#achron

[this-has-returned]

If you wanna play a realtime strategy game, but dislike StarCraft, here are some fun alternatives that are super underrated. You'll notice a pattern of a reduced focus on micromanagement, which StarCraft (in)famously takes to an extreme. If you're looking for an alternative that has more micromanagement then...idk play League of Legends, I guess?

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance | This is what the community considers the current "standard" game of the series for online play. Supreme Commander focuses on group composition, a balanced economy, and climbing a tech tree. Most matches can last quite a long time, the maps are insane in scale, and you will be managing land, sea, and air. Each faction is pretty similar on the macro level, and the differences appear when it comes to tech and group composition.

Grey Goo | This game has a scale similar to StarCraft, but uses an economy similar to Supreme Commander, where resources are represented by inflow and outflow, instead of explicit cache sizes and instantaneous costs. This is a fairly high-speed game where your energy will be focused on optimizing production, scouting the map, and rearranging your production according to scouting. Every faction has a wildly different approach to every facet of the game, which creates fascinating interactions with mechanics that are otherwise simple.

Achron | Similar to StarCraft in scope and economy, but the micro has been scaled way back. Also, there's time travel. Actual time travel. In a multiplayer environment. If you fuck up, simply go back in time and stop yourself from fucking up. You will spend the majority of your time scouting and reviewing the past, searching for changes made by your time-traveling opponent. Because of this, while some units can perform special abilities on request, they're extremely specific and are just additional tools available for pulling silly stunts, and are not a primary part of gameplay. Like Grey Goo, each faction also has a wildly different approach to economy, and the player can change what faction they chose as part of the time travel mechanic.

[obscure-games]

Achron (2011) is a real-time strategy game involving *time travel*.

[achronalart]

So I've made another art history video, "Smile! Smile! Smile! - Teeth in Western Art (It's Weirder Than You Think)"

Romans viewed laughter with suspicion, as a sign of low character. They never depicted anyone reputable smiling. And they never ever showed teeth except for scary theatrical characters. Europeans emulating them followed suit in their own art for two thousand years.

And then the façade cracked. And here we are, where smiles are seen as showing happiness and laughter is seen as expressing joy.

I'm a working professional artist and sometime art teacher, and I had a blast putting together this art history video of the extremely strange history of the fashion for never-smiling in historical European art, and how it finally changed.

[acronym-chaos]

Undeadachronal

[PT: Undeadachronal]

[ID: a rectangular flag with 8 equally-sized symmetrical horizontal lines and a thicker one in the middle. colors innermost outwards are: silver, grey, dark grey, faded yellow and faded green. in the center of the flag is a dark grey symbol outlined and filled with light grey. the symbol is a clock with 2 half circles with arrows on the end, and a X in the middle. End ID].

Undeadachronal / Undeadchronoless; a chronosian (& achronal/chronoless) term for when one perceives one’s age as ageless due to being undead.

[ID: A red line divider with dark red devil horns on either side outlined in red. Orange text outlined in red reads “Team Villains.” End ID].

Attack on @theadorableundead! Worth 9 points!

@radiomogai @coinfight @chronochive

[melabea]

Muttchronal

[pt: Muttchronal /end pt]

[ids in alt text]

Muttchronal: a chronosian (and faunachronal) term for when one’s perceived age is connected to/affect by mutts/being a mutt.

Muttachornal/Muttchronoless: a chronosian (and achronal/chronoless) term for when one perceives their age as ageless due to mutts/being a mutt.

Muttjeuchronal: a chronosian (and jeuchronal) term for when one perceives their age as younger due to mutts/being a mutt.

Muttviechronal: a chronosian (and viechronal) term for when one perceives their age as older due to mutts/being a mutt.

Etymology: mutt, chronal/achronal/chronoless/jeuchronal/viechronal

for anon!

@radiomogai , @thecoffeecrew404 , @reveningcontent

[id: a green ivy plant wavy line divider. end id]

[revenant-coining]

Voidachronal

(pt: Voidachronal /end pt)

(id: a rectangular flag with 8 equally-sized horizontal lines and a thicker one in the middle. colors in order from top to bottom are blue, purple, pink, red, pale orange, red, pink, purple, and blue. in the center of the flag is a blue symbol outlined and filled with pale orange. the symbol is a clock with 2 half circles with arrows on the end, and a X in the middle. /end id)

Voidachronal/Voidchronoless; a chronosian (& achronal/chronoless) term for when one perceives one’s age as ageless due to the void/voids and/or being a/the void.

etymology; void, achronal/chronoless

for anon!

tagging; @radiomogai, @thecoffeecrew404, @chronochive

[coining-stars]

Chronoless/Achronal Flag Remake

[Plain Text: Chronoless/Achronal Flag]

An chronoless/achronal chronosian is one who is - non-bodily- ageless.

Sources

[Plain Text: Sources]

A post from - now nonexistent? - Tumblr user recoinbrewery, containing the definition of the term - Link #1

A post from Tumblr user @m-grouped, containing the achronal/chronoless symbol - Link #1

A post from Tumblr user @eldorr, containing the flag they made - Link #1

Other Data

[Plain Text: Other Data]

Post by: Blurry (Camp HalfBlood)

Tagging: @radiomogai @reveningcontent Want to be added or removed from the tagging? DM us or send us an ask!

[mywifeleftme]

330: Clara Rockmore // Theremin

Theremin Clara Rockmore 1977, Delos (Bandcamp)

100 years since its invention, the theremin remains an oddity. It is in every respect an antiquated piece of technology, and yet like the Tesla coil and the plasma globe it still provokes the primal wonder of science-as-magic. The advancements of a modern synthesizer unit are hidden from the eye—if you presented it to an unthawed person from the 19th century, they would at least be able to infer that the device is controlled using the buttons and keys. But the theremin player creates sound by coaxing an invisible magnetic field with their bare hands, as though they are pulling its warbling voice from the air itself—and indeed, inventor Léon Theremin’s artful original name for his instrument was the ætherphone.

To watch a performance by Clara Rockmore, the instrument’s foremost practitioner, is to see something that resembles a scene from a séance or a German Expressionist film. A petite, dark-haired woman with the eyes of an Orthodox Virgin Mary, she would stand ramrod straight behind the lectern-like theremin, nearly motionless save for the almost palsied-looking convulsions of her knotted hands and the tensing of her eyebrows, the only sign on her otherwise slack features of the intensity of her concentration. She looks as though she is forcing down the song attempting to leap from her throat until it screams through her fingertips like steam from a kettle. As synth pioneer Robert Moog explains in his liner notes to Rockmore’s 1977 LP Theremin, her absolute stillness was not a theatrical device but a requirement of playing the instrument: the theremin’s magnetic field encompasses not only the performers hands but their entire upper body, meaning that even a minor motion of the head will influence the instrument’s pitch. But the austere figure she cut no doubt contributed to her allure, the sense that she was herself as unearthly as the instrument she played.

Rockmore, a violin prodigy since age 5, took to Theremin’s invention sometime in the late 1920s. Her concerts popularized and legitimated the instrument, but it would be nearly a half-century before the Theremin LP, her first, was finally released. Produced by Shirleigh Moog and engineered by her husband Robert, one gets the sense that the Moogs are fans trying to correct an oversight, to record the album as it would’ve sounded if it had been made her during her prime. The results are captivating, even haunting. At times you may be fooled into thinking you’re listening to a recording of a human soprano from some decayed shellac disc; in other moments, you will be moved by how world-weary an electronic tone can sound.  Rockmore is accompanied, as she had been since the beginning, by her sister Nadia Reisenberg on piano, and her selections focus on 19th and early 20th century compositions, with a heavy emphasis on the Romantics. A majority of the pieces here come from her fellow Russians, including Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Rachmaninoff, and Stravinsky. My personal favourite of these is her take on Joseph Achron’s “Hebrew Melody.” Inspired by traditional laments, Rockmore’s theremin evokes the sobbing characteristic (krekhts) of Jewish vocal music, while her sister thunders and pirouettes on her piano in a classically Romantic style.

Theremin stands apart from other electronic classical records like Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach because it never sounds wholly like a novelty despite the theremin’s high camp potential (and, for that matter, Rockmore’s). It is peculiar, and my fascination with it definitely originated in a perverse nostalgia for esoteric junk—but the somber beauty of the sisters’ performance wiped the smirk from my face from virtually the moment I dropped the needle.

330/365

[chaoscoining]

Fictkichro

A chronosian identity where one's perception of their age is affected by being fictionkin. It is a type of alterchronal identity.

Symbols in order: Chronosian, Achronal, Viechronal, Jeuchronal

An achronal fictkichro being would see themselves as ageless due to being fictionkin. A viechronal fictkichro being would see themselves as older due to being fictionkin, while a jeuchronal fictkichro would see themselves as younger due to being fictionkin.

Don't tag as transage / transid. Chronosian as a label represents dissociation from one's body age, not transition into another age.

[eldorr]

Chronoless

Top Row: Style 1 with symbol (left) || Style 2 with symbol (right)

Bottom Row: Style 1 without symbol (left) || Style 2 without symbol (right)

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Chronoless: A chronosian identity where one is ageless/A chronosian person who is mentally ageless. Also called Achro(nal), coined here by recoinbrewery.

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These flags were originally posted April 14th, 2022.

(I made this flags due to this term being in my hoard, and usually only add terms that have flags, since I have a whole folder of flags for terms in my hoard in the google drive. Made these flags to fill that gap, since to the best of my knowledge this term doesn’t have a flag, or that I just didn’t find it.)

Symbol made by @/m-grouped, found here.

DO NOT tag as “transage” or “altage” I WILL hardblock you.

[artyapplebee]

Yea I'm ACE (Awkward Cryptid Energy)

[autisticmight]

love making playlists. love putting together pieces of unrelated music into a flowing narrative of sorts

[achronalart]

There are three kinds of people who think they can appease fascists:

Fools, damned fools, and statistics.

[melabea]

Shapeshifterchronal

[pt: Shapeshifterchronal /end pt]

[ids: 4 rectangular flags with 8 equally-sized horizontal lines and a thicker one in the middle. colors in this order from top to bottom: dark red, red-orange, orange, orange-yellow, light yellow, orange-yellow, orange, red-orange, dark red. in the center of each flag is a dark red symbol outlined and filled with light yellow. symbols in this order: a clock-like symbol with 2 arrows circling around it, with a rainbow in the center; a clock-like symbol with 2 arrows circling around it, with a X in the center; a clock-like symbol with 2 arrows circling around it, with the top arrow being half-opacity; a clock-like symbol with 2 arrows circling around it, with the bottom arrow being half-opacity. /end id]

Shapeshifterchronal: a chronosian (and xenochronal) term for when one’s perceived age is connected to/affect by shapeshifters/being a shapeshifter.

Shapeshifterachronal/Shapeshifterchronoless: a chronosian (and achronal/chronoless) term for when one perceives their age as ageless due to shapeshifters/being a shapeshifter.

Shapeshifterjeuchronal: a chronosian (and jeuchronal) term for when one perceives their age as younger due to shapeshifters/being a shapeshifter.

Shapeshifterviechronal: a chronosian (and viechronal) term for when one perceives their age as older due to shapeshifters/being a shapeshifter.

Etymology: shapeshifter, chronal/achronal/chronoless/jeuchronal/viechronal

@radiomogai , @reveningcontent

[id: a green ivy plant wavy line divider. end id]

[revenant-coining]

Monsterachronal

(pt: Monsterachronal /end pt)

(id: a rectangular flag with 8 equally-sized horizontal lines and a thicker one in the middle. colors in order from top to bottom are dark green, green, off-white, brown, dark brown, brown, off-white, green, and dark green. in the center of the flag is a off-white symbol outlined and filled with brown. the symbol is a clock with 2 half circles with arrows on the end, and a X in the middle. /end id)

Monsterachronal/Monsterchronoless; a chronosian (& achronal/chronoless) term for when one perceives one’s age as ageless due to monsters and/or being a monster.

etymology; monster, achronal/chronoless

for anon!

tagging; @radiomogai, @thecoffeecrew404, @chronochive

[famousdeaths]

Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron was a Russian-born Jewish composer and violinist, who settled in the United States. His preoccupation with Jewish e...

Link: Joseph Achron