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I want to take this time to invite all of our Guests to register and participate here at NMA. Bethesda fans are welcome despite what horror stories you have heard.
 
Thinking of writing a story about a vault dweller traveling across the US to various spots in all the games. Could work as a comic I guess. It can be played straight with humor. Leaning more on humor. Heh.
 
For being such a bookworm, why the fuck does @Moosick rape grammar and punctuation so much in his posts?
 
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Not sure why you care but I take liberties with such things, particularly when it's threads like this or the current one on feminism. Partly because I lack the dedication but also because I'm much more irreverent about such matters nowadays and have a low opinion of the idiotic discussion coming from all sides of the debate(s).

Also because despite my ease in comprehending other people's ideas in writing, I struggle to elucidate myself, be it in speech or text. That, and my knowledge of correct grammar and punctuation is much more intuitive than it is built around actual knowledge or good education on how to use certain techniques and punctuation marks.
 
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Moosick said:
Not sure why you care but I take liberties with such things, particularly when it's threads like this or the current one on feminism. Partly because I lack the dedication but also because I'm much more irreverent about such matters nowadays and have a low opinion of the idiotic discussion coming from all sides of the debate(s).

Also because despite my ease in comprehending other people's ideas in writing, I struggle to elucidate myself, be it in speech or text. That, and my knowledge of correct grammar and punctuation is much more intuitive than it is built around actual knowledge or good education on how to use certain techniques and punctuation marks.
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Don't fight it, they were on my case with correct writing the moment I sat foot in here, just go with it!
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Moosick said:
Not sure why you care but I take liberties with such things, particularly when it's threads like this or the current one on feminism. Partly because I lack the dedication but also because I'm much more irreverent about such matters nowadays and have a low opinion of the idiotic discussion coming from all sides of the debate(s).

Also because despite my ease in comprehending other people's ideas in writing, I struggle to elucidate myself, be it in speech or text. That, and my knowledge of correct grammar and punctuation is much more intuitive than it is built around actual knowledge or good education on how to use certain techniques and punctuation marks.
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I appreciate your thoughts most of the time, but I find it arduous to go through your posts when they are so badly written. It is annoying and makes the process of comprehending what is written far more difficult, especially for someone whose native language isn't English and who is, most of the time, not well-informed on the subject but would like to learn. Besides, it looks bad. It's a general principle in my case - not just with you - I don't need to see a meticulously written post of a person with OCD in order to appreciate it, but I like seeing it with some order and sense.


tl;dr Write shit nicely or die
 
Well, it depends entirely on whether you're talking about how I type now, or how I typed in that thread I linked. If I'm writing in a style reminiscent of an interior monologue, chances are I'm mocking the thread starter and/or the major posters in the thread, and you'd get a more nourishing experience from skipping my post completely. Such posts (particularly that one where I rabble on about various philosophers) are meant to be hard to read.

However, when I am writing something with the intent of being vaguely contributory, I will keep what you say in mind, as you are right - laziness is, in that circumstance, no excuse.
 
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This is now officially noise appreciation thread:





Also, Dopa, change your avatar, it is fucking retarded.
 
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That vomir song. . . that kind of music. . . what form of entertainment does it provide? I don't mean to put it down I'm just ignorant on this form of music, so maybe you could help me.
 
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That vomir song. . . that kind of music. . . what form of entertainment does it provide? I don't mean to put it down I'm just ignorant on this form of music, so maybe you could help me.
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None to an average human. You take a random number generator, a lowpass filter (or not, i'm listening on laptop speakers), pass that shit to a dac (digital to audio converter) and you have a volcano sound. Also, it is not a song, as it has no singing.
 
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That vomir song. . . that kind of music. . . what form of entertainment does it provide? I don't mean to put it down I'm just ignorant on this form of music, so maybe you could help me.
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It's more like immersing yourself within a space rather than it is listening to a song or piece.

It can feel like an ear-massage, nihilistic abandon, sonic torture, crushing existential agony or ecstatic pleasure, depending on your mood. There's also a quiet pleasure in experiencing something that is both minimalist and maximalist all at once. It's sort of like the beginning and the end of all sound, pushed as loud as is safe (if not further). It's an extremely open genre - even more so than sound collage or onkyokei - and what you put into it, how you feel to view it at any given point really is what you'll get out of it.

Many people who listen to it casually usually appreciate it on a meditative or purely formalist level, though there's a lot to be said for that, too. Despite the aforementioned philosophical aspect to such works, they are not really something created, reflected or reviewed under an intellectual lens: it is something that is very much born from experience.

Incidentally I have that record (Proanomie - pro-instability, abjectivity, formlessness etc.) on CD and it is the dog's bollocks.

I much prefer The Rita's Ludmila Semenyaka - named after the Russian ballet dancer - as it, as far as I can tell, plays the introductory orchestral piece throughout the piece; just quiet enough to occasionally "glimpse" it through the static, and that makes for some INCREDIBLY focused listening.

in my limited experience, you'll either get it, or hate it. There's not much in-between with HNW.

EDIT: also @AskWazzup it's all analogue with both Vomir and The Rita.
 
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