The DMZ

Rory Alsop

14:00

@kalina nope

:-)

kalina

obviously missing sarcasm markup

David Freitag

@kalina Too much boredom, not enough sarcasm detection.

kalina

zzzz

I would play watchdogs

but my room is currently a comfortable temperature

and I don't need that increasing by several degrees

David Freitag

God I would give a leg or two to stop my eyeballs from being on fire. It's like they are red because they are filled with lava, not ocular fluid.

Simon

I leave the chat for a few hours and when I come back, people have blown their load on the wall.

David Freitag

14:04

@Simon The wind blew. I couldn't help it.

Simon

@DavidFreitag Rookie mistake, always close the windows.

David Freitag

@Simon But I enjoy doing nude yoga with the blinds drawn...

AviD

@RoryAlsop oh yeah, we have those too. And cheesecake, of course.

well, I say cheesecake, but its more like a cheesy pudding pie.

Simon

@DavidFreitag Sounds like something I'd like to do too.

FEichinger

o.ô

David Freitag

14:06

@Simon It's liberating. Though i do have to admit it's a bit embarrassing when the neighbors get the magnifying glass out.

Simon

lulz

David Freitag

Which is generally followed by laughter...

AviD

@DavidFreitag WAIT. Are you Naked Ugly Guy from Friends??

Simon

@DavidFreitag Oh :(

David Freitag

@AviD No, I don't have any body hair. Only on top of my brain.

AviD

14:07

@DavidFreitag so, pubes then?

:15876774 hmm? No I was referring to the location.

David Freitag

@AviD Ah - no. I said on top of, not at the base of.

AviD

@DavidFreitag ... figure it out.

David Freitag

@AviD Yes, I got it. The point is there isn't any hair there either.

AviD

aaaand thats about as specific as I ever hope to discuss your genitalia.

@DavidFreitag you just said on top of your brain.... yknow what, nevermind.

kalina

@DavidFreitag I'm going to assume you meant telescope, since magnifying glass would already imply they're up close and intimate with you

Simon

14:10

@DavidFreitag Did you pre-order deadmau5's album?

Or do you actually buy music or you only stream it?

AviD

@kalina ok, so how were you going to word it?

kalina

but, if you're that comfortable admitting you're that tiny on the internet, then all the power to you

David Freitag

@Simon Not a fan :\

@kalina Miniscule.

Simon

@DavidFreitag Oh, I see. He was so great live though.

But I'm a big fan of his stuff anyway

David Freitag

@Simon Live is a totally different story. I just can't get into his music.

kalina

14:11

@AviD haha, not badly at all but in this place context is a weird thing and I'd have probably still got banned

Simon

Well, he has his own style.

AviD

@kalina nah, gowan, go for it.

kalina

no

David Freitag

@Simon Nah I find that it's too slow for me.

AviD

its not like youre going to offend me.

kalina

14:12

@Simon most of his stuff is templated

talk about milking it a little too hard

5

AviD

@DavidFreitag Live is fantastic. one of my all time favorite bands.

Simon

@kalina A template he created.

@DavidFreitag Yeah, I get what you mean.

kalina

bang out 5 albums of pretty much the same track with the occasional piece of genius

Terry Chia

You know what would be an interesting exercise? Monitor how long on average a particular comment stays on the star wall.

kalina

@TerryChia too easy to manipulate

Terry Chia

14:14

@kalina Hey, it doesn't have to be accurate. :P

Simon

@kalina Oh what now, every Hardstyle track sounds the same?

kalina

@Simon no

I'm talking about Deadmau5

Terry Chia

Oi, @Lighty, here's your chance too learn some Python and do data scraping.

kalina

and don't get me wrong, I like the occasional genius

but too much of his stuff is just the same thing in a different key in terms of arrangement

Lighty

@TerryChia where who what when?

Simon

14:15

@kalina Isn't that what music always is?

kalina

@Simon no

Terry Chia

2 mins ago, by Terry Chia

You know what would be an interesting exercise? Monitor how long on average a particular comment stays on the star wall.

kalina

I mean at some point in the past he wrote a track that he really liked teh sound of

and then basically used it as a template for a period until he made his next template

Iszi

Hey, it looks like Mr. "skimmed the documentation" isn't quite so useless after all.

I did some tests, and I found out that the documentation isn't entirely correct. A volume is deemed too small to be protected when its size is less than 55 MiB (57671680 bytes). After further research it turned out the value is hard-coded in the fveapi.dll library file. For what is worth, by using 58 MiB VHD containers, you could save up to 10% space: i.stack.imgur.com/Bunxx.png — and31415 4 hours ago

David Freitag

@Simon When you get down to it, it's all just your eardrum vibrating.

kalina

14:16

so entire albums consist of tracks with identical kick drums and identical percussion and identical bass sounds and identical riff sounds

Simon

@kalina Well, it's progressive house, you can't expect carefully engineered kicks, that's not what most people want to hear.

kalina

you're missing the point

Simon

I know, it has the same structure and template like you said.

I totally agree with that but he still has his own style which I like very much.

AviD

McDonalds also has it's own style, and it is also consistent.

kalina

unfortunately both styles are about the money

AviD

14:21

Deadmau5 is the McDonalds of crappy music.

Simon

@AviD Let's say that I'm looking more for someone who has his own way of producing in the music industry than food industry.

@AviD Oh god, what are you saying?

kalina

mass production is always at the expense of the driving passion that actually makes something worthwhile

AviD

@kalina @Simon this.

Simon

@kalina That is very true.

Terry Chia

@AviD Isn't that Justin Bieber?

AviD

14:21

And I am comparing Deadmau5 to McDonalds.

Simon

But at this point, he doesn't need to produce, he can live off what he made very easily.

So I'm not sure if money is his motivation.

Terry Chia

@Simon Money is good. More money is always better.

Simon

Also, hasn't it been a while since he released an album?

@TerryChia Blargh, I guess =\

AviD

@TerryChia you're right. Burger King, then - just as crappy but not as popular.

especially with the little kids.

kalina

@Simon you get addicted to being behind the decks

there's very few feelings like controlling a room full of people

Rory Alsop

14:23

@TerryChia not really

AviD

@kalina was that supposed to be an "e"....? ;-)

kalina

@AviD ...

David Freitag

@kalina A room full of people? More like a small city full of people...

Simon

@kalina It definitely must be something quite amazing.

kalina

@DavidFreitag scales are interchangeable

do you stop at 'room of 5000'

or do you go 'stadium of 25000'

or 'ibiza beach during sunset of 40000'

...

Simon

14:24

@kalina What's the deal with you and music producing, you get bored?

David Freitag

@kalina Yeah that's more like what i was thinking.

kalina

@Simon I perforated an ear drum

Simon

Ugh yeah I forgot, sorry.

kalina

right side, have 2 more weeks until I go back to the doctors

Simon

But eventually you'll be fine or?

kalina

14:25

well... 1 week 5 days

my right ear feels like I'm underwater

so like you know when you have water moving around in your ear

Simon

ew

yeah

kalina

you get momentary bursts where you can hear fine

I can hear fine, since I get moments where I can hear perfectly

but until everything else clears up I can't really hear all the time

Simon

But I meant like in general, how often are you producing?

kalina

the perforation is around the back edge of the ear drum so it should heal with minimal scar tissue or damage

@Simon I have 10 tracks each 95%+ finished sat waiting for me to make minor changes and then return them to the labels in question again

David Freitag

How did you perforate your ear drum?

kalina

14:27

and then I have 15 tracks that are 80%+ finished I'd reckon

and another 35 tracks that are about half done

Simon

@kalina That's what I wanted to hear, I didn't know this was happening.

kalina

and then another 50-150 ideas I've got saved down

and then 25 or so tracks I've been semi remote working on with other people

Simon

Is it a particular genre?

kalina

@Simon multiple

trance, hard trance, hardcore/freeform

...and a couple of pop tracks

Simon

Cool

kalina

14:29

which will end up being that horrible cheesy pop dance you end up hearing on the radio

Simon

ew

kalina

one of them has a "dirty" (in terms of pop) electro bass

Simon

I was listening to LP's album Meteora yesterday, I totally forgot they made a whole electro-like track.

FEichinger

@Terry Re starlist monitoring: I'll see if I can cook something up. Should be fairly easy to poll the list over time.

Rory Alsop

@Simon I keep being reminded of that album by my kids. They like all LP, so occasionally play that one

Simon

14:34

@RoryAlsop How old are your kids?

Terry Chia

@FEichinger Yeah, it should be a fairly simple web scraping exercise.

FEichinger

@Terry The only problem I can see is that the star list runs on some JS.

kalina

@Simon our age

since he's old enough to be our grandfather

FEichinger

Might be easier to write a userscript that phones home. Gotta look when I'm home.

Simon

@kalina lulz which would also explain why they know that album.

Rory Alsop

14:37

@Simon between 7 and 13, currently

Simon

@RoryAlsop REALLY? How the hell did they discover LP? That's sick.

kalina

well, like I said, @Simon's mental age

Simon

:(

David Freitag

@Simon Genetics.

Rory Alsop

but they also listen to proper music, they love System of a Down, Rammstein, Maiden, Zeppelin, Purple...

kalina

14:38

@RoryAlsop you said proper music

Simon

Proper music, haha.

Rory Alsop

I have about 23000 rock and metal songs in the car, and only about 800 non-metal

kalina

@RoryAlsop the fuck is all of this wire strumming nonsense

Rory Alsop

proper, you know, with instruments etc

David Freitag

@RoryAlsop You consider new LP to be metal? Heh.

Rory Alsop

14:39

@DavidFreitag no. II needed my sarcasm quotes

:-)

David Freitag

I could see an argument for old school LP though.

kalina

proper music... paul van dyk, system f/early ferry corsten, hybrid, darren tate, thrillseekers, etc etc

Rory Alsop

But hey, Metaltech is down with the kids - we have synths, proper garage beats and basslines

@kalina nope

kalina

@RoryAlsop wow

Rory Alsop

@kalina although I do own stuff from all of those...

FEichinger

14:40

@kalina Hush you and your weird "music".

David Freitag

@kalina Haven't heard of any of them.

kalina

@DavidFreitag you're joking right?

David Freitag

@kalina Nope.

FEichinger

This is the wrong audience for that, dear.

kalina

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Rory Alsop

14:41

@kalina You know Calvin Harris is from just up the road from me

kalina

I politely request you all listen to this track

Rory Alsop

@kalina unlikely to happen. Most of that genre annoys and enrages me

kalina

because not only will it make you realise I'm not talking about horrific to listen to music

David Freitag

@kalina But... Steven Fry...

kalina

@RoryAlsop LISTEN TO IT

FEichinger

14:41

I'm on mobile, so ... No.

kalina

I'm not Simon

I wouldn't insist you listen to something you wouldn't be able to appreciate

Simon

I DON'T EVER DO THAT

kalina

er... k

Orchestras and breakbeat!

I mean seriously

FEichinger

"I'm not Simon" is a very convincing argument.

David Freitag

@Simon I DON'T NEVER HAS BEN DID DONE 'DAT

Simon

14:42

Whenever I link music, it's suggestions

@DavidFreitag 'XACTLY

Rory Alsop

It was fun to meet 2 many DJ's - briefly, but meeting Trent Reznor is much cooler

kalina

I'm so disappointed and deeply saddened that you refuse to experience Hybrid

Simon

Can someone tell @FEichinger that joining the bandwagon doesn't make him cool in any way?

kalina

@FEichinger you're so cool

much cooler than that simon nobody

David Freitag

@kalina I'm an instant gratification kind of guy. How long is this intro going to take?

FEichinger

14:44

@kalina ... See, I never know if you're just mocking me again.

kalina

@DavidFreitag it's nearly ten minutes long

if I, with my immense ADD, can survive the intro, you will do fine

David Freitag

@kalina What does that have to do with the price of tea in china? I asked about the intro, not how long it was.

kalina

@DavidFreitag I don't know, the intro is an integral part of the buildup

it's important

probably 2 or 3 minutes long though

David Freitag

This is like the sophisticated parts of me trying to get together with the young hip parts. The former wants more cello, and the latter is getting bored.

FEichinger

Oh, after a look at the transcript ... Why, thank you, @kalina!

kalina

14:46

@FEichinger I never said anything

it wasn't me

blame Simon

Rory Alsop

ten minute intro = lost me

kalina

this is so sad

it's not even like I linked you some hard dance or something

Rory Alsop

for an ideal intro, see the live album version of Back in Black, by ACDC

FEichinger

Anyway, off the train ... Laters.

David Freitag

@kalina I have to say I was really hoping this would be very, very good. But it is not the case. BOOOOOOOORING.

Simon

14:47

A properly engineered intro turns me on.

Rory Alsop

@kalina To be honest, I do have quite a few of the PaulWay mixes - google them if you don't know him. Some of those are 45 minutes

you may like his stuff

kalina

@Simon this sentence makes no sense

David Freitag

@RoryAlsop Oooh perfect idea. Cleanse the pallet.

►

Simon

@kalina YOU LOOK LIKE A DAMN TURTLE

AviD

@RoryAlsop ah yes, that is good. I am glad the conversation turned back to music again, instead of 10 minute long ringtones.

kalina

14:49

and this is why I'll keep my success in said genres completely secret

David Freitag

@AviD It sounded like new-age elevator music

kalina

taking all of this quite personally and it's not even my track!

AviD

@kalina just because we dont enjoy your product, doesnt mean we couldnt be happy for your success.

David Freitag

@kalina :[

You said yourself that you have creations in more than one genre. Presumably they don't sound exactly like that.

AviD

much like how my wife has no idea what I do for work, but she appreciates and encourages it nonetheless.

Simon

14:51

@AviD Well duh, she likes the money.

AviD

@DavidFreitag this reminds me of that line from Blues Brothers: "Oh we like both kinds of music here - Country and Western".

kalina

@DavidFreitag if you can't like that, there is no way you could like any of the stuff I did

AviD

@Simon well, sure, but more about me enjoying what I do.

or not enjoying, depending on the client....

Simon

@AviD Good for you then, she's not a bitch.

David Freitag

@kalina You've posted a track in here from soundcloud before that i enjoyed pretty thoroughly. But it's not worth arguing with you since you are hell-bent on keeping your identity top secret.

AviD

14:52

@Simon duh. and shame on you for even considering it.

Thin ice, @Simon, paper thin ice.

Simon

@AviD There are bitches everywhere, you have to consider it.

AviD

well, sure - f.e. if we consider the female regulars in this room, it's about 50/50 ;-)

not counting @Simon, of course.

Simon

luuuulz

David Freitag

@AviD that's hardly fair considering the sample size.

AviD

@DavidFreitag it's not the size that counts....

David Freitag

14:55

@AviD If only that were true...

Terry Chia

@AviD You are forgetting about @Iszi.

AviD

also consider how far removed the median is from any of the individual measurements.

Simon

@TerryChia She's my favorite in this chat.

AviD

@TerryChia bla bla, verified.

Iszi

I need to make a new one of these. This is getting kind of old...

Simon

14:58

@Iszi You never showed up at the park last evening...

Iszi

@Simon Damnit, I told you we don't do that sports thing.

Simon

But daddy, if you don't lose weight you'll die.

kalina

@AviD ...

Rory Alsop

We have a sweepstake at work for the football world cup. Looks like I have Spain. Apparently that means I may make some money from football - who'd have thought it

Considering I didn't even know Scotland didn't play in the world cup, that's not bad

Iszi

@Simon We're all gonna die. That's life, kiddo. And shouldn't you be in school?

AviD

15:00

@Iszi perhaps something along these lines:

►

Simon

@Iszi Mommy said school is a waste of time.

Lucas Kauffman

nothing as good as a nice horsesteak with cream mushroom-pepper sauce

Terry Chia

@LucasKauffman except your mom

That line hasn't been used here for a while.

AviD

@TerryChia unlike your mom.

Simon

DAYUM

Terry Chia

15:07

@AviD hehe

Lucas Kauffman

Simon

@DavidFreitag Is this something you enjoy: play.google.com/music/m/Tajhony4qv7td4y2oxw7y7dkphu ?

Lucas Kauffman

David Freitag

@Simon It's interesting albeit really boring.

Simon

lulz

<3 hard dance

David Freitag

15:12

I don't really think that's hard dance... It's like hardstyle with all the melodies stripped out.

Simon

Pretty much what hard dance is hehe

David Freitag

I must say. I hate it.

Simon

Pretty much the same speed, kick doesn't seem to be as distorted though

It's a very progressive style

David Freitag

@Simon play.google.com/music/m/T5p4x22c2xq7dctnbdy7xvwg6iq

Instant dopamine every time.

Simon

Isn't that the one that Paolo sent us?

David Freitag

15:14

@Simon Yes

Simon

I'm surprised to see Atmozfears in there, he's a well-established HS producer.

David Freitag

That song and "Till it's over" are spectacular. Unsurprisingly both are Tristam.

Simon

I'm in a harder mood right now, unfortunately. Otherwise I'd go through the whole thing.

David Freitag

The rest of the album is kinda meh

That track is nice to crank the bass and drive on the freeway with the windows down.

I wonder what studying abroad programs might be available to me...

Rоry McCune

15:34

explore.org/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls

2

Bearcam (NNSFW)

TildalWave

@RоryMcCune NN?

Rоry McCune

@TildalWave yeah it's not not safe for work

AKA SFW, but that's just boring

TildalWave

@RоryMcCune do they ever feed them CEOs?

Rоry McCune

@TildalWave that could be sporting, start a group of CEOs at the top of the river and see who makes it to the bottom...

tell the CEO's it's a leadership test

TildalWave

that's what I'd call ROI

Rоry McCune

16:04

Terry Chia

@RоryMcCune That's an old one right? I think i saw it before.

On the topic of funny comics,

It always struck me as funny that the crisis in Thor 2 was waaaaaay bigger than the crisis in Avengers.

Rоry McCune

@TerryChia all these things are old I reckon, although I don't remember seeing that one before...

FEichinger

16:23

@Terry

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Interesting things in there.

David Freitag

So I learned something today.

If you keep rubbing your sore eyes even past the point where they are completely bloodshot, your tear ducts fill with blood.

Which subsequently makes you look like you are crying blood while at the sandwich shop waiting for your lunch.

@FEichinger Is that obfuscated on purpose?

FEichinger

@DavidFreitag I suppose. It's the code from the SE chat JS.

David Freitag

@FEichinger Oh, I thought that was yours.

Iszi

16:39

It never ceases to depress me just a little, when I get a "Famous Question" badge and yet it only has a score of 3.

3

Q: Game hangs at the main menu while checking for downloadable content?

I just found there's a handful of free DLCs for Mass Effect 3, including an Extended Cut that supposedly fixes some issues with the ending. So, of course I downloaded and installed them as soon as I could. However, after the DLCs were installed, the game would not load. It would get past the o...

David Freitag

haha github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy

> 100% COVERAGE TRUST ME IM A PROGRAMMER PROBABLY

Terry Chia

@DavidFreitag Already discussed.

Dec 10 '13 at 11:46, by Terry Chia

To the python programmers here (@tylerl, @LucasKauffman): This gave me a bit of a chuckle. https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy

David Freitag

@TerryChia Well, yes. But still.

TildalWave

16:55

Anyone ever watched Brookings webcasts? brookings.edu/events There's a few upcoming ones on NSA and I'm curious if they're shit or not?

Simon

"Still getting errors? Chain fuckit calls. This module is like violence: if it doesn't work, you just need more of it."

fuckit(fuckit('some_shitty_module'))

Holy fucking lulz.

Terry Chia

assert weight('your mom') > weight('a truck full of McDoubles')

assert 'that was a pretty sick burn'

assert 'false' # Good thing this isn't PHP

kalina

bleugh

FEichinger

17:16

That sums up the day, yes.

kalina

adding a helipad and a swimming pool to my yacht increases the price dramatically

FEichinger

17:41

Well, yes, that's to be expected.

kalina

17:54

I guess the best solution is to get one custom made

FEichinger

How exactly is that going to be cheaper?

kalina

who said anything about cheaper

I want a helipad and a swimming pool and it needs to be 59.9 meters in length or less so I can go to st barths

FEichinger

Ah, okay, so you just figured "If I have to pay that much, I might as well go all-in."

kalina

so if I'm going to end up having to spend that much

might as well go custom

get ethernet ports throughout and a satellite based internet connection

computer controlled fancies and all that

FEichinger

Right.

kalina

17:57

also, rainbow dash hull

FEichinger

...

sigh

kalina

it's to make it easier to see when landing the helicopter

honest

FEichinger

Suuure.

kalina

now I just need to learn to fly a helicopter

and...

how to er

whatever you do with a boat

drive?

navigate?

something like that

oh, and I need about 50 million euros

FEichinger

@kalina Well then, you know what you gotta do.

kalina

17:59

@FEichinger porn.

FEichinger

@kalina ... I was literally waiting for you to reply, with "Undress for the cameras" typed up.

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