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offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-14 20:31 [#02599929]
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all of the HR top brass are women, and as a male, i feel my
gender is under-represented. they keep adding yoga and
external (female!) consultants to my calendar it has to stop


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2020-04-16 23:27 [#02600031]
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whats wrong about yoga?


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-16 23:51 [#02600032]
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oh, nothing, i do yoga
just somewhere between amused and annoyed with all the
"share you morning routine! tune in for zoom yoga!"
lol, but also, fuck off


 

offline hevquip from megagram dusk sect (United States) on 2020-04-17 00:23 [#02600033]
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yoga is an anagram for "o gay"


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2020-04-17 01:17 [#02600035]
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break up the yoga mafia, distribute them as wifes to thirsty
menfolk


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-17 02:02 [#02600038]
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when the people who are in charge of policing stereotypes
are all exactly like their stereotypes and the paradox makes
your frontal lobe ragequit; post sarcastic crap on the
internet


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-17 02:05 [#02600039]
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it's fine, really, it's fine. just after approximately
thirty seven calendar invites i'm starting to want to be at
least a little sarcastic


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-17 02:07 [#02600040]
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as stereotypical HR folks, they are extroverts; probably
going extra nuts at home, alone. i suspect this is actually
what's behind the sudden, manic surge in calendar invites.
poor gals are bored. but it makes my google calendar much
harder to read


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-17 02:19 [#02600041]
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the school i went to dragged everyone off to some rented
summer camp for a weekend every year for enforced
teambuilding exercises like orienteering, obstacle courses,
and enduring lectures about nature. the proprietor drove
around in a golf cart, and looked exactly like the daft old
man from jurassic park. sounded the same, too

anyways, one of my classmates was on the fat side of the
spectrum, and quietly decided that the obstacle course he
was being subjected to could go to hell. he didn't cause any
problems, he just went off to the side; sat quietly on a
tree stump. eventually, the perky female taskmaster noticed
him sitting out: oh, c'mon, get up, you can do it!
grudgingly, he does.

eventually, groups rotate, and he's with some athletic bro
counselor at a different obstacle cluster. he promptly pulls
the same maneuver: bleeds off to the side, and sits quietly.
athletic bro either does not notice, or does not care.

eventually, the first counselor spots him sitting out, and
this time, she is less perky. a little bit mad. sensing
weakness, my classmate strikes:

"oh, [other counselor] said i could sit here," he lies.

"ARE YOU LYING TO ME?" she demands

"yes!" he replies, grinning with a smothering level of
smugness

at that point, she got frothing mad, and it was beautiful.


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2020-04-17 02:33 [#02600042]
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Buzzfeed: 6 Times Fat Men Went Beast Mode On Camp Counselors


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-17 02:35 [#02600043]
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he didn't go beast mode at all
he trolled the counselor into going beast mode


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-17 02:42 [#02600044]
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guy did that all the time in school, too -- he'd tell
incredibly stupid, obvious lies, because he knew some
uptight teacher would call his bluff. then, he's supposed to
be a stupid high school prick, dig himself into a deeper
hole... but, no, he'd just proudly announce that, yes, he
was lying, and at that point there would be screaming and
he'd be sent to the office. he had a talent for it; i'm not
sure i could have pulled it off quite so flawlessly. he also
wound up being a nutty, pathological liar of an adult, so i
guess it was a trade-off

but, at times, i miss having him around to blow things up
like that.


 

offline Roger Wilco from Mo's Beans on 2020-04-17 08:28 [#02600051]
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HR Departments - Because where else are these people going
to get a job?


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2020-04-17 12:45 [#02600052]
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Ohhh... HR. My mind blipped over that detail. Now the
comment about policing stereotypes makes sense.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-17 23:49 [#02600082]
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i was feeling like a pariah until multiple people spoke up
about it at a meeting and the bossman essentially says "cool
it, guys, you're all nerds and you know how to work from
home, that crap is for everyone else who's totally
clueless"

(lol)


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2020-04-18 02:28 [#02600087]
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reminds me of the old SNL sketch where the teleprompter
breaks down and the morning show hosts descend into
savagery

LAZY_TITLE


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 02:39 [#02600090]
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LAZY_TITLE

notions make this country happen. vote weaselpedia


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2020-04-18 02:42 [#02600091]
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Spoken like a true 5D chess grandmaster


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 02:46 [#02600092]
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good sketch, i like it
wish they'd had a bit more dialogue after the teleprompter
returned


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2020-04-18 14:30 [#02600100]
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so to summarize:

Yoga Nazism: centralized, vertically hierarchical,
authoritarian, hypersocial; participants unable to
self-direct; shocking obeisance to parasocial telescreen.

Nerdism: decentralized, horizontal, anarchic, socially
autonomous and self directed. Good boys whomst've earned
their tendies.


 

offline Tony Danza from Fabulous Hollywood on 2020-04-18 21:13 [#02600103]
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(just for reference that's only 15% ironic, mostly the part
about tendies)


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 22:11 [#02600114]
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executives talking about their favorite pellotron or
pellitun (or whatever it is) instructors in an attempt to
seem like normal people

pellicun slackout bork


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 22:23 [#02600115]
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it's actually quite fascinating, now that we're getting into
it

earlier this week, there was some company update
livestreamed from the executive home offices to all the
drones at home. as HR has been pushing this "share your
morning routine," the top brass all dutifully go around and
say something about their morning routine. it was
show-and-tell, kinda, executive style. here's my coffee mug,
and i do pilates. here's this weird beverage with a long
description epicmegatrax won't remember, and that's his time
slot; not sure he does pilates.

striking, actually, was how some of them were clearly more
into it than others, and how into it they were directly
correlated with their jobs. the guy speaking for
engingeering was like, "uhhh i should probably do something
like that, like yoga, because i haven't been moving around
as much lately" and of course the people in marketing are
talking about their favorite pelobike instructors

really, you have different sorts of people, and different
sorts of people are good at different jobs. i forget who
said this, it was some CEO sort giving advice about hiring,
is that you give people personality tests, you need certain
types in certain jobs and that's just how it is

i suppose i should find this rigid and confining, but it is
actually oddly comforting. i am a specialized bee and i
understand my role in the hive


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 22:25 [#02600116]
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what do you actually do mate? how many of you guys are
computer programmers?


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 22:37 [#02600117]
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this was written about my last job, but it's still
accurate enough


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 22:40 [#02600118]
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specialized people come together to create a multicellular
organization


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 22:44 [#02600119]
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cos you know so much about computers, u should write a
software to make yourself rich man, youre a genius :-)


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 22:47 [#02600120]
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no, the obvious path to riches would be to study these
multicelluar organizations. learn how to engineer my own


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 22:49 [#02600121]
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like be a manager?


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 22:50 [#02600122]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHZl2naX1Xk


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 22:51 [#02600123]
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they're called leaders now, thankyouverymuch


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 22:51 [#02600124]
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yes, architect, you read my mind


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 22:52 [#02600125]
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if you look up how valve software is organized, you'll find
they're a rather unique organismigation


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 22:55 [#02600126]
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how hard would it be to make a music tracker for the sega
genesis/mega drive? i know there's deflemask but that is run
on pc. it would be far more fun to run the software off an
everdrive using the gamepad. someone tried before but they
gave up, guess it's a monster project. i bet it would make a
buncha money though if they marketed it in the right way.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 22:56 [#02600127]
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my mate said half life 3 is coming


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 23:02 [#02600129]
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just use renoise and some vst that emulates the chip ?


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 23:03 [#02600130]
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they released it already, half life xlyyllaltylalexa


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 23:07 [#02600133]
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another idea was to upgrade nitrotracker for the ds
it's a 16 channel .xm file tracker
originally the programmer wanted to add gameboy support and
support for .mod files so you could edit amiga music on
there

or how about porting a tracker to 3ds and using the inbuilt
DSP for fx and synthesis

on the subject of trackers
there's an amazing one for atari falcon called ace tracker,
you can run samples or synth tracks using the falcon's dsp
chip. shame the falcon costs like £1500-£2000 nowadays and
sell out fast, wish id bought one years ago now, makes me
think the amiga 1200 will go up a lot in future.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 23:08 [#02600134]
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i know theres a vr headset version of half life called alyx,
apparently if you complete it it tells you there's a proper
half life 3 in the works.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 23:11 [#02600135]
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aphex went on about that in some dim pub somewhere and now
atari falcon, blahhh, they use that DSP in other synths that
are at least ok!

have yet to hear a compelling reason as to why it's
significantly better than something like cubase on an atari
st

i've wanted to try cubase on an atari st for ages. it'd be
like witnessing the big bang. but, also, probably, slow,
unreliable, limited in memory, and as such, i've not much
interest in acquiring all that

then you're talking about £2000, you could get a car for
that. or a monitor stand from apple


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 23:15 [#02600136]
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yeah the atari falcon would have been cool but the price is
extortionate for what it is, a computer with not much
interesting software for it. it was ahead of its time.
there's a good tracker and someone made a vocoder for
it,it's basically a korg ms2000 with a tracker style
sequencer. there's an emulator called hatari that can run
ace tracker, it works on my mate's pc, but he has a 4ghz
something pc. my 2.4ghz quad core amd runs it but it
glitches because my cpu is too slow.
"or a monitor stand from apple"
ahaha



 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 23:19 [#02600137]
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where can i download this tracker
how can i tell you if it's mustard if i haven't tried it,
obvs


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 23:21 [#02600139]
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when half life came out my pc couldnt handle it properly.
had to run certain segments with a shrunk screen, you could
shrink the screen to like tv resolution. still played it
though and enjoyed. half life 2 i couldnt be bothered with
until about 3 years ago when i bought the xbox original
version for a couple of quid on musicmagpie. it looks good
on the xbox version, played it on easy, kept dying a lot
because no mouse and keyboard. got to check youtube for vids
everytime i got stuck. i think theres a part with a
helicopter and i wasnt sure if i could kill it or if it was
invincible


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 23:25 [#02600140]
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http://newbeat.atari.org/main.php?page=ace_specifications

there are two versions, one has a tracker, and the other
lets you control via midi

it runs on the hatari emulator, actually i think they used
devpac assembler and hatari to program it. but it does work
on original hardware.

Motorola 68030 @ 16 MHz
Motorola 56001 @ 32 MHz

i seem to remember the emulator being annoying to set up
because you need to set the hard drive to a folder on your
pc and there are multiple options.

and you need to manually save your settings before turning
the emulator off.



 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 23:26 [#02600141]
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alright, alright, just to be clear
we're talking about the £2000 atari falcon 030 (monitor
stand not included) and wiki says this means we're really
talking about the motorola 56k DSP chip, according to
wikipedia, which, really, is just a general-purpose DSP and
any character coming it out of it is mostly due to the
programming put into it, with a solid shout-out to how its
architecture forced whoever was programming it to think. so
saying that it was a good computer, with not much software
for it, is like saying "you could make something nice if you
just went ahead and made something nice." i think the answer
is, you like ace tracker, and you want it out of this falcon
030 emulation hell


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 23:27 [#02600142]
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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ace+tracker++f
alcon

samples tracks here on youtube

the tracks are pretty good imo

if you get the tracker working make sure to download the
synth patches, they have some great drum sounds synthesised


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 23:32 [#02600143]
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LAZY_TITLE sure daft punk kinda chiptuney

but yeah, did you have to edit everything in those two tiny
thumbnails?


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-04-18 23:36 [#02600145]
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i don't know a thing about DSP programming, sadly. just
vague concepts


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 23:38 [#02600146]
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yeah i might get ace tracker when i get a new laptop which
will be like 5 years from now lol


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-18 23:41 [#02600147]
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the choice for me is, get an atari falcon for £2000 or buy
a £2000 laptop. so wait 5 years it is.

my laptop sucks, i bought it from cex for £400 or so
because it was quad core i thought it would be faster but
software still prefers single clock speed to be fast. an
expensive mistake.


 


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