Nicholas Toone

  • Music I Used To Listen To: Helloween

    Every once and awhile, just for fun, I’m going to listen to some music I enjoyed when I was a teenager and and post about what I think of it now.

    The inaugural entry covers two releases from the pioneers of Power Metal: Helloween.

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  • I Replaced Everything And It Still Sucks

    This is an actual review on Newegg.

    I’d have just contacted the company and retured the card, but to each their own I guess :-\

  • Mantras

    My About blurb, has some mantras listed and I’d like to talk about them.

    This took a long time to write and then I waffled about even posting it.  Then I thought: fuck it.

    So here we go. And my apologies, it’s long.

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  • Outlook, Part Two

    If AI takes over the world, it will be incomprehensible. Literally.

    Hey, Outlook. You should learn to read what you're suggesting before suggesting it.

  • Downsizing

    I have three songs in the works. All of them need lyrics and vocals. Two also need drums.

    One of them turned out to be pretty terrible so I shitcanned it and now I have two songs in the works. One only has a single verse of lyrics to complete, which I’m just being completely lazy with, and the other needs a full set of lyrics and drums so near the end of July I recorded the drums.

    A few days later, I realized that the drumming for the outro is little off everything else so now I have to redo all of the guitars.

    “Wait,” you ask, “why re-record all the guitar parts? Why don’t you just re-record the drums?”

    Well, you see, I recorded the drum parts, gave it a quick listen and was happy at the time. Then I sold my drums.

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  • Outlook, Part One

    Thanks for the tip, Outlook, however you don’t know my reader.

  • Thanks, Glassdoor.

    How does one describe this absolute shitshow of an account creation page?

  • Fedora Wants You To Know…

    At least they’re chill about it.

  • Award For What?

    What the actual fuck is this?

    Is there really is an actual award for “Contextual Voice Navigation for Discovering and Interacting with TV Content”??

    Seriously?

    There are no words.

  • It’s Pretty Wizard: The Magic Of The High Pass

    So you’ve recorded your tracks and are ready to mix but you’re kind of bummed because everything always sounds so muddy and you know that whatever you try will not help much.

    We’ve all been there. A lot. Yet there is one thing we know about but rarely seem to pay very much attention to:

    The High Pass.

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