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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P1OKmTDg-M

https://noisia.bandcamp.com/track/could-this-be-sleepnet-remix

Noisia dropped a new collection of remixes, The Resonance VI, that features some of the coolest electronic songs I've ever heard -- this is just the first track. If inventive sound design is a thing you appreciate then I highly recommend the other remixes

Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
https://squarepusher.bandcamp.com/album/hard-normal-daddy

jazzy IDM, released in '97 and still sounds fantastic

Virtual Self - a.i.ngel (Become God)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2t0UljO_AY

Bishop_Hastur posted...

Gnther - Ding Dong Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPrnduGtgmc

lol wow, haven't thought about that track in ages. so silly

KOAN Sound - Grounded ft. Javeon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05sV1rVog0

Ratchetrockon posted...

listening to this with a stax l500mk2 headphones w/ l700 ear pads. ok this is the first headphone ive experienced that gives me the illusion of the sound coming from in front of me and not from two drivers next to my ears . i thought that was just audiophile bs initially because i didn't get this illusion till i readjusted the headband to conform to my head properly (if i adjust the headband just one notch down i lose the illusion entirely).

If you wanna hear some music that's designed in that way (i.e. binaural recording), try this EP:
https://maxcooper.bandcamp.com/album/3d-reworks-001

I dunno but I'm almost done wheel of time (i'm on book FOURTEEN) and man, some of the books were long in the tooth

This one's lit tho

I'm helping mentor a younger programmer on our team, and I'm constantly reminded of this
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/chestertons-fence

TLDR -- he's got solid coding skills and can grasp stuff pretty easily, but he's way too eager to essentially come up with new solutions for problems that we've already solved in the codebase.

It's like man... I get you want to help, but we don't need to reinvent class Wheel

curious how much C++ experience there is here in this topic. As a game programmer it's basically a requirement for efficient game code so for those of y'all talking about game dev, I do recommend learning it for anyone who's aiming to join a AAA studio

my take... you don't need to worry about chatgpt taking your job. you need to worry about the people who are actually learning how to effectively integrate chatgpt into their workflows

kyujo posted...

Oooh, nice. Had a lot of interest in that over the years. Was put off a bit in undergrad studies. Like someone else mentioned, making a small game was always an interest.

Unity and Unreal are free to use if you ever get the itch! they each have a marketplace for assets if you don't particularly care about learning how to model/animate.

Unreal's Blueprint scripting system in particular is a pretty intuitive way to get started with game scripting/event-based logic flow etc. But it's been a while since I've used either, so I'm not sure what their online support/documentation's like these days.

Coming up on 8 years as a game AI programmer, love the job although it is certainly a stressful industry to work in.

So for me I used to listen to way more metal in middle and high school than I do now. In the like 10+ years since then I've gone into the deep end of electronic music in terms of new music that I listen to.

I definitely still really enjoy all the metal I used to listen to -- I've never lost interest in any of the stuff I used to love, in part I guess because of the personal/nostalgic connection. But, I'm not really actively seeking out new metal bands these days, and so I'm not really interested in finding new bands with harsh vocals, unless there's somethign particularly cool or distinctive about it.

SaltyBooboo posted...

Which doom game?

2016 or Eternal soundtracks will work, here's 2016
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9qahmMHuxzSCR8rOVHvvn1kLaHWkmRWk

My high school required 2 years of Latin and I think it may have been the one of the most useful classes I've ever taken. Besides the advantage of being able to reason out the meaning of words based on common latin roots, the language itself has a very regimented grammar system. There's a bit of algorithmic thinking required in putting together Latin sentences, and I'd argue it helped me be a better programmer today

Also Latin for me personally was very fun to learn -- in the second year of Latin, we translated excerpts from Caesar's account of the Gallic wars. It was actually really interesting to translate accounts of battles and descriptions of military strategies/army organization.

For anyone who played and enjoyed 6DOF shooters like Descent or any of its sequels back in the 90s:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/

Overload was developed by several of the original Descent devs (IIRC there were a couple sequels made using the Descent IP but weren't well received)

This game is actually such a great throwback game, it's realtively simplistic but the flight controls are smooth as heck, and the gameplay/maps/AI/weapons/etc are all just as fun as I remember them being in the old Descent games. Some "modern" gameplay features are here too like a kind of upgrade system where the currency is found by exploring all the nooks and crannies of the levels. There's even VR support which (if you can stomach it) is pretty cool.

The soundtrack is hella good too!

For any synth pop fans out there, caroline polachek's new album is glorious
https://carolinepolachek.bandcamp.com/album/desire-i-want-to-turn-into-you

Minecraft soundtrack for sure. I actually like the music on the "Volume Beta" release (with music from the added "Nether" region of the game) more than the base game soundtrack https://c418.bandcamp.com/album/minecraft-volume-beta

Flume - SPOKE 2 ALIENS FINALLY 1.3 [2020 Export Wav]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRY1-6jM5oo

honestly this collection of b sides is more memorable than Palaces, interesting stuff

Emulation + PrimeHack is the way

Skrillex's new album Quest For Fire is actually really really good IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb0XLX0b4Y4

For a hot minute, Code Lyoko was actually a hella cool show

Believe it or not, a Skrillex album in 2023 is here and it is phenomenal
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Z0stL3aRykA6gT3zqmSWKw9Ix-cMT9V

@CyricZ I read your Prime walkthrough decades ago when I was a kid and it helped so much, helped solidify the game as my GOAT growing up

You're a legend!

Jon Hopkins - Abandon Window
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjKMUCwui-I

So this song is a real winner for me in that it has a deeply introspective/emotional effect, but also is really interesting to listen to. For context it is right in the middle of one of my favorite electronic albums... The first 4 or 5 songs are generally quite glitchy, chaotic, and overwhelming, culminating in a loud 10 minute techno track that precedes this one. Right at the end it all crescendoes, and then it goes into silence and just transitions into this one above. As far as emotional effect, well, the song is supposed to be about someone who is drowning or trapped under rubble, and giving up on their last hope of life and coming to terms with their fate. so yeah ... melancholic I guess, but also, peaceful?

And the interesting bit is just how the simple piano melody gets swallowed up into the deeper sonic spectrum, and eventually blends into smooth synth pads at the end. IIRC in the outro, those little echoey pops in the background were a recording of fireworks at the 2012 London Olympics, which really gives a kind of cool sense of depth and scale

CRON posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AWIqXzvX-U

Excellent choice <3

HAAi & Jon Hopkins - Baby, We're Ascending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V34DRNPVX0o

The best quote I've heard about this subject is: A.I. entities are not going to take your job -- the people who know how to effectively use A.I. will.

at the end of the day, A.I. systems are still tools that are used by humans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXvM6CIYs_o

good time to check out bandcamp!

His new stuff with Fred again is dope

ludwig's a real homie. I've been watching competitive melee for a while and it's been great to see him get big, then get guys like hugs and toph up there

AI programmer at a AAA game studio

Man I was caught up with all of his series a few years ago but he writes like crazy. Currently working through Wheel of Time but after that I've got quite a bit more of sanderson to read lol

I just discovered this album today --

The Range - Mercury
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZqsyBiYZFQ00biS-W9uFDsW8JUNvBKU0

Really nice UK-influenced electronic music, with some lovely sample work.

K181 posted...

Virginia's surprising to me. Did Youngkin scare that many people away?

And Maryland, too. The DC metro is exploding as far as I'm aware.

last I checked, MD public school system is a mess, and state taxes are pretty rough as well. My parents have been mulling over leaving for quite a while now

I've been using Apple Music (more specifically iTunes) for years to manage my music library (all downloaded, not streamed). Man, that piece of software has an infuriating number of bugs and usability issues that make me want to find an alternative .... BUT that being said, it's the best (downloaded) music library management software I know of that has a relatively fleshed out metadata tracking system, as well as the "smart playlist" stuff which has been super rad. I've been able to build some cool playlists that rotate music in and out depending on rating, time since last played, lifetime play count etc. Spotify certainly does a shit job at that kind of thing.