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Wowww baffled by this take, but people will say anything to sell AI. Instruments are cheaper and more accessible than ever, I regularly see them in thrift stores. I also grew up in poverty but my parents got me drumsticks and that got me started. Also did a lot of software piracy lolol

The first time I heard it I was literally about to give feedback on it and then I heard that line and had a chuckle. Love that it gets ahead of criticism by explaining itself. Similarly one of our WIP hero models had a sticky note that read "WIP" on its back for a while 😄

In deadlock we have a temp voice suite recorded by one of our voice actors who intentionally is very goofy so it's obvious that his voice isn't a match with the WIP hero, saying stuff like "exploding thingy!" and "they're probably going to complain in the forums about my voice" -

Audio (sound effects, music, and dialogue) has a weird relationship with temp assets, mostly because of issues revolving around human psychology.

Problem #1: How do you communicate that something you're hearing is temp?

I recently heard of a team that recorded a library of temp asset mouth sounds (i.e "whoosh!" and "pow!") and while it requires some work up front, it was an elegant solution for that team. The sound was obviously temp and out of place in the palette, but not grating and in fact kind of endearing!

Kareem I felt my blood pressure go up reading this!! In my whole career I still don't have a good solution to this, other than finding a rhythm with the dev team where they understand your temp process. Because I work on a smaller team now with less turnover, it's easier to all be on the same page

Hey y'all, we just posted a Sound Design intern position here on the Respawn Jedi team for Summer 2026! Come make some really cool stuff with us

*Caveat is you must be a student graduating no earlier than December 2026

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Aw sad, would have been really nice to see you there!

Lol this happens every time, there's always some people in seattle that I only see at conferences outside of seattle

Confirmed last minute going to GameSoundCon this month. Hope to see some folks there! 🫡

Laryssa's new album is soooo good. I've been bumping it a lot since it came out and letting the bittersweet, sad, joyous, beautiful emotions flow over me. Highly recommend it!

YESSS I'VE BEEN WAITING!!!

No fucking way

I'm so sorry to hear this Priscilla. Such a special boy, he is so loved and will always be a part of your heart ❤️

I never finished it but really really enjoyed the time I played. It struck me more of a love letter than a copycat and has a lot of its own style and taste to add as well

Tuned into her for the first time this year, super influential amazing stuff

Fata Morgana 🙏

Got to give this a proper listen today and wowww. SO good!!

That music choice in the vid 🙏✨
This is super cool! Just saw Berrak has the same one. The cassette interface is clever, gives me winamp vibes

It's funny that in some ways I'm coming back to the way I used tech twenty years ago, it's been a good thing for me and refreshing to make my own decisions with how I use it all. Thanks to the audiophiles out there for keeping the DAP scene alive for us 🙏

Honestly yes, having a 3.5mm jack again feels like all is right in the world

Nice!! I love the lil cassette graphic with that haha. Drew got a disc burner and I feel like I'm thrust back into my teens, but in a good way. At least I don't have to edit and fix the metadata of my sketchily-downloaded-mp3s anymore lol

Anyway not sharing this to sound better-than-thou or judgmental. It's been an interesting journey for me and I thought it'd be interesting or helpful for others. If I have the financial means, it feels more important now than ever to support the arts and musicians

Me holding a Surfans F20 digital audio player

Got this little surfans player and loaded it up with my bandcamp collection, really like being able to consume music apart from my phone, being able to listen offline (Tidal was always buggy with this!), and having an excuse to delve into my library more thoroughly

My Tidal sub has cost $11/month and I found I'd listen to the same backlog, plus maybe one or two new albums in that time. It's mostly just convenient for checking out stuff people rec to me at this point

On this note, I'm currently testing the waters with divesting myself from music streaming entirely. I'm in a good spot financially to look at what maximizing support for the artists I care about looks like, and bandcamp has been a great tool to exercise that

Screenshot of my bandcamp showing the covers of the music listed in the post

My bandcamp Friday splurge today:

Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea
gyrofield - These Heavens
Laryssa Okada - Call Me When You Get Home
TOKYOPILL - 0
Suzanne Kraft - About You
TOPS - Bury the Key

Yeah I'm torn cause I love the idea of standardizing connectors, but there are so few slots available that it just doesn't work. Sounds like it's an expense and power issue for now preventing more of the slots, hopefully it gets resolved some day. In the meantime, adapters!!

Yes unfortunatelyyy. I agree, plugging them in far out of sight is the way to go