Ozoneocean wrote:

elektro wrote:
Plain Jane (Incomplete Mix)

I'll try and give it a listen later man

If you're interested in anything else, I made a playlist of all the acoustic demos I recorded. Once I get a soundhole pickup, I plan on making more polished versions of these songs.
Buskers - Self-titled (Demos)

bravo1102 wrote:

And I now wonder wht the next big current thing is going to be. Seems like this Ukraine thing doesn't really do the job. We need something new, so all good boys ang girls can use it in their avatars. What do you think it's going to be?

Guns. It's already started on Twitter.
Pretty soon user names will just be rainbow and Ukrainian flags, BLM and ban guns with no room for anything else.

It's gonna be SOLAR FLARES

but they won't actually be solar flares and we won't get to talk about them for long.

elektro wrote:
Buskers - Self-titled (Demos)

That's really good! Very 1970s sound to it all :D

lothar wrote:
It's gonna be SOLAR FLARES

I wanna wear a pair of solar flares…

Pair of solar flares? Isn't that
wide bell bottom pants made of iridescent material?
Go best with a big Afro wig and high heel roller skates. Pure 1970s disco roller boogie craze. :D

bravo1102 wrote:
Pair of solar flares? Isn't that
wide bell bottom pants made of iridescent material?
Go best with a big Afro wig and high heel roller skates. Pure 1970s disco roller boogie craze. :D

Exactly the outfit I had in mind :D

I wear as a badge of honor the fact I was thrown out of a disco in the seventies. Before I even got from the door to the bar.

Lol

I was kicked out of a bar in the 90s for wearing a Pop will eat itself Tshirt. It seemed logical at the time. Smh

lothar wrote:
Lol

I was kicked out of a bar in the 90s for wearing a Pop will eat itself Tshirt. It seemed logical at the time. Smh

I guess they weren't poppies fans in that bar then. I just posted a picture of me wear a pwei t shirt in the photos thread.

Hii everyone! I hope everyone is well, I had a turbulent half-year….mostly bad though. How is everybody?

I've been working on this for the last week, and finished recording all the parts last night. Let me know if the mix and levels need further tweaking.
Uvalde (Twenty-One) - Rough Mix

elektro wrote:
I've been working on this for the last week, and finished recording all the parts last night. Let me know if the mix and levels need further tweaking.
Uvalde (Twenty-One) - Rough Mix

I'll have a look.

I didn't understand that T-Shirt thing at all haha, was that a reference?

The other day my mum told me about a stupid quote someone shared on Facebook something about “The key to anger is acceptance”, and she was telling me how dunmb it was.

I really brought him how banal social communication over FB could become- people sharing and resharing anodyne, nonsensical quotes and memes with zero context, application, reason, or personal input of their own. Like a bunch of monkeys all imitating each other over and over.

The net used to be about individuality and creativity, but now a good portion of it has gone over to ultra conformity. Sure, sometimes people actually create memes but generally they don't do much more than slightly change an existing format.
I've always found it to be exasperatingly banal.

Like others I found myself occasionally, grudgingly sharing those too. The system encourages it.

I've actually never even liked the trope of characters that share quotes to show how smart they are… quoting Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon… Unless it has a context and it really seriously FITS the situation then STFU.

/rant

The t shirt thing, yeah if you know you know.

Haha

Okay, pop will eat itself, late 80s early 90s rock rap dance fusion with often daft lyrics and iconic album covers and t shirts. It was said at some point on the 90s they sold more t shirts than records. Also one of their more famous songs was “can U dig it” hence my comment that maybe they didn't dig it.

Banal social media… Yes welcome to the 2020's🤣

Its shallow vapid shit these days, well that and stupidity feeding stupidity.

Genejoke wrote:
Banal social media… Yes welcome to the 2020's🤣

Its shallow vapid shit these days, well that and stupidity feeding stupidity.

And conspiracy theory.
Flat Earth!
Ancient Rome didn't exist!
The early Middle Ages didn't exist!
UFOs (still third or fourth as most searched thing)
Anti-vaxx
NWO
And more…


Conversely a personal favorite
Ancientaliensdebunked.com
Tears it to pieces and links to all the translated Sumerian texts so you can read it all yourself and see it's not about aliens.

Ozoneocean wrote:

people sharing and resharing anodyne, nonsensical quotes and memes with zero context, application, reason, or personal input of their own. Like a bunch of monkeys all imitating each other over and over.

I highly recommend Inspirobot. It randomly generates original motivational memes which will restore your faith in humanity.

hahahahaha I love Inspirobot


Btw I just finished page 500, Haven't posted it yet. but I fell pretty good about that. only took 15 years

lothar wrote:
Btw I just finished page 500, Haven't posted it yet. but I fell pretty good about that. only took 15 years

That's super impressive!
You're the mightiest cocksman in the galaxy ^_^

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I got addicted to that inspo-meme site for a while XD

Genejoke wrote:
Okay, pop will eat itself, late 80s early 90s rock rap dance fusion with often daft lyrics and iconic album covers and t shirts. It was said at some point on the 90s they sold more t shirts than records. Also one of their more famous songs was “can U dig it” hence my comment that maybe they didn't dig it.

Ahh! Something I missed at the time LOL!

Back then I was into glam metal and hard rock mainly then alt rock and grunge in the 90s.

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Do you have days where you're just “off” and your brain can't think right? That's how I am today. Blargh!
It's like when you're running through water- you can still run but it's so much slower than normal and takes 10x the effort.

Ozoneocean wrote:
Do you have days where you're just “off” and your brain can't think right? That's how I am today. Blargh!
It's like when you're running through water- you can still run but it's so much slower than normal and takes 10x the effort.

I get this regularly and put it down to rarely getting enough sleep. Are you having the required seven hours kip? It's probably the inevitable result of your rock star lifestyle.

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Shocked to see my comic in the top ten this morning and we haven't even met Cynthia yet, or the Doubletake Sisters! Absolute madness.

A massive thank you to whoever has been reading Ghastley Heights.

I retired that way of life for a while, haha! Massive slowdown on the social front. I'm very much keeping to myself.
Though you're right- I've been madly and obsessively sewing stuff for my 18th outfit for a convention next weekend, usually getting to bed well past 3am and not eating after breakfast (getting by entirely on tea and toast) . So yeah, the cognitive issues were my own fault.

Ironscarf wrote:
A massive thank you to whoever has been reading Ghastley Heights.

Congratulations! You deserve it!

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Big changes coming to the look of DD soon, finally! Alexey has some stuff ready to go and he's ready to start work. I'll post info about it soon and try and disseminate it to the community so they know what's happening…
I think I'll have to make a newspost and re purpose the unused ads, I'll even have to delve into the murkiness of the discord maybe o_o
People really will need to know about this.

Alexey has started to implement Emma's designs from a couple of years ago.
It doesn't change site functionality really (apart from usability via changed placemet of elements) but it updates the look of the site a lot!

We've had the site like this for so long I can't imagine it looking any different. Although bigger thumbnails would be nice.


Btw, I came across some old comics on my hard drive that are no longer online. My old website went dark a few years ago and I realized these may be the only copies of that story. Something I made almost 20 years ago and I honestly think it's better than the pulp porn comics I've been making for the past decade and a half. I will probably post it to the drunk duck under my retired alter ego's account.

lothar wrote:
We've had the site like this for so long I can't imagine it looking any different. Although bigger thumbnails would be nice.


Btw, I came across some old comics on my hard drive that are no longer online. My old website went dark a few years ago and I realized these may be the only copies of that story. Something I made almost 20 years ago and I honestly think it's better than the pulp porn comics I've been making for the past decade and a half. I will probably post it to the drunk duck under my retired alter ego's account.

You mean Bazil? It was something like that I'm sure…

Ozoneocean wrote:

Big changes coming to the look of DD soon, finally! Alexey has some stuff ready to go and he's ready to start work. I'll post info about it soon and try and disseminate it to the community so they know what's happening…
I think I'll have to make a newspost and re purpose the unused ads, I'll even have to delve into the murkiness of the discord maybe o_o
People really will need to know about this.

Alexey has started to implement Emma's designs from a couple of years ago.
It doesn't change site functionality really (apart from usability via changed placemet of elements) but it updates the look of the site a lot!

Exciting news! I feel as if we've seen the designs, but can't for the life of me remember what they look like.

Ironscarf wrote:
Exciting news! I feel as if we've seen the designs, but can't for the life of me remember what they look like.

Kawaii should be posting links later today I think :D

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At 47 years old I finally realised I have one very significant personality flaw XD
I probably have lots more but this is the big one: I have an innate sense of superiority. NOT a “need” to feel superior, just a feeling that I “am” superior, for whatever reason, naturally… because that's the normal order of things.

I'm pretty sure that comes from being immersed in British pop-culture when I was little- all old stuff from the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s from the end of the empire. Characters ALWAYS had that sense of superiority. It informs how they think and deal with people and you can't properly understand it without knowing that. Everything from Lord of the Rings to Murder on the Orient Express, to The Goon Show.

It's very hard to chip away at and change. It helps in a leadership role but is pretty bad for anything else.

Face it Oz, you are superior. It's not a feeling, it's a fact. (Low bow)

Take it from someone who is like the gentleman Churchill described as “being modest and having a lot to be modest about ” :)

bravo1102 wrote:
Face it Oz, you are superior. It's not a feeling, it's a fact. (Low bow)

Take it from someone who is like the gentleman Churchill described as “being modest and having a lot to be modest about ” :)

Haha, Thankyou, that's very flattering XD LOL

But it's not the best for dealing with other people

I can't say I've ever noticed that Oz. You always struck me as very approachable, a regular stand up fellow and a jolly good egg.

Mind you, I'm British so I might not be the best judge. 🧐

Aw, that's nice to say :D
Maybe I don't do it with everyone? I hope so

Ironscarf wrote:
Mind you, I'm British so I might not be the best judge. 🧐

Haha!
British culture from the 1960s onward seemed to back right away from the superiority angle I think, regarding it more sardonically and self deprecatingly.

I'm normally pretty even tempered, detached, and flippant… but I tell ya… the instant something breaks through that thin shell of serenity the tears fall XD
It's weird. I just have to think of a couple of lines of poetry, song lyrics, hear a tragic story, remember a dead pet's name etc and if the emotional resonance is sharp enough it slays me.
I've never been a really emotional person so that's unfamiliar to me.

Anyone else get that sort of thing?