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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
I've been doing nothing but playing Shapez 2 and loving every minute of it.
I got really into the first one, and kept up with the development of the second, but haven't played it. Am a little worried it will be too complicated for me, how similar is it to the first (ie how much new learning will i have to do :0)?
Never played all too much of shapez 1 unfortunately. Played some when it came out but didn't get too far. I don't think anything is all too complicated. The only time it feels like it gets complicated is when I try to put too much stuff on one platform and I try to optimize, but there's no harm in just using more platforms and spreading stuff out so you can see.
I went in blind, not knowing anything about the game at all. I'm playing on challenge mode/hard mode and while it certainly has posed some tough problems to sort out, there hasn't been anything I've found to be insurmountable.
That being said I have not dived into the computing/automation aspect of it yet, mainly because I know nothing of computer science.
I have a CS degree and I haven't looked into it because it feels unnecessary to me. Would take the fun part of the game out.
I also know nothing of computer science, and never tried to do any of that in the first game, this is very good to know!!
Oh fuck I'm not alone thank God
I nabbed a Synstrom Deluge for $800 on Reverb since the price was absolutely perfect. If you don't have anything yet and want something like it, just get the Polyend Play+, it'll be getting their Perc drum synth engine soon and is extremely similar. I consider having full synths for everything a plus, but I also love me some rompler drum machine samples (linndrum, 707, 505), I just didn't love the $1500 price tag. I wish I'd gotten it instead of the OP-1, for sure, a few years back though.
That said, the Deluge is an amazing device, and once you climb over the interface's learning curve it starts to rapidly make sense. I'm looking foward to working on it more. I'm even considering using it to control my Korg Volca array for some fun stuff, since I've got those mostly wired up in their own case together.
I've had extra time to learn it since I've been not sleeping so well, and am trying to get to the bottom of that. So far benadryl works, but I know sleep aids impact quality of sleep, develop tolerance, and create a cycle of dependency so I'm trying to be careful. I want to be able to sleep at least 6 hours without anything in my body to help me out, as melatonin and kava seem to drop off after a couple hours, leaving me wide awake, and I wake myself up after 4 apparently.
Synthesizers are so sick. The day I have disposable income is the day I spend it on a arturia microfreak!
Tomorrow I am going to try to make my first ever quiche. I am also going to catch up on some of the speeches for the democratic convention. I ordered postcards to send to swing state voters but they haven't arrived yet.
I spent most of the week with this YouTube video on in the background. It's a bonkers D&D campaign script written by a real human, but performed by AI voices. It features the likenesses of real famous figures, many of them quite polarizing. It's oddly free of any political leaning, though, and it's super funny. If any of the above sounds intriguing, I'd encourage you to watch the first 10 minutes and see if it hooks you too. :D
I just read this just now while I had episode 35 in the background!
Agreed, it's very good! I noticed he improved whatever he uses for the voices around episode 28, they start sounding a lot more emotional and have a lot more range.
I like the writing, it's very much in the d&d spirit. My only complaint really is it's another prescripted d&d campaign which gives new players unrealistic expectations. But there's already so many of them now it's hard to judge just one.
Visited NYC again this week, this time with friends! This was my third time in NYC and I still loved it. Sadly, I was on-call so I had to go to the office and work on Monday and Tuesday but I still had a lot of fun. Working in the city for those two days really gave me a new appreciation for NYC and honestly has me thinking of moving there. Having grown up in the suburban SF Bay Area, I'd love to experience the city environment. I would be a bit sad moving away from all my friends and family here, and would have to figure something out with the car I just bought but I think it'd be a fun time.
Besides that, now that my brother has moved out from uni, I'm looking to take back the bedroom he took from me when I went to college. There's just a lot of junk in both our rooms to clear out before I can really move back in. I look forward to having all that extra space again.
I'm also finally starting to plan out my year-end trip to Japan! I'm going for two weeks with some friends and I really don't know what I want to do. I do know I want to visit all sorts of car and history museums but beyond that, I don't know how I want to split up my time there. Since some of my friends are flying into Osaka (from other travels they're doing), I might take the train from Tokyo Narita to Osaka and then slowly work my way back east with my friends going through Osaka, Kyoto, and then finally Tokyo. I'd like to finalize this stuff soon as prices are only increasing.
I want to recommend himeji castle. There is a thread in~travel about Japan
Yep I've been looking at that actually to try and get some inspiration, definitely a useful thread!
I am at the age where weddings are basically almost literally every month or two. Just finished wedding 3 out of a planned 6 this year, and just got invited to another one a day ago that I'm probably gonna go to! it's fun but soooo tiring!
Between playing an egregious amount of Shapez 2, I've had to deal with:
Oh yeah I also have a ton of schoolwork to catch up on over the next two weeks. Joy!
Seriously though, I'm staying positive. I have to!
Right now - just goofing off because I'm unemployed. As I posted elsewhere on Tildes I got fired last week. I'm in no hurry to get a new job, but a few recruiters have pinged me so I'm following up on those leads. Today I had a video call with one of the recruiters. I really want to post an exchange I had so here it is:
And the call ended a couple minutes after that! The guy's face dropped when I doubled down on my boundaries.
He said I should expect to work closer to 50-55 hours per week. All that work for a man that previously founded a company that IPO'd. Does he really need workers to work that hard? Isn't he already rich enough? It's actually a huge red flag that this is his 4th company and he has no employees returning from any of his previous endeavors.