This exact demo file was immediately rejected. In fact, Chad was part of the panel that rejected it. But he included the file on the album and listed himself as a co-artist, despite having absolutely nothing to do with it.
Oh boy. Mick Gordon, composer and sound designer talking about his great relationship with id Software.
If you want to make a living making music in this industry, don’t start.
I didn’t know this had gone that far.
Broke teenagers trying to fit in by getting into addiction isn’t a new thing, but those websites, their frictionlessness and technology (remember, tracking of every pixel on your screen, every move on your mouse) have made it a nightmare for our societies.
Also parents have sadly completely checked out from teenagers’ digital lives, for many reasons and variables.
We are in a gambling era. Don’t try to do it.
Scale back, bro. Leave your chats, your computers, and go read a book under a tree. Fuck them skins.
It’s interesting to watch folks look for a platform when one is dead.
If you ask them why they don’t write on a personal web page, people immediately go for the “I’ll be embarrassed if my friends/family see that”.
But it’s ok to be cringe AF on a platform because hey, it’s the platform’s fault right? It’s because of IG that you post fake deep sentences with a sad picture in the background, right?
The internet is the platform. Get your own space, and grow there, at your own pace.
It’s pretty great.
So, the NBA? Yikes.
The rookie I had so much love for is a mess, and the Spurs organization is going to have to answer a lawsuit.
Between the feeling that the start of a season after all the trades is a “Who is Playing Where again?” game, that the Lakers franchise is down bad, that the Clippers are kinda weird, the constant injuries/load management, the amount of absolutely embarrassing stuff –from antivax stuff to adultery and Kyrie, the insanity of logistics to buy tickets online and their prices I mean, it is trash.
And those salaries. $47M/year off the bench, peak indecency I hope. NBA players needed 2 jobs 40 years ago.
In this *waves at sky* infla-thing that we’re living in? The NBA has lost its mind, really.
55 years of building state of the art prefab, system-built homes in Japan.
It is very hard to gather any information on Misawa, Sekisui and so on (Japanese websites being stuck in 1994).
It absolutely blows my mind that sustainable, healthy system-built homes exist for almost 60 years in a country, and are completely inexistent in countries in desperate need of exactly that!
I’d rather have Misawa homes than Sony PlayStations, 10,000%.
But we live in a world where a billionaire thinks he’s on top of challenges by buying a rotten network of mind farts.
Goddamn it’s frustrating.
(the book is called The Japanese Dream House by Azby Brown)
This is from Kodak’s Ergonomic Design for People at Work book.
It describes what’s the best design for a push button, using compiled data from 1998, 1965 and 1975, which combs through what a push button should be for men and women, small or tall, young and old.
It’s insanely detailed and yet, we rarely apply those designs that are meant to make our lives much better and easier.
What it tells me, which I really realize more and more, is that it’s not that we don’t have knowledge; it’s that we don’t do shit with it.
Even worse: we (and by we I mean you) believe in stuff! In this book I learned that screen glare is the absolute worst. Your eyes are going to work extra hard and you will end up with eye strain, headache, blurry vision, dry eyes and neck and shoulder pain.
That’s why all the most expensive laptops out there have mirrors instead of matte screens. Exactly. The company known as Apple is believed to be a design master by railing your eyes to the ground, starting at $999.
You don’t have to do it, though. Change. Seek good design.
Dear future,
This is a picture of free, clean, public, crisp and fresh water in Los Angeles in 2022.
Pressing the physical button where my hand is, the water comes out from the tiny hose behind the fountain head, and I am about to drink this exquisite beverage for about 30 or 40 seconds straight from it.
Then I’ll inhale some air, and press the button again, feeling water’s power going through my limbs.
And then I’ll do it all over again.
I hope that you’ll have the same privilege, dear future.
I mean. What the hell???
One of the best young man in the NBA I had ever seen. So smart and smooth on the court.
Well, waived by the extremely caring Spurs organization. They even removed all of his jerseys from the store. They had signed him for an extension, two weeks ago. That is beyond wild.
What a 19 year old, 6’6 millionaire could do to get the boot like that? We’ll know for sure on Monday or next week, but I’d say sexual assault/rape or murder.
I really, really, really hope not.
