general_chat

[patent grove]

There’s people more athletic in their 40s than people in their teens-20s

[median atlas]

Crowley is not one of them/j

[flint rivet]

I would not describe myself as athletic. I'm just.. in shape. Ish.

[patent grove]

I’m considered a sleeper athletic

I don’t look athletic

https://tenor.com/view/digital-circus-kinger-tactical-roll-tumble-worm-scooch-gif-17454422470946959315

^ me

[copper tree]

Is the shape a circle

[median atlas]

Im very athletic, just pit of shape

[flint rivet]

I have the body of a god. That god just happens to be Bacchus

[gaunt scaffold]

https://klipy.com/gifs/pawn-pawn-star--k01KRDX4S74T1DE55ZR3MW3Y9JC

[kindred kayak]

I have the body of a Greek hero
who’s name happens to be biggus backus

[patent grove]

https://tenor.com/view/the-amazing-digital-circus-jax-digital-circus-jax-jax-tadc-tadc-jax-gif-12666637074902366997

[median atlas]

Crowley the great unclean one confirmed?????

[patent grove]

Typhus?

[idle forum]

At least he's not Zeus

[kindred kayak]

ZOOOS

https://tenor.com/view/kratos-ares-destroy-my-enemies-and-my-life-is-yours-gif-7965707800203237625

[copper tree]

It’s ares

[static torrent]

B

[viral wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/black-cat-mclaren-cat-shocked-face-shocked-surprised-gif-7074878402551830596

[alpine pike]

Yo Coco, been a while

[copper tree]

a

[static torrent]

Ld

[kindred kayak]

yeah I have shid memory

[static torrent]

Hello

[copper tree]

Is okay that’s why we have degens on the internet

To remind you of random unused stuff

[copper tree]

Hello coco are you still short

[copper tree]

Tall af

[slow tinsel]

I finally have the confirmation i got lighter

Got new pants at the start of last month, they didn't fit me at all

Now i put them on and they fit without a problem

FIVE KILOS MAKE THAT MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE??

[static torrent]

Yesh

[slow tinsel]

also hoiw the hell did i manage to lose 5 kilos in a month

[slow tinsel]

your banner is very based

https://tenor.com/view/very-based-kruglov-approves-stalker-gif-24761835

[static torrent]

Thankuu

[kindred kayak]

mf thinner than all might

how tf are you 11 pounds than shouldn’t be biologically possible

[slow tinsel]

My highest weight was 140 kilos (around 310lbs) and i'm now down to 120 (around 265) and that is a HUGE progress for me

[kindred kayak]

OHHHHH I THOUGHT YOU MEAN YOU WIEGHTED 5 KILOS NOT LOST 5 KILOS 😭😭😭

[idle forum]

Good job, keep it up.

[kindred kayak]

hell yeah tho 🔥

[slow tinsel]

no 😭 i meant as in "5 kilos less" 😭

[kindred kayak]

😭

[slow tinsel]

my plan is to get down to around 100 till LATEST end of the decade

[idle forum]

Nice, hope it goes well for you. I'm at the starting point in trying to lose weight. I've dropped soda and a lot of other sugars for a start and I just need to start working out.

[kindred kayak]

https://tenor.com/view/gurren-lagann-volcano-gurren-lagann-tengen-gif-4019837307622981184

YOU GOT THIS

[alpine pike]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1034949666892161168/1317361311041978428/FB_IMG_1733506264221.jpg?ex=6a040ad3&is=6a02b953&hm=28eda79d02c9d3a1bb603ff277f1bfc4f50be1ce95f9c668a9e5a133ca8b79a8&

[slow tinsel]

i switched to non-sugar stuff now, i can't get rid of the taste of my Energy Drinks and my Paulaner Spezi just yet

speaking of, I'm drinking a Monster Energy right now

normally I drink the ones without Sugar but i was like "eh why not" and grabbed 2 with sugar

The ones without taste SO much better

[idle forum]

Just drink them in moderation and don't forget your goal.

[slow tinsel]

I drink like, 2 a week, the non sugar ones

these ones are just an exception as my supermarket was out of non-sugar ones

[stone sierra]

Coco

[slow tinsel]

@gaunt scaffold why the reaction 😭

[gaunt scaffold]

hard to believe the non sugar stuff exceeds the one with,... or do you mean high fructose corn syrup?

[slow tinsel]

i have no idea what they throw in the non sugar ones but i mean.. ever since i switched to those, I've dropped 5 kilos, so you tell me if they make a difference

could also just be coping, but hey

[gaunt scaffold]

https://klipy.com/gifs/i-dont-know-compilation-dunno-1--k01KRDYTA5RBKY72SAGHA02PGGW

[slow tinsel]

https://tenor.com/view/wagging-tail-wagging-dog-wagging-tail-tail-tail-wag-gif-18089219379209593433

[gaunt scaffold]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-dog-scared-driving-speed-gif-17175923473683955109

[slow tinsel]

time for an hour more of far cry 3 before i have to go to work

[idle forum]

It's fine for now but try to find healthier options if you can.

[slow tinsel]

Finally got around to playing that game and i cant get enough of it

oh and i'm addicted to its poker mechanics

i am very easily addicted to gambling

https://tenor.com/view/gamblecore-stickman-casino-gamble-gif-7118676210396292522

[lavish lily]

lot of famou actors staying dont know in a gif

[gaunt scaffold]

Vas is peak Villan design!

https://klipy.com/gifs/farcry3-vaas--k01KRDYZ3NDAG8BJ8E4F70T8J8J

[slow tinsel]

I love Vaas, but tbh, Pagan Min is better in my opinion

I love Far Cry 4

[gaunt scaffold]

https://klipy.com/gifs/consumed-by-hatred-kitten--k01KQ8JTHESEH6YW44HESW8DV7K

[idle forum]

Yeah I need to play far cry three and finish far cry 4

[alpine pike]

I still Hate Ubishit

[slow tinsel]

same, but far cry will forever have a place in my heart

[gaunt scaffold]

story in my opinion was kind of, over the top?

[slow tinsel]

anyway no more wasting of time, time to rather waste my time in far cry

[slow tinsel]

"Waiter, My Lobster is too buttery"

[gaunt scaffold]

who'd touch that peasant stuff anyway?

xD

[slow tinsel]

hey, eat your crab ragoon!

[idle forum]

Then get your secret ending

[subtle lintel]

The fact that too much caffeine makes time go faster for me is kinda nice for when I want it to go by faster

https://youtu.be/FucA1KBp_4k

[gaunt scaffold]

but you know about the hints, and puzzles, you find outside the game?

far cry 3 that is?

[slow tinsel]

As in?

[gaunt scaffold]

how far are you into the story?

[slow tinsel]

Just defused the bombs with Sam

[gaunt scaffold]

hmmmmm, okay! for example....

https://klipy.com/gifs/farcry3-vaas--k01KRDYZ3NDAG8BJ8E4F70T8J8J

[novel horizon]

Hi chat

I wanna talk

[gaunt scaffold]

he poor dude? you could find that exact beach, on the map.... and the guy would still be there xD

[novel horizon]

Idk what to talk about

[idle forum]

Sup

[gaunt scaffold]

far cry 3?

[idle forum]

How's your day going

[novel horizon]

I've heard of it, never played it

[slow tinsel]

Oooh yea i saw the short movies

They're great

[novel horizon]

I hear the far cry series has some of the best baddies

[gaunt scaffold]

and they did a bunch of that stuff...

[novel horizon]

Could be better. Not sick anymore which is good

[gaunt scaffold]

dont want to spoil all the fun now, sooo mebe googles your friend here

[gaunt scaffold]

https://klipy.com/gifs/chernobyl-not-great-1--k01KRDZEZ9TANGCMXZTE47HEXE5

[idle forum]

What did you have?

[slow tinsel]

Tbh the beginning was a bit tedious and the game crashes on me every few hours (for reason i dont know) but i like it so far

[novel horizon]

I'm in that awkward early snowball stage. My productivity is back but not where i want it yet

[slow tinsel]

And i love what they did with jason

Tho thats ground of spoilers

[novel horizon]

Really really bad cough and stuffy nose. General fatigue. And i had like 7 or 8 nosebleeds

[slow tinsel]

Speaking of nosebleeds, i should get myself checked for my blood pressure at some point

[novel horizon]

Gave me an excuse to order beef whenever i got to tho, so that was nice

[gaunt scaffold]

nodders

[idle forum]

That sucks glad your not sick anymore.

[novel horizon]

Recently tho, been wrestling with some troubles

Mental ones

[slow tinsel]

I'm procrastinating to make a doctors appointment for atleast 2 years now

And my real last doctors appointment in general was... 10 years ago?

[novel horizon]

Go book one

If you do, treat yourself to some ice cream

Sidenote: is it just me or is fro-yo like... Disappearing

[idle forum]

Don't, you need to know what's happening to your body and if needed get on meds.

[slow tinsel]

I know but its so tedious

[idle forum]

It does not matter your health is more important than tediousness

[slow tinsel]

The easy things are the hardest for me while the hard things are the easiest to me

I'm weird

[novel horizon]

Make it harder then. Do 100 pushups, win 3 games of league, do the laundry, then cap off with the doctors

[idle forum]

Same but help from family has helped me get through it.

[slow tinsel]

100 pushups? I dont even manage to do 10.

[surreal needle]

you need anaerobic + aerobic

exercise

[slow tinsel]

What i need is a hug

[surreal needle]

🫂

[idle forum]

You can do it.

[novel horizon]

Its nothing too serious, just a choice i'm struggling to make

[gaunt scaffold]

\o/ Hell yeah!
i suck at Animation xD

[idle forum]

You got this.

[idle forum]

Better then 99% of people.

[gaunt scaffold]

remembered, where that smoll dropdown menu was xD

[idle forum]

Nice 👍

[gaunt scaffold]

with optimised frametimes

[narrow cedar]

Uuuugh imma have to figure out whats wrong with my teeth again now. Hopefully it isn't something major

Welp now thats out my system have a good day chat

[kindred kayak]

British teeth

[narrow cedar]

Fr

[idle forum]

Good luck

[gaunt scaffold]

aaaaand ofc bulkdoor, without that big fat red wheel is kinda weird?

[subtle lance]

i thought it was a tank/gauge

lol

[gaunt scaffold]

only white tanks i saw, were within the UN Forces... 🤔

not really a smort colorchioce for a tonk, isnt it?

[slow tinsel]

I dont think this is where you're supposed to go..

[gaunt scaffold]

No Questions, only follow NPC xD

[alpine pike]

ALT+F4

[gaunt scaffold]

maybe delete system32?

[ember zephyr]

No

[gaunt scaffold]

sorry neon, wrong Discord

[ember zephyr]

#piracy-requests

[gaunt scaffold]

this is Pirate softwares DIscord (The Streamer)

[surreal needle]

the right discord is handing ur pc over to the nearest police station because pirating is illegal

[brazen ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/femboy-monster-energy-monster-energy-drinkers-femboy-monster-gif-13456793649933643475

[gaunt scaffold]

whats starting to peak my interest is, how did you landed here?

did google redirect you?

[slow tinsel]

just a question, do you know if the mission ||where you enter Hoyt's compound (All In)|| is the last mission of the game? don't wanna quite complete it yet, still got a lot to do

ah

<@&1489742543662092439>

someone needs the special treatment

feeling cool?

[ember zephyr]

lmao imagine being 12 and edgy

[slow tinsel]

fr

<@&362005405901127710>

[gaunt scaffold]

thats pretty close to the end, ye

sorry its been a while

[slow tinsel]

all good

[gaunt scaffold]

<@&1489742543662092439>

[lone dagger]

Why did this have to happen while im at work and able to be on my phone?

[gaunt scaffold]

https://klipy.com/gifs/sip-1--k01KRE30TFJF8T0YBFS241C0TZE

[alpine pike]

Man, this image is in poor taste

[gaunt scaffold]

I know 🙁

[keen path]

https://tenor.com/view/youve-got-to-be-squidding-me-its-as-shrimple-as-that-shrimple-squid-gif-26786461

[gaunt scaffold]

but was baru like?

[gentle egret]

I have officially lost all hope in humanity

WHY DOES THIS EXIST?!

[gaunt scaffold]

also, don't deserve bad cropped images to be shown off aswell?

[wise wedge]

Never heard of the smart salt shaker?

[indigo nest]

according to thor that guy was already banned by discord

[ember zephyr]

yeah lol

[gentle egret]

Nevermind, I FOUND MORE HOPE TO LOSE

[wise wedge]

That kinda makes it hard to ban them

[ember zephyr]

considering the content that was still present, I went crying to twitch chat

[slow tinsel]

i was about to make a joke about how my wall mount needs alexa but then i read it again and OF COURSE IT HAS

[wise wedge]

Its name was smalt and it’s discontinued if you could believe it

It also had alexa voice activation 🙃

[keen path]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1375321599103733810/1375324931717337160/1FRbfvz.gif

[gentle egret]

shocker -_-

[narrow cedar]

Yeah really. Probably just gonna wait for my next appointment with them in a week or two. Maybe it'll just stop on its own by then too.

[gaunt scaffold]

might been some legal naming stuff?

[subtle lance]

something something the white dove of peace or something
and also it reflects sunlight so if you don't care about camo it keeps the temp down

[wise wedge]

Nah it was a kickstarter that if you could guess it barely produced a product and went under

Behold the “smalt” (smart salt) had a bluetooth speaker (killed the battery) “mood lighting”, measured salt (only normal table salt any other grain wouldn’t work) and alexa integration (only could be used to ask for certain amounts of preset salt values) 🙃a glory of technology truely

Oh and it had to connect to the internet to work

[indigo nest]

what in the "smart"dumb appliance?

[wise wedge]

I love the “smart” meaning speaker and alexa intergration and required bluetooth connection with an phone app that gets discontinued

[gaunt scaffold]

🤔 sure thats a slatshaker? looks like a soapdispenser to me!

[indigo nest]

ive got a salt shaker thats older than me (it was my parents, now its mine )

[wise wedge]

Its a “salt dispenser” not a shaker dont shake it, it will break

[subtle lance]

still better than the juicero

[wise wedge]

Simple glass iron top or ceramic?

[idle forum]

Ok, hope it goes well

[wise wedge]

Its worse this only could use salt no other seasoning

[gaunt scaffold]

https://klipy.com/gifs/will-smith-dance-1--k01KRE3NTJEMVMK98GRK94DZX1M

[ember zephyr]

https://twistedvoxel.com/forza-horizon-6-leaked-copies-players-xbox-accounts-banned/

https://tenor.com/view/star-trek-shocked-pretends-to-be-shocked-omg-wow-gif-5194187393645250946

[idle forum]

Cool

[indigo nest]

plastic top but solid glass bottom. this but red top

[subtle lance]

at least it's trying to sell something that exists
you can't grind salt by squeezing it

[supple steppe]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1479651625294495954/1489463204974297279/1314693172756086944.gif

[gaunt scaffold]

cute!

[wise wedge]

I have one passed down from the 1920s and yeah those are the defacto salt shaker (cant wait till the reinvent the wheel as the smeel )

[supple steppe]

She screams because...
because she can

[narrow cedar]

I like this.

[wise wedge]

Its doesnt grind salt only dispense

You are thinking to highly of the smalt

[indigo nest]

looks like the company that made it is defunct too

or at least renamed

[alpine pike]

https://tenor.com/view/dragon-ball-z-gohan-gohan-ssj2-super-saiyan-gif-8664130674835815154

[torn swallow]

I think i found red huggy wuggy

[wise wedge]

Thats banbans cousin elmo

[torn swallow]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-fire-gif-1795849964129080588

[frozen dew]

Creeper? Aww man

[mortal pawn]

I want https://www.kktiktok.com/t/ZTkTaACwW/ Gimmie

[indigo nest]

ok i regret looking up kissy missy but thank GOD the images were blurred

(the actual pink huggy)

[gaunt scaffold]

Japan has a name for such inventions, making "everyday" stuff easier, but in a overenginered way....

[torn swallow]

what have you discovered?

[indigo nest]

know that the search engine i use is based off of bing and not google, which has a more lenient image search by default than google

[gaunt scaffold]

CHINDOGU!

[torn swallow]

Why bing lol

[indigo nest]

I use ecosia, which is based off bing infrastructure. and to be honest, theres really not that much of a differrence nowadays

[mortal pawn]

Japan be like

[mortal pawn]

We will make your life easier

[wise wedge]

Okay but the tie is cool

[mortal pawn]

With all the stuff and things

[ember zephyr]

we had this book when I was a kid

[mortal pawn]

So innovative

[alpine pike]

Until you unwrap it

[indigo nest]

-# I like helping to plant trees just by searching the internet for things

[ember zephyr]

it was a compilation of 'unuseful japanese inventions'

[torn swallow]

Ecosia? Is that like another search engine or something?

[indigo nest]

yeh

[wise wedge]

I can absolutely see a nerdy professor type wearing that tie like a boss

[idle forum]

Sure use the baby to clean the house. Definitely won't backfire in anyway

[mortal pawn]

I mean baby mop

[indigo nest]

https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planting-receipts/ full public financial report from them

[mortal pawn]

I need to replace my baby but

[subtle lance]

you presume i give a [expletive] about the smalt
i fail to see how it surpasses a product that is perhaps the magnum opus of the tech industry
which is of course being absolute bull and the ultimate precursor example of useless technology nonsense startup collapsing upon itself when it's shown that its mainsale product is useless

[mortal pawn]

Mop still works

[wise wedge]

Turns baby into roomba (drags dog poo the same too)

[gaunt scaffold]

chindogu, yea 😄 but, even the Japanese don't take them seriously, and see it more as some form of Entertainment

[mortal pawn]

Why mop so floppy

[torn swallow]

https://tenor.com/view/baby-peanut-butter-gif-24913717

[indigo nest]

Its a search engine that just searching on it helps support their efforts in planting trees.

[kindred kayak]

gamers

I’m in the woods

vibes are immaculate

[subtle lance]

why

[kindred kayak]

skipping class

[idle forum]

Ah classic

[mortal pawn]

hide the body and let’s go already

[kindred kayak]

listening to daft punk

[subtle lance]

okay, fair enough

[ember zephyr]

https://tenor.com/view/bottom-holy-christmas-get-out-of-my-kitchen-frying-pan-gif-26506741

[slow tinsel]

https://tenor.com/view/gtfo-magician-gif-3735611253186382519

[kindred kayak]

oki :(

[subtle lance]

i've heard enough
drop the gelatinous cube

[indigo nest]

Ive just come to realize, the one friend that I would be worried to most likely get got by a scam is at the same time too paranoid to click on basically anything they dont trust

[surreal needle]

chameleon types

you know the rich don't usually flaunt their wealth

because thats how you usually don't stay rich

lol

[ember zephyr]

tbh in most cases the people with real money aren't the ones flexing their wealth

[slow tinsel]

this

[indigo nest]

oh trust me this person is not that. theyre just paranoid

[ember zephyr]

Huh, apparantly a lithium deposit reportedly worth $1.5 trillion has been discovered in the US

[indigo nest]

Ironmouse is playing VOTV
I open stream and she found dingus (maxwell)

[subtle lance]

cat.e

[shell plover]

So who here has played or seen the game Mixtape

I have thoughts but I would like to hear y'all's thoughts first

[subtle lance]

i've heard it's a movie disguised as a video game
otherwise Very Positive reviews

but i have no idea man that's all hearsay

[keen path]

industry plant

[indigo nest]

HUH??

nah i dont trust that

[brazen ivy]

game reviewers have been cooked for a long time

[ember zephyr]

never heard of it, checking it out now though

[subtle lance]

"you better hope that check doesn't bounce, or you're a dead mother[expletive]" /ref

[keen path]

industry plant

[indigo nest]

ign gave it a 10.

[torn swallow]

Ive only seen this
https://fxtwitter.com/ChristinaTasty/status/2052842068465078617/video/1

Christina Tasty (@ChristinaTasty)

Explaining why I, personally, hate Mixtape in just under 3 minutes of totally uninterrupted "gameplay" (Spoilers):

**💬 2.0K 🔁 3.6K ❤️ 64.8K 👁️ 17.63M **

▶ Play video

FxTwitter · May 8, 2026, 8:04 PM

[indigo nest]

thats the most crazy part

[torn swallow]

Of course they did lol

[narrow saffron]

well yeah, its not difficult in any way, so they were able to get through the tutorial

[alpine pike]

Indie or..?

[slim rapids]

With everything that happened with Discord this actually feels like a risky click 😅

[indigo nest]

oh no wonder reviewers rated it well. they dont have to actually play it

[shell plover]

I can describe MIXTAPE as follows

A Telltale game With no dialog options, Place down your controller and watch everything With no impact over what is going on, mini games are placed inside like jingling keys just so people can say that still had to do something

( I haven't even gone through actually describing the events in the game)

[subtle lance]

tldr play life is strange instead

[ember zephyr]

so basically people are having really strong reactions to -gasp- an interactive experience

and its not conforming to their expectation of what a game is/should be

is that about right?

[subtle lance]

well there's a difference between an interactive experience and an experience that you interact with
but yes

[indigo nest]

also this genuinely looks like the intro sequence to a movie

[gaunt scaffold]

no further questions pls! but yeah, that publisher has more of such visual novels in their repertoire

[brazen ivy]

so basically it's bought it reviews or its some companies owner's child or its some weird activist thing

[idle forum]

Sounds like the most boring game ever

[slow tinsel]

Six seven

[indigo nest]

seems like if it had been marketed as a visual novel (which is basically is from what i can tell) then it wouldve done better

[subtle lance]

try it i'll intercept the brick with my hand and break every bone in my arm

[indigo nest]

https://tenor.com/view/bonk-doge-gif-24837098

[gaunt scaffold]

thx Thor! why do i have to think now on Borgons?

[alpine pike]

Why cause more brain damage?

[subtle lance]

woe! gelatinous cube be upon you
-# look i got 500. it was a bulk deal. i got a good price

[indigo nest]

is gentle bonk

[brazen ivy]

there is nothing about the studio and the publish only pushes out weird games

[gaunt scaffold]

nununununu, thats an official recognised attempt, to FIX braindamage!

[subtle lance]

*sigh*
trepanning

[gaunt scaffold]

same as lobotomy

[torn swallow]

https://tenor.com/view/engineer-enginnering-fix-fixed-tv-gif-27608297

[subtle lance]

he has it
the Knack

[supple steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-fishy-touch-no-nope-gif-5039524

[indigo nest]

looks like they only pushed one other game in 2021?

[gaunt scaffold]

https://klipy.com/gifs/monty-python-UsM--k01KRE5F15V77KT33FVKSCVS5XQ

[ember zephyr]

yeah mixtape doesn't look like my kind of thing, I'm not that into shmaltzy coming-of-age dramadies

I appreciate it exists though

score one for creative expression

[indigo nest]

oh for sure. but it really harms the game journalism world even more

[shell plover]

To describe the game as follows, every single teenager with the in the game including the one you play is unlikable with no redeeming qualities

They're all annoying, they're all rebellious they're all Mean for no reason, Drinking and smoking to be rebellious for no real reason behind their actions, To best describe them . . .Imagine Modern Zoomers Stuck in the mid 90s

(will post more but We'll take a pause for you guys to read)

[subtle lance]

at the end of the day quality is in the eye of the beholder

[ember zephyr]

It's almost like art is subjective or something

weird

[subtle lance]

so someone from last generation 2 generations ago on what my generation is like

[supple steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/grab-steal-cat-kitty-kitten-gif-24065811

[indigo nest]

there are certainly people who would like it
but uh, those game review scores are the most suspicious ive ever seen

[woeful axle]

industry plant vibes

[shell plover]

All art is subjective yes but it is not free from its critiques especially video games, some people are being a bit unfair yes but at the same time there's also a lot of valid critiques with it also being very suspicious with the amount of 10/10s it had gotten

[subtle lance]

istg if this is somehow what exposes that the entire gaming industry is all smoke and mirrors to sell you [expletive]ing Dragon Quest 1 or some [expletive]

actually a cult towards a dark god of consumption and enjoyment

[idle forum]

Is any of the artwork AI?

[shell plover]

no

[woeful axle]

As long as its not as bad as Dustborn

[subtle lance]

nothing against dragon quest
but it'd be really funny if unreal engine was a fork of dragon quest

[green kelp]

I agree with that. Characters read as stereotype instead of their own persons.

Should have given more time for characters and their motivation. Instead of using "excel checklist"

[indigo nest]

also looking into the music in it, holy licensing nightmare. its basically all not youtube claimsafe music

[gaunt scaffold]

who actually looks for such review scores?
my usuall attempt on a game is the following
do i like the genre?, do i find the artstyle pleasing?
is there a demo, and do i have fun with that?...

me personally, discovered the steam reviews through Pirate software, and to this day, paying hardly attention to them aswell

[shell plover]

The main character is absolutely obsessed with music from the 70s and 80s With this being their only other personality trait other than being a rebellious teenager.

THE GAME HAS 30 CHAPTERS to this Game with each chapter being based around a single Song with the character beginning each chapter By talking about the Song that you're going to be listening to, At first it's fine but the way they do it is nails on a chalkboard when it's for 30 Chapters

[indigo nest]

you would be suprised how many people actually care about them

[subtle lance]

thirty.
oh this doesn't bode well at all

[gaunt scaffold]

what i think, they are just "loud", and not really the majority, who shuts up and plays said game 🙂

[indigo nest]

30 chapters in a 3 HOUR PLAYTIME??

[gaunt scaffold]

and ofc, each one, their fav genre

[indigo nest]

the hell??

[torn swallow]

I feel like ive heard this story before

[indigo nest]

also look at this licensing nightmare

[shell plover]

There are so many events in the game that just makes you wonder what the hell was someone thinking when making this game

There includes a section where a teenager threatens her father with with terrorism. . . I'm not joking btw DEAD ASS STARTS TO BURN A FOREST DOWN BECAUSE SHES PISSED WITH HER COP FATHER

[gaunt scaffold]

-.- i know such ppl sadly "I ONLY listen to music before 1975!" "there is no reason for me to listen to newer releases!" -.-

[woeful axle]

Maybe im just tired of coming of age stories

[gaunt scaffold]

https://klipy.com/gifs/ha-213--k01KRE62YRZ43E0R303ACY6Q98M

[green kelp]

Oh the obsessions are fine. My issue is the characters not open enough and read as oscar baits with "put this personality in, because it will sell".

They really should have given them more

[woeful axle]

Theres a point where people the age where coming of age stories happen...will not be able to live long enough to watch all the coming of age content

if that isnt already now

[shell plover]

It tries to say five hours but Most playthroughs end up being three hours . . .

[gaunt scaffold]

mebe cuz their fed up?

[shell plover]

No that's how long their play throughs are when they're finished

[gaunt scaffold]

Question is, if GAME was the right medium for their story, if its really that linear? they could have made it an mini series, you lean back, watch, and enjoy

[woeful axle]

Tell tale ass gameplay

[indigo nest]

if it was marketed as visual novel then i would be less confused

[green kelp]

That would have been soooooooooo much better. Since it would allow to open characters

[gaunt scaffold]

but im also comming from those days

when you know, you know xD

[indigo nest]

but it doesnt seem to be?

[green kelp]

Like it really seems they put all money into music and cut on writting and game time

[shell plover]

Let's not call this game by that moniker because that is a freaking compliment

You have no choices, The only times you interact with the game Have no impact!

At least telltale games were interesting, they had good writing, they had to fail states that were interesting or even funny, multiple endings in some depending on what you did

This game you follow a single rail with mini games laid out like jingling keys

[gaunt scaffold]

tbf, ive seen non linear visual novels, with shitloads of playtime, and it wasn't only, "push right moosebutton, pick an option every now and then"!

that had an high value on replayability aswell

[knotty walrus]

normal teen crashout imo

[remote cipher]

I think they're only using that moniker to compare that the choices you make in these games don't matter at all.

[frail otter]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dmohsez6fck

[gaunt scaffold]

helloos Garian!

[remote cipher]

Is this how some people are now? Id say that's entitled

[knotty walrus]

good morrow

[woeful axle]

True but when I think of choices like that my mind goes to the most banal crap like Until Dawn

[remote cipher]

Is it possible to just block everyone involved in making the Mixtape game from my feed? I don't want to see their future releases or opinions or anything

[gaunt scaffold]

Question! are you familliar with this buddy aswell? #general_chat message

[indigo nest]

if they actually set it on fire that is eco terrorism (or just regular), and no longer a threat of it

[shell plover]

That game is freaking amazing, Too bad that it had both a terrible movie and a terrible remake XD

[supple steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/qa-developer-software-development-test-gif-27432169

[knotty walrus]

what is that, a painted parrot with colours of the globe?

[green kelp]

Yeah. Issue with current game. It looks like characters were slapped on top of music and written as stereotypes.

Because their reasoning, motivations, life stories did not make it into the game time.

Like take Night in the Woods for example, by the end of the game you know why every character turned out how they are.

[woeful axle]

I think the threshold for "feel of originality" is simply moving up

[green kelp]

You know their motivations, dreams, likes

[fierce imp]

dayum the community i'm growing makes some sick wallpapers

[gaunt scaffold]

nnnnnot really, it was ma first pet if you want 🙂
was a program, for win95, and if you had a microphone attached to your pc, it would repeat what you say, IN A PARROT VOICE!
shit was awesome 😄 and back in my coputerdays "if its not on the desktop, its not on the machine"

[gaunt scaffold]

https://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Sound_Blaster_(DOS)

hmmm, didnt knew, this was more of an demo for the soundcard 🤔

CHAAT! I FOUND GOLD!

i know, what im listening on repeat the next 6hrs!

[ember zephyr]

damnit, another minecraft content creator drama has hit the tower

[subtle lintel]

Alright as I expected the time passed so fly I didn't even have time to process it

[indigo nest]

who now?

[gaunt scaffold]

o.o welcome back?

[ember zephyr]

Guude

Got arrested like 5-6 days ago

[idle forum]

Really

[ember zephyr]

yeah

[idle forum]

Wtf happened

[ember zephyr]

10 counts related to possessing and sharing Bad Stuff

[subtle lintel]

Why? I was here earlier and yesterday

And day before that

[indigo nest]

bruh

[idle forum]

Wtf

[gaunt scaffold]

ye, but you said "time flew by...", wasnt aware about the actual timeframe, so yu had fun?

[ember zephyr]

I wasn't a big fan of his due to the direction he took mindcrack in years ago, but this is a whole new level

he failed the etho litmus test, nuff said

[idle forum]

RIP mindcrack

[subtle lintel]

I mean as much fun you can have while doing chores

[gaunt scaffold]

read that first as 10cents

[subtle lintel]

The time went by fast because apparently caffeine without L tiamine causes my time perception to get wonky

[slow tinsel]

@gaunt scaffold Whatd ya put on fire this time

[subtle lintel]

Why are you in romania?

[slow tinsel]

Its germany

[gaunt scaffold]

wasnt me! also, innocent till prooven guilty!

[gaunt scaffold]

Bad oeyenhausen is an actual place

[subtle lintel]

Huh we got the same everything(trucks, pavement, building) even the call number for the fire department is the same

[slow tinsel]

In Nordrhein-Westfalen

[gaunt scaffold]

https://klipy.com/gifs/pikachu-116--k01KRE7KPJC56YSP2WJXWKWR8C4

[slow tinsel]

(I am not doxxing myself with this, that place is like an hour away)

(More like half with a car but thats besides the point)

[gaunt scaffold]

yu know when the picture was taken? time of day? like morning, or afternoon, evening maybe?

[slow tinsel]

About 5 minutes ago

[gaunt scaffold]

😮 weather outside is this nice?

damn!

[slow tinsel]

And i need to work now

Plus its 6 degrees so i'm not going outside anyway

[gaunt scaffold]

but i'd say, you stand infront of a supermarket? and the "BMA" was going off (in germany they like to do that for no reason)

[slow tinsel]

Ye the supermarket i work at, took the picture at the rear entry

[gaunt scaffold]

see chat?! me Smort!

[lone dagger]

I ams too. I got todays wordle in 3 guesses

[gaunt scaffold]

but if there was water involved, mebe no work for you?

[slow tinsel]

Nah its just training

[gaunt scaffold]

awesome!

[idle forum]

Mindcrack is dead after this.

[ember zephyr]

yeah they announced yesterday that all remaining members were parting ways with the brand

[gaunt scaffold]

o.O already????

[ember zephyr]

any% ruin your business/legacy speedrun

[idle forum]

Who was even left?

[ember zephyr]

No idea

[gaunt scaffold]

CEO?

[ember zephyr]

"We understand that the recent news involving Guude has been deeply upsetting for many people in our community, including us. We’re grateful for the support, patience, and understanding we’ve received as we work through this together.

After extensive internal discussion, the remaining members have unanimously decided to part ways with the Mindcrack brand. Given the history and meaning the group has carried for all of us and you over the years, this decision comes with a great deal of sadness, but we believe it is the only path forward.

While much is still being worked out behind the scenes, our commitment to creating content and continuing to work together remains strong. Many of us are already discussing new ideas and future projects that we look forward to sharing with you at a later date.

For current patrons, please see Patreon communication for details of current changes.

To our community: thank you for the years of support, creativity, and memories. We value what we’ve built together and hope you’ll join us as we begin the next chapter and create a new home for this community moving forward. We will share more information as plans develop.

Thank you for your patience and support during this transition."

[woeful axle]

https://old.reddit.com/r/mindcrack/comments/1t6lp70/official_statement/

[ember zephyr]

they posted a 2nd announcement as above, 22 hours ago

[woeful axle]

Kinda glad I wasnt invested or aware of it

cause thats really bad

[ember zephyr]

yeah

I tuned out of mindcrack back when etho left

[gaunt scaffold]

https://klipy.com/gifs/i-dont-know-compilation-dunno-1--k01KRDYTA5RBKY72SAGHA02PGGW

[subtle lintel]

We're all gonna die

[idle forum]

Same

[woeful axle]

gonna have to fire missiles at the weather

[novel horizon]

Mindcrack is still going on?

Color me surprised

[ember zephyr]

well, not any more

in other news I'm tryna decide which I want more, a yamaha montage or a roland fantom ex

[idle forum]

Scroll up

[knotty walrus]

which has the features you want more of?

i've heard that the fantom's aftertouch is the best on market

[ember zephyr]

I don't know, is the issue 🤣

I'm deep in the throes of pre-gas windowshopping

I keep bouncing from demo video to demo video on youtube

[ornate seal]

Lmao

[ember zephyr]

I feel like I'd be 80%+ just buying one for the presets alone

I'm not a professional musician, I don't tour, I have no -need- for anything like it

[knotty walrus]

fair

[ember zephyr]

but I'll be damned if I don't want a shiny new toy

[supple steppe]

🦈

[alpine pike]

Not enough street cred

[ember zephyr]

a serious case of money burning a hole in my pocket, I fear

[knotty walrus]

Personally i'd skip a big fancy all-in-one workstation and get a functional midi controller with the features, and use the savings on virtual libraries and vsti

[ember zephyr]

oh but I already have those in spades

[knotty walrus]

also fair!

[ember zephyr]

got a nektar impact lxc 88 key, numerous smaller keyboards, a bcr2000, an effects rack unit, numerous small pocket/toy synths

as for vsts, I have nexus, avenger 2, ni komplete ultimate...

oh speaking of which, NI went into receivership and sold

[knotty walrus]

yeah i heard about that

[ember zephyr]

to inMusic 🤣

which reminds me I should check out the new komplete and see if I'm willing to waste money upgrading

[knotty walrus]

lol

[green kelp]

oooooh

Now how to bait people into it tho

[knotty walrus]

fishmonger npc offering a quest

but also, have the party chase a cat to the fishmonger

[subtle lintel]

Might buy some biscuits and make a no bake cake thing this weekend

[knotty walrus]

if you mention a cat passing their path, they'll think it's important

[green kelp]

Well it docs and spreadsheets on weekends for me

[gaunt scaffold]

https://klipy.com/gifs/doja-cat-8--k01KRE9CVFPTR6P0PVD8RX14H47

[torn swallow]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-npc-man-good-morning-nice-day-nice-day-to-fishing-gif-18648931

[knotty walrus]

hu-huh!

[supple steppe]

Can we PLEASE get more variety in fishing minigames

[alpine pike]

Give me different variance in fishing games, so I can visualize it

[supple steppe]

99% of it is the bar fishing minigame

[dusk meteor]

Just look at fishing games

Like sport fishing games

Gimme some of that

Let me fish in your low poly ps1 style game and track the fish thrashing around

https://youtu.be/pV7ieFpWrdY?si=UPkXuQPi5jduTciu

Add like 5 more meters to the screen tho

[slow tinsel]

Roguelite fishing game and your jokers are different baits

[dusk meteor]

Also ignore the fact this fishing game is seemingly post apocalyptic

Rip the uj

Uk

[slow tinsel]

Its just the UK. Nothing big to be RIP

[dusk meteor]

Idk that's some pretty catastrophic flooding for only big Ben to be sticking out

That's like 50 feet plus

[dusk meteor]

Gonna be living exclusively in mountainous regions

YES jack

Lmfao

[woeful axle]

such a good little clip

[dusk meteor]

Ps1 and ps2 fishing are crazy

I wish more modern sports games kept the energy of NBA jam

BOOM SHAKKALAKA

YOURE ON FIRE -depicts real athlete just engulfed in flames-

https://tenor.com/view/nbajam-pjc-gif-27683984

[forest cosmos]

hmmm yes very realistic jump

[dusk meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/robert-williams-dunk-basketball-gif-11420586

[woeful axle]

Games used to be good

[dusk meteor]

It's not about the realism is about the ridiculous spectacle

Really utilizing the medium to have fun

https://tenor.com/view/nbajam-hesonfire-razzledazzle-gif-5398146

[dusk meteor]

This is what's gonna happen in the new mcu film

[woeful axle]

is that...doomsday?

[supple steppe]

Whats your favorite subnautica area ( both games )

[dusk meteor]

Mfw the dare devil show does so well it buries the 5 other companion shows it had and makes it into the films

Rip iron fist and Luke cage and the others

[supple steppe]

For me, probably this area

[dusk meteor]

I do hope Luke cage still makes an appearance he's pretty tied in with Spidermans character in some continuities

[supple steppe]

altho BZ crystal cavern is also really good

[left swift]

The Meal

love me some pasta salad

[frozen dew]

-# AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[edgy prairie]

My duna transfer vehicle which im naming the Hermes is proving hard to make

Food lasts like 4 years so that's good

Power is a bit of an issue

[frozen dew]

don't forget an antenna if you're not coming back

or a relay antenna even

[patent current]

Ahhh yes pasta... and a sippy :3

[frozen dew]

so you can do probes later

(KSP1, not sure about 2)

[forest cosmos]

yum yum

gimme

[edgy prairie]

I have 2 relay satellites around duna rn

[frozen dew]

Ah good

[edgy prairie]

They were jack of all trades

They had hi res altitude, biome, visual, and resource scanning as well

[frozen dew]

I deliberately handicap myself by making the network really crap so I have to plan ahead well

[edgy prairie]

The altitude and resource are most important

[frozen dew]

and cos they're made cheap in career mode

[edgy prairie]

So this ship im making is gonna stay in orbit and acts as a ferry that goes back and forth between the two planets

[frozen dew]

Damn that's more planning than I've ever done

I didn't try resource conversion/re-fueling just yet

makes me think, would Kerbals get paid for their time in space if they never came back?

like just lived in orbit or on Duna etc

[edgy prairie]

Then theres another ship that will ascent and descent

[supple steppe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQKrmDLvijo

[edgy prairie]

It lands on duna mines ore to refuel and goes back to the hermes

Im taking inspiration from the martian

[frozen dew]

that's pretty cool

ore deposits don't run out do they?

[edgy prairie]

Nope

[frozen dew]

might try that out one day then

[ember zephyr]

welp it turns out I was in ffact willing to waste money upgrading to the new komplete collector's edition

and also finally getting around to setting up my daw on the new computer, only took almost a year

weeeeelp

[frozen dew]

I bought a collectors edition DVD of spiderman 2 today

like $4?

[ember zephyr]

ah man, dvds

[frozen dew]

yeah I just saw it and I know I'm probably never gonna play it

I was looking for cheap Blu-rays

[karmic rampart]

https://fixupx.com/kommanderkarl/status/2054016322464276537

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[ember zephyr]

welp this is definitely one way to make use of all my free space

[frank grotto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp4_7T9J6Fg

[supple steppe]

Walmart FINALLY fixed my schedule

https://tenor.com/view/yorgun-gif-21678719

[frank grotto]

ive watched this specific video way too many times lmao

[supple steppe]

It only took 5 weeks, 2 management escalations and asking 4-5 times to the manager of the entire store

[dusk meteor]

Tbh I would have told them they had it wrong twice and then just, stopped showing up at the wrong times

At that point it's thier fault

If they complain I'd tell them I gave them ample warning

[ember zephyr]

At which point you'd start getting written up for ncns

[dusk meteor]

Cool, they're not going to fire me

[tall ginkgo]

112 is the standard emergency number in all EU countries.

[dusk meteor]

Written up my ass

I will literally go to any other dime a dozen store

[ember zephyr]

https://tenor.com/view/john-cena-gif-27311681

[dusk meteor]

100%

[ember zephyr]

zaf I'm being aggressively tempted to buy expansions for my VSTs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eapzDsaM0kU

this one sounds so fun

[dusk meteor]

They don't do firings because then I'd file for unemployment and they'd have to dispute it or pay a fee and they have to have a good reason to dispute, labor board is gonna be on your side of the bs like 99% of the time

[ember zephyr]

I thought most of the US was at-will

[median atlas]

sorry what's written up there?

[dusk meteor]

It is, I can still file unemployment if I'm fired and don't quit

[median atlas]

I just got here

[dusk meteor]

If enough people file unemployment from a facility they get a tax hike

[ember zephyr]

It's that "turn back now there is no glory here" sign from the deep underwater caves

[median atlas]

ah

oh...

[dusk meteor]

They can dispute that but the dispute only really works if you were a REALLY bad employee who needed to be fired

Basically if a buncha employees stopped dealing with ass management and started using thier rights, places like Walmart would have to conform to them or pay massive fees for firing them

[forest cosmos]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1462551639603806432/1480391116166660187/lv_0_20250904165818.gif

[median atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/murder-drones-murderdrones-murder-drones-n-n-murder-drones-murder-drones-meme-gif-2920171159169824398

[ember zephyr]

Updates, upgrades and expansions aside, I think I might be about to add a new VST to my stable

I've been a big fan of Spectrasonics' Omnisphere for a lot of years but never bought it

and they had a major version update 6 months ago

[dusk meteor]

Why would you keep such expensive equipment in a stable? Won't it get wet and stuff

[ember zephyr]

It's software, not hardware

[dusk meteor]

That's worse a disc is easy to break

[median atlas]

its a stable environment, duh

[subtle lance]

that only raises more questions

[dusk meteor]

Yeah

[ember zephyr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86jF9e-zNvI

[dusk meteor]

Like at that point it's not even a space issue

It's like, a wierd deliberate choice

Ok zafaroth complaint time

I wish arm rests

[median atlas]

were good?

[dusk meteor]

Were like 15% taller

I have to LEAN heavily to the side to get my arms on there

I got a long torso

[dusk meteor]

Long torso little legs problems

[ember zephyr]

but also, as a fellow longboi I agree

except I'd settle for just standard countertop and sink heights to be higher

[dusk meteor]

Everyone else with thier standard torso get to just put thier elbows on rests

[ember zephyr]

I have to bend at a dumb angle just to wash my hands or do the dishes and it kills my back

[dusk meteor]

I get one arm rest and if I sit too long I get all crunchy cuz I'm leaning

[median atlas]

as someone of standard torso size and average height, I request both of these people's pillows are warm tonight if they get their wishes granted

[dusk meteor]

That or I sink down and have really bad posture so my elbows hit the rests

Listen all I'm asking for

Is a recliner with like, I can pay a little extra to have adjustable arm rests

[tall ginkgo]

errr, arent arm-rests adjustable in height?

[dusk meteor]

Ni

No not usually

[median atlas]

only on some desk chairs

[dusk meteor]

And if they are it's adjustable DOWN not up

[remote cipher]

I think someone can still collect unemployment but that just means they can be let go at any time even without cause

[median atlas]

I dont even have arm rests at my desk, I just use the desk

granted I have one of those half chairs

which is at the perfect height to lean back and crack my back

but regardless

[dusk meteor]

I'm too fat for this quack my posture would be omega shrimping to lean forward enough to comfortably put my elbows on the desk

My GUT is in the way

[ember zephyr]

yeah my point being, it's my opinion that a big company like wally world would almost certainly shitcan somebody without a second thought in the discussed scenario

[dusk meteor]

And I'd also be SUPER close to my screens

[median atlas]

Yes well I cant help with that

[ember zephyr]

unemployment's probably a lot less than what they were paying in wages, right?

[dusk meteor]

Extending my arms out past myself to rest my elbows would also be awkward

[tall ginkgo]

i think you need a better chair

[dusk meteor]

It can be

Depends on the state

Every state has different rules and percentages of income and stuff

Excuse me my chair was provided by John piratesoftware

Free expensive chair

[median atlas]

Ive got one of these

[dusk meteor]

I do need to get an Allen wrench out and tighten the right side arm

[tall ginkgo]

well, if it doesnt fit you, its not the right one

[remote cipher]

Oh yeah for sure and it'll save them money

[dusk meteor]

It's started to rattle loose

You know what I do deaod

[tall ginkgo]

i do not

[dusk meteor]

I have a couple cardboard boxes near my desk

[fierce imp]

yall i swear i'm so happy. My greatest project ever which i've been working for years finally has a whole community for it

[dusk meteor]

If my arms start to get really irritated I use the adjustable arm rest to fit the box perfectly between the rest and my arm

[median atlas]

dont squish the boxes by pushing down too hard tho

[dusk meteor]

They're thick boxes

Like triple layer with staple

[ember zephyr]

Of course, now I've spent all this money on new/updated VSTs I really should invest in a nice new midi controller that has stuff like polyphonic aftertouch

[slowly puts on the clown costume]

[dusk meteor]

It'd be hard to smash them without stomping

[median atlas]

and you've just... been keeping them

[dusk meteor]

Yes

[tall ginkgo]

you can fit boxes between your elbow and the arm rest?

how thick are we talking?

[dusk meteor]

They're not BIG boxes

I forget what was in them

They're like 3 or 4 inches across

I lower the arm rest down to make space

[median atlas]

Im guessing youre gonna cut the boxes up and just stack panels

right

[dusk meteor]

No I just use the whole box

I could do that if they start to lose shape tho

[median atlas]

if you stack panels you can cut them into shape so theyre more comfortable

[dusk meteor]

Probably

But also what I have sort of works and I Don't wanna ruin it

Plus it adds to my poverty core set up

[median atlas]

Usually people don't like to add to a poverty core setup but yknow

[dusk meteor]

Next to the houses electrical panel and exposed wiring and the sewer connection

[median atlas]

you do you

[dusk meteor]

In the concrete basement storage room

Famously I was talking to khronos about the mice in the basement and one dashed across my keyboard

[median atlas]

so uh

[dusk meteor]

I also have a Pic of a mouse staring at me from across my desk near how they were getting in

(There was a small hole)

[median atlas]

how many infections or viruses or sicknesses do you have daily

[dusk meteor]

I dont

It's just a field mouse

Not particularly dangerous as long as I'm not cuddling it

This was like one 2 week period til I found the hole

[median atlas]

ah

[mental karma]

We have sum rats near train station

Cool guys

[median atlas]

well Im gonna go consume nutrients

cya

[dusk meteor]

We keep window screens near my desk when they're not in the windows, during air conditioner season

[mental karma]

It feels painful

[dusk meteor]

And a little ping pong ball sized mouse had run out to the end of the screen

And was just sizing me up

And I snapped a Pic years ago

[mental karma]

Could you share?

[dusk meteor]

Cute little fella

Let me see if I can FIND it

Gimme a sec

[mental karma]

No force tho

[forest cosmos]

i dont see much mice around here

i see ALOT of shrews though

[dusk meteor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/987123333659250688/1257526745863553025/20240701_223652.png?ex=6a048dcb&is=6a033c4b&hm=7ebd1ece07fe9f3d03b9e5a90307f80f4384750e81180b374a1ec9df1b542548&

There he is

[woeful axle]

shrews are basically like

[dusk meteor]

Sizing my ass up

[woeful axle]

the goombas of mice

[forest cosmos]

you are in his territory

[forest cosmos]

shrews are like mice but scary

[dusk meteor]

This is a 2 year old photo

[woeful axle]

the strolling stu's of mice

[mental karma]

Smol yet proud roten

[dusk meteor]

There's a cabinet to the left and that's the corner of the room

He came out on the lip just to stare me down

[forest cosmos]

the shrews love to invade the house in the winter

[woeful axle]

Sounds like you need

a mouse bucket

[mental karma]

Or just cat

Or cat urine

[ember zephyr]

you get that with the cat

[mental karma]

That why or not xor xor and

[woeful axle]

or just a bucket

dont gotta feed the bucket

[mental karma]

These bois are smart

[forest cosmos]

no

[woeful axle]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-helicopter-amogus-gif-25665885

[dusk meteor]

You should catch and release native species and kill trap invasive ones

Always check what's native

It might feel cruel to kill trap invasive animals but it's healthier for the ecosystem if u do

[forest cosmos]

i have learned that shrews seem to have ALOT of trouble seeing above or behind themselves (or seeing at all) and it is quite easy to just grab them and put them outside

[dusk meteor]

Shrew baseball

[woeful axle]

why are shrews so weak

[dusk meteor]

Sorry intrusive thought

[woeful axle]

D tier

[forest cosmos]

they spend most of their time eating

[dusk meteor]

Tier zoo moment

Shrew? Dtier

[woeful axle]

Anime taught me that makes you strong tho

[forest cosmos]

I seem to remember that shrews hunt snakes

some

[supple steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/hunt-hunt-showdown-get-on-hunt-hunt-meme-hunt-showdown-meme-gif-8294435062893133032

[dusk meteor]

Anyone been watching daemons of the shadow realm

Shits peak

[forest cosmos]

i have been watching nothing

[weak vessel]

we get mice occasionally - little small brown fellas, think they're some sort of field mice? - they don't do much harm, keep themselves to themselves and they're foraging outside most of the time, I think they live in the wall cavities and under the house

but the squirrels?! they're destroying the roof
there's a band of about ten lives round here and they like to get in under the eaves and smash stuff up

servants of the elder gods of destruction them boys

[indigo nest]

It’s not what I expected at all and I love it

[dusk meteor]

Where are you living cones

[forest cosmos]

we have lots of mink

[dusk meteor]

I wanna look up what common mouse you got there

Also i think the UK government will literally pay you to kill grey squirrels

If that interests you

[indigo nest]

There is one creature that I hope everyone here (outside of Asia) knows is KOS.

[weak vessel]

just in a little patch of woodland near the south coast (UK)

[forest cosmos]

mink are like noodles, but angry

[weak vessel]

not even deep woods
and it's wildlife central

[narrow cedar]

Ive actually seen this lol

[dusk meteor]

the widespread Wood mouse, the tiny Harvest mouse, the rare Yellow-necked mouse, and the House mouse, all distinct from vole species. The Wood mouse (or field mouse) is common in gardens and woodlands, while Harvest mice inhabit long grass, and Yellow-necked mice are found in southern hedgerows and rural homes.

Is what you can expect to find cones

[forest cosmos]

we get lots of animals here in the tongass national rainforest

[knotty walrus]

k-os? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afn0h2M6eTg

[wheat violet]

Hellos goblins

[dusk meteor]

I think based one what you said cones

[forest cosmos]

hallo

[wheat violet]

Thinking of replacing my M4 Mac Mini with a windows laptop of sorts, any suggestions?

[dusk meteor]

Most likely one of these two

Unless your living up near a big grass field

[subtle lance]

your honor,
r0dent

[dusk meteor]

But if your near woods probably that brown guy

He prefers stands of trees

[wheat violet]

What's the take on those Copilot+ PCs I keep seeing

[mental karma]

Why Windows?

[subtle lance]

i know that thinkpads are the "you're staying in the company" laptop

[mental karma]

Comfy keyboard tho

[wheat violet]

Game things that won't do on macOS, also switching to a more mobile on the go setup

[dusk meteor]

Because Mac sux

[mental karma]

Linux?

[gaunt scaffold]

in my opinion, an failing attempt, trying to make hardware more interesting....

[wheat violet]

Not enough support for what I wish to do

[forest cosmos]

hard for alot of people to get used to

[dusk meteor]

Listen don't ask a man to go from Mac to linux

[subtle lance]

how dare you leave out the reply "this is how politics statistics work i think"

[mental karma]

So to Windows tbh but ok ok I'm quiet

[dusk meteor]

That's like asking someone to transition directly from never having driven a vehicle to formula 1

[gaunt scaffold]

arent they linux users alr. in a way? 🤔

[crimson tide]

Heya

[dusk meteor]

Get them in the station wagon with some drivers Ed first

[subtle lance]

hey i can try
keyword: try

[crimson tide]

what up with thee?

[forest cosmos]

For safety of NOT mentioning even the word politics here…just in case cause idk much about any of it

[wheat violet]

Bestbuy is probably a trap

[dusk meteor]

No much it

[mental karma]

Still recommend to try and write bug reports for community

[dusk meteor]

Vibing

[subtle lance]

fair enough

[dusk meteor]

Talking about mice and pcs

[wheat violet]

So chat, the last PC I bought was a Dell XPS 15 which had many pitfalls

[dusk meteor]

Mice as in the animal

[wheat violet]

Annoying pitfalls

[crimson tide]

right

[wheat violet]

Well, last laptop I had

[forest cosmos]

lets throw a third topic into all of it and connect them back to one topic somehow

[forest cosmos]

dont get hp

[crimson tide]

Need to ask a quick opinion, if you don't mind. Just some design stuff, is all.

[forest cosmos]

thats all i have to say

[dusk meteor]

Sure

[wheat violet]

Do you have a horror story?

[dusk meteor]

Anything in depth you should bring to the design area tho

A quick question isn't a problem tho, so shoot

[forest cosmos]

wifi stopped working after 1 day and nothing fixed it

[crimson tide]

Not too much depth, I'm afraid.

[wheat violet]

Intel wifi chip?

Also chat, laptops, Intel or AMD (definitely not Snapdragon)

[stone sierra]

Apple

[dusk meteor]

I wanna say amd?

[forest cosmos]

idk bro all i gotta say is it became the most not portable laptop i have had

[dusk meteor]

Intel has been dropping the ball lately

[crimson tide]

What improvements would one make to counter Discord?
And if you guys got some design inspirations for a scifi chat interface without constraints to html design conventions.

[forest cosmos]

still prefer my steam deck to this chonky mfin 4060 rog strix

[weak vessel]

AMD unless you know it's not one of the known bad intel chips

[dusk meteor]

Wym counter discord

Like compete?

[wheat violet]

Most laptops I'm seeing have the Core Ultra stuff so idk

[slow tinsel]

Hey chat, it's been a while, take a moment and uwu! uwu or owo did you do your uwu today? Check on your uwu, your owo and your ^w^ Hug a pet, plushie and uwu! Be UwU to each other Love the Gayest creature, proud of your UwU's.

[stone sierra]

So, anything after intel 10th gen?

[mental karma]

For windows at minimum 32G of RAM. Like no joke

[forest cosmos]

Discord’s evil twin, drocsid

[dusk meteor]

@thorn ether someone is encroaching on your brand

[slow tinsel]

I've been sending this for atleast a year

[ember zephyr]

I'd pretty much just want the current feature set but decentralised, let us host our own servers like we do for IRC

[weak vessel]

idk - didn't do much research
saw that two consecutive generations of intels had known issues and thought "screw trying to work out if it's good" and bought AMD

[subtle lance]

i mean you start to get into what genre of scifi
like are we talking about like near future, those metal flange things with glowing LED on every screen, or are we talking 40K Glory to the Omnissiah type stuff

[forest cosmos]

Wait a minute…you arent mirror

[stone sierra]

Go with AMD. At least they don’t offer you a billion E-core count and still give you proper cores

[wheat violet]

Oh noes

[forest cosmos]

STRANGER DANGER

[wheat violet]

32GB minimum laptop now? Geezus

[mental karma]

Boi of IRC can "reply" it is fire

[slow tinsel]

Yes i am 🪞

[stone sierra]

Pretty much

[gaunt scaffold]

tbh, 32gb ram, is more common nowadays then you might think

[stone sierra]

Assuming you can even find anything with 32gb

[forest cosmos]

gasp…SORCERY!

[slow tinsel]

32gb is recommended as "problem-free" while bare minimum is still, what, 8gb?

[subtle lance]

-# who's going to tell them that that was just incorrect

[gaunt scaffold]

here? no prob, if stores have it

[stone sierra]

HP can’t source 32gb and has gone down to 24gb

[mental karma]

I mean it's what I see at work. Less than 32 gig and people complain a lot.

[forest cosmos]

who’s gonna tell them im having fun

[crimson tide]

Yep, something like that

[thorn ether]

Oh no.

[wheat violet]

Is 24GB enough if 8 max goes to the GPU

[crimson tide]

Or technically, a proper alternative if you will.

[subtle lance]

you're having fun being afraid?
dear god it's worse than i thought /j

[mental karma]

You want to use?

[forest cosmos]

Silly

[stone sierra]

I don’t think integrated graphics can go up to 8gb tbh

[knotty walrus]

it depends on what features you're focusing on

[stone sierra]

Dedicated gpus have their separate memory

[crimson tide]

nods and takes down notes Yep, I'll keep that in mind

[forest cosmos]

ive only got 16 gigs and i havent run into a single problem on windows 11

[subtle lance]

NEW CORRELATION
Windows 11 == drugs /j

[slow tinsel]

Hell no, i'm glad i upgraded to 16 right before AI began to be a thinf

Thing

[crimson tide]

Sci-fi, like either Cyberpunk scifi or space scifi, so near future stuff.

[stone sierra]

Copilot is on durgs

[mental karma]

Meanwhile my arch BTW happy on 4 gigs

[forest cosmos]

By that i mean random error. If i do any file related/settings related things, i might have problems

[forest cosmos]

i use arch btw

[wheat violet]

I don't want a snapdragon processor because ARM on windows is absolute trash vs on macOS

[ember zephyr]

What can I say, I like the idea of a modernised IRC-like solution - chatrooms and DMs with embeds would pretty much tick all my boxes, I think

[wheat violet]

Just give me x86 plz

[stone sierra]

Arch on 4gb? Madness!

All you need is 512mb

[ember zephyr]

I guess screensharing and video/voice calling too

[crimson tide]

Well, I am emphasizing more on the freedom and homely vibes, since it is decentralized and customizable. And performant too.

[stone sierra]

I’ll shoot your screen

[prisma sky]

I swear... Who knew the topic of getting ticketed for going through a red light because it was taking too long to change or according to OP wasn't changing would be such a hot button topic on my local facebook group...

[slow tinsel]

Well do you want an okay processor with a trash OS or a trash OS with a trash running processor

[forest cosmos]

my lil bro running around all hyper on 4 hours of sleep

[ember zephyr]

okay but you're buying me a new one and it ain't cheap

[mental karma]

Meanwhile NetBSD on vax

[forest cosmos]

Ok processor with ok os

[stone sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/nah-bruh-gif-2225956668307289960

[crimson tide]

I got 16 GB and I am still lacking in the RAM department

[ember zephyr]

You shoot my shit, you're replacing my shit. Don't make me sit on you.

[forest cosmos]

nah should be fine

[crimson tide]

Not for Rimworld, it isn't, especially modded

[stone sierra]

Again without buying me dinner first?

[forest cosmos]

i did not read sit correctly

[wheat violet]

Why every laptop $1000

[subtle lance]

mhm mhm
i mean solarpunk is popular right now
you could do something with that but it starts to do strange things with rendering and whatnot the more detail you add
and there's preference in the modern age for sleek interfaces
so optimization would be a concern

i would say do space sci-fi, maybe with the like neon colors of cyberpunk, but stray away from making the Corporate Dystopia App

[wheat violet]

And also mostly trash

[ember zephyr]

the implied threat of what you thought you read is definitely there

[mental karma]

Where 700pln used ones goes:/

[crimson tide]

gAMer lApTOps.

[stone sierra]

The MacBook Neo is $600

[wheat violet]

This aren't even gamer laptops

[wheat violet]

My M4 mac mini. for $599 was better and is, but I'd like windows and portability now

[crimson tide]

Try a good thinkpad then

[narrow cedar]

sigh im bored

[crimson tide]

or is that not a good default anymore?

[stone sierra]

That’s not a laptop tho

[mental karma]

@wheat violet I'd go for post business laptop

[forest cosmos]

people make fun of gaming laptops but this rog strix im using is lowkey a beast (even though the cpu temps ride at 96 on jedi survivor max setting with raytracing at a solid 60 fps)

[stone sierra]

*refurb business laptop tbh

[wheat violet]

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/dell-plus-copilot-pc-14-2k-2-in-1-touchscreen-laptop-amd-ryzen-ai-7-350-2025-16gb-memory-1tb-storage-midnight-blue/J3K4L6QTXK/sku/6625647

Hoo boy a dell

[pulsar cloud]

Its even cheaper if you're a student, like $500 US

[crimson tide]

Thanks for the notes mate.

[subtle lance]

hey so uh
where did you learn such sorcery

[forest cosmos]

Hmm?

[wheat violet]

Microsoft gives certain PCs as a student 1 year of 365 + game pass + custom controller

[mental karma]

Ok ish if you can add ram later

[subtle lance]

or do you mean celsius

[forest cosmos]

celsius

[subtle lance]

oh
OH

[forest cosmos]

as cpu temps should be measured in

[pulsar cloud]

damn, didnt know that. I last bought a Laptop in '23 (and I wanted a Macbook to replace my old Macbook)

[wheat violet]

Can't add ram to a dell, previous XPS 15 would memory retrain the DDR5 and lock up

[subtle lance]

sorry our education systems are screwed

[wheat violet]

Was awful

[forest cosmos]

im american

our is indeed correct

[subtle lance]

well shit

[mental karma]

O.o they destroy what PC is about eh

[pulsar cloud]

Don't they Have that new CAM2 Standard now?

[forest cosmos]

Hey chat just a reminder that if i seem like an asshole, i really dont mean to be one

[wheat violet]

Yeah, I tried adding ram to my XPS 15 and it was terrible. Had the motherboard replaced twice because you stick your own ram in it and it would never finish the DDR5 retrain, even if you stuck the old sticks back in

[subtle lance]

yea no you're good

[forest cosmos]

i find it hard to see myself from a viewer standpoint

[lusty torrent]

https://respawnfirst.com/after-forza-horizon-6-now-subnautica-2-has-reportedly-leaked-48-hours-before-launch/

[forest cosmos]

oki gtg love yall baiiiiiii

[ember zephyr]

I love and weirdly miss wacky old luggable computers like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pArjBLMYv_E

[lusty torrent]

Subnautica 2 is on the menu boys

[mental karma]

No clue I was rolling e-waste grade shit

[subtle lance]

damn
someone actually keygened it
impressive

[narrow cedar]

Bye

[lusty torrent]

What does that mean

[subtle lance]

1000 LiPo batteries -> 500 Class D fires

[mental karma]

No risk no fun