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I started off with Ubuntu Studio when I first switched to Linux from Macs,.. I dunno how long ago. Then I switched to regular Ubuntu with XFCE since I didn't use half of what Ubuntu Studio came with and when Canonincal announced their IPO plans, figured I'd use it as an excuse to explore Debian so pretty much I just use Debian nowadays.

I tend to use SuperCollider (sometimes with TidalCycles running for live coding), Pure Data, Audacity, and very rarely a DAW (but if I do, Ardour). I use an RME Fireface UCX which is USB class-compliant I think it's called(?). I dunno, I used go the normal JACK route with qjackctl but switched over the Pipewire (which I finally got down to usable latencies while playing a bass going through the interface without too many xruns) and qpwgraph for routing. I dunno, it just works more-or-less and isn't so much trouble to set up (was a bit more painful with the normal JACK route and feeding PulseAudio into JACK and doing all the PulseAudio/JACK sink stuff, Pipewire has made that workflow significantly more streamlined).

thought it was a 13-ep season so was half-expecting a next episode.

as an anime-only, hopefully ririka pops up again in the future. feels like she's just getting started in seriously processing that whole ordeal for whatever reason: whether it being due to being in her position/expectations of her/people around her, not having the maturity quite yet to deal with it, or just not being able to process these sorts of things as well as her peers (definitely relatable things). would be interesting to see where she goes from now.

out of all the anime i'm watching this season, this one feels like it's the most ... economically animated? but also it feels like it does pretty well given that. i liked the contrast between the lighted up Mitsukejima with the characters obscuring the sky, then you get more of the stars through the reflection in the water, and then finally back with the characters in frame.

there was a bit of focus on the shoes before the episode's climax to contrast with the missing pair of shoes in the beginning.

quiet zero looks like something out of homeworld, except less colorful i guess.

a swordfight in a gundam series and a character is wearing all red and another all white, don’t think i’ve ever seen that before… never ever… (suppose it also kinda does double duty and makes the utena ties more explicit).

i guess the turn on the series’s phrase “even if there’s nothing to gain, i have to move forward” makes suletta’s character growth blatantly obvious if somehow anybody missed it (there’s also suletta thanking belmeria for letting her do things out of her volition).

hey, the lagrange naming of large habitations are back from other gundam series. the orchestral dropin when suletta began her attack with caliburn kinda reminded me of those sawano moments in unicorn.

quiet zero looks like something out of homeworld, except less colorful i guess.

a swordfight in a gundam series and a character is wearing all red and another all white, don't think i've ever seen that before... never ever... (suppose it also kinda does double duty and makes the utena ties more explicit).

i guess the turn on the series's phrase "even if there's nothing to gain, i have to move forward" makes suletta's character growth blatantly obvious if somehow anybody missed it (there's also suletta thanking belmeria for letting her do things out of her volition).

hey, the lagrange naming of large habitations are back from other gundam series. the orchestral dropin when suletta began her attack with caliburn kinda reminded me of those sawano moments in unicorn.

the rain scene was absolutely gorgeous. i guess i tend to like rain scenes in anime and how they tend to be used in setting mood (haruhi's rain ep is one of my favorites from that series). i guess losing glasses is kind of tropey but it kinda feels like it has a bit of symbolism here too. i also liked the brief flashes of portrait outline throughout the ep.

if aoi and eve's shots combined, it'd be kinda like the title of that smashing pumpkins song huh. really hoping for some sort of beautiful, rainbowy combo shot in the last ep somehow. that or whatever this show's equivalent to newtype shenanigans would be.

oh no, the hg 1/144 mobile warrior gongem 35th anniversary limited edition clear version. transparent sparkly plastic sounds pretty awesome tbh, the gongem design with the gold trim looks like something more out of rayearth though, or I guess looking it up knights and magic had mecha with gold trim too (haven't seen that one yet though).