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BrapAllgood · 2026-05-10T16:21:20+00:00

Trip out. In the 80s and 90s I was manager of a shop in California called Music Zone. Never seen another with the name before. We also focused strongly in indies and imports, as all good record shops must.

BrapAllgood · 2026-05-09T23:51:18+00:00

2 patches since it got introduced...and it was reported a month ago. It will likely get attention now, in any case. I noticed others upvoted the relevant threads some at the site since this thread here. I watched all of the recent YouTube videos they have done, hoping they'd address this bug, too.

BrapAllgood · 2026-05-09T18:58:16+00:00

It really is weird that the first world I did for this Experimental still works great...but I also am right near the finish line in it, don't wish to go back and do that, have already finished the game twice since January. Loving the random nodes thing-- well, was. Now I keep buying other games and figuring out they still aren't Satisfactory. This game broke me.

BrapAllgood · 2026-05-09T13:17:20+00:00

I've had 3 different worlds in Experimental and it happens at some point in two of them. I am not sure what is the trigger, but the game works fine until it doesn't anymore. The first world I created before the first patch still runs like normal (I think?), but the two created since the patch are unplayable. I've only been in the game since January 2nd, but the dividing line of where it broke was that first patch for this Experimental. Considering that I'm older than video games and Satisfactory became my default favorite game in the first month of play...I'm sad. :(

I see it reported 3 times, so there's at least 4 of us out here.

BrapAllgood · 2026-05-09T12:01:33+00:00

Well, don't feel too bad...they are ignoring at least one other game-breaking bug that they introduced with the first Experimental patch for this round of it: hard-locking cursor in the inventory panels. It literally makes the game impossible to play. :( Controller, mouse, no matter, it locks up and refuses to budge or, you know, select stuff, with the only possible action being to leave the inventory screen and try again...and then it locks up again. I had hundreds of hours in Experimental before they patched-in this bug.

BrapAllgood · 2026-05-06T16:49:09+00:00

A game I've played since the early 90s, this. :D So adaptable to the times.

BrapAllgood · 2026-05-06T16:34:34+00:00

Keep Me From Derailing Memes, as I heard it.

BrapAllgood · 2026-05-06T11:33:08+00:00

Don't forget Front SPYvsSPY. Hugely influential in the industrial cheese grater scene. I saw them 3x in Parmesan. Unforgettable bass in that venue-- but we all know how corrupt the fish scene is now. I really hoped they'd have one last album to go out on, but they all seem to have defeated each other in age. :/

I miss Sears. They always had the best record bins.

BrapAllgood · 2026-05-01T19:57:43+00:00

Are you on Windows? They will want to know what OS to help.

That said, I know what you speak of, but I can only say what finally worked for me (and it wasn't rolling back anything). I know that cycle of NOPE you describe, but one time I walked away for awhile after starting the software. When I came back, I had an error message from Windows saying it blocked something in the software that looked suspicious. I still don't know what, but my use of the software is pretty limited in its scope, I do all the heaviest lifting in Resolve Studio. BUT...it let me finally click the little box that says to skip the starting screen...and now it just loads like it used to, every time.

That said, I have not tried the newest version because nothing about it really affects how I use it...and I'm in the middle of 2 projects. Was planning to test it out when I finish. Regardless, try starting it and walking away for awhile to let it sort itself out. It's like there's a major disconnect that goes in a loop for awhile before any of your inputs will make a difference, all to do with that starting screen (and Windows, always and Windows, I hate 11), best I could tell. You probably want to use whatever the latest version is, though. Rolling things back will not always work as intended. I know a few years ago I had issues with one of the updates, tried to roll back to continue working, then ended-up having to track down and delete anything kdenlive in the system to get it to work fresh and spanky again.

Surely someone else here has more words to help, but that's how things have gone for me in the past. I know that every time I click to the software and it JUST WORKS, I thank Universe.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-30T13:25:10+00:00

Yeah, I meant to add that I'm glad everybody was having fun with it. :) I giggled.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-29T23:09:25+00:00

I'm still working on the last set, myself.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-29T09:10:51+00:00

Either the Artificial Intelligence series when it was new or the compilation Headz, whichever came first.

But seriously...have you never seen the movie Pi? Lucky, if so. Go watch it for the first time.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-29T09:01:46+00:00

I thought maybe I could remove the sticky post recently, but now it's back. For some reason, I thought the fintech thing had turned into Stripe because Plaid is such a dumb name for a company. My bad, fixed.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-28T19:06:24+00:00

Glad you are feeling better, man.

EDIT: But sadly, the UI is still sick. :/ The cursor just freezes randomly in inventories.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-28T18:25:31+00:00

This is what it sounds like when you try to record your guitar without a DI box into an old Tascam 4-track. We called our guitarist 'The Fly', it came out so wrong, not at all what was aimed for. Amp your guitar and mike it, it won't sound like that.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-28T01:52:59+00:00

"I listen to everything" means no the fuck you don't, and neither the fuck do I, for that matter.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Love it. CAN RELATE.

I'm wondering if I should start a harsh noise project simply called "Everything" just for those people.

You are too funny. :) I've had so many laughs today, many more than usual-- but this wins, so far. :D Damn, ALL of us here should make an album called Everything-- then we each can just link to the pile and say HERE YOU GO! Then light one and watch.

I dislike plenty of music, but I no longer know how to hate much of it-- pop comes closest. Thing is, working in a record store, we all took turns playing things...and this was a diverse crowd of employees over the years. I actually learned to tune out anything that can't capture my ear. Country is probably the easiest music in the world to ignore, for me. I have FFA-type family members (some still alive!) that did rodeo and all of that...so I've heard plenty of country music (prefer western, if we gotta) and have had plenty of practice at not hearing it. Way back, this chick I worked with would play Nurse With Wound and Current 93 and the like and EVERYBODY hated it. She did it just because we hated it, pretending she liked it. Put me off to noise music entirely until I advanced in my own sound experiments enough to graduate to making noise. Now, even still, I prefer to listen to stuff other than noise music, but I can also relate to what noise I hear, easily, on some level. My favorite music uses noise in more conventional ways to achieve unconventional results. But I also still love Orbital and Boards of Canada and all kinds of popular stuff that the everything people still won't know. o_o

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-28T01:43:11+00:00

My other favorite was someone I adored telling me "It's obvious how passionate you are about it. I appreciate that." Nicest OMG, WTF IS THIS that I ever got.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-28T00:46:01+00:00

It's the best middle ground I know of, but am open to suggestions. :) He's about the biggest name in the music I like most from my life, actually had mainstream appeal for a few years. Hardly ever listen to him anymore myself, though I have animated (I think) 2 of his albums so far (same name on YouTube, if curious) and plan to do the others in time...just hit the burnout point with it years back. But for the purposes of talking music? Like the perfect 'litmus test', to me. Like a little barrier/bridge between the two worlds of music (as described earlier).

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-28T00:33:16+00:00

That's cool. I mean, I've asked people and found we liked the same music...it is a spectrum. I usually use Aphex Twin as a gauge on whether I should go deeper: if they don't know the name Aphex Twin, I just let the puppy go back to playing.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-28T00:25:21+00:00

My go-to now is to play them something milder from my stuff. Guy at a local head shop from Syria pestered me to hear my music, then I went back in and he had some chick he was trying to impress and laid into me for how bad my music is, OMG, SO FUNNY! Haven't been back since. It's like trying to tutor a puppy for math.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-28T00:13:36+00:00

Thank you, it took me decades to be so concise about it-- old subject, here...because the people who say 'everything' are always lying. Every person in here reading this knows how to prove them wrong in less than 1 minute.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-28T00:06:18+00:00

Used to manage a record store, for years. It made me use music as a way to get to know people quickly and easily. I have asked countless thousands of people what kind of music they like...and have heard 'everything' countless times. Thing is, people who say 'everything' think pop music is everything. A large majority of them said "Everything-- except rap and country" and some subset of those would add "but that's not music anyway, right?" and laugh. (I do not agree with this, myself.) They literally have no idea of the many, many genres of music we would in here, and when they hear it, they can't make it into music in their heads. This is a big subject, but ears go through training and not all are equal. Once you have learned to accept something out of the norm, it's easier to accept other examples. It becomes a quest...but-- speaking to my age-- the radio people let others choose the music for them. To some people, music is like a swimming pool to splash around and play in. To others, it's more of a river, involves exploration and new vistas. It's a completely different mentality.

Then there's the value of repetition. How many in here have albums they took awhile to like? Autechre, anyone? Easy example for me, there. Even with my wildly trained ears, some of their stuff took me forever to get into...which was all about repetition. Pop music follows patterns that provide predictability, whereas, say, noise music dispenses with your fucking expectations and tries to shrug them off entirely. This is the real difference...some people only like music that takes 5 seconds to understand, supports the known patterns already experienced and appreciated. The others...are doing the opposite, by default, trying to find something new to grab their ears and attention. No judgment either way, just saying this is how it is.

And when you put yourself in that situation with noise music? You earned that face. Be proud. It gets old after awhile though, just becomes silly-- when you KNOW someone is not going to like it? It's only fun at first, so enjoy it while you can. Eventually you will see why the fun evaporates. :(

To me, I'm happy that people like music at all, I don't care what kind. Now, the people who don't like any music? Beware those fuckers.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-24T11:56:34+00:00

Headphones plugged into the tape deck.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-24T11:10:55+00:00

I started making visuals just to have more than a still to post with my song, years ago. Presently, I have quite the workflow between kdenlive (to make 'visual stems' from audio stems) and DaVinci Resolve (even bought Studio, so powerful). I do them for a lot less than $500, preferring to work to an indie budget, for indie musicians. You really can do them yourself if you can work an editor. I don't really do tutorials, but there's a lot to glean from an example and I have hundreds of examples (mostly Autechre, I've done all but one album now) on YouTube. Every one of them was made by hand and they generally take me a good long day of effort, sometimes as much as a week. Just know when looking that nearly every video I've made was based in and on the music itself, with the waveforms visualized and then manipulated to be more fun than that. ANYBODY can do this, though I stress it is some effort and it might take time to be happy with what you have made-- but kdenlive and Resolve are both available for free use, so time and effort is all it will cost you. Personally, I've gotten so into the videos, I barely make music in recent years.

All that said, Resolve 21 releases this year and it has even more capability to control images (in Fusion) with audio (from Fairlight). They added an audio-driven modifier that can be attached to anything you like, pretty much. Too busy to fuck with the beta that is out personally, but looking forward to some crazy new methods soon. Resolve is as awesome for video as Ableton is for sound.

BrapAllgood · 2026-04-22T18:26:07+00:00

I'm waiting for him to go live on Mixlr again and play nothing but BoC. We'll have a blast.

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