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11:05:05
gingerale
I had a note earlier to remember to take my meds. I think I didn't but I put the note away. I checked the thing I keep them in and based on it I didn't take any today, nor did I take yesterday either.
11:05:25
gingerale
But it might be that I did take my meds when I brushed my teeth, forgot, took them again when I put the note away, forgot, and then now took them for a third time.
11:24:41
gingerale
I think I need to start putting my pill container inside my mug I used while brushing teeth.
12:07:03
gingerale
Nah, it wouldn't. But here, this is what I take https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bupropion#Overdose
12:07:49
gingerale
Worst it's ever caused was spikes of brain activity while I tried to sleep when I took it too late.
13:36:37
isoraqathedh
Today I saw Grandma Wong still out there protesting while on my way to replace my ID card.
15:13:28
gingerale
Good gosh I am so tired. I ended up climbing into bed in the middle of my workday for a while.
17:21:47
shinmera
Not like the teams matter at all, all of the players are imported from other countries
17:24:05
minty
it sucks because it's such a universal sport... any country can play it it doesn't require a lot of gear just a ball and some friends
17:25:34
isoraqathedh
The worst thing is that if you bag them and turn them in you get like maybe 20p for your troubles.
17:28:30
isoraqathedh
In most of the world, equal temperament as we use in contemporary Euramerican styles is actually fairly rare.
17:29:03
isoraqathedh
Although we have earliest records of 12ET in China, they didn't use it. Europeans discovered it eventually.
17:29:48
isoraqathedh
Most other places use a mix of systems that involve setting up each tone individually. Sometimes it's on a fixed interval, sometimes there's fewer tones, and most of the time it's mostly very flexible.
17:30:17
isoraqathedh
There are two very simple reasons why equal temperament won out in Europe, and so the world:-
17:31:32
isoraqathedh
1. European music is unusual for involving more than one instrument and the human voice. The requirement that everyone needs to be playing the same pitch means that flexible tuning systems don't work.
17:33:46
isoraqathedh
2. Later on, the idea of there being a tonal centre (a key) and that you can /change/ between them means that in order for the music to sound good when changing between them, each key has to be roughly as good as each other without needing to retune. And so, equal temperament won out over other candidates such as Pythagorean tuning and well temperament.
17:34:09
isoraqathedh
These two points reinforce each other until finally equal temperament won out.
17:35:11
minty
this isn't something i had put a lot of thought into because i haven't played for years, honestly... i googled while reading and found a thing on other tuning systems
17:35:56
isoraqathedh
One particularly interesting consequence of this is that it seems like if someone tries to create music using lots of traditional instruments from many cultures, you will have to end up retuning a lot of them or they will refuse to work together.
17:40:19
isoraqathedh
That's not surprising, but it turns out that even absent Europeans the easiest solution might be equal temperament anyway.
17:43:37
minty
so if i'm understanding this right, the equal temperament works fine for conventional violin type-strings but if you wanted to have, say, a sitar, a shamisen, and a bouzouki, it would sound off?
17:49:38
isoraqathedh
Equal temperament is /convenient/ if you want to have music involving lots of instruments. It is /necessary/ if you have keys and more importantly key changes in music.
17:51:32
isoraqathedh
(Well, not necessary, but it is if you want to be able to change keys a whole lot or perform multiple pieces in different keys without retuning.)
18:42:28
gingerale
shinmera: I'm going to need to move Outer Wilds to tomorrow night. But I'll have everything I need to do ready by then so I can just relax until stream time.
18:43:52
gingerale
Also this headache is hitting me hard today. It's annoying because it comes and goes but hurts really hard.
18:44:27
gingerale
https://chat.tymoon.eu/data//stevenchan/484788b4ffe905db1e178e1b2e74018e915e3efa8365e6f7301dca06f65ed75f.jpg
20:17:22
shinmera
So at the beginning of Tales of Berseria, the main character, Velvet, is this overly protective older sister character. After her brother gets sacrificed she turns into a demon and swears revenge. So when you start playing after this prologue she's extremely ruthless and uses whatever she can to her advantage to reach her goal. I found that to be an extremely welcome breath of fresh air. I don't often see a sympathetic character being such an obviously egotistical and manipulative person, and it owns.
20:18:04
shinmera
Over time now she developed away from that, I suppose inevitably so going by standard story conventions, but I'm a bit conflicted about it as, while "growth" is nice to witness, she's also just turning into a less interesting character.
20:19:12
shinmera
I would have absolutely loved to have more of the game be her being exploitative and manipulative and seeing the repercussions from that (so far there have not been any real consequences for that)
20:27:51
gingerale
That's good to hear. A character being obviously bad but not getting any repercussions because they're in the main cast is always a bit eh..
20:29:24
shinmera
But I would have liked a more crystallised story about her character just being cutthroat all the way through, and the story being about that. As in, the things she does leading to long-term consequences.
20:29:45
shinmera
As is I think it's unlikely that'll really happen (it might?), just because it looks like it's a different kind of story.
20:38:41
gingerale
Yeh. Would be nice if there was someone who'd come after her and be completely justified about it.
20:39:17
shinmera
Either that, or the destruction / manipulation leading to complications later down the road.