I know its you, but you look like the cheap knockoff of you without the hair. Cool shirt tho.
Pandemic social distancing diary thread
relic
#838
Its like a Vlantis avatar but we haven’t chosen the hair style yet.
but seriously @Vlantis I think it looks good man. I had shoulder length hair for a long time but I keep cutting mine shorter and shorter for summer.
IO_Madness
#839
What I do is I have a drive for music stuff (in fact, anything really that isn’t the OS), and I have a folder for audio related stuff, E:/Sound, then I’ll have a folder for each DAW I use, and keep project files in those.
When I finish a track and render it, I have a folder “E:/Sound/orig music” where those go, sorted into mp3’s or lossless.
For samples, I have E:/Sound/Samples, which get split up into sample packs and loose samples just right there.
My REAPER folder (my main audio DAW), I have sub folders for renders, recorded files, all split up.
I need to clean up my vst’s tho. Those are wherever they all went by default, so I probably need to clean those all up.
Artificer
#840
I like the cut of your jib, sir. That’s pretty similar to what I’ve got set up and it works well. Everything is on a single SSD (E:) with a separate drive for samples. A clean DAW setup is a happy DAW setup.
I’ve been in that position before and it sucks. Nothing worse than having 20 different VST folders hanging around, especially when you miss one when reinstalling. If they’re just .dlls, you can usually just copy them without an issue. If they’re part of a larger program set that refers to that location, you can use directory junctions and symlinks to move the data where you want and have a pointer to it. It’s not as optimal as having shit installed in the right spot to begin with, but it works.
I think when I eventually do a clean install I’m going to give REFS a go. I like the idea of having an automated nightly snapshot of everything.
Vlantis
#841
Instead of working on getting music software installed, I spent two hours on the phone with my friend Mio.
Found an old demo CD of my friend’s. We’ve been estranged for five years, but it’s time to get over it. The music is safe on my computer, but it took a little work (old file format).
Vlantis
#842
Rescued an old music friend’s demo disc from the pits of hell. I lent a hand on the creation of this. “Mastered” it and added some effects here and there.
Renewed my vows to leave this town with Mio. Hit up an old flame in St. Louis. She’s doing alright. I’m laying it on pretty thick. Maybe we’ll make a love connection.
Saving money…
Vlantis
#843
No love connection. 
Hyper Light Drifter is finished.
About to play The Last of Us for the first time. Bought it a long time ago.
White_Noise
#844
Last of Us was an acquired taste for me. I hope you can get into it faster than I did, because the payoff is worth it.
xSANTAxDURSTx
#845
I beg to differ. Maybe it’s a southern thing, but usually it goes this way: smokes in one hand, corona in the other 
Vlantis
#846
I’m looking into reapplying the thermal paste on this laptop. I fixed the screen. I can do this. Runs a bit hot.
relic
#847
dem feels right now…
my country is eating itself alive and I don’t know what to do…and I feel like at some point I’m going to end up out in the street with a fucking baseball bat and this is not what I want…we are fucking going to see America fall.
Vlantis
#848
Hold on to the light, for the love of god. It’s election season, too, so don’t get too fired up.
It’s the media and politics stirring shit up. I just had this conversation with my sister. Does anybody remember all the families that ICE separated at the border? What happened to Covid? What about all those active shooters? Now it’s racism and looting. It’s the same old shit, and the powers that be are using every advantage they can for their political agenda, everywhere around the world.
Me and my ex-wife have a long-running joke:
“Election” and “Erection” mean the same thing in Japanese English due to the whole pronunciation thing. Keep that in mind.
relic
#850
dude I love you but the “its the same old shit” is the fucking problem
I don’t mean to accuse anyone of not paying attention but these cops are the fuck out of control…when I see cops in my state capital pulling down the mask of a protestor standing with his arms up doing nothing and spray a whole fucking can of mace in their fucking eyes I get a LITTLE concerned about shit.
This is aboslutely a 1000% about color but its also about the fucking oligarchy that has taught us that material stuff is worth more than human life.
That’s all I’ll say. I tried desperately for so long to keep politics out of this (edit: this thread). But in my town on Saturday a civilian in a truck hit and run a peaceful protester so I’m fucking done and the cops, at the time, were more interesting in pepper spraying people than doing anything about that incident. Thankfully video and picture evidence will get that fuck stick arrested.
End rant/
relic
#854
@Vlantis I don’t mean to single you out or be a cunt. I’m emotional and feisty. I’ll just admit that I’m drunk and weepy about what is going on.
Vlantis
#855
Yeah it’s nuts. But again, what about all the fucking horrible shit that went down at the border last year? What about ICE, who ravaged Moab and had mexican families living in fear?
It’s the blame game right now, and Our Dear Old President isn’t helping. What happened to the MeToo movement?
It’s systemic racism at it’s core, and to think that it’s only an American problem is wrong. Somebody else in the world is being raped and killed tonight.
Sorry, but that’s the cold truth.
I lived as a minority in Japan, and I was hassled by the police on a daily basis, but yeah, it was my choice to live there. Are Americans going to go through another few years of being called racists because of the shitty actions of others?
And if anybody thinks I have privilege, you can throw that thinking out the door. I barely make ends meet.
Just don’t get too riled up. Don’t go grey before your time.
Just some thoughts.
Vlantis
#856
It’s the newest focal point that has been used by the media. And I’ll bow out of this conversation now. Everybody here knows where I stand politically. 
relic
#857
It is certainly a global problem! And yes there is injustice everywhere. I still don’t see the value in the “its the same old thing thinking” but I don’t want to argue with you about it man. I feel like ultimately we are on the same team.
There is too much injustice to process and deal with. One person, or at least I, don’t have the emotional energy to be an truly effective ally to every injustice. I read an article about a Standing Rock protester that died on a ventilator giving birth to her child in prison while mother fucking rich white assholes got out of prison bc of Covid 19. Then suddenly my city and state is on fire and full of violence.
Fucking police stations around my state took down the American flag today and flew the Thin Blue Line flag. Democracy, for me, died when I saw that. Frankly they should have just raised a White Nationalist flag.
And same same, I really don’t want to argue minutia with people I think I ultimately agree with.