PERSONAL DRAMA PLEASE SKIP

For all I drone on about people being able to share when things suck, I'm a bit bashful about it myself. I know I'm not the only one who feels like I was being publically told off without prior warning at the SBR today so I hope I can provide a little bit of context on why that wasn't out of the blue.

The first time I participated in Synth Battle Royale, I had the idea to capture from my audio monitor device as an instrument throughout others' rounds and then play the cached captures as notes. This seems cool to me, because when you play the capture of a replay of a capture overlaid over each other, this is a cool form of feedback control integration circuit. I didn't take into account that doing this on the spur of the moment without seeking permission could hurt others.

That's my theory about today anyway. I had been oblivious to the hurt that resulted from that, and now understand some dialogue differently in hindsight. This re-emerged today in the talking to I received when myself and uninvolved others raised that I had been silently skipped in the SBR lineup. There was also at least one comment on @SDF's mastodon that computers cannot run lisp scripts, which I imagine is that thing you hear about lisp being a scripting language (the first lisp compiler was 1962 iirc). I note here that there are uncompiled lisps, though common lisp mandates #'COMPILE so those lisps are not conformant to ANSI common lisp 2e, to which embeddable common lisp purports to conform. Embeddable common lisp particularly is itself a C library (hence embedded in C).