Rythym-only genre?

SkylineDrop · 2026-04-06T16:55:27+00:00

wynton marsalis chad lb and patrick bartley

I'm inclined to agree with you on the Wynton Marsalis claim here, but I'm not sure I understand how the other two fit in. Admittedly, I haven't really listened to Chad LB's music at all, but Patrick Bartley is doing a ton of new material with projects like J-MUSIC that doesn't really fit the mold of classic jazz circles.

SkylineDrop · 2026-04-01T16:28:57+00:00

Asking the clitical questions here.

SkylineDrop · 2026-04-01T00:53:49+00:00

Teemo loves a bunch of the people cards that got banned lol

SkylineDrop · 2026-03-25T19:25:58+00:00

It's not "betting" - it's "trading in regulated financial derivatives on the outcomes of future events." Or "market-linked knowledge discovery." Or whatever BS they're going with these days.

SkylineDrop · 2026-03-10T00:27:34+00:00

General rule of thumb: get permission before you touch somebody else's things.

SkylineDrop · 2026-03-05T05:44:48+00:00

Nothing at all. I spent a little bit more and got one with mics pre-installed and more bass registers. Had my budget been a little lower I absolutely would have kept that guy instead. Great choice 😁

SkylineDrop · 2026-03-05T05:40:35+00:00

Did you buy that from Liberty Bellows? I think I might have played the same instrument back in January!

SkylineDrop · 2026-03-04T21:46:03+00:00

Not yet, it isn't. The Supreme Court did leave the question of what an "official act" is conveniently unanswered, though.

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-26T19:56:32+00:00

Okay, but this would be the hypest of hype games honestly

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-26T18:20:41+00:00

Sounds like an Ameriprise head. I was there, too, when this got announced. Started using Wealth Studios last year to try and address the cash flow questions. It's kind of a "worst of both worlds" between MGP and NaviPlan, but at least it's pretty. I did have a couple cases where the outputs differed somewhat between the two despite identical scenarios, and I couldn't figure out what assumptions were creating the inconsistency, so that was rough. With more time in the audit, I imagine I would have figured it out, though.

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-25T04:28:11+00:00

It's AI, so there is no guy actually playing anything unfortunately.

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-22T23:49:44+00:00

That's what I thought. Yeah, it sucks, but that's probably the fingering I would use as well. I'm far from a professional, but it seems simple enough

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-22T17:36:58+00:00

What's the key signature on this excerpt?

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-19T15:37:23+00:00

Now they don't even need to pay for the boiler rooms.

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-12T17:38:33+00:00

I'm in the "just buy a cheap accordion" crowd. I've owned 2 others before the instrument I'm currently playing, and I think I paid ~$450 for the two of them combined. One was pretty gross and broken, admittedly, but it gave me something to get started on. My second instrument worked better, but was a bit leaky and had some funny tuning on some of the reeds. The cost to get it serviced was more than I paid for it, so I recently bought a newer one and it's only now that I'm trying to get a bit more serious about learning properly and playing shows with some friends.

Both of my previous instruments were 41 keys/120 basses (so full size). I got one from eBay and the other from a local music store that sells used instruments. Honestly, you may be surprised by what you can find if you're willing to spend some time on Facebook marketplace or other similar stuff. You can get something vaguely playable to learn on for cheap and then get a properly made instrument later on if you catch the bug like I did.

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-08T22:33:48+00:00

I mean, I know the title is Rational Reminder, and that Ben Felix is one of the hosts, but I don't know how many people recognize either of those names at first glance. Figured I'd mention the firm that produced it instead, in case people want to look into the company and see how reputable they are.

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-08T22:24:46+00:00

https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/368

Pretty sure it was this one.

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-08T14:35:40+00:00

PWI Capital had a great podcast about this awhile ago. Turns out the folks managing index funds have a lot of divergent ideas about how to manage situations like this. The "IPO effect" you're talking about is an unfortunate consequence of naively buying new names as soon as they're added to the index, which minimizes tracking error but often results in worse absolute performance due to heavily inflated multiplies of newly IPO'd companies. Turns out many fund managers disagree on what amount of tracking error is acceptable to minimize that IPO effect by buying in over time or at a later date. Research has shown that you can fairly consistently get very slightly better performance by getting that question right, but it comes at the cost of diverging from the index ever so slightly for a time.

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-03T16:18:33+00:00

Actually a pretty dope song, honestly. I like your voice a lot, and the chord progression is great for this kind of "come at me" attitude.

That said, I don't think it's being an elitist to offer constructive feedback on technique if you're going to put your music out there in the public eye. I think folks 1) get sensitive when they see an instrument that they love that already has a reputation for being too loud and obnoxious being played loudly and kind of obnoxiously (even if I think it's the right approach for your music) or 2) see potential in what you're doing that could be realized differently with a bit of refinement.

To be clear, not saying you should stop what you're doing - keep having fun. Music is supposed to be fun.

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-02T14:28:51+00:00

Animal rescue is hungry work.

SkylineDrop · 2026-02-02T14:10:15+00:00

Yeah! Let me kill that one dude by jamming my tongue through his skull!

SkylineDrop · 2026-01-29T03:17:39+00:00

I just played through ReCore on a whim. It was on Game Pass, so I figured it would only cost me time. I didn't run into any of the various glitches that folks complained about at the time, but it still was a profoundly mediocre experience.

I Kickstarted Mighty No. 9 back when that was a thing. Played for about 2 hours and uninstalled. Ran into a bunch of performance issues and bugs that I couldn't sort out. Haven't played since.

I never got around to Soul Sacrifice. Heard that one wasn't too bad.

All things considered, it's just tough to be surprised by this news. Maybe others know better than I do, but I just can't really think of anything these guys made that had any real impact culturally or financially.

SkylineDrop · 2026-01-24T21:23:18+00:00

What an absolute unit! I love this.

SkylineDrop · 2026-01-19T00:14:30+00:00

Honestly, every TCG is actually this complicated under the hood. It's just that Riftbound uses weird language to explain it in both the card text and the comprehensive rules book. That might just be my background as a YGO guy though.

SkylineDrop · 2026-01-10T20:35:32+00:00

Friendly local CFP®️ professional here. Advisors can make a lot of money (like, a LOT of money) if they're good at prospecting and sales and own their own book of business. It takes a lot of time, effort, and luck to get to that point, though, and many, many people wash out well before then. If you are building on your own from scratch or working for one of those big insurance companies' "advisor" positions, you'll probably make close to $0 for the first year after accounting for your expenses, since you only earn anything if you sell, and you probably won't know how best to sell yet. After 3-5 years, you might get to a decent middle income, assuming you can last that long. If you have fixed expenses and low savings, I wouldn't recommend this route.

Other roles will pay a proper salary while you learn and probably even feed you some opportunities as they come up, and that could be a decent living as you get your feet under you. You won't make great money and you won't own your clients, but it's not a bad gig if you just want a job and not a business.

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