Criticising Buddhism has it's place but the average westerner is not at a level where it's appropriate to do it. 99% of people need more buddhism, not less.
Isn't it accepted knowledge that all the strains just differ in strength? It's either more or less psilocybin and nothing else in the mushroom would change the type of effect you get. I tried 3 P. Cubensis strains and found no difference.
That's generally right for cubensis, except that variation from fruit to fruit is generally greater than the variation from variety to variety. A notable exception is so-called Penis Envy, which is established to be significantly more potent in psilocybin and psilocin content. That variety also has an interesting origin story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRArM5Ev4EE
Other Psilocybe types, such as semilanceata, azurescens, and baeocystis, differ in that they have more or less of other compounds such as Baeocystin, which some believe have psychoactive effects.
Many people report nonlinear responses to psilocybin/psilocin dosages. For example, 5 grams of dry cubensis is more than twice as strong as 2.5 grams. So it's understandable that stronger varieties have qualitatively different reputations than weaker ones.
Rationally I could see no difference in either micro dosing or 'fun' dosing by comparing a popular Asian with a Mexican strain. They look kinda different tho.
Surprisingly, among growers, they seem to suggest that all P. Cubensis have the same potency, save for the notorious PE strain which is estimated to be 1.5X as strong.
In the comic, I believe the idea is that this entity is moving the rocks by hand, but following the rules of computing which slowly, but steadily, creates the world as a computer simulation. And in this case, the qualia would be an emergent property of that simulation, but how that happens or whether it happens at all is a much bigger debate...
Better start with something like Ableton. Tons of tutorials on youtube and the interface makes it much more clear what is actually happening.
These trackers are built around the limitation of old computers, some people prefer working that way because that's how they started but I wouldn't bother with them as a beginner nowadays. Some DAWs like reason try to emulate a real studio with cables and all, simmilar to this pico-8 app, but again, if you never worked in a real studio why would you bother?
The only "real" classical music theory you need to know is Scales, the bigger chunk will be knowledge about digital audio production. Synthesizers, compressors, filters, ... that information is also plenty available on youtube.
yeah but if you are really in need for low-poly models I see no reason why you wouldn't use regular 3D software. The interface of this is tiny as it runs on PICO-8.
Some of the feedback I’ve received for picoCAD is that for people who aren’t accustomed to modelling find it really easy to get started. The constraints and the restrictions makes it a bit easier to focus on the fundamentals
