Spooky electro again featuring a number of new tracks from Brokntoys and a bunch of old favorites (Alex Nôrinh, Dr. Lovelock, and Shadowbunny among them). 115-120, an easy tempo.
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Tags:
fantasy,
tabletop games,
twitch,
video.
The first episode of Critical Role's third campaign is starting in about 15 minutes:
I'll be watching while I write up mix notes. #criticalrole
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meta,
software,
website.
Doing some personal wiki cleanup today. Adding entries that escape elsewhere, removing old (in some cases sensitive) stuff.
I like vimwiki a lot, it's convenient and easy to use.
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley. 2019, Saga Press. Hardcover, 356 pages. ISBN 9-781481-447966.
Military science fiction of the anti-war "war is hell" variety. Dietz enlists with Tene-Silvia corporate infantry to fight human colonists on Mars after their family goes missing in an attack on São Paulo. The military transports people over long distances by breaking them down into light; Dietz's combat drops do not go as expected.
There are clear references to Starship Troopers (both the book and I think Verhoeven's movie) and Haldeman's Forever War here. I didn't mind that, the references and any borrowed structure helped to ground the book while other aspects went completely sideways.
Dietz and the reader experience the war out of order and have to puzzle out what's really going on. It's confusing, but purposefully so, and never for too long. It's a pretty gnarly book, gory and mean. I found it to be a propulsive, blunt, and pretty direct read. Liked it quite a bit. Particularly liked the ending. I look forward to reading it again to see how it works with prior knowledge of the plot.
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2010s,
collection,
electro,
music,
video,
youtube.
Morning sounds
Visonia et Dopplereffekt / Die Reisen
Surprised this is eight years old; time has flown by.
More dark (ish) electro and techno, this time at a comfortable (and later aggressive) 130. Most of these are old tracks, with the exception of one from March of this year on Brokntoys.
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2010s,
books,
collection,
hardcover,
review,
scifi.
I just finished reading Kameron Hurley's "The Light Brigade". Liked it a lot!
Military SF of the anti-war "war is hell" variety. Gets a bit gnarly, gory, and mean at times.
It's clearly riffing on Starship Troopers (both Heinlein's book and Verhoeven's movie) as well as Haldeman's Forever War. Which is fine by me, I found that aspect more familiar than distracting.
I liked the structure of the book and the ending quite a bit. Was a good time, a real page-turner.
Melancholy (perhaps even spooky) electro for this first week of October. This mix features four new tracks from Brokntoys and two tracks from the recent Alignment compilation on Patterned Media. Plus, you know, a bunch of old favorites.
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Time for an ear break.
Something I do when DJing or working with music is take the headphones off and/or get away from loud sounds every 15 or 30 minutes. Go listen to something quiet.
cpm.1 FastCaps[.df] at youtube.com. The latest (and sadly probably final) Quake 3 Defrag compilation video from power_of_heavy_metal. 15 minutes of fastcaps performed with cpm movement and fastcap 1 rules (so no weapons, teleports, or jumppads).
Content warning for flashing lights and first-person gameplay that might cause motion sickness. Same for all Quake videos.
power_of_heavy_metal has great taste in music and the selections for this video are no exception. I particularly like the second track, Io by Concealed Identity from their Nightingale Floor EP on Repertoire.
Linking this today because I found it recently and it's rad. I'll probably link the other power_of_heavy_metal compilation videos when I get around to rewatching them.
Chunky beats and a little ambient to close out September 2021. Most of this is old, but there are a couple new (2020 and later) tracks in here by Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza & SkyTwoHigh and Paul Blackford.
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Tags:
freebsd,
meta,
software.
Think I might set aside some time this weekend for computer maintenance. Do backups, a little cleaning, maybe upgrade to FreeBSD 13.0.
Downtempo, electro, and IDM, all weighing in at around 110. Mostly older tracks this time, familiar selections.
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meta.
The next MTT mix is coming, I haven't forgotten. I had an unusually difficult week so I'm relaxing my normal Thursday evening deadline. Will try to have it up tonight.
115-120 electro, IDM, and techno today. A bit relaxed. A couple old tunes from TRUST and Vortex Traks, and a new one from dbacon.
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Tags:
q3df,
quake 3,
video,
video games,
youtube.
cpm.1 FastCaps[.df] by power_of_heavy_metal
#Quake3 #q3defrag fastcaps. Apparently - according to the comments - this will be the last power_of_heavy_metal video. Really sad it'll be the last; heavy metal's compilation videos are all incredible.
