it's actually hard to form words to how viscerally upsetting it is to be told the best thing I can do is create in silence to no audience. I already do that. making art is already an isolating and deafeningly silent activity. the act of sharing your art is interacting and connecting with the world.

chira 🎋@artofchira.bsky.social · 7h ago

I'm getting responses advising that you shouldn't share things at all to protect yourself and I don't actually think that's the answer. I know this advice comes from a kind place but I actually think it's extremely damaging. It's the "don't wear anything slutty if you don't want to get raped" logic

yeah. and yet somehow we didn't get married. pretty much resigned to that being a once in a lifetime thing. if we can't cuddle to "Secret of the Forest" what actually is the point of it at all. not even joking lol that's kinda where I'm at wrt relationships. might as well shove off now. ('A`)

StarliteJade 🌟@starlitejade.bsky.social · 2d ago

an ongoing sense of wonder in my mind lately: there has to have been people out there who've had chiptune sex right. there has to be at least several people in the world who have had sex while listening to donkey kong country or streets of rage or something.

Using ASIO output in foobar2000 allows me to use all four outputs on my Scarlett simultaneously (1+2 for my amp/new speakers, 3+4 for my old speakers.) One problem: any time I play a song with a different sample rate, the audio driver resets. So, maybe not a great idea then!

it's devastating when someone you engaged with deeply and regularly, and assumed you'd be good friends with for a lifetime, ends up being someone you exchange fleeting, contractual bday greets with twice a year. feels like being fed table scraps. I question whether that's better than nothing at all.

The VGM component for foobar2000 was brought up to date and can now play the newer sets with more recently supported chips. Like Gradius III, which I am jamming right now. <3 ux.getuploader.com/foobar2000 ... I want kukeiha club apparel so bad.

First time getting on the PC since my birthday (it has been too bloody hot); here are some photos.

yesterday I learned: "indigo" in visible spectra is actually 100% blue, "blue" is actually cyan (has green in it), and "violet" appears purple only because short violet wavelengths also activate our long red light receptors by an evolutionary fluke. idk thought you should know, have a nice day.

someone dmed me on my bday and I still didn't respond to them, because of this feeling like no matter whether or not I respond, I lose. I don't get what I want. I have strong but paradoxical feelings about it. feel trapped honestly. it's getting me down quite a bit.

Getting dragged out to the cinema to watch The Odyssey this afternoon. Last cinema visit was some time ago, 2022 I think is the most recent I can remember. Know virtually nothing about it (phillistine), hope it's good.

Is this thing on

I will not be able to sleep a wink until i deal with a mosquito. been at it one hour already. so tired.

maybe somewhat related to last post, do I know any sick pixel artists who are interested in working on an SNES game?

youtu.be/WT_elcyzNXA

An EXTREMELY Rare Look Inside CAPCOM'S 1996 Studios (English Subtitles)

YouTube video by Digital Realm Archive

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Happy birthday Koji Kondo happy birthday Hayato Matsuo

a set of shelf speakers, a deep-partial solar eclipse and a meteor shower for my 40th, and blazing 34°c weather. I am not going to forget this one in a hurry.

happy birthday Toshiki Kadomatsu. happy birthday Pat Metheny. started the day waking up slightly hungover - as it ought to be.

feeling an urge to message my pal asking "people are saying you died, is this true" fully knowing what a farce that is. he'd have found that funny, too. closure seeking behaviour ig. this is probably gonna be on my mind for quite a while. at least it pushes some of the other rubbish aside.

Found out yesterday that one of my oldest buddies from school that I still hung out with sometimes (movies, food, bowling, pubs etc.) passed away suddenly earlier this week. He collapsed, with no warning signs, totally out of the blue. 40 years old. can't believe it.

me: i am having a nice sleeps the mosquito whines in my ear: we'll see about that

do you ever have times when you are home alone at night and then suddenly hear loud footsteps on the stairs - and then you wake up from your stupid asshole of a dream? omfg. what is the everloving point of that.

I return triumphantly from torturing the Customer Sales Assistant with slap bass. That was a bit awkward, but also hella positive and helpful. Listened to three sets of speakers, and made my decision - Dali Oberon 1. Going back to pick them up with speaker cables soon. I'm excited!

Dave@iridescentaudio.co.uk · 3w ago

Going on a trip to the HiFi store in Bath tomorrow. I made a playlist for auditioning speakers. It's on my phone but I burned it to a CD-R as well, for minimum fuss and guaranteed lossless transmission. Imagine burning a CD in 2026! Amazed my burner still worked.

sometimes I wonder what opaque social crucibles I failed to pass, that led to a dozen or more people I once spoke to regularly quietly ghosting.

Going on a trip to the HiFi store in Bath tomorrow. I made a playlist for auditioning speakers. It's on my phone but I burned it to a CD-R as well, for minimum fuss and guaranteed lossless transmission. Imagine burning a CD in 2026! Amazed my burner still worked.

Mad Biscarsh. Incandescently Furious Biscarsh. Massively Fucked Off Biscarsh.

inside you there are two wolves. wolf 1: I don't know if I want to swallow this dubious pill that is shaped like Tingle from Majora's Mask. wolf 2: just swallow the dubious pill shaped like Tingle from Majora's Mask you damn coward!

the desperate ice cream van jingle coming from a couple of blocks down: "come on kids, this is your last chance, before it absolutely buckets it down with rain and thunderstorms."

Hi!! I've been on a Masayoshi Takanaka kick lately, so I learned Ready to fly :3 Song is so coool and I will be making more covers soon! Hope you like itt hehe 🩵 YT Link: youtu.be/wLAeUGEwJQk?... #masayoshitakanaka #danelectro

Most recent (very overdue) music artist deepdive has been Tribal Tech, and I am having a lotta fun. The fakeout intro on The Big Wave is so good, as is the rest of it. youtu.be/9xOT2nINfcE?...

The Big Wave

YouTube video by Tribal Tech - Topic

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Oh, you mean *this* rod liddle? Oh well.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness