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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 1h

Nah my YouTube neighbors aren't as cool as that dude. :D

I mean, some of them are!

Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 3h

No you will not be able to guess who!

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 3h

Yes this is a subtweet.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 3h

The downside of knowing, even--dare I say it--being friends with other youtubers is: they sometimes tell me about videos they're working on? AND THEN THOSE VIDEOS NEVER SEEM TO COME OUT!!!

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 1d

The Sword and the Sorcerer in 4K? W-why?!

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John Champion @lorddurok.com · 1d

Anyone attending GameHoleCon interested in playing some Draw Steel?

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 1d

He wasn't Bowie first.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 1d

"Always go a little further into the water. Just when you feel your feet can't touch bottom, you're about in the right place to do something really exciting."

There will always, always be a cohort of folks rejecting anything new, who just want "more of that stuff you did before."

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/cNbnef_eXBM?...

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hey! The book that hooked me on The Culture is finally getting a Kindle version! That bodes well.

www.amazon.com/Excession-Ia...

Excession

Excession - Kindle edition by Banks, Iain M.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Excession.

www.amazon.com

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hey! The book that hooked me on The Culture is finally getting a Kindle version! That bodes well.

www.amazon.com/Excession-Ia...

Excession

Excession - Kindle edition by Banks, Iain M.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Excession.

www.amazon.com

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 1d

Marbles and Pam's and Rings are all in VCVRack! You could get close to this patch for free?

Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 1d

It's a modular synth! The most expensive way to make unlistenable nonsense ever! :D

You could start with Pam's, the Surface, and some end-of-chain effect module or pedal.

A lot of this is possible in VCVRack which is free software.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 1d

I think there's a lot I could do with a patch like this. I want to try locking the sequence from Marbles, and then using an EG to slew the notes around, but in time with Marbles' internal clock. So the same six notes play every "measure" just in different rhythms.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 2d

I feel the same way! :D Thanks for the kind words!

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 2d

Boom. No idea what I did differently this time.

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tom bloom (scrungled) @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 6d

draw steel works on anime physics which i think is just incredible

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is it. Gonna take this on the road, find a visually suitable locale to shoot a video for this.

It's functionally identical to a thousand similar videos online but I don't care. This one is mine.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 2d

Nautilus could use more modulation. Doing nothing with the reverse knob seems like a missed opportunity, but the patch is already pretty dense harmonically. I'm not sure the reversed delays would be heard.

Worth a try though!

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is it. Gonna take this on the road, find a visually suitable locale to shoot a video for this.

It's functionally identical to a thousand similar videos online but I don't care. This one is mine.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 3d

I honestly, genuinely think the issue is; the 12 year olds who saw that movie and grew up to be movie producers didn't understand what Ram was talking about in that scene, because they were 12.

Why they STILL don't understand it as adults is a different issue.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 3d

Anyway, the original is a brilliant mess. An unwritten film that used a technique never used before, never used again.

I would just remake that original film, with a writer, and actually use the hi-con b/w technique again. I'd shoot it the way they did. It would be insane. It would be amazing.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 3d

They talked, in interviews, about how ridiculous the idea of these programs having lives was. "What, are we going to license AOL Instant Messenger??"

Good question! But if you hate that idea so much...why are you making a Tron movie?

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 3d

I don't get the impression the sequel producers throw this idea out, I get the sense they don't even know it's true.

I remember in the 90s the problem was, suddenly the producers HAD computers. In 1982 computers were still a legitimate subject of SF. But by 1996 the producers had email.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 3d

Tron's vision of cyberspace is wholly unique. It's not *just* a visual language, it's a collection of ideas.

The idea that the programs we use live their own little lives as people in The Machine is Tron's only original idea.

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