Disclaimer: there is no factual or scientific basis behind these statements

• sainsburys 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 are rich, very good.
• Co-op and Tesco are similar to each other. solid choice.
• heinz feels too sweet - it's fine otherwise.
• euroshopper / 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) has a weird flavour.
• branston beans are too firm, and the sauce is too thick. very unenjoyable to me.

I should preface this by saying that this is a personal reflection, and not intended as a universal statement on music appreciation. My distaste of certain ideas and approaches is largely fueled by my evolving experience of music, and the way I project that onto the world.

Lately, I've grown disillusioned by the way music is sometimes consumed—appreciated, or worse, dismissed for reasons that stray too far from what music fundamentally is. Over-intellectualisation can overshadow the raw, emotional experience of sound. I know that music can invite discussion of culture, genre, theory, and our personal biases, but when abstractions like these dictate value, I can't help but feel like something vital has been lost.

What does this have to do with Muse? Well, I think they're a band that reflects this idea in my own life. Their music—like so much I loved growing up—carries a sense of seriousness. Yet this seriousness contradicts how we naturally perceive music when we're you

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 window.
5. In Lutris click the + button then "Install a Windows game from media".
6. Set the "Game name" to "White Day" and click Continue, then click Install, and Install again.
7. Click Browse and select the White Day Repackaged installer you downloa

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.

(Fun fact, in 2012 I was like 13 lol )

"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).

That led me to find Rana Northwood, a Korean blogger who made regular posts about White Day. They had created a patch which enabled a (very scuffed) English translation left in the game by Sonnori, with some of their own edits - and this was the version of the game that was being suppl

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

You can find the NOP tools in the nop tools folder in the repository.

How the nop tools work:

When opened, nopunpack.exe looks in the cu

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 new. But both debuted an improved live set up that I dedicated (and hope to con

Been having some thoughts about alternate arrangements for how I currently perform my music to allow for more freedom. Henceforth I'll dub these speculative ideas SLMs (speculative live mechanisms) and treat them as an object to be linked to other ideas in a grander system of thought. The extra unhinged ones can be called USLMs!

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 current system with the MiniLab.

Here are some random unorganised SLM ideas:

1. Pd song mode for MnM & MCL - PGM IN for both, handled separately so that pattern slots do not need to be aligned beforehand; which means no automatic PGM OUT from MCL to MnM unlike how I currently do things, which is very labo

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 recorded with a Zoom H4N Pro recorder from the tape output.

The routing was essentially:

1. MD in -> MCL out 1
2. MD out -> MCL in 1
3. MnM in -> U6 out 1
4. MnM out -> U6 in 1
5. MCL in 2 -> U6 out 2
6. MCL out 2 -> U6 in 2
7. MiniLab out -> U6 in 3

The MIDI merge routing was something like:

1. In 1 ->

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