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Huh, it's oddly quiet in here...

Hey everyone, if Finale is not supported here anymore: is it still obligated to submit .mus-files?

The staff is still working on support for other types of notation files. The Updaters and/or Code Monkeys might be able to give a bit of a better idea on the timeline of that.

i miss the old forum's scrolling text

my sig is very sad without it

First of all, welcome back!

Secondly, how dare you.

Welcome to the team you two!!!

I'll definitely play Animal Well at some point; I've just been trying to work on my backlog first before getting too many new games.

I'LL STEAL IT. No one will ever know.

Now it is I who shall steal your victory!

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In a stunning turn of events, it looks like we (read: the really old people who would care about this sort of thing) can finally close the book on one of NSM's greatest unsolved mysteries:

King Sammer.

https://simmerskingdom.createaforum.com/timpanispalace/clearing-things-up-after-nearly-10-years/

Huh, the 2024 bingo card is definitely full of surprises.

Something I've noticed after looking at the presidential election, is how sort of, let's say, divided the US is politically between city and countryside. It's a lot of blue dots and spots where the cities are while the countryside is very much more red.

It is a bit similar here in Sweden. But it is actually the opposite, the cities are (and are the only parts which are) blue (bourgoiose, right-wing) and the countryside is red (socialist, left-wing).

Yeah, that's pretty accurate for the US. Typically, being in large cities forces people to be exposed to other viewpoints (and forces them to get along with people who come from different origins), which tends to result in people leaning more left.

I don't know enough about Sweden and its demographics to say for certain, but I'm guessing that fact that Sweden has fewer large cities (and likely less immigration) than the US may play a difference.

So uh...

Medical problems blew up in my face and life became REALLY difficult (on top of an overcrowded semester). But, I learned that the issue is actually something I've been dealing with since I was a baby (according to my grandmother), and the most recent case was just a really, really bad flare-up. But now that I'm (mostly) out of the woods from this most recent incident, it's caused me to think a lot about the chronic medical problems I deal with and have done so since I was a baby. ADHD (undiagnosed properly, but it's there and I can give a lot of points to back me up on this if people are curious), food allergies and this other issue that, for the sake of being a decent human, I will not bring up on an online forum X')

So I've been doing some research into the three issues, and there's apparently a ton of literature on them and their interactions (though there is a notable dearth in addressing all 3 at once, which is understandable, that's very difficult to pull off properly without solid knowledge of the underlying interactions). But, there's no... definitive cause that has been able to be named? It sucks bc I'm in the middle of a PhD and I don't really have a ton of time to research this, but I really want to look into some self-experimentation that I can do to try and see if, somehow, there's an environmental factor (like a deficiency or presence of something bad) that is bringing the three of these issues together. Thinking about documenting my journey as well, since I know that these three problems are rather common, and this would be a documented process of "doing science" as it happens, and on myself as the guinea pig.

Anyway, health scare over, now I have the slightly less significant scare of being thoroughly behind on my work, which is going to be incredibly harmful and in-the-way for my returning to a normal, healthy life. Yayyyyyyyyyyy.

Sorry to hear that you're dealing with chronic medical problems I know they aren't often taken as seriously as more immediate, severe problems and don't always have a clear diagnosis (especially if they're autoimmune diseases) and treatment plan.

I think documenting what you're dealing with, both for the aid of yourself and others, is a good idea. Keeping track of how things develop over time and what steps work best to manage it is definitely helpful information to keep track of.

A couple months ago I listened to Red Wine Supernova by Chappell Roan because a lot of my friends seemed to really like the song and I wasn't impressed. Yesterday I decided to to give her music another chance and listened to Hot to Go and actually enjoyed it; it's a pretty nice song overall. Sounds almost like a cross between Mickey and Material Girl, in a good way. After that I decided to listen to the rest of the album it's from (The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess) and my conclusion is that it's a'ight, probably like a 7/10 album imo. Aside from the last two songs and Hot to Go I don't think there are any songs on the album that will end up being especially memorable to me. I wish more pop music sounded like this though. It's a nice chance of pace compared to most stuff nowadays.

I quit liking things entirely by 2012.

I've only recently started having more of an appreciation for modern artists. I've always been a fan of Freezepop ever since I played Frequency, but some other modern artists I like are Des Rocs, Kings Elliot, Poppy, and I Dont Know How But They Found Me (thanks Gadd! ).

Y saw this. I guess instead of mus-files we could use xml files. Maybe?

That's mentioned in the post. There are some issues with using exclusively MusicXML files, but we'll likely be adding for support for them in addition to a native file (e.g. the mus equivalent for other notation software).