u/GavHern

I have stepped away from cardistry and deck collecting for a while (maybe around 7-10 years) and I have recently started looking back into my collection. I found blue seal tally ho fan backs which I never actually ended up opening. I feel like I'm missing out since the blue seal feel was so raved about back in the day, but I'm not actually sure how special they are nowadays? I'm torn on if I should open them or preserve it, but I'm just curious if blue seals are still desired or not? How hard are they to come by these days? Thanks!

I have been trying to emulate Ableton's Splice integration with FL Studio, now that Splice has a Splice Sounds generator plugin I was hoping to use this to my advantage.

I was considering things like MIDI scripting or other shortcuts to try to make a shortcut to open the Splice Sounds plugin with some sort of macro or keybind. I'm curious if anyone has thoughts on how to make this work given that there isn't an immediately intuitive way to make this work. I plan on keeping Splice in my template in the first slot so channels.showEditor(0, 1) should work in MIDI Scripting but I have never really used MIDI Scripting so I'm not sure if this is a reliable approach.

Additionally, with keybinding, it seems like im either stuck with a third party macro (i.e. AutoHotKey or MacOS Automator), or there may be a shortcut to execute the last executed MIDI Script?

I am very open minded to any solutions people may have to this!

this is just something that’s been on my mind and i wanted to pick some brains abt it. i feel like a fundamental part of my aroace identity has to do with me being nonpartnering. “parner” is a label i’m passionate about not assigning to anyone in my life, i like keeping my maximum at best friends, anything more is just not for me. i’m sure there’s no shortage of people who relate, i just prefer “nonpartnering” since ace/aro people can still be in relationships and i think it’s a more specific inclusive term for those who don’t.

a thing i ask to people in a similar situation to that is, how do you find comfort in seeing out your life? i feel like ive always thought an ideal lifespan is like 40 years for me, and i don’t mean that in a concerning way, it just feels like the established roadmap past that age is very influenced by partnership and i don’t find a lot of comfort in needing to build my own path around it. obviously that 40 number gets scarier the closer i get to it but i just can’t help but notice that everyone around me has been gradually moving into that later stage of life and it gets really aligning being in my 20s having friends who are married or moving in with partners and feeling like im almost on the cusp of abandonment in a way? i have a very solid network of very loving friends in my life, and im grateful for that, but i feel like im the only one who treats platonic friendships as the fundamental meaning of their life. im just curious how other people view their upcoming decades through this lens, since looking at the next ~75% of my life left ahead of me, it gets pretty scary thinking about how ill fill it. i bring this up with friends and loved ones but i always get the same hollow answers, which could be because most of my friends are allo and those who aren’t are partnering aspec people who relate only to a certain extent. it’s just so strange to be happy in what feels like the prime of my life despite a looming feeling that everyone else is just now leaving their prologues.

sorry for the 3am ramble im too tired to proofread lol thanks for reading :p