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Here's a thread where a few of us show our results......the more the merrier.......just don't look there till you play that day.
https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/the-wordle-thread-spoiler.192415/
I Gotta Wonder About Fractal's, er, "Perception"
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There’s some merit to the abundance of it all; I bought self-help books for over a decade and they all say pretty much the same things, just differently. One in particular grabbed me and it did indeed change the direction of my life, but only as much as I was willing to participate with the information it offered. It also said pretty much the same things (albeit, a highly detailed and all-encompassing approach) but the way it was presented clicked with me.
That said, the community of self-help, well, just look at that Twin Flame documentary on Netflix, that sums it up well. All the people that share the self-help memes the most, need them the most and at this point, the majority of people making the memes are just trying to boost a meme/gif account on FB.
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Posers! Every last fucking one of them.
It's as much about flaunting perceived or assumed "status, as the douche-Bro in his Lambo.
Oh, I am more serene and spiritual and evolved than you are. I also have been blessed by
the Universe with a diamond-encrusted soul.
They can all fuck each other in their pompous, overinflated sense of self. Yeah, that same self that
is supposed to be rendered transparent so the divine archetypes we are here to embody can shine
through more faithfully. Blah! Blah!
String a bunch of meaningless phrases together, and invoke an hodge-podge of culturally appropriated
terms and phrases taken completely out of their original context, and , yes, you could win America's Got
Talent as the next great Guru here to usher in the New Age.
Most people don't know that "self-help" started as a corporate endeavour to drive salespeople to push
through the constant and chronic rejection they faced on a daily basis. It's part used-salesman hucksterism,
part corporate tentacles squeezing the worker bees for more juice, and part people's inherent desire to be free
of pain and suffering, while also appearing superior to those around them on the social hierarchy.
(feel free to delete if I crossed any lines......
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Achilles
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My daughter is heavily into it and tries every now and then pushing it on me - although not for quite a while now. Maybe she finally gave up.
She's a great kid so I can't fault her for it. If it works for some so be it.
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Yup. I don't doubt that there is valid intel in the morass somewhere.
I do think the added comparisons it generates, and the "am I good enough?"
vibes, can become self-defeating for a lot of people. That and social media
is just another venue where you can go to feel like utter shit about your life
because your poses are not as shiny, vibrant, and abundant as others are.
But yeah, we all struggling and looking for answers-----which is a big reason why
there are so many bad/wrong answers. And a few good ones.
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Posers! Every last fucking one of them.
It's as much about flaunting perceived or assumed "status, as the douche-Bro in his Lambo.
Oh, I am more serene and spiritual and evolved than you are. I also have been blessed by
the Universe with a diamond-encrusted soul.
They can all fuck each other in their pompous, overinflated sense of self. Yeah, that same self that
is supposed to be rendered transparent so the divine archetypes we are here to embody can shine
through more faithfully. Blah! Blah!
String a bunch of meaningless phrases together, and invoke an hodge-podge of culturally appropriated
terms and phrases taken completely out of their original context, and , yes, you could win America's Got
Talent as the next great Guru here to usher in the New Age.
Most people don't know that "self-help" started as a corporate endeavour to drive salespeople to push
through the constant and chronic rejection they faced on a daily basis. It's part used-salesman hucksterism,
part corporate tentacles squeezing the worker bees for more juice, and part people's inherent desire to be free
of pain and suffering, while also appearing superior to those around them on the social hierarchy.
(feel free to delete if I crossed any lines......
Hahahahah well when ya look at it only in that context, I don’t disagree.
But I will say, the current point I’m at in my life, the successes I’ve had in the last couple years, are largely a result of the information I’ve taken from many of those books. While reading it only makes you aware and the actual work doesn’t take place until you actually do what they say, some of the concepts within them were entirely unknown to me before I picked one up.
Hahahah and while it’s origins may have been nefarious, the fact that less than 20% of people do what they love for a living points to the idea that self-help books should probably be mandatory reading at some point for at least 80% of people
My bigger gripes are with the people I see on FB, posting shit like “Not everyone knows what I’ve been through, but that’s ok, because I’m doing it. Like a phoenix, I’m rising from my ashes” and the only thing they’re doing is snorting fentanyl and the only ashes around are from a kicked over ash tray. Hahahahah that one I may have an exact example of.
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Groove Named to San Francisco Business Times’ Fast 100 List for Third Year in a Row
San Francisco Business Times ranks sales engagement platform provider Groove #16 on its list of the fastest-growing private companies in the Bay Area
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Smells a little like Patchouli.
I kid. I think that's awesome. Glad her business is doing so well. I can imagine how proud you are of her.
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Reading through this thread, the phrase that repeatedly comes to mind is, "not mutually exclusive".
Complex, robust systems; exceptional modeling with extensive deep editing parameters vs. intuitive, consistent, modern, streamlined UI/UX. Not mutually exclusive.
Appealing graphics vs. economical presentation of a lot of information at a glance. Not mutually exclusive. There is a happy medium, depending on what the underlying systems comprise. Abandoning "walls of text" doesn't have to mean full blown "jumped the shark" skeuomorphism a la TMP.
Touchscreens and physical controls (e.g. encoders with good mechanical tactile feedback.) Not mutually exclusive. These each serve specific functions exceptionally well, and they each sort of suck at the rest. Ergo why not both.
There is always room for improvement. Not everything is a tradeoff. And let's just be honest: the FM3 is amazing, but its UI presently leaves a lot of room for improvement. I'm no technophobe. I have a BSEE and I've been programming musical equipment since MIDI was a novel concept. I do bristle at the assumption that I want to be spoon fed, or I need things "dumbed down", or I'm too lazy to RTFM. None of these are true; I'm a card-carrying nerd. That doesn't mean I like having my time or patience wasted by needlessly complicated or outdated presentation/ implementation. (A techie who likes a nice UX. What do you know? Not mutually exclusive.)
Complex, robust systems; exceptional modeling with extensive deep editing parameters vs. intuitive, consistent, modern, streamlined UI/UX. Not mutually exclusive.
Appealing graphics vs. economical presentation of a lot of information at a glance. Not mutually exclusive. There is a happy medium, depending on what the underlying systems comprise. Abandoning "walls of text" doesn't have to mean full blown "jumped the shark" skeuomorphism a la TMP.
Touchscreens and physical controls (e.g. encoders with good mechanical tactile feedback.) Not mutually exclusive. These each serve specific functions exceptionally well, and they each sort of suck at the rest. Ergo why not both.
There is always room for improvement. Not everything is a tradeoff. And let's just be honest: the FM3 is amazing, but its UI presently leaves a lot of room for improvement. I'm no technophobe. I have a BSEE and I've been programming musical equipment since MIDI was a novel concept. I do bristle at the assumption that I want to be spoon fed, or I need things "dumbed down", or I'm too lazy to RTFM. None of these are true; I'm a card-carrying nerd. That doesn't mean I like having my time or patience wasted by needlessly complicated or outdated presentation/ implementation. (A techie who likes a nice UX. What do you know? Not mutually exclusive.)
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ejecta
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I agree.
I just don't think that the design paradigms that are popular right now are actually an improvement.
paisleywookiee
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Right. If we’re to refer to the TMP in particular, it’s an inefficient use of screen real estate for a modeler.
There is no reason in 2024 to have skewmorphism, when people have been conditioned for over a decade to understand icons that are far more space-efficient.
Agreed.
We finally have these huge affordable screens...and we apparently want to use them for useless eye candy to make it not quite look like physical objects and to make room for hit boxes big enough for the vagueness of touch input for some reason.
It's silly.
jellodog
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Also agree. I don't want to see a skeuomorphic Deluxe Reverb wasting half of the screen real estate as it is on the TMP either.
Or, for that matter, a time and processor wasting animation.
paisleywookiee
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Is anyone confused what these do? If so, do you think you could figure it out in less than five minutes?
I’m not an Android user, but I’m sure that’s just as easy. This is why skewmorphism is dated. It was dated ten years ago.
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From left to right
Phone , compass , cartoon character commentary
Sheet music ?
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OK, but that is a pretty broad stroke. I think most if not all of us can agree that goofy, excessive skeuomorphism is not the way. We'd need to start by further qualifying "design paradigms that are popular right now". Thats... a lot LOL.
Almost any technology can be applied poorly. Or effectively.
