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Hugh Dingwall

@objectivereality.bsky.social

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He/him. Muso, soundie, general nerd. Based in Palmerston North NZ. Podcast "Reserved Recommendations" at www.mpr.nz/show/reserved Games I wrote at objectivereality.itch.io Music at wolfboy.bandcamp.com

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 12h

a man with a beard says " now that 's a name i 've not heard in a long time .

ALT: a man with a beard says " now that 's a name i 've not heard in a long time .

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Tall baked comrade bf @tallbakedcomradebf.bsky.social · 1d

@postoctobrist.bsky.social @wtyppod.com @donoteat.bsky.social @garethdennis.uk @victoriascott.bsky.social Thanks for the inspiration.

Image shows the interior of an airplane full of people with their oxygen masks on and the caption reads, Please secure your gender before helping anyone else with theirs." Meme was inspired by the Well There's Your Problem podcast, episode 186.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 18h

Yup, always does. Always the same art style too

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 20h

These AI comics just get browner and browner, don't they?

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Shar Lady of Loss symbol

Forgotten realms bg3 netherse symbol for

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Loss

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 1d

This one wasn't, unless it also made a bunch of pretty pictures to distract you.

Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 1d

It wasn't "acidwarp" - that one just made coloured patterns. This had a whole bunch of little guys on a background.

Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 1d

Elder millennial nerd hivemind question: do you remember that vogue in the days of MS-DOS and Win3.1 for standalone screensavers? There was one that kept getting put on the computers in my school's computer lab called "acid.exe". It played a long animation with lots of sprites. Anyone remember it?

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 1d

Dooooo eeet

PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 1d

Sign this, and we can (literally) take the power back
www.together.org.nz/public_owner...
#nzpol

Public Ownership of Electricity

Join us in building a better world

www.together.org.nz

Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 2d

I love me some presets! The reason I like modular (or at least virtual modular) is that I can't play keys like, at all, so the ability to sketch out an idea (a chord sequence f'rexample) and see how the machines interact with it fits my brain very nicely.

Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like social media has globalised conspiracism, so if you want to appeal to cookers for cheap heat you're going to tend to follow the US more than you would have say, 10 years ago.

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Emma Hart @ghet.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the new VR system's descent is just fascinating, and very much a group project. Yesterday it transcribed "Yours sincerely" as "six-inch screwdriver".

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the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

please fund my kickstarter, it will be really fucking funny

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The Eerie Potato @hunsweasel.bsky.social · 3d

Scream us a song, you're the Piano Man
A song from the darkness beneath
With your piano wire hair and your soul-chilling stare
And your eighty-eight black and white teeth

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 3d

This is what I was recording out, by the way...
(Well, one of two tracks I had that needed arranging and recording)
wolfboy.bandcamp.com/track/beauti...

Beautiful Bones, by Wolfboy

from the album Sick & Tired

wolfboy.bandcamp.com

Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 3d

If nerds wonder, I'm using the ReaRoute ASIO plug-in to make the out from VCVRack show up as a sound source in Reaper, which is running in another window. It's janky (I need to restart Reaper after I set it up to make it go) but it means I can master after the fact.

Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 3d

One of the things I kinda like about working in VCVRack is that you can't render a tune out. You need to rig some way of recording it and then let the patch play itself - so you get this moment of just chilling and listening to the thing unfold....

My laptop screen playing out a VCVRack patch into Reaper.

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 3d

When I got knocked off mine, the lady who did it very kindly paid for the repairs but my wheels and and forks were both significantly bent despite the collision happening at pretty low speed.

Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 3d

Eek! Hope you and the bike are OK!

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Out of Context Biffo the Bear @oocbiffo.bsky.social · 4d

Beano #911, Jan 2, 1960

Biffo uses his body and skis to spell the word "HELP" as he plummets to his doom.

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Anecdata @anecdata.bsky.social · 3d

Released two years ago today! 'Aucklantis' is an almost-concept album about the Auckland Anniversary deluge and floods of January/February 2023. anecdata.bandcamp.com/album/auckla... open.spotify.com/album/5o5Wlw... music.apple.com/us/album/auc...

Aucklantis, by Anecdata

31 track album

anecdata.bandcamp.com

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 3d

Well done, you have successfully started "Tristram" playing in my head

Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 3d

Life Is Bollocks

Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 3d

La Dolce Bollocks

Steve Reeves @stevereeves.bsky.social · 3d

Twelve Angry Bollocks

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 6d

Thing that we didn't discuss, but occurred to me on listening back to this: this movie about misogyny predates Gamergate by 1 year, and Trump's first term by 3. Given the state of the misogynosphere at the time of its creation, it looks kinda prescient in retrospect....

Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 6d

On tonight's pod I talk to the wonderful @rossthesedays.bsky.social about Denis Villeneuve's 2013 movie "Enemy". This is a really good one, yo! We get deep into it because this film is a Rich Text and there is a LOT to say.
Listen here: bit.ly/res_rec-83-e..., older eps at mpr.nz/show/reserved.

An image of Jake Gyllenhaal from the DVD box of the movie "Enemy" (2103) which shows a cityscape dominated by an enormous spider growing from the back of his head. Over this is superimposed text which reads "Reserved Recommendations #83: "Enemy" (2013) with Ross Palethorpe"

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Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 5d

Moar. Pingwings.