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  • Which musical groups have the most unique and identifiable soundscape (ignoring lead vocals)?

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  • Nice! Glad you enjoyed them. If I knew you were going to take a listen, I would have offered entrypoints. But I appreciate that you listened to entire albums rather than whatever the top tracks are on spotify.

    When I think Explosions, I think The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place or All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone. But TC, TC, TC is one of my favs. The Wilderness is probably their most bold departure from the typical organic sound. Very industrial feeling.

    Aeroplane is probably the one you should listen to if nothing else. As I understand it, part of their noteworthy sound comes from their use of a distortion pedal with an acoustic guitar. I recommend listening to Song Against Sex real quick too.

    Probably the mwY album I'd recommend as an entry would be Brother, Sister. Their first album was considered post-hardcore, and I can see it, but I honestly am not sure how to classify their second. After that I think they'd be more considered folk, and then maybe back towards indie and post-hardcore. But even without the notable vocals, their instrumental segments are so uniquely "them". I have a friend who always knew I listened to them, but was never his thing until Ten Stories came out, and then told me, "I get it now."

    The best demonstration of their evolution is probably to listen to Bullet to Binary (first track from their first album), and then Bullet to Binary Pt2 (from their 4th album). They're clearly different genres, yet musically you can hear their unique sound is behind both.

    Take care! (tc tc)

  • 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy

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  • Yeah, I am interested in understanding your world view, and am trying to ask direct questions about it so I can understand it better (such as how you arrived at your definition of escapism), but if that's not something that interests you, and you'd rather stoop to ad hominem jabs (like telling me I'm drunk, or to touch grass/look at trees), then we can call it here. Your call.

  • 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy

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  • Escapism: Using any method to interpret reality instead of directly facing said reality.

    Interesting. I've never heard anyone attempt to define escapism like that. Where are you getting this definition?

    Or from the other side, what word would you use to mean,

    habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine

    Hopefully you agree that "purely imaginative...escape from reality" is distinct from "any method to interpret reality".

    If you’re looking at a picture of a tree and using your imagination to marry it to the real thing, that is escapism.

    What if I told you that looking at a real tree is an act of using your imagination to marry it to reality? Consider that humans looked at the moon and stars every day for centuries before we understood what they were in reality. Some people still do to this today.

    Regardless of whether you're considering something in front of you or a concept in abstract, if you're attempting to grapple with the nature of reality, you are most certainly not engaging in escapism.

  • DOJ Released Unredacted Nude Images in Epstein Files

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  • I'm honestly surprised they haven't said, "calling it CSAM is woke."

  • Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?

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  • Yes, almost certainly. A gaming device is a gaming device, what matters is how many users you have.

    If we're concerned about distinguishing between platform, then steam is statistically insignificant on the vast majority of platforms people game on.

  • 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy

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  • This feels like you're doing the "qualityslop" troll lol.

    I think you could make art that is escapist in theme, but by definition escapism is any effort you make to "escape" your reality, or the reality of the human condition. In contrast, the value of art is that it gives us a way to communicate about our reality and/or the human condition using a language that lives past literal interpretation.

    Art doesn't help us to escape our reality, it specifically embraces it and helps us understand and communicate about it. Art is the opposite of escapism.

  • Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?

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  • What if I told you that the MAU count for Fortnite alone is more than half of the total MAU count for all of steam?

    Even if the only game on epic was Fortnite, that doesn't qualify as "statistically insignificant" no matter how you look at it.

  • 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy

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  • Due to its nature, I'm not going to be able to explain art to you. Cheers.

  • 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy

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  • escapism requirent that is so essential to enjoying a video game.

    Again, this is simply not true. It may be true for you, but does not universally apply to the entire art form.

  • 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy

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  • First off, not all video games are escapism, just like not all film is camp. The genre of science fiction is only as good as the philosophical thought problems and potential ethical dilemmas it poses.

    Once you get past thinking of Christianity as a uniquely negative force in society, and instead see it as another fiction on the pile of stories humans have invented, it's intellectually interesting to think about the political and psychological impact that all our various religions have had on the trajectory of our species, and could have as our technology advances.

    Fantasy often depicts Inquisitors brutally persecuting sorcerers, which is historically accurate for Christianity 300-700 years ago. Why shouldn't SciFi attempt to explore the evil we see in Christianity today, but set in the distant future?

  • Alternatives for Photoshop?

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  • Do you backup your docker images?

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  • I feel like if that's something you're doing, you're using containers wrong. At least docker ones. I expect a container to have no state from run to run except what is written to mounted volumes. I should always be able to blow away my containers and images, and rebuild them from scratch. Afaik docker compose always implicitly runs with --rm for this reason.

  • Libs of TikTok is doxxing teachers and nurses who support Alex Pretti or oppose ICE, trying to get them fired

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  • The US has been living with a bastardized understanding of what the term "liberal" means for at least 70, but probably more like 100 years now. So on some level it's refreshing to see all these anti-liberal groups move beyond talk and finally show their true colors. THIS is why Gutherie said they're bound to lose.

  • Frigate NVR Critical RCE Vulnerability

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  • Just answering the question you asked.

  • Which musical groups have the most unique and identifiable soundscape (ignoring lead vocals)?

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    • Explosions in the Sky
    • Neutral Milk Hotel
    • mewithoutYou

    And it's not really representative of the rest of their work, but I have never found anything that sounds quite like Sigur Ros' album Kveikur. It's this dreary, echoy, droney sound that is such a vibe.

  • Frigate NVR Critical RCE Vulnerability

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  • So they could view their cameras while they're away?

  • Immigrant Children Lead Uprising at Texas Detention Center

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  • Because cruelty is the point.

  • How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet?

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  • Step 1 is to do everything inside your network with data you don't care about. Get comfortable starting services, visiting them locally, and playing around with them. See what you like and don't like. Feel free to completely nuke everything and start from scratch a few times. (Containers like Docker make this super easy).

    Step 2 is to start relying on it for things inside your network. Have a NAS, maybe home assistant, or some other services like Immich or Navidrome. Figure out how to give services access to your data without relying on them to not harm it (use read only mounts, permissions, snapshots, etc.)

    Step 3 is to figure out how to make services more accessible away from home. Whether that is via a VPN, or something like tailscale, or just carefully opening specific ports to specific secure and up-to-date services. This is the part you're feeling anxious about, and I think you'll feel less anxious if you do steps 1 and 2 first and not even think about 3 yet. Consider it its own challenge, and just do one challenge at a time.

  • "Those rights don't count": Bovino says Pretti forfeited 2nd Amendment rights in fatal shooting

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  • "When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles."

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    ICE Commander spotted in Minneapolis

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  • "Oh-blige him"

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    Using Immich in combination with NAS permissions

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    Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

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    Do you have any rules you try to follow when engaging with others online?

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    Open casting alternative (by Amazon?)

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  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    qpwGraph vs wireplumber vs pipewire

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    404 when trying to access a new community?