Underwaterbob @ Underwaterbob @lemm.ee

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Yeah, anyone remember "10 in 2010"? You know, where everyone was panicking because there were going to be 10 billion people on Earth in 2010. The best thing anyone can do for their case is to stick to facts.

Haha! Yeah, the nomenclature has gotten a bit weird with Fromsoft games. Now we've got Armored Core VI to contend with, too. It seems different enough, it probably won't get lumped in with the Souls/Bloodborne/Sekiro stuff. Sekiro's pretty different too, though. Next it'll be Soulsbornekirocore.

I beat the shit out of Godskin Noble today. Took me about ten tries. At least three of those, he had a sliver of life left and cheesed me in a corner with his roll attack. I was livid. Like, the angriest I've ever been at a video game. Damn Elden Ring has some cheesy bosses.

The time I beat him, I was so calm. Just slowly chipping him down to nothing. BLAM. Dead. It felt so good. Nothing beats beating a hard boss in a Soulsbournekiro game.

Yes, but I don't because I've lived in Korea for the past twenty years, and you need a special license to drive manual here. I'm in my forties. From Canada.

Yeah, when boomers were getting into their thirties, the free-loving sixties were being replaced by the threat of AIDs and nuclear war. I guess I can get why those things might make people "conservative". Not that that word means what it meant then anymore.

Anything remotely popular will end up in a torrent somewhere. Anything harder to find, there's Soulseek.

I'm similar with a good book. Though I've definitely never quite gone 28 hours. At least not for a couple of decades now.

Maybe I used it wrong, but I joined for a few months, and just used it to search up artists I already knew and listen. And then, I found it less convenient than my MP3 collection which easily fits on an SD card or my phone's drive. I only very periodically search for new music. And I usually end up obsessing over one artist for a long time before moving onto another. We're talking months to years. I've been listening to almost nothing but Rush for a few months now. I was never a fan growing up, but decided to give their whole discography a fair shot. Now, I can't stop listening to Rush.

True. I am biased because I've lived in Korea the past twenty years. Internet access is ridiculously fast, cheap, and ubiquitous here.

Kids are way cooler than most adults I know. At least those past the age of screaming to be fed. They're willing to listen and learn. They're excited about everything. You can fix a kid's bad mood by making a funny face. Fucking adults are the ones out there screwing everything up (including kids.)

I just keep downloading albums of MP3s like I have since the late 90s. It used to take hours and half the songs were mislabeled and real sketchy quality. Now, it takes seconds to download an entire album, and they're almost always correctly labeled and high quality. I tried Spotify for a while, but it really seemed like it was for attention span deprived people who want something different every song. Gimme full albums any day.

Good book, but I wouldn't call it a good introduction to The Culture. The batshit narrative chronology makes it pretty unapproachable. The Player of Games is much more straightforward and accessible. Consider Phlebas is also more straightforward, but it tries to do too much or something and ends up weirdly disjointed at times. Still, either of those would make a better starting point. Really though, The Culture books (that I've read which isn't all of them) are more episodic than serial. You can start with any one of them.

Probably barley or green tea in a little paper cup. I'm in Korea.

I'll say! I finally got around to Elden Ring, and it's everything I could have hoped for in an open-world Souls game. It lives up to the hype for sure.

Hey bot, I would love to use Piped, but the videos never play for me. They appear to load, but they never start playing.

BoC are pretty good, but I've bounced off every album since MhtRtC which I listened to an obscene amount of back when it came out. I didn't hate them, just none of them grabbed me like their first.

The SH-101 is a great synth. Which I don't own, but that rubbery, wobbly analog sound is fantastic.

abstract sound art

I suppose that would get straight to the eye-rolling and skip the confusion.

Here's one

Here's another

A lot of "Voltaic Fauna Bodies" explores the theme, though there are some other, algorithmically generated melodies and things in there, too.

I make music, but it's not really music anyone would want to put on at a party, so I don't tell anyone about it. There's nothing more awkward than standing there trying to explain to someone that what they're listening to is a chord progression played with each note slightly out of phase such that rather than distinct chord changes, you just get an overall impression of it as time progresses while they screw up their face in confusion and disgust. Not that everything I make is a conceptual experiment, but that's inevitably what someone will put on if they discover my music.

He wasn't a scammer. He fell on hard times. I bought a few things before that from him without issue.

It sucked for me, yes, but I'm a foreigner in Korea who has hardly mastered the language. Taking him to court would have been a huge hassle for me and probably involve hired translators. I'm not even entirely sure it's possible given the legal system here isn't exactly friendly towards non-natives. The apology was more than I expected.