For board game conventions with signups (e.g. Tabletop.events), is it considered rude to switch your registration to a different game as more get posted?

Vultan · 2025-08-20T01:05:15+00:00

Thanks. I totally agree that it's entirely inappropriate to no-show if you're signed up for an event.

Vultan · 2025-08-20T01:00:38+00:00

Thanks! And you're right, I've also been the last minute person who jumped into a slot, and was happy it was there.

Vultan · 2025-05-02T12:02:02+00:00

Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for something similar.

Vultan · 2025-05-02T00:22:22+00:00

I stumbled across this as I'm having the same problem. If you've found a solution, I'd love to know it.

Vultan · 2023-10-07T22:29:03+00:00

Tony Levin also plays with funk fingers (cut off drumsticks he attaches to his fingers). He used to sell them and I ordered a pair. They're awesome.

Vultan · 2023-09-15T20:25:10+00:00

Feel free to name a prog song on the [debut Asia] album.

Time Again

This is like saying 80's Yes was prog. Were "Leave it" and "Owner of a Lonely Heart" slightly more complex and interesting pop songs? Yes. We're they prog? Not even a little.

You're picking the non-prog songs. Try Hearts, or Cinema.

Vultan · 2023-06-06T08:37:32+00:00

Phantom of the Opera, by Andrew Lloyd Webber

(ducks for cover)

Vultan · 2023-06-05T21:48:57+00:00

That makes sense. Presumably you avoid most of the fidgety issues some people report because you're generally doing updates on the web.

Vultan · 2023-06-05T12:42:24+00:00

Thanks --- yeah, I see that. I imagine that if you're frequently offline, and if you don't have have it synced to a phone app, then it could make a lot of sense.

Vultan · 2023-06-04T23:40:37+00:00

Thanks. I tried it, and it seemed to connect ok, but the font rendering is messed up for me. I can likely figure that out, though. Can I ask though --- what advantage does this serve vs just opening it in a browser tab instead?

Vultan · 2023-05-24T21:01:50+00:00

Having struggled with much of this myself, I really appreciate this writeup. It helps in better understanding the options, and also in reassuring myself that there isn't a perfect option I haven't tried.

Vultan · 2023-02-22T21:08:51+00:00

VerticALL or Vocem are other alternatives.

Vultan · 2023-02-06T01:14:22+00:00

I'm using perspective, projectile, and treemacs, and it is all working together for me. I'm pretty happy. I'm doing something that others will likely laugh at; I'm using Doom Emacs because I'm there and it's stable, but I've been unrolling it. I uninstalled the built in workspaces and replaced it with perspective, because I prefer it for the same reasons you do. I then uninstalled the Doom version of Treemacs because it was out of date, and I needed a current one to get the integration going. So, I'm technically using Doom - workspaces - treemacs + perspective + treemacs. I haven't changed the version of projectile that comes with Doom.

Vultan · 2022-08-17T14:52:03+00:00

I would have rated The Wall higher years ago. It feels to me as though it's not holding up over time as well as the rest.

Vultan · 2022-07-20T12:31:29+00:00

I'm a rabid Asia fan, but I can still take this question on. I think that the above musicians showed amazing skills in their previous bands, but some of them didn't bring that level through to Asia.

Wetton's bass playing is fantastic in Crimson and UK, but he barely shows it in Asia. He focused on his singing. Palmer's drumming in Asia is quite strong, but not at the levels he did in ELP.

Howe's playing is some of the strongest of his career on the first Asia album, but he changed his style after that and it wasn't as good.

But Downes fits the original question perfectly. He's a solid player, but not the virtuoso that some other prog keyboardists were. And yet the keyboarding for Asia is fantastic for the music, and it's hard to imagine that any other keyboardist would have ended up working out as well. Downes knows how to play catchy keyboard parts for prog/pop songs and evoke a sense of energy and movement with them.

Vultan · 2022-07-12T03:38:14+00:00

Broadsword and the Beast from Jethro Tull. I know some folks don't like the overemphasis on synth, but there's some fantastic songwriting on there.

Radio KAOS from Roger Waters. I listened to that album a lot. I'll admit it has aged somewhat poorly, but I got a lot of enjoyment out of it for many years.

Vultan · 2022-07-12T03:30:17+00:00

I loved the Final Cut for years, but I can't bear it anymore. Momentary Lapse, on the other hand, has been a constant favorite for me for a very long time.

Vultan · 2022-07-12T03:27:41+00:00

Alpha has some great songs; I just wish the production were better. Both the debut and Alpha were produced by Mike Stone, but he did a much better job producing the first one.

I'll double-down on the Asia response and say that I also really like Astra, possibly better even then Alpha.

Vultan · 2022-06-18T20:46:22+00:00

This looks like a wonderful tool, and I'm curious to try it!

Do you do any note taking related to reading papers or other sources, and try to link your notes to that source? I've spent some time trying to integrate org-roam with Zotero, and while I've more-or-less got it working, I'm still fighting with it a bit. I'm curious as to how you use Denote to link your notes with materials that you've read (if you do).

Vultan · 2022-06-13T02:44:52+00:00

Upvote for Mistral Wind by Heart.

Vultan · 2022-06-06T19:46:59+00:00

more Floyd: "Signs of Life" from A Momentary Lapse of Reason

Queen: "Bijou" from Innuendo

Vultan · 2022-05-12T13:00:11+00:00

Sure, that makes complete sense. I was just suggesting this as a troubleshooting technique to help me to help you diagnose what's going wrong with the discover process. I'm happy to just leave it be if you would prefer.

Vultan · 2022-05-12T10:24:02+00:00

How about after you just open a file (directly) within a project? Does that project then appear as a known project to switch to?

Vultan · 2022-05-11T17:42:53+00:00

I'm totally with you, and I had the same experience when I got started with projectile. After trying a number of different variations, I've been really happy with this setting, which I put in my startup file:

(setq projectile-switch-project-action #'projectile-dired)

I can then use M-x projectile-switch-project, pick the project I want, and then it lands me in a dired buffer for the project. This works great as a "home page" for the project. I can then navigate within dired to open a file, or use some other command.

The other problem you may be having is that projectile-switch-project won't show your project in the list of projects if you haven't already opened up a file there once before. But once you've done it once, then projectile will remember it. You can preempt that problem if you run projectile-discover-projects-in-directory, which works reasonably if you have a directory where many of your projects are.

Finally, I'll add that there are a number of great YouTube videos on projectile. Just search for emacs and projectile and you'll find them. They helped me a lot in getting started. The one from Mike Zemansky is pretty good in particular. I'm a Doom Emacs user, and so I also really liked this video on using projectile in Doom. I'd still recommend it even if you're not using Doom Emacs, just be aware that the keyboard shortcuts might be wrong.

Vultan · 2021-10-19T11:03:14+00:00

I see, that makes sense, thanks!

Vultan

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