And to explain the connection a little further:
The name “Al-Khwarezmi” is also basically just “of Khwarezmia” in the first place, so the entire time we have been naming the way youtube decides what to show you after a place in Uzbekistan
Also, she should be able to remove herself from the conversation if she wants to. If she’s at work then she can’t do that, for example, but if you’re at a public park then she can just walk off. At least that’s how I think of it. Obviously I don’t ever want to make someone feel like they have to if I’m just trying to chat, but the point is if they have the option then it should be way less likely to wind up that way
Oh shit, turns out [email protected] exists. If anyone has ideas for animal hybrids to photoshop, suggest away
Is that sort of wrestling actually a sport? It seems like anything with scripted results is more of a stage play to me. Which is totally fine if that’s what someone wants to go see, it’s essentially just the theatre counterpart to an action movie
I think a lot of us rugby fans who see American football try to watch it like rugby too. The impression I get from talking to Americans is that going to the football is a day out (or in) wth friends and you’re only actively watching sometimes with regular breaks for food and the like
Well sometimes it’a fun to see people be really good at things, and sometimes it’s fun to get invested in something with other people
Doing your own sports is good, obviously, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive unless you’re completely out of free time
Alright @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] here we go. I picked up some of my cat Alaric’s favourite treats so we could get that authentic “give me food” sound as I kept them away from him.
I went with a virtual amp instead of the actual pedals so that I could show the exact same clips with and without amplification. I tried replicating something like the two pedals that are visible, but I couldn’t get it to work with the stuff that I already have so I just went ahead and dialed in a general death metal-ish tone of high drive distortion > Marshall JCM 900 with the mids scooped > a little tiny bit of reverb > a 4x12 cab. The clip has ten seconds of guitar recorded straight into the computer, the exact same guitar clip but with the amp turned on, then Alaric, and then the same clip of Alaric but amplified. Headphones warning, it is quite loud
https://vocaroo.com/13XyCW2raFOE
Also a picture of the star vocalist, of course
Battle Beast
Noora Vuorinen’s voice should be on the UNESCO world heritage list
I love Myrkur’s stuff. How heavy it is varies widely from album to album, anywhere from straight traditional Danish folk music to the lighter end of black metal, but I like both ends of that spectrum
There’s also Feminazgul, who I’m not super keen on but their name is so good that they deserve a mention anyway
I am personally a big fan of Voices of the Past and Fall of Civilisations.
Voices is very specific in what it does. It doesn’t actually give you a historian’s perspective, it’s strictly primary sources translated into English and then read out as-is. Since it makes absolutely no attempt to account for material evidence or the biases of the authors it is much more about the perspective of individuals from the time than recounting accurate history, but I think that’s very interesting
As its name suggests, Fall focusses on the end of civilisations, ranging from the Greenland Norse and Rapa Nui to Han China and Byzantium.
It doesn’t hurt that the speakers in both have very pleasant voices
I have a cat, a mic, and pedals. I’ll leave this comment as a reminder for myself to come back later once I’m done working and see if I can get the house-panther to do some vocals
Well hey, it’s quite easy to do! I used Shotcut’s filters, which is free
Most extra virgin olive oil starts to solidify somewhere around 5-10 C. Different manufacturing processes and different tyoes of olive oil can after if and when it happens though
Her style is a super stripped-down one with almost all instrumentation just being her voice through a vocoder. This cover includes a bit more traditional instrumentation than usual for her work, but it’s still quite stark next to the original. It comes across as very pensive, which I think works nicely with the lyrics
Fair enough, if you’ve tried it you’ll know better than me. I prefer other types of pasta most of the time so I don’t have to store spaghetti often
Olive oil solidifies at fridge temperatures, surely it wouldn’t help much here?
Just a reverse image search on the photo. I was mostly just hoping to find the source to see if that had anything helpful, but when I saw a ResearchGate link in the results it caught my eye
I found a paper that mentions this photograph https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348506390_Return_to_the_Native_Earth_Historical_Analysis_of_Foreign_Influences_on_Traditional_Architecture_in_Burkina_Faso/download
The photo was taken by Walter Mittelholzer and is the “figure 6” referenced in this quote:
“In terms of urban planning, the two cultural worlds also clashed due to their completely opposing approaches. The classic European order, designed and based on the grid as an urban design tool, was diametrically opposed to the spontaneous and organic order of local groupings. The current great city of Ouagadougou, which was then composed of clusters of houses and the first facilities, was already beginning to adapt to this new foreign planning. The impressive photographs taken by Swiss pilot Walter Mittelholzer during his flight over the city in 1930 left valuable evidence of the time when the two orders coexisted (Figures 5 and 6). However, this coexistence was not to last long since, as can be seen in the images, it was to be the fabric of the new French planning that would finally prevail in city development.”
So basically, France said “you have to build your cities on a grid now” and the local Mossi people interpreted that their own way
It probably helped that he had a relatively minor role in it too. The face of his faction of characters in the film was Luv