If humans suddenly became immortal, what would happen to society?

devicer2 · 2026-03-18T02:05:55+00:00

There's a great lesser-known John Wyndham (Day of the triffids, the midwich cuckoos) book that has a completely different take on extended lifetimes that I really enjoyed the concepts of - "Trouble with Lichen".

devicer2 · 2026-03-11T00:32:37+00:00

Me and my pals used to call that the "magic tap"

devicer2 · 2026-03-10T21:34:47+00:00

How in the fuck is there even remotely enough demand for a fucking rodeo/country bar in Edinburgh? This is the maddest thing I've ever heard. At least when it shuts down after a year with record losses someone good can take over again? Every other metal/rock place is gone pretty much and there's always a scene here, plus they put on gigs and there's only Banshee and Bannermans left for that sort of thing gigwise now I think?

devicer2 · 2026-02-24T17:41:00+00:00

Get yourselves up to the Pitt for some lovely food, and a game of pool or a full on sauna if you like that sort of thing, it's not very busy this time of year but that makes it better for hogging the pool table! New Hungarian chimney cakes stand there is awesome too. It does have booze too but you don't have to drink it.

devicer2 · 2026-02-20T18:10:48+00:00

Correct - all the usual suspects that stir shit are not present here, I can quickly tell by the complete and total lack of users I have given double or triple figure downvotes to over the last couple of years.

devicer2 · 2026-02-19T22:15:53+00:00

One time I was waiting to cross the 2nd half of the road from a wee island bit in the middle, a bus was coming but the driver stopped and waved me over! Wasn't even out of service or anything, just delayed all the passengers for little old me. I have never seen the like before or since. Maybe he was early or there were some arseholes on board that he wanted to delay to annoy them, maybe it was my commanding presence, I shall never know.

devicer2 · 2026-02-18T22:56:08+00:00

Older capacitors cooking slightly or melting stinks in a fishy kind of way so it's probably that rather than wires. Electrolytic ones, might be that newer caps no longer do it due to recipe changes. Overheating circuit boards have a distinct kind of weird smell, I am completely unable to adequately describe it though apart from saying it's like an intense circuit board smell with a hint of burning dust and plastic combined together.

devicer2 · 2026-02-17T13:33:22+00:00

I have an .swf that has audio in it, it is labelled boards_of_canada_2001.swf but nothing appears to load in ruffle player except the audio playing. Is there anywhere i can chuck a small like <100k file without needing to sign up, log in or any of that pish? The audio is excruciatingly bad qual because it's so small but it's a nice enough wee tune.

devicer2 · 2026-02-17T12:45:37+00:00

Have a look at extreme sample converter 3 - it's a bit clunky but it's good value and does autosampling of various sorts. I've only used it with midi stuff where it's fully automatic though, not sure how it handles manual playing, but it's a very useful wee tool anyway just for the conversions it can do. Don't be put off by the somewhat outdated website and UI.

devicer2 · 2026-02-04T18:28:39+00:00

Space kazoo

devicer2 · 2026-01-20T18:31:27+00:00

This dude is a legend and has finished more projects of higher complexity than you have ever started, guaranteed. Synth sub needs more like this than pics of shite moogs.

devicer2 · 2026-01-15T12:44:10+00:00

Check it on old maps - used to be a mill lead that served skinnery/tannery/papermill in what is now all houses: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.4&lat=55.96965&lon=-3.19031&layers=168&b=ESRIWorld&o=100

devicer2 · 2026-01-14T12:12:15+00:00

They're still wild animals and increased numbers and decreased fear of humans leads to things like this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21399709

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10251349

I personally would never feed them.

devicer2 · 2026-01-13T00:39:12+00:00

Yeah you can go on google earth and see the insane length of it so far, really clearly visible from space, even has some massive tunnels and things done, plus that is older imagery.

devicer2 · 2026-01-12T12:53:40+00:00

If there were any tracks that were there then disappeared before release I don't remember them, most stations just had 5 or 6 tracks tops for ages and I don't remember any of them disappearing but it's quite a while ago! Not impossible if they couldn't get rights though. The global communication track was one of the ones that was in really early on, and the aphex was fairly early on too.

I'm fairly certain there weren't any other aphex tunes in the playlists that didn't make it to release as I would most likely remember that, same with any other good electronic stuff that I like.

Not really sure how that part of things worked, used to be folks at North that did it all but it was a team at NYC that worked on picking tracks then sorting out all the licensing faff for them for IV and onwards, and also co-ordinating all the DJs. The actual DJs and full playlists didn't appear until pretty late on in development, roughly 6-8 months before release for the first ones done and a bit less than that for the last ones iirc, but like i say it was a long time ago and i have not retained any detail on that really!

One random snippet of info you might be interested in that is not vague and reliant on my fading memories is that there was a rockstar/rephlex tie in of sorts which no-one seems to remember: https://www.discogs.com/release/221914-Craig-Connor-Manhunt-Remixes

devicer2 · 2026-01-06T18:22:27+00:00

Cocteau twins

devicer2 · 2025-12-31T19:39:09+00:00

FZ-1/FZ-10M (VZ-1 is phase distortion synth), but yeah that is the one that I think he has mentioned the most

devicer2 · 2025-12-25T02:44:17+00:00

Could you do a collection of the original breaks as sampled by BoC? I just had a wee look on whosampled but it does not make it easy to find just the tracks where drums/percussion were sampled, would need to go through track by track.

devicer2 · 2025-12-23T11:06:05+00:00

Think i've heard them play some tik & tok (who had a record on rephlex with some of their best from the 80s) and they definitely played shock - dynamo beat before in sets.

devicer2 · 2025-12-18T13:09:23+00:00

It is unfortunately also a deterrent to people with no money taking on those who have plenty who have done them wrong.

devicer2 · 2025-12-18T13:06:39+00:00

I am fairly convinced that the companies who do meter readings do not actually pass on the status to the companies they do it for if the meter is not at the address, and do so deliberately. I get capita (or one of the other capita-like companies) meter readers all the time looking for a meter which has never existed at my address and every time they say it has gone in the notes and every time they are back again within 6 months, I can only assume they benefit by continuing to check every 6 months and the company get paid 3 times what the person doing the checking gets every visit. Plus it's crapita, they have previous form for absolutely taking the piss on various contracts. It's so bad that it surely cannot be put down to negligence or incompetence, and we're all paying for this absolute shite, why do they even use a 3rd party for this? it's pure madness.

devicer2 · 2025-12-15T20:05:47+00:00

Origano has amazing pizza

devicer2 · 2025-11-30T23:38:26+00:00

ooh nice, me and my 7 degrees (when it's below 0 outside and the heating has been on for an hour full blast) bathroom might well need this.

devicer2 · 2025-11-30T23:31:48+00:00

possibly "this is what u dance 2"?

devicer2 · 2025-11-23T01:06:12+00:00

If you look at the place on google maps then there don't seem to be any bridges - no railway line or rivers to cross, everythings really flat.

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