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Ah yes, cats, so aloof. Meanwhile my cats: won’t stop miaowing until I pick them up, pet them or play with them, if I put my hand out will jump up to bop it before I can reach them, will tap me for pets if I’m out of reach…

So aloof!

Yeah, I guess it looks cool. Tho I think lots of instruments, and playing them, look cool :P

😭

What if my favourite are Gentoo’s but I don’t want to spend years of my life waiting for my OS to compile from source?

I don’t think you really answered (or even whether you were trying to).

I don’t think randomly going off-pitch is an aesthetic goal; I think if you wanted to do that you could easily, in an electric instrument, introduce a random pitch bend. No-one ever does… What people do do is introduce intentional pitch bends - vibrato is an obvious example, but also pushing the tuning of certain intervals outside what the typical equal-tempered distances would be.

The reason I asked the question above the way I did is because it seems universally acknowledged that intonation on the theremin synthesiser is significantly harder than on a fretless string-instrument, which affords the same expressiveness in pitch. Unless there is genuinely an advantage to its setup (and, again, randomly bad pitch is not one IMO) should we not want to make it easier?

I, of course, was not saying I demanded perfect intonation, which does not exist. But intonation that I, an at-best-moderately critical listener, can tell is way off, is not what I would aim for and I have heard that in a professional recording.

Why don’t I reframe it: why would you not want an instrument which is like the theremin synthesiser but which instead of placing the hands in free space you place them on some kind of board? How does it get worse?

Muscle memory is not enough when playing a string instrument, so I can’t imagine it is when playing the theremin synthesiser either! Muscle memory gets you in the right ball-park but you need tactile cues as well as to listen to be as accurate as possible. Typing on a touchscreen keyboard gives you visual cues (it’s usually close to where you’re looking, closer than a physical keyboard) and I believe accuracy suffers compared to a keyboard with its tactile feedback (that is, if your fingers are off, you feel that you’re hitting the edges of the keys).

It seems to me that anything you can do in the free air you should be able to do with an appropriately-scaled slider or other control system. I was enamoured of the theremin synthesiser when I first heard about it, but when I realised it is just using the hand position to affect two single capacitance values, rather than anything more complicated, I was disappointed!

I always thought the theremin was an overly impractical synthesiser. Even having the two control axes controlled by wheels or rods would make more sense.

I play cello and it’s notable that hitting a note when you have to arrive there by sliding the finger into position is a lot easier than when you have to place the finger in the correct position from the air (during a shift - the latter is fine if the whole hand is in position)

That is to say, having a tactile reference is better than waving your arms around in the air. This was reinforced for me when I heard a theremin recording by a pro and the intonation was noticeably bad.

Yeah that’s as potential issue

Steam is pretty good for that I guess.

Games are supposed to be fun, but they’re not supposed to be fun for everyone.

So, some people will not enjoy dark souls, because the main gameplay - learning movesets until you’re able to not die to them - is not fun for some people. On the other hand, learning movesets at a really slow pace because the run back to the boss takes ages, or a boss that you can learn quite well but takes ages to kill because it leaves very few openings, or a boss that you would be able to learn except it’s in a tiny arena and the camera always fucks up… these are all areas in which dark souls games sometimes let down players who are geared to enjoy them.

The cursed one.

Bras are just a pair of pockets if you think about it.

Maybe she had secret sympathies…

I think the only way to display something like that is alongside allied propaganda from the era. It does all have a very striking aesthetic, so I can understand wanting to display it, but there are limits

It’s a shame people downvote this instead of replying.

The guy’s in favour of rent freezes, so there’s one policy that ain’t gonna work long term. Free buses OTOH, sounds great.

He can be the best choice but not be perfect ya know

Yes.

That would be some context about your thinking that it would have made sense to include in your first comment, given the thread context!

Just the word syntax? Sure. You teach coding at first by example, not from first principles. At some point, explaining the concepts helps in the teaching but not at first.

What rhyme? Only thing I can think that you mean is some things about “attercop” (old word for spider) that Tolkien writes.

Your jaw muscles force your jaws together. It’s both jaws doing the biting.