Posts by AlexM

oh fuck yes. can't wait!

Sat down with my partner to play Until Dawn at 7pm. We ended up playing the entire game in one sitting finishing around 2-3 am. That game is so good.

Listening to a lot of German stuff lately.

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On 8/19/2018 at 11:23 AM, blackdog said: I didn’t get the reference, where is from?

Welcome to the club

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On 7/10/2019 at 4:34 PM, 0kelvin said: I'm learning japanese. I expect to reach intermediate level by the end of my undergraduate course. I'm not interesting in studying in JApan, but... just in case I ever need it.

Cool, I've been learning a little bit over the years but in the last 3 months I decided to go to a group class and have a weekly private teacher.

Not sure if you are interested in learning to read but wanikani.com is what I use for learning kanji. The first few levels are free then it costs. I kind of went a weird direction with my learning I only practiced reading kanji mostly so now I have a relatively advanced vocabulary and terrible grammar. After my first learning assesment the teacher wasn't quite sure how good I was at Japanese

Thanks for the info The interest for me with analog vs digital for me is the general DSP concept of analog having infinite bandwidth. At the end it doesn't really make a huge difference but I wanted to experience it first hand.

That said I'm trying to focus on the FM right now because I've already watched a few hours of videos. It's crazy you can partially reprogram the algorithms. Super interesting! I also managed to whip up a quick software synth the other night in an attempt to better understand what's going on. Actually calling it a synth is a bit generous... it makes a sin wave and that's it

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11 hours ago, Pericolos0 said: Volca FM is not analog ?

These things are super fun though, I have a Korg Monologue and Volca beats I toy around with a lot =). My girlfriend has a bunch of synths and drum machines as well, lots of fun to hook them all up together and just jam.

Anything you can tell me will help a ton. The korg stuff is WAY more complicated than the TE stuff. I have FM, Bass and Keys volcas.

I just went to the korg page now to check the FM specs. I guess I thought that since the bass and keys were analog I assumed the FM was also analog as well. I do have to say I'm fairly confused now. I guess I need to do a lot of reading to understand the differences. I understand the differences between analog and digital signals from a digital signal processing standpoint but at an audio level I obviously have a lot to learn.

The one thing I'm learning the more I learn about making electronic music is how much I can barely grasp or understand. So it's basically exactly like art or computer science

edit : you have a cool girlfriend

Lichess looks amazing. I need to practice up.

Also I took a brief look at the programming code for it on github. Even the code is super elegant

So I've always loved drum machines since I was maybe 8 years old but back then they weren't only hard to find. They were expensive as hell!

So I finally decided to give it a go and buy a couple Teenage Engineering pocket operators which are small musical devices that cost about 70$ CAD which all have sequencers but deviate in function depending on which one you have. I bought a chiptune one and a drum machine one.

These things are so addictive. I sat down on the couch Saturday morning when I got them with the plan of just playing with them for a few minutes and suddenly 4 hours passed by. Now I've gone one step further and bought a analog synthesizer (Korg Volca FM) and was immidiately hit by a huge wall of complexity. The good thing is every step of trying to figure it out is super fun.

I only fear this hobby could get expensive...

Just played it yesterday after not playing since season 2 started. Holy crap a lot has changed! Still so freaking fun, I have to watch myself or else I will lose my weekends :X

I think I need to look up some videos. It seems like so much has changed since I stopped playing that I'm being a bit of a burden on my teammates unless I choose Winston who seems to have a relatively similar play-style to when I last played.

Any recommendations for youtube channels or videos I can catch up on everything for 20 mins during my lunch hour?

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On 4/24/2019 at 12:52 PM, MikeGon said: YOOOOOOOOOO GUYS

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Awesome! That was pretty cool that the company allowed Keith and Dan to prototype some stuff for a while. That kind of opportunity is quite rare

I haven't been actively doing 3d work in almost 10 years and I've missed it a ton.

I decided to enter a contest my city is holding to design a park installation that acts as a shelter for rain as Vancouver has a very large rainfall. As part of this I also bought a license to Houdini to make my submission so I was learning Houdini at the same time while I made this. I might have taken on more than I can chew but I vowed to have something complete by the submission date because I hate not finishing projects. I made it but I wasn't able to make a diagram explaining how to take it apart and put it back together again (think ikea instructions).

Rendered in Unreal engine.

Here's my submission with my design goals description.

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Quote Sound Shelter is a modular mobile shelter with 3 key design goals

## Maximize the sound of falling water

Some have can be soothed by the sound of falling water. This project explores a design built to exploit the sound of falling water.

The roof, central water collector and the 4 water collectors are intended to maximize the sound of falling water.

The roof in particular is intended to collect water and evenly distribute it around the center to create a rain wall waterfall. The water lands in the center of the structure and falls evenly into the center left and right planters.

## Collect rain to be used for potted plants

The water collectors are intended to have slow release water spouts so that they can provide water to potted plants over time when there is no rainfall. The center two water collectors dispense water to the outer water collectors when the start to get full.

## Modular and easy to assemble

The strucuture has been designed to break down into a series of flat panels which lock into each other.

The roof is intended to separate into 7 triangular parts. The floor is broken into 6 separate panels which also lock into each other. There are 12 identical support columns. The planters consist of 2 legs and a single planter section. Unfortunately due to time constraints I haven't been able to provide illustrations of the modular nature intended for this piece.

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Quote from FMPONE

11 hours ago, FMPONE said: So I guess from this list Japanese is one of the most difficult languages a native English speaker could possibly seek to learn?

Correct, the lower down the list the harder it is to learn for an English speaker. It's interesting to see how high up Polish is. Just goes to show how little I know about languages :C

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8 hours ago, Minos said:

Another thing that's very interesting is to observe how language shapes our very own thoughts, since we think in "words" for most of the time. What kind of thoughts would we have if we had no spoken language? Trippy to think about this. For example, Polish uses the same word for luck and for happiness (szczęście) which really makes you realize that they really are the same concept. This is a huge rabbit hole! (Btw if you find this subject intriguing do yourself a favor and watch Arrival if you haven't already, they explore the role of language in thoughts pretty well there )

This I find extremely interesting and this is one of the biggest reasons why I want to learn a lot of languages with different roots.. Even with what I know of Japanese now I find the way you say things changes the way you interact. They have some words that simply don't have an English analog so we have to explain the situation it's used rather than it's direct meaning.

I found this also to be true with French but I'm struggling to find a specific example right now. I guess I could say broadly I'm able to express emotion a bit better in French than English (or at least I could when I spoke it regularly). German seems interesting too, with all the schadenfreude and words like that.

One thing I love about Japanese is doing literal translations

皮肉 means "irony" but the meaning of its individual characters is "skin-meat". Lots of other interesting examples like that one, sometimes they really help you figure out what a word means even if you don't know the word (EX the word girl is made of the two kanji short/low-lady).

edit : I'm gonna have to watch arrival now

Also playing MK11, waiting for ranked to start!

Also I started playing Clash Royale again. I hate that I'm playing this. I would pay 20-30$ for this game without all the bullshit.

I'll make it language #4 if I'm ever able to penetrate Japanese. It's a pretty brutal language for a French/English speaker to learn.

Interesting that Polish is so hard to learn for an English first language person. At least according to this website https://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/language-difficulty

I feel guilty now. I'm Polish and one of the only ones in my family who can't speak polish

Also I agree Minos. Krakov is great and if I'm being honest. The women are indeed crazy attractive.

Once I finish the remaning 4 RE's I have yet to play we need to make a discussion thread on this because I have some thoughts!

I'm so glad putting off playing this series for 20 years is actually paying off.

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On 3/11/2019 at 8:18 AM, blackdog said: Spoilers ?

FACK

Apologies. I hope I didn't hurt the experience for anyone. I'm forgetting how to internet apparently :X

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On 3/13/2019 at 12:45 AM, Pharad said: I was pretty much sold on the game before it released, played it extensively from January 15th onwards. It is probably one of the best horror games ever as far as scaring the crap out of the player is concerned! I have even written a blog providing a few tips and tricks for the game, it is spoiler-free as far as that's concerned. Any critique guys? https://www.eneba.com/blog/resident-…crush-the-game/

Spoiler (spolier tags just in case) You mention time when listing the advantages for avoiding zombies rather than killing them. Is that a spoiler? I've not yet finished the game yet so I don't know if it is or not.

In the options section do you have any specific options to look for. One thing that I never am quite sure of is if I am supposed to manually enable a ps4 pro mode or if it just kicks in automatically.

Papas bravas type dish.

Not a type of music I've listened to a lot in the past but I am loving Yelle. This song in particular I think really helps explain certain types of mental issues.

And then here's total other shit I'm loving