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AC13 - Take me down / Scanning Pages (EP)

Area 21 - Own The Night

Audioscribe - Hold You

BitBird - Gouldian Finch 4 (Comp)

Blackcode, Robbie Mendez, Jordan Grace - Without You

Blanke - Blackout

Breathe Carolina & SMACK ft. Titus - Get Back

Chapter & Verse - Don't mind me

Cheat Codes - Hellraisers, pt.2

Cloverdale - TBA (EP)

Cripplingg x Invoy x Danno x Vonranz - The Holy Quartet

Dabin - Between Broken (Album)

Darren After - Find My Way

Dexter King - Read your Lips

Disclosure - DJ KICKS (Album)

DJ Ride - ID

Don Diablo - Cheque

Donkong - The Void

Duskee & Disrupta - Blue Moon

EDC Las Vegas 2021 (Compilation)

Forces, Bobby Neon - Stardust

gardenstate - Inspirations (Album)

Grafix - Underground

Gydra - Wipe (Skantia Remix)

Haliene - Glass Heart (Craig Connelly Remix)

Heatbeat, Corti Organ - Doctor Chaos

Henry Fong - Lights out

High Stakes & Mason Flint - Wind It Up

ILLENIUM - Change A Thing (feat. 30 Seconds to Mars)

Kyau & Albert - Runaway Girl (Beatsole Remix)

Kygo - Undeniable ft X Ambassadors

Level Up - Illusionism

Louis the Child - Euphoria (EP)

Luzcid - Magic (EP)

Matoma, Steve Garrigan - Never Surrender

Mat Zo, The Mary Nixons, The Knocks - Better Now

Mike Williams ft. Xillions - Harmony

Norni - Angels

PhaseOne - The Risen (EP)

Protocol Lab: ADE 2021 (Compilation)

Purple Disco Machine - Exotica (Album)

Quintino, Emie - In My Head

R.O - Exodus (EP)

Roman Messer - Can You Feel The Love

Sam Allan - Regressive

Sam Feldt - Call on me

Sandro Silva, Olly James - Founding Fathers

Seven Lions & Andrew Bayer - Returning To You (Remixes)

Skylark - Night Call

Soulji & Braev - Shutter

Sound Quelle - Lisianthus

Spada - Terra Promessa

Square Perception - Extraterrestrial (EP)

Steve Aoki - End of the World

SVDDEN DEATH - Transmutation Sequence

Trampa - Disrespect: Remixes (LP)

Welcome Records - Little Comp Of Horrors Vol. 3 (Comp)

Whales - Locked Away

XCRPT - Lost

Yakz - On The Run (EP)

Yves V - Faith

Zeppho - Nobody else

The artistry we need (photo from Juniper Books)

I finished the Last Wish and I have a grievance.

I had to muddle through these vignettes because the pacing and prose were just too clunky. It was so bad I felt like the original material might just be one of the rare cases in storytelling were the vision needs to be brought to life in a visual medium. But now I know that's not the case. The real issue is the translation.

I'm a literature major and I've never been able to ply the raison d'etre of my mountain of debt until now. So people, hear me. Translation is an art that sits at the right hand of authorship. Translating a work of writing -- with all the vernacular, turns of phrase, and situational irony / tension / humor / emotion that stem from the impact of language -- is a job that requires three things:

1. Native-speaker level comprehension of the original language
2. Creative-writing aptitude in the non-original language
3. Strong intuition of the author's creative intent

The reason you need these three things is sometimes you have to exercise poetic license for cadence and meaning to bridge different grammatical rulesets. You have to decide that writing something slightly different than the literal translation of the original is the best way to convey the emotion and artistry of the original. A dictionary translation, particularly from such genealogically disparate languages as English and Polish, gives you crap.

I don't want to detract from the work that went into translating the series English version we have now, but something(s) on that list is/are obviously missing.

EDITED AFTER ORIGINAL POST

For anyone who wonders how I came to that conclusion, a couple things. I've translated works of rhetoric and fiction from Russian and Latin in my studies, and have a lot of experience with the stilted tone that results from strictly literal translation, which I picked up frequently when reading the Last Wish.

As for examples from the Witcher translations themselves, I originally included the side-by-side translations of a Lady in the Lake passage from a Quora post. I kept the link in this post, but I'm removing the translations because the passage the post author claimed to be the English translation isn't what actually appears in Lady of the Lake (thanks coldcynic and Small_Masterpiece for catching that). The ac

I'm almost positive I've found Bonnie and figured out Golden Freddy's role in this game... but first:

For context here is my theory on the main 3 characters: https://www.reddit.com/r/GameTheorists/comments/rlms0t/fnaf_security_breach_story_solved_maybe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

TL;DR: Henry is Bonnie, Golden Freddy is Princess Quest. Henry left the message for Gregory in the SL room. Cassidy kills Afton at the end of PQ3.

1. Bonnie

OKAY! "Swag, buddy" I hear you say, "We datamined the heck out of SB, there is no Bonnie model!"

Yes there isn't, in fact there is only one place where you can see a trace of Bonnie that isn't in the logs:

Sister Location Room Code

This is a code hidden in a secret room where you can play some audio tapes late in the game. The code has been deciphered by several amazing theorists and analyzed by yours truly.

>break and mend i built the breaththey hunt now drawn to life

The Code Author here states that they are the ones who built the animatronics, whom now hunt for living beings / souls / children. Remember, only one person built the original animatronics (Henry), we will get back to that.

>not real still meand frit and fraught with thoughtand zest and gest no blunt woes

This section is written in broken grammer, so let me clean it up a bit first."I'm not real anymore, but I am still me. Though, I am frit and frought with my thoughts, I remain filled with zest, gest, and carry no blunt woes."The Author is relaying to the recipient of the message the possibility that the Author may no longer be human, but still themself. They then go on to posit a duality of their concsiousness. One side being filled with fear and anxiety and the other having not a care in the world. (This to me sounds like a troubled human soul, and the AI of a happy go lucky rabbit animatronic)

>dodge duck flash shoot crawl runcrush the vile band

These are instructions for the reader, the basic tenets of Security Breach gameplay. As Gregory we dodge animatronics, duck and hide from threats, flash our camera, shoot the lazer gun, crawl through vents (lmao amogus sus), and run through the halls. As Gregory we also defeat the

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

Made a point of not including anything thats gonna get covered next year because its from a director thats been covered on this podcast.

Killers of the Flower Moon - Dir. Martin Scorsese. Based on a true story, members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major FBI investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Jesse Plemons. Made with a staggering $200 million budget.

The Northman - Dir. Robert Eggers. According to Focus Features, The Northman is an epic revenge thriller, that explores how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Björk, and Willem Dafoe. Budget has been listed at $60 million which is significantly larger than anything Eggers has worked with.

Babylon - Dir Damien Chazelle. Set in Hollywood during the transition from silent films to talkies, focusing on a mixture of historical and fictional characters. It has an immense ensemble cast including Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Tobey Maguire, Katherine Waterston, Spike Jonze, Olivia Wilde, and Samara Weaving. Its insane and expensive cast makes it a clear blank check.

Nope - Dir. Jordan Peele. Not much is known other than its a horror film that stars Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Steven Yeun.

Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre - Dir. Guy Ritchie. Super spy Orson Fortune and his team of top operatives recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star, Danny Francesco, to help them on an undercover mission to stop billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds from selling a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order. Stars Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, and Hugh Grant.

White Noise - Dir. Noah Baumbach. Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by "the Airborne Toxic Event", a cataclysmic train accident that casts chemical waste over his town. It stars Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle

Don't Worry Darling - Dir. Olivia Wilde. An unhappy housewife in the 1950s discovers a disturbing truth, while her loving husband hides a dark secret. Stars Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, and Gemma Chan.

Bullet Train - Dir. David Leitch. Five assassins find themselves on a Japanese bullet train, realizing that their individual assignments are a

They’re on standbi

The first week of August, after watching a couple movies that had been on my watchlist for a while but I hadn’t seen, I decided that, given how many streaming services I subscribe to and how many movies had been sitting on my watchlist for far too long, I would watch at least one movie I hadn’t seen before every single day until end of the month and rate/rank them. Full disclosure, I liked pretty much everything on my list besides the bottom 2 films. I didn’t seek out films I didn’t think I’d like. And, obviously, these rankings are just my personal opinions, which is why I separated my rating by personal feelings and filmmaking quality. Ranking is determined entirely by personal rating however.

In August, I watched…

Chinatown (1974) (8/7/21) Dir. Roman Polanski Jack Nicholson Faye Dunaway John Huston Screenplay by Robert Towne Produced by Robert Evans Distribution by Warner Bros. Personal Rating - 8.5/10 Filmmaking Quality - 9/10

The Exorcist (1973) (8/7/21) Dir. William Friedkin Ellen Burstyn Jason Miller Linda Blair Max Von Sydow Screenplay by William Peter Blatty Produced by William Peter Blatty Distribution by Warner Bros. Personal Rating - 8/10 Filmmaking Quality - 9.5/10

Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961) (8/9/21) Dir. Blake Edwards Audrey Hepburn George Peppard Patricia Neal Martin Balsam Buddy Ebsen Mickey Rooney Screenplay by George Axelrod Produced by Richard Shepard & Martin Jurow Distribution by Paramount Pictures Personal Rating - 9/10 Filmmaking Quality - 8/10

The Big Lebowski (1998) (8/11/21) Dir. Joel Coen Jeff Bridges John Goodman David Hiddelston Julianne Moore Philip Seymour Hoffman Steve Buscemi Screenplay by Joel & Ethan Coen Produced by Ethan Coen Distribution by Gramercy Pictures Personal Rating - 9/10 Filmmaking Quality - 9/10

Bonnie & Clyde (1967) (8/12/21) Dir. Arthur Penn Faye Dunaway Warren Beatty Michael J. Pollan Gene Hackman Estelle Parsons Gene Wilder Screenplay by David Newman & Robert Benton Produced by Warren Beatty Distribution by Warner Bros. Personal Rating - 8/10 Filmmaking Quality - 8/10

The Graduate (1967) (8/13/21) Dir. Mike Nichols Dustin Hoffman Anne Bancroft Katharine Ross Screenplay by Buck Henry & Calder Willingham Produced by Lawrence Truman Distribution by Embassy Pictures Personal Rating - 9.5/10 Filmmaking Quality - 10/10

Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967) (8/14/21) Dir. Stanley Kramer Spencer Tracy Sidney Poitier Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Roy Gle

Pilot on me!!

Hi folks, today marks exactly one year since I took the plunge and bought the suite version of Ableton Live.

I’ve seen a lot of posts on this and other subs recently saying ‘where do I start?’, so here’s my take: the most useful things I’ve learned in terms of gear, tutorials, workflow and mindset.

FWIW, after quite a lot of experimentation I seem to have ended up mostly making something close to melodic techno / organic house, but hopefully this info will be useful to beginners in any electronic genre. For reference, the amount I've time I've put in is about 4 focused hours a day, 5 or 6 days a week.

GEAR

Hardware:

Macbook Pro 2014 model i7 16GB

• Got this second hand on eBay in 2019 and it still works perfectly. I’m never leaving Apple now, even if it eventually breaks)

KRK Rokit 5 x2

• Bought these years ago. Still going well, no complaints but nothing to compare them to.

Novation Launchkey Mini

• Perfect size for limited desk space. Two octaves, works perfectly, though encoders and keys will be tricky for anyone with big fingers.

Audio Technica ATH m50x

• Settled on these after trying many others (put down your pitchforks - this is just my opinion and reasoning):
• Beyerdynamic DT770s (v comfortable, weak low end I thought, contrary to what a lot of people say. Tricky for mixing).
• Beyerdynamic DT880s (same as above).
• Sennheiser HD280s (reasonable sound but insanely tight. Hard avoid). Overall the ATH m50x is a good blend of everything. Mixes translate well. Random Acer monitor Goes above laptop. Dual screening is pretty essential I think.

That’s it. No musical hardware whatsoever for the time being. The reason for this was that I wanted to learn the software instruments in Ableton as well as I could first and I’ve still got a long way to go with this. However, soon I am going to invest in at least one Novation Launch Control for better midi control and also possibly a live mixing setup.

Software essentials:

Ableton Live Suite

• If you want to be semi-serious about things and can afford the extra cash, just get Suite, seriously. It’s worth it for all the additional plugins alone.

Serum

• I actually prefer using this to any of Ableton’s synths. It features in tons of tutorials and makes things easy to understand visually.

SPAN Free spectrum analyser for comparing mix to reference tracks.

Software nice to have:

OTT

• Free Multiband compressor. Makes things sound good when used sparin

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Although the range of options at TE has increased this year, the same narrative continues, where even "proven" TE1 commodities like T.J. Hockenson and Mike Gesicki can easily blank with 0's in the same week. Here are the following reasons why Dan Arnold is a GEM inside the barren TE landscape, and can easily take you to the promised land of the championship. Trade for him if you need help at TE, and if he is somehow still on your waivers, be ready to spend at least 30-40% on him, maybe more.

1. TARGET SHARE

Jacksonville don't necessarily have a bad receiving core. Marvin Jones and Laviska Shenault are better options out wide than many teams have, and James Robinson is a very underrated pass-catcher out of the backfield. However, Urban Meyer's recent tactical changes have meant a lot of shorter dig routes to other receivers. Trevor Lawrence's yards/attempt has decreased 8.5 y/a to 4.5 y/a in recent weeks, benefitting slot receivers such as Jamal Agnew, and especially the tight-end, Dan Arnold.

Target Share of Jacksonville Jaguars after WEEK 5

At this moment, if you are somehow persisting with Marvin Jones or Laviska Shenault, there is no reason you shouldn't at least try a few weeks of Dan Arnold.

2. TE RANKINGS

Since Dan Arnold has been acclimated to the Jaguars Offense and formed a rapport with Trevor Lawrence, he has been well and truly a TE1 since then, and is currently TE7 from weeks 5-10. (Minimum sample size required: 5 games, so haven't included Kittle).

TE PPR RANKINGS FROM WEEKS 5-10 (After Arnold first got consistent snaps)

3. LOW TD DEPENDENCY

0%. Okay, yes I know this is a given... he hasn't scored a touchdown yet for the season. BUT, what is important is that he has had a few looks in the redzone, except Trevor hasn't quite been able to get it to him yet. Unfortunately for shareholders of Jags receivers, Urban Meyer has seemed to put emphasis on James Robinson in the redzone, and for good reason too, with Robinson getting into the endzone 6 times in his last six games played. However, with Dan Arnold's target share and high redzone snap count (61%), he's bound to get into the end-zone sooner or later once Trevor builds further

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

So I'm always looking books like this, and I see threads asking for this same thing all the time. I figured I would make a list of the ones I know about and offer it to you all.

I'm a habitual non-finisher of book series, and it's been a while since I read many of these so there are a lot of question marks when I didn't get to the end or if I couldn't remember, but I did the best I could.

The document is in an Google spreadsheet that is available for all to comment, but I'll also include a list below. If anyone wants to add more or make edits shoot me a PM and I'll allow you to edit the doc.

Here is the Google Sheets link

Other than Title and Author, here are the categories:

• Primary/Secondary Genre: I made my best guess, and didn't stick to officially recognized genres. It's good enough I think.

• POV: Male or Dual POV. This is straight forward. Occasionally I don't remember and sometimes it's not clear. There may be a few minor POVs in some of these, but except for a few cases, none of these are multi POV stories with hundreds of characters (Dune and Cradle perhaps being the biggest exceptions).

• Romance: 1 to 5 rating for how much romance is in each story. 5: the romance is the main plot. 4: the romance is core to the main plot. 3: the romance is one of the major plots 2: the romance is a subplot 1: token romance or minor romance very late in the series

• HEA aka Happily Ever After: Does the couple end up together and (apparently) live happily ever after at the end of the book/series? As I said I struggle to finish books, so maybe help me out a little here. I left a lot blank

• Non-Human: Are either of the love interests non human? If so which one. I list the race in the "Notes" section when necessary

• LGBTQ: As requested, I added a column that states which books in a series feature an LGBTQ main couple. Right now it's just 1 book and reads "book 3 M/M". You could presumably do M/NB or something else if necessary. Depending on how many/if any more get added, I might create a new tab for it. Anyway, this works for now.

• Dual Narration: Is there an audiobook version where the male and female have different voice actors?

Here's the list with just titles and authors:

• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

• Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

• Armada - Ernest Cline

• Red Rising - Pierce Brown

• Iron Druid Chron

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

When I got home, they were still there.

Mexico 1 - 1 Canada

Mexico scorers: Jorge Sánchez (21')

Canada scorers: Jonathan Osorio (42')

Venue: Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico

Referee: Ismael Cornejo (El Salvador)

Mexico:

Manager: Tata Martino (Argentina)

Canada:

If not for The Flower Men, Lekington would be the dullest village in all of England. There is not a single florist’s shop, every garden contains nothing more colourful than grass, and the residents seem to hate beauty in all its forms. Every day I am surprised and humbled by the fact I escaped their attempts to assimilate me into their drab mass. I fear that one day, it may take me by surprise unless I discover what exactly protected me.

The factor could neither be in my genes nor my upbringing. My parents were obscenely typical; my father David worked as an accountant and spent his evenings watching sport. Sometimes he would work on little wooden sculptures and this itself was considered a very radical hobby. So much so that over the years I noticed he began to only work on his sculptures when no-one was around and then not at all by the time I was entering adolescence.

My mother Eve was even more ordinary. She worked at a call centre, knitted in her spare time, and invited the neighbours around once a week on a Saturday for drinks and pleasant conversation. Conversation so pleasant and inoffensive that if you listened for too long, you'd soon forget there was anything more to life than dog walks and evening television. I knew the danger of listening too closely and tuned the adults out to the best of my ability; this was fine since they had no interest in what children thought anyway, so I was not expected to hear them. Usually, I hid away in my room, working out ways around the parental blocks on the internet so that I could access sites I was not meant to see.

Once, when I was eight, it was raining heavily. The rain developed into a storm, and I lost access to the internet. Boredom can motivate us to do things we never imagined before, and so I left my room. I slipped into the lounge without the adults noticing and settled into a dark corner where they could ignore me.

To my surprise, they were for once discussing something interesting; The Flower Men.

Henry Weaver was new to town and wanted to go home. He had a labrador that he know would be scared by the storm and he didn't want her to make as mess of his house. But the older residents, including my parents, warned him. “The Flower Man comes out on nights like these,” mother said. “You best wait until it lets up. David can even drive you back.”

With a little laugh Henry said, “I saw the plaque, but come on Eve, Belle is probably in a right panic.” Henry strode towards his coat.

With an urgency

Hi folks, today marks exactly one year since I took the plunge and bought the suite version of Ableton Live.

I’ve seen a lot of posts on this and other subs recently saying ‘where do I start?’, so here’s my take: the most useful things I’ve learned in terms of gear, tutorials, workflow and mindset.

FWIW, after quite a lot of experimentation I seem to have ended up mostly making something close to melodic techno / organic house, but hopefully this info will be useful to beginners in any electronic genre. For reference, the amount I've time I've put in is about 4 focused hours a day, 5 or 6 days a week.

GEAR

Hardware:

Macbook Pro 2014 model i7 16GB

• Got this second hand on eBay in 2019 and it still works perfectly. I’m never leaving Apple now, even if it eventually breaks)

KRK Rokit 5 x2

• Bought these years ago. Still going well, no complaints but nothing to compare them to.

Novation Launchkey Mini

• Perfect size for limited desk space. Two octaves, works perfectly, though encoders and keys will be tricky for anyone with big fingers.

Audio Technica ATH m50x

• Settled on these after trying many others:
• Beyerdynamic DT770s (v comfortable, annoyingly weak low end I thought, contrary to what a lot of people say. V tricky for mixing).
• Beyerdynamic DT880s (same as above).
• Sennheiser HD280s (reasonable sound but insanely tight. Hard avoid). Overall the ATH m50x is a good blend of everything. Can produce and check mixes with ease. Random Acer monitor Goes above laptop. Dual screening is pretty essential I think.

That’s it. No musical hardware whatsoever for the time being. The reason for this was that I wanted to learn the software instruments in Ableton as well as I could first and I’ve still got a long way to go with this. However, soon I am going to invest in at least one Novation Launch Control for better midi control and also possibly a live mixing setup.

Software essentials:

Ableton Live Suite

• If you want to be semi-serious about things and can afford the extra cash, just get Suite, seriously. It’s worth it for all the additional plugins alone.

Serum

• I actually prefer using this to any of Ableton’s synths. It features in tons of tutorials and makes things easy to understand visually.

SPAN Free spectrum analyser for comparing mix to reference tracks.

Software nice to have:

OTT

• Free Multiband compressor. Makes things sound good when used sparingly (or not).

**Valhalla reve