Prompt questions:
What do you do for work, or what are you studying towards
Musical recommendations (bonus points for metal)
Useless tidbit you know (bonus points for citing sources)
Best meal you’ve had
Best place you’ve visited
Check out gnoosic.com they have a really strong algorithm that’s great for finding bands. It’s sent me shit with 27 monthly listeners.
I am one of a handful of people in the world known to have been diagnosed and treated for a rare sarcoma cancer in an even rarer area of the body, that generally effects only women (I am a man).
It’s a really crappy club. I wouldn’t suggest joining.
Shit.
I’m really sorry, dude. I genuinely hope you get better.
I’m over it. Life goes on. Weird club though.
What types of metal do you like? I can try to aim if I have an idea of what you’re into.
If I’m going just for an out of the blue rec, maybe try Emptiness - Not For Music if you’re not already familiar. Belgian black/death band having turned toward the avant garde have left nearly every indication of their more extreme roots on this album, and it’s fantastic. All the tracks are great but if you’re looking for the “single” maybe try the track Ever.
This is right up my alley; it’s going on my collaborative playlist called ‘forks in a blender’ which is just me and my bud making a playlist.
I really, really like Vvilderness. Huge fan. Also like panopticon, Unreqvited, Witchcraft, Nordic Winter, Skrm (I think?) Elderwind. Psychedelic Witchcraft and Blood Ceremony are up there too.
Ok, I can work with that. If you are a Panopticon fan you may already be familiar with this, but if not it’s worth a listen: Eneferens. A little more toward the VVilderness vibe, but essentially purely folk, check out Ekstasis. And to go with the psych vibe, if you haven’t heard Hexvessel - Dawnbearer then give that a spin and thank me later.
God, how have I not heard any of these metal bands in this thread? I listen to metal every day, most of the day. Such a huge genre.
I’m going add these to the list.
Holy shit I’m in love with Eneferens and I listened to about 40 seconds. Thanks. Checking out the others .
They do a Kettering cover? Fucking wow
All of this. All of it goes into my and my friends joint playlist (forks in blender)
If you care to, let me know what you think of these. I think I’m on the right track, but I’d be curious to hear how these strike you.
Eneferens is top notch. That’s going to be a deep rabbit hole with associated bands, once I have time to sit down and explore.
I liked hexvessel and Ekstasis (in that order). Again, need to check out more before I really pass judgement, but they have a lot going on that I like
I’m not sure there’s much in the way of branching off from Eneferens. I thought you may have heard of them due to label affiliations. At any rate, glad you are receiving these positively. And yeah, trust that the Hexvessel album is worth some deeper dedicated listening. That’s a special album imo; I don’t know of anything else that’s quite like it.
I’m going to a King Gizzard show next month, pretty excited.
Best meal I probably had was an emotional support curry I made for myself.
I’m also excited about restarting my D&D campaign after a small hiatus.
Currently I’m pretty tired but I’m also going though some revenge bedtime procrastination…
I’ve never actually sat and listened to Gizzard. On my list, but my free time is chronically limited.
Curry is love. Curry is life.
What are you going as for DND? I don’t play, but know enough to be dangerous. Also, I’ll make an AI drawing for you if you like.
Example:
Goblin Cleric
Hope you rest up. I burn the candle at both ends so I know the feeling.
If you’re a metal fan give PetroDragonic Apocalypse and Nonagon Infinity a try. Their other albums aren’t metal but pretty good nonetheless.
I’m the game master actually! So I play as all the NPCs lol.
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That’s really great you took your niece in.
Never been to Europe and kick myself for going to Asia instead.
Work: Self-employed software developer, currently designing veterinary shop microservices. Still haven’t decided if I will use Java(spring) or Python(django-rest), (or none?) Insights will be highly appreciated ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Music: EDM, Robert miles ~ children . This song reminds me how we moved around a lot when i was 3-4 yo. (My father was a civil contractor on different companies, states apart) Finally, a song that sums up the confusions I had.
Tidbit: People highly underestimate their hearing capabilities. I mean, We’re not dogs, but our ears collect more information than we ever asked for. All you have to do is LISTEN.
Best Meal: My mom’s. And yes, I know I might be highly biased on this. I’ve tried pizzahut, KFC, and every premium buffet out here. But naaah. My mom hosts catering services, BTW.
Best place: to date? High school where I was studying. It’s at the foot of Mt meru, at the gates of Arusha national park. Almost every day, we wake up to the sound of zebras and giraffes grazing high trees, takes all the stress away.
Man. That HS experience. I would give a kidney to see Africa like that
Lol, you should have seen us the day buffalo herd grazed 50m away from school fence bruv, absolutely no one got out of the hostels (of which, as a high schooler, jumping and hanging all day in the rooms). One of the guards almost got horned.
Still, I wouldn’t trade anything on this earth with this experience. I’m highly thankful 😊
Edit: To be frank, I was busy chasing my crush, who was also chasing her crush, who was my homie, whom we played GTA san Andreas together. (a stupid triangle 😫). Every time I got a chance to look out the window on my hostel and see these graceful creatures, it reminded me how lucky I was.
Those things do not fuck around
Here’s some music from one of my favourite bands :)
https://open.spotify.com/album/1B12ldQwBhDeS0gIcUg0ux?si=Bf9GHetQSQGup-A50OzRTQ
So you also like them short in bed?
at my place, there’s a food name Saksang
its a pork cooked with its blood…
Part-time cashier at a big orange hardware store while trying to get my degree in horticulture.
Best cake I’ve ever had: Chocolate Chocolate Chip by Nothing Bundt Cakes. Seriously, if there’s a location near you that you’ve always passed by, stop by and try it. Their Carrot cake and Lemon cake are also amazing.
Omg the carrot cake is delicious. Everything I’ve tried has been on point.
? isn’t scoring highly on the inattentive section consistent with having ‘some ADHD’?
Im the person who’s been “chosen by the people” to do “IT stuff”. Family, friends, teachers, and neighbours reach out to me for the simplest tasks. Stuff they could probably figure out on their own, but insist I do for them.
I’m a nightmare for my school administrators, as I know my way around every blocking and monitoring thing they’ve set up on the school equipment.
I’ve also caused headaches for the entire city wide school system, as I got cloudflare to (unintentionally) block traffic from our ip address, and since all traffic is funnleded trough a VPN to a central gateway (all schools in said city use the vpn) ,meaning I blocked 66k kids from using the internet for 15m. ( I didn’t get in trouble :3)
I want to be a programmer by day and animator by night. I am nowhere near achieving that goal but everyday I am getting closer.
Music: Ritual Genocide by Ritual Genocide
Usless tid bit: I have 9th pair of teeth in my upper jaw.
Best meal: Naleśnik with pears by two lovely ukrainian ladies from a food truck
Best place: An overnight camping with hammocks in a medieval castle.
Highly recommend IGNEA if you like melodic metal. A few faves:
Jinnslammer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF_qqeXzM4g
Disenchantment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV9vpEit6E
Mermaids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU9WFEwsQQw
But gosh their stuff is just all awesome.
What are your tips for a library opening a tiny maker space? Some libraries near me have been given grants to have a “tool library” section, with some work benches and basic hand tools, that can be borrowed.
I think my biggest suggestion might be to try to avoid the huge industry of companies selling “makerspace” stuff to libraries, i.e. GlowForge, etc. All of it is wildly overpriced and underpowered, at the supposed tradeoff of having a lot of support. It’s a bad trade, the support isn’t worth it.
Try to build your own open source equipment, like Voron for 3d printing, OpenFlexure for microscopes, all the Precious Plastics designs for plastic scrap processing, etc. Building these from scratch is ultimately cheaper. Also, it means you’ll know how to fix anything that could possibly go wrong, since you know it inside and out
Don’t worry about not having the necessary skills/experience. It’s all very learnable by anyone, and also there are definitely members of your community with those skills willing to help out. On that note, you really want the community running this thing more than the library admin. They know what they want/need.
Pay attention to the environmental and health consequences of this stuff EARLY ON, before you invest in something terrible. Use easily compostable materials like PHA and hempwood, or post-consumer recycled stuff like PETg from used soda bottles. Get into making/recycling your own materials if/when you can.
That’s what i can think of for now, hopefully that’s at all helpful.
