mcc

foone , vor einem Tag an Random Englisch

This is my favorite kind of floppy disk: hand written labels showing all the cool software they downloaded/copied on it.

mcc , vor einem Tag

@foone Falling Rocks Game… I bet this game rules :O

Ronflaix , vor 3 Tagen an Random Englisch

Hey @foone! It's not the GPL, but does this still count?

mcc , vor 3 Tagen

@Ronflaix @foone Wait so if you agree to a lorem ipsum license does that mean you are legally agreeing that nobody seeks pain for the sake of pain itself

foone , vor 12 Tagen an Random Englisch

So if fonts can contain embedded web assembly, how long until someone makes a font that runs doom?

mcc , vor 12 Tagen

@foone So if WHAT

mcc , vor 16 Tagen an Random Englisch

Me, stepping out of the Paris Metro: Aha, now that I am outdoors and the risk of COVID is reduced, I can remove my N95 mask and appear Socially Normative to the people around me.

Me, 3 seconds later, after removing my mask: Holy crap has the smog in Paris always been this bad

mcc OP , vor 16 Tagen

Early in COVID a part of me was like "well now we are wearing masks all the time, I'll have an excuse to not show people my ugly transsexual face". But then what I almost immediately discovered is that not only is my face extremely cute and the only reason I thought otherwise was body dysmorphia, but also my face is my most feminine feature, and when I hide it my "correctly gendered by strangers" rate plummets. Since I'm continuing to regularly mask, this has actually become a very large problem

mcc OP , vor 16 Tagen

Hey btw how do I say "Your city smells like somebody ate a pack of cloves then vomited it back up" in French

mcc , vor 23 Tagen an Random Englisch

A really startling number of the informational/advertisement stanchion screens at Charles De Gaulle are showing the Windows 10 login screen

That same desktop image of the cave. You know the one

mcc OP , vor 23 Tagen

I am in the France

mcc , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":

mcc OP , vor einem Monat

What I'm listening to today: "Wonder Panorama", Ippo Yamada (Dual YM2612 remix by rigid_atoms)

This is emulation. But I want you to imagine a monstrosity: Someone disassembles two Sega Genesis units, removes the sound chips, wires them to a breadboard and commands them to play at once. And then arranges a song from "Mega Man ZX" for it. This arrangement has an impossible-feeling sparkle to it. The millennial brain knows, at a deep level, a Genesis can't make this sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0aZ_oypvHg

mcc OP , vor 29 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "The Angler", Mateusz Wicher

A lo-fi, indistinctly unsettling hip hop jam getting a lot of mileage out of desktop equipment. Roland's 2021 refresh of their old 00s sampler, glitchy guitar and some noodling on the Volca Keys. The YouTube summary describes the genre as "Boom bap".

The voiceover sample is from an interview with surrealist horror artist Zdzisław Beksiński, so, extra content on this one for any Polish speakers reading this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f11FIys81lg

mcc OP , vor 28 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "4 (part 1)", MSK (Dusan Zatkovsky)

This is a FastTracker2 (DOS) song from 1996, one of a few dozen untitled tracks this artist composed around that time. Starts with bitcrushed ambiance and then rises into epic dance beats. I feel like this track crystalizes the moment in which it was created in an amazing way. Makes me think of dark screens with glowing text and spaceships rising in low earth orbit and other things that existed in 1996.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OOdGqr7EqQ

mcc OP , vor 27 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "Ghosts", 潘PAN

Taiwanese trap music. On this track Pan Wei Ju raps in Mandarin about generational trauma and domestic violence*, over booming, ominous beats produced by Clams Casino. Just a really grippingly chaotic piece of nightmare music

• It was only after I listened to this song a bunch of times I realized the official music video, linked below, has an English translation in the expanded YouTube description. It hit me really hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIedFzs-8s

mcc OP , vor 26 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "deep dark places", Frederick Aloysius Palowaski

To film this video the musician seems to have stuck his phone inside a modular synthesizer, revealing a cavern-like space beneath the loops of the cables. He then plays for you the ambiance of this dark space. Slow booming echoes of a tortured cymbal sample over meandering Karplus-Strong bass, a dream constantly on the verge of becoming a nightmare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMH4nTzuwjY

mcc OP , vor 25 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "Prague", David Prescott

This was recorded in Boston in 1987 and distributed exclusively on cassette tape (by an experimental music label in Germany named "Prion Tapes"). A symphony of noise, too loud to really be "ambient", this is an hour* of feedback and mysterious unknown electronics. Coil fans take note

• What I'm really trying to call your attention to here is "Side A" (the first 28 minutes) but side B does have its own nice prog vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMwKkn2xWI

mcc OP , vor 24 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "Cristal Baschet- Bass Euphone Song", yatsoosh

This dude built, from raw metal, an all-acoustic unamplified instrument based on the "Cristal Baschet" designed by the Baschet brothers in the 50s. The idea is you glide wet fingers on glass rods, and the vibrations are amplified by those giant metal plates. Having built the instrument the guy composed a song for it, which he also sings accompanying lyrics to, in Latin.

It's… incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqBuoT_0zM

mcc OP , vor 23 Tagen

What I'm listening to today: "Upside- Down VHS III", A Beautiful Burning World ft. FERRIFET

So if I understand this correctly, this is VHS footage where the tape's been removed from the cassette & re-inserted upside down, causing it to play back backward and all messed up. The artist sets this video to some noise ambiance from a previous collaboration and it hits the tone perfectly. I realize I describe a lot of music as "ominous" but oh my god this is super ominous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRGQER_XF00

foone , vor 26 Tagen an Random Englisch

a twitch streamer who has a 2D or 3D animated avatar on screen. They're writing C++ code with virtual inheritance

it's a vtuber vtable!

mcc , vor 25 Tagen

@foone I would go so far as to call it a veritable vtuber vtable