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matty is tumblr 19 | it/its | aspec i like math rock and toys and games. i am new here, please be my friend. glory to sana futaba

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I am generally frustrated with the state of Windows/Linux discourse and I just have a few things I want to jot down for the sake of structuring my thoughts somewhere. 1) Nobody seems to understand that the average Windows user is not a "beginner." A "beginner" is somebody who has not used a computer before. If you've spent the last decade of your life adapting your workflow for Windows, and you feel frustrated that a "beginner friendly" distro is "unintuitive," you need to stop and consider why that might be. Likewise, if your first recommendation to a Windows user is something that's "beginner friendly," consider reconsidering. 2) Windows is treated as a default, which gives people making the switch unrealistic expectations. For example, and maybe this is a contrarian take, but I don't think that typing "sudo apt install firefox" into a terminal, or opening a flatpak GUI and clicking "install" on firefox, is any less intuitive than finding an .msi/.exe online, running it, and navigating through a couple multiple choice options. It's weird that we treat one as "intuitive" and two as "strange." 3) Your preference is probably not objectively informed, and there's no reason to act like it is. This goes for Linux users too. Unless you're talking about release day Win8 or Omarchy, there's going to be people who love it and people who hate it, and they're probably both going to have good points. 4) No, the terminal is not necessary. Stop acting like it is, it's not 1998 anymore. The terminal is just as necessary on Linux as it is on Windows, it provides utility if you want it, but many modern distros allow for full access to most system utilities without it.

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running machine learning models on my own music library because spotify deprecated their characteristics api and acousticbrainz has been dead since 2022 sometimes u just gotta do everything yourself

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I get so many customers in my store that make me question if they are even real human beings or homunculi sent to torture me

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I just watched BlacKkKlansmam so I wanted to give some brief thoughts for fun. In short, one of the greatest films I've ever seen.

It is not often you can see a movie that both keeps you on the absolute edge of your seat with suspense AND has an absolutely amazing payoff. The cinematography is beautiful and the commentary is master class. I think that not only is it amazing as a work of art, it also comes at a time when it is very very important to discuss the culture that created the stories the film is based on. Every character is written immaculately, and it toes a very difficult line between fantastical (almost comedic) interactions and dead serious life-on-the-line suspense.

My only, and I mean only, notable gripe is that the rapid tone shifts begin to get a bit jarring in the post-climax scenes. They're quick, intense, and force you to re-orient yourself every scene change. This is probably a purposeful stylistic choice, and it works at drawing you into a sense of triumph while continuing to tell you that "this is not over," which I think works very well, but again, it's jarring. I think that's just a personal issue, though. the movie still absolutely shines and I don't think it cheapens the experience. 10/10, thank you Spike Lee.

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This is a map of all every single album (ignore duplicates, I haven't done a good enough job sanitizing my database) that I have personally downloaded on my computer, in one big graph showing the relationships between them. The links (as of right now) are based on listener data from last.fm, a link means that people who listen to one album are likely to listen to the other end of the link, and a blue link means that the albums are from the same artist. The structure is a force-directed graph, meaning that it dynamically evolves and changes as new datapoints are added.

As you can clearly see this is still a huge huge work in progress, I plan on adding many many more albums in the future, and hopefully new methods to link them depending on what apis and analysis software I have available. Right now it's not very impressive and nowhere near where I want it to be, but I'm just glad to be putting my thought towards something.

On the more technical side of things, this is a web app written with d3js as the primary framework, and I'm using the subsonic api to pull the information for it because I host my music on navidrome so it's very convenient.

As a sort of directory of what the bigger clusters represent, the bottom cluster is japanese math rock, which moves northwest towards mostly american indie rock. the branch coming east from that clump goes from rock->shoegaze/psych rock->idm/ambient. the two large clusters in the east are kikuo (bottom) and karate (top), both of which I have most of their discography downloaded. then at the top theres screamo in the east and emoviolence on the west.

also if you've read this far all of this music is on slsk under doppelsana. i dont care if you leech. i keep good metadata.

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I might just be in the wrong online circles but I feel like more and more lately I am seeing people who have a refusal to sit down and critically analyze media. Things are getting dumber and dumber and people are turning to tools like chatgpt to dumb it down even further. People are losing sight of what makes the consumption of art valuable. There are so many explanations and summaries that it's starting to damage the discussion around media.

There is a wall that is forming between critics and artists, and the general public. There is an expectation that the artist and the critic must collectively produce something that is intuitive and understandable, and that the viewer needs only sit back and revel in their genius. It's seen as pretentious and unusual to engage with difficult media, and on some level it can be pretentious, but I think that everybody should at least try.

I think people should be encouraged to engage with media beyond their understanding, and I think we should foster spaces where it's ok for people to not understand, and engage in discussion. And I don't think that just letting a critic speak at you for an hour long video essay without critically considering their view constitutes that discussion.

Maybe it's always been like this and I'm just only now starting to realize but I do really feel like something is shifting. Especially since GenAI got good enough to be presentable there's just so much thoughtless "art" and soulless analyses circulating.

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(putting this as separate post because it's more of a hot take) I think as well that difficulty in videogames is a dying art because of this. With Elden Ring specifically (since it's one of my all time favourites) I see so many people online saying things like "ER should have a difficulty slider" or "ER should have an easy mode so that people who just enjoy the lore should have a chance to experience it without needing to play a needlessly difficult game" and I just think that misses that games as a whole are one continuous work of art, and it is impossible to separate gameplay from that experience.

"Elden Ring with an easy mode" is no longer the same videogame as Elden Ring, the game (and many soulslikes) are about a single lowly individual becoming something powerful enough to slay a God, the storytelling of the game is irrevocably changed if the player character is a god from the beginning.

You are supposed to struggle, you are supposed to get lost doing a quest, or not find an important item, or die to a boss, because you are a weak person in a confusing world. The game wants to tell you over and over again, you are nothing, and you can become something. The message is hurt when this is not the case.

And of course not all difficulty is good, I think some parts of elden ring are pointless bullshit. I don't think GSD is a good fight just because it's hard, I think it doesn't need to be as hard as it is. And I don't care if you PERSONALLY want to use cheat engine or cheese a hard boss, I played with summons and co-op. I just don't think there should be any expectation for the developers or directors to need to change their project. Nobody is rallying for MZ Danielewski to release a "normal version" of house of leaves.

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I might just be in the wrong online circles but I feel like more and more lately I am seeing people who have a refusal to sit down and critically analyze media. Things are getting dumber and dumber and people are turning to tools like chatgpt to dumb it down even further. People are losing sight of what makes the consumption of art valuable. There are so many explanations and summaries that it's starting to damage the discussion around media.

There is a wall that is forming between critics and artists, and the general public. There is an expectation that the artist and the critic must collectively produce something that is intuitive and understandable, and that the viewer needs only sit back and revel in their genius. It's seen as pretentious and unusual to engage with difficult media, and on some level it can be pretentious, but I think that everybody should at least try.

I think people should be encouraged to engage with media beyond their understanding, and I think we should foster spaces where it's ok for people to not understand, and engage in discussion. And I don't think that just letting a critic speak at you for an hour long video essay without critically considering their view constitutes that discussion.

Maybe it's always been like this and I'm just only now starting to realize but I do really feel like something is shifting. Especially since GenAI got good enough to be presentable there's just so much thoughtless "art" and soulless analyses circulating.

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vintage story is a very good game but it also feels like playing something that would be called Ultimate Survival Craft on your mom's work laptop because she won't buy you minecraft

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I do not "OOP". I do not make classes, i do not call methods, i do not create children, i do not use objects, I ITERATE. And if the code doesn't work, I rewrite it in lisp

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i hate how volatile online algorithms feel these days. I feel like many years ago my YouTube algorithm was mostly consistent regardless of what I watched in the short term but now I watch one long video on CoE and YouTube thinks all I care about is 2010s fantasy rpgs

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has anybody figured out ps4 emulation yet? im seeing clips of people playing bloodborne on pc but there's no reliable information. rpcs4 seems to be legit..? but i cant tell. i will try it out anyways i guess

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im so tired of seeing bad takes about Orpheus. "i wouldn't have looked back" ok go write your own stupid-ass story where nothing bad ever happens and its impossible to do wrong if you love somebody. nobody "failed" in that story. there was no great preventable tragedy. he loved her enough to try to save her and then his love made it impossible. i'm sure there's some well formed argument out there on why it could've been different but i'm just tired of seeing contrarian bullshit from people who think its cool to disagree on principal

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i changed my mind. every single nice thing I've ever said about the mbta I take it back. the dumbasses operating the 12:55 providence/stoughton line train out of south station will be struck down by god himself. second best transit system in the usa means they're the FIRST LOSERS! the mta would never wrong me the way ive been wronged tonight.

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gunk for dinner #mygunk

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why is getting a job lowkey impossible. so tired of old people giving old people advice too like leave me alone man i tried all that shit

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beautiful

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i went to philly for the first time and i have to say i was absolutely not prepared for how weird that city is. it was truly the first time in my life where i actually felt out of my element in a city. what a powerful experience