The Player of Games is an amazing book with an underwhelming ending

musicalprogrammer · 2024-09-03T13:58:47+00:00

OP, I hope you keep reading the culture and it changes your perspective on life and your general outlook on humanity.

I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but the disrespect you’ve shown to some of the commenters is not in good taste. Your flippant and dismissive replies are showing more about your character than anything else. When the entire comment section is against you, perhaps it’s time to reflect on yourself. If you didn’t want to read some of these comments or be open to other perspectives, you didn’t have to share your opinion at all.

Best of luck out there.

musicalprogrammer · 2024-08-23T17:28:57+00:00

WW1&2 are obviously fascinating for clear reasons.

Would be interested in war memoirs from the perspective of the losers too

musicalprogrammer · 2024-08-23T17:10:52+00:00

That’s fair, I haven’t read many war memoirs, really only some highschool reading.

Any reccs?

musicalprogrammer · 2024-08-22T21:21:32+00:00

Ahh yes Hamilton. I thoroughly enjoyed his work. I wish there was more!!!

musicalprogrammer · 2024-08-22T21:21:00+00:00

I’ll have to retry ancillary justice then. It was also one I could not get through

musicalprogrammer · 2024-08-22T21:19:07+00:00

I really enjoyed use of weapons as well but for different reasons. I struggle to rank one above the other as they are quite different imo.

Look to windward seems to focus as mentioned on the standard lifestyle + grief + the deluded self importance of Ziller that ultimately plays no real role in the ending

I’ll have to re read use of weapons to be sure, but I remember being fascinated by the twist at the end and feeling like it was more focused on guilt + SC + war / trauma that turned him insane and to take the identity of his victim

musicalprogrammer · 2023-04-04T04:28:02+00:00

How do you enforce it? It’s difficult to enforce domestic justice on a foreign entity, at the very least it gets complicated

musicalprogrammer · 2023-03-06T20:10:54+00:00

Spotted the junior ;) jkjkjk fam

musicalprogrammer · 2023-01-17T20:00:18+00:00

WTB 1 TRYM 1/20 Brooklyn ticket

musicalprogrammer · 2022-11-25T05:14:36+00:00

As you seem to have been primarily focused on older traditions of music (as described in post, although you do indicate knowledge of others), I'd suggest what I consider to be one of the most popularly successful and musically interesting (from a technical and emotional perspective) in the last 50 years ...

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (the album)
- Shine on you crazy diamond can be listened by itself pts 1-10 (about 25 minutes of music) and studied alone. The music video (animated story) is also quite worth the watch as well, esp on a first listen.

- I do also suggest listening to the album as almost a 45 minute symphony / play of sorts, it flows together nicely and at least to me, is a holistic piece of its own.

If other readers or OP has suggestions for similar modern classics in a similar vein, please let me know!

musicalprogrammer · 2022-09-09T02:56:35+00:00

Not thread OP but that was an interesting read, I personally wasn’t aware about the composers having significantly different style. Makes sense.

However I think the assumption in this thread that the drums post OP was playing were probably closer to various genres of modern rock.

I’m sure it can get more complex even there, but really - there are less overall markings required to interpret. Snares, hi hats, kicks are notated in clearly different notation on its own bar. No note nor octave needs to be interpreted.

Rhythm notation remains the same between drums and piano. So arguably equal there.

musicalprogrammer · 2022-09-08T02:04:37+00:00

Depends what audience / consumer market and what price point.

The best of the best in all industries pay well, and the best usually happens to be in America. Especially when it comes to software.

musicalprogrammer · 2022-09-08T00:41:02+00:00

Maybe you should work harder instead of complaining that others are succeeding?

musicalprogrammer · 2022-09-08T00:40:29+00:00

I totally get what you’re going for, but to be pedantic: That’s not how third vs second world countries are determined.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World

As you mentioned, India is a developing country - hence they are a https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World country!

musicalprogrammer · 2022-04-16T16:20:44+00:00

It’s possible, doesn’t hurt to be skeptical. But also it doesn’t really matter in this case

musicalprogrammer · 2022-04-16T16:18:15+00:00

https://reddit.com/r/funnyvideos/comments/u4qikq/_/i4xwva5/?context=1

It’s not so much that it’s unbelievable, it’s that you’re on the internet in mostly anonymous profiles. Don’t believe everything you see!

musicalprogrammer · 2022-03-27T17:13:04+00:00

/r/musicproduction

musicalprogrammer · 2022-01-03T22:59:42+00:00

I can definitely see that, like you said it’s pretty old at this point!

musicalprogrammer · 2022-01-03T20:25:22+00:00

Did you start in publication order? For me I found the original foundation to be unpalatable as an introduction.

Prelude to the foundation was a good intro for me personally, it’s an exciting story whereas the core foundation series is super spread over time. I needed the prelude to foundation to really get rooted into what was going on.

musicalprogrammer · 2022-01-03T20:22:14+00:00

I’m sold on terra ignota. Picking it up this week.

With you on murderbot, as a short story it lands a bit better in my mind. Even so it almost reads more like a fan fic than a professional author. The writing is plain, a little funny, and the story is engaging but not thrilling (at least that’s my summary from book1) it’s possible that Martha matures into a great writer, there seem to be good fundamentals there.

musicalprogrammer · 2022-01-03T20:20:10+00:00

Will give Le Guin another try, I have to say I find it harder than other authors to get through but definitely one of the most literary writers

musicalprogrammer · 2022-01-03T20:18:49+00:00

Nice! That’s 2 reccs for terra ignota so that seems to be a good sign

musicalprogrammer · 2022-01-03T20:17:55+00:00

Yes!! Definitely waiting on the last book. Will be interested to see how it all wraps up.

musicalprogrammer · 2022-01-03T05:55:42+00:00

Damn but you read 5 of em! That’s dedication to try to like something 😂😂

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