From 4466fed707c328a89d55bb3718e8be6ff769598d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ali=20M=C3=BCrteza=20Ye=C5=9Fil?= Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 23:33:40 +0600 Subject: [PATCH] publish: Marble League 2020 --- content/Personal/marble_league_2020.md | 41 +++++++ output/archives.html | 2 + output/author/ali-murteza-yesil.html | 159 ++++++++---------------- output/author/ali-murteza-yesil2.html | 16 +++ output/authors.html | 2 +- output/categories.html | 2 +- output/category/personal.html | 73 +++++++---- output/feeds/atom.xml | 28 ++++- output/feeds/personal.atom.xml | 28 ++++- output/feeds/rss.xml | 2 +- output/index.html | 159 ++++++++---------------- output/index2.html | 16 +++ output/marble-league-2020.html | 160 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ output/tag/100daystooffload.html | 159 ++++++++---------------- output/tag/100daystooffload2.html | 16 +++ output/tags.html | 2 +- 16 files changed, 518 insertions(+), 347 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/Personal/marble_league_2020.md create mode 100644 output/marble-league-2020.html diff --git a/content/Personal/marble_league_2020.md b/content/Personal/marble_league_2020.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a76a01 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/Personal/marble_league_2020.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +title: Marble League 2020 +date: 2020-08-05 11:11 +tags: 100DaysToOffload +summary: I am not like interested in sports. But I find Jelle's Marble Runs silly. That is a solid reason to love something 😅️ +status: published +comment: https://fosstodon.org/@murtezayesil/104637973724852330 +hundreddaystooffload: 14 + +# COVID-19, sport events and me +I am not a person who followes football, basketball or any other sports league. I don't think I was ever excited about any sports events. As a Turkish, I would support Turkey in an internetional competition. But I never painted my face red and white or went to stadium for a sport event. + +I actually have not been interested in sport events for over 20 years. But ever since we had to self-isolate the [COVID-19](https://covid19.who.int/) by staying in our houses, I restarted bloging, deployed NextCloud instance for my phone and computer to sync, joined Fediverse and also started watching YouTube more and more. Some of the videos are programming related and others are entertainment, comedians and stuff. + +John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight, dedicated an episode to [sports and COVID-19's effect on them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4gBMw64aqk "Watch the episode on YouTube"). As it turns out, all sport events are halted. Except one! Marble League, Jelle's Marble Runs, continues without a hickup. I never heard about MarbleLympics before but after seeing some clips in Last Week Tonight's episode, I knew I had to watch it. + +--- + +# [Marble League Jelle's Marble Runs Logo](https://jellesmarbleruns.com/series/ml/) + +[Jelle Bakker](https://jellesmarbleruns.fandom.com/wiki/Jelle_Bakker) co-founded Marble League with his brother [Dion Bakker](https://jellesmarbleruns.fandom.com/wiki/Dion_Bakker) back in 2014. It is a silly event and commentator speaks in a way that assumes marbles are real athletes with personalities and traits. In my opinion, it is silly in a not weird but oddly entertaining way. I ❤️ Marble League. + + + + + + +
+ Orange marble with purple flowers +

Jelle Bakker

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Dion Bakker

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+ +But watching a sport event without supporting any team is weird silly. I didn't like the idea of supporting whichever team is sitting on top of the leaderboard. I wanted my team to surprise marbles with its achievements and I found a team that is not expected to win, not expecting to win*, close to Earth 😉️ + +
+ Orange marble with purple flowers +
+ +* At least I am not expecting my team to win. I just like them the way they are regardless of whether they win or not. That being said, I expect them to pass balancing so that I can watch them compete. diff --git a/output/archives.html b/output/archives.html index 07f56ad..404718b 100644 --- a/output/archives.html +++ b/output/archives.html @@ -51,6 +51,8 @@

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+ +But watching a sport event without supporting any team is weird silly. I didn't like the idea of supporting whichever team is sitting on top of the leaderboard. I wanted my team to surprise marbles with its achievements and I found a team that is not expected to win, not expecting to win*, close to Earth 😉️ + +
+ Orange marble with purple flowers +
+ +* At least I am not expecting my team to win. I just like them the way they are regardless of whether they win or not. That being said, I expect them to pass balancing so that I can watch them compete. +
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    I like listening to musics and I am not the only one. Just look at how many people are listening to LoFi music with the study girl or look how many views this song has. As a young adult, I remember the times the CDs were the king of music distribution. But they are long gone. Thanks to internet, digital music stores and music streaming services replaced CDs.
    -So here I am, looking for the best music listening solution I can get. After a little search on the internet I came up with the below list of music stores or streaming services.

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iTunesApple Music
BandCampBandCamp
Amazon StoreAmazon Music
eMusicSpotify
BleepNapster
Google Play MusicYouTube Music
JamendoJamendo
BeatPortTidal
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There are many options and above isn't an exhaustive list. Thankfully I have constraints to help me make more educated choice.

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BandCampJamendo
JamendoBandCamp
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DRM free songs and musics to purchase and download in high quality. I skimmed over the Term of Services and I dind't notice any red flags for my privacy. It isn't the perfect service. Every artist isn't there and only some of the new songs appear there. But its ToS and Privacy Policy is one of the best ones I skimmed through in a long time.

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Why Jamendo

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Musics licensed under Creative Commons licenses* are available to listen without an account and available to download in high quality with an account. There almost isn't any popular song on Jamendo. But that is an oppportunity to discover new talents. It also has a nice ToS and Privacy Policy.

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I love DRM-free stuff

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As a student living on pocket money, I don't have much of a budget for purchasing music. I am planning to spend 5$ every month on DRM-free musics instead of a streaming service with DRM. I like DRMless content because I know vendor is trusting me. Whenever a platform emposes DRM, I feel treated like a pirate who is expected to steal. No thanks to digital content pirates, I understand why a vendor would put DRM and it is sad that this is the reality. I just am happy that there still are DRM-free alternatives 🙃️

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I don't believe pirating is ethical. Someone spent hours coming up with a poem or lyrics, someone else composed music for it, and someone else (probably) drank raw eggs to maintain her/his voice. I wouldn't want people get my hardwork for free unless I put it out there as a demo or as open source. Some people act like pirating is okay if the singer or band is rich. It isn't okay to pirate and I am not giving up on my principles to enjoy some music for free.

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* Most of the musics on Jamendo are licensed under Non Commercial licenses, such as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. You need to purchase a commercial license to play them in your restaurant, bar, cafe, clothing store, convenience store, market, shopping mall, advertisement, podcast, YouTube/Vimeo/PeerTube video, movie, etc. -You can't play songs from your Spotify account either. Songs on Spotify/Apple Music/YouTube Music and other popular services are for personal listening only too, unless they specifically mention that it is okay to play a song in a venue in music's license. Pijama parties are okay I guess.

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    I am not a person who followes football, basketball or any other sports league. I don't think I was ever excited about any sports events. As a Turkish, I would support Turkey in an internetional competition. But I never painted my face red and white or went to stadium for a sport event.

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    I actually have not been interested in sport events for over 20 years. But ever since we had to self-isolate the COVID-19 by staying in our houses, I restarted bloging, deployed NextCloud instance for my phone and computer to sync, joined Fediverse and also started watching YouTube more and more. Some of the videos are programming related and others are entertainment, comedians and stuff.

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    John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight, dedicated an episode to sports and COVID-19's effect on them. As it turns out, all sport events are halted. Except one! Marble League, Jelle's Marble Runs, continues without a hickup. I never heard about MarbleLympics before but after seeing some clips in Last Week Tonight's episode, I knew I had to watch it.

    +
    +

    Marble League Jelle's Marble Runs Logo

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    Jelle Bakker co-founded Marble League with his brother Dion Bakker back in 2014. It is a silly event and commentator speaks in a way that assumes marbles are real athletes with personalities and traits. In my opinion, it is silly in a not weird but oddly entertaining way. I ❤️ Marble League.

    + + + + + +
    + Orange marble with purple flowers +

    Jelle Bakker

    +     		+ Black and White +

    Dion Bakker

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    + +But watching a sport event without supporting any team is weird silly. I didn't like the idea of supporting whichever team is sitting on top of the leaderboard. I wanted my team to surprise marbles with its achievements and I found a team that is not expected to win, not expecting to win*, close to Earth 😉️ + +
    + Orange marble with purple flowers +
    + +* At least I am not expecting my team to win. I just like them the way they are regardless of whether they win or not. That being said, I expect them to pass balancing so that I can watch them compete. + + + +

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    + +But watching a sport event without supporting any team is weird silly. I didn't like the idea of supporting whichever team is sitting on top of the leaderboard. I wanted my team to surprise marbles with its achievements and I found a team that is not expected to win, not expecting to win*, close to Earth 😉️ + +
    + Orange marble with purple flowers +
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      I like listening to musics and I am not the only one. Just look at how many people are listening to LoFi music with the study girl or look how many views this song has. As a young adult, I remember the times the CDs were the king of music distribution. But they are long gone. Thanks to internet, digital music stores and music streaming services replaced CDs.
      -So here I am, looking for the best music listening solution I can get. After a little search on the internet I came up with the below list of music stores or streaming services.

      -
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Online Music StoresMusic Streaming Services
    iTunesApple Music
    BandCampBandCamp
    Amazon StoreAmazon Music
    eMusicSpotify
    BleepNapster
    Google Play MusicYouTube Music
    JamendoJamendo
    BeatPortTidal
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    There are many options and above isn't an exhaustive list. Thankfully I have constraints to help me make more educated choice.

    -
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    1. Availability (in my region) : Even though I can use VPN to appear on some other location on the face of Earth, my bank card will give my location up or won't be accepted 👎️
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    2. DRM : I want to put music on my phone, computer and even my NextCloud to listen from anywhere. When I spent money on music, I don't want to stuck with whatever the vendor supports. I want no vendor lock-in or any other limitation. Those limitations are pushing many people to pirate 😥️
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    3. Discoverability : Whenever there is a new music, I want to be able to find it.
      4. -
    4. Options : Does it even has my jazz!
      5. -
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    Finally here are my options

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Online music storesStreaming services
    BandCampJamendo
    JamendoBandCamp
    -

    Why BandCamp

    -

    DRM free songs and musics to purchase and download in high quality. I skimmed over the Term of Services and I dind't notice any red flags for my privacy. It isn't the perfect service. Every artist isn't there and only some of the new songs appear there. But its ToS and Privacy Policy is one of the best ones I skimmed through in a long time.

    -

    Why Jamendo

    -

    Musics licensed under Creative Commons licenses* are available to listen without an account and available to download in high quality with an account. There almost isn't any popular song on Jamendo. But that is an oppportunity to discover new talents. It also has a nice ToS and Privacy Policy.

    -

    I love DRM-free stuff

    -

    As a student living on pocket money, I don't have much of a budget for purchasing music. I am planning to spend 5$ every month on DRM-free musics instead of a streaming service with DRM. I like DRMless content because I know vendor is trusting me. Whenever a platform emposes DRM, I feel treated like a pirate who is expected to steal. No thanks to digital content pirates, I understand why a vendor would put DRM and it is sad that this is the reality. I just am happy that there still are DRM-free alternatives 🙃️

    -
    -

    Why not pirate funny shaped thinking emoji

    -

    I don't believe pirating is ethical. Someone spent hours coming up with a poem or lyrics, someone else composed music for it, and someone else (probably) drank raw eggs to maintain her/his voice. I wouldn't want people get my hardwork for free unless I put it out there as a demo or as open source. Some people act like pirating is okay if the singer or band is rich. It isn't okay to pirate and I am not giving up on my principles to enjoy some music for free.

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    * Most of the musics on Jamendo are licensed under Non Commercial licenses, such as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. You need to purchase a commercial license to play them in your restaurant, bar, cafe, clothing store, convenience store, market, shopping mall, advertisement, podcast, YouTube/Vimeo/PeerTube video, movie, etc. -You can't play songs from your Spotify account either. Songs on Spotify/Apple Music/YouTube Music and other popular services are for personal listening only too, unless they specifically mention that it is okay to play a song in a venue in music's license. Pijama parties are okay I guess.

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