i do think sports have educational value, teaching teamwork and discipline and health. i learned more from cross country and marching band versus everything else combined. but i definitely agree about the ridiculous funding disparity, though, no extracurricular should be getting more funding than core classes

my hot take is that sports and bathrooms shouldn't be gendered. i understand the "seperate but equal" clause doesn't include gender, but it should, given the better funding and accomodation boys sports get over all but the best girls teams. siloing off genders has catastrophic cultural consequences- "locker room talk" shouldn't and wouldn't exist otherwise, plus the whole trans rights thing that shouldn't and wouldn't be an issue

i also grew up playing clarinet. the fact that it overblows a 12th makes it really hard to see patterns, because the fingerings are different for every note in every octave, without getting into the trill keys

i still predominantly play winds, but i "think" in piano because that's what i learned theory on. it's kinda the lingua franca because it's built around western theory, what with the white keys being the naturals. can't play for shit though!

someday i'd like to get a harmonetta because the way notes are laid out makes stacking thirds into chords easy. it's a shame they never really took off

the classic afterparty where they go to a diner and torture the other patrons by singing but instead of a diner it's a seedy bar and instead of the musical torture they pull dishonorable customers limb from limb

klingon marching band was a thing but once the practice of stabbing anyone who missed their dot came into vogue there weren't any klongon band kids left

sound engineer into retrocomputing... do you have a favorite sound chip?

should've ported it to the Coleco Adam, gonna be real hard to type with just a number pad

i harp on this a lot but Enterprise's Cogenitor is a deeply distriburing episode that everyone involved with should be ashamed of

For me, the cutoff is with the introduction of HDMI. The Wii is the final retro console, and the 360 and Playstation despite being concurrent with the Wii are the start of the second age. The video format isn't actually the cause so much as it's emblemic- the Wii was one last hurrah for colorful arcade-y games while the PS360 really calcified the modern cinematic RPG FPS model that rules AAA single-player games to this day. That was also the first generation where nostalgia became a moneymaker, with things like the wiiware Mega Man games. Before that, nods to classic games weren't uncommon, but this was the start of games whose entire point was to be a nod

Neil Peart and Keith Moon come to you in a dream. Your astral body will be tested far beyond the drumming limits of your corporeal body. Upon success, you will ascend to the next level of existence. It is better that you do not know what happens when you fail.

lawn guylanders often tawk in a way that, like a dawg whistle, can only be heard by other lawn guylanders. you really have to listen for it, it's subtle!

Not so much a position as preferences and experiences, but the words people use to describe elements of music can often give away what they either enjoy or play. If you call a rhythm a beat, you're probably into electronic or hip hop. If you refer to a song's chord progression as "the changes," you must like jazz. If you use Italian words (outside of Italy I guess!) to talk about tempo and dynamics, you were either in an orchestra or fondly remember that one time at band camp. If a phrase is a "strain," you should get your lungs checked out. If the bridge is the "middle eight," get a colonoscopy while you're at it.

AI isn't the problem on its own

I can accept a plagiarism machine that is exaberatting multiple international crises, but I draw the line at too many posts on a subreddit!

like c'mon, i'm also frustrated at what's going on in retro dev communities, but that's small potatoes compared to just about everything else concerning LLMs

that explains a lot...

my first thought was someone had claimed to disprove that bread becomes moldy! like alright wise guy explain green bread

the Genesis/Mega Drive Super Hang-On port runs at a staggering 15 frames per second. when someone else manages to make a game as good as that, we can worry about a 16th frame

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OUTTA THE MOURGE

I think the dissonance about speed limits is why there are so many awful drivers, at least in my neck of the woods. You go through drivers ed and you're trained to go exactly the speed limit in all circumstances, and then you get let loose and find out on some highways, driving under the speed limit is so slow compared to the actual rate of traffic that doing so would be dangerous. People learn that and figure that all of the rules of the road are stupid and bad and you have a country of awful drivers

it doesn't help that, as another commenter mentioned, you can be ticketed for not moving with the flow of traffic. follow the law, and you're still breaking the law! plus all the asshole drivers who will get right up on your rear bumper if they decide you aren't going fast enough. damned if you do, damned if you don't! although ultimately, going slower is almost always the better choice from a safety standpoint because of that whole "physics" thing

After Data got the emotion chip, he had to take a few days off because his spontaneous laughter at jokes from years ago was becoming disruptive on the bridge

I would steer clear of Enterprise in general because the show really hinges on familiarity with TOS and/or TNG, but i would doubly stay away from Cogenitor. If that was my first Trek episode, it certainly would have been my last

I'd echo hayvan that TOS "Trouble with Tribbles" is a safe bet, very silly on the surface but has all the trappings of good Trek. if that (or TOS in general) is too cheesy, SNW "Ad Astra Per Aspera" is more modern and more serious episode that's still very representative of Trek as a whole

Well in some forms of Platonism at least, the creator god and the ultimate God are two different beings specifically because the ultimate God is seen as entirely stationary, always Being and never Becoming, hence the need for a lower divinity who is capable of activity