Happy to finally have this out! This was a huge labor of love. This song fit the goofiness and earnestness of this series perfectly to me and I absolutely needed to match them up as best I could.
I don't like Haken's new song Not-Visions, it sounds different from what they've done before. Where's the trademark silliness they always incorporate into their music that formed their sound they've had before this? Like on In Memoriam, Initiate, Host, Endless Knot, and Prosthetic.
They've lost their soul as a band, I'm so disappointed that they're selling out and that they're going to making music exactly like this five-track EP for the next 70 years. What is this poppy nonsense that I would still feel vaguely uncomfortable playing at a house party without context?
Every time they've permanently changed their sound after Visions I've been forced to mourn this band again and again. This isn't my favorite band anymore, I feel so deeply betrayed. In ten years' time I'm positive I'll have this exact same opinion and that I won't look back on my reaction here with any kind of embarrassment.
A prog band needs to play exactly what I want them to and stay in the box they established for themselves 10-15 years ago. Otherwise they are selling out and losing what made them special as creatives always willing to try something new.
Also, creative inspiration from massively popular bands who push your niche to a mass audience on a scale never seen before isn't possible, and sounding similar to them at all in any way can only be a sign of trying to make more money. Exploration and experimentation is to be judged immediately and harshly.
God, I love prog.
Am I crazy for getting a base model Macbook Air for $900 instead of an upgraded Macbook Neo for $700?
I own a base model Pro and wanted a second more portable Macbook, and spending only $200 extra for a comprehensively better and more enjoyable machine seemed like a great deal to me. The only thing is my Pro and Air may step on each other's toes a bit now, what with both having the base M5 chip, raising the question of if it's worth having the two different machines or not. But I don't know, does this seem like a reasonable decision? Or am I just being wasteful in my spending at this point? I have a two month return period for the Air so I have time to assess the decision.
The plan was originally to get the Neo, so that it would have a completely different use case than my Pro, but after trying the Neo out it just didn't compare to either the Air nor Pro in even basic use for me (it felt noticeably laggier).