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Same here, not many iguanas in the American South, but there are anodes, which are like mini iguanas with the crests on their heads.
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You Man - Birdcage[^]
This SOTW is actually last week's recommendation by @David-ONeil, so thanks, David!
Didn't know You Man, but they're two DJ's from France who used to party in Belgium.
Their genres and influences are mostly new to me... "their new EP embracing everything from dark disco to muscular EBM, euphoric trance to Konnakol, a percussive vocal effect used in Southern Indian Carnatic music, and even Di Falco’s background as a trained psychologist and hypnotherapist."
So there's that, but in short I can say it's just a great (minimal) dance track
Other than that not much to mention, except great track, been listening to it daily
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This is one of my go-to tracks for coding. it's basically a really long mix of b-sides from Aesop Rock that never made it on to his actual albums. he's a rapper (more of a poet really because of his lyrics - largest performance vocab of any artist of any genre AFAIK) but he doesn't put lyrics in this so it doesn't distract while coding.
Aesop Rock - The Blob - YouTube[^]
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Yeah, Aesop Rock has been around quite a bit longer than the A$AP folks. I like him because he's strange, and he takes listening before you understand him because he uses towering metaphors with layered meaning. It doesn't make sense at first, and then after listening to him enough it starts to click.
It can be beautiful when he wants it to be
We them cats talking noise behind that New York trash heap
Where the stench of commuter briefcase replaces a bad sleep
And it's, worker zig-zagers versus piggy badge flashers
Training Generation Fallout
Waterfall bricklayer pincushion crawl out
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
I'm a dinosaur with Jones Beach in my hourglass
Passing the time with serial killer coloringbooks and bags of marbles
Don't tell me you ain't the droid that held the match to the charcoals
Don't tell me Lucifer and God don't carpool
(This is our school)
I'm not trying to graduate to life at the personalized barstool
Head in a jar on the desk, feet dangling in a shark pool
(Man please) Man please
My name stands for my being
And my being stands for the woman who stood
And braved the storm to raise the seedling
(Brother, sun, sister, moon, mother beautiful)
Yeah middle sibling suitable but far from son of excellence
Beckoned a long time ago, I was to way the wishes wish
But missers miss, I slept through my appointment
Saw the liquid dreams of a thousand babies solidify
And picked the rose that wilted
The second I introduced myself as Nervous
Well it appears the scars of learning have spoken
Some are burning, some have frozen
Some deserve tall tales, some wrote them
Some are just a brutal repercussion of devotion
Mine are all of the above cuz everything leads to erosion
Now where I live there's a homeless man, he sits upon a crate
He makes a rusty trumpet sound like the music that angels make
Now if you ever come and visit me, I suggest you watch the show
Tell him Aesop Rock sent ya just to hear his horn blow like this
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That's a good one to play with a group of friends, "Guess the Pop Culture" scene. Some of them I saw were The Simpsons, Max Headroom, Pink Floyd & Gandalf.
Similarly, I used to show Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Official Music Video) - YouTube[^] to friends and then (without Googling) get everyone to try and identify who's who in the clip. And I like the song.
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yacCarsten wrote: That's a good one to play with a group of friends, "Guess the Pop Culture" scene. Some of them I saw were The Simpsons, Max Headroom, Pink Floyd & Gandalf. Tiffani Thiessen from Saved By The Bell, Ronald McDonald, Bill Murray, Superman, Heath Ledger as the Joker, Donnie Darko, The Shining, Alice in Wonderland, Pikachu, Gravity Falls... Plenty of stuff in there
yacCarsten wrote: Similarly, I used to show Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Official Music Video) - YouTube[^] to friends and then (without Googling) get everyone to try and identify who's who in the clip. And I like the song. Nice one too!
I don't know that many celebrities, but I recognized Kanye West, Jay-Z, Johnny Depp, Amy from Evanescence, Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, Bono I think, ZZ Top guy, Bill from Kill Bill (David Carradine(?)), and did I see the doc from Back to the Future flashing by at 2:23?
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I'm now going like "I knew I recognized that guy!"
Travis Barker, Flea, Iggy Pop, Kid Rock, Whoopi Goldberg...
Somehow completely missed Justin Timberlake and Owen Wilson.
And I mistook Keith Richards for David Carradine
Still not sure who the doc is.
Fun fact, the ZZ Top drummer is the only band member without a beard, but his name is Frank Beard
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Quote: I'm now going like "I knew I recognized that guy!"
Told you it was a great party game
Quote: Fun fact, the ZZ Top drummer is the only band member without a beard, but his name is Frank Beard
Did not know. We should tell Alanis Morissette so she understands irony.
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yacCarsten wrote: We should tell Alanis Morissette so she understands irony. The real irony is she'd not see the irony
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Nice one!
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Pretty good indeed and all Dutch
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One of the things I do for "fun"? is develop mods for Fallout 4. For those of you that don't know, mods allow you to modify virtually every aspect of the game. It even has its own scripting engine for adding your own effects and quests and such to the game.
Well, you pretty much have to use their development tool + the game itself to develop and test a mod. Luckily I can at least use VS Code for the scripting part.
The problem is their tool, "The Creation Kit" is just laborious to use even if you hack it with executable injection to fix the numerous issues with it, and having to use the game to test makes turnaround time pretty lengthy.
They claim they developed the whole game with this tool, but it's very difficult to believe given how much effort it takes to create even a little bit of content. You can't type most of it. You have to click your way through endless forms in an app that looks like an old VB app for editing database records.
If it wasn't so much effort I'd make a language for these records so you could type them out. I kinda wonder if the devs at Bethesda don't have something like that up their sleeve. I just can't imagine putting in that much content, that slowly with that tool.
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Is there any way to roll your own mod editor?
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Like I said, for this tool there's so much there that the effort involved is just ridiculous. I probably could have been more clear. Otherwise, I'd consider it.
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Or an infinite number of monkeys.
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Ever tought of extending something like ZEdit? I only nibbled arround the edges with modding using it to adjust a couple o values in the form records but as I understand it has an extension API that can be used to make patchers using javascript.
There is also the Synthesis patcher with the Mutagen libraries which are in .Net.
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Yeah... maybe. It's a lot of work.
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No. I don't.
And no. I won't. I don't do requests. Unless you pay me, but I doubt you could afford it.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I doubt you could afford it.
That's what the first estate-agent said to Mum & Dad when they asked about buying their house. The second agent however, did not repond similarly. We've been laughing about the first fella for decades in the house he wouldn't sell 'em.
Thanks for the reminder. Not in the same league obviously, but fun for the same reasons.
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I doubt it because of his age. I doubt he has an income at his age that would cover me. AFAIK he still lives with his parents.
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