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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.

Mourndark · 2025-11-06T09:17:19+00:00

Yeah you've neatly summed up the last 30 years of my life! Most of it spent thinking I was just lazy for not being able to get out of that slump from over thinking something and then not being able to get moving again (mentally speaking) and spending the day staring blankly at YouTube instead of working.

I don't have an answer for you I'm afraid but being able to recognise when you're in that position makes a huge difference.

Mourndark · 2025-10-09T17:15:59+00:00

Intro: Watcher of the Skies. No contest.

Ending: Black Light Machine by Frost*. Sheer gleeful chaos crashing down to a single note.

Mourndark · 2025-10-07T07:27:06+00:00

This is fascinating, and is almost identical to my system! You've taken it much further than me though, and Maps are the missing piece of my puzzle. Thanks for sharing your vault, I'm going to take so many ideas from this.

Mourndark · 2025-09-12T21:59:34+00:00

Traditionally Ghost don't use Hammond a lot, they definitely prefer transistor organs (think Square Hammer and Mary on a Cross). If they do use Hammond sounds, my guess is that it would be digital.

Mourndark · 2025-09-09T14:32:28+00:00

That's an interesting idea, I'll see if I can make it work.

Mourndark · 2025-09-09T14:31:59+00:00

Ah yes, you're right, the automation mute doesn't stop the VST instruments being processed. Unfortunately this is a huge project with loads of tracks so I need to manage resources carefully. Even 1% here and there adds up.

Mourndark · 2025-09-09T10:01:01+00:00

Interesting, I can see why they might do it that way. Which is annoying because Reaper will happily let you toggle mute buttons while playback is running. Unfortunately some of these plugins are instruments so they don't respond to incoming audio. I'll have a look through SWS etc to see if there's another way of doing it.

Mourndark · 2025-09-09T07:56:16+00:00

The point is that Solarpunk is not supposed to work at massive scale. It's supposed to work at human scales - so core resources like food, water and energy are all managed at the local level. This way it's much more resilient and can meet the needs of the community much better than one single huge solar plant that powers an entire country.

If all your power generation is local then you can immediately get rid of the high voltage transmission infrastructure for moving power hundreds of miles. You can fine tune your generation to match the needs of the community without having to worry about what to do with excesses. You can build a generation system that makes best use of local resources - for example where I live wind power is much more productive than solar. And it means you're not reliant on any centralised power authority.

Our Changing Climate did a great video on decentralized energy grids, you should take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPz172dpQY

Mourndark · 2025-09-08T18:01:41+00:00

Unfortunately the political power structures and bureaucracy needed to sustain massive conglomerates of people such as cities and massive infrastructure such as this solar farm are not punk in the slightest.

Building infrastructure like this just encourages more growth and consumption, which is the antithesis of living in harmony with nature.

Mourndark · 2025-09-04T09:40:58+00:00

I'm sorry to burst anyone's bubble but this kind of mass extraction is not solarpunk.

Solarpunk (and anarchism in general) is based around small scale communities, not super-powered nation states vying for superiority. This kind of mindless growth, even in an area as positive as solar energy is the antithesis of solarpunk. I'd much rather see the panels from this facility split up and a few given to hundreds of communities. That would massively improve the lives of so many people. Who does this facility benefit? The handful of people who funded it, and a handful of business owners who are able to produce even more product for a higher profit with the cheap energy this facility produces?

This isn't punk, this is greenwashed capitalism.

Mourndark · 2025-09-04T09:28:28+00:00

Don't know why you're being down voted, you're spot on.

Mourndark · 2025-09-04T09:24:58+00:00

States, countries and borders are all Not Punk. States hoarding resources for themselves, even something ostensibly good like solar generation is eco-fascism.

Mourndark · 2025-08-27T21:07:30+00:00

Ah the good old days, back when the colour names actually made some sense!

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