MeaanBeaan

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[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's just what Netflix does. They cancel shows. I'm skeptical that the cancelation decision was made because of gaiman's allegations. If it was I don't see how continuing production on season 2 after the fact makes any sense.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

Doesn't season 2 of the sandman come out in a couple weeks? Doesnt really seem like he's being boycotted.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Might not be my favorite music in the show but my favorite story about the music in the show.

I forget where I heard it but I listened to the creator of the show talk about making the intro song and he ended up doing something that I both admire a lot and find genuinely hilarious.

If you're a musician you may have experienced or be familiar with the idea of chasing the demo. If not, a quick definition is trying to recapture the vibe or quality of an initial rough recording when you're laying down final professionally recorded takes.

When the creator was trying to figure out an intro for the show he was screwing around on his ukulele just trying to find like a fun chord progression. He found one he liked and quickly recorded it on his phone. The plan was to just use that recording as a jumping off point he would take and flesh out with more "serious" instruments and recording techniques later on. The thing was, nothing they did captured how that initial phone recording felt. Now, This isn't abnormal. It happens all the time in fact. Normally youd just suck it up and get as close as you can while maintaining the quality of your recordings. Because you just can't use a cruddy recording on a professional production. After all, nobody outside of who made the song will know that you failed to match the exact vibes of your rough phone recording. So they did the most logical thing and used the low quality phone recording as the FOUNDATION FOR THE FINAL INTRO.

And when you listen you can totally tell. Especially if youre like me and have recorded an untold number of rough takes on your phone over the years. It's clearly a phone recording riddled with those telltale phone recording artifacts.

But y'know what? He was right. It totally works. It's frankly a great intro and I couldn't imagine the show with a different one.

Edit: I figured out where I heard it. Episode 8 of The Song Exploder podcast.

Really great podcast in general if you're at all interested in music production.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

"Y'know, Barrack kinda looked sharp in that tan suit."

dies

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Truman Show. Carey is the non Muppet. Or maybe his "best friend" that might be funnier.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, that makes sense. I can understand being hesitant to pay money for something when valve says they're not sure about a game. But honestly, the verified system is practically worthless at this point. Checking ProtonDB instead usually gives me more accurate info on a game's compatibility and people will often provide fixes for games that don't work perfectly out of the box.

Regardless, happy sailing my man. 🏴‍☠️

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Interesting, what issue are you having on steam deck? I didn't have any problems on my deck when I played it a handful of months ago. There was just a stupid issue where Ubisoft made me sign into the launcher every time I wanted to play. There was an offline workaround though that worked fine I found on protondb. After that I was able to lock it to 40 with some settings tweaks. Played great.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Why remake it though? It's not THAT old. And it's not like Ubisoft games look substantially better now than they did back then. Black Flag is probably the AC game from the older AC games that holds up the best. The water specifically from that game is still impressive today and the pirate ship battles have still never gotten better than that.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

How 'bout you stop telling me how to live my life and fuck right off.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nvidia, Intel, and AMD are all American companies. Yes, their GPUs are manufactured by TSMC in Taiwan but they just follow the designs given to them. The layout of these GPUs and the architecture of the chips are all designed and controlled by these American corporations.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Specifically for ps3 emulation you would benefit from having as good a cpu as possible.

An R5 2600 is listed as D tier on the rpcs3 CPU tier list.

Anecdotally thats the same cpu I use in my windows media computer in my living room. I've tried to do ps3 emulation on it quite a bit. It's a little hit and miss but mostly miss. I can somewhat get away with playing easy to run games but anything even remotely difficult to run is unplayably slow. And I've got an RTX 3060 ti in that. That GTX 1660 is not going to help things.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah. Not a process trump is familiar with. He thinks stealing music and playing it without permission at a public event is the proper way to go about these things.

 
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