Wallowing in a pit of misery, drinking problem at the worst it’s ever been (first sober night after spending the last 5, 6 nights drinking), feeling completely apathetic towards life, and I don’t have anything to show for over two and a half decades spent on this planet. Ain’t taking my life here, but boy is it hard to find a reason not to these days.

Don’t care for anybody’s pity right now, but hopefully the rest of you can have as pleasant a holiday season as possible, and that y’all’s 2024 leads to a better, brighter for all of ya and your loved ones.

It’s doable in Boost, too.

I’m pooping. Two feet to my left is a wall. I’d be inside the wall D:

Hopeful, but not holding my breath. I will happily buy it at full price since I wanna support smaller, passionate studios, but I’m waiting on my purchase to see how it ends up on launch. Huge fan of the OG, hoping that this one rocks my dick off!

Honestly I think I’ve finally come to realize that I’m just bored of life, tired of existing. Iunno what I’ll do with my life anymore and I don’t even know if I care to figure out something to do. Tryin’a keep this at least somewhat lighthearted, skirting some details here but like

I’m just tired of it all. Iunno, man.

First past the post

I refuse to believe this is real, what the fuck

It felt really odd that the stealth meter, a staple in every Bethesda rpg I’ve played, had to be unlocked with a skill point in Starfield.

Einhander and Rise of the Triad have some of the greatest music to have ever been packed with a video game, hands down.

Can’t wait to pay good money to hear Gianni Matragrano  for over 5 minutes.

Worked in caves for 3+ years now. In my neck of the woods the worst ya gotta worry about is rabies, but the bats here seldom bite unless provoked. We’re more of a threat to the bats though since we can spread white nose syndrome which can wipe out bat colonies.

There was Reaction Drop which added more content and the Workshop for user made stuff, but even then the extra time it’ll buy you is limited.

“Shampaggin.” I use it while explaining carbonic acid on cave tours.

Edit: Check the replies to my post for corrections and clarifications.

I’ll answer your question and more.

Lossless quality: The highest quality you can practically get, where it’s as close to a 1:1 recreation from the studio as reasonably possible.

Lossy quality: The audio is compressed in a manner where you get the majority of the sound, but slight, fine details are lost to lighten up on file size. Heavy compression can greatly alter overall sound quality, but it’s not the early 2000s anymore, we don’t need to compress music that hard to get an album or two to fit on a 128 mb card.

.wav: Lossless, uncompressed file. Full quality, full file size.

.flac: Lossless quality, but with some compression, to minmax file size to audio quality.

.mp3: Lossy compressed. Small file size with reduced audio quality.

.ogg: Lossy compressed. Basically just an alternative to the .mp3 standard.

“Alright, so we’re playing the only game where Florida man has a penchant for exploding into tiny gator shaped giblets…”

“It’s Happy Wheels.”

They’d have a hard time believing it if I cheated on them with my partner. It’s so diabolical and unexpected that they’ll never convince anybody I cheated on them with themself!

Music that is REALLY stereo. I recently-ish got a pair of open back planar magnetic headphones, which sound bloody brilliant. So wide, so open, so crisp! It’s almost like VR for your ears with certain tracks and albums.

So ye! Songs that really lean hard on having fun with stereo, or just really well engineered music in general. I was FLOORED when I listened to Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral for the first time with those things, so much fine detail and incredible audio engineering in that album. I’d honestly consider it one of the best engineered albums I’ve ever listened to, and I’m saying this as a huge Steely Dan fan.

Another go to for me is Pond’s Man, It Really Feels Like Space Again. Psychedelic music just hits so incredibly well when I use those headphones, and this album in particular just really takes me through a friggen journey when listening to it.

Right now I’m using SwiftKey, but if I can find an open source keyboard alternative with good customization and keyboard resizing (vertical and horizontal) I’d happily swap away.

No idea, unfortunately D:

Civvie 11 has a Patreon, but he never begs ya to support him, doesn’t take sponsors (even makes fake sponsor skits to make fun of sponsors), and he just delivers his content with no intention on letting monetization get in the way. Worst he’s done is display a card saying “midroll ad goes here.”

As for his content, it’s sort of a hybrid review/let’s play of old first person shooters, new first person shooters inspired by those of old, hilariously inept first person shooters, and Slavjank. His humor is fantastic, editing is tight, and there’s a sort of back story going on in the background of his videos that he could not be more interested in getting involved in (in character, mind.)