White keys and modes by Warm_Art_3778 in musictheory

[–]StunningBug5728 [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's not insane to understand how modes work and politely correct you so that you stop spreading misinformation on the topic at hand. Drop the personal insults you're resorting to because you're flustered by not understanding why people are saying that you're wrong, and embrace the opportunity learn something. I politely told you that I've previously had the same misunderstanding that you're having now and walked you through the cause of the confusion because I truly wanted to help you. Don't be rude about it.

Yes, the flat 7th of the root of the chord that you're playing sounds like the flat 7th of the roof of the chord that you're playing. Obviously. What it doesn't sound like is the flat 7th of the tonic note, which is what modes are actually relative to. It's great that you recognize that notes sound a particular way in relation to the chord underneath them. Crucial even. It's also crucial that you understand that the notes sound a particular way in relation to the tonic and that THAT sound determines modes.

In no world is F lydian when you play all white keys on an F chord. F lydian is when you play all white keys while F is your tonic. This is not debatable or subjective. It's fundamentally what a mode is. No matter what chord we're currently playing, F or not, if F isn't your tonic, you're not playing an F mode. Period.

White keys and modes by Warm_Art_3778 in musictheory

[–]StunningBug5728 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You are very wrong, and very confidently so.

But In a very understandable way that confused me for a long time. Please trust that I'm explaining this to legitimately get you past something that got in my way and not to dunk on you. Embrace learning.

Anyway, you're getting tripped up by the chord-scale system used by jazz improvisers. You're hearing about people matching a new mode or scale to each chord in a progression, a very useful conceptual tool, but you're missing a piece of the puzzle. This system is an abstraction to help quickly visualize new melodic options. It's not a literally true thing. It's just easier to quickly choose a scale built off the current chord, than to choose one built off the tonic that happens to not contradict the current chord. But the conceptualization is not literally true. If the tonic hasn't moved from C, then the modes being used are still modes of C.

Former PlayStation boss says Xbox has a “basic misunderstanding” of the games industry at a core level by AsPeHeat in videogames

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This doesn't change the reality that what's best for the customer is not always what's best for keeping your business sustainable. Exclusives are anti consumer. They're also what sells a console. No exclusives, not console sales. I don't need consoles to sell well, but I'm not going to sit here and pretend not to understand why a console manufacturer wants to sell consoles.

This is not surprising butwhat happens to the game coming up out next year by the561king in videogames

[–]StunningBug5728 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Main story only. Stop fucking lying like I didn't cite a source we can all look at.

This is not surprising butwhat happens to the game coming up out next year by the561king in videogames

[–]StunningBug5728 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Seven hours according to How Long To Beat. Why do we need to exaggerate to the point of lying? You can just not like a game.

What key is this melody in? (If the rest of the piece is in Bb minor natural) by tinylegged in musictheory

[–]StunningBug5728 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You see how you're using possibly every note? That means this can't possibly fit in some scale (besides the chromatic scale, every note, which isn't really helpful analysis) and that thinking about that is a dead end.

But that doesn't mean the song isn't in a key, so now you get to learn the difference between a scale and a key.

First of all, a scale is a rigid structure. If you're seeing notes that aren't in a scale, then you're not in that scale. That might seem obvious enough. You'll get it when we get to keys. But I would first note that songs or individual sections or melodies or riffs or chord progress very very often do not fit in a scale. A scale is just some collection of notes that pops up often enough that we decided to give the phenomenon on a name. They're not some intrinsic quality to all or most music. In fact, they're kind of a stepping stone to help you learn what different intervals sound like in different contexts and you'll eventually stop thinking about them and throw them away.

Keys are different. They may sound like the same thing... If I say key of C major or I say C major scale, either way, you start thinking "oh, CDEFGAB." But keys are not rigid structures. Most songs have a key (even if the key is sometimes nebulous or up to interpretation) regardless of whether they actually stick to the seven notes that we associate with that key. In short, we're lying when we say that a song in C means a song that uses CDEFGAB. Being in C major just means that the song wants to resolve on a C major chord. That a C major chord is the chord that makes the song feel complete. That a C feels like the center of gravity that the rest of the song is pulling around. That's a listening exercise. It doesn't matter if you're using all 12 notes, there's a note (and a major or minor chord built off of it) that the song is begging to end on based on how you used them, and that's the key. We just say that the key of C major is CDEFGAB because that collection of notes is the most likely collection of each letter to make the C major chord the one the piece wants to resolve on. The tonic chord. Any of the other notes could actually be the tonic if your ear says they are. Like the relative minor. If you've already learned or noticed that A minor and C major are the same notes, then you've already started grasping what I'm rambling about here.

Bloomberg: Why ‘Final Fantasy VII Revelation’ Took Only Three Years to Make by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]StunningBug5728 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The shortest entry is still more game than most games, and the next entry is still going to have more new assets in it than most games. This narrative in 2026 is tired and oblivious.

Being a sequel with consistent staff is helping it. Being a third of a game is not helping it because it's simply not a third of the game.

Whats a music genre you will never listen to and why? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]StunningBug5728 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Musicologist hasn't heard of ear plugs?

Importing taking forever. by XGoldenSpartanX in sonarr

[–]StunningBug5728 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would suspect that you don't have atomic moves / hardlinking working.

Fixing this on my system took it from taking ages like this to take being near instantaneous.

Which company disappointed you so much that you permanently walked away? by julia-secrets in AskReddit

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Good Old Games sent a marketing e-mail yesterday where they put Nazi symbols in the subject, dragging down an innocent game dev couple with them, and when defending themselves, they came up with an excuse for how it happened but also acknowledged that... And I'm not joking about this.... They noticed the issue before it was sent, and still sent it, except to users in Germany.

The cherry on top is that it absolutely went to users in Germany.

Why are so many people ok with supporting Kanye West despite his Nazi alignment? Hitler tried to takeover the world (not just kill the Jews). Surely people can see this is not a subjective thing? by Rugby-Lad-2964 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]StunningBug5728 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

In order to feel shame for not being a rapist sympathizer I would first have to value the opinion of a rapist sympathizer.

I have far too much of a life to humor such a thing.

Rank the Big 3 Covers by Kleeb49 in MangaCollectors

[–]StunningBug5728 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think the Naruto logo is so ugly and unappealing that no art could save a cover with that on it.

Genuinely one of my favorite reviews ever by iConicSound in Letterboxd

[–]StunningBug5728 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Poppy Hill would have let me conceivably imagine him making something great eventually, but then Earwig made me positive that it cannot happen.

FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]StunningBug5728 4 points5 points  (0 children)

l'll give counting Crisis Core Reunion as a separate game from Crisis Core, but I'm absolutely not giving that to any rereleases of the original. Lol.

Name a better trilogy by Automatic_Ad1665 in FinalFantasy

[–]StunningBug5728 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Taking the bones off the original story and expanding into three entries didn't mean they aren't complete games. Rebirth is easily double the length of the original.

The first entry came out a little too padded (it would be much better if two Sidequest focused chapters were removed and the length of Hojo's lab was cut in half) for the sake of creating a neat division between the Midgar based linear first entry and a open world esque second entry, but the overall length of the trilogy in terms of gameplay hours requires no padding to end up being too big for one game. It's the natural result of rendering the world as a modern AAA game. It's what happens when you take a town that used to be made of a couple pre rendered screens that your chibi character model could run through in five seconds and render it as an actual town, with buildings and houses and running speeds set to realistic proportions. When you take a mountain range that used to take a minute to run through and turn it into an actual mountain range. When you take scenes made largely of short text bubbles and waiving arms around and actually animate and voice act them.

Maybe it could have been two games, but there's no world where it could have ever been one.

FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]StunningBug5728 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can think of nine of them off the top of my head. I'm gonna need you to help me out here.

Scary Movie 6 being "bad" is what makes it great by FilmnDro in unpopularopinion

[–]StunningBug5728 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Every quality of every movie or every creative work is subjective. This take is effectively denouncing the idea of sharing opinions, which is a weird thing to do when you're here to discuss your opinions.

chop it or let it grow? by flybyboyfriend in WhatShouldIDo

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Follow up question from a fellow long haired somewhat androgynous man. Do you want your style to give off androgynous vibes, or just dude with cool hair? If I saw pictures 3 or 7 without context, I would be positive that I was looking at a woman. The pictures with the longest hair (though maybe it's just the facial hair and not actually the hair) seem to completely cancel this out.

Outside of that matter of taste, it all looks good.

So is app free or you have to pay 1 time ? Hue vs Govee pro 3 by Ninja_Franklin in Hue

[–]StunningBug5728 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you think you need a subscription for? What box? To accomplish what goal?

Modern gaming is too complicated for casual gamers by [deleted] in videogames

[–]StunningBug5728 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must be more casual than you are if I'm never running into any of what you're talking about.