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Rambler wrote

Any way to get an option to select what we want to load when we come to Ramble? as of right now it seems it is defaulted to subscribed forums with no option to change from that.

Already a feature. :)

In the sidebar of any forum you frequent, you can 'subscribe' to it. You'll see the button under the title of the forum in the sidebar. You can also unsubscribe from any forum as well.

The default forums are visible to all regardless if they're subscribed, unless you start subscribing to other forums. Then you can sub to the defaults directly.

You can also change how the front page looks to you from your User Settings. Click on your username and go to "User Settings" in the menu. From there you can select how you want your front page to look. You can choose, "Featured" (default), "Subscribed" (forums you subscribe to), "All" (All forums, even ones you probably don't want to see) or "Moderated" (only forums that you moderate). You can also choose the default sorting by "Hot", "New" or "Active".

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Wahaha OP wrote

Having watched both, the 1943 version is the better Titanic movie, which isn't difficult, since the 1997 version is a chick flick that happens to take place on the Titanic. The 1943 version is about the circumstances leading towards the tragic end and portrays the stories of many different characters.

Amusingly, the 1997 version stole a part from the 1943 one, where some guy named Bobby is arrested for fighting and has to be rescued by his friends during the part water flows into the ship by breaking open a door.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to by !deleted152

China is supposed to silence you, not the other way around! /s

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podnas wrote

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Thanks for the post, was not familiar with this plugin !

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Wahaha wrote

Notes are just a way to write music down. Each note corresponds to a tone. Also, their names repeat themselves in intervals. Take C for example. There's a C placed below the five lines, the deep C, then there a C placed within the five lines, just called C and then there's a C above the five lines, called high C. If you keep going higher or deeper you'll encounter C's again and again.

If you play the deep C and the normal C at the same time, that's what people call an octave. It's just a name for something people found worth talking about. If you only play music and don't talk about music, you can go without ever noticing that this thing is called an octave. Most things about musical theory are like that. Just names for concepts people found worth talking about. But if you don't understand the underlying concept, it's going to be very hard associating the names with anything meaningful.

Music theory is basically full of nerd language. Take for example anime. If you aren't an anime nerd and someone tells you about moe, tsundere, isekai and ecchi you're going to be lost. None of these words are strictly speaking necessary to describe the underlying concepts, but once you understood the concepts, it's very nice to have just one word to describe them, instead of having to spend three sentences. At least if you want to talk to other people about them. You can also go an entire life of watching anime without ever knowing what moe is, despite having an understanding of the underlying concept.

So, really, I don't think you have a mental block, you likely just never had the desire to talk about music theory with others. But whether it's music or anime, there's really no point in talking about it on a nerd level if you don't even play music or watch anime.

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Wahaha wrote

Depends on what kind of ocarina you have. The ones I received as gifts wouldn't work, because they are too limited in what you can play with them. If they have only five holes or less it's going to be difficult. Also, if the ocarina is small enough to fit in your palm, it's going to be very difficult to handle, since your fingers will be very big in relation to the holes, so playing notes that require half-holes is harder.

There's a simple test you can do to see if it works, though. Just get yourself a sheet that tells you which grips correlate to which notes on your ocarina and play them all in order.

There's five lines for placing notes that are always shown on sheets, if the ocarina can play the note placed on the line below those five lines up to the note placed on the line above the five lines you're good to play pretty much all melodies.

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