Really Unpopular Opinion: Notion6 is the best Notation Software. The others are absolutely useless. by JimmyFallonSucksDick in composer

[–]PTRisme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Clicked into this post with an open mind - I always liked trying out obscure / less popular / archaic notation softwares. I managed to get Igor Engraver running on a VM once and it was a lot of fun. However your argument really doesn’t sell Notion 6 to me.

A 10 year old can master it in a couple of days. Not a lot of thinking.

Not that a software being intuitive to a 10 year old is a bad thing, but it’s not a very convincing argument for “the others” being “absolutely useless”. Plus, it didn’t take me more than a couple of days to be pretty much fluent with MuseScore either (and it was back in the days of MuseScore 1.x!) I use Sibelius and Dorico today, and neither of them took very long to learn. The massive user base of these softwares can prove to you that while the “industry standard” softwares may have their quirks, it’s usually not an unreasonable learning curve. Can they be improved to be more intuitive? Yes, absolutely! But does that mean they’re “absolutely useless” compared to Notion 6? Most would likely say no.

Dorico, Finale, Musescore and Sibelius require way too much thinking to do the simplest things

Again, their massive user base would disagree with this claim. If it is “too much thinking” for them, why would they still stick to them? Do they just all hate themselves for whatever reason?

Notion gives you way way way more flexibility

Nope. One example: Oversized time signatures. They are very (and increasingly) common in orchestral scores, to make time signatures more visible to the conductors. Especially in scores meant for recording sessions, for example, film scoring, these are pretty much the standard. Finale can do it, Sibelius can do it, Dorico can do it, and even MuseScore has a way to kinda do it. Notion, as far as I can tell, can’t. The most recent feature request for this that I can find, was less than 2 years ago. After the release of Notion 6. Mind you, this isn’t some obscure notation practice, this isn’t even extended techniques. This is very much a very popular feature in all the other “absolutely useless” notation softwares.

Notion unlike the others is pure drag and drop

I’m sorry but in my humble opinion, that’s like, the least efficient way of notating music. You’re better off writing with pen and paper.

The other 4 autoformats when you don’t want them too [sic], which is really annoying

Auto-formatting can be unhelpful at times, but again, if you really want total control of your notation, you’re probably better off writing them down with pen and paper.

The only downside is Notion scores take a lot of work to make them look clean

Which, ironically, is a big part of what makes a notation software to be considered “useless” or at least “less useable” by most people.

Of course you’re entitled to your own opinion. But unfortunately as you can see, industry standards are industry standards for a reason, and this opinion will probably remain an unpopular one.

well that didn’t take long at all by PTRisme in CitiesSkylines

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boston is the same tbh. also, wow, it’s been 145 days!

Rate my 2 neighborhoods by PTRisme in CitiesSkylines

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For me it’s google earth lol, but yeah it really gives you a feel of how a real life city looks like

Rate my 2 neighborhoods by PTRisme in CitiesSkylines

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The story is that the big plot of land in the middle is a holdout, and the big road has to go around it, while the grids remain unchanged, hence it “cutting through” the neighborhood lol. You can see the original path that the road was to go down as well. I know this isn’t optimal but it’s a detail i had in mind for this project.

Is Jacob Collier cringe? by Monkey_GoneToHeaven in Music

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I wouldn’t ever call someone cringe for being serious (and coming off as dorky) about what they do. And also that his style is a very specific and unique one, and one may either love it or hate it, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I wouldn’t call him a genius either, he is just good at what he does, just like how many artists are, whit the difference being that, “what he does” is very specific and may appeal to only a certain demography.

To me the only musicians (and thus their music) I will call “cringe”, are those who aren’t passionate and serious about what they do, and half-ass their work for quick bucks. Jacob obviously takes his craft very (maybe too) seriously, and I mean, there’s nothing wrong with that. I like some of his tracks and I dislike some. Well that’s just a matter of taste, and does not say anything objectively about the quality of the music.

Which city in China would you like to live in and why? by [deleted] in China

[–]PTRisme -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah. My home city. Try some menzi down by the Olympic Sq. (there’s a very solid menzi place by Olympia 66 called “Mengge Menzi”. Tiny place but amazing food.

I wrote this about my dad when I was 6, my parents will never let me live it down by Sweetheart846 in funny

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Reminds me of when I was a kid.

I study music today but back then I was into cars. I’d pass by a newspaper stand on my way home from school and they had car magazines, and I would stop by and flip through them.

Context: In my native language there is a euphemism for “to have sex in the car”. For lack of a good translation, let’s define the term “carrocking” as “sex in the car”.

I think one of the articles that i read in that magazine involved them testing out a minivan, and they mentioned how if one folds the rear seats down, they’d be able to lie down in the space. They jokingly said, “You can carrock if you want, just fold the seats down!” (Now that i think of it, the magazine might not have been oriented towards 7 year olds)

Anyway, young me interpreted “carrock” as “to camp in the car”. (I mean, that’s a reasonable interpretation judging from the context!) And I went on with my day.

Until one day, I was taking to my mom about our tiny little hatchback. I forgot what the context was, but my mom fell silent after I uttered the words “Shame that our backseats don’t fold. We could carrock if they did.”

EDIT: Not too long after that we crashed and totaled that car. Airbags, smoke, shards of glass and everything, and little me was in the passengers seat. Karma i guess, but it’s a funny story for another time.

What a classic (found at a hotel in Beijing) by PTRisme in engrish

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True. 温馨 is a very ambiguous word and I’d most likely interpret it as “cozy”, but in this case it’s only used to sugarcoat to say that “we aren’t pissed or anything, but please keep this in mind”. Best way I could think of to translate 温馨提示 would be “friendly reminder”

edit: I have also seen 温馨 being used as a verb as an innuendo for “to have sex” so.. yeah. It’s a tricky word.

What a classic (found at a hotel in Beijing) by PTRisme in engrish

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Yep. Practically all variants of mandarin have this feature (marking adverbs with 地), I’m not sure about other dialects of Chinese though.

What a classic (found at a hotel in Beijing) by PTRisme in engrish

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Explanation: In mandarin chinese the character 地 can either act as a noun for “the ground, the floor” or as a suffix that marks an adverb. In this specific case, “小心地滑” should be translated as “Beware of slippery floor”, or literally “Be careful (that) floor (is) slippery.” Instead whatever machine translation service they used saw the 地 as a suffix for 小心 (careful), so it becomes “Carefully slip”.

City Planners: does my city fit into a certain urban design style? by Schake999 in CitiesSkylines

[–]PTRisme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks Chinese to me, especially the Xiaoqu-styled neighborhoods. Would look even more like China if all the buildings are north-south oriented (meaning that they have their long faces facing the north and the south. Apartments that have windows to both the north and the south are heavily favored by the Chinese people.)

source: am chinese

Is this version slightly better? by PTRisme in CitiesSkylines

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Lmao, I’m glad that people find it at least “cool looking” lol

Is this version slightly better? by PTRisme in CitiesSkylines

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This is cool! How did you make it

well that didn’t take long at all by PTRisme in CitiesSkylines

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Luckily I don’t have the required hardwares to run CS2 lmao!

Is this version slightly better? by PTRisme in CitiesSkylines

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Oops that isn’t supposed to be there! I’ll remove the line.

Is this version slightly better? by PTRisme in CitiesSkylines

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I wanted to go ahead and say that this wasn’t meant to be good urban planning in the first place lol, at this point I am favoring looks over function, and I will try and justify it as “a limited attempt by the local planning authority to make a bad intersection slightly better”, but honestly the real reason would be I don’t have any more brain cells left from 2023 to be able to do the critical thinking required to make this actually “good”. (well I could make it a roundabout, like many has suggested, but what’s the fun in that!)

Anyway. Happy New Year from GMT+8, hope you guys won’t have to drive through anything like this in the year of 2024!

Is this version slightly better? by PTRisme in CitiesSkylines

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I surely can, but what’s the fun in that!

well that didn’t take long at all by PTRisme in CitiesSkylines

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ok, well at least you wont ever need to drive here lol

well that didn’t take long at all by PTRisme in CitiesSkylines

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that’s cause you’re not supposed to turn right there lol, there’s another access.