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J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote

Reply to comment by Rambler in What are your thoughts on "free speech"? by Rambler

So you said:

I'd just as happily allow an antifa forum just as I would a proudboys forum. They both deserve a safe platform for discussion as far as I'm concerned.

And then this "ziq" fellow, an admin, said:

(nazis) deserve a safe platform

banned

So you literally were banned for saying that the Proud Boys have free speech. That's telling. Usually people like that make excuses and blame it on your "hateful conduct" in your back-and-forth argument with emma. I'll give ziq credit: he came right out and said it's for believing that his political enemies had rights.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to How can I sort posts by new? by oiijjwy

Here you go: https://ramble.pw/all/new

Alternatively, go to your "User Settings" (Click your username, top right) and from there you can adjust your default view.

Just keep in mind there may be some NSFW or vile stuff available on /all/new, but if you're okay with that, it's there for you. :)

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Wahaha OP wrote

Reply to Which version would you rather watch? by Wahaha

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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Wahaha wrote

Reply to comment by Jelello in I've always had a mental block about understanding music. What's the best way to learn music theory for someone who is intimidated by it? by Jelello

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

Reply to comment by Jelello in I've always had a mental block about understanding music. What's the best way to learn music theory for someone who is intimidated by it? by Jelello

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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Jelello OP wrote

Reply to comment by Wahaha in I've always had a mental block about understanding music. What's the best way to learn music theory for someone who is intimidated by it? by Jelello

Notes and octaves just seem like magic, or maybe colors and I'm colorblind.

I can't play any musical intsruments which is funny because my brother and my daughter are each good guitar players. My mother played piano. I've tried and I have manual dexterity but I've never had any luck.

Weird mental block of some sort.

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Wahaha wrote

Reply to I've always had a mental block about understanding music. What's the best way to learn music theory for someone who is intimidated by it? by Jelello

Learn an instrument. Don't pick based on your preference of what you'd think be cool to play. Pick something easy you can play melodies with. Drums don't work, no melody. Guitar doesn't work, it's really, really hard to play melodies with a guitar. Pretty much all string instruments are out because of this. The recorder is more or less as basic as it gets. And it's cheap. Which is why I recommend it. There ain't too many notes you can play with it, either, which helps with the theory part.

The reason music theory is intimidating to folks usually is because it's a foreign concept with little use. If you play an instrument you'll have use for it. It's like with a language, the simplest way to learn a foreign language is by using it to communicate. Not by reading books.

What do you want to understand, anyway?

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hideyourlies wrote

Reply to If the D*nald Tru*p tries to post here, will Ramble ban it? by localworldwar

Personally I think censoring or deleting the President of the United States is outrageous, I am not an American citizen and would never wish to be with the madness they have to endure.

Twitter, Facebook and various other places should have been boycotted a long time ago, censoring free speech is diabolical and removal of human right.

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Rambler wrote (edited )

Reply to If the D*nald Tru*p tries to post here, will Ramble ban it? by localworldwar

I'm secure enough as a person to let people who have different views than myself post on the private platform that I share with you.

So, yeah? I guess.

Raddle is a joke. I got banned from there for supporting free speech.

So, some people complain how Reddit is too heavy on the censorship, right? Raddle complains that there isn't ENOUGH censorship on places like reddit. Fuck 'em, is all I got to say.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to Thoughts on emojis? by txt

I think it's funny that all companies turned their gun emojis into water guns.

🔫🔫🔫

Surprised the cancel crowd hasn't gotten rid of 👌 yet.

But to answer your question, I hate seeing emojis usually. 👀❓💥🤷🏿‍♀️🦄🙀🧠🐄🌼🕷️☕🛑🎮🔋♻️

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