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New comment by karlgrz in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

karlgrz — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:58:58 +0000

The first time flying a ship in the game in VR was a pretty cool feeling. If you have a headset and this game (and you're not prone to motion sickness) it's worth the trip.

New comment by karlgrz in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

karlgrz — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:56:53 +0000

https://karlgrz.com

New comment by karlgrz in "I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery"

karlgrz — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:23:52 +0000

This is incredibly cool, thanks for sharing! As an album lover through and through, I am with you.

New comment by karlgrz in "Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost"

karlgrz — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:34:43 +0000

Hey I played guitar on Prompt, small world, @smallerfish!

Bitwig rules.

New comment by karlgrz in "A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up"

karlgrz — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:45:55 +0000

One of the best pieces of advice I got when I started ages ago was to just put electric strings on the acoustic. If you're just practicing in your bedroom it will be much easier to play than on stiff acoustic strings. Give it a shot.

When you're ready to record then you can put acoustic strings on it, heh :-)

New comment by karlgrz in "Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format"

karlgrz — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 02:36:50 +0000

Had this as a kid, for the most part it was great! I remember Vectorman being one game that never seemed to work well.

New comment by karlgrz in "When do we stop finding new music?"

karlgrz — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:04:29 +0000

I'm just 40 but it sounds like we are like minded in a lot of ways. Never stop being curious. There's always something new out there. The joy of discovering some obscure metal band with 7 followers on Spotify or bandcamp that you intensely resonate with is unmatched. It's one of my favorite experiences.

One of the things I've learned about myself over the past decade is I'm an outlier in terms of the listener profile. I crave albums over songs. That crafted experience an artist creates for the listener makes it all for me. Perhaps it's because I'm also a musician, but something about a group of songs becoming greater than the sum of it's parts has an endearing, emotional impact on that listening session. I think a lot of playlist driven listening loses out on that.

Cheers, thanks for sharing.

New comment by karlgrz in "Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game"

karlgrz — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:24:32 +0000

This rules, thanks for releasing it and open sourcing it!

New comment by karlgrz in "Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines"

karlgrz — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 01:10:08 +0000

Me too

New comment by karlgrz in "Build your own hi-fi ear defenders"

karlgrz — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 03:06:25 +0000

Seconded, I play in several very loud metal bands and I went through this same process around 2016 and my earplugs are still going strong. I love the option of changing the filters at will. Well worth the time and money, for me.

New comment by karlgrz in "Unciv"

karlgrz — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 03:00:28 +0000

Fantastic, thank you for sharing this!

New comment by karlgrz in "I made a command-line tool to assist me with writing polyrhythmic drum parts"

karlgrz — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:34:59 +0000

This looks super cool. I'm also a guitarist that, uh, isn't a very good drummer, heh. Will kick the tires, thanks for sharing!

New comment by karlgrz in "Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)"

karlgrz — Tue, 23 May 2023 16:41:19 +0000

I know this pain and joy feeling, too!

"You're off time...no you're off time. Oh, wait...we're all off time in different ways, let's get it right!"

Black metal is loads of fun to play on guitar :-)

New comment by karlgrz in "FlipperZero: 1 Month Battery Life with Firmware Update"

karlgrz — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 04:16:08 +0000

Which ceiling fan remote? I've been fighting with our bedroom fan, we like the performance but the remote works maybe once out of every 100 presses unless I climb up on our bed and extend my arm into the middle of the fan housing.

New comment by karlgrz in "Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies"

karlgrz — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:26:55 +0000

I got it last week and played through the tutorial and then about 30 minutes after that. It's really well done :-)

New comment by karlgrz in "Last.fm turns 20"

karlgrz — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:57:28 +0000

Big fan of last.fm and have used it when compiling my "year in review" posts.

It's a great service and, as others have mentioned, it really does a great job of finding obscure and relevant suggestions on underground metal bands that I enjoy.

It's particularly good at high quality, relevant recommendations for new bands with little following.

New comment by karlgrz in "Fretastic: Guitar fretboard visualizer – scales, intervals, backing tracks"

karlgrz — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 22:53:27 +0000

This is cool, thanks for posting!

I noticed a bug, not sure where to post feedback so posting here. When you change the vertical order the string labels don't change so it's unclear which way it is. The fret number markers do update when you change the left/right order, though, that one is more important.

New comment by karlgrz in "If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right"

karlgrz — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:58:40 +0000

Anecdotal evidence but I've had a great experience with the first gen X1 Extreme 4K and running ubuntu 18.04.

New comment by karlgrz in "I have seen things"

karlgrz — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 17:08:40 +0000

Blood Bowl is outstanding. I used to play with friends in high school (I had a dark elf team) and still have my miniatures and board.

If you play PC games there is an equally excellent PC version, Blood Bowl 2.

New comment by karlgrz in "Sleep Deprivation in NBA Players"

karlgrz — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 19:05:09 +0000

You typically stay in the same city for more than a single night in baseball, though. 2-4 game series v. 1 game then out.