A band is 3-5 ish people just vibing and making it up together. When you get into a studio, now you have at least one engineer in the group. If a record label is involved, you have their representative as well as all their money. So it’s a lot of chefs in the kitchen when it comes to making an actual recording.

The biggest influence outside of the band though is usually the engineer. As an outsider with a vested interest in making the song as good as it can be, they often have really great insight into changes that can make the song even better.

Finally, when you’re playing live even with a click track in your ear, you’re going to want to rush. And that’s ok, it’s fun to play fast. You may not even notice it. And then you go into the booth to record and you end up laying out what you had in your head from the start.

Maybe the final piece will pull it all together? I hope they make me look like an idiot

Square chickened out after manchildren ree’d about the really interesting changes made in Remake, kinda walking it back and trying to pretend it didn’t happen. And ironically, that’s kind of just worse, because those nerds are never going to be happy with what happened in Remake and its ramifications in Rebirth and ReThree, my nerds are mourning for what we could’ve had, and Square looks kinda pathetic and easily bullied.

Give it time, too. I didn’t discover I’m an absolute fishing fiend until I was 28, and now I’m out with my dad as often as we can. Same with woodworking and building stuff, I picked that all up when I bought a house.

Do I wish I had known this about myself when we lived together? Of course, but I’d be a very different person I suspect and I like who I am.

You’ve got a point there too. Nothing is entirely unbiased, and he definitely leans left. However the entire schtick is kinda, give a person a microphone and let them say their piece. He spends an equal amount of time at Free Palestine rallies and Proud Boys conventions, very rarely dubbing in disclaimers about the validity of a statement the interviewee made.

And recently he’s started including guest reporters, like a Mexico native to talk to the workers and patrons of a red light district near the border, and citizens in Israel and Palestine interviewing the respective populations to get some insight into their feelings on the genocide.

In conclusion, it’s good content and good journalism. Give it a chance some time!

What would you call a feed delivering investigative journalism, on the ground reporting on current events, interviews with important people and regular citizens alike? Maybe like some kind of “channel” for “news”? Wait no “Channel Five News” cause five is the best number.

Our GE Profile oven did the same. Of course the software is so shit, it tripped up connecting to the VLAN I set up and now it has air fry mode and no wifi.

Maybe try switching to airplane mode on your phone while trying to onboard the oven? I’m sure it’s too late for that.

That might’ve been the best year for metalcore 😭

Most Wanted is the GOAT simply for the soundtrack. Bullet For My Valentine and Avenged Sevenfold practically defined my music taste for the rest of my life.

I’m back and I’m recanting. They put out a little news post explaining their reasoning for the system and begging people to give it a chance. It makes some good points, and the fact that they’re trying something different is interesting, so I’m gonna give The Brothers Gower a chance, they’ve earned it in my book.

Spot on. I’m completely baffled. As soon as I found out about the episode gating, I bounced hard. And I’ve got thousands of hours of runescape all the way back to the MUD version, Classic.

Not to belittle Stardew, a game I adore, but Stardew is itself very much cribbed, as a desperately needed spiritual successor to the Harvest Moon/Rune Factory games. I don’t intend on checking out fields of mistria so I’ll just take your word on the rest.

The constant tutorials can be overwhelming, yeah. Just know, the game is (usually) many layers, and you can still have a blast ignoring the basic tutorials and just turning your brain off and smashing stuff, or you can focus up and hit the lab to really refine how you use a particular weapon or practice strategies against a specific monster, kinda like a fighting game.

Yeah I agree, this is bullshit. I’m probably in the minority but I take “vote with your wallet” seriously and I’ve just kept my sub going since I started playing in like 2018? Even the months that go by that I don’t play, I feel I’m getting some value by keeping their team cooking.

Meanwhile WoW is getting roasted for its latest grift. I guess that’s stacking value, just not for the players.

When I worked retail, I never asked for phone or address or anything. If they volunteered it, I’d do it, but I never asked. Management talked to me about it several times and I just kept not doing it. I think they kept me on in busy times because I could blast through any line of customers faster than anyone else (I wonder why 🤔)

It’s not a fucking reveal, Kagi tells you exactly what engines they include in their results.

Whole heartedly, FDM is laughably worse at the hobby/consumer level. I sold my Ender 3 because it was just a pain in the ass, intending on never 3D printing again.

A coworker mentioned the Elegoo Mars 4K being so cheap so I gave it a shot. I’ve printed so much with it, and I have literally never had a problem once I dialed in my exposure time with the resin I like. I don’t even fuss with how long the resin has sat idle. Months can go by between prints and I don’t even bother stirring it. It just cranks things out like a magician.

Everyone who can set up adequate ventilation and buy thick rubber gloves: get a resin printer and never look back.

On god. I bought four god damn copies of it and it still wasn’t enough.