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There were definitely some impossible-when-taken-literally corners in Milt's design, yeah. I got good enough mileage out of a skinny grinder bit and just accepting that literal sharp corners weren't gonna happen; you could probably do the same with a little adaptation, and avoid having to lay out for anything fancier than a grinder bit. (Or maybe like a dremel and bit if you don't have an actual grinder?)

The one potentially really helpful new tool that's also within… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 11:00 PM on November 5, 2022

Ha! I didn't even notice it over here, saw waxy mention it somewhere yesterday. I've used my emeritus mod powers to link it up after the fact now.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 9:33 AM on October 6, 2022

Oh, this is delightful. I, too, am not great at Noita; I got fairly deep a couple times when I was really hitting my head against it, but mostly by narrowly outrunning shit that was absolutely gonna kill me once it caught up. It's such a lovely chaotic mess of a game, and so utterly atmospheric for something so minimally pixely.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 3:40 PM on March 18, 2022

Yeah, if you can get a real good drill build going you can really sort of eliminate entirely the question of "walls" or "floors" and move downward pretty aggressively as long as you're a bit careful near the temples. You can't outrun trouble entirely but you sure can get a head start.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 9:26 AM on March 20, 2022

Yessss!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 12:00 PM on November 17, 2021

OH MY GOSH
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 5:47 PM on June 2, 2021

god how am i only just now seeing this
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 11:18 AM on May 28, 2021

Yay you put it on Projects!

I did the thing!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 7:59 AM on March 16, 2021

This is very satisfying!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 2:17 PM on February 13, 2021

Ha!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 2:49 PM on November 10, 2020

Hey, it's that dang penguin again!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 4:11 PM on August 11, 2020

I've been delighted to see this making the rounds! Just saw that Rock Paper Shotgun posted about it as well. I'm so glad you documented the process like this, that's one of my favorite things in creative work from folks who are online.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 4:06 PM on August 11, 2020

Ha, that's excellent!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 2:01 PM on August 11, 2020

Oh man, the fact that it's 80s abandonware explains a lot; at first I was like "man odinsdream is going for an A E S T H E T I C with these hair options", heh. I'm delighted you resurrected this.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 7:28 AM on May 3, 2020

Ha!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 3:13 PM on April 28, 2020

So proud of the work you guys have done on this.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 4:58 PM on September 17, 2019

Ha, it's a neat little thing. Interesting how dynamic edges both hurt and help my traditional piece-seeking processes, it feels like. (And I saw the Projects submission come in and immediately thought "oh, funny, there was an Ask today about puzzles, too...")
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 4:48 PM on May 22, 2019

Ha, hiya!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 3:14 PM on February 19, 2019

Woo, congrats!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 11:55 AM on January 16, 2019

We should totally kick off a MetaTalk postal hoodydoo of this.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 10:26 AM on January 7, 2019

yessss
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 9:33 PM on December 19, 2018

It depends on a mix of specific familiarity with Moonlight Sonata and generally being steeped in the harmonic conventions of westerns classical music, I guess. Because this piece sounds like two things to me:

1. Tonally adventurous, modern piano music, or
2. Someone fucking up Moonlight Sonata spectacularly.

If I wasn't already familiar with Moonlight Sonata, it'd just sound to me like some 20th C. experimental piano composition; the… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 8:11 AM on December 21, 2018

I haven't thought much about whether or how to sell 'em yet. Partly it's a question of whether I'd be okay with parting them out; while I've done a lot of painting in short series where each painting feels reasonable standing alone, this feels more like a unit to me, a cohesive whole. I dunno, I'm still chewing on it!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 11:04 PM on December 18, 2018

Ha!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 3:32 PM on November 11, 2018

Ha!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 8:14 PM on August 3, 2018

Rad rad rad.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 8:41 PM on July 24, 2018

Man, I've been loving watching this stuff come along elsewhere. It's so good.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 8:41 PM on July 24, 2018

Nice! Congrats on getting back to it.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 8:35 AM on July 23, 2018

YESSSS
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 10:04 AM on July 19, 2018

Oh, this is great.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 4:17 PM on July 18, 2018

HA
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 2:54 PM on July 16, 2018

Obligatory moderator disclaimer that stats are just stats, there are no and will never be official site leaderboards, and as with all datawrangling outings the core goal is do interesting things with data and don't be a dingus about anything.

Happy datawanking note: coooooool. I love seeing different lenses into this sort of thing; also well-loved in this context is the long-running Infodumpster, maintained by Combustible Edison Lighthouse, and that in turn is powered… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 7:23 AM on July 16, 2018

Oh man, I'm immediately grinning at this. I don't listen to Q&Q but I've listened to enough public radio and podcasts that the greeting/thanks ritual's absolutely familiar. Hearing it disembodied and clumped together is weird and delightful; it's a great concept, executed nicely. The way it ends up throwing a spotlight on every little variation and oddity in this or that bookend bit. The guy who paused; the woman with the stronger accent; the guy who crammed 50 words into his… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 7:44 AM on July 15, 2018

Oh, I love the layering-Bob idea, yeah. And doing a comparison between various different hosts in this salutation format is a great idea too.

As I think about it, I bet the better fit for LIFO hijinks would be television content; our ability to sort out a ton of visual information rapidly and store and classify at least little bits of it would probably make that kind of nesting easier to produce a response for. At the same time I wonder if there'd be as good of a… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 8:13 AM on July 15, 2018

This is so good!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 10:43 AM on July 11, 2018

oooh
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 6:15 PM on April 17, 2018

This wonderful. Thanks for putting it together. I miss him being around here.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 6:19 PM on April 10, 2018

you are horrible and i love this
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 3:34 PM on January 20, 2018

oh HELL yes
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 6:55 AM on December 4, 2017

yessss
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 8:59 AM on November 10, 2017

HELL yes.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 8:02 PM on October 18, 2017

Yessss
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 5:00 PM on August 3, 2017

Hey, look what I just saw over on Rock Paper Shotgun!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 8:19 AM on July 30, 2017

Oh my gosh yes. Yes.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 3:19 PM on July 10, 2017

I AM HERE FOR THIS
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 9:34 AM on July 1, 2017

Some real real good stuff there around 3:30 and on into the next minute, would pass easily for a hot-shit drum solo during a jazz show.

I feel like this one comes off as a little more modal than some of the others, like the shifts from one emergent pattern to the next feel more abrupt, more discrete; maybe it's the sharpness of the various percussive sounds, where there's obviously some reverb/room in there but the cowbell hits and the snare are still real tight short… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 9:40 AM on July 1, 2017

Let's do a live stream sometime.

I've thought about time lapses but I worry that a livestream of me painting very carefully and cursing occasionally and not being able to keep up a line of chatter while getting anything done would make for deadly dull viewing. Maybe if I have an idea for something relatively kinetic, though.

How do you take the photos of your pieces? I've taken some photos of my paintings using my… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 7:41 AM on June 8, 2017

Not sure if you've got one, but the newer GoPros have awesome timelapse software built in.

I don't have one, but I think Matt might; I could pick his brain at some point. Could probably also just rig something up with an existing camera, I suppose.

I really love Three Blacks.

Heh, another MeFite actually bought that one!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 7:15 AM on June 19, 2017

yessss
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 7:07 PM on June 7, 2017

Raaaad. The stuff you've been making this way has been so cool and inspirational; I'm glad you put this together.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by cortex at 6:35 PM on May 16, 2017