u/IlostmyCthulhu

Got my first keyboard a couple of months ago. After putting myself through various free resources i.e YouTube and some beginners online guides I have realised that I need a structured way of learning things. I have been playing guitar for around 9 years now and the mistake I made there was to force myself into learning all the cool stuff without going through proper technique. I had to course correct quite late into that journey which was double the amount of work and effort and I don't want to repeat it again. Right now I can play some pieces on the keyboard here and there and have been practicing with hand exercises. But I think it's time I put myself through some discipline.

Suggest me some good paid courses for beginners to intermediate. I will eventually take in person training since my goal is to play Jazz.

I love it when the treatment of the movie feeds into the genre itself. Like Baby Driver (2017) or any other Edger Wright movie. Same with Guy Ritchie or Steven Soderbergh.

Specifically looking for Crime action thrillers, great if they are also comedy. It's also okay if the suggestion doesn't fit the request but the treatment is unique nonetheless.

Irrespective of the genre or country. Just well made movies which makes you appreciate the art of filmmaking. Say for example "F for Fake (1973)" by Orson Welles blew my brains out. Or any Bergman movie makes me feel there's more to this era than I am exposed to currently.

Chernobyl worked for me because it didn't try to tell one story. It moved between the plant workers, the firefighters, the scientists, the bureaucrats, the families waiting outside hospitals and let the scale of the disaster come from all those perspectives colliding rather than from one person's perspective.

9/11 feels like it has that same multivariate structure, just untapped on screen with that kind of ensemble-miniseries treatment. You had NYPD and FDNY responders walking into a building they didn't fully understand yet. Passengers on the planes making decisions in real time with partial information. Newsrooms trying to verify what was even happening while it was happening. Office workers who had no idea their Tuesday was about to become tragic. And on the other side, the terrorists themselves are planning, their psychology, the parts of that story most retellings avoid touching entirely.

What strikes me is the before-the-second-plane window that stretch where nobody knew if it was an accident or an attack. That confusion-to-realization arc seems like rich dramatic territory, similar to the early "is this really that bad?" denial phase in Chernobyl.

There's obviously been 9/11 media before (United 93, World Trade Center, documentaries), but rarely the Chernobyl approach of a slow-burn, multi-thread miniseries treating it as a systems failure and human tragedy simultaneously, told from the ground up across every vantage point.

While retaining the sensitive nature of such a historically tragic event, I think a show with an in depth explanation of what really happened needs to be made.

Currently playing "the precinct" and I'm loving it.

I'm just looking for a vibe here, something to spend hours on while the weather is gloomy outside. I just want to lay back, get high, drink something warm and chill.

I have songster premium but the version they have is incomplete and maybe wrong up to some extent.

They have Cusp of Eternity, River and Eternal Rains will come but not the rest of the tracks.

Is there anywhere else I can find it?

We are planning a movie night and I'm looking for "The Room (2003)" equivalent of superhero films. Something a group of friends can enjoy while being drunk. Films which are so-bad-its-good type but made with full heart.

Edit: Thank you for all the suggestions guys, We are reading them all, keep them coming.

I may be out of the loop here but recently I read some comments suggesting that some legal issues with co-founder and Skillbox which is making it difficult for them. Also the fact that the Mumbai show is not selling that well could factor in as well.

Is this true?

Source

So I've been watching an ant trail near my window and got weirdly obsessed with this question. When ants find food, they don't just send everyone they seem to scale the number of workers to the size or value of the food source. But how?

Like, does the scout ant somehow "encode" information about: Distance to the food (longer trail = more energy burned per trip)? Type/quality of food (sugar vs. protein vs. fat)? Yield vs. effort, is it even worth mobilizing 300 workers for a dry cracker 10 meters away?

Are they actually doing some form of decentralized computation through pheromone concentration and trail reinforcement, or is it more emergent like no single ant "knows" anything, but the colony as a system arrives at an efficient answer?

And do colonies ever decline a food source because the math just doesn't work out, too far, too small, too risky?

I'm not a biologist, just genuinely mind-blown that something with a brain the size of a grain of sand seems to be running logistics better than some supply chains I've heard of.

So I've been watching an ant trail near my window and got weirdly obsessed with this question. When ants find food, they don't just send everyone they seem to scale the number of workers to the size or value of the food source. But how?

Like, does the scout ant somehow "encode" information about: Distance to the food (longer trail = more energy burned per trip)? Type/quality of food (sugar vs. protein vs. fat)? Yield vs. effort, is it even worth mobilizing 300 workers for a dry cracker 10 meters away?

Are they actually doing some form of decentralized computation through pheromone concentration and trail reinforcement, or is it more emergent like no single ant "knows" anything, but the colony as a system arrives at an efficient answer?

And do colonies ever decline a food source because the math just doesn't work out, too far, too small, too risky?

I'm not a biologist, just genuinely mind-blown that something with a brain the size of a grain of sand seems to be running logistics better than some supply chains I've heard of.

Edit: In development over 6 years.*

We're living in an era where the cultural conversation shifts every few weeks. A meme dies in a month, a political moment gets memorialized and forgotten in the same news cycle, and what Gen Z found cool in 2022 is already cringe in 2026.

GTA 6 is set in a fictional Florida, a state that's been a goldmine of absurdity but Florida in 2026 looks very different from the Florida Rockstar was studying in 2018-2020 when core development was happening. Venues have closed, the influencer economy has mutated, OnlyFans went mainstream and then got weird again, TikTok nearly got banned twice.

My question is how does a game satirizing contemporary American culture survive a decade-long development cycle without becoming a time capsule?

Is Rockstar banking on the structural absurdities of American life being stable enough to satirize? Are they updating the cultural skin (radio, billboards, NPC dialogue) close to ship date? Or is GTA Online just their escape hatch the live service layer that absorbs whatever the current moment is post-launch?

Because if GTA 6 launches with satire that felt sharp in 2022, it risks being the equivalent of a 45-year-old explaining a meme at a dinner table.

How do you think they're navigating this?