I fully understand. But if it helps (without major spoilers), the horror elements are not permanent, and as you learn to progress you learn to work around them and through them.
But yeah, if they're too deal-breaky upfront, I totally get that. You do spend a lot of time, pun intended, in the dark.
I think most people who have security cameras want them recording, because you don't know when you'll need it. Having a camera that records when you know it needs to be means you already know there's something going on, which is often the opposite case for a security camera which is to notify you when something you don't know it's happening happens, or at least something you don't expect.
That having been said, I don't have one because I'm not nuts, and if I did I'd at least cover it before changing in front of it, but whatever I guess!
At least part of it is self esteem and trust. That's not to say that no poly people have self esteem issues, but if I am worried that my partner being with another person means I'm not good enough for them, then I'm going to feel resentful, insecure, jealous, or some combination of those. That's not a recipe for success. But if I can feel like their time without me isn't a reflection on their time with me, then there's not as many feelings in the way.
But I think overall for me the philosophy is a rejection of Hallmark and Disney notions of love. I don't believe any one person could ever be my one and only everything, and in fact it seems sick to put that much pressure on either of us. Whereas spreading the load around and having different people with different strengths seems much healthier.
So maybe a bit more "community" oriented, rather than individualistic or insular "you and I against the world"?
I tried gestures a few times, but it was constantly seeing me scroll horizontally and taking me back, or scrolling upwards and taking me out of the app. Or, oh man, trying to open a left drawer without navigating away from the page I'm on.
I don't know if I just use devices differently than you, or if I have less patience for things messing up, but honestly I'm glad the work for someone, because otherwise they'd be unusable garbage 😅
I hear people say this sometimes, but I don't know what they mean. Is there part of Valve's system that has a gambling mechanic I've just never engaged with?
Or is it one of their games that has gambling?
Because I've been using it for years as basically my sole gaming interface and haven't seen any gambling.
Yeah! It's dope. With this new understanding I'll circle back around. In an indirect sense the groove of a record represents how far our eardrum should be from its "silent resting position" over time. That's it. The brain is what takes that complicated signal that varies over time and makes something it recognizes out of it.
And then the information encoded on a CD, or magnetic tape, or in a compressed audio file is just the same thing: distance of eardrum from neutral over time.
Oh, and stereo and surround sound and all that is just different audio tracks that play out of different speakers at a synchronized time. Again, it's our brain that notices it hears a flute in the left ear very slightly before it hears it in the right ear and thus feels like that means there's a flute to our left. But there's nothing "flute left" about either individual signal, they're just different audio that we detected a slight difference in from ear to ear.
Yeah! The "timbre" (which despite how it looks is said "tamber") of an instrument is its audio "profile". It's what makes a piano different than a flute, or on a more subtle level makes one piano slightly different from another.
But here's the nuts part: what makes up the timbre of an instrument is a bunch of different resonating bits all resonating together. Essentially the reason a flute sounds like a flute is because it comes "pre-loaded" with a boatload of simple waveforms already added together. When you play a note on one, you get the main pitch you're playing, but the instrument's body and your breath all also produce a whack-ton of side tones all playing at the same time. And like a fingerprint, our ear/brain hears all these bits start and stop together and says "that's a flute".
So it's the same process, really: simple bits adding together. But "flute sound" isn't the atom. It's made up of a bunch of simple waves already added together, which then gets added to the other sounds that sound like pianos or guitars, which produces the final mix.
I don't know if you'll get anything out of it, but you could look up videos of a "modular synth" setting up a trumpet sound or something. These devices have simple electronic tone generators, but by layering them and plugging them into each other, and using effects and the like, they can start to mimic the timbre of a trumpet or whatever. By essentially adding together the "key bits" of the harmonics (these other waves) they can start to approach the feeling of a trumpet sound, but just with simple, raw, parts.
I know a lot of people are complaining about the accuracy of... basically everything about this map.
But what really bothers me is that I feel with every fiber of my being like Pumpkin Pie and Key Lime Pie shouldn't be in the same category as each other. They're just not the same kind of experience. Regardless of who eats them when.
Highly basic answer, let's say the strength of the vocals wave over time is:
5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4
And drums is:
4, 0, 2, 0, 4, 0, 2, 3
Then you add them together for each time slice and get:
9, 4, 5, 2, 7, 4, 7, 7
And you put that on a record, or out to a speaker, and our ears are able to break that up into the two parts when it hears it. This is the same as when two things are in the room making sound, there may be two sources, but my ear only has one hole, and that hole has one eardrum behind it. The different sounds just add their powers together and hit my ear as one mixed wave.
I fully understand. But if it helps (without major spoilers), the horror elements are not permanent, and as you learn to progress you learn to work around them and through them.
But yeah, if they're too deal-breaky upfront, I totally get that. You do spend a lot of time, pun intended, in the dark.