I bought a baguette at the grocery store and bit in wondering why it was so chewy and doughy⊠then I realized it was a âtake nâ bake' bread. Why would they put those in unlabeled clear bags??
I wish I had a better reason to learn Polish than that I love how it sounds.
@âconnrrrâ#p112815 Think of all the Polish-speakers you will be able to immediately have a connection with no matter how minor!
@"Tradegood"#p112519 My dude, this is where my browser is set permanently due to diffraction limits on my personal optical system!
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@âdeepspacefineâ#p112387 While geting a long & boring medical test recently, I was making small talk with the very normie nurse.
I also have a hospital story from when I was stuck there a few years back! Orderly who was cleaning my room commented on my Switch, and then we started talking and I told him I really like fighting games and boy is _Guilty Gear STRIVE_ a lot of fun. The next day the same orderly came by and informed me he's now a Faust main.
A personal food crime confession: I am the worldâs only vegan who doesnât like avocado. And judging by every humanâs outraged reaction when I tell them this, I think Iâm just unable to taste whatever it is that people think tastes good about them; to me eating avocado is like taking a bite out of a stick of butter (which Iâve also discovered some humans donât find strange or bad).
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@âantilleseâ#p112823 Guilty Gear Strive is the only fighting game Iâve played even a little of it. That game rulesâIâm a May main.
I was also stuck in a hospital for a week caring for a family member (who was clearly in the process of getting back to fine) and BOY is that the most boring, dull experience there is. I brought my switch and played _Hades_. Switch is the secret hero of hospital visits for sure.
@âconnrrrâ#p112815
This is how I feel about Cantonese.
@"Karasu"#p112824
My wife thought she didn't like avocado but I think the only kind she'd had was at Subway or something like that.
@âedwardâ#p112842 Fair, but Iâve tried eating all kinds of quality avocados, including the super fresh ones you can get everywhere in California, and Iâve never once been able to discern even a little taste in them. Again, it's just me! Everybody else has got it right, but they are wasted on me.
@âKarasuâ#p112845 are you eating them on their own?? Cause I would never do that, not enough flavour lol. Put some olive oil and lime and salt and pepper on one half and eat it with a spoon is how I usually deal with an avocado.
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This Polish dub of The Simpsons was at one point completely lost, until it suddenly surfaced on Disney+ in April 2022. It was short-lived, only covering the first three seasons. All other seasons have only been aired in a voiceover-translated version.
@âconnrrrâ#p112846 No no, of course not (although I have just tried them on their own just to see). Iâve tried them with seasoning, in recipes, and as part of other dishes, and⊠nothing! Like I said, itâs absolutely me, I get that other folks love them, and that's great for them!
Getting some friends together and making a scrappy little indie game is the modern version of forming a band in a garage
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@âconnrrrâ#p112815 I wish I had a better reason to learn Polish than that I love how it sounds.
Said it before and Iâll say it again: Poland will become the new Japan. I mean as far as an object of western cultural fascination. People will learn the language so they can play and translate unlocalized prpgs like they did with jrpgs in 1997. And with fascination unfortunately comes fetishization. I know what itâs like to be objectified
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@âDavidNooâ#p112890
@âconnrrrâ#p112815
@âedwardâ#p112842
Start learning on this basis alone and you'll find other reasons to continue, don't let anything stop you
Orchestra conductors arenât actually doing a whole lot while theyâre on stage. They're basically dancing.
@âconnrrrâ#p112891 I hope cereals are as good an investment
When I'm at the grocery store and my cart is weighed down by a lot of items I like to drift my cart by pushing it sideways mid-turn.
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@âMnemogenicâ#p112920 Orchestra conductors arenât actually doing a whole lot while theyâre on stage. Theyâre basically dancing.
If this was meant as a joke, you're honestly not really all that far off, if you're strictly talking about public performances. I have heard professional orchestra musicians say as much.
Here is what they are definitely not doing:
A good concertmaster is more responsible for keeping the rest of the orchestra on time than the conductor. Andm that's to say nothing of the fact that you can't really trust a conductor's baton to keep time even if they're not doing the annoying practice of [batting out the beat slightly ahead,](https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/why-conductors-beat-ahead/#:~:text=So%2C%20beating%20ahead%20gives%20the,adapt%20to%20the%20hasty%20downbeats.) because of the difference between the speed of light and the speed of sound. What you're hearing is taking longer to reach your ears than what you're seeing takes to reach your eyeballs, and in a large concert hall where sound is going all over the dang place and ultimately it's built to optimize how the sound goes out into the hall well and not necessarily to come back to you, that can actually make a difference (well, that's what they say anyway, I usually ignored it and kept time by what I was hearing lmao).
A conductor's job, strictly as part of the performance at a concert, and given the orchestra is well prepared (more on this later), should be this and only this:
Sidenote, the earliest conductors _were_ keeping time, a duty for which [Jean Baptiste Lully gave his life,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Lully#:~:text=Lully%20died%20from%20gangrene) a description which is not much of an exaggeration.
Anyway, for what a conductor actually does (besides public relations, which, to be fair, is a big part of it, since conductors and their cults of personality have become so central to the mystique of western art music (thanks Wagner and Herbert von Karajan, you fucking proto and actual Nazis, respectively)), it's primarily to prepare her performers for public performances, and secondarily to understand and interpret the music being performed.
For all but the best performers, it is generally understood that in an ensemble as large as an orchestra, at least one person is not going to know their part perfectly (mind you, they better know it near perfectly if they're in a good orchestra). So especially nearest to the beginning of the rehearsal process, it's the conductor's job to identify deficiencies in technical execution, and to, er, conduct the rehearsal in the best way for her performers to work on correcting those deficiencies. Musicians who are in a union will have particular expectations for how rehearsal time is used as well since they won't play a note uncompensated.
The secondary duty is intertwined with the first and can usually be accomplished at the same time, but interpretation of a score and how to get one's interpretation of a score out of an orchestra is something that is done purely in rehearsal. Music notation, especially when it concerns analogue instruments with extraordinarily vast spectrums of subtle differences in articulation and expressive qualities, is not quite as precise as it may seem. Some of it is even more imprecise than others (for instance, composers specifying a specific, precise tempo, like with a beats-per-minute number, is only about 200 years old, because the metronome is only about 200 years old (its usage in this way was popularized by the inventor of the metronome convincing Beethoven to do it)). And even when lots of notation is calling for something objective (like with dynamic markings, forte is loud, piano is soft, therefore forte has to be louder than piano), there's still a lot of subjective interpretation at play (how much louder is forte than piano? What's the difference between _pp_ pianissimo and and _ppp_ pianississimo?) in playing western art music. Because of the complexity of this, it's far too late to make major interpretational changes by the time of the performance and they are certainly _never_ made in real time. The subtle things need to be decided on well ahead of time, and the orchestra must be instructed on how to interpret their individual parts into a cohesive whole by a conductor.
So, just in case it sounds like I'm saying conductors don't really _do_ anything during a performance, that's not really true. It's more that by the time of the public performance, the real actual musician-y part of a conductor's job should already be more or less done. A concertmaster could cue an orchestra on when to start playing. But it's pretty hard to hear how your individual interpretation of an orchestral part actually sounds. So as much as I'm loathe to give a centralized hierarchical authority any credit anywhere, a conductor does play a valuable role in cohering a performance of orchestral music into an aesthetically pleasing whole.
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@âconnrrrâ#p113000 When Iâm at the grocery store and my cart is weighed down by a lot of dreams I like to drift my cart by pushing it sideways mid-turn.
is how I read it