stmilo.bsky.social
(he/him) Professional gamedev/musician, previously Senior Music Analyst on Rocksmith+ (Ubisoft Osaka), BGM/Audio/VO for indies. Australian in Japan. (more details in pinned post!) 日本語はまあまあ. Trans rights, BLM, sovereignty was never ceded. Still masking!
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It's a beautiful machine for sure. Definitely for editing! There's Moviola catalogs and service manuals on archive.org, but none seem to match this exact model. That's hardly definitive but the knobs do resemble older Japanese electronics. Could be locally-made? Maybe expensive to import back then?
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Cf. a machine with similar 'optical/magnetic' switch is pictured in this article: www.adventdigitizing.com/about/insigh...
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No expert, but given the amount of rotating parts it could be related to winding film...? The ruler on the machine could be approx. to frames of film on tape, and the speaker/sound controls could be there to check alignment of the audio track. Guessing the green button is marked 'speed/pitch'?
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Spoilers I guess, but it really IS a dangerous adventure for a piece of wood. They're not fooling around here
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Sorting my YT archives now that it won't let me actually *watch* anything. But how can you categorise Art like this
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About 95% of my motivation for teaching myself electronics has just been for the sake of developing things that simplify fucking cable management...
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I read a great zen philosophy book called 'Taming the Monkey Mind' at an overly impressionable age and grew too used to letting thoughts drift down the river w/o evaluating them or taking them in. My posts here should not be assumed to have any 'pride' behind them. Just the water wheel squeaking.
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sometimes i worry that my posts make me look insane but frankly the way my brain was constructed was in anticipation of a reality that was far less psychotic than this and i'm ok w/ bucking the wavelength
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Shoutout to the master himself Kono Masataka-san, who has 10+ of these spread out throughout his house IIRC.
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Onboard sounds are great to tool around with, very much a Casio vibe with, I think, 1 PCM sample per 'sound' which lends itself to fun tones when things get stretched too far. The 'motion effect' also helps things get weird. Sounds 'cheap', yes, but through the NTS-3 there's some gold there...
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The PSS-A50 (pictured) is really incredible at the price point (~$100). The keybed alone is worth that. I'm told it's an identical keybed to the Reface series and that could be true, but I wouldn't know. Having a nice keybed was the main draw for me and this one's 3 octaves of bouncy fun.
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Youtube has made good on its threat to force me to be productive; to do things I actually enjoy with my life; etc.
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shaking the polaroid until its subject falls out
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The key here, I think, is that the number of colored blocks has to remain the same even after any rearranging of hints. So unless you're considering the 'inverse' results as possible shapes, you have to create two glyphs with the same total number of pixels. Hm.
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I wonder whether there's a set of clues that, arranged in different ways, creates two different pictures. Impossible problem to solve on a general level, but maybe not on a specific one...?
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I'm beginning to suspect (but am unable to prove) that for any given nonogram of size 4x4, there's at least one way to rearrange the row hints & column hints within themselves that creates another legal nonogram. Throws a wrench in my original plan, but leads to another interesting question:
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Went back to this today at 4x4 and felt like a tremendous dumbass not making any progress until I discovered one and only one mistyped variable name, which confirms that I am a different type of dumbass (but doesn't rule out being the former either). One mystery solved at least
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Well there's a LOT of impossible arrangements but I regret to say that I need to check my code as I've found at least two permissible arrangements. barf
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yet again i have created a puzzle i am too dumb to solve myself
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LibreOffice... thank you...
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drew one up on grid paper but my scanner is too good and erased the grid... hah. (nb. there's no guarantee that the results make a picture yet, although these are theoretically 'solvable' as pure number problems)
don't hassle me about straight lines. you don't know where your ruler is at either
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all of which is to say that this is kind of endemic to puzzles and has been for a long time. it'd be cool if there were a way to do it where you were given the rows and columns but not necessarily in order, and figuring out the (hopefully single) logical order of those was part of the puzzle. IMO
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whenever i'd visit my granddad (who was very proud of his intellectual achievements) he'd tell me about the new handicap he invented for himself in sudoku, because they were all just too easy for him. eventually i realized that his forever puzzle was finding new ways to say "i'm retired you know"
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There's a hint of 'Nintendo hire this man'-ism about this, the myth of "one person can make something more 'realistic' than a whole team in Unreal Engine 4k HD"... I have a vague feeling that's the kind of consumer who responds to this kind of thing. Wants the same game, with 8x the tris everywhere.
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You're probably in the clear no matter what with the cans but yeah, would suggest turning off automatic update just in case they try funny stuff software-side with your EQ settings or whatever!
Honestly was worth the risk of burnt ear canals. So tempted...
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Didn't expect the equivalent earbuds to change my life as much as they did, this post has me jonesing...
One time Sony pushed a firmware update that set the earbud charging case to 'flambé' so, uh, just keep an eye on those updates maybe. Imagine they've fixed it by now ofc.