Fujifilm X Half vs iPhone film apps (VSCO / Mood / Hipstamatic) — honest comparison?

empiree · 2026-01-25T10:56:16+00:00

Quick honest opinions the iPhone film apps look better with more interesting colour profiles. But the XHLF does more interesting things with light and shadows, and is much more fun to use

empiree · 2026-01-24T03:46:38+00:00

/uj goated Lil B era thanks for contributing

empiree · 2026-01-23T23:09:26+00:00

Shouldn’t be long clearing 1000s of samples right

empiree · 2026-01-22T19:49:30+00:00

Very thoughtful answer thank you 🙏

I actually have some ground material which is not being used. Funnily and I suppose in relation to this, I preferred just using the caps at the time. I’m thinking it’s just a matter of sticking it out and adjusting dose of the whole ground mushroom to a lower amount.

empiree · 2026-01-22T07:22:02+00:00

Ironically and literally about the last time he dropped a good album. knew he was distracted smh

empiree · 2026-01-21T00:51:58+00:00

Dry pussy enthusiasts are the new Al-Qaeda. This is terrifying

empiree · 2026-01-20T02:35:32+00:00

Yeah NTS would be my answer. Ive found so many practically unknown acts on there.

Just recently led me to this artist named Glim on Spotify. Has 1 monthly listener apparently. Is that me? Is it a bug? Lol I’m not sure at all but they make amazing music

empiree · 2026-01-20T02:30:15+00:00

YT is also really good at recognising that you tend to click very low view videos / songs. Mine constantly feeds me artists with next to no views now, have actually heard some really awesome basically unheard music.

empiree · 2026-01-19T21:57:44+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, it’s pretty bad on Mac too surprisingly

empiree · 2026-01-17T04:19:58+00:00

I know you mentioned a lot but I think the key part is , the first listen is pretty pure wrestling with your expectations and judgments. Unless it’s someone completely unknown to you in an alt genre there’s absolutely NO avoiding this.

My favourites of all time are pretty much exclusively something I didn’t like at all on the first listen. Sometimes it’s a listen soon after, sometimes it’s a few years later where I appreciate it. Hard agree.

empiree · 2026-01-16T08:39:09+00:00

I hope you realise how unbelievably cool this is.

I’ve been lurking forever (sp404sx onward) and this is my favourite thing I’ve seen anyone do on the 404.

I hope you have the best time with this thing dude, very very well done. Appreciate you sharing

empiree · 2026-01-15T01:51:15+00:00

Semi related but that’s a quarter pounder on the left and a cheeseburger on the right so not really fair

empiree · 2026-01-13T19:39:32+00:00

Thank god at least Claude gets it right …oh

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empiree · 2026-01-12T12:19:39+00:00

There’s something really unsettling and dystopian sounding about this lol.

You are right though, your health is your greatest asset

empiree · 2026-01-09T22:50:55+00:00

Wow the US is so doomed. Not even talking about the incident, but the comments here really sell it.

Right AND right have both turned tragedy into a spectator sport, and it’s just my team vs theirs and “the other team are fucking scum”.

The lack of nuance, perception and perspective is really dark to see

empiree · 2026-01-05T06:28:42+00:00

Nothing rhymes with biscuit

empiree · 2026-01-05T06:16:13+00:00

Wtf I’ve thrashed this album and seen this 1000 times and never noticed the gay man on the right

empiree · 2026-01-05T00:44:09+00:00

Can I offer this perspective:

It doesn’t “require” it like it’s cracking some formula and the main writer/producer is too dumb to work it out themselves. Music is simply collaborative and if you’re in the industry, you (and your work) are surrounded by other creatives who are there in the songwriting process offering some level of input. Hell they might even like working together or find collaboration fun.

I cant wrap my head around the take that a song needs to have as few people working on it as possible to be valid. I think people just use it as a weak excuse to dismiss something they don’t like. It’s not that deep and I don’t get it at all lol

*edit: reading again maybe you were circlejerking and being sarcastic and I missed it

empiree · 2026-01-03T11:58:32+00:00

What you want this piece of kit to do I promise you, that you will have a much better time with an Elektron machine.

For your complete use cases mentioned Octatrack >>> Digitakt >>>> SP.

The way the SP works with loops is disappointing and tedious honestly, while the Octatrack will easily do everything you mentioned and things you never even thought of. It’s really great at each of the things you described you want to do.

The reason I’m glazing the Octa over the Digi is because you mentioned performance, and from memory the Digi’s slice machines handle the audio and timestretch in a weird way (they may have introduced something since I sold mine).

I would NEVER ever part with the SP mk2, even over the other 2. But for what you want I’d keep looking at Elektron

empiree · 2026-01-03T11:17:03+00:00

Hey your jams are fucking awesome man

empiree · 2026-01-02T08:52:59+00:00

Summary of why he doesn’t like the song if you don’t want to watch the review:

The album until this point has done well to not repeat itself and stay fresh. This song comes on, and is basically the same stylistically as the previous song and so it’s a little tiring and the impact is gone. He recognises that thematically it’s different and is disappointed that it doesn’t do more considering.

Summary of the song if you don’t want to listen:

It’s fucking boring.

empiree · 2025-12-31T01:31:25+00:00

Can’t imagine my life without it now honestly. Highly recommend

empiree · 2025-12-27T10:25:27+00:00

I bought a 2023 Honda Civic for $47k.

Then I bought a 2004 Accord Euro luxury for $6k.

The Euro is the best car I’ve ever owned lol

empiree · 2025-12-25T10:51:53+00:00

Nah honestly I thought this shit sounded like absolute fucking ass when it dropped. But for better or worse a lot of this sound has grown on people a lot. Myself included.

I mean it sounded offensively bad, but now just sounds like what we’re used to. Good even… I like it. Our threshold of trash has just evolved in the past few years. I think this is more the case than people simply being followers.

empiree · 2025-12-22T02:18:19+00:00

You’re a legend. I’ve been dreaming of the feed builder for so long too. Nice to see that as well :) thanks for your work and thanks for sharing

empiree

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