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(Quote) I have no idea. Never thought about it once. (Quote) I love prog rock. Unfortunately, in my opinion prog rock bands have a point at which they tend to fly up their own asses and the songs become just showpieces for their superior musicians…
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I had a tremendously awful year for reading, due entirely to my year long musical experiment, in which I released an album of 12 original songs each month, recorded within in that month, for the 12 months of the year - this yielded 12X12 or 144 song…
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Oh, definitely! My son's masters thesis was on disassociation when interacting through technology. It's a real thing, but text seems to be somewhat different - possibly because we have used text to communicate for thousands of years, and our culture…
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(Quote) This is true of all audio interfaces I have used. Zoom works best when one group is either physically together and zooming in or alone zooming in, and the rest are not. the two audios are much more natural that way. with multiple separate au…
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(Quote) Not really. Not just quicker - it is as instantaneous as voice if the player is not away from the keyboard. There are also side channels for one-on-one communication, if needed. Also, every PBEM or PBP game I have ever been involved in quick…
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We play (in-person + Zoom) for 3 hours, and there is a lot of extraneous chatter, which is half of the reason playing is fun! Our totally internet based games are 6+ - 7 hours is not unusual - hours (the 2 games over IRC) or 3 hours (the game over…
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I only play one of my four current campaigns in person. During the worst of the covid problem this year and last, I used Zoom to replace being together. It has some limitations which we worked around. Now we are mostly together again, with one or tw…
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The pace is fast, yes. The pace of a typical D&D game.
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The Himba in Binti are not the real Himba. I was actually familiar with the Himba before I read Binti. Okorafor took some aspects of them - Otjize, mixed matrilineal and patrilineal authority, the Namibian desert location - and mixed in things from …
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(Quote) Yes - Okwu could be typical Meduse at the beginning, hard to tell, but I agree in the end he had become an individual. Dele! I forgot him. Whether he is a type or an individual, he is very different to Binti's family.
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(Quote) Yep! Me too!
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If this is 2001, are we the apes? :D
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(Quote) Disappointing, I thought. It's like the answer to parochialism is parochialism in a different place?
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(Quote) My thought it they don't. Himba make one astrolabe at a time, which is different from any which came before. Factories then make copies of that Astrolabe as a model.
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(Quote) Bingo!
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(Quote) Agreed!
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(Quote) THank you Richard! I found that very interesting!
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(Quote) I also think the Himba only adopted certain technology deliberately
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(Quote) So - a political statement. Thank you, Neil!
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10(pi) ;)
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(Quote) I liked Artemis. A lot! But it took some getting used to. It's very different from The Martian. You might like Project Hail Mary better.
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(Quote) That's exactly what actual geometry is about - the area of a circle radius 2 is 4(pi), which is 4 base(pi). The utility of geometry is its ability to happily deal with the irrational. And life is irrational. :D
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(Quote) Oh yes! The older I got, the smarter my father was...
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(Quote) Pi is a ratio, a relationship, which is geometric in nature and thus mathematical.
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(Quote) Oh! That works! I like that!
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(Quote) Not that I know, but then I am apparently a very poor judge of this. ;)
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All interesting points!
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As an inveterate wood shedder, I can't not agree to some degree. However, It ended up not bothering me much.
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I'm sorry you had such a terrible time, Barner.
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(Quote) OK... I won't argue. (Quote) All things musical are at their root mathematical. Pythagoras showed us this. Music is geometric, and is all about the relations of notes. The numbers are much less important than their relationships, but still …