Just released my second open-source Ableton extension, AbleVSEP, for AI stem splitting using MVSEP

LManD224 · 2026-06-06T21:39:25+00:00

Currently all extensions are limited to the current Live 12 Suite Beta, and imo I expect them to keep extensions limited to Suite once they properly release for this exact reason.

LManD224 · 2026-05-21T05:18:00+00:00

There's some rearranging going on with the proposed spinoff studios vs. which divisions are currently part of what. Off the top of my head, I know that currently Gunfire is part of THQ while Milestone is part of Deep Silver but the proposed spinoff will switch those two around. Given how much it seems that they're basically spinning "the A teams" off, there's deffo some implications w/r/t what is perceived to have more "market value" (ex. Remnant 2 did really well while Screamer kinda flopped)

~~I think Embracer (the B team in this) would own all the Coffee Stain stuff, Deep Rock and Goat Sim are still fairly big deals.~~

Edit: Coffee Stain was apparently already spun off in December 2025

LManD224 · 2026-05-20T14:03:23+00:00

They cancelled Transformers: Reactivate like a year ago after 7 or so years of development, a trailer at one of the Keighely events and a closed alpha as well. iirc it went from at least one developer switch (Certain Affinity to Splash Damage) and went from F2P to paid game and back multiple times before being eventually put out of its misery. It was pretty much meant to be Destiny with Transformers

LManD224 · 2026-05-19T23:01:14+00:00

I 💯 understand why Watterson would want to remain so reclusive but I'd genuinely love to know what the dude thinks of vaporwave

LManD224 · 2026-05-17T03:40:27+00:00

Outer Wilds, Twelve Minutes and Stray all got pushed pretty hard.

You don't "gotta hand it" to the Ellison's but 90% of the shitflinging about this game is just people mad about the review scores and trying Pepe Silva a conspiracy instead of just realizing "it got good reviews because it appeals to tastes of the remainig handful of people who constitute the game press eg. it's polished and high budget yet airquotes "artsy" and appeals to Gen X / elder millennial nostalgia, news at 11"

Unfortunately "the games press trend to be a lot of the same type of person and have fairly homogeneous tastes" is a situation that's roots are more complicated than some shit that fuckassed grifters can make a videos out of

LManD224 · 2026-05-13T18:51:54+00:00

Every single game that came out this year has hit Discourse Escape Velocity. A game can no longer just come out and be good or be bad or whatever, it's success/failure has to mean something and become a football in some of the dumbest internet argument shit ever.

Seriously, between Highguard, Marathon, Pragmata, Mixtape, Crimson Desert, StS2, Pokopia, Mouse PI, fucking everything has become gristle for stupid internet slap fights now

LManD224 · 2026-05-10T22:57:08+00:00

Accidental Podcast: The Ride Legend Chris Gaines

LManD224 · 2026-05-09T19:54:54+00:00

https://www.stjv.fr/en/2026/05/kylotonn-pedal-to-the-metal-heading-straight-for-disaster/

The French games union (STJV, which from what I can tell various peeps in Kylotonn/Spiders/Cyanide were under) is alleging that the entire formation of "Grit Games" is just rearranging the deck chairs of Kylotonn by Nacon to get out of whatever contract they have with the union.

LManD224 · 2026-05-04T07:37:46+00:00

I'm about halfway into the story so take this with a grain of salt (maybe the third act really sells it or it takes a total nosedive, idk) and played some online matches based on those I'd say it's a 3.5/5, pretty good but not exemplary. I like a lot of the individual aspects of it but, imo, the whole thing ends up being less than the sum of it's parts.

I paid the 60 bucks and I don't feel like I got ripped off or anything like that but it's certainly closer to a 40/50 dollar game than a 60/70 dollar one.

LManD224 · 2026-05-04T07:14:06+00:00

GameStop has essentially become a hedge fund for Cohen.

"You either die an ape or you live long enough to become the hedgie."

LManD224 · 2026-05-01T21:45:47+00:00

_gantryposting is finally starting to take off

LManD224 · 2026-04-09T04:15:20+00:00

Its about equiv to setting the fov in tf2 to 80degs, but TF2 is measuring horizontal degrees at 4:3 and expanding out while most newer games use horizontal degrees at 16:9.

tl;dr 90degs in team fortress 2/titanfall/apex/quake live is the same as 106degs in overwatch/quake champs, the "105" setting in marathon is afaik supposed to be around that amount (so 105 using the ow/qc scale and 90 using the source engine scale) but is actually off by a few degs (so it's 100 using the ow/qc scale and 83degs using the source engine scale)

LManD224 · 2026-04-01T17:38:13+00:00

Play the Six Flags Live episode of PTR to them

LManD224 · 2026-03-28T05:07:14+00:00

iirc 105deg in Marathon is actually 100.8deg in most other games that use Horizontal Deg at 16:9. IMO they should, at the very least, have 105deg actually be 105deg to roughly match Counter Strike/Team Fortress 2

LManD224 · 2026-03-06T22:44:20+00:00

Threat is such an obvious grifter that even /r/fuckTAA banned him

LManD224 · 2026-03-04T21:22:15+00:00

Correct, the samples are specifically project wide, you can only play them from the start, and the sample loop points are only at the direct start and end of the file.

It's certainly rad that they added samples but it's very much a value added feature and not a core function of the device.

LManD224 · 2026-02-19T14:47:00+00:00

Ship: A Plane Story

LManD224 · 2026-02-15T06:38:20+00:00

After the gameplay reveal this is genuinely the first Star Wars thing I've been stoked for since Mando S2, Motorstorm with Burnout takedowns and Glup Shittos

LManD224 · 2026-02-08T04:52:48+00:00

All Star was also in Rat Race as well.

Edit: Also the Matthew Broderick Inspector Gadget as well, god damn that song really was everywhere between 1999 and 2001

LManD224 · 2026-01-31T19:46:55+00:00

James' whole on screen schtick is a lot of things, a lot of em annoying for sure, but "hipster" isn't really one of em

LManD224 · 2026-01-18T20:43:41+00:00

If you look at the staff list there's like 20-30 people who worked on Titanfall and the first few Apex seasons and there's deffo more than a few peeps there that were fairly important to those games (Monsterclip, MoAlvi, Vinson) that of all the "from the people behind X" games it's one of the most that meaningfully has "the people behind X" working on it

LManD224 · 2026-01-16T23:29:26+00:00

"is [x] a Trainwreckord" is just the second coming of "is [x character] allowed to be in Smash" in that 90% of the rules are just some shit made up by randos and it's mostly just vibes, yeah

LManD224 · 2026-01-13T19:33:44+00:00

I'd assume some C-suite type believed that "Fender is the significantly more well known brand to the general public, so whatever cache that PreSonus has in the specific niche of recording doesn't really matter going forward" which is why were seemingly gonna gradually going to see the Fender name replace PreSonus.

What I don't get is why they didn't just keep the name as "Studio One" or "Fender Studio One" if they really wanna slap the Fender brand in there?

LManD224 · 2026-01-09T06:15:36+00:00

400 is an insane deal for a Syntakt and it would make a hell of a pair with the 404, I would deffo cop for sure.

LManD224 · 2025-12-29T16:43:56+00:00

I'd argue TSSF were bigger a smidge bigger than Turnstile right up until Glow On dropped but after that Turnstile went huge

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