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cybereality

So this is the music I listen to these days.

some_lame_kid

Every week my music taste more resembles a 2006 teen. For example, I just rediscovered Senses Fail.

Dude's voice is a bit high but I still like it.

Audiobellum

@cybereality said: So this is the music I listen to these days.

This is good. Hey, have you ever heard of Carpenter Brut, his sound really taps into my second-hand nostalgia for the 1980's (even though I was born in the 1990's).

Still though, the song I've been listening to the most is Nasty by Polyphia. It's amazing how they took influence from Hip-hop and integrated into their music in a subtle way that only fans of the genre will notice.

some_lame_kid

speaking of 2006, I just got a "gaming" PC that probably hasn't been upgraded since that decade. I now use it to play old windows games, test prototypes and play music because the speakers are pretty good. Has anyone talked about how crappy Windows 7 media player is compared the XP for playing local files? It's so convoluted for apparently no reason and I can't find the cool visualizers. Because of this I've been trying to find a copy of XP to install. It doesn't need to do anything beyond play old games from discs or play music, AND I WANT THE VISUALIZERS

cybereality

@some_lame_kid said: Every week my music taste more resembles a 2006 teen. For example, I just rediscovered Senses Fail.

I still listen to Linkin Park, LOL. Found they do these remix/mashups on YouTube, they are fun.

cybereality

@Audiobellum said: Hey, have you ever heard of Carpenter Brut, his sound really taps into my second-hand nostalgia for the 1980's (even though I was born in the 1990's).

Yes, I've heard them in mixes, but I never saw that video. Best video of all time. I used to listen to Synthwave for a bit, stuff like Mega Drive, but I got out of the whole 80's thing and moved to more dubstep influence.

Probably my favorite artist right now is skeler.

Still though, the song I've been listening to the most is Nasty by Polyphia. It's amazing how they took influence from Hip-hop and integrated into their music in a subtle way that only fans of the genre will notice.

That's amazing. Definitely a sound I haven't heard. So many genres mixed together seamlessly.

duane

@cybereality said: Humans are really not as special as we think.

I agree. Humans are pretty conceited, but it's a fact that we have the best brain on our planet for general problem-solving and predicting the future. It's also a fact that brains are orders of magnitude more efficient and powerful than anything made with silicon. So far, computers have only shown any provable aptitude at specific, mindless tasks. Quantum computers are even more limited -- but very good at what they can do.

I'd love to meet an intelligent piece of computer software, but so far either no one has, or they can't prove it. And if you can't prove it, it didn't happen.

duane

@DaveTheCoder said: Re: cancel culture

I agree with you, but "cancel culture" is nothing new (or particularly threatening), it's just more obvious now.

duane

@cybereality said: This was the first video game I played on my Commodore 64. I think I was like 4 years old.

[Castles of Dr Creep] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castles_of_Dr._Creep) was my favorite C64 game, but I tried it again recently, and I didn't enjoy it much. I guess I was easier to satisfy back then. :)

Megalomaniak

@Audiobellum said: Hey, have you ever heard of Carpenter Brut, his sound really taps into my second-hand nostalgia for the 1980's (even though I was born in the 1990's).

I love Trilogy:

duane

@some_lame_kid said: Has anyone talked about how crappy Windows 7 media player is compared the XP for playing local files? It's so convoluted for apparently no reason and I can't find the cool visualizers. Because of this I've been trying to find a copy of XP to install. It doesn't need to do anything beyond play old games from discs or play music, AND I WANT THE VISUALIZERS

There are loads of free (as in beer or freedom) music players for windows with visualizers. I used winamp back when I had windows, but I'm sure there are better choices now. I just use mpv on linux -- no visuals, but easy to script.

As for playing old windows games, I've had a lot of luck with WINE, but you can still get XP from MS's website. (You can get it from other places too, if you're careful, but I don't recommend it.)

Audiobellum

@cybereality said:

@Audiobellum said:

Probably my favorite artist right now is skeler.

This is nice. I don't really come across dubstep this relaxing; I feel like I can read or code to this.

Erich_L

Games + cancel culture: Did you guys read this article analyzing the sexism of Rimworld? Being male, I couldn't help but laugh my way through most of it. Halfway through I felt ready to hold a picket sign for Rimworld lolol

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rimworld-code-analysis

cybereality

Honestly, I feel like some things have gotten much worse in terms of computing. Winamp with bootleg MP3 and MilkDrop or Geiss was the pinnacle of audio-visual entertainment. They even had a mod where you could play it with 3D shutter glasses, I had 2 CRT monitors back then, it was epic. Now we just pay more for less features.

duane

This is kind of neat, and it says it runs on windows. Looks a lot like I remember winamp.

Edit: This one might be even prettier. I'll let you know.

cybereality

Honestly looks nowhere close to as good as Winamp, but it's better than nothing I guess.

duane

@cybereality said: Now we just pay more for less features.

Well, to some degree, you have to blame the independent developers who constantly sued microsoft for two decades every time they tried to add something nice to the operating system. I understand that the developers were protecting their livelihood, but they put a stop to a lot of features that might have helped everyone.

cybereality

No, I'm not blaming anyone. There are market forces in place, and also developments in technology (mostly streaming) that have made downloading files almost irrelevant. But we also lost a lot of culture, especially in terms of the customization of UI and also visualization and mods.

some_lame_kid

Its a lot like cars on the market. Gave up style for convenience and safety. Can't blame them from a realistic standpoint, or the people who buy them. But I've always been of the opinion that I'd rather die young in style than live my whole life bland until my heart gives up.

duane

Well, I'm a bit disappointed. The only working plug-ins I could find for audacious were these. I guess linux geeks just aren't into fancy displays. It looks even worse after uploading to youtube, but I'm not an experienced youtuber.

Then again, I don't usually consider wasting screen real estate on something I'm not actually working on. I use a laptop, so my display's small as it is.

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