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I agree with you on Team Ninja vs FromSoft. I tried Nioh 2 after hearing praise and comparisons to FromSoft games. But I found the controls comparatively complex compared to Souls/Sekiro and it made the game really unplayable for me.

The only good idea he had was to fellate pg’s ego and write Reddit in lisp, which is all of talked about in those days. Seems to have a need to be proven that he was a right clever boy.

It’s fine, if you don’t take it as dogma, understand that Rippetoe isn’t a particularly great coach or lifter, and it should only be run 6 to 12 weeks - maximum. I think most folks would be better off doing 5/3/1 with cardio and/or a sport or doing any number of programs from John McCallum’s classic, “The Complete Keys to Progress”.

Agreed. I definitely came off a bit cynical. We just have an abundance of exceptional performance spaces in Philly and the nearby suburbs. Hopefully, this is a benefit to Lansdowne.

Living in Philly, I can pretty confidently say there’s a 0% chance a theater in Lansdowne, even a nicely restored, historical, theater, will attract 100000 visitors in a year.

Spectre.Console for dotnet.

Maybe. I don’t think technology in music is a bad thing. I enjoy pushing limits and non-transitional elements. I love music that upends expectations and may even be grating to listen to for most people. I enjoy music made with synths, plugins, and effects (analog and digital).

But more and more, I’m finding I don’t enjoy newer music, not because it scares me or I find it to be racket, like earlier generations said of mine.

Instead, I find newer music to be boring and devoid of life. Zero dynamics. Hearing the same few guitar and drum plugins. Rigidly mechanical tempos and tone correction. It’s just dull and boring.

A lot of this is poor execution. Maybe some of it is changes in how we listen to music. A lot, not all, of new music feels like content instead of art, mashed through a template for ease of production. Yes - that’s something that’s been done through the history of recorded music. But the uniformity gives everything a generic feel that used to be reserved for the most bubblegum of pop music.

Everything’s a drum! Everything’s a drum!

It's soft language for 'civilian casualties', even though it can include other things like property destruction.

I was initially skeptical about whether it violated his wishes. I thought they found unpublished stories. Then someone in his camp posted on Twitter that they were early, previously published stories - not the unfinished ones he didn’t want to see the light of day. And that he had been making efforts to republish his early works in the years before his passing.

This is something I learned being in bands. Fame and fortune weren’t in the story, but because we made the music we wanted to hear, I have an album and 3 EPs worth of music that I can listen to and enjoy, over a decade later.

Are you using Moonscript for nvim config or something else?

My take is the opposite. It’s a nightmare of noise, where everyone is forced to be louder than everyone else. Anyone trying to read or do homework is forced to flee to the edges of the house to find an escape.

Except libraries pay for their books, and those books cannot be copied and distributed in an unlimited manner. Artist deserve to be compensated for their work.

My favorite musical partnerships have a balance of a starter and (me) a finisher. I really struggle with producing raw material, but am good at revising, reworking, and cutting out fluff and my best writing partners are great at spewing out ideas, most of which are cut. It together, we are able to make something we’re both excited about.

The lanes don't play the game for you. You played well to the conditions of the day. You can be happy in that.

Yes. The best decision they made was to flatter a billionaire’s ego. Then Reddit largely succeeded despite them.

Patrick Bateman vibes

“…the closest, the mostest” is the line I always remember from that video.

My great-grandmother lost two (teenage) brothers in Pennsylvania mining accidents in the early 1900's. The coal companies were more than happy to grind through the expendable, cheap, often immigrant, population of the region.

I love Terry Pratchett, but many of the TV adaptations have been a big miss. Though Good Omens was really well done, I thought.

They probably received most, if not all, as children in the US. That is assuming they’re not getting regular flu shots.

I mostly work with Powershell, but dabble in C#. Both omnisharp and the Powershell CoC plugins for Neovim seemed to break often. I've switched to VS Code for Powershell and Visual Studio for C#, as sad as that makes me.

Yeah same. I'll probably spend a some more time with Emacs, having fun toying around with it, and then realize all I really want is a fast, snappy editor. Then I'll be back to nvim. Wash-rinse-repeat every couple of years.

Did you customize Emacs much? Or add functionality, rather than just customize? I'm a long time vim/nvim user and as much as Lua brought to the party, I'm finding I want to add functionality, and that feels more appealing in Emacs.

Yeah. They've repeatedly bungled Azure/O365 related Powershell modules. Some modules offering partially overlapping functionality, which are then deprecated in favor of MSGraph. The Powershell MSGraph API is not a 1:1 replacement and the documentation for Powershell is pretty awful in places.

I don't believe it's a full rewrite. From Neovim's Vision statement:

"Neovim is a refactor, and sometimes redactor, in the tradition of Vim (which itself derives from Stevie). It is not a rewrite but a continuation and extension of Vim."

https://neovim.io/charter/

I have family that works for DOL's Wage & Hour division. The amount of wage theft is _staggering_. They are chronically understaffed and overworked. Plus, every time a Republican administration comes into power, their enforcement power gets severely limited, except in the most egregious cases.

I believe Momentary began as a Gilmour solo album. They may have had a toxic relationship, but Waters and Gilmour undoubtedly made their best music working together.

I love lifting, and I agree with this. Even running outside, though repetitive, causes you to constantly scan the ground ahead of you for obstacles (crack in the cement, puddles, dog poop, etc), you have the stimulus of the moving background, cars/people/stray pets to avoid. You may not have to think hard about theses things, but your mind is always processing and responding to the stimulus.

For me, I think I get the most mental benefits out BJJ. I'd wager any martial art with live sparring would give the same results.

When you're doing live sparring, as opposed to just drills, you have to make constant, near instant, adjustments to your defense, look for offensive openings, scan your rolling partner's movements and try to anticipate their next attack, all while being aware of other trainees on the mats (to avoid a random foot or falling body), and working to slow your breathing and maintain composure.