Thank the gods that police can now use big tech to harass people instead of relying on their teensy little brains. I bet their metrics have improved significantly.

Unfortunately, pianos come with strings attached.

I love the photos on the TV. Fun use of the medium.

That’s really the heart of the matter: it’s so disrespectful to put in the effort to change an artist’s work just to remove the credit.

My kids are artists, and they have their work stolen constantly. They don’t care about being paid, but it pisses them off when someone likes their work enough to repost it without the basic decency to post the whole thing.

Beep is a bad netizen.

There are a couple parts of the court music book Orchésographie that I think would be particularly interesting for a bard character.

Court musicians in the late 16th century frequently traveled to where the work was: either following a particular patron or looking to perform where they could. Most of the dances in the book are bransles, a folk dance popular with the “common people,” and formalized when brought to court. As a D&D bard, this would be a cool way to explain why your music is beloved by all, and why they could move in all social circles.

There’s also a part at the beginning that explains how to play the drum and fife for a marching army: how to improvise a melody or change up the drum pattern while keeping the march going. It seems to imply that the court musicians the book was written for were potentially marching with armies, likely playing music in the camps or stops at night.

We actually have quite a few troubadour “songbooks” from the late middle ages, indicating that it was a useful resource for minstrels of the time.

If we’re getting into the Renaissance period, a professional musician would almost certainly be able to read; we have printed music manuals from the period for all kinds of instruments; for example, Arbeau’s Orchésographie is a primer on courtly dance music that we still read today.

Cool, I didn’t know there was an open-source alternative. Thanks!

Not a console, but PICO-8 can be installed on lots of stuff and uses lua.

Love when I’m out on a walk and some jagoff drives by in a car so loud that I can’t even hear the headphones that are pumping sound directly into my ear over his wankmobile.

Love and acceptance are a basic necessity though.

I guess (charitably) the author could be saying the guy is wasting his money by going to a club, but it really reads like punching down on desperate and lonely people.

The world would be a more whimsical place if error messages were in iambic pentameter.

The only issue I get with PipePipe is that when I switch from LTE to WiFi the stream cuts off and won’t restart due to an error. I can play other stuff through the app, just not what I was listening to after the network change.

If The X Files was rebooted today the Lone Gunmen would be Rogan-pilled red-hatted brain-wormed dude-bros.

Solidarity? I dunno, what’s in it for me?

-the Dems who gave up on healthcare subsidies

They work really well in third-person games for camera control. I beat Elden Ring on a Steam controller; you have a lot more speed and precision than with a stick.

Maybe I don’t understand what you mean, but it seems pretty reliable to me. In what way do you envision it failing? Lasers or mocap would seem to make it less reliable due to the required processing.

It’s a way to pretend their opinion is reasonable without having to justify it.

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Sometimes when my family comes into town we’ll grab what instruments we play and jam along to whatever someone wants to sing.

It’s a way that people have made art together for centuries. Before modern recording, the only way you’d hear music was if someone you knew made it.

I love listening to recorded music, but I do think people are missing out if they don’t have a way to make music with others. There’s a magic to it.