ProZD has this new video about how he voiced Abby Saja in KPop Demon Hunters, and the joke is that he can't sing Soda Pop, because he didn't do the singing voice. He doesn't even know the right words.

So I decided to perform his terrible version of the song on My drums! Anyway, here it is: https://jumpshare.com/s/gkAmS4hsmw1NNuhYAHRp

No idea if Jumpshare is a good website for sharing audio files, I just searched "audio file sharing website" and it was the first result

I can't stand immigrants who come here from England, and after SEVEN GENERATIONS, still only speak English. Anglos need to assimilate and learn to hold a conversation in the local Indigenous language.

So I was thinking about manic pixie dream girls, and I'm not sure I agree with this opinion I just formed, but... it's there, and I'll defend it in the interest of a good discussion.

In the Count of Monte Cristo, the Abbe Faria is an elderly priest who Edmund Dantes meets in prison. The Abbe is smart, well-read, principled, disciplined, a long-term thinker, kind, courteous, and all-around just a perfect guy. Over Edmund's years in prison, the Abbe becomes as a father to him, and teaches him all of his knowledge of politics, chemistry, linguistics, astronomy, history, and other assorted sciences.

Now, if a manic pixie dreamgirl is an upbeat, quirky love interest who exists only to spur on the main character's development... The Abbe Faria is coping unreasonably well with imprisonment, is certainly an odd character by his time's standards, even having a reputation among the prison guards as insane, he forms a bond of love with Dantes, and he teaches Dantes to become a better person and then promptly dies, getting out of the way of the plot. These are all of the signature characteristics of a manic pixie dream girl, other than gender.

So... yeah!

I see so many drummers wearing beanies (toques for the canadians). What's up with that?

Recipe:

Coles pizza base
Leggo's passata with Italian herbs
Made with Plants' dairy-free mozzarella
One portabello mushroom, sliced

Can't wait to eat it, it smells great!

Yesterday I was hanging out in voice call with My sharkplane. I was feeling musical, so I hooked up the drums to discord and started playing the Ben 10 theme. I've been watching a lot of Ben 10 lately and it's a great song to practice with.

So I get to the end of the first verse, and My beloved interrupts. "Hang on, what. What's going on?" I stop playing and ask, "Huh, Ivy? I'm playing Ben 10."

And Ivy says, "You're drumming and singing at the same time! How are You DOING THAT!? When did this happen!?" And I say "Oh, now I guess. This is My first time drumming and singing at the same time."

I got these drums two months ago and started learning to play then, so I guess I'm making good progress with them!

I visited a Pentecostal church a few weeks ago, and I didn't like what I saw.

My only other experience in a church in My whole life, was attending an old-school Catholic service for a relative's baptism. That Catholic church was formal, stuffy, and full of latin singing from little books. So I was surprised when I arrived in the Pentecostal church and heard awesome rock drumming from outside. And I was excited to learn what the new style of Christians are up to.

I actually arrived in the church through the back entrance. See, the church was positioned in between the main road and the carpark, and the front faced towards the carpark. I took the bus, so I walked from the main road to the Church, and naturally came in through the back. All that spectacle they were pointing at new visitors, and I saw it backwards. That's thanks to car dependent architectural design, which I consider a sin.

Anyway, I came in and looked around, and they had some cool stuff. A cafe, and a couple of arcade machines, free to use. I shot some hoops into the basketball machine and had fun! But they also had these TV screens and pamphlets, advertising this upcoming "miracle offering", which from what I gathered, is a yearly event where people give lots of money to the church. So there's some greed, the second sin I saw that evening.

After that I followed the sound of the drumming into the auditorium, which was set up like a modern theatre, all black walls, big fancy stage, full music and light setup. A preacher was doing some pre-service hype preaching and riling up the crowd, they were cheering. See, Pentecostals put a lot of emphasis on being "moved by the holy spirit". To them, it's all about putting your brain in a state of spiritual ecstasy. So their preacher, rather than teaching lessons in ethics or spiritual fulfillment, was getting them excited and encouraging them to abandon their senses to, uh... well, basically it was like a rave.

I head back out of the auditorium to wait for the acquaintance who invited Me, and chat with the people in the lobby area. I get into a bit of a theological discussion with some other acquaintances, fun casual stuff, and the strangest thing happens. A lady with a big smile comes and interrupts us in the middle of our theological discussion to say hi, tell Me her name, and ask for My name. I say hi and give My name, and she just nods and walks off. She interrupted an interesting conversation for a hi and a name. And I gathered this was completely normal in this environment. Substance discouraged, the superficial appearance of connecting with each other encouraged.

Anyway, the guy who invited Me arrives, and he offers to drive Me home afterwards. I share My preference for the bus, and frame the issue in terms of Christianity. I say Elohim gave the earth to humanity to care for, and polluting with engine exhaust ain't what he had in mind. This guy retorts that Elohim put the oil in the ground for us. I counter with a reference to the Problem of Evil and posit that the oil is there so we have the free will to sin if we want. He switches tactics, and instead says that his car produces less carbon dioxide than the bus does, because it "has eco". And we argue about that until the service starts.

When the service begins, it is LOUD. They've got the volume turned all the way up, I'm talking proper rave conditions. I have autism and I cannot be in that auditorium. So we wait in the lobby for the song to end and the parts I can attend to begin. Third sin: Lack of accessibility for the disabled.

And finally, earplugs in My ears, I head in and prepare Myself for My first experience of the church service. But first, ads! The Miracle Offering is coming up, and I apparently may be moved by the holy spirit to donate money (greed). Also, the church is one of the fastest growing in the world (pride, fourth sin)! And they've recently started opening missions in Nairobi! Crowd goes wild with screaming, yay Nairobi! Yay missions! I complain about the ads to My contact, but he says it's "just the news".

FINALLY, TV time is over and it's time for a preacher to preach to us about Christianity. Oh boy, here's the good stuff! Theology, metaphysics, I hope. This guy's some visiting preacher from America, and he's gone to the effort of learning some jokes to tell about our local neighbourhoods! Later I turn around in My seat and see that they've got those neighbourhoods' names up on a teleprompter so he can just tell generic jokes and ad lib in the local place names without any effort.

But then! Then! He tells a story, and he says the story is gonna teach us about Jesus! YES! This is church, alright, Jesus story!

And the story he tells is something I looked up quite a while later, it's kind of famous, it's the Rag Man story. And I'm not gonna repeat the whole thing, I'll just give you the quick version. There's this guy in New York who trades rags. He takes people's old rags and gives them new ones. In the story, he visits three people: A crying woman, a girl with a head wound, and a one-armed man. He trades their handkerchief, bandages, and jacket for his, and when he does, he takes on their maladies, until at the end he's a bleeding crying one-armed mess.

Now, in the version of the story I found online, the rag man dies of these afflictions, and then rises from the dead unharmed. You know, like Jesus. But this preacher forgot to tell the end of the story. He moves on from that story, with the crowd cheering and experiencing the holy spirit's ecstasy like they're high on all his bullshit, without the part where the rag man died and is reborn. So when I took the bus home from the church service, I was thinking "Gee, Jesus is like a man who takes on others' maladies and then just goes on with his life? Christians are so selfish! You shouldn't enable a person with such self-destructive urges. If it's an emergency then yeah, pray to Jesus. But if you have the strength to heal your own wounds, do that instead of crippling the Jeebus man!"

So yeah, I don't think you're supposed to go to a Pentecostal church with your brain turned on. I say get drunk and pop some pills if you wanna have a good time. Everyone there seemed to be really happy at Rave Church.

Oh, and I learned how to perform a swell from that church drummer. I'm just starting out as a drummer and it's good to see an expert at work. Church musicians are professionals, I do recommend church if you want to learn about music.

I recently started playing Death Stranding! And wow, this is kind of hard to follow. They really let Hideo Kojima do whatever he wants, huh?

Okay so I've gathered that Bridget Strand was the president of America, and mother to Amelie Strand and Sam Strand, now Sam Porter Bridges. And now that Bridget is dead, Bridges wants to make Amelie the president.

And I get that Amelie is a strong leader and a hero to the people, buuuuuuut...

Fuck dynasties. The president should not be the former president's daughter. This is a bad foundation on which to rebuild a country. Old George Washington realised that, he made America pick someone else to succeed him, he didn't want America to have a monarch.

I'm with Sam on this one, fuck Bridges.

Am I misunderstanding the facts? Is there important information that will be revealed later to clear this up and get the player on Bridges' side? Or am I right on the money? Either way I really like this weird bad game, Hideo did a great job.

Fourarms has no special abilities and his strength isn't that special. You could count his extra arms as a special ability, but he barely uses them! Which makes sense, because extra arms aren't that useful. And he's pretty strong, but Ripjaws and even Stinkfly can tear through steel, and Diamondhead and Wildmutt are also great at melee combat, so Ben's rarely lacking in strength. At least Humungusaur and Waybig are big! Fourarms has nothing going for him! In My opinion, he's less useful than Grey Matter.

I think half the time Ben gets the wrong alien is just the Omnitrix going "No, Fourarms is shit, here's a better alien"

Just started playing Death Stranding and the main character has it! Although the game calls it aphenphosmphobia. And I'm not sure it's a phobia, since it's a very rational fear for him.

I also dislike being touched, and I'm glad to have a word for it. Previously I just used the word autism, which is more accurate, but less specific.

This is a screenshot (posted with permission) from our Beam Saber game, BISEXUAL DISASTER MACHINES, which I posted about previously.

I really like this screenshot because it's a heartfelt monologue about the horrors of war and what it does to people. And then, "spaghetti captain bitch", it's funny! The context for that line is that Admiral Natascha Fettucini of the 42nd Naval Group has taken away the squad's sponsor. But I don't think any context is necessary to appreciate the mix of emotions in this scene.

Bonus excerpt:

Hey piefed people. I'm an admin and I'd like to receive an automatic report notification when certain phrases (namely, slurs) federate to our website. Is there a setting to do that? I'm looking at the moderation tab of the admin panel and it's just a list of reports. I don't actually get notified about most reports, which is a problem too. I'd like it to work like the em-dash AI reports that come in.

I got an electronic drum kit from Aldi. It works great, excellent beginner kit!

But it only has two toms, and if I keep up the hobby for years, I know I'm eventually going to want to upgrade. So when I decide to get some better gear, will I be able to keep using some of the old stuff? Will I be able to pick up a new module and an extra pad, and just plug it into the old pads and pedals?

I read online that some drum brands are compatible, but I didn't see anything about Aldi's Huxley drums and what brands they're compatible with.

Thanks in advance, I know musical instruments are a niche technology, but this is the best community I could find.

My fiance was playing After Inc: Revival and I was kinda bored, so I started playing My drums along to the game music. Then I started changing up the beat to reflect what was going on in the game. Then I started associating game events with audio cues, and used the audio cues to guide My partner in the game and help it play better. My partner didn't notice a celebration bubble, so I used music to tell it the bubble was there.

A well designed game soundtrack helps the player understand what's going on and guides them to make good choices. Today I was a game soundtrack.

People sure say some silly things while arguing that truth is objective