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Ranking of Baked Beans

- Sainsbury's beans are neither too rich, nor too soft, nor too firm, and are generous with a good consistency of sauce that isn't too watery or viscous. My favourite choice.
- M&S beans are rich. Very good.
- Co-op and Tesco beans are similar to each other. Solid choice.
- Heinz beans feel too sweet. Otherwise, they're fine.
- Euroshopper and other value beans are good, but a little bland, and the sauce can be slightly watery.
- Tesco reduced sugar beans (or any reduced sugar beans) have a weird flavour.
Why I still love the music of my teens
I want to preface this by saying that this is a reflection, and not intended as a prescription. My avoiding certain ideas and approaches is fueled by an evolving experience, and the way I project it.
Lately I feel myself becoming disillusioned by the way music is sometimes dismissed. In particular when abstractions overshadow the raw experience of sound. Music can invite discussion of culture, genre, theory, and our personal biases, but when things like this dictate the experience, I can't help ...
Running White Day on Linux
It is possible to run White Day near flawlessly on Linux using Lutris & Wine. Here's how to do it.
This was performed on both Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon Edition, and Fedora 41 KDE, with an Nvidia GTX 1080.
- Install Lutris and open it.
- Download the latest version of White Day Repackaged.
- In Lutris go to Settings > Runners, find Wine, and click the package icon (next to the cog icon).
- Install the latest "lutris-GE-Proton" (as of August 2023 this is 8.13), then click OK and close out the Settings windo...
My account of Unnamed & White Day
Originally posted around 2013 on my old website, unnamedgs.com - active around 2012-2014. Updated a few years after, and then preseved on the White Day community wiki.
"On the 2nd of June 2012, I began repackaging White Day, going by the name Unnamed Game Studios.
Before then, the game was both difficult to find and difficult to install outside of Korea. Originally the best English source for the game (as far as I knew) was a Spanish blog post, which I found via a YouTube video (by user Kitsune...
White Day 2001 modding guide
For purveyors of my website who don't know what this is, I am an ethusiast, modder, speedrunner, translator and overall long-time fan of a Korean horror game from the early 2000s called White Day. You can check out my work on the game here and here.
This guide is a work in progress and I'll be expanding it every now and again with new information.
You can find all the relevant tools & programs in this repository: Mega.nz - it will be referenced a lot in this guide so keep it handy.
NOP files
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State of my live music system & other musings
After some site upgrades it's become much easier for me to write posts. The site has better post management (for example, I can now store drafts on-site), and a better editor that uses markdown, rather than what I had before (which was a WYSIWYG editor) embedded in flask admin). I've learned a lot building this site and it continues to be surprisingly adaptive to my needs 
Anyway, recently I did two shows. The first show was a new spin on material from the March show, and the second show was all...
Brief unhinged speculation on improving live setup
Been having some thoughts about alternate arrangements for how I currently perform my music to allow for more freedom. I've been calling these SLMs (speculative live mechanisms), writing them down and trying to flesh them out.
I am toying with the idea of incorporating a pure data patch on a raspberry pi that will serve to replace the MIDI merge box, as well as provide potential SLMs via the USB MIDI IN port on MCL, and some kind of redirect to the MnM via MCL PORT 2. Control would come into the...
Gigging and my health
I wanted to shed some light on some behind-the-scenes stuff pertaining to the recent gig for Stimulacrum @ The Bee's Mouth, and also touch on some of the struggles I've been having with regard to gigging and my health.
The set was performed on a pair of Elektron synthesizers - a Monomachine and a Machinedrum UW, with custom firmware (X.01A and X.10), a MegaCMD with MCL 4.51, an Arturia Minilab 3, and a 3x3 MIDI merge device (U6 MIDI pro) to route everything. It was mixed with a Mackie Mix8 and r...
A website my very own website
Welcome! This is my first post.
I still have lots of work to do... Fill the site with content, other various bug fixes. The style isn't quite how I want it yet but this should do. It's been a lot of fun building this from the ground up.
I want to use an emote here but I haven't added functionality for that yet.
Anyway, bye for now.
UPDATE: Now with emotes 