Yeah than you are definitely out of your depth with something as complex as VCV lol. And btw hardware is quite cheap anyway, it all depends on what you want to do with it: Behringer makes some excellent entry-level synths that aren't too overpriced. The KORG Volca series, while looking like toys, are indeed powerful instruments. I'd recommend you get your hands dirty on something real first!

Do you nave any knowledge on how synthezisers work? If not, VCV isn't the best place to fiddle because the quantity of options can soon feel overwhelming. If you do, my best advice is to fuck around. Start with just a couple of components, maybe following the flowchain of a synthesizer you like. E.g. Minimoog: one or two oscs, one LFO, one mixer, some filters, output. Try out what you want to do and reverse engineer what isn't working and why.

The anglocentric bias is ever stronger on the internet. And I say that as a Tolkien fan: in no way he is worthy of a Nobel prize.

Narcissistic Tortilla Chip.

Never watched Buffy but anything that's been flogged to death by Marvel movies, yes.

• Netflix lighting
• Generic, Zimmer-stolen OST
• Franchises
• Standard blocking
• Overexposition
• Whedonisms
• More broadly, anything that's been big budget Hollywood for the last 30 years or so.

Listening to Dopesmoker is antithetical to any kind of speedrun, I think.

I should pick Silskong back up. Stuck in the Karak Sands area.

Hawk tuah

About to 5 since I'm pulling an April's fools joke on my student. Suckerssss!