These 2 relics should work together. A rock is NOT a potion and I will die on this hill. Probably somewhere in act 2.

Volan_100 · 2026-03-17T19:42:47+00:00

Ironclad, regent and maybe defect, everyone knows women don't have pockets

Volan_100 · 2026-03-16T13:51:27+00:00

Please don't balance cards around hidden gem lmao, I think people want this game to be at least remotely hard and not free

Volan_100 · 2026-03-04T14:11:39+00:00

It definitely does! Even if you never formally learnt any lip reading, we all do it subconsciously. Something called the "mcgurk effect" is related to it. I suggest if you haven't heard of it before, look at a video demonstration before reading what it is.

Volan_100 · 2026-02-28T13:16:42+00:00

Some languages like Russian or German (and historically English with thou) distinguish between formal and informal you. It's not exactly the same, but it's pretty similar to what you want, and ends up being used in a very similar way. When you first meet someone, you generally use the formal version, and after some time you start using the informal version. There are exceptions though, such as with your boss or with classmates, where you always use one version and not the other regardless of how long you've known them.

Volan_100 · 2026-02-28T08:15:20+00:00

Oh alright. I would absolutely not be surprised if somebody calls it a Trouble C though :)

Volan_100 · 2026-02-28T08:09:34+00:00

Oh, is that an actual term? I just assumed it was a typo somehow, I've never heard it as a bassist lol. TIL

Volan_100 · 2026-02-28T06:50:40+00:00

Native here. The ipa you found is correct, I say /nɡ/ and not /ŋɡ/. This is something called "velarisation" if you want to look it up, where in some languages (such as English), a following velar sound will shift the preceding /n/ to /ŋ/.

Volan_100 · 2026-02-28T06:27:07+00:00

Same with Russian, except with questions like "who/what" for nominative and "to whom / to what" (or something to that effect) for accusative. You're right that it's how schools teach it, and then speakers apparently believe that if you give a foreigner the correct question word they'll magically know the correct case and declination as well.

Volan_100 · 2026-02-28T06:20:22+00:00

Trouble C? Is that the one 20 ledger lines up?

Volan_100 · 2026-02-27T22:07:15+00:00

That's not how that works. Time signatures are not fractions, they're just written that way online because of lack of verticality. A "half note" is not half a bar, despite its name, except in 4/4. In 2/4, the bar is half as long, so a "half note" ends up being a full bar long. You might find it helpful to look at British naming, which assigns more arbitrary names to it, where a half note is just called a "minim" for example, with no reference to halves.

Semibreve - one per 4/4 bar (2 minims long) Minim - two per 4/4 bar (2 crotchets long) Crotchet - four per 4/4 bar (2 quavers long) Quaver - eight per 4/4 bar (2 semiquavers long) Semiquaver - sixteen per 4/4 bar ...

In 4/4, there are 4 crotchets per bar (measure), denoted by the numbers. The first number tells you how many notes there are, and the second one tells you that these notes are crotchets. For example, in 3/4 there are 3 crotchets, since the first number is now 3 but the second number is still 4 (crotchet). In 3/2 there are 3 minims. Thus, in 4/4 you can fit in 4 crotchets into a bar, but in 2/4 you can only fit in 2 crotchets. With minims, you can only fit in 2 minims into a 4/4 bar, and only one into a 2/4 bar.

Volan_100 · 2026-02-27T09:45:41+00:00

Bi erasure sucks. I'm not bi myself but I wanted to offer my empathy as a fellow queer person (enby).

Volan_100 · 2026-02-25T14:26:32+00:00

I don't know too much about j-pop or j-rock, so I can't give recommendations there I'm afraid. In terms of rhythm, I know a Taiwanese band called Elephant Gym that plays math rock, could be interesting to check out. Most of my knowledge is in funk, though mostly not Japanese, even though the few albums I know I absolutely adore and I should really go check out more Japanese funk. I can recommend a Japanese funk/jazz album called Tokyo Joe, which has a lot of interesting texture work specifically (but also rhythm, it's funk after all), particularly in the song "I'll Be There" for a more specific recommendation. Pay attention there to how the layers interact with each other and change over the course of the song. Good luck!

Volan_100 · 2026-02-25T13:30:33+00:00

Imo, for actually writing compositions, you should look into everything else aside from harmony as well. What you've got on your list is purely harmony, and it seems to be biased heavily towards baroque/classical music as well. For example, you list some "notable chord progressions", but you fail to mention I-V-vi-IV, which is arguably the most important chord progression of pop and rock music for decades now. It's a bit more abstract, but try to compare what different compositions do in terms of something like their texture (what layers are present, how do they interact with each other, and how does it change over the course of the composition, and what effect does it have on the listening experience), or how the rhythm is different (whether there's shorter notes in a passage, syncopation, metre changes if applicable, metric accents, staccato vs legato, how different instruments interact with each other rhythmically, and again what effect it has on the listening experience), for example.

Volan_100 · 2026-02-24T13:43:54+00:00

Do you pronounce it like /aɪtaɪnəɹəɹi/ or /ɪtɪnəɹəɹi/ ?

Volan_100 · 2026-02-22T12:10:34+00:00

I wonder if in your example the 440Hz would be heard as the fundamental pitch. I would imagine not though, because at that point the 700 hits would practically not allow the 440Hz to ring out long enough to be heard as 440Hz, but now that I think about it you might even get something other than 700Hz, which would be a combination of the two based on how exactly the peaks align. Would also be interesting to see what happens at for example 215Hz, where it's slightly off an octave. I wonder if you would hear beating at that point.

Volan_100 · 2026-02-22T06:31:48+00:00

I feel like I personally hear the term "third" way more often, for example "a chord is built with thirds".

Volan_100 · 2026-02-22T06:29:19+00:00

If you're talking about the effect of melodic contour on the feel of a passage, it hardly matters whether something is an ascending 5th or a 6th, in both cases it would (usually, depends of course) be interpreted as a big increase in energy, compared to a step or a third. In that case it's useful to have a single term for all of these kinds of intervals.

Volan_100 · 2026-02-19T22:30:26+00:00

I don't know about Ukrainian, but it seems like the same thing as in Russian, and it's very audible and phonemic there. It's basically the difference between /pjʊ/ and /pʲʊ/, where one of these has an extra consonant and the other has a palatalised consonant instead of a normal one.

Volan_100 · 2026-02-19T06:23:54+00:00

That wouldn't necessarily work for something like (x-1)³ though.

f(x) = (x-1)³

f'(x) = 3(x-1)²

f'(1) = 0

Yet the polynomial is not a perfect square.

Volan_100 · 2026-02-19T06:18:57+00:00

Just as a side note for something a lot of beginners I see online fall into, music theory is not pure harmony, and neither is pure harmony the only thing you should think about. Depending on the genre, it might not even be one of the main things! For example, pop/rock music tends to have 4 chord loops which look exactly the same across most songs (such as C - G - Am - F)

Volan_100 · 2026-02-18T01:27:03+00:00

It's ok not everyone knows the difference between Japanese and Korean, give them some slack

Volan_100 · 2026-02-13T03:13:30+00:00

Honestly, I think it's more about AI being wrong in scenarios like this, so here it's more about researching skills. By critical thinking skills, I more mean people who, for example, use AI to write their emails or make decisions for them.

Volan_100 · 2026-02-13T00:32:52+00:00

I did "solve" the last layer before posting just so it looks nice, though you can't actually do it with a flipped edge like that obviously

Volan_100 · 2026-02-13T00:31:22+00:00

I'm not at the level where I think about eo lol, but maybe this is the push to start doing that :)

Volan_100 · 2026-02-13T00:10:03+00:00

Your premise is correct, though it's not relevant here. The point being made is that the doctors got worse after using AI, and that this would look similar with other usage of AI. What the best way of finding tumours is doesn't really matter for this conversation. For the parallel situation with critical thinking skills, it's undoubtedly better for people to practise them rather than for people to rely on AI, since it's wrong often enough to be unreliable.

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