Sequentialsilence

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[–] Sequentialsilence 22 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

A self mowing lawnmower, it moved so randomly and was so specific for its operation parameters that I ended up just going back to manually mowing.

[–] Sequentialsilence 105 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

According to the patent (US465588A) it should be over.

[–] Sequentialsilence 4 points 2 days ago

It’s not supposed to be played without belts, I’ll tell you that much.

[–] Sequentialsilence 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Basically, also trains, so many trains.

[–] Sequentialsilence 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I beat Factorio without using belts.

No, I’m not a masochist, why do you ask?

[–] Sequentialsilence 70 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

They do have a pitch, however because it is percussive as opposed to sustained, we don’t register the pitch as easily. Many will also purposely obfuscate the pitch, such as cymbals, they don’t hold a tone, but rather multiple tones at once, making a washing sound and working for any key. If you ever look at a cymbal you will see the rings and divots around the cymbal, because if they weren’t there it would ring like a bell which definitely has a pitch.

As for the drums themselves they definitely do a have a pitch and it is common for to tune them in fifths, or octaves. Think of a drumline, those drums all have pitches and tones, they also function identically to a traditional drum kit. You can very similarly to the cymbals obfuscate this tone by doing an offset tuning so your drum head resonates unevenly across the head creating multiple tonalities at once.

You can achieve this by being lazy and not tuning.

I’m a professional sound engineer and ex-professional drummer BTW.

[–] Sequentialsilence 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Being willing to do manual labor.

I’m a sound engineer, all I need to do is push faders right?

How do you think those speakers got there? Or the cables that are ran to them, or the stage getting setup, or the truck getting unloaded and reloaded? My job is 80% manual labor, 10% pulling random fixes out of my ass, 5% bullshitting, and only 5% actually pushing faders. As a sound engineer I’m only actually behind the console for 2-4 hours a week the rest is all the work required to sit behind the console.

[–] Sequentialsilence 2 points 2 weeks ago

Totally, I’m not buying a new monitor, keyboard, speakers, webcam, or chassis. Just a new CPU and in this case RAM, as we made the switch from DDR4 to DDR5.

Imagine having to buy a new keyboard, mouse, monitor, and speakers, every time you wanted to upgrade your desktop. It’s the same thing.

[–] Sequentialsilence 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably turn it into a dedicated mini pc for the 3D printer. It’s still decently powerful I just don’t need it anymore. I might gift it to someone as a mini pc, depends on if I see someone who needs a computer but doesn’t have one.

[–] Sequentialsilence 19 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I have been running one for 2 years and next generation am going to do the thing they were designed to do and upgrade my laptop without throwing away the whole laptop. So for less than $1000 I will be upgrading to something that is faster than my desktop, and it’s portable.

The price tag is premium, at first, then it actually saves money.

[–] Sequentialsilence 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well i’m in the .1% for height, I guess that helps me to stand out.

[–] Sequentialsilence 2 points 2 weeks ago

When they’re good, they’re good. Good gameplay beats good graphics every day

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