Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done?
Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done? BTW, if you watched that whole video, she says she has something about using a microwave in the description. I will say that at least none of the stuff is toxic, I was a bit surprised that C4H6O2(n) wasn't. That's polyvinyl acetate, the main ingredient in PVA glue. I feel like actual clay, just being a form of earth, is way more straightforward, but if you want to perform amateur chemistry, have a ball.PVA glue, BTW, is Elmer's in the US. Basically wood/carpenter's glue or school glue, though I'd check to be sure you're getting the right kind of stuff. I'll bet there are other glues and things that wouldn't really be great to cook like that, although you'd hope most crafting glue would be non-toxic, at this point. I wouldn't assume anything though. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/541327/#p541327 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done?
Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done? I just googled how make air dry clay microwave. Here's the first link. https://whatsupmoms.com/uncategorized/air-dry-clay/ I have no idea if this is one of the recipes in your video, I'm not particularly interested in making my own stuff, at least, not now. Anyway, I'll bet if you google, there are other recipes with microwave directions. You'd want to do some more research in case heating and time changes the properties. If you aren't coming up with anything, let me know and I'll turn my obsessive researching dumbness on it and see what I can come up with. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/540945/#p540945 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done?
Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done? Metallic clays tend to be more expensive, and the kilns aren't cheap either. However, they're just clay, and pretty much work the same. So grabbing some air dry clay and practicing that would be a great starting point, if you eventually wanted to get into making jewelry with metallic clay.There's also polymer clay that you can bake in a home oven. I'm not really a fan of it because it seems a lot trickier to work with than actual clay. For instance, they recommend specific thickness ranges to stay within so it either doesn't crack or cures properly, they tend to want you to build around objects, like having the core be a ball of foil, stuff like that. Plus it was, at least last time I checked, toxic, so you can't really make something you're putting your mouth on, like an ocarina. That leaves it right out for me. I did see a project where somebody made one and used a straw as a mouthpiece, but that's just ridiculous.People do use it to make jewelry though, beads and things. One process is taking different colors and putting them together somehow, so that when you slice them up for beads, the beads are multi-colored. They're called canes and there are probably tutorials on Youtube. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/540088/#p540088 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Advice needed, why does this have to happen
Re: Advice needed, why does this have to happen I can see why she gets listed as folk. But I've never been a fan of what happened to the term folk music, i.e. singer songwriters like Baez or James Taylor. But glad it helps. That's my local record store and they're awesome. I didn't even know they started doing digital downloads, so I'm not sure how they work. But they're pretty helpful if you need to get in touch with them for some reason. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/539204/#p539204 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done?
Re: Crafting while being blind, can it done? I haven't done anything with it yet, but have you considered pottery? You can get air-drying clay pretty cheap, also tools pretty cheap, but you don't really need many, if any, to start out with. At least some air dry clays, Amaco for example, can be fired in a kiln too, if you get into it enough. But you can get five or 25 pound things of Crayola air-dry clay off Amazon pretty cheap, and I think they're real earth clay too, though I'm not sure if they can go into a kiln.The big things about air-dry clay are that they're not as strong as fired clay, and if you're going to do anything with water once they've dried, you need to seal them with something, or your clay will fall apart. Other than that, especially if you get something like Amaco that can go in a kiln, it's basically greenware, in other words pre-fired pottery. That means anything you can make that you'd fire, you can make with air dry clay, because it's exactly what you have to do to make something that can be fired in the first place.I mention earth clay because there are other kinds of air dry clays, notably some are made of some sort of paper somehow. Obviously you wouldn't be able to fire those, and you may or may not be able to seal them against water either. I haven't looked into them much since I bought some Amaco clay, I think a ten pound box was like $20, but prices seem to vary, so shop around, or start with the Crayola, which is probably cheaper, or at least comparable.We've mostly looked at stuff on Youtube, for pinch pots and tubes, because I want to try and make some instruments, because I'm that kind of nerd. But you can build quite a lot of stuff. I haven't found any resources specifically for the blind yet, but there are a bunch of blind potters out there, like so.https://better.net/philanthropy/blind-p … -barriers/I never thought too much about clay until I found out about air dry clay. It's a pretty cheap entry and you can have viable pieces when you're done, they just won't be as strong as fired pieces, or waterproof unless you apply stuff. Oh also probably not food safe, if you wanted to make usable dishes. But I mean, generally speaking, even if you wanted to make stuff that air dry clay ultimately wouldn't work for like usable food/liquid things, you could still get the techniques down with air dry clay, and depending on what you got, it could even be fired. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/538807/#p538807 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Advice needed, why does this have to happen
Re: Advice needed, why does this have to happen Here you go.https://strictlydiscs.com/Artist/6974937Also, that's not folk music. Like, at all. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/538788/#p538788 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Problem with Luna RSS
Re: Problem with Luna RSS For me, it just comes up and has "categories" or whatever, but you can't do anything. Well the menus work and stuff, but I can't get to any actual feeds. I hope it gets fixed at some point because an accessible podcatcher that actually works would be really useful. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/529424/#p529424 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review Lovecraft was absolutely a crazy racist. But I tend to try and take stories as stories. Indeed, one of the things I disagree with The Lovecraft Reread about is their interpretation of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", or rather, the interpretation in the comments, some of which seems to see it as a story that's just propaganda saying "don't get together with people of other races". But it's really about these fish people who live under the sea and predate humanity and who are more advanced than us, think of possibly malevolent advanced aliens but like, right here. They want human sacrifices, and they want to interbreed with humans to make more of their own kind.I won't ruin the end but let's just say that narrative gets ambivalent. Anyway, sure you could read it as straightforward anti-miscegenation propaganda if you want. But I don't see why the author's personal views should dominate the in-universe story, so to speak. Also, there are a lot of classic authors who turn out, on inspection, to be pretty racist, IIRC Dickens was fairly anti-Semitic, among other things.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in … es_DickensThat's not to knock Dickens, or excuse Lovecraft. Rather, what I'm saying is that I'm perfectly willing to read stories as stories, rather than dragging in outside stuff. If a character or story is racist, I take that as the character or story being racist. That having been said, I'm not slamming people for not being into problematic authors, though I will say one virtue of Lovecraft is that unlike some other racist authors, Ayn Rand for example, he's not trying to tell us how to think or live.But especially personally, yeah, he was terrifyingly racist. The cool thing is, I don't see a lot of people who are into him trying to cover it up. Indeed, there's an introductory essay in the first collection of his I ever read, "Dagon and Other Macabre Tales", where a passage from a letter of his about people in NYC is compared with a passage in his story "The Lurking Fear", the passage from the NYC letter being horribly racist and the passage from "The Lurking Fear" being more about, well something else because again I'm not trying to spoil stuff, though TLF isn't one of his greatest stories, by any means.The thing people forget though, and I think this speaks to Dark's point, is that the early twentieth century was just pretty weird, all round. For example, many people don't know this, but Hitler praised Henry Ford in Mein Kampf as being a huge source of his ideas about race. Eugenics was pretty huge and pretty well-regarded by a chunk of the scientific community. Again, this is not to excuse Lovecraft, so far as I know he was an uber-racist, even for his times.But still, there was just so so much of that kind of thing around back then. Check out some minstrel recordings on old cylinder records some time, if you feel like some disturbing examples, or the category called, and I'm sorry in advance but that's what they're called, "coon songs". They were hugely popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they couldn't publish enough of them, and even some famous composers like Irving Berlin wrote some. I got morbidly fascinated by it all when I found out they exist as actual recordings, because you hear so much about minstrel shows and all, but we have no real idea of what they're like. The recordings, though made when they were seriously declining, give us a tangible glimpse of history we usually only read about.http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/I warn you, if you search for either category, you will hear the n-word more times in one song than you've probably heard it in your entire life. I exhagerate for effect, of course, but not necessarily by much. The sad thing is, some of them are pretty catchy, as songs go naturally, not in terms of their lyrical content. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/528007/#p528007 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review Dark: There's certainly lots of Lovecraft available in audio. His stuff's in the public domain now so there's stuff on Librivox. There's stuff on Audible. The link I posted is narrated by Gordon Gould, not the physicist but the actor. It's from the NLS, so I don't know how this person got hold of it to do sand animation over. There's more of it on Youtube, if you want to look, but I didn't link to it because I assume that's copyright violation, while the sand animation is, I think, fair use. If it's OK to post more stuff, I can."The Thing on the Doorstep" is OK, but not really his best. The thing is though, he does a lot of stuff. He's most remembered for weird tales/horror, but as you can hear from "The Cats of Ulthar", he did fantasy, almost folktale-like stuff, he did some early SF, stuff like that. The thing I like about him, and it's the reason I tend to prefer good supernatural horror/weird stories over serial killers or zombies or whatever, is that you really have to think about his horror. For instance, here's a bit from "The Call of Cthulhu". " Johansen and his men landed at a sloping mud-bank on this monstrous Acropolis, and clambered slipperily up over titan oozy blocks which could have been no mortal staircase. The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity."Lovecraft is trying to imply here that physical laws are out the window, the regular order, the stuff we depend on, is gone. He really digs the phrase "non-Euclidean geometry", and there are actually non-Euclidean geometries that don't violate all known laws of physics, e.g. geometry on a sphere where the angles of a triangle always add to more than 180. But if you think about it, you can see what he's getting at, and it would probably be pretty disturbing.I get why zombies and/or serial killers are scary, but that's just some dude chasing you to do bodily harm, essentially. It's kind of boring you know? I feel like Lovecraft and similar writers give you somewhere to go. The best statement I've ever seen on the subject is in the prologue of "The Ceremonies" by T. E. D. Klein, another book I really really recommend."Let it, therefore, rest at this: the events recorded here began as one day they would end-- In mystery." URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/527923/#p527923 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review Dark: If you don't mind literary criticism with your stories, there's a pretty good blog here. I don't agree with everything they say and they're clearly pretty into Lovecraft and the genre, so if you're new, you probably want to skip the stuff they say and just read the stories, they're linked at the beginning of the posts.https://www.tor.com/series/the-lovecraft-reread/ If you want the horror, "The Colour Out Of Space" seems to be a good place to start, it was Lovecraft's favorite story that he wrote. I started with his, I guess you'd call it minor work. Here's the narrator that got me into Lovecraft, with somebody doing sand art over it. It's also short.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hHTSTg1l_A URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/527548/#p527548 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review I love Tolkien. Also H. P. Lovecraft, they're probably my two favorite authors. I've really been digging Shirley Jackson lately. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526775/#p526775 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: I'm thinking of starting a blog called Brads magnet fun.
Re: I'm thinking of starting a blog called Brads magnet fun. You could do reviews as well, and links to different magnet thingies. For instance, I have the ball of whacks.https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Whack-C … 0911121013I also have whatever the other two are called that form hollow balls, one has shorter x-shaped pieces and one has sort of y-shaped pieces with a straight segment in the middle. I also have some of the little balls, I forget which ones, like Nano Dots but some other brand. I don't know of any others, so it could be cool to find out what else might be out there that I don't know about.I suck at building things generally, e.g. at stuff like Lego, but I like magnets. So at least if I don't end up building anything cool, I've got magnets to mess around with anyway. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526774/#p526774 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review Jayde, totally with you about Doctor Who. On paper, it sounds like something I should love. There's just something about it that ends up making me actively contemptuous of it. Well, I actually know what some of those things are, but like I said, I'm not trying to bash the show as such. But yeah, me too for pretty much being allergic to it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526079/#p526079 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book series written by different authors
Re: book series written by different authors There's the Witch World stuff, originally done by Andre Norton but I think other people got to write for it too. There's also a thing called Thieves World I think but I can't remember who wrote it. But if you're interested in that kind of thing, you might check this out, if you haven't seen it.http://dargonzine.org/ URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526078/#p526078 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review Dark: Not to hijack this thread to be about Dr. The Who, as I often call it to piss people off, but ...No, they were literally super angry, seriously it's difficult to convey just how frothing mad they were which is why I saved the post, that people would refer to the character by writing Doctor Who or The Dr. or Dr. Who rather than "The Doctor". It wasn't in universe at all, it was about dumb Philistines what didn't watch the show, as this woman saw it, and so they kept screwing up the name.It was basically all about these people not having sufficient respect for this show she loved. It was basically the equivalent of somebody getting super angry and throwing a tantrum about how it's Star Wars damn it, not "The Star Wars"! Annoying sure, and they're right, but you know, calm the hell down. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525768/#p525768 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review Oh, Doctor Who only has to do with it insofar as I have a bunch of friends who love it to bits. I've never been able to get into it, for reasons I'll only get into if anybody cares and I'm sure they don't, I mean unless you like a good rant because I generally try to make those funny too. So it's just one of those things where I'm pretty out of step with lots of people I know. They love it and I can't fathom how in the world they're into it at all. So it's just another one of those things where I'm going, OK, yeah sure, the rancher and the city slicker hate each other on sight so of course they're married by the end of the book, OK, sure, you meet Robin Hood but they're all robots, whatever dude. But basically the one thing I've learned from Doctor Who is this, sorry, two things.1. If you mess up the name, you will generate white hot nerd rage. Somebody made a post once, and gods I wish I'd saved it, about how he's not Dr. Who or The Dr. or a few other variations, he's *The Doctor*! There was a lot more nerd rage but that was the main point that had them wanting to strangle somebody. I wanted to pat them on the head and give them a cookie.2. Yes, I get it. You're British, you live on an island, and you're terrified of the sea. That's the only explanation I have for evil sea creatures showing up all over the place.Oh and extra bonus content:3. Space whales. Enough said.But see like furries and BDSM and porn and all, I try not to judge people. I try to have fun with it you know? Some people like romances, I don't much. Some people love Dr. The Who, I don't. There's probably all sorts of things I'm into or do that people would think are dumb or some sort of problem. So sure I have opinions, don't we all? But so long as it's all consensual and not truly hurting somebody in practice, and obviously fantasy in fantasy, as opposed to a possible indication of some sort of danger, I say let people do whatever gets them through the day. That includes critiquing bad writing, naturally. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525517/#p525517 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review My wife watches them, but she's also willing to point out the dumbness. For instance, we once compared movies and found out there are a lot of duplications. So the other day she's telling me, "oh I was flipping threw channels and a Hallmark movie came on and it was about this woman fostering a dog, and a vet, an army veteran not an animal doctor, came to reclaim it and it was about the romance between them". I go "oh that one". She goes "no, I haven't seen this one yet, not that one, it's a different one"!Her comment on my post was that she didn't think there was any possibility of Hallmark stealing my plot and characters, because it was too original. But yeah, we literally went down the list of Christmas movies one year they split between the channels and she was reading plot summaries, and it's like "a plucky young accountant blah blah blah", and I'd go "oh that's the one where they have the Christmas tree festival right"? She'd go "no, it's the other one where her parents run a candy cane shop". We pretty much went down the whole list like that, they do these movies that are really pretty damn similar, with slight variations.I try to not pay attention to them, because I have a memory for dumb details like that. So she watches Doctor Who and I don't, sorry British people, and if I've seen enough of one to get the plot, or have had somebody tell me about it or whatever, I'll just remember it for years so I'll end up getting her to recall it, if it comes up somehow or other. So unfortunately even though I usually only see about a half hour of any given movie, I end up remembering a bunch of their plots because of seeing that or having my wife tell me about whatever one she was watching. Oh well, at least I got to put my head full of dumb trivia to use and make people laugh. That's worth something I guess. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525419/#p525419 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review
Re: For a Change of Pace, an Angry Book Review I can't help the person who's just wondering why people read porn, some things you just gotta work out for your own self. But I'd like to help them maybe figure out the issues in the review. Suppose you're watching a romance movie, you know, one of those Hallmark Christmas movies, or like me you're subjected to one because you're in the room eating supper while it's on. Now the plot of this movie is that J. Random Woman is returning to her small town home, and J. Random Friend is there, and OMG they had this thing back in high school, but it went wrong, but they're back around each other again, and boy howdy do they still have feelings for each other. OK, we're all on the same page? So, in this movie, they're getting back together, because that's what kind of movie this is. But in the first version, the problem was that J. Random Friend took J. Random Cheerleader to the dance, and J. Random Woman got all upset and left town and didn't communicate to J. Random Friend at all. This gets resolved when we find out that J. Random Enemy told J. Random Friend that J. Random Woman was going to the dance with somebody else already. It was all a big misunderstanding, and once they finally talked about it, it gets fixed pretty quickly, and they can get back together again, even after all these years, because that's the kind of movie we're in, stay tuned for the sequel, An Apple Cider Wedding.OK, now for the second version. What I didn't tell you about yet is that her family runs the town's cider-making business, and the whole town hinges on the fall tourism, because their cider's just like, so yummy and so totally the best, like seriously you guys you just won't believe how awesome it is, people fly in from all fifty states and everything! So in the first version her mom tells her that it was all a misunderstanding, and they should go patch it up, it was back when they were young and dumb and they're both adults now, and true love knows no bounds and the good heart must be held within four hands and biscuits never rise on a Sunday, you know, whatever fake small-town platitudes Hallmark makes up to keep its viewers.However, in the second version, J. Random Friend, let's call him Skippy, Skippy's bad. Like, not just kind of bad, he's real bad. And because her parents won't let her come out and see him one night, he sets fire to their cider house. It burns to the ground. They struggle for years. The town declines. Things might never be the same again just because bad boy Skippy couldn't control his dumb teenage anger. Now they're finally gonna start having the great cider festival again, the festival that was the town's heart, that they haven't had in years, but who knows if they can pull it off?She left the town because she always wanted to be a fancy New York lawyer, but also because she can send money back to help her parents. However, when she gets back to town, she meets Skippy, he apologizes, and that's that, get ready for the sequel, An Apple Cider Wedding. See how that's unsatisfying? I mean, Skippy did some real damage here. That's not the kind of thing that should be resolved with "hey sorry", "oh OK, let's get married"! Mind you, I'm not saying one of those movies wouldn't actually do that, in fact I'm pretty sure ten or twenty of them actually have, well maybe not, burning something down is pretty racy for Hallmark.My point is, in version two, which I'm going to call "Cider Fire: The Juicy Apple-scented Quickening" just to be as ridiculous as possible, they've got some real issues to work through, or they should. Having both versions resolve in the same way and at the same pace, sorry version one you're too damn cookie-cutter to get a funny name, should strike most thinking people as either ridiculous, or as bad storytelling at the very least, because "Cider Fire: The Juicy Apple-scented Quickening" left out a hell of a lot of stuff to get to the same place in the same time as version one, the dumb movie that not only dare not speak its name, it's too dumb to even deserve a name. Sure they're both doing the same thing, J. Random Woman thought she wanted to be a New York fancy pants lawyer but, per the Hallmark movie code she realizes that all cities are soulless husks that are simply traps to suck out your vital juices for their own nefarious purposes. she needs to get back to her awesome small town because only people who live in small towns are *real* people, also per the code, and be with her first love, again see Hallmark movie code, I think it's section seven or thereabouts.But they shouldn't be doing it in the exact same way, see above, because Skippy, A.K.A. "the Cider Fire Quickenner", the redeemed villain of "Cider Fire: The Juicy Apple-scented Quickening", did something that was actually pretty bad. It wasn't just some simple misunderstanding everybody let get blown out of proportion because they were too dumb to actually communicate with
Re: Problem with sunrise waterfall.
Re: Problem with sunrise waterfall. I don't even know what Sunrise Waterfall is, but what that error means is that you're giving it a file it doesn't know how to process, or it thinks you are. So suppose it can only use .wav files as sounds, and you're giving it an .mp3 file. It's going to have a problem with that. Alternatively, if it uses any kind of coding, you might have gotten the code for specifying which sound file to access wrong. Those are the things I'd start by checking anyway. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/524561/#p524561 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: new newb with an ear on native musical things...
Re: new newb with an ear on native musical things... There are a ton of controller options, yes. The M-32 is the cheapest, that's why people are settling for 32 keys. But there's the A series, which the M-32 is sort of an offshoot of. I think an A-61 is a couple of hundred dollars here in the US, vs. the M-32 which is around #130. Basically the A series is cheaper, the S series is more expensive. You can get more stuff with the S series, basically fuller versions of Komplete 12. I should add though that you can also do something like get an M-32, use it for the accessibility, and use another larger midi controller as your playing keyboard, if you already have one. Otherwise you might just want to get a larger Komplete Kontrol. I think the 2-88 has fully weighted keys and all, and the rest of them have something else, you'll have to look up the specs yourself.The different versions of Komplete basically just have more and more instruments. As far as what to buy, any Komplete hardware, you just grab Native Access which is their installer program, set up an account and put in the keyboard's serial number, and then you get access to whatever version of the Komplete software your keyboard came with. I don't know what hardware you're running. You might need sighted help to do the serial number and stuff, but so I hear Native Access has gotten improvements on mac and is getting some on Windows, though I'm sure that might be slowed down with the virus. Anyway, you can obviously buy more stuff, e.g. if you get an m-32 you can just buy more instruments and such for Komplete as you get money. A lot of the other stuff on kk-access.com is setup for other things.Basically, with the Komplete Kontrol hardware, you get access to parameters. Well other companies can set their stuff up to work with those, or there's a company that's making preset files. So you can also buy other software instruments from other companies that are either set up to work with the keyboards, or have setups made for them that give us access to presets and parameter adjustments. So roughly, that's the big deal.I've got an m-32 but I haven't gotten into buying other products or making my own presets or anything. But suppose I load a synth. Now if I touch a knob on the m-32, I know that knob adjusts reverb. So I know what setting I'm changing if I want to modify the synth's defaults and save my own sound based on it. I don't have to guess what instrument I'm loading or what setting I might be changing, I know what it is. Oh and there are also controls on the keyboard, like play and such, that work with most things, there's a Reaper plugin for it, I think it's integrated in Logic by default, stuff like that. So if you pay a bit of attention, you'll get accessible transport and some track manipulation right from the Komplete hardware, which means less switching between instrument and computer keyboard.Oh yeah, I'd also guess people are going for the m-32 not only because it's cheaper, but it could also be based on what kind of music they're doing. Pianists tend to sniff at anything that's not a full 88 keys, but organs have been doing 61 keys, granted usually with more than one manual but still, for ages now, and if you're doing more electronic stuff, in which I'd include hip hop and such, you don't really need a huge keyboard because you probably don't need a real-time six octave spread or what have you. You can just use octave up and down to get where you need to go, because you're probably mostly composing in loops and segments anyway. Even real-time, you can probably do a lot. FOr instance, here's some great African keyboard stuff. I'd guess this is some sort of full-size keyboard, but I'll bet you could do it with something smaller.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXuvxV9ywJEHere's another artist, pretty sure this would fit on a 61-key instrument, though I'm guessing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vr5lxiTx4AFirst artist is from Mauritania, second from Niger.https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/ URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/524192/#p524192 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Problem with Luna RSS
Re: Problem with Luna RSS 4: Don't take this the wrong way, but if your program needs admin access to create directories, you've screwed up your program. I get if I were trying to write directly to c:\ or some sort of restricted path, but I'm not. It didn't work when writing to its default directory, c:\users\user\documents\whatever I think, and it doesn't work when I made a directory specifically for it to write to either. Honestly except for the somewhat odd interface, it seems like a pretty cool program, so I hope it gets fixed.Re: Thunderbird feeds Can you pull down a whole feed and stuff? I ask because I found a podcast of Irish flute tunes, for example, so I'd probably just want to dump the whole thing in a directory. I'm not good enough to take advantage of them right now but I've finally found some online lessons, so I'll be learning. But podcasts have a habit of disappearing, so if there's something that's pretty useful like that, and something I'd want long-term, I tend to just grab it and hang on to a copy for myself. I also tend to like to organize stuff, e.g. of I'm pulling down random episodes of a podcast to save, I'll make a directory for them. Can I do that with Thunderbird? I've never really looked into it, guess it's time to check it out. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/523898/#p523898 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Problem with Luna RSS
Re: Problem with Luna RSS I'm also having a problem. If you search for Knowledge Fight, I did it on iTunes, and try to download anything, it doesn't. It just sits there. But thanks to changing the save directory, I know it gives an error "can't create c:\podcasts\Knowledge Fight\Downloads". If I make the directory myself, I go back to getting no message, just no downloads. I wonder if it's because there's a space in the name? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/523028/#p523028 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Dark topic
Re: Dark topic The darkness was the darkest darkness and the darkest dark history of the twelve darkest darknesses within the darkest forever darkness. All other darknesses, however dark those darknesses might be, were lesser darknesses than the darkest darkness and the darkest dark history of the twelve darkest darknesses within the darkest forever darkness, for it was truly the darkest darkness and the darkest dark history of the twelve darkest darknesses within the darkest forever darkness, and thus, by definition, the darkness that was darker than all other darknesses. Were it possible for any other darkness to be darker than the darkest darkness and the darkest dark history of the twelve darkest darknesses within the darkest forever darkness, that would mean that the darkness of which we are speaking would not be the darkest darkness and the darkest dark history of the twelve darkest darknesses within the darkest forever darkness. As this darkness of which we speak is in fact and indeed the darkest darkness and the darkest dark history of the twelve darkest darknesses within the darkest forever darkness, we now know with certainty that no other darkness in the history of all darknesses that exist throughout the entire history of forever can, in no wise, be darker than the darkest darkness and the darkest dark history of the twelve darkest darknesses within the darkest forever darkness. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/521446/#p521446 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Is it worth getting the Olympus LS-P4?
Re: Is it worth getting the Olympus LS-P4? Huh, does it have talking menus like some of the other Olympus recorders? I tried googling it but didn't come up with anything. Looks interesting though. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/518729/#p518729 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: powerball
Re: powerball I have one yeah, the autostart as it happens. My physical therapist has me doing an exercise with it that goes like this. Get it started. Hold it in your hand palm down. Turn your forearm so your thumb is going from pointing to the side and pointing toward the floor, and back again. When you get it to a speed you think you can maintain, make that motion really small. Then hold your arm out in front of you, about shoulder height. Slowly bring it up over your head, then slowly out to the side. Do that at least twice, or until your arm fatigues. Switch hands, and do that with the other hand. Then switch back to the first hand, do it again, then switch to the other hand.Don't overdo it, it doesn't feel like much at first but you'd be surprised how easy it is to go to long, so pay attention unless you want crazy sore forearms the next morning. Physical therapist says that moving the arm around not only works the muscles in the forearm that do the turning motion, but everything from the shoulder on down. Before I was holding it and rotating my wrist, sort of like stirring, she said not to do that. This is one of the exercises I got because my hands and forearms would cramp up, and she eventually figured I probably needed to strengthen them. I don't know if there are other exercises you can do with it, there probably are, but at least you'll have one that's medically approved. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/517093/#p517093 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: does anyone know what my signature means?
Re: does anyone know what my signature means? What's a cipher in there? It's just written backwards. An axolotl is a salamander/lizard thingy.Mald gasarah rah daszagar blaf nartasag halnavgasramat dargagvam ram xarkasvi. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/511120/#p511120 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Audio drama discussion and something some of you might want to know.
Re: Audio drama discussion and something some of you might want to know. Here's the link to The Dark Passenger. Looks like they do other stuff too. https://www.finalrune.com/dark-passenger/Links people. They're super useful. I wouldn't have to have waded through a bunch of Dexter bullshit to find this. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/56/#p56 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Favorite Audiobooks
Re: Favorite Audiobooks Man, nobody's mentioned The Dresden Files yet? Also H. P. Lovecraft, though I can't recommend narrators. If you're at all signed up for NLS in the US try "Dagon and Other Macabre Tales", narrated by Gordon Gould, he's awesome. Other than that, check out Audible and pick a narrator you like. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/53/#p53 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Test for non-Afrikaans speakers.
Re: Test for non-Afrikaans speakers. Since nobody's tried, it appears to be about a sport, I'd assume soccer/football. I didn't listen to all of it though URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/505968/#p505968 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: books with the subject of dark and light dualism
Re: books with the subject of dark and light dualism It's kind of both. Both texts comment on rulers, in various ways, quite a bit. But let's stick to Laozi and try to untangle this.Look at the part about valuable objects. If you have a gold plate, let's say, and that's seen as valuable, what happens? Well, now you have more value, money for us basically, than other people. You're probably going to get things with that like status. Get enough of it, and you have more power to do stuff, buy more things, potentially influence people, you get the idea. Laozi's point is that once we set up something like that, this object is valuable or this material, e.g. gold, is valuable, we've now set up a situation where somebody has more value, and somebody doesn't.What's going to happen, according to Laozi, is that people will want the valuable thingy. Now we've got problems. So what's the solution? Basically, don't have one. How do we do this? Keep people's bellies full, make them ignorant. But in order to understand this, you need to understand a bit about Daoism and Confucianism. In Confucianism, you're not a real human being until you're carved into shape by Confucian education. Confucian education has a lot of stuff about dealing with rulers. So right there, you're getting this thing, the ruler is superior to you and so on.What Laozi is probably arguing for here is something like this.1. Dualities can cause problems, valuable objects mean some people have less value and will want more value, in the form of said valuable objects for themselves.2. But if you don't have the intellectual framework that gives rise to these valuable objects, you won't have the problem.3. Keep people's bellies filled, i.e. give them economic security, and enhance this by not making valuable things that will make them ambitious to have said valuable things, and you'll have a better society.However, here's a bit on duality from Ch. 1."3. The nameless is the beginning of the ten thousand things; 4. The named is the mother of the ten thousand things. 5. Therefore, those constantly without desires, by this means will perceive its subtlety. 6. Those constantly with desires, by this means will see only that which they yearn for and seek. 7. These two together emerge; 8. They have different names yet they're called the same; 9. That which is even more profound that the profound— 10. The gateway of all subtleties."My understanding goes something like this. The nameless, i.e. the Dao, is where everything starts. But obviously, the ten thousand things have names, trees, cars, houses and so on. The named is the mother because that's kind of how we get things, we name them and differentiate them. But these aren't really things you can separate, because they're all part of the whole. But focusing on one of them, the named, will just lead you into desiring things, there's that problem again. Focusing on the nameless will let you get out of that and see things in a different way.See how the political and spiritual are fitting together here? The political stuff, e.g. making objects valuable and the problems that result, is people focusing on desires. Not only are they focusing on the ten thousand things, they're saying that some things are more special than other things. And what are they getting out of it? More desires. Some people desire their valuable stuff. They desire to keep their valuable stuff, so now they have to figure out how to potentially fight off the people who want their desirable stuff. They're focusing on desires, and that's exactly what they're getting out of it. Say social, if you don't like political, but Laozi in the third chapter is, as I see it, extending this part of Ch. 1 into the real world. We have real world problems because of it, how do we solve them? Essentially what Laozi's saying is that if we're all making roughly the same decent living, I probably won't get pissed that my neighbor has forty gold statues in their house. Don't make them valuable, and who cares, it would be the same as if my neighbor had forty plastic statues painted gold in their house. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/502793/#p502793 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: books with the subject of dark and light dualism
Re: books with the subject of dark and light dualism The Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching), and Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tsu), would be a good start. Nothing's going to get as specific as you want it to be, i.e. everything about light and shadow or darkness or whatever, but Daoism, those are the two major texts, will hit on duality a lot. For example, here's chapter 3 of the Dao De Jing, Robert Henricks translator."1. By not elevating the worthy, you bring it about that people will not compete. 2. By not valuing goods that are hard to obtain, you bring it about that people will not act like thieves. 3. By not displaying the desirable you bring it about that people will not be confused. 4. Therefore, in the government of the Sage: 5. He empties their minds, 6. An fills their bellies. 7. Weakens their ambition, 8. And strengthens their bones. 9. He constantly causes the people to be without knowledge and without desires. 10. If he can bring it about that those with knowledge simply do not dare to act, 11. Then there is nothing that will not be in order."This is more political rather than mystical/spiritual, though you could certainly interpret it that way. Laozi's point is that one thing brings about another, e.g. if everybody's pretty much on the same level, nobody needs to steal. But if somebody has something that's valuable and somebody else wants it, well there you go. Here's part of Ch. 2."1. When everyone in the world knows the beautiful as beautiful, ugliness comes into being; 2. When everyone knows the good, then the not good comes to be. 3. The mutual production of being and nonbeing, 4. The mutual completion of difficult and easy, 5. The mutual formation of long and short, 6. The mutual filling of high and low, 7. The mutual harmony of tone and voice, 8. The mutual following of front and back— 9. These are all constants."Again, the point here is that these things are mutually productive. In order to say something is beautiful, there must be a "not beautiful", i.e. ugly, for them to be different from. You can't have one without the other. You might check out the articles on Laozi and zhuangzi in the Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy.http://plato.stanford.eduTranslations of these texts should be available online. Oh also, the Yijing, I Ching, if you want a divination system based on duality to study. There's also a lot of duality in other systems, but I don't know that there's a general resource on it. Also I think you need to be careful not to boil everything down to a duality, i.e. one thing or the other.Sorry I didn't answer the question about Buddhism. That requires thought and I'm too tired to go do research at the moment. If you're still interested and I haven't gotten back to you on it, post here and I'll see it eventually. Offhand though, Buddhism isn't really concerned about light and whatever, the two big things would be attachment and nonattachment or ignorance and what usually gets translated as enlightenment. But it really doesn't have much to do with light. It's kind of complicated really.Very briefly, Hinduism tends to be essentialist, in other words, only a thing that has its own essence, is itself in and of itself, is real. Buddhism says that's not true, look for a self and you won't find it. But thinking the self is real leads to all kinds of problems. So getting that view, and there are a *lot* of different schools of thought on how to do it and what it means to have it, is what frees you from those problems, and that's what Buddhism is trying to do. According to some schools even calling it a view is wrong and you should get to the point where you've abandoned views. I did say it was complicated. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/502551/#p502551 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Has anybody tried home brewing?
Re: Has anybody tried home brewing? I'd love a recipe. Especially since wines are supposed to be the easiest thing to brew. There's this beer that's made with spruce that comes out seasonally, but it tends to show up once every other year or so. I don't know if I could get my hands on spruce, but you can get birch syrup and that got me thinking to try and do something with that. So yeah I'm sort of looking into other interesting flavors. They might turn out to be awful, but you never know until you try!P.S.I did think of games/software, but not until after I already posted. Sorry, that one's on me. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/500241/#p500241 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Has anybody tried home brewing?
Re: Has anybody tried home brewing? How did it not go well? I mean, can you talk about the process a bit and what you did? Do you think it was just that you didn't have proper supplies? I'd get those. I'm too dumb to improvise,even though I'm sure people did all sorts of things back in the day, your average farmstead probably didn't have a bunch of locks and all. I've read about it a bit but like I said, I've never done it. So any kind of insight about what to try would be really helpful. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/499789/#p499789 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Has anybody tried home brewing?
Has anybody tried home brewing? If so, any tips or tricks? I've never done it. But I keep finding out about things that sound interesting, alcohol made with birch for instance, that I can't buy locally. I've thought about trying it off and on over the years, but there seems to be a lot of filtering and monitoring of things that seems like it might be pretty hard to do. Doesn't mean it isn't possible though, so I figure I'd ask if anybody's given it a shot.. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/499710/#p499710 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Doing a Scottish accent
Re: Doing a Scottish accent 1. Listen to Scottish folk music for years.2. Look up all the words you don't understand.3. When you've done that for a while, fire up the Youtube and search for Burnistoun. That would be a Glaswegian accent. Here's a taste, for all you Lovecraft fans.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axMbZ7eGHoANote that I'm not Scottish, just really interested. I'm PA Dutch, and nobody knows about our accent, well until now because I'm going to share it with you. This guy's playing it up a bit, but he also sounds a lot like my grandfather did. I don't have it nearly this much but as I get older, it pops up, e.g. nau, haus, and so on. Pennsylvania Dutch (Deitsch) is a dialect of German and has nothing to do with The Netherlands, well except I think there are some potentially similar dialects. Limburgish shares rutsch at elast.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A6xEuNLk6I URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/499189/#p499189 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: wear can I get a windows 10 vurtual machine from?
Re: wear can I get a windows 10 vurtual machine from? Get the file, make a USB/CD/DVD. Fire it up in your favorite virtual machine software. If you make sure sound hardware is set up in your virtual machine, you can hit ctrl-windows-enter, and narrator will come up talking and you can do the install yourself, no problem. I haven't done a virtual machine like that but I've done a regular install just fine. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/498129/#p498129 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Is peetersan described wrongly by manestream media?
Re: Is peetersan described wrongly by manestream media? Man, I stopped watching that video as soon as I heard stuff about "the matrix" and "the old operating system".My problem with Peterson is that he's a cagey bastard. He likes to imply all sorts of things and then say he never meant that when you call him on his obvious implications. Take, for example, his thing about lobsters. Briefly, his claim goes like this.Lobsters were around way before us. When they fight for dominance/status, and one wins, and one loses, the winner and loser undergo chemical changes. The obvious implication here is that there's a status hierarchy that we can't escape, because we and lobsters, according to Peterson, have similar nervous systems. But you call him on this, which basically say the strongest will and should succeed and so on, and it's "oh no no I'm not saying that, I'm just saying that's part of our make up".But I'm sorry, this is clearly a bit of biological "just so" storytelling, and the implication is that biology is destiny. If that's what Peterson wants to say, then by all the fiddling gods, he should have the guts to come right out and say it and follow all of its implications. Nobody should have to guess what he thinks this might mean for human society, he should be able to lay it out for us. Oh yes, and, he's completely and utterly wrong about how Taoism/Daoism works, it's not, as he describes it, a fight between chaos and order. He also does great violence to the other myths he tries to interpret for people, it usually ends up as a nonsensical mishmash.I feel the same way about Jordan Peterson that I felt when a former friend tried to convert me to Ayn Rand's Objectivism. If that does it for him, and he's getting something useful out of it, that's great, I'm happy for him. But I think it has severe issues, and it's not something I'd adopt under any circumstances. Jordan Peterson may or may not be as problematic as Ayn Rand, I can only sit through so many of his five hour videos before I want to punch myself in the face to make sure I can still feel, but he's got plenty of his own issues. If you don't mind a lot of sexual innuendo/humor, this video does an excellent job of explaining why his "postmodern neo-Marxism" thing is a bunch of nonsensical gibberish. I mean that literally, not hyperbolicly this time, it literally makes no sense. This video's really not for everybody though, even if she does do a really good job of explaining some of the issues with Peterson's claims. It's adult, not safe for work, and all that good stuff.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LqZdkkBDas URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/497124/#p497124 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Streaming services and their low volume.
Re: Streaming services and their low volume. If you get to the sound mixer, you can do this also by going to start/run, (Windows-key r), and typing sndvol or sndvol32 depending on your flavor of Windows, you can adjust volumes for individual apps, at least you can as of Windows 8. Set your main volume to 100. Then lower other apps as seems appropriate. Your screen reader's volume can of course be adjusted internally, so you can pick either way to set its volume. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/496820/#p496820 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is one thing you would like to see happen in your lifetime?
Re: What is one thing you would like to see happen in your lifetime? I've never understood this whole "let's upload our consciousness" thing. Because I feel like, if you stop and think about your body for like, five seconds or less, it's ridiculous. It's kind of the same reason I can't get into something like nada yoga, (sound yoga), even though it should be right up my alley. The end goal is a soundless sound. I don't *want* soundless anything, that's why I want a thing that does sound as a spiritual discipline in the first place! That's just dumb. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/496816/#p496816 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is one thing you would like to see happen in your lifetime?
Re: What is one thing you would like to see happen in your lifetime? Birth control. For the yeti. Seriously you guys, the population's just getting out of hand, and the stuff they get up to! Don't you even get me started. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/496488/#p496488 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: For what to live?
Re: For what to live? Hey Dark.Sorry, I might have muddled things. Most of the stuff I've posted is from Daoism, only the chariot simile is from Buddhism. Briefly, Daoism's basic idea is that things have ziran, which is something like their own spontaneous nature. If you leave them alone and don't force them to do things, everything will be fine. This is mostly based on nature, e.g. there's nobody forcing heaven and earth to do what they do.This is why you get talk about comparisons. The idea is, well let's take ugliness. Ugliness can only arise once you have beauty. The same sort of comparison is made with stuff like right and wrong, again responding to the Confucians, more or less. The basic idea is the same. Let's say we suddenly decide talking in public is illegal. There you go, we've created a wrong we didn't have before, and we'll come up with all sorts of reasons for why it's justified.I'm vastly simplifying of course. Daoism is really complicated and doesn't really have a viewpoint, but a collection of them. In case you're interested in it, here are some decent articles.https://plato.stanford.edu/search/r?ent … ery=daoismThey have an article on both Laozi and Zhuangzi, and if you just search on Daoism it looks like you get some interesting stuff, e.g. on comparative philosophy. BTW just to fill out the picture, here's the fancy philosophical talk on animism. Well, it's not quite the same thing exactly, but close enough. Animism is a lot more interactive, e.g. I say instruments have taught me things, just as you might teach me something, and for the same reason, you're both alive.https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/ URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/496116/#p496116 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What's the Story Behind your Forum Username
Re: What's the Story Behind your Forum Username Heh! I just realized when I logged in today that I'm just khomus on here. I'm khomustu on Twitter, which I never use. So you have two user names explained for the price of one! URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/496070/#p496070 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: For what to live?
Re: For what to live? Oh boy, I get to post more Zhuangzi! That's awesome, because I loves me some Zhuangzi. This quote is a lot like the Hume quote Dark posted, or so I take it, and also tackles life and death a bit.""How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?"Lady Li was the daughter of the border guard of Ai.21 When she was first taken captive and brought to the state of Chin, she wept until her tears drenched the collar of her robe. But later, when she went to live in the palace of the ruler, shared his couch with him, and ate the delicious meats of his table, she wondered why she had ever wept. How do I know that the dead do not wonder why they ever longed for life?"He who dreams of drinking wine may weep when morning comes; he who dreams of weeping may in the morning go off to hunt. While he is dreaming he does not know it is a dream, and in his dream he may even try to interpret a dream. Only after he wakes does he know it was a dream. And someday there will be a great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream. Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman ‑ how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle. Yet, after ten thousand generations, a great sage may appear who will know their meaning, and it will still be as though he appeared with astonishing speed." Zhuangzi, Ch. 2, Tr. Burton WatsonWhat you have to understand here to really get this is that Zhuangzi was, in part, reacting against Confucianism, which basically says that in order to be a real human being, you have to be carved into shape by Confucian education. So when he says people say this one's a herdsman, that one's a ruler, how dense, I think what he's reacting to is what we might call acting. In other words, just like an actor plays Hamlet, you're given this role by society, and you, or other people, go "OK, I'm a herdsman, yay"! But Zhuangzi is interested in things being what they naturally, spontaneously are, rather than what society tells them to be. I think he's also attacking what today we'd see as an obsession with work, i.e. those people who put all of their identity into their work.Oh yeah, and Wing Of Eternity, I'm honestly not trying to be a jerk here, but your parable makes no damn sense. Like, what are these cave levels? Stages of human lives? Reincarnation? I have no idea. I also don't know what point you were trying to make with it because it's a muddle. But let's try this on for size.You keep insisting that life and the universe have no meaning. Yeah, so what? I mean, I don't necessarily believe that, but let's say it's true, they have no inherent meaning, that is, no meaning in themselves. We're humans and we make meaning. That's what we do. We tell stories. We make symbols, either new ones or we make other things symbolic. Your argument about meaning is a form of essentialism, that is if a thing doesn't have an essence in and of itself, in this case the essence is meaning, it doesn't exist. That doesn't make any sense to me, and I'll illustrate with a famous Buddhist parable this time.https://www.learnreligions.com/king-mil … ons-450052Buddhism is telling us here that yep, a thing's only a chariot, or a car if you want to be modern, only for so long as the parts that make it up are in the right relationship to each other. Buddhism wants to take this places about the self which I disagree with, but that doesn't really matter here. The point is, yes, there's no chariot/car essence. It's a chariot/car because we say so, but I'd also add to the Buddhists, because it performs certain functions. We don't just put a thing together and call it a car, a car can haul furniture or get us from place to place or you can make a baby in the back seat or ...We put stuff together and call it a car for a reason, in other words. Sure, universally speaking, who cares? If the sun goes nova tomorrow and wipes out our planet, no more cars, and the rest of the universe will keep on keepin' on, it won't make any difference to it that cars no longer exist. But again, so what? My human perspective is a car is meaningful because it brings me pizza and takes me places so I can buy cool instruments. Why should the universe's perspective, assuming there is such a thing, be better than mine?Once again you're trying to tell a fish where to live. You think you know better than the fish because you think you know what the universe knows, there's no ultimate meaning. Indeed you rightly ask why the serpent, I assume that's me, thinks it's better than the fish. I don't, and that's my point, and Zhuangzi's point. You're saying, tell me why we live, what purpose, and then you're going "oh but you can't say this that
Re: What's the Story Behind your Forum Username
Re: What's the Story Behind your Forum Username Get ready for a super dumb story!My username is a misspelling of a Tuvan word. Tuva is part of the Russian Federation, right next to Mongolia in Southern Siberia. Known for khoomei (throat singing), among other things, it was briefly a republic in the early 1900s. The Tuvan word khomus means what in English gets called a Jew's harp, for some reason, or sometimes a trump, it's a drumbel in Pennsylvania dutch. If you tell me your language if you don't speak English, I can probably tell you what it is in your language, since there's a huge collection of names for it. The suffix -tu is the part that's misspelled, I think it should be -chu, so khomuschu, which means somebody who plays the khomus.In grade school I went out for band and we had to pick three instruments. They stuck me with trumpet, not one of my choices, and I got really bored with trumpet and band. I didn't do anything with music for a while. Then I decided to go get a drumbel. Nobody knew how to play it so I basically ended up making sounds with it. When I found out about Tuvan music, that was the first place I really heard it used as an instrument to play tunes. That really boosted my playing, and it's probably the instrument I'm best at, though I play lots of stuff from around the world, because I listen to a lot of music from around the world. I hear cool sounds, and I want to make them.But khomus was my first real instrument, so there you go, that's what it means. I've called it khomus for so long it's hard to remember the English word. I'm trying to change to drumbel, because I'm trying to learn Deitsch (Pennsylvania Dutch), a language both sets of my grandparents spoke, but sadly didn't pass on. But it's hard because I've been calling it a khomus, or the language-specific name if it's from another place, for ages now. Here's me and a friend jamming, he's doing guitar, I'm doing khomus. Fair warning, I might curse in this one, I honestly don't remember.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfjGu18BwdI URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/495934/#p495934 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: How can blind people make YouTube videos
Re: How can blind people make YouTube videos I've done some with the Camera app in Windows and my wife has shot some of them. I'm currently trying to figure out how I can get lights set up so I can put them in a good place when I'm shooting and know they're at a good angle and all. I should really work on tht since I have an idea for a series and all. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/495901/#p495901 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: For what to live?
Re: For what to live? My, you do enjoy putting all sorts of restrictions on things, don't you? Why, for instance, should I have a purpose? I'm an animist and a Daoist. So I'm kind of against purpose, as some sort of end in itself."Hui Tzu said to Chuang Tzu, "I have a big tree of the kind men call shu. Its trunk is too gnarled and bumpy to apply a measuring line to, its branches too bent and twisty to match up to a compass or square. You could stand it by the road and no carpenter would look at it twice. Your words, too, are big and useless, and so everyone alike spurns them!"Chuang Tzu said, "Maybe you've never seen a wildcat or a weasel. It crouches down and hides, watching for something to come along. It leaps and races east and west, not hesitating to go high or low‑until it falls into the trap and dies in the net. Then again there's the yak, big as a cloud covering the sky. It certainly knows how to be big, though it doesn't know how to catch rats. Now You have this big tree and you're distressed because it's useless. Why don't you plant it in Not‑Even‑Anything Village, or the field of Broad‑and‑Boundless, relax and do nothing by its side, or lie down for a free and easy sleep under it? Axes will never shorten its life, nothing can ever harm it. If there's no use for it, how can it come to grief or pain?"" - Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tsu), Ch. 1, Tr. Burton Watson"11 1. Thirty spokes unite in one hub; 2. It is precisely where there is nothing, that we find the usefulness of the wheel. 3. We fire clay and make vessels; 4. It is precisely where there's no substance, that we find the usefulness of clay pots. 5. We chisel out doors and windows; 6. It is precisely in these empty spaces, that we find the usefulness of the room. 7. Therefore, we regard having something as beneficial; 8. But having nothing as useful." Dao De Jing, Ch. 11, Tr. Robert HenricksNow you will tell me that I haven't answered your question. But your question seems, if you'll pardon me, fairly muddy. You ask for something like a purpose, but then say, for example, that one can't live for their spouse. Why? If that is one's primary purpose, then surely that is their purpose. Similarly, you say that no one can answer that they wish to live to gain more experiences. But again, why? You seem to imply that there is no goal here, but if I say I want to live to learn, must I not gain new experiences to do so? Let's look at Zhuangzi again, and see what he has to say."Now let me ask you some questions. If a man sleeps in a damp place, his back aches and he ends up half paralyzed, but is this true of a loach? If he lives in a tree, he is terrified and shakes with fright, but is this true of amonkey? Of these three creatures, then, which one knows the proper place to live? Men eat the flesh of grass‑fed and grain-fed animals, deer eat grass, centipedes find snakes tasty, and hawks and falcons relish mice. Of these four, which knows how food ought to taste? Monkeys pair with monkeys, deer go out with deer, and fish play around with fish. Men claim that Mao‑ch'iang and Lady Li were beautiful, but if fish saw them they would dive to the bottom of the stream, if birds saw them they would fly away, and if deer saw them they would break into a run. Of these four, which knows how to fix the standard of beauty for the world?" Zhuangzi, Ch. 2Who are you to tell me that my wanting to get drunk is wrong? That's the equivalent of your no seeking pleasure, after all. If today my purpose is to get drunk, it's not but let's say it is, and tomorrow my purpose is to play music, and the next day to make food, and over all is loving my wife, who are you to say me nay? Why are you trying to tell fish where to live, and deer what they should consider beautiful? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/495874/#p495874 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Anybody doing pottery?
Anybody doing pottery? Hey all. Since people were so helpful with my last question, here's another one that's totally different. I'm thinking of trying some pottery, with an air-drying clay at first, maybe trying to make an instrument or something. Anybody doing it, and if so, got any good resources for a total noob? I've checked both Bard and Bookshare and haven't really found anything except a half hour kids book on Bard, which I might check out. I know there are Youtube videos and my wife's sighted and will happily help me out, but I'm surprised there's not a book on basic hand pottery, what kinds of basic tools you need, basic techniques, stuff like that. I'm sure it exists, I mean an accessible one obviously. Anyway, if anybody has any good recommendations, immediately accessible or not, I'd love some. Accessible would be cool because I'm sure my wife doesn't want to get sucked into my completely random hobby, although she did mention trying stuff. Like I said she'll happily help, I just figure the more information I can find on my own, the better you know? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/495839/#p495839 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Currently available portable talking book players.
Re: Currently available portable talking book players. Thanks for the help everybody. Sounds like the Stream is what I want to go for. I was planning on that to begin with, but I figured it was worth checking to be sure. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/495619/#p495619 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Currently available portable talking book players.
Re: Currently available portable talking book players. Nah, that won't work for me, I do NLS all the time. Audible too though to a lesser extent. I'm not really worried about a ton of wireless features. I mean, I don't know what you want to see that they don't do, but I'm fine with what they actually do. I realize I'm imposing hardware/software restrictions on myself, e.g. as opposed to a phone or such which has already been pointed out, and I'm fine with that. I also realize there are ways to deal with things that you won't talk about, but I'm not interested in hem, both because of legality and because they take forever. I'm looking for convenience here.I'm just looking for decent info to evaluate the players so I make sure I'm picking a decent player. If, for instance, the Stream's keypad dies after a year regularly, clearly it won't be a good option. If the Plextalk doesn't have good support, again, not a good option.The bottom line is, I guess, I debated between one of these players and a new iPod, they'd be around the same price because I'd just get the iPod with the most memory. Like I said, I've got issues with the iPod. They're solved with the players, e.g. buttons for quicker access to controls, uniformity of dealing with content, both in terms of transferring it to the player and playing it, and so on. I can upgrade the capacity as much as I need to by just buying more memory cards.It's down to the Stream or a Plextalk because they both seem to be currently available, and they seem to have similar features, e.g. the types of files they can deal with and so on. I was originally just going for the Stream but like I said, the PT seems to be the same price, and has similar features. So if there's something that's really better with one over the other, it would help to know that. PT's site seems a bit more disorganized than Humanware's, but maybe they have great support anyway. Anyway, I'm looking for experiences, not alternatives, unless they're equivalent to those two players. I use NLS and Bookshare pretty much every day, and the only reason I'm not using Audible is because I'm currently reading an NLS series. So that's why I've picked these two players as contenders. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/494962/#p494962 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Currently available portable talking book players.
Re: Currently available portable talking book players. I could get a phone/iPod, sure. Did you not see the part where I said I didn't want to do that? I have an iPod. It's old, but it still works, more or less. I have a phone, that isn't even charged anymore, but when it was, it was used exclusively to read various forms of audio books. It's Android. I have seen the promised land, and I want to live somewhere else. While it's wonderful that touch screens are accessible, I find the interface slow as hell and really kind of clunky. Apps keep changing, I have Voice Dream Reader on both devices and half the time I can't even get it to show me the books I have loaded, let alone delete them to put new books on.The iPod still needs iTunes for Windows, and if you can find me software that's more of a dumpster fire than iTunes for Windows, I'll eat a heap of fish skulls or something. Seriously though, the whole reason I want a device specifically for the blind is because sure, a phone/iPod can do more. I used to use it to do more, occasionally. I've pretty much completely stopped doing that. I'm not a huge fan of the touch interface, hell if the newest Gen. iPod is anything like the iPhone my wife just got, it doesn't even have a home button. I've tried getting to the home screen on her phone. I can do it, but I hate the interface. So there just doesn't seem to be that much of a reason to get a device I feel like I'm fighting with half the time if I'm not even using most of the capabilities it has.Thanks to the person who posted the link to the players. It seems to be down to, in my mind anyway, the Stream or one of the Plextalks. I'm sort of wary about the Plextalks because other than the posted link, it's hard to find info on whether something being sold is the first one, or the Linio, or something called the PTN2 which might just be the Linio ... So if anybody has reasons to pick the Plextalk, whatever variant, over the new generation Stream, I'd love to hear about them. They both seem to be the same price, so that's not really a factor. I did find one video on the Stream vs. the Plextalk, but it was from 2009. Ditto the Bookport Plus vs. the Stream, that stuff was from 2013 I think and the Stream's caught up in terms of functionality, and like I said, I'm not even sure you can get the BPP anymore, though I understand it is/was basically the Plextalk hardware. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/494886/#p494886 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Currently available portable talking book players.
Currently available portable talking book players. Hi all. I'm thinking of getting a Victor Reader Stream. I have an old iPod Touch, 4th gen. I think, and I'm literally using it for nothing but reading books. It's dying.Anyway, I was wondering, just for the sake of research and completeness, are there any other devices like the stream currently available? I know it's big competition used to be the Bookport Plus, but so far as I can tell that's not actually for sale anymore, at least I'm not turning it up except on eBay anyway. Basically I'm looking to see if there's something that does what the stream does, with the possible exception of the online stuff. I think that would be really useful but it probably wouldn't be super horrifying if it wasn't there. Otherwise, playing all the usual stuff, e.g. Bard, Audible, Bookshare, that kind of thing.I know there used to be some other devices like the stream but they seem to be gone. If they're not, I'd love to know which ones are currently going concerns, and any thoughts you might have on them in comparison to the stream. Since the stream costs a chunk of money, I figure I'd better do all of my research. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/494629/#p494629 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
