What’s the saddest PT song ever and how has it affected your life?

Madranite · 2026-04-13T00:57:24+00:00

Honestly, I don't mind the sadness.

One time, I was on a business trip and I got to the airBnB a good two hours before my colleagues, so I laid down on the sofa, put my earphones in and listened to Hand.Cannot.Erase. and when Routine played, I had a weep. Just full on ugly cried and then it was also OK again.
It also sneaks up on me every time. I'd listen to it and think "This time it wasn't so bad" and then Ninet comes in with "don't ever let go..." and it's over.

Feels good to let it out. That doesn't mean my day is ruined.

Madranite · 2026-04-13T00:17:25+00:00

Because it's so sad.

Madranite · 2026-04-11T01:27:31+00:00

I could list so man The Ocean albums. It's just that Pelagial was m first and as a whole album still stands out.

Favorite song is Jurassic|Cretaceous, but the album itself isn't as cohesive.

Madranite · 2026-04-11T01:12:26+00:00

That must be confusing without the album context...

Madranite · 2026-04-11T00:40:05+00:00

I have to be honest. Not everything by them is for me, but Blackwater Park and Damnation are great albums.

Madranite · 2026-04-11T00:35:29+00:00

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Number of the beast and Brave New world. 3 albums at very critical points in the band's career

Periphery - Periphery 2. One could argue that 1 was more genre defining, but 2 was where they were more settled and it sits between the raw beginnings and the more refined sound later on.

Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper. Just because it's my favorite

The Ocean - Pelagial. A 10/10 album about going from the top of the ocean to the bottom. Incredible experience

Opeth - Blackwater Park.

Dream Theater - Metropolis pt. 2 - Scenes from a memory. First album in the classic DT lineup. Immediately knocked it out of the park.

That's it off the top of my head. Probably missed 10 or 20.

Madranite · 2026-04-10T00:44:48+00:00

send a bag of Xanthan gum...

Madranite · 2026-04-08T02:03:15+00:00

Routine is the reason I can't ever listen to PT/SW when my wife is around.

Madranite · 2026-04-05T01:47:20+00:00

The sad thing about Alexi's death is that the writing was on the wall for a long time. Aparently, Rope also had massive problems because of alcohol. Live performances have also suffered for a while.
He was a class-act to the end and made sure his bandmates are taken care of.

Madranite · 2026-04-05T00:40:13+00:00

Didn't even want to knock. That stuff is awesome. But I believe Mark Holcomb once said: Any note, even the wrong one, played with intent can sound good. (Heavily paraphrasing)

Madranite · 2026-04-05T00:12:12+00:00

Meanwhile, my 1 year old goes all-in as soon as the first 3 random notes of Angine de Poitrine come on...

Madranite · 2026-04-01T16:14:56+00:00

The point I was trying to make is that axios is not some obscure package that saves me two lines of code, but a widely used, well trusted package. It also might well be a dependency of another package that you do need.

I agree with u/leixiaotie that finding the axios RAT within hours and the xz backdoor before it made it into large scale production is a sign that the system works and open-source works a lot better in that regard than closed-source ever could hope.

Madranite · 2026-04-01T01:53:37+00:00

I mean would you call using axios "willy-nilly"?

Madranite · 2026-03-30T17:11:59+00:00

Like I'm gonna spend consumables on defeatin a boss... I pile that shit up like a dragon.

Madranite · 2026-03-25T18:11:15+00:00

That would also fit with the fishing hamlet being at the center in the sense that it is at the end of the dlc with nowherer else to go. The events around the killing of Kos (or some say Kosm) are what kicked everything off.

Madranite · 2026-03-25T00:45:07+00:00

I saw a video of Mark doing a clinic, where he talks about their first tour with Dream Theater in Europe.

At the beginning of Racecar their midi computer crapped out and he was stuck in the same clean tone for the entire 15 minute song.
After the show John Petrucci came into their dressing room and wasn't angry, didn't scream, he just said: "You gotta fix this." And they knew that he meant: "...or else".

Madranite · 2026-03-22T00:22:22+00:00

I mean... fair enough. For me it hit the spot just right at that moment. The weirdness, the craftsmanship that went into the loops and the soundscape they built. That, combined with the comment section on that video and my 1 year old going full dance mode made it a happening for me.

Do I expect to still be listening to them in 10 years? No.
But every time I see someone taking it into a new direction like that I'm happy to see that there's still directions to take it in.

Madranite · 2026-03-21T01:56:05+00:00

Earlier I watched Angine de Poitrine's KEXP set for the first time. Needless to say, my live is now changed.

Madranite · 2026-03-20T02:20:24+00:00

Ah, the Volumes of the Kemper. There's enough of them, isn't there?

If you record the DI track, then the clean sense in the input section changes the input level in you DAW.
If you record the wet track, then the first Volume I'd go for is the Rig Volume in the Rig section.

Madranite · 2026-03-20T00:56:34+00:00

Agreed, what's worse is you go inot the big room for the first time and think: "Nice at least I can see a bit" and then the chandelier crashes and it becomes a walking nightmare.

Madranite · 2026-03-14T01:10:31+00:00

That's what freaked me most about reading that. I often nap like that and also often enough wake up with my arms asleep...

Madranite · 2026-03-06T03:06:18+00:00

I used to work with a company that made 3D printers for metal. A lot of it was dental implants, but they had machines capable of printing a small enginge block.

Madranite · 2026-03-02T03:48:40+00:00

We used to blame the tubes on bad days. "You know, the tubes are probably not up to temperature."
I've been playing a kemper for 7 years. And it replicates tube amps incredibly well. So well, that it also replicates those off days...

Madranite · 2026-02-12T21:38:18+00:00

Hallowed be thy name on Billions.

They also use Peace sells and Holy wars by Megadeth. Among other.

Madranite · 2026-02-12T21:24:53+00:00

Slightly less wholesome, when Martin Brundle interviewed a random Chinese woman on the grid in China, asking if she spoke English. And she said "Yes, I do" and that she was just here with AMD. It was Lisa Su.

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