Money that Nvidia might invest in them.

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Well now we know how Palpatine came back.

As someone with poor taste in women, I understand.

X1 used to give 3 points and my buddy’s rental house charged a 2 and change percent fee. He could only get full point values certain places so he’d save up all the points and that was his Christmas fund. He’d bank $600/yr ( about $500 real dollars from paying the transaction fee plus the extra hundred-ish bucks in points he’d get for free). They recently went to a 1.5 point model but kept the restrictions on where you could spend to get the full point value. Guess what card of his never gets used now.

Pretty much anything that reaches a critical mass now gets manipulated. Web 2.0 saw to that.

They left out the good shit. The Apocalypse of Peter preaching universal salvation and the Enoch books with all the cool stuff in them.

I’d have to go look but I think that was in the gospel of Philip. Apocryphal, but interesting.

Same, bud. My drum stuff is super basic. My bass stuff is too busy. And I’m a mediocre guitarist. But I’m having a blast doing it!

I also use Superior Drummer with an electronic kit as well. That Tama is cool!

But! A lot of times I’ll use my edrum kit but mic up a real snare. I’ve got a Mapex tomahawk snare that I’m in love with. I put a contact on it so I can get something for the SD overheads, but I record it dry as shit with a 57 then pop it in Sound City Studios and goddamn it sounds amazing. Like that is what a snare is supposed to sound like to me.

I know the tomahawk isn’t what people think of when they’re recording drums unless that’s all they have, but there’s something about it reamped in Sound City with another steel shell in the OH is just what it’s supposed to be to my ears.

I mean we’re (we as in local taxpayers, not me personally in this case) already paying for the infrastructure they use in increased bills. We’re paying for their tax holidays while they’re talking about all the new jobs they’ll bring (lots of short term construction, 25-50 long term employees once the tax holiday runs out, so very little money in the local economy). We (all of us) are paying the price for the mothballed coal plants that are coming back online to support them. We are paying for federal government contracts on them.

It’s corporate welfare all the way down.

Most notable in gaming, no question. You’ve also got Yamaha (probably the most diverse) making guitars, motorcycles, wheelchairs, electric surfboards, air conditioners, and about a hundred other things. Nokia made rubber boots or some shit before making an indestructible phone.

But I think the most notable is a Korean company, Samsung. Semiconductors, phones, TVs, and other related electronics. Also sentry guns. Also the Burj Khalifa. Also, a theme park (Everland).

I guess to your point, not just Japanese but they do seem to have a greater tendency.

I haven’t stolen a street sign in about three decades but I’ll admit I’d seriously consider taking this one.

You must be a sys admin. I used to be and that was my first instinct.

I would assume that the texture of the onion is part of the appeal. So if you grill it you’ve got to either toast the bread or add a few chips to get that crunch.

I mean, yeah.

However, in this particular case I think the CEO was running this as a pump and dump for nearly a decade, claiming to be fully funded and having no board (because he claimed it was self funded), and giving himself massive raises year over year.

So a private equity firm bought something hollow. I have some guesses about it. Probably a friend of his, probably got it cheap, and is about to gut whatever is left now that the guy who did own it got out with what he could. Why would PE buy it otherwise? There’s no goodwill or name to cash in on like what’s being done with Native Instruments.

Money and time. I was on the grind for 20 years and poor as shit for the great majority of my life. I didn’t have the time to go do all the things I do now.

So I’m the middle aged guy riding a motorcycle, playing in bands, drinking too much in public as long as I’m not driving, going to every concert of nearly every genre I can get to…you know, living. I’m not in crisis, I’m having the time of my life. I’d say the last 8ish years have been the absolute most fun of my life.

Hell, iZotope was the standard for so many years. I use RX on my field recording to clean them up before making them into samples a lot of times.

Private equity kills everything, I swear. It doesn’t help that UA went native mostly and Waves prices so aggressively, Arturia and Akai are innovating, and Spitfire and OT cut Kontakt out of the loop. However, I’m fucking sure it’s like 90% on Francisco Partners getting rid of the support teams for outsourcing, deleting the highest paid engineers, stopped fixing bugs, and whatever the fuck they were doing with Soundwide instead of doing things for customers.

I guess it does depend on what you call a circle. There are maybe a dozen of us in one. In the other there are probably three or four dozen. I don’t know everyone. I got invited because I like genre bending. We’ve got a private forum where we share things.

Even outside of that, there is a place that used to be less private but has now gone private (guess why) where we would do Sunday songwriters. We’d get a topic, record a little something before the next Sunday, then share. After sharing we’d critique, do mashups, genre hop, create genre crossovers, and generally just have fun with each other’s music.

I do not know how prevalent this is. I know of two private places, one of which is very small, and a third place that used to be public (with no expectation of anyone actually seeing it) but went private because of Suno.

There’s already mystery music out there. Small circles of folks putting things out that they don’t expect or want people outside the circle to hear. I’m a nobody and I’m part of two different groups who share music with each other, build on each other’s works, try genre mashups and new shit that may never get done again, many times because it’s a mess but sometimes just because it was a fun one time thing.