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Roses are red / This door is locked : WhitePeopleTwitter
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Gather Desert Roses: where are they?!
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Hey everyone, I’ve received multiple contract quests where it asks us to slay mobs but also “gather desert roses” the game shows you a big yellow circle in the Moonlight Desert which i’ve looked around several times and am never able to find a single “desert rose”
anyone have any insight into where I can find these or is it possible this quest is bugged? Playing on Xbox Series X if that is relevant.
TL,DR: where in the world are the “desert roses” in Moonlight Desert for contract quests?
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Like the rest of the gatherable resources in this game, they aren't procedurally generated in the same spot. You'll have to meander around and look throughout the related area.
THEY TOOK OFF GUNS N ROSES
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Shit like this, and streaming services getting expensive as hell, and paid for digital content is why I started buying physical media and torrenting again.
I'd largely stopped pirating shit quite a few years ago, but all the media conglomerates got more greedy, so fuck 'em all.
Alan Sparhawk's "White Roses, My God"
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vocalist and guitarist of Low has a new solo album out, the first since the death of his wife and bandmate, Mimi Parker.
It's, uh, going to be very divisive.
This album sees Alan go more headlong into electronic music territory and, probably more controversially, heavily autotuned vocals. This move doesn't quite come out of nowhere as Low was already using more electronic distortion, vocals effects, etc. This album is a bit less wall of noise than Double Negative and Hey What and sounds more like the sparse electronics on Drums & Guns.
Which brings us to this particular album. While Alan retains Low's sparseness, the approach is something closer to trap music, with little of his guitar playing. Most noticeable is his voice, which is pretty covered in autotune and set to chipmunk. His natural voice pretty much never comes through and it being unaccompanied by Mimi's background vocals.
Musically, I mostly find it engaging and catchy. It's maybe a bit basic for what it is, but the general sparseness is in line with Low's output so it doesn't really need to be something grander. That said, there are some spots, particular I Made This Beat, that are a bit too throwaway and make the album's themes somewhat confused. I suppose its there to break up some of the heaviness, and he does at least sound like he's having fun, but it does end up sticking out making an already short-ish album sound a bit padded.
But the vocals... I mostly find autotune and its chipmunk sound to be totally stupid-sounding. Like someone inhaling helium and expecting me not to find it goofy sounding. My guess is that there will be a read out on the album where the comments will be about the vocals being a way to hide behind emotions (a la Kanye's 808s), but that's its own cliche and it's not like Low ever shied away from emotional songwriting. I will give it that the vocals become slightly less grating as it goes, mostly because the music is largely good. But there's definitely a part of me that wishes it was dialed back a bit.
overall it'll be interesting to see what comes of this. is it a one-off lark? Alan's already talking about a second album with Trampled By Turtle, which seems to imply a return to form of some sort, due next year. I'm not sure how often I'll come back to this, but I find it at least a little bit interesting coming from an artist whose been one of my favorites for a few decades.
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Glad to see something on Reddit about Sparhawk, I've been in my head a lot about what this album is. I feel like it's not so much something for us but for him. There are a couple interviews he's done (NY Times w/paywall maybe) and the write-up for the album (Bandcamp Bio) has some clarity to how the this album came to be. Call it baggage, call it context, but the album seems best served with an understanding of the past two years he's lived.
I don't think this will be Alan's new form, yet more a passing muse. The other booth at the end of the tollway of grief. It's odd that he's sharing it, in a way. The band has made a life on stage, and it's still beautiful that he's sharing this part of it. In trying to return to the life he knew, this album is part of the process to doing music again. The interviews he's done mention that using his real voice was something he was trying to distance himself from.
I don't quite care for the vocoder effects, but what comes through still is the intensity at which he delivers the lines. There's parts where he's seething, or on the verge of losing it, or parts where yes, he sounds like donald duck. I don't know the lyrics, but the delivery is still there. The beats are awesome though, they have a momentum to them with layers building up. I think of this album almost as in instrumental piece. The use of synths and drum machines are well worked and not just loops. Plus I know his son did a lot of bass, and I think his daughter helped as well. It's quite touching to think of.
I wish there was a version with clean vocals, one can almost imagine them as regular songs. And yet he's in like 4 and a half other bands currently, so I have no doubt that we'll get further recordings that are more traditional. There's some live footage on YT from the past year of Alan on stage. To see him perform these songs live helps, he's a performer with sincere delivery, even with the electronic songs. Alan is coming back to life, back to music...Dude's been going through something and is brave enough to share it with us. I pre-ordered the album just off of goodwill, if this is the shape it took, so be it. He's known to be an experimenter, the career-arc of Low is so beautiful. In that regard, I feel like this album is more of a stepping stone than a statement.
Black rose??
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Is this black rose or am I tricked the nursery from I bought it said it is considered black.
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There are a number of roses claimed as black, but even the closest of them still has a dark burgundy red in the centers of the petals with near-black borders. Some of them do look pretty black as buds. This may be one of those. For example Black Magic, Barkarole, Black Beauty, Baccara are among those sold as black. It isnt the local nursery's fault. They are probably just going with what the grower called it.
Some plant growers are either deluded optimist or outright fraudsters when it comes to plant colors. This dates all the way back to the totally weird and fairly universal tendency to refer to a lot of purple flowers as blue.
Those "pink" daffodills and daylilies are peach or salmon color at best.
"Orange marmalade" hosta has a gorgeous, glowing golden center in spring, but it isn't orange, at least mine isn't.
The hydridizers are busy trying to produce most popular flowers in any color they don't naturally come in, with blue roses and red bearded irises being popular quests. (The bearded iris are getting pretty close.)
Your rose is a gorgeous, deep color and is darker than several of the roses shown in this video labeled 9 black roses.
Duff McKagan Confirms New Guns n' Roses Music Is Coming
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Based on the time between announcing Chinese Democracy and its release, I look forward to hearing this in 2038.
Who do you support more in the wars of the roses? The yorks or Lancastrians? I prefer the Lancastrians since I stan Margaret of Anjou a true icon
Main Post: Who do you support more in the wars of the roses? The yorks or Lancastrians? I prefer the Lancastrians since I stan Margaret of Anjou a true icon
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Personally I prefer the timeline where Henry V doesn't die of a disease and takes the crown of France when Charles VI dies, allowing his son time to be educated and brought up properly. I don't really know what happens after that, but I'm a Henry V stan.
A court of thorns and roses
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A friend has recommended I listen to a court of thorns and roses. I’ve noticed there is an audiobook, and also a fully dramatised version. I would prefer the fully dramatised version, but that’s in 2 parts, meaning I need to use 2 credits for one book which is putting me off.
Has anyone listened to either version and can give me advice as to whether the fully dramatised book is better or is the normal one just as good?
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I listened to the regular audiobooks of the entire series and then the graphic audio versions of Book 1 Part 2 + Book 2 Parts 1 & 2 via my library initially, and then I bought the regular versions for my collection.
I enjoyed the narration of the regular version (although the narrator pronounced a few words and a character's name incorrectly in Book 1 and then fixed them in book 2).
The dramatized versions are very good, but certain words are omitted and the actor will act it out instead (e.g. he said angrily). I think the voice actors did an excellent job and I would listen to them again on rereads.
Personally, I wouldn't buy the graphic audio versions because they're split into 10(!!!) parts for 5 books. I listened to them via my library (Hoopla), so I would recommend checking Libby or Hoopla if your library offers those and you want to go with graphic audio.
Other pet peeves with the graphic audio versions specifically (that you may or may not care about), that aren't an issue with the regular versions:
- The audiobook Table of Contents isn't split up by chapters. Instead, you'll see a few words at the beginning of sentences, so I found it harder to go back to a specific place in the book.
- They don't support Whispersync between the Kindle and Audible versions.