Like no longer thinking Bio Dome is comedy genius

The IT Crowd is a show about a group of fools getting into ridiculous situations at work. It’s a good laugh and has some classic moments. My partner doesn’t make or get tv/movie references, but even she can drop references from it into casual conversation.

Big Bang Theory is a bland comedy that wants to be much more than it is - relationship drama, social exploratory, situational comedy. But it tends to fail 90% of the time, and the closer it gets to ‘relationship drama’ the more grating it gets.

I’ve been using smb protocol for years. NFS is great when it works, but something about my network makes it unreliable or inconsistent between devices.

Smb has never caused me any problems.

Thursday - Full Collapse live

https://thursday.bandcamp.com/album/full-collapse-live

“With the instant availability of information, and content so easily obtainable, is the culture now a product that’s disposable?“

This quote goes back to 2007. 18 years later it’s not even a question anymore, music and the culture around it has become disposable.

There’s always going to be great bands and artists who have something to say! I’ve heard some of my favourite bands just in the last 10 years. But society is never going to look at music the same, it’s just something people tap on their screen and give a quick listen, or worse; just watching some idiotic lip sync to a 20 second excerpt of it on tik tok.

There could be lots of reason for not having sex:

Asexual

Low sex drive

Never found a person they could connect with like that

Being an awful person / falling into the internet incel category

Different motivations in life that they didn’t feel the need for sex

Medical problems - this could cover a lot from psychological issues to physical issues

Fear of pregnancy / failure of birth control

Strict religion

Nervous/anxious/shy/awkward personality (like in the film)

When I pour Pepsi into a glass I put my nose over it and feel the bubbles fizz on my nose. I’ve done this since I was about 7 years old.

Edit: even better than listening to my dumb ass, this website gives a rundown of the common recommendations at the moment: https://www.hifioasis.com/advice/the-best-digital-audio-players-daps/

There are options. I’m trying to work out now what to get my partner who wants to stop using her phone for audio streaming.

Budget options, these are cheap and don’t use Android as far as I’m aware:

Snowsky Echo Mini (made by Fiio)

Hiby R1

Shanling m0s

Tempotec v1

Next tier up would be (and this is where android seems to become the default, but I think Hiby use a heavily customised version of it):

Hiby M300

Fiio JM21

Hiby R3

Then you get into midrange I guess you’d call it:

Hiby R4

Sony nw-a306

More expensive:

Something from iBasso like the DX180

After that you start looking at tech outside what I think is worth paying. You can easily find reviews from audiophile websites about all of these I’ve mentioned.

Probably be catatonic. This kind of stress, self-doubt and loathing require those extra 32 years of building resilience. Transplant it into 8 year old me and he just shuts off I imagine.

I guess hang out in a school bathroom and eat anyone who comes in. But only make myself visible to one kid so everyone thinks he’s a loser that believes there’s a tiger in the bathroom, and he’s too scared to go to the toilet. I dunno, that kind of thing I suppose.

Even as a kid that scene just made me think “why are they eating playdough”

I don’t know anything for sure, but always thought it was more likely to filter out contaminants in your pipes?

Also the sorcerer boss you fight towards the end of Act 2 in D2 is the sorcerer from D1.

The lore was really nicely done between these two games.

But think about the Diablo lore instead. It’s stated that she is a rogue, and in fact she becomes corrupted and is the rogue boss Blood Raven that you fight in the cemetery in Diablo 2.

The rogue group is different to the amazons. That’s why in D2 you start in the rogues camp, and if you’ve picked Amazon then Kashya will say something like “I didn’t expect to see an Amazon come here”.

I haven’t played it yet, but I’ve loaded it up on my steam deck and got too the title screen… Far Cry 2 with redux mod

I really loved far cry 3, so I hoped this will be a good time. But some stuff going on with my daughter and I didn’t have time for this.

I think it’s a great game. I always enjoy playing. I only recently found out people think this game is janky and plays poorly! so ymmv I guess.

I reckon each era you can finish in 30 - 45 minutes, repeat 5 times.

Use emulator save states and you can break it up pretty easily.

EVO The Search For Eden

Gaming on Linux - for news

Hardcore Gaming 101 - when I want to go down a rabbit hole of game series history and trivia

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