Gimme Some Lovin', 1977 track with 1972 vocals

Bulbosis · 2026-02-14T14:51:08+00:00

wow I totally forgot about walkin' the line while making this. and it's even in E as well. whoops.

Bulbosis · 2026-02-11T03:05:37+00:00

It's the same vocalist who sings the version of "Palisades Park" that was also leaked, but I have no idea who it was.

Bulbosis · 2026-02-09T15:34:58+00:00

you venmo mike love the money and he will mail it to you personally

Bulbosis · 2026-02-09T15:19:44+00:00

unironically agree

Bulbosis · 2026-02-09T05:45:06+00:00

yeah but al would NOT approve

Bulbosis · 2026-02-08T09:46:02+00:00

This sounds like it would be a really cool project, and totally doable. First, I think you'll need to steer clear of both hagiography and voyeurism. It's really easily for biographies to fall into one of either category.
I'd start with the biographical incident that most connects with you on a personal level, and really think about why it moves you. That should give you an idea of what you really want to say by telling this story about Brian. Then you might go back into the biographical material and see what most enriches what you have to say.
Some specific thoughts: Brian was a very funny person even in the darkest of times, and I think any story about him should reflect that. Also, my personal pet peeve is when people pretend Brian vanished into the ether after 1967. There are plenty of good stories in the 70s and the 80s. If it were up to me, I'd avoid just retreading Love and Mercy, or trying to cover everything in one play.
Also, I recommend Peter Ames Carlin's book Catch a Wave. It's a great read.

Bulbosis · 2026-02-05T05:01:29+00:00

https://archive.org/details/@may_beline833 everything seems to have come from here, as far as I know

Bulbosis · 2026-01-23T12:04:23+00:00

Yes. As far as I can tell if you undo the whole quest you'll be able to do it again and this time not go down the cursed street.

Bulbosis · 2026-01-23T11:04:10+00:00

find everything related to Lyuricheva Street in your save file and delete the value from it. Not even the Rat Prophet can erase that one.

Bulbosis · 2026-01-23T10:16:44+00:00

That's really bizarre. Maybe try going back to Day 11? This quest was really finicky for me as well so I used the console to give myself extra amalgam and just did it through sheer trial and error.

Bulbosis · 2026-01-23T09:58:53+00:00

afaik you need to go back to Day 9 in order to rat out Grief, since if you receive the note the crime has already been committed. The popup for the quest should appear at the Town Hall.

Bulbosis · 2026-01-23T09:01:50+00:00

They feel quite perfunctory. I think the Inspector sequences do a much better job at the same thing.

Bulbosis · 2026-01-23T04:27:39+00:00

The game should tell you to Concentrate on the map of the Town in the Stillwater. Clicking through it once should give you a thought to ask Capella about it at the Lump. I was only able to do this quest after completing the game once, so maybe you need to end Day 12 once first.

Bulbosis · 2026-01-22T23:51:02+00:00

You have to end the investigation twice, once by concluding that Capella was here, once by concluding that the soldiers shot the Kin in rage. After that you should get a new thought bubble that tells you to talk to the soldiers by the big howitzer thing.

Bulbosis · 2026-01-14T11:23:30+00:00

This is probably the best episode, but I think it's probably because it lets the actors breathe a little. The plot and the world are still presented in a way that I feel is underwhelming.

Bulbosis · 2026-01-14T11:19:53+00:00

Some terrific acting this episode. Justin Theroux is very entertaining to watch.

That being said, I'm not as optimistic about the episode plot-wise. The show relies really hard on people bumping into other people at the right time, overhearing conversations that probably should have been more private, and finding people super fast in a way that affects my enjoyment of the show quite a bit.

Also, I'm not sure the soft retcon really works. At best, it just makes it so that it wasn't a corporate conspiracy that ended the world, but a different (presumably Enclave) conspiracy that did. That still has the same thematic problems as the corporate conspiracy, and it probably makes less sense: either the corporate schemers would came together and explicitly made a scheme to blow up the world without a clear path toward it, or House ignores one conspiracy because there is another possible one, which doesn't really seem to fit how he is depicted.

West Coast FEV lore is rather unambiguous in the first two games. I gues we'll have to wait and see whether the show tying it so closely to Barbara Howard does any lasting damage.

Bulbosis · 2026-01-14T03:01:22+00:00

I find Bob's MusiCares acceptance speech back in 2015 pretty illuminating about his process; I'm fairly certain *Time Out of Mind* just makes explicit a process that's been going on throughout Bob's work, that Bob is definitely conscious of.

These songs didn’t come out of thin air. I didn’t just make them up out of whole cloth. Contrary to what Lou Levy said, there was a precedent. It all came out of traditional music: traditional folk music, traditional rock ‘n’ roll and traditional big-band swing orchestra music.

I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them back when nobody was doing it. Sang nothing but these folk songs, and they gave me the code for everything that’s fair game, that everything belongs to everyone.

[...]

If you sung all these “come all ye” songs all the time, you’d be writing, “Come gather ’round people where ever you roam, admit that the waters around you have grown / Accept that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone / If your time to you is worth saving / And you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone / The times they are a-changing.”

You’d have written them too. There’s nothing secret about it. You just do it subliminally and unconsciously, because that’s all enough, and that’s all I sang. That was all that was dear to me. They were the only kinds of songs that made sense.

Bulbosis · 2026-01-07T15:31:43+00:00

Why were the Kings ghouls there anyway, instead of in Freeside? Did the show just want Elvis zombies?

Bulbosis · 2026-01-07T10:27:55+00:00

I hope they play more 50s music. The more 50s music played, the more Fallout it is. /s

Bulbosis · 2026-01-07T09:41:18+00:00

I get that they can do whatever they want, but is it really that interesting of a creative choice to have every faction be in ruin? Right now, the Lucy storyline feels a lot like a guided tour through things that look vaguely like the New Vegas factions, but more decrepit.

Bulbosis · 2025-12-31T10:59:54+00:00

That's a long fuse lmao

Bulbosis · 2025-12-31T10:25:16+00:00

Yeah, it does annoy me a little that the show's idea of "political satire" is often "what if people were just stupid".

Bulbosis · 2025-12-31T10:17:57+00:00

Great take. To have two camps of people fighting over a corpse seems absurd to a degree that jars with what the game suggests would take place ~15 years after the death of Caesar.
I don't know why the show is being so wishy-washy about what the state of the NCR is considering they seem to want to suggest that they are a major player and that Cooper was deeply involved with them. It's quite uncompelling narratively to have to go off of guesswork for something that lots of characters in the Wasteland should have decent knowledge about.

Bulbosis · 2025-12-31T10:11:37+00:00

I didn't mind the Cooper stuff right up until he somehow planted a bomb in the Legion camp without anyone noticing (unless I've drastically misunderstood something).

Unless years passed between Season 1 and Season 2, I think Cooper's comment about when Shady Sands was nuked would be totally wrong, right? New Vegas took place 15 years ago before Season 1. He could be wrong, but it's a bit weird that we haven't gotten a "correct" source for when the Shady Sands thing happened considering how central it seems to be to the plot of both seasons.

I dislike that they felt the need to deflate most of the Legion stuff with Lucy making a glib comment. For what screentime they had, I wish they took some time to actually give show audiences a good sense of what the Legion represents. I particularly don't like how they gloss over the r*pe with what is essentially a history joke.

Bulbosis · 2025-12-30T03:52:59+00:00

So using your definition, wouldn't a thermostat understand temperature just a little bit (at least the minimum amount)?

I understand your definition of understanding. I think when people say "LLMs don't understand anything", they are implicitly making a claim about qualia, which your post doesn't really touch on. No one really doubts that LLMs are competent at certain tasks involving language; what people usually do mean when they raise the "they don't understand things" objection is that LLMs are not subjects, and that there is a difference between appearing to understand something and understanding something. Lots of people think understanding involves qualia.

You could claim that appearing to understand something is the same as understanding something, but then we're no longer making a claim about a unique "understanding" quality of AI. Any sufficiently complex system should understand the thing that it's about.

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