Scrimmy 🌈🦇 
amara freemanoperating systems should have a global bpm counter, controlled by the currently playing media, that apps should use to time their animations to.
Enara 
❔@amara that's actually a cool idea!
curtosis has moved (see bio)@amara I miss BeOS.
(No, it didn’t have this feature AFAIK, but it feels a very BeOS thing to do.)
1.3.6.1.4.1.61513@amara /sys/class/pps/
Sparrows
mhoye@amara In Mario games, the various critters do little dance moves in time to the music and it's delightful. Bringing that to an operating system would be great.
Koopa Troopas Dancing to the Beat in New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Daniele Pantaleo 🦥
Willem Janssen@amara Same with car blinkers and windscreen wipers.
Jonas
MadcapOcelot@amara new side channel just dropped
Moose Jolly Holcomb@amara the XBox 360 at least claimed could do this, and certain games listed it as a feature, it was pretty cool when it synced up nicely.
Cuteroll, autistic transgender otter@amara omfg that's such a cool idea
:spinny_cat_inderix:@amara turn your Linux desktop into a rhythm game with this one simple trick
Jeremy Kitchen
Dekafox 
Jon 
@amara Not really what you're looking for, but reminded me of this https://mew.tv/projects/shaker.html
Melody 
@amara @sharkitty new feature for way2gay
Willow "Wolveric" Catkin@amara Good luck getting GNOME to adopt it... 😹
Panegyr 
@amara and somehow determining what key the current music is in so the sound effects can always be in key also