Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

@bx when i say "can't replicate", i mean like, check this out:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/408744235513413643/851969155888054333/snareRef.wav

what the actual heck are those drums doing?? it sounds incredible, but how the actual heck was that made???

even slowed down tremendously, my brain just can't grasp the pattern or rudiment that is happening here:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/408744235513413643/851986088247296070/piece.mp3

@bx hahaha, fair enough~

i personally think it's pretty good for playing around with chord theory and trying to really understand the "why" behind things since i feel like that part is pretty important for being able to recognize (and maybe eventually make) the things i really enjoy

occasionally dipping into this channel really reminds me how little i recognize: https://www.youtube.com/c/8bitMusicTheory

i also like to dissect things that sound amazing that i absolutely can't replicate

@monorail sent

@bx i feel like being around others who like the same things as you do can be a pretty massive catalyst when it comes to carrying you over that initial plateau--though the initial "spark" of inspiration i find comes from situations you come across normally

like, playing a game and thinking "oh gosh, i wish i could make things that make people feel the way i do now"

i think the initial enjoyment plateau is actually realllllly long though, i feel you need to be comfy with the medium to get there

@bx oh yeah! that's a nightmare, even in a daw!

i actually legit just have a folder full of me humming music that doesn't exist that i wish did--things that i one day want to transcribe to anything i have the capability and energy to do so

it's....probably going to be a while before i do though, hahah

@bx oh, agreed!

but this is one of the reasons it's hard to start new things without a lot of inspiration--because before you have the mental language and familiarity to articulate your creativity, there can be a loooot of friction to get your ideas into a satisfying enough form you can interact with

is "forces everything they own to be linux" a personality?

because if it is, i might need to reevaluate some things

(glances at my phone that's half termux scripts at this point) i'm sure this is shocking information

this is typically how i linux, and i guess i'm just determined to treat windows like a linux by any means necessary

@noiob seems like a handy thing to be able to do!

i typically run my desktop system perpetually because i use it pretty extensively through ssh when i'm not physically around

also, have i mentioned that i run approximately everything on the planet at the same time because my brain jumps between hyperfixations a lot?

oh! if you thought this was an exaggeration, i also have 3 monitors, so the problem is actually worse than you might think!

my current desktops are:

1: lisp things! currently with fennel and scheme shenanigans, possibly seeing how to interop fennel with ruby, and seeing what problems would arise if i removed the global namespace mangler in fennel
2: researching/maybe eventually fixing kiwix-android, the thing that lets you download wikipedia, since it can't open its packaged local files. also kotlin
3: japanese practice, and rom digging
4: my work-work
5: my vm that i host docker things from and test linux contributions. also long-running tunnels and monitors
6: plan 9 research and attempting to figure out how to get various things working on my dedicated plan 9 pi and researching kernel things (kinda empty rn though)

i'm ignoring a lot of other things i have on each desktop, and the meaning of these desktop changes as i start drawing or composing music, or doing more messing around with various projects that interest me

there is also a WSL component underneath all of this that isn't immediately apparent

@noiob i just enjoy doing a lot of different things~

me: restarting for updates is such a hassle, i wish windows could just apply them without that

them: restarting isn't so bad

me (with 6 desktops, each with entire running environments, vms, separate creative tools in the middle of projects which take minutes to even start up, and a mountain of carefully curated and placed browser/file manager/terminal windows set up to research and work on something in specific): i guess

@monorail hee. you are extremely powerful, you know that?

@monorail ooooof, it's always fun to realize you were the reason a rule was created

that's totally not a one-way ticket to The Anxiety Zone for people particularly susceptible to that or anything...

@bx as a result, we have a scale for devices with consoles, phones, and tablets being more on the "consumption" side, and computers being more on the "creation" side

but it is often framed more as a separation of "work" and "play" to most people, which reinforces their separation to anyone who doesn't already use computers for leisure

@bx (it doesn't help that there is a skill plateau before creative tools stop being draining and start being relaxing, which further limits their use)