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Please don’t tell #FrançoisLegault.

This week, former #TSN 690 personality #TonyMarinaro, an #English-speaking #Montrealer of #Italian origins, made his debut as host of the mid-morning show on #francophone radio station #BPM #Sports & Tuesday he spent more than 20 minutes interviewing, in #French, #Canadiens general manager #KentHughes, who’s an #anglophone. That’s right, two blokes speaking in their second language on French radio

Quick, call the (#Language) police!

montrealgazette.com/sports/hoc

Montreal Gazette · LaSalle's Tony Marinaro is bridging the two solitudes with French radio showBy Brendan Kelly, Montreal Gazette
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November 15, 2023 - Day 318 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 338

Game: BPM: Bullets Per Minute

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Sep 16, 2020
Installation Date: Nov 15, 2023
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 16m

BPM: Bullets Per Minutes is a rhythm-based FPS roguelike. I discovered BPM when I was reading about Metal Hellsinger, and added it to my wishlist.

Joke was on me. Turns out I already owned it.

After the 250Mbps fibre was installed today, I went looking through my unredeemed Steam keys list, and spotted BPM. "Ooooh! I'll install that!"

While this has the same basic concept as Metal Hellsinger, it plays very differently.

Instead of raiding hell, you're a Valkyrie raiding randomly generated Viking-esque dungeons, rendered in an eyewatering, almost monochromatic colour palette.

You also absolutely MUST fire on the beat, or the gun just doesn't fire. Even on easy mode, the mobs hit hard. Each hit does 25% damage.

You walk into a darkened room that may or may not have a wild number of mobs in it, and you run around trying to make out where you're going, and not get hit.

If you're unlucky, there's a boss in the room, who might completely blind you for a moment... and then you're dead.

Ultimately, it was the graphics that killed it for me. I would probably persevere if I could easily make out what I'm shooting at against the backgrounds, but it just becomes too much work, particularly when there are a lot of mobs on screen.

I really wanted to like this game, but unfortunately, BPM: Bullets Per Minute is another:

1: Nope

#BPM #BulletsPerMinute
#FirstPerson #Rhythm #FPS #Roguelike #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365
#NewPlay

An Exploration of the Use of Tempo in Jazz

Eight and sixteen-bar segments of a large number of historical jazz recordings were timed with a stopwatch, and summary statistics were calculated from those measurements. A variety of aspects of the control of tempo were analyzed. Tempo is normally distributed when calculated in terms of metronome markings, but not when calculated in terms of durations. Jazz performance is very stable, even for solo performers. However, systematic patterns in the small variability observed indicate that it can serve expressive purposes, as evidenced by positive intercorrelations among alternative versions of the same tunes, as well as other factors. It was also discovered that when the bands execute a rapid "double time," the ratios among the tempo changes deviate systematically from exact doubling. Many of the effects can be summarized by hypothesizing that there are two (and perhaps more) preferred tempo ranges.

doi.org/10.2307/40285621