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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • I finished Outer Wilds a few weeks ago. It was, in my opinion, one of the strongest arguments for treating video games as an art form that I’ve ever experienced. It’s not long - I finished it in about 20 hours - but the narrative and story is so well put together and thought out that it felt a lot longer. I thought it was beautiful and thought provoking.

    Video games as a whole aren’t for everyone, but if I meet someone and they’re interested in games but hasn’t played them much, Outer Wilds is on the top of my list of recommends. If you play a lot of video games, this one will amaze you. Don’t read anything about it - just grab it when it’s on sale and go in blind. I did and it made a big difference.


    1. Sure, but this just replaces the music with the sound of my breathing. There’s always something in my brain. The only meditative peace I can get is in a flow state e.g. working out.
    2. Yup, damn near always. Yak yak yak goes the brain.
    3. Usually just vocals unless I focus on the music, or if it’s instrumental then I hear everything.
    4. Music that I can play in my brain on demand is usually music I listen to all the time already, with some exceptions. Don’t have exact data on this, but it depends on context - if it’s my favorite band then it’ll stick around after 1 listen. If it’s someone else or music I dislike it may take several listens.
    5. I play The Axe by which I mean a ukulele. Not particularly well IMO but it’s fun and relaxing.
    6. I don’t think so, but I can identify most songs I’ve heard before pretty quickly if I know the band or song name. It’s like an involuntary Shazam.

  • I think I’m special here. Most of the time if I’ve got a song on repeat and I’m tired of it I can think of a different song and play that instead. I just tell my brain, “Dummy, play The River by King Gizzard” and I’ll hear it. It’s nice.

    The problem is there always needs to be a song going - there is no silence track. As soon as my brain notices that I’m not playing a song, it’ll play one for me, usually the last one I heard.






  • From my understanding, these videos contain no actual evidence of 45 committing or ordering wrongdoing. It also looks like these are clips of longer interviews. So my assumption is that someone got a hold of these videos and audio clips and edited them to make it seem like each of these people had nothing worthwhile to say in their statements, then released them.

    I believe this because leaking these videos can only hurt the prosecution, particularly if nothing they’re saying is inculpatory. Then conservative media outlets can run chyrons “BIG “GET” BY LOONY DA FANI A BUST!” and let the talking heads run wild on it. Then GA’s DA office is then faced with a problem: do you say nothing and let people keep believing that there’s nothing(which can corrode public opinion in the case which can be devastating) or possibly break confidentiality agreements with the snitches and publish what they actually said?

    Who benefits from this info being out in the open? If nothing they said in these recordings fingers 45 on criminal actions, then it’s not the prosecution. From where I and all other US citizens sit it sounds like these useless clowns got sweetheart deals to give almost no useful information. Hopefully this is all just some psych op from the extreme right or Russia/China/whoever they’re in league with this year, and there’s more info that these clowns gave in their deposition that’s not included in these recordings.






  • Great song and it’s on a great album by Bowie. However, the movie Cat People that it’s attached to is absolutely, completely terrible and not in a funny way. The song has nothing at all to do with the movie, and only features over the ending credits. Only watch it if you feel like MST3King it. The only part that worth remembering about it is that the actor who plays Kevin McAllister’s Dad from Home Alone is in it. In this movie, Kevin McAllister’s Dad is a cat fucker - in a roundabout way, he fucks cats.


  • To each their own. However, I’ve read all of Brandon Sanderson’s books and I can definitively say that the writing style changes between Mistborn and other novels that are more recent are massive. Mistborn was good but it was his first published book. The more recent releases are a bit more easy to read. Tress even has a dragon in it. However if you’re not interested at all, try reading the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. It’s great magic fantasy set on Earth. However a similar warning applies - the first few books are a bit of a slog. If you read these, maybe start on book 3 - the first two aren’t as story centric.