porthos

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[–] porthos@startrek.website 107 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

Game Pass pricing currently unchanged.

That is because the job of Game Pass isn't to make money, it is to funnel customers into subscription services and destroy the idea that people buy games from artists.

Game Pass either succeeds and destroys the gaming industry like spotify did to music or Microsoft will abandon Game Pass.

[–] porthos@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Yeah, you need a gate when adding in the inversed/phase shifted tone so that it only sends signal when their is signal to cancel, but that is a frequency dependent question too..

[–] porthos@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"ok, time to blame our shocking lack of competence on a vulnerable group we can stoke xenophobia against!"

[–] porthos@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)
  1. Make two identical copies of gausian noise track

  2. Set one phase inverted and combine both tracks output in a bus/another track, they should cancel each other into silence.

  3. Send the tone track (preferably inverted) into the bus aswell so now it has 3 inputs,

  4. Add in another tone track that is phase inverted/opposite from step 3 and mixes together with step 3s output

Now, where the fun comes in... what happens when you add fx to different parts of the signal chain so these cancellations become imperfectly dynamic and evolving. What happens when the signals cancelling have compressors with different attack and release settings? What happens when you throw a transient designer like elysia nvelope on different stages of this signal chain?

This kind of effect isn't too unlike a basic guitar pedal comb filter just a lot more unhinged.

[–] porthos@startrek.website 6 points 4 days ago

Vultures have been shown to be vital in reducing the spread of disease by scavenging, don't drag them through the mud by comparing them to freeloading criminals wearing suits that cost more than your car.

[–] porthos@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago

Harry Kim, we all want you to be promoted, but it isn't productive to be upset with other Ensigns for getting promoted more than you.

[–] porthos@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I love how upset some people get about Tilly serving on a big burly masculine warship that sometimes has the serious job of killing people.

If a crew like this didn't have people like Tilly on it, it would have fallen catastrophically apart after the 10th crisis or so.

Especially in this season it so obvious how Tilly's intelligence manifests in being able to bypass entire complexes of prejudice and social norms (perceived and unconscious, spoken and unspoken) whether they be human or alien, and get right to the point with somebody. In an organization that is constantly trying to establish trust with a variety of unknown actors, Tilly is an incredible asset.

Stay angry, fools.

edit You know what is actually hilarious, TNG failed to really use Troi's empathetic mind reading in interesting ways for most of its run, to the shows great detriment, but Tilly is basically who Troi would have been if Troi hadn't been sidelined or written to be unconfident or naive for the stupidest reasons in most episodes. Tilly regularly walks into rooms and nearly instantaneously perceives the emotional context of the people in the room (whether or not she knows them that well) and boldly addresses it head on in a way that somehow isn't overbearing, aggressive or intimidating. I don't understand how this can be understood as anything but a minor superpower.

[–] porthos@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am loving this seasons so far, does anyone know if I watch the TNG episode that this season connects too if it will spoil anything for later seasons of TNG? I am still in like season 4 or 5 as I am going through TNG, VOY and DS9 all at the same time.

[–] porthos@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Loved the first episode, I think the way they brought Book back made sense and I think the season set up connecting to an underutilized TNG episode is absolutely awesome, I could not be more down for this kind of season of Discovery. On to the second episode!

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