Was just fiddling around with a new drumtrack, and something inadvertently came out of it that sounded quite nice
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 15:45, Reply)
It brought Simple Minds' "Somebody up there likes you" to mind, but it certainly didn't sound like any elements had been copied.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 15:57, Reply)
I can hear what you mean, but indeed all instruments and chords are all me :-)
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 16:04, Reply)
What with all this insanity from Madimir Putin we could do with some sunshine to brighten these dark days. Here's our lockdown cover of ELO's Mr Blue Sky - singalong and enjoy!
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 15:18, Reply)
it might have been interesting to put your own spin on it
(, Sat 5 Mar 2022, 0:04, Reply)
my comment was written with sad face and half rum
(, Sun 6 Mar 2022, 9:33, Reply)
and took the challenge of getting as close to the original as possible. Started off simple then took off; I forget how many vocal tracks I put down - it was in 3 figures.
I take your point though, always good to put something new into a cover. The stuff we added to this (I think we added extra instruments into the outro, subtle stuff like that) doesn't really change the shape of the song.
(, Sat 5 Mar 2022, 15:47, Reply)
This is a song from 1983 that is timeless, and it haunted me more than most of the VERY many songs about nuclear war that I listened to for an unrelated film/music project. I made a video for the YouTube so more people can enjoy it and have a quiet think about the likely outcome and certain aftermath of nuclear war.
HAPPY FRIDAY, EVERYBODY!
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 13:42, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyNtMpPYF8k
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOrIBY16mXI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dtay3HWjuk&t=1s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM7vuSFFEow
I have high hopes that they end it with something equally bizarre. Alien invasion would get my vote.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 12:02, Reply)
Not a good day for Australia all in all.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 16:42, Reply)
i'm feeling as miserable as an orphan wallaby on a burnout ridge
(, Sat 5 Mar 2022, 0:08, Reply)
I keep a close eye on the UK singles charts and our spider-fighting cousins are dominating. With utter shit mind you. But if you've been keeping track of the obsolete charts, that's the fucking benchmark.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 20:52, Reply)
I've attempted to enter the world of the video essay
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 10:26, Reply)
Stereo likes, here and there.
Try this channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Iy3-p8kWKZxunW0W-AlHw
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 11:40, Reply)
CGI has definitely made filmmakers lazy. It has its place, but no matter how well they render gollum's nut-sack he will always look fake, whereas jaws might look silly these days but its real
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 18:49, Reply)
Something something two hands and a torch.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 9:25, Reply)
"How to find the crescent Mon and Uranus on Sunday, March 6, 2022. Stellarium
When to look for Uranus
After dark on Sunday, March 6, 2022. If you look on Saturday or Monday nights Uranus will barely appear to have moved, but the Moon—your guide—will be in a different position so won’t appear not particularly close to Uranus. "
So, once you find the crescent mon it's a simple task of looking not apparently too unclose unnearby to find Uranus. Got it.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 14:04, Reply)
Did you threaten to overrule him?
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 18:34, Reply)
Maybe work on verifying your own sources before critiquing the sources of others. There's a good chap.
But, since we're on the subject - was this 'Agent OXO' (good one!) inaccurate? Or are you just desperately clutching at straws to somehow falsely reinforce your own belief that everything you read on the Internet is absolutely 100% reliable and any scepticism about spurious (and let's be honest, rather sensationalised) claims is misplaced?
You don't need to answer that. It was largely rhetorical. But, I'm sure you will anyway. You can't help yourself.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 19:06, Reply)
Are you suggesting that the claim 'Agent OXO' made about both Russia and Ukraine owning Strela-10 AVs must be untrue because he posted it in a YouTube comments section?
Here's some more analysis for you:
observers.france24.com/en/europe/20220301-video-debunked-russian-tank-crush-civilian-car-kyiv
Alternatively, here's USA Today in case you don't trust the French:
eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/02/28/fact-check-video-russian-tank-hitting-car-kyiv-lacks-context/6953727001/
Sorry if it isn't fake-newsy enough for your tastes. Maybe Snake Island is better suited to your personal preferences?
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 19:50, Reply)
People who refuse to share their sources usually have an amusingly embarrassing reason for it, that's all.
Based on your responses I'd guess a paranoia merchant who quote mines and links to articles like these to justify their batshittery.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 21:25, Reply)
youtu.be/xfB_T6QKo8c.
The source isn't really relevant in this case, though, is it? The video itself has been repeatedly verified. The question isn't whether the video is real, but rather the context of the footage. Of course, you're already well aware of this and instead are just clutching at straws trying to divert the conversation to a direction where you can then somehow refute the video itself based on the credibility of the channel I linked it from.
Just be a man and admit that there has been insufficient evidence to conclusively identify the tank as being Russian, and anybody jumping to conclusions about its identity were likely doing so based on nothing but sensationalist media reports. Much like those morons that bought into the 'Ghost of Kyiv' propaganda. There's a good lad.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 21:52, Reply)
The WarLeaks blog seems a bit eager to pass on unconfirmed rumours and innuendo from Russian propaganda sources, and claims itself to be a documentary channel: "WarLeaks - Military Blog is an independent, educational and documentary military channel for military enthusiasts from all around the world!"
Compared to Joe (from, damn where was it, Portsmouth?)'s aircraft blog where he apparently just read from the wikipedia page for the Ghost of Kiev, it does seem rather fake newsy, don't you think?
I'm quite eager to read more of expert youtube comment section military analyst Agent XIX's insights though. Can you link to the comment you screenshot? Cheers.
(, Sat 5 Mar 2022, 17:46, Reply)
time to put those masks back on. We're also probably gonna need all-over-body sanitizer this time
#Diddle diddle diddle diddle dee#

(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 1:42, Reply)
CNN is updating fast
edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-03-22/index.html
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 1:53, Reply)
Shooting at the firefighters is the icing on the cake
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 1:48, Reply)
Don't panic. Yet.
Nuclear power stations are mostly non-flammable, and this one is said to be particularly sturdy. The cause of the fire is unknown. My hopeful 2AM guess is it could be a flare, or a molotov, or a small electrical fire, and that the fuel is still safely behind meters of concrete, and days/weeks away from a meltdown even if the cooling systems fail.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 2:15, Reply)
So the core will be theoretically flammable but hard to ignite if it's shut down as the report said.
Could still get some nasties released but hopefully on a small scale.
Hopefully.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 2:45, Reply)
I've been staring at a screen so long, stuff is moving about when it shouldn't and I spent 5mins watching a firefight only to realise it was snow falling past the camera.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 2:48, Reply)
and the smoke is out.
Time for a smoke of my own, I think.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 2:54, Reply)
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 13:44, Reply)
set to "Clicks & pops" with a probability of about 0.01 to 0.1%, into a resonator and/or convolution reverb with a suitable cavern or car park impulse...
...Is my guess.
...Though comparing them now, mine's lacking a hum and the resonance is wrong. Still, my effort took 10 minutes.
Hire me if you need urgent sound design that's about 80% acceptable.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 17:34, Reply)
once the control rods are in, it's safe, no?
i was shown around australia's only reactor a few years back, and the staff pointed out a big red button on the control room wall, which was all they needed to hit to stop the reaction cold
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 4:13, Reply)
energycentral.com/c/ec/japan-quake-fukushima-reactor-must-be-shut-down-core-cooled
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 4:59, Reply)
but you get a lot of short lived isotopes from fission products and things that have been activated by neutrons.
They give off a lot of heat as they decay so you need to have some sort of cooling for a while until they calm down.
Most modern designs are designed to do it passively, so they work even if there's a loss of power. Older ones often need electricity to keep some pumps running for a few weeks, which was the problem at Fukushima.
If you start blowing holes in them you will be releasing highly radioactive crap whether they are currently turned on or not.
Fortunately it's starting to look as though the shelling didn't actually make any holes in the reactor itself.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 9:07, Reply)
They're mostly concrete, which tends not to burn at all. It supposedly starts cracking at about 140c and its melting point is about 1500c.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 13:54, Reply)
this is definitely one of the best I've heard
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 7:55, Reply)
In case you didn't know, this is a channel based in the Ukraine.
(, Thu 3 Mar 2022, 21:13, Reply)
I hope they’re doing okay. I’ve no idea where they are in the country but given how often they’ve been to Pripyat it might be the North.
(, Thu 3 Mar 2022, 21:37, Reply)
A bit of nsfw ronseal from Jim'll paint it.
(, Thu 3 Mar 2022, 19:19, Reply)
The Google slides equivalent of the Wat presentation
(, Thu 3 Mar 2022, 18:31, Reply)
- what with the constant twisting and all.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 11:08, Reply)
They were an effective bit of visual stimuli, as John Shuttleworth would put it.
(, Thu 3 Mar 2022, 16:20, Reply)
The balls and her head decoration (fascinator?), no idea what the song was about.
(, Thu 3 Mar 2022, 17:13, Reply)
She did that ball thing all.the.fucking.time.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 8:29, Reply)
Man puts blonde mannequin in velux window to stare at neighbours
(, Thu 3 Mar 2022, 14:53, Reply)
for getting undressed and not taking showers in their vest and pants like normal christian people.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 9:24, Reply)
That's Sexy Lizzie No. 4 with realistic hair and gripping hands.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 11:15, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KciJJoB6OU8
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 18:41, Reply)
Or seeing her family for ever.
(, Thu 3 Mar 2022, 21:14, Reply)
this popped up on the news while interviewing some bloke about the floods in queensland yesterday
twitter.com/ABCmediawatch/status/1498894559367266304
(, Thu 3 Mar 2022, 13:29, Reply)
In Florida.
I had a kid jump out of the car while I was driving, to catch a gator. I said, "What was that all about?" He said, "I was going to catch that gator. Didn't you see him? I said, "What were you going to do with him? He said, "I was gonna make a pet out of him..."
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 2:18, Reply)
Best coverage I've seen so far of the invasion.
(, Thu 3 Mar 2022, 0:07, Reply)
I reckon it's that deeply corrupt countries like russia are corrupt in all areas, and that includes military spending
(, Thu 3 Mar 2022, 0:27, Reply)
Ukraine does too, but they have both the home field advantage and the strong motivation to protect their homeland.
I think it's likely that even the higher ranks have no plan in place because a) they don't know why they're attacking Ukraine either and b) they didn't expect such strong resistance from the outset. I suppose if I was deployed to a country to kill nazis but only found angry babushkas telling me to fuck off home in between throwing petrol bombs at me, I'd be a little confused too.
(, Thu 3 Mar 2022, 0:38, Reply)
very, very interesting stuff. The observation that the Russian military seems to be inept and their kit not as good as they say it is does have a ring of credibility given how bogged down their line heading toward Kiev is.
I didn't know much about the Desert Storm campaign (I don't get hard thinking about this stuff) but the comparison is rather stark.
No idea how accurate this is (not gonna cite this in a book anytime soon) but fascinating, nonetheless.
(, Fri 4 Mar 2022, 8:06, Reply)
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