Yep. Words are meant to be used. There's usually a pretty clear difference between clear and concise communication and being a thesaurus superstar.

Also, words are fun. There are people that just genuinely like learning about words and their origins.

(Most of these are pretty normal words to use and you shouldn't make a conscious effort to avoid them because some guy on the internet thinks you're pretentious.)

Trying to self-improve in a method that, regardless of its objective effectiveness, makes you feel satisfied and has no discernable effect on those around you?

Not if I can help it!

What exactly is FFMPEG an alternative to? I keep hearing people mention it, but I've never stopped to look into it until now.

I tend to do some very basic video editing just to put an image with an audio file so I can upload my music to YouTube. This can do what I need it to do? To what degree can this replace a video editor with a full graphical interface?

Edit: Nevermind. I definitely misunderstood what the tool was at a fundamental level. Got it now.

Hot take: the web should not be more human.

And I'm pretty progressive on technological matters. There should still be a clear separation, though.

Supreme beef chalupas.

My saying, as it relates to Taco Bell, is: "It's shit, but it's good shit."

My favorite melee that, albeit AFAIK well respected, you don't actually ever see in the wild is Stropha.

The style definitely does not suit every frame, but my Volt, Zephyr, and Mag can take crazy advantage of it.

It was only a few days ago I took Corufell off Mag and replaced it with Stropha. Should've done that wayyyy earlier.

Yeah. I never considered that this wouldn't be normal, though. I kinda always had a "healthier than average" palate throughout my childhood as well as doing physical activities, and maybe the discernment comes from that as you're suggesting.

Is there anyone in particular you've spoken to that doesn't have this sense?

It's such a great concept and the lumatone is beautiful execution. Hopefully I can start saving for one sometime this decade.

In my opinion that's a pretty generous list of reasons to buy a game without much further questioning or research. I think the last game I almost immediately bought ~10 minutes after hearing about it was YOMI Hustle for $5 in May of last year.

That said, looking through my purchase history I can tell you that the amount I have spent on Warframe, a F2P game, is vile.

If you don't have a particular need for lyrics, or lyrics that you can understand (presumably), I've got a few for you.

Nyokabi Kariũki - Nazama | (Bandcamp) > YT Link

Aivi & Surasshu - Mika | (Bandcamp) > YT Link

The following is a very short performance for a promotional video for the Lumatone keyboard, but I have it saved in my playlist because of how beautiful it is.

Lumatone performance (YT Link)

I think it demonstrates the vastness of the musical realm by splitting the notes we typically associate with western music into different (and often more numerous) divisions of the octave. One of the best applications of this besides getting that ethereal feeling is that it allows you to explore intervals to a finer degree i.e. achieve cleaner melodic and harmonic tones that are mathematically pleasing to the human ear and mind. This whole concept is called microtonality if anyone is interested. And to your question, OP, I think searching in this area can help you find some of that cosmic, alternative sound you're looking for.

I know I got a little bit away from the question here, but getting into the microtonal/xenharmonic realm was so magical for me because while I enjoy your typical music theory teachings, I'm very much on the more scientific side of things, and music has always been that intriguing intersection between the indiscriminate and cosmic nature of mathematics and the emotional and beautifully flawed nature of artistic expression. Finding the community and literature around xenharmonic music helped me find my way of exploring music in a way that comes naturally to me.

Edit: One that's a little more "energetic" that I always get lost in. The entire album is great, but this track in particular - Homestuck: Medium - Frogs (YT Link)

I'd really hate to see them just tape overguard on another frame and call it fixed.

To keep Trinity's kit true to her essence, she needs massive scaling damage reduction capabilities. This way, pulse healing abilities can actually be relevant.

This is probably be beyond what DE means by "light rework," but if they'd rework her 4th ability to work similarly to Harrow's Covenant, where you have a damage absorption period followed by an uncapped but decreasing function of absorbed damage to damage reduction, I think she could regain her relevance.

Please no taped on overguard.

Hidden Brain. It's a psychology podcast, but it's aimed at anyone who wants to understand their minds more. I'm not in the field of psychology, but I certainly enjoy it.

Soft Skills Engineering for software engineers, about soft skills. They have fun.

bcuz its qwiker

Most of the music I listen to is OST, so I have a ton of those playlists where it's the full soundtrack, whether or not I like the specific song.

And then I have two other dedicated playlists. One is called "Eclectic series," which is composed of literally anything I find in the wild and like, and therefore is my largest playlist (besides one huge playlist surrounding a certain webcomic). The other is similar in inspiration, but is music that I liked and want to keep for reference but probably wouldn't want showing up in my shuffle queue. This tends to be any lyrical music that I find and like.

And then I just throw it all except the lyrical music into a third-party music shuffler.

The trade-offs with this model are that it takes a lot less effort to build up your playlist because everything goes into basically one place, and so your library and exposure grow fairly quickly, but at the cost of less control at playback, since everything is either grouped canonically or unsorted altogether.

Works for me since I don't listen to much lyrical music and can get into the dynamic flow and artistry of the music without the distraction of words, but it's probably not great for people who enjoy lyrics and poetry.

Edit: I should mention that I've been working on-and-off on a tool that automates and facilitates playback for god-lists and ant-lists alike for a while now. It's been a minute since I've touched it, but maybe I should get back to it.

Certainly. I don't think I ever watched or played it, but I remember young me pronouncing it "zack-see-oh zack-see-oh" every time it came up, which was a lot because I lived on Flash games.

Imagine going to take a shower to relax and instead seeing this.

So good.

On any chaining beam weapon, punch through is a must.

I've never gotten Costco socks, but when I was researching the best pair of socks to get for my dad, everyone was raving over them, comparing them to the Darn Tough brand. If they're not holding up like that anymore, then that's unfortunate because I was really looking forward to trying them out some day.

The issue is that you've made an assumption about an entire culture based on your own external experiences, and when confronted with opinions beyond your limited view, you ignore them because they don't immediately make sense to you.

Sounds familiar.

Can't believe Albrecht fucked up the session

Pesterchum

Floating points included for thoroughness!

Pretty sure they're referring to class names describing the visual style being applied, rather than what that class represents semantically.

E.g. .red-bold vs. .error-text

I'm in this no-experience-to-apprenticeship program and everyone in my class thinks type coercion is the greatest thing ever.

Interesting. I guess that's your helminth slot, then. There's not really much else to do with the ability in that case.

I've been using her pretty heavily, and I've never had any issue with Archon Intensify. Of course, you need Combat Discipline to trigger it reliably.

• Lights Judgement:
  This is a pretty great ability, it effectively acts like blood altar but without requiring an enemy and with extra synergy with other parts of her kit. It does suffer a bit from the same issue as Trinitys 'well of life' in that despite being an objectively good ability its a bit overshadowed by the rest of her kit.

I think old modding habits are really inhibiting your Jade. She's got two aura slots and a healing ability. To me, this immediately screams Combat Discipline + Archon Intensify; and it's really hard to justify not using it.

Light's Judgment has one other important effect besides the healing: it tags enemies with her passive. Not only does the passive make targets more vulnerable to damage; it also sets them up to be detonated by her 4, Glory on High.

As for Glory on High, please keep in mind that damage types, statuses, and enemy resistances just got massively reworked. Yes, Viral + Slash/Heat is still great; but blast just went from zero to hero. If you're encountering enemies sporadically, the viral+heat build will serve you well. But if you are fighting hordes, please10x just try a blast build (I'm using blast+electric). Paradigm-shift type effectiveness.

A little more specifically, I'm curious as to why you've built in so much range. With her 2 and 3, I've personally been very reluctant to sacrifice strength. I got the impression from your overview that you weren't focusing too much on her 1, but I see why you wouldn't want to spam it with that efficiency. I've seen a few people opt for Blind Rage, but it's always paired with Overextended, which means there are essentially three slots serving range (counting Stretch), which really only serves to boost your coverage of the Glory detonation, which may or may not actually be effective; all while also tanking your efficiency. I slotted in a Casting Speed shard so I can just cast twice if needed, and also have better control of the coverage.

She's a great frame, and a great opportunity to try out some new damage combos and techniques. She very much feels like a spiritual foil to Dagath, so I went back and refactored Dagath to complement my playstyle for Jade. Fun stuff.

Think of your closest friend or family member. Do you "believe in" them?

It's very rare that you find anyone on Lemmy/Reddit that actually takes more than eight seconds to critically think about the significance of "religion," and not just immediately monkey brain into "religion is for idiots." Alas, I hoped that this particular group think would've stayed behind.

A belief is not a religion, and a religion is not a belief. Any one person can be varying degrees of "religious," and any one person can hold varying levels of belief in a higher power.

I don't have much else to add because your comment was pretty well thought-out.

Related: https://youtu.be/WiACxOjyRT0?feature=shared

^This guy dates.

"Misuse of the Oxford comma, bad speling and taking jokes too far."

Ah, but you thought about it for more than a quarter of a second. That's not allowed.

The elephant and rope parable rings its bell of sound morals!

Not so much the realizing what NaN means; that's more relevant to that XKCD which I probably don't need to describe here.

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*deep breaths

Pointing at physical characteristics? Not as amazing.

Worse? Or better?