Charting VocaDB & losing my sanity

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My recent music post contains some data about what Vocaloid/UTAU/SynthV/etc songs and how many of them ~might be in English. I had initially planned to use VocaDB’s API to pull all Kasane Teto songs and their languages, and thought it would be relatively quick. but I ran into a lot of problems. So, here’s a separate post dedicated entirely to the data gathering!

Wanna know what to listen to while society collapses into a surveillance state that’s started saying the quiet part out loud while rigging the markets to extract every cent from its people and poisoning everyone’s brains with torment nexii? You wanna know what I’ve been listening to?

Have you heard about Our Lord And Savior Kasane Teto?

normal apartment and normal-size Teto plush who needs couch when you have life-size Kasane Teto plush

Recently, I built a new computer to replace the one I built 5 years ago. The reference model XFX Radeon RX 6900 XT in that rig is one of the best GPUs I’ve ever owned: sleek design, great performance, and rock solid stability from day one.

Earlier this year, AMD released their 9070 series. Since I skipped the previous generation, it seemed like this was the time for me to get a new card. Not so:

Well, it looks like I’m not getting a 9070 XT.

In Which I Break Arbitrary Rules

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Series: Music Recommendations

I started this post last year. When I opened the file to continue last week, I saw the title (“September 2024 - Music Recommendations”), and one, measly line:

You ever feel completely creatively bankrupt and drained at the end of every work day?

Yes, past me. I do. But as the great Protein Ribosome1 himself reminds us:

insane visuals tbh, love the guy

Whoa! What happened?

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Hey! It’s been a while! A new website! A new domain! Wait, some of this content wasn’t here before! What’s going on?