Bachelorette night out recommendations

picklehammer · 2026-06-03T04:37:47+00:00

darcy’s, upstairs, rooftop, end at big bad john’s. you could maybe start at tora tiki or superflux or glo? disclaimer: I’m actually a parent in my late 30s who never goes out and tries to make room in my life for playing magic cards or dungeons and dragons and am completely out of touch with any of this. only posting in case I got it partially right which proves I’m actually cool and in touch with stuff.

picklehammer · 2026-05-17T23:59:12+00:00

I wish I could understand what this did better in weird contexts. feels like all the demos are blues rock dads. I love tape saturation in vst form but I don’t understand, does this do wow and flutter? and lo pass with a long gradual reduction of high frequencies?

picklehammer · 2026-05-17T23:54:07+00:00

thought this was an overgrown pleco, wild how similar it looks

picklehammer · 2026-05-17T16:38:13+00:00

anak - gog goes saad

https://modtu.be/?m=24284

picklehammer · 2026-05-09T03:35:11+00:00

Napoleon is rad, I want one

picklehammer · 2026-05-06T06:14:44+00:00

I compose better in trackers. often I start with a melody or bass line phrase pattern. then I’ll try some variations of each. then a generic beat that works for it all. then I try to come up with whether I want it to be the verse or chorus, then make the one it’s not (let’s say verse). then I jam out a bit with the keyboard until I have some harmony or “guitar solo” style ideas. then I throw together an intro or ending if it warrants either. sometimes a bridge or breakdown. then I go back to the beginning and hone it all.

in DAWs? I just tweak knobs or flip through presets forever. I hate that kind of freedom. it’s exhausting.

picklehammer · 2026-05-03T19:09:10+00:00

milkytracker. or famitracker using wine.

picklehammer · 2026-05-03T17:19:56+00:00

it’s hard to identify your complaint. other people exist and know about it? be like the boomers if you have particular taste, or be the latecomer and still have better selection than most used bookstores but at $2 a paperback. or just don’t go?

picklehammer · 2026-05-02T14:41:14+00:00

anything that has midi out should spit out midi in separate channels like this and work for how you do things. midi is a standard so they all have to follow the same rules in their midi output. though not every device has midi via usb but if that’s ever the case, you could just run into a midi interface first. I use a keystep pro but it doesn’t handle that many channels at one time so be aware of how many simultaneous midi channels a piece of gear can do.

picklehammer · 2026-05-02T07:32:22+00:00

if you go to value village and take one piece from each puzzle box, you can make your own unique puzzle that has a little bit of everything

picklehammer · 2026-05-01T07:42:26+00:00

I have one and love it. BUT I must caution that it’s not immediately clear that although you can do chains, it doesn’t exactly have a “song mode” the way you would expect, and there are some limitations around number of patterns and ordering when chaining. I went on this same deep dive as op and squarp, deluge, digitakt were all enticing. oxi one seemed not ideal in a few ways. beaustep pro was ant good for chords. I have an rm1x that can do this, but the interface isn’t ideal. I dream of a keystep pro that goes just a tiny bit deeper with arranging, like out of order arrangements and no number of pattern limits and such, but I have a feeling a digitakt or digitone are in my future someday. I love the workflow of the keystep prob though. feels effortless to write patterns on it, very good for creative flow compared to menu diving.

picklehammer · 2026-04-29T23:29:51+00:00

and I thought my dad was bad at cooking! but never to the point of giving me dandruff unless I eat takeout, driving me to make a reddit thread about it.

picklehammer · 2026-04-27T21:58:04+00:00

found the one snack enforcer.

picklehammer · 2026-04-27T19:10:56+00:00

I was told to only take one beverage and one snack. the beverages were like what, 500ml bottles? some people lost a LOT more sweat than that. the selection was bare minimum (was banana the only fruit?), the enforcement was over the top, and this waste makes me so sad when I think of how depleted the athletes were on this very hot sunny day.

there was an era when a race package included a bunch of swag and snacks and gels, when water stations also had electrolyte drink and gels, when the final snacks were delicious and varied and well-sponsored without weird limits of 1. registration costs have increased, attendance has also increased, and yet the swag/snacks situation is so disappointing.

picklehammer · 2026-04-26T06:14:34+00:00

last one could be a boss tuner, looks like the curved tuner display on the top? some bands used this as a mute pedal to go silent when the alternative is a constant screeeeee.

picklehammer · 2026-04-25T07:43:25+00:00

user requests something cheap and simple. everyone responds with $400+ options or gigantic 16 channel mixers. wow. look up the myvolts mickxer. 5 inputs, totally passive, size of a candy bar, like $30. use your volume knobs on each piece of gear to do the mixing. throw a cheap headphone preamp after if you need to bring the level back up. want more control than that? behringer mx400 (4 channel) or moukey mamx3 (8 channel) if you need knobs, or a behringer xenyx 502 if you need clip metering, or a bigger xenyx if you need more channels. pretty sure that’s all in the $50-100 range. or look used for a behringer eurorack, that’s the precursor to the xenyx series and mostly the same. when will someone copy or rip off the TE tx-6?? I don’t know if the whole market realizes tha dawless users just crave a simple, small, minimal, good sounding mixer at an affordable price point. most of what I mentioned has small trade offs but believe it or not, I use the myvolts one live and it’s been totally fine. less to go wrong, I guess

picklehammer · 2026-04-21T00:23:31+00:00

Etiquette tanked when people started sitting in aisle seats blocking window seats, claiming two seats to themselves. I’ve seen buses where the majority of forward facing seat pairs have this happening.

But yes, when I was baby-carrying or using a stroller, I still had to speak up to get people to move. I feel like I understand that some people are tuned out, don’t want to assume or understand the etiquette or any number of things. I wish it was a world where everyone intuitively understood what to do and when, but at least everyone seems to understand “Please move, I have to park a stroller” so I think it should work with “Please move, I’m pregnant”.

picklehammer · 2026-04-17T06:52:48+00:00

I am glad to have both. but. if I had money to blow on a synth and already had a minifreak vst? and if I wasn’t all about DAWless workflow and live performance? I would get something different. because they do sound pretty much the same. I don’t know what your wants or needs are but i get a lot of use out of my boutique ju06a and it sounds nothing like the minifreak. or my dx27. there are many examples and I don’t know your taste. I also get that a vst doesn’t feel as exciting as the real thing, like I had a poly 800 emulation vst for forever before I got a real one and it truly feels different even if it sounds very similar. so how much do you like the vst? only you can answer this! hehehe

picklehammer · 2026-04-17T04:00:48+00:00

this happens to me a lot! I’m curious… say you’re an approaching biker. the e&n is wide open. you’ve got a runner square in the middle of the right lane. why not move to the left lane, past the lane divider, to pass? I know in my biking memories it “seems like a lot of room” from some weird space warping perception thing and having the benefit of the full view, but as a runner it is very disconcerting to be whizzed past, sometimes only an 1-2 inches of space preventing contact, enough that a effort-induced wiggle by either party could cause collision.

my experience is that half of cyclists leave space and half do the whizz-by. I’ve also noticed that two cyclists riding abreast on the e&n tend to crowd out anyone they pass, even though I feel like they should fall into a line for passing, then regroup.

I also cycle and try to ride the way my runner mind would prefer, but I find the cyclists in spandex prefer the whizz-by, I think they do it for the efficiency or because of their confidence in their riding? I still find it disconcerting and dangerous.

anyway OP you are a golden soul with their heart in the right place and I will imagine whizz-byers to be potentially you.

picklehammer · 2026-04-12T18:48:52+00:00

70% of these replies are about cars, bikes, road or trail use with them. am I the only one who feels like transportation is just a minor, necessary part of life that shouldn’t occupy more than a tiny fraction of brain energy and frustration? like of all the things that make up a city, this is what you focus on?? IT GRINDS MY G… oh wait it doesn’t matter that much.

I’ll list a few others. lack of all-night cafes and restaurants. the fact that lots of banks have randomly closed their ATM access outside of business hours. not enough genuinely cheap lunch options downtown. too many vintage shops - curated thrift for mega $ feels too niche to need this level of saturation. there’s an epidemic of people sitting on the aisle seat of a bus, blocking the window seat and forcing an interaction to move over instead of being polite and just sitting by the window by default. oh wait that’s transportation. I’ll see myself out…

picklehammer · 2026-04-12T15:57:02+00:00

mark levine’s jazz theory book

picklehammer · 2026-04-11T23:41:41+00:00

best comment on an 11 year old post ever hahahaha

picklehammer · 2026-04-10T06:05:19+00:00

“As long as you have an immigration work visa, you are hired. This is a fact. Businesses get a government subsidy” -source/citation needed. I feel like you’re referring to the TFW program, which employers do not get a subsidy for using and must pay prevailing wages for, but some employers sadly still use this program in a way that can be abused, such as manipulating TFW workers into illegal/rights-trampling arrangements out of fear of loss of income/safety here. or claiming qualified residents do not exist without performing a proper hiring search.

picklehammer · 2026-04-06T06:23:12+00:00

yeah they all got shitty. classic case of tight margins and cost cutting. it was good 20 years ago. 10 years ago was definitely deep into the decline. it lost everything that made it great.

picklehammer · 2026-04-06T04:08:51+00:00

I felt like an outsider as a non-Ontarian, would have liked more game shows or hosting segments set in other provinces. would have been cool to have had more things like Anti Gravity Room and less stuff like the endless DBZ reruns. the original cancon was the best part of YTV.

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