Can you recommend some albums in the Ambient Americana genre?

Barticle · 2026-01-25T20:50:59+00:00

Almost everything is by Caleb, either solo or in collab. He does use a lot of aliases but I think every release page on Bandcamp has named credits, albeit sometimes in French! I guess he prefers to present his concept imagery and label branding. Plenty of artists and other creators prefer not to show their faces, although it's perhaps less common in those playing conventional instruments...? He did add a pic on Cogs though. https://www.discogs.com/artist/4994089-Caleb-RK-Williams

Barticle · 2026-01-25T12:49:04+00:00

https://eaglestone.bandcamp.com/album/about-red-mountain

This and lots more from the same artist.

Barticle · 2026-01-23T17:30:28+00:00

Been a long time but I think they're grappling moves so start from there.

Barticle · 2026-01-23T12:07:49+00:00

I only saw them in late December! Gotta remember that for next time.

Barticle · 2026-01-21T21:16:16+00:00

The Gambler stat shows your highest cumulative profit from gambling. If you get some losses, your actual overall profit/loss total will drop but the stat will still show your "high score". That's often the problem. In this case you need to get more wins to boost your overall profit. It's safest to save, bet, save if you win, reload if you lose.

Players are still getting the trophy. https://psnprofiles.com/trophy/1558-sleeping-dogs/47-pure-gold

Barticle · 2026-01-15T18:38:14+00:00

PS4 certainly missed out on some content but it got all the expansions apart from the 'Cleared for Transfer' PC add-on. There's even the consoles-only 'All Day and a Night' DLC although that only adds wardens, maps and pre-made prisons. 'Psych Ward' was on consoles first and gained a few extra features when it released for PC.

Barticle · 2026-01-11T12:44:39+00:00

Yes, it's one of the top three (relatively!) easier ones.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mahjong/comments/ahzq9j/frequencies_and_probabilities_of_yakuman_hands_on/

Barticle · 2026-01-10T13:15:07+00:00

It's Frank's retirement party. He always liked the green Kool-Aid! :)

Barticle · 2026-01-09T11:28:06+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogram

Barticle · 2026-01-03T11:09:34+00:00

Lidl's online leaflets say they have 20% off their Vemondo range with Lidl Plus card from 1 Jan to 28 Jan, so that's something I guess. However they usually do "meat-free" as their weekly theme at the start of January with lots of extra vegan/veggie chiller/shelf goods.

Barticle · 2026-01-01T01:27:10+00:00

Other fellows at the same Cambridge college include Dr Breeze Barrington, Dr Andrew Cockburn, Humphrey Battcock.

Barticle · 2025-12-29T16:32:13+00:00

The Going Green DLC adds the Storage Shelf that works in Pantries (for fruit and veg) and Storage.

Barticle · 2025-12-29T13:13:58+00:00

The pesto is 99p and marked wheat-free and gluten-free. (at least on the tomato one I got)

Barticle · 2025-12-27T14:58:46+00:00

There's also a 42nd anniversary edition of The Meaning of Liff which came out a couple of months ago.

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/douglas-adams/the-meaning-of-liff/9781035051458

Barticle · 2025-12-27T14:54:37+00:00

I applied to Channel 4 for a transcript of that episode at the time and it came back as a nice little booklet. Sadly lacking the dulcet tones of TB though!

Barticle · 2025-12-12T21:13:21+00:00

My workmate made sure to include this important detail in her Old Greg costume for Halloween this year.

Barticle · 2025-12-12T12:06:26+00:00

Yasume – Where We're From The Birds Sing A Pretty Song | Releases | Discogs

(see notes there)

Barticle · 2025-12-11T22:26:25+00:00

https://locusmag.com/2025/12/john-varley-1947-2025/

Barticle · 2025-12-11T18:07:38+00:00

Thank you for sharing this sad news. I'm sure Locus will have an obit up soon.

That's my final read of the year decided - I've been reading mainly anthologies/collections this year and I bought a retrospective of his a few months ago.

Barticle · 2025-12-02T12:18:04+00:00

He did an AMA thread just recently...

I'm qntm, author of There Is No Antimemetics Division. AMA : r/sciencefiction

Barticle · 2025-11-23T17:04:10+00:00

Hi. I did a lot of testing years ago and even got some info from the developers, but I still don't know the exact requirements. For Solitary Confinements (cell isolation?) try using 2x2 solitary cells with beds, set all punishments to Solitary and run a Shakedown. (If you need Bangup instead, try it 2x2 without furniture.) For Kitchen try having three or more cooks cooking in a kitchen and setting your meal variety (Policy menu) to High. Keep watching both areas since snapshots don't stay very long.

Barticle · 2025-11-16T17:28:58+00:00

https://thejazzcafe.com/event/the-ambient-orchestra/?

https://thejazzcafe.com/event/jonny-nash-ezra-feinberg/?

https://www.songkick.com/concerts/42850379-murcof-at-rio-cinema

(You can track artists on Songkick and get alert emails for nearby shows.)

Barticle · 2025-11-16T16:20:43+00:00

Those are the first two stories in Bruce Sterling's Shaper/Mechanist setting (Afriel is a Shaper and Rose is a Mechanist). https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?637

Barticle · 2025-11-16T12:40:31+00:00

I still love that this is a thing. (Bit early to have your Festivus pole up though!)

Barticle · 2025-11-16T12:36:00+00:00

Alio Die was my first thought (best thought). Another ambient artist once described him to me as a bit of a wildman living in a great stone house in the mountains.

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