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Gutter do you have any deadstock of your mats? Would love to buy if so. Mine are well weathered at this point.

Welcome back!

OOOH Looking forward to giving it a listen!

Been playing Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope on Switch. It's the second game in the series. Dropped last year. It's turn-based strategy so probably not for everyone but I absolutely love it. That's my favorite game genre. Not many good ones since Intelligent stopped making the Advance Wars series in favor of Fire Emblem. Other game i recently played was the new Super Mario Bros. Wonder. I don't own it yet but will have to get it. It's a fun new takes on the Mario franchise. Good of course like most all of the series.

That World of Goo looks pretty good!

https://djjesterthefilipinofist.bandcamp.com/album/dj-jester-is-for-the-children @steve check this one out. DJ from San Antonio. Released this year. I think he’s one of the few great mixtape DJs left. He’s doing a NYE set with another DJ I like but got plans with the fam so not gonna make it. Hoping they record the set.

Get em! I had a buddy who's upstairs neighbors would call the cops on him for being too loud just during the day. Super lame (sound ordinance starts at 10pm). After the second or third time he was like fuck these dudes. Pointed his speakers up and put his stereo on a timer to shutoff at 10. Anytime he'd leave the house he'd crank it up and blast them out until the exact second it became a legal noise violation. Love me some petty sound wars!

Snagged!

Wow crazy how real it looks. So dope it's in Miami again.

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Win11 has been mixed. Seems fairly fast and smooth although the wireless mouse or keyboard will bog down sometimes for just a few seconds and not really sure why. Pretty annoying. The normal ass PC speakers I had kept popping randomly so got some newer ones. They also occasionally pop but it's once or twice a day instead of a few times an hour. Pretty annoying tho... seems like a surge issue or something. The newish webcam sometimes has bad mic audio which was never a problem before. And monday it decided to uninstall itself. Back working now tho. Some of the work flow is weird in that it offers duplicates of things... both as an installed program and/or app. But they are not the same and it's hard to tell which you are in. Also Win11 seems to not like installed programs... some don't work so you have to find the app which will work fine. Pretty dumb, repetitive and annoying. Even better, some apps have more than one version like Teams. So i have the Teams program installed (which Win11 doesn't like and keeps trying to have me sign up for an account if I accidentally open it) then the Teams app (which it liked until two weeks ago) and also "NEW" Teams which has an obnoxious NEW permanently across the icon. So there are three versions of the same thing installed but only one that works seamlessly. Maybe have Win11 delete the old app when it prompts you to upgrade/install the new app? But that would make sense. I learned Tuesday that Win11 allows Outlook to run all it's own updates automatically with no advanced warning so did a lot of shape file work in Google Earth Monday and left several windows open of emails or things I was working on. Came back Tuesday and the computer had updated itself which involved a restart. So all the work I had done in Google Earth didn't save since it was a forced restart. Also since it closed all my windows and emails I'm not really sure what tasks were left uncompleted so that's fun. I've set Chrome as my default browser but Win11 doesn't like that and still opens Outlook links in Edge. Edge is integrated in so it has widgits and shit on the toolbar that pop over when you hover over the weather icon. Not really my thing but have tried to embrace it and at least customize the stock bit to show WTI, Brent and natural gas prices. They can be added and I have but of course you apparently can't select the order it is displayed so depending on movement it displays whatever it wants and you have to page through instead of being able to just quickly check commodities prices. It decided I wanted to see Brent crude prices mostly but I actually am more interested in WTI. Fortunately if you click WTI instead of making that the primarily displayed widget it just opens a different Edge window all together. So customization is minimal/clunky or maybe it's just so unintuitive that I haven't figured it out. Several programs have changed features/menus which I guess isn't specifically on Win11 but still obnoxious. Sniping Tool which is a Win program works but is just a little clunky compared to the old one. Start menu pinns a bunch of shit but who knows if it's going to be the program, app or second version of the app. Would be nice if it just populated your recently or most used ones. There is a way to get to recently used but you have to click to it so IMO that's not very intuitive design. Basically everything takes more clicks or opens more windows unnecessarily in Win11. To me it seems like general interface is a step back as far as flow or simplicity goes. It does alternate desktops and also weird minimization of certain programs like Excel. It's kinda annoying and wasn't clear why opened docs were not opening. They were but just to the size of a AAA battery which you then have to find and click expand. Pretty helpful feature... I always wanted to open a file but not really have it open so i can then play where's Waldo and click it again. Great feature. So that's about it for now. I'm sure I'll be back to bitch more. Nothing is really wrong with Win11 but nothing is really right either. I don't hate it but don't love it. Lots of subtle differences or shortfalls that don't feel like a step forward in any logical way.

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That's really cool. Cards look pretty pricy tho.

https://support.serato.com/hc/en-us/articles/202538250-How-does-instant-doubles-work-#:~:text=Instant doubles allows you to,track that was loaded first. see if this helps. I think instant double might be the default setting but if not you have to turn it on in the settings. Say you got a TT on the right playing. Volume fader up on right and down on left. Have the same track highlighted then press CTL+shift+left arrow (or right arrow if you have TT on the left). It will instantly start playing on the left in the same position. Then just quickly kill the right volume and bring up the left at the same time so you can switch the audio over to the virtual deck. There might be a button you have to activate around where the record circle image is to tell Serato that one deck is virtual. You can do both virtual too BTW. Check that link, probably explains it better.

You can set Serato to be in virtual mode so I used to have just one turntable hooked up and would mix in then copy the tract over via instant doubles. I'm probably explaingin this really poorly. Remember there was a program I used to use for tagging bpm bur forget what it was. Havent used in years because now Serato is pretty good at tagging and getting the bpm right.

Oh man, yeah that would be cool to still have. They look really fun.

NO! Ah man... That's sad news. He was somebody I really idolized. Anyone ever see him doing the looping 45 set when those Vestax portables came out? Super fresh. He also put out a dope mixtape of it. If I can find will upload. RIP to one of the greats.

I don't totally understand this bit of gear. Guess it's kinda like a faderboard? Seems too cheap... $80 regular price but on sale for $15. EDIT: Oh it's software not hardware. Guess that explains the low price. https://vst.beatsurfing.com/audio-plugins/beatfader/?utm_source=BEATSURFING+LAUNCH&utm_campaign=f8f0cf41f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_09_21_09_54_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c846330cb1-[LIST_EMAIL_ID]&mc_cid=f8f0cf41f4&mc_eid=a3a3ddf9fe

So far mine is working. I get it... youtube needs to monetize but the length and number of ads on some videos needs to be reeled in.

That's pretty nice.

Man, I loved Firefox. And Opera. Switch to Chrome probably 10 years ago when FF stopped working on my computer. Feel pretty tied to it now. Miss me with Bing.

I'm on Win 11 now at work. It's fine. Seems fast. Only weird thing is they still let you DL programs but also they have native apps for half these. So IDK why they would let you do it both ways and potentially have both versions on a machine. Not sure which is better but assume one is over the other. Also I don't understand the point of Edge at all. It's trying to be a super app or something? Makes no sense to me.

Yeah it's pretty wild. Xbox and 360 were amazing systems. Really stubbed their toe repeatedly after that.

That's pretty cool that it has zero emulation.