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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • Really appreciate your opinion here. What an incredible game, I have been meaning to replay it and this post is inspiring me to do so sooner than later.

    Aria of Sorrow and this game have the best Castlevania art style. I thought the cartoon-y shift with the other 2 DS games was a big mistake, it just made the series fall into visual obscurity with anime styles. And a series like this benefits from the dark weight of the art style, especially when the low-poly pixels in game don’t convey the same amount of detail the drawings can. They really nailed these two games, they’re works of art in many ways.


  • I am not sure. I want to keep the signal clean for live playing (avoiding interference, ground loop buzz, etc). I don’t need studio level noise reduction but also I want to maintain signal fidelity to a reasonable degree so that there’s no tone bottlenecks in my already expensive rig. Because I am an audiophile I am okay investing within reason to avoid unnecessary harmonic loss.

    Part of my motivation for this splitter was that it had direct pass through on one out and a ground lift switch on the other two. I want more control over my output just in case the FOH hardware has something funky happening. I know Y-cables are another option but I got the splitter used for a lower price than Y so it was a no brainier. Getting/modding a second one is the next consideration.




  • Good stuff! I love to see the different directions everyone goes in on their journey for tone. Also I appreciate the general organization, which I know from experience takes way more time than we want to admit. I also never routed my cables underneath since I had a flat board, but it was never as clean as yours. After using my board I feel like an angled setup is way more practical to have since the front and back row can be on a different plane which makes fumbling around for the right switch just a tad easier, it looks like you kind of have that going by can’t tell.

    Since you said you might make another board I figured I’d let you know I’m selling some of my pedals right now. I have a TC Electronics Chorus, TC Electronics Reverb, MXR Delay w/ ring mod, MXR Dyna Compressor, Ernie Ball VP 6180, Dunlop Cry Baby Wah, and Boss DS-1 Keeley Mod. If you want any of them let me know!

    Thanks for sharing your rig. Rock on!



  • Whoa, DacoTaco themself! I instantly recognized your name from the homebrewing fun I had with it last year. Thank you for all of you efforts on the WiiU!

    If I had more time I’d love to have contributed to homebrew software but I’m just glad you’ve been able to make the sacrifice for the rest of us. In an increasingly corporate video game world where extracting the last penny is prioritized over the passion of the fans, it’s people like you that keep that magic feeling, that sparked our interest in the first place, alive.


  • Speaking from experience, Zooz products have been very poor quality for me and not worth the trouble. I put those switches all throughout my house and now I’m having to replace them, one by one, to due to random failures or unreliable performance. I used a Zooz switch for an outdoor outlet (switch was indoors) and the thing stopped working but support wouldn’t do anything because it’s not a light, it’s going to an outlet. I supported them during their initial product launch, warrantied a lot of switches which helped their R&D, but customer support has 0 sympathy for me now that the warranty is over (they even disregarded the extended warranty they promised me). After all the work I’ve had to do tearing my outlets apart to replace their switches, it’s just not worth it. I wish I would’ve gone with a more expensive brand the first time, I would have saved a lot. If it’s not too late, I recommend looking beyond them.









  • Poor little guys. I will trap and release all bugs, even spiders and centipedes, I find and let them outside away from the house, no hard feelings. And I’m not talking about the sluggish cute little ones, I’m talking the fastest meanest baddies. It took me awhile to get to this point. But when you think about it, they are just hungry little adventurers in a big scary world (not unlike us). It feels really selfish and cruel to decide they must die because they accidentally showed themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. They worked their little legs off every single day of their lives to find food and make it this far, just like us. And I’m just going to end all of that in a violent horrible way because I’m grossed out or scared, when I am how many times bigger than they are? It’s so unfair to them.

    If you still want to kill them, try this first: next time you see one, capture it in a clear plastic container. Consider it your pet for the next few minutes or so. Watch their movements, try to feed them, look at how amazing their bodies are built, build them a little habitat. The set them free outside! You’ll understand their perspective a little better and then you’ll be able to empathize next time you see one, maybe enough to let them live.

    (Disclaimer: I wouldn’t do this for dangerous or damaging/pest insects)