taken advantage of by malicious people online but I was old enough to know better. once in a while I’ll check hexbear out just to remind myself of how much I’ve grown and improved. I see people in there who claim to be in their 30s and 40s and i feel disgust at how they are manipulating young adults and even kids as we see here. I feel sad for them too. I don’t think anyone that old would be part of such a group if they didn’t have a seriously damaged worldview.

wow. sorry to dump on you. just seeing someone so young get roped into hexbear brought up a lot of feelings.

They're type of band that this could be a prank, but it seems legit. Going to be hard to replace him

Mindustry dev has had enough

I've encountered some conflicting usages of Tag:landuse=residential. Some areas are very specific, and broken down into individual blocks, while some areas cover multiple blocks. Here's an example of both styles adjacent to each other:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/653823458

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/652122607

The wiki doesn't really say much on the topic. Does anyone have opinions/rules of thumb on how to tag them exactly? It seems like all adjacent areas not separated by major highways should be joined together?

I've encountered some residential areas that are broken down into mapping each block, and literally follow the curb, rounded corners and all. That seems too specific?

I'm looking at Tag:crossing=marked, and it's a little vague. It says:

Set a node on the highway where the transition is and add highway=crossing + crossing=marked.

If the crossing is also mapped as a way, tag it as highway=footway footway=crossing crossing=marked or highway=cycleway cycleway=crossing crossing=marked as appropriate.

Doesn't that violate the principle of One feature, one OSM element? For example, here's a crossing from where overpass-turbo defaults to showing:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7780814396

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/833493479

You've got a way with these tags:

crossing=marked
crossing:markings=yes
footway=crossing
highway=footway
surface=asphalt

And the intersection node with the street it's crossing has these tags:

crossing=marked
crossing:markings=yes
highway=crossing
tactile_paving=no

Shouldn't that be one or the other? It makes sense to me to represent the crossing as a way with all the tags, and leave the intersection untagged. I noticed though that StreetComplete doesn't really like that, and will give you quests to add tags to the intersection node even if the way is properly tagged.

Original comment:

I don’t know much about voting systems, but I know someone who does. Unfortunately he’s currently banned. Maybe we can wait until his 3-month ban expires and ask him for advice?

Previous discussion

I've got a patio for a restaurant tagged as leisure=outdoor_seating. That page says you can add operator=* as a string, but I'm wondering if I can add a Relation between the patio and the restaurant. This is really for semantic reasons, because if the restaurant changes its name or gets a new owner, it would be nice if the patio didn't then have out-of-date information.

I don't see a Relation type that's relevant. I don't want to just start doing my own thing, so does anyone know of a way to use a Relation here, and if not, is that something that can be proposed?

Thanks for all of the responses on my other questions, btw. This community has been very helpful.

I'm taking a look at traffic circles like this:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/33.790043/-118.142392

The main traffic circle has been split up into 8 different segments, so that individual segments can have Relations added to them, such as the "Long Beach Transit 174" bus route. I'm new to mapping, so I don't really know what to expect, but it seems odd to split it up like that. It ends up adding noise to StreetComplete, in that I can't just say "yep, this traffic circle is asphalt", I have to go to a bunch of tiny segments and mark each one of them as asphalt.

I've also seen this for items generated from Lyft data, where a single road gets split into tiny segments so that one part can be marked as "no u-turn" or "no left turn". StreetComplete wants me to mark each tiny segment individually.