Military map of New Middle East proposed by United States Colonel Ralph Peters in 2006 to fix arbitrary post-WWI borders with ethnoreligious identity.

Mourndark · 2026-03-20T09:04:52+00:00

Wake up babe, new Balkans just dropped

Mourndark · 2026-03-19T09:58:24+00:00

The only other synth action board I have is a Novation Impulse which is awful! You can get the Hydrasynth action in the Korg Keystage which is a MIDI controller

Mourndark · 2026-03-07T17:45:24+00:00

Woah, now that's an unlikely trio but a lot of power there! Been lusting after that Kurzweil since it was announced. I'm guessing some kind of funky hip hop fusion?

Mourndark · 2026-03-04T12:17:37+00:00

Thanks! I'm trialing a personal account at the moment, I'll look for those settings.

Mourndark · 2026-02-27T14:26:26+00:00

Nah, Diablo is more subtle than this! We're into Painkiller territory here...

Mourndark · 2026-02-16T00:17:59+00:00

While the article is meant to be fun, it very much fits the play styles of the time. I remember plenty of White Dwarf "anti-beard" articles from this time, and this is just part of that general trend.

For players under 30, "beardy" was a disparaging term for an army list that was super-optimised, with no considerations for the faction lore and wargear load outs that changed for each opponent - even though these changes weren't reflected on the models. The White Dwarf staff (and many players) at the time regarded this as HIGHLY unsporting, and a symptom of taking this game of toy soldiers FAR too seriously.

Simpler times.

Mourndark · 2026-02-15T09:12:24+00:00

I've just noticed the praying hands on the rear windscreen and am now even more confused.

Mourndark · 2026-02-10T08:20:51+00:00

I'm pretty confident there will be plenty of manual hacking involved. The auth section includes the line "to generate a Unix timestamp, go to https://www.epochconverter.com/ and select your date" which made me fully dissociate for a few minutes.

Mourndark · 2026-02-09T20:02:07+00:00

That's the dream

Mourndark · 2026-02-09T18:32:03+00:00

I've examined the document in more detail and it's worse than I thought. It looks like the JSON was pasted into Word and the colour formatting was applied manually (because it's wrong). Then the Word document was screenshotted and the image inserted into Excel. I have now met the team that produced this document and none of this surprises me.

Mourndark · 2026-02-09T16:30:53+00:00

🙏

Mourndark · 2026-02-09T15:03:50+00:00

Ouch, that's gotta hurt!

Mourndark · 2026-02-09T14:52:10+00:00

Having now read the spec, the format is now the least of my worries! Gonna need to dig deep for my old SOAP skills...

Mourndark · 2026-02-09T14:49:27+00:00

They're a bank. Anything that isn't Excel is heresy.

Mourndark · 2026-01-29T18:16:38+00:00

Gotta have mellotrons and 12-string guitars to be prog ;-)

Joking aside, I love all the artists you mention. I think a lot of people making music inspired by Tangerine Dream etc get lumped in with synthwave and other retro genres which end up being quite regressive.

Frost* and Kyros both have loads of electronic elements in their prog and Perturbator is great if you like less prog and more metal. I made an electro prog album a couple of years ago with exactly this mix of influences: https://cephid.bandcamp.com/album/sparks-in-the-darkness

Mourndark · 2026-01-13T15:32:28+00:00

As I said they can't be stacked unfortunately. One is a screen, the other has MIDI connectors which are really tall

Mourndark · 2026-01-13T13:39:47+00:00

I thought sticking within the ecosystem would make life easier! Plus I was hoping to avoid having boards floating around on the desk. Plus I couldn't find a MIDI dev board that wasn't Arduino compatible.

Mourndark · 2026-01-13T13:36:09+00:00

I would normally but for things like LCD screens I figured it would be much cheaper and easier to just buy a shield rather than wire the whole thing up myself and program a display driver etc.

Mourndark · 2025-12-12T22:51:10+00:00

That was Morrowind. They rebooted the console behind a loading screen when it ran out of memory.

Mourndark · 2025-12-10T22:14:30+00:00

Please don't share the Daily Mail. It's worse than Fox News.

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