Making jam is trivial.

You boil the fruit, and if it’s not gummy enough, you add pectin.

Done, jam.

Basically the very thing that is wrong with democratic social media, summed up in 2 comments.

The way I have done it for the last several years and it has brought me amazing new dimensions of sound experience…

Find an artist that you like, look them up and find out who produced the album and other group members.

Then do a little Wiki research into the discography and solo work of each of those performers or producers.

Follow up on interesting threads, and you’ll be exposed to all kinds of amazing new stuff.

Although I’m definitely out of this listening phase now, an example that worked for me was I got very obsessed with Talking Heads band. Looked them up and found out that Brian Eno produced them.

Started to notice from other bands I looked up that Brian Eno was mysteriously involved in so many of them.

Started to look into all the bands that Brian Eno produced and worked with over the years, and then started to look into the music of Brian Eno.

Starts to give you a realization that the true talent in a band is generally not the performers, but rather the veterans with decades of experienced who guide them.

Another example is Buckethead, started to see this dude buckethead appearing on literally hundreds of different album credits! Did a lot of research into the guy and the various bands he’s worked with, and that opened hundreds of new experiences to me.

This comment is getting a little outside of my original point, which is to actually do some research on your own, go out and find the lesser-known works of artists you love.

Basically just follow different Wikipedia links, and then when you find an album in a discography that you think might be interesting, look it up.

Good Lord! Thank you for the warning! On lowest audible phone volume it blew me away lol

What is that and why does it exist??

Blocked

They wanted a bribe dude.

You’re thick.

Over and over again I point out that people like you are the problem with this platform.

Everybody wants meaningful dialogue, but then YOU show up.

You’re nothing but a selfish vandal.

Would you prefer I say I detest a person but I have no justification?

He’s an immature, unfunny, limited-talent, zero charm hack.

He does not deserve a career in film.

We’re a British colony dude.

The best defense against sealioning is to give people more credit than they want and to believe they are smarter than they let on. “Nobody could be this dumb and if they are, it’s fruitless to attempt dialogue” should always be on ones mind.

So Google shuts you out of their rankings and results to sell this. Fuck you.

What needs to happen is the underlying direct feed path needs to still exist, but a modernized connector to bridge it. Because you are right, people don’t understand just how much area the connector port requires.

I have no idea what it takes to bring such a thing to market, but I know that from a hardware perspective you’re looking at two wires.

Come on people don’t spoil sport this, it was funny!

Remember when Google+ was the future?

No and you can see from my comment history that once .ee shuts down I’m gone. This place is just idiotville and I don’t consider myself one of you.

Lemmy was architected by people whose philosophical intentions are out of alignment with the software they cloned.

That system was designed to invite as many idiots as possible, to bait as much engagement as possible, with virtually no controls on quality or intelligence.

Well congratulations Lemmy, you’ve made the next Reddit. There’s no reason to be here, it’s just a pile of morons for the most part.

PEBKAC

This old game called Squarez Deluxe.

I know it’s old, I know it has low resolution, I know it doesn’t meet the standard of modern gaming, but it’s (in my view obviously) the best shape packing game ever made.

Like destroys Tetris… Which can’t even hold a candle to this game. Not to say that Tetris is a bad game, it’s a brilliant game!

I just think Squarez Deluxe takes it to the next level and gives so much room for player creativity.

The basic just is that you have a play field, and with a short timer for each, you are given blocks which can be various 9x9 shapes that you rotate and move freely on the grid and place at will.

All of the complexity comes from the special blocks which can have positive, negative, or in between effects.

Your positive tools are scarce, but if you use them creatively and with forward probabilistic thinking, you can have amazing, hour-long sessions that you cannot look away from.

Some of the special blocks are goo traps that explode so shapes that pass by get stuck. Some are acid that let you destroy blocks at will and you can form your pieces into very unique shapes that tuck in exactly where you need them.

There are bombs, mines, missiles, playfield expanders/contractors, etc.

The first two modes get you acquainted with the mechanics, but Extreme Mode is where the game is played.

The original developer is a cool dude and he changed it to freeware so you can grab DOSBox and hit myabandonware or archive and be playing like in minutes.

Most of the people who watch Nickelodeon don’t know where it came from either.