There were a few issues with the archive when people have tried to play it back, so I decided to put together an edited version. Hopefully this version flows a bit better than the stream itself. I will be uploading 2 levels per day leading up to the live stream I'll be doing on Friday where I will be going through Level 9, so be on the lookout for that. Thank you to everyone who tuned into that stream, as well as to the people who left comments afterwards. I can't wait to see you all Friday!
I know some of you like these things, so I'm adding to the collection of bathroom sounds on this site. Here is a five-minute compilation of various water-related bathroom noises that I recorded a few years ago when I was bored. Toilets included! It was recorded using a Zoom H1XLR and some electret capsules.
00:00 - sink, running water
00:15 - pouring water in an empty sink
00:47 - sink, hands in warm water, slightly lathery
01:05 - sink, hands in warm water, slightly lathery (stereo)
01:26 - sink, pouring water with liquid soap, lathery
01:49 - sink, hands in warm water, very lathery
02:08 - sink, hands in warm water, very lathery (stereo)
02:34 - sink, drainage, somewhat eerie
02:50 - sink, drainage, pipe close-up
03:03 - toilet flush, lid open, captured from inside the bowl.
03:50 - toilet flush, lid closed, captured from inside the bowl.
So me and a few friends were messing around on a game and someone said something amusing that I misread. It lead to me writing a little profane poem out of boredom that I then fed into Suno. This is the result. I am very sorry, but this is also weirdly catchy?
I'm in the middle of editing the Shades of Doom stream archive, to fix some of the problems you all informed me of. My plan is to split them up into parts so you don't have to listen to the whole thing in 1 sitting or skip around to find things as much. I will start uploading the parts on Monday. In the meantime, I made this little medley for you all to listen to. Just like the Q9 cover, this was made in Reaper using magical 8Bit plug. I hope you all enjoy it!
The small town of Tasik is an idyllic, seaside place. You would know, you grew up there. It's normal, as towns go. Fresh air, clean streets, and a constant connection to the sea. But something had to change. Adventure had to be found. As the month of Avenvas approaches, so too does the Seaglass Gathering, a month long festival Tasik holds every year. But people start to go missing without a trace. The only lead the town has are strange footprints in the sand that lead to nowhere. You've been called home, adventurer. Can your skills solve this mystery? Or is it something too strong for even you?
I was attempting to play metal malicia by metallica, and it was way below my standards since it's such a hard song to play and I'm not there yet, but I was surprised when listening to it with headphones that it had a very cool tone which I'm guessing is due to how I put the iphone on top of the amp slightly tilted.
This is going to be a demo of my game that's under development named battlesim. I've been putting out peaks and stuff but now for the real thing. It's supposed to simulate battles between characters and weapons of virtually anything and everything, and has multiple modes to satisfy your desires to destroy life.
I might also be doing some crazy party as well after this.
This song was one of the 3 Scream Tracker mods written for the demo bb :
This demo requires computer at least as fast as 486/33 with coprocesor. But speed of 486/66 or pentium is highly recomended (especially for hight resolution SVGA modes). This demo does not require real operating system - works even under MS-DOS. For dual monitor modes you need secondary hercules / MDA compatible card. To compile demo you need 32 or 64 bit ANSI C compiler (no it does not compile under Borland one) and libraries listed bellow. PC speaker driver eats lots of CPU so running it at computers slower than pentium is really not good idea.
Oh my goodness, a 486 with a co-processor?! How will we ever manage to meet such stringent system requirements! 😛
Jokes aside, this demo (which is still available in your distro's package manager ) was one of the first things I stumbled across, (probably late one night, trawling through Debian or Ubuntu package repositories in my terminal as a kid, passing the time between school, sports clubs and bed, because that's the kind of kid I was and still am ⌣) which opened my mind to not only the beauty and craftsmanship of the demo scene, but the unfettered love and passion that defines tracker music culture.
Oh, and speaking of love, 😍 the note in the internal texts:
Bass.GP
Drum.Bass
Guitar.Lead.PM
String.Hi2
Drum.Hihat.Open
Drum.Hihat.Swing
Bass.Sine
Drum.Hihat.Closed
Drum.Tick
Drum.Kettle
Piano
Oboe
Marimba
Drum.Chime.Reversed
Twinkle.Abyss
Drum.Claps.fast
Flute.Panic.Attack-colore
Spherice
Guitar.Pluck.Bass.Plane
Real.Nature.OceanWaves
Vox.Speech.Scream
Real.Nature.Birds
Real.Nature.Birdy1
Vox.Speech.BreathIn
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This s3m has been made
by Dawn Music for the
demo called "BB".
This s3m is especially
dedicated to my
girlfriend Eva. She's so
far from me and I spend
so much time without her.
I'm waiting for you,
Sandqueen.
I want you to want me
just like I want you.
Your little man.
Composed:April 1997,Dawn
Length: 4min 38sec
I share these mods and what background information I can find about them not just to bring you good music, but to tell stories. A story of a younger me, forging the passion for technology as a source for culture and public good that survives within me today, in spite of rather than *because of * the role technology is playing in our modern world. A story of a time in the not too distant past when we knew how to build beautiful things because we wanted to, not to bolster our job application credentials or extract rent from our users. A story of a largely unrecognised tracker composer (as far as I know) sat at his DOS machine, late at night, working on this track and longing to see the face of his soulmate, to hear her voice again, after so long apart, but who continues anyway, not for recognition, but for the love of the work.
Is this perhaps a rose-tinted portrayal of the historical record? Probably. But my message is this. Take the pure humanity and purity of the arts and out of programming, and we will lose track of why we invented these machines in the first place. Take the humans out of computing and we will crumble from within. Maybe, just maybe, it is time to return technology to the people.
For as long as I've been playing Shades of Doom, I have never played above It's My Tern Daddy. I'd like to see if I can beat it on the highest difficulty. Let's see how well I can manage it!
The Radix registry increased the price for its tld's, including the .site tld, at some point last year. This forced all domain registrars to pass that price increase to us as well. I will of course renew the domain in about a month, but this will personally affect me financially considering how much that is in my money.
If you wish to donate, see my Patreon . You can subscribe and immediately cancel if you don't want to make it recurring, because unfortunately I can't get Paypal to work! If you do not cancel your subscription that would also be highly appreciated. Maybe if we manage to raise enough money after that, we can move to independent hosting and stop straining Patrick's infrastructure! You don't have to donate if you don't want to or can't, and I will renew the domain regardless because I love this community. Your donation just means the renewal wouldn't mean restricting my personal life's spending. Thank you so much!
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Hello to you my friends at the pub. I am intoxicated and was in the midst of playing a hole 297 crazy party solo party to myself before I thought, Hey, why not stream this! So that is what I shal do. Join me for a bit here whilst I dive deeper in to drug use! Just kidding it's not that bad, stop looking at me like that with your blind gaze! Not gays as in being gay, but the word gaze as in, you know hwat never mind!
Despite how pleasant this vending machine may sound, at times it has a habit of stealing my money. Will it do so this time around?
Note: this was recorded from my Apple Watch. The quality may be a bit strange.