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new post: My trouble with the outside world (24-05-2026) page updated: live music (17-05-2026)
new post: My trouble with the outside world (24-05-2026) page updated: live music (17-05-2026)
new post: My trouble with the outside world (24-05-2026) page updated: live music (17-05-2026)
new post: My trouble with the outside world (24-05-2026) page updated: live music (17-05-2026)
new post: My trouble with the outside world (24-05-2026) page updated: live music (17-05-2026)
new post: My trouble with the outside world (24-05-2026) page updated: live music (17-05-2026)
new post: My trouble with the outside world (24-05-2026) page updated: live music (17-05-2026)
new post: My trouble with the outside world (24-05-2026) page updated: live music (17-05-2026)
new post: My trouble with the outside world (24-05-2026) page updated: live music (17-05-2026)

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My trouble with the outside world

Hello, it's been a while since I posted here. I want to take a moment to put some thoughts down.

Whether I like it or not, I continue to come to terms with who I am and where I fit in the world. As someone with autism and the difficulties that carries this has been a defining struggle of my life.

I hold a lot of grief toward myself. It's like there's a part of me that holds me down and clams me up, especially when I feel vulnerable. It questions my intent, desires, and things I otherwise enjoy. ...

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

Lately I feel disillusioned with the way people dismiss music sometimes. In particular when abstractions overshadow the raw experience. Music invites discussions about culture, genre, theory, and personal biases, but when things like that overtake the moment to moment experience, I can't help wondering if something important is being lost.

For example, Muse - a band I liked a lot in my early teens. For me, I think they're a band that reflects this. I have always felt that their music, like so mu...

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.

  1. Install Lutris and open it.
  2. Download the latest version of White Day Repackaged.
  3. In Lutris go to Settings > Runners, find Wine, and click the package icon (next to the cog icon).
  4. 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 :joy:

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 speculation on improving live setup

Been having some thoughts about alternate arrangements for how I currently perform my music. I've been calling these SLMs, 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 pi via USB MIDI from a MIDI controller, similar to my c...

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 :joy: