checking out somoku, this is so good! the vocal melody and lyrics are oddly familiar but I can’t place it, definitely would have remembered this schizoid instrumentation (not an insult I love this shit!) if I had heard this before

listening to the whole album now, great recommendation!

感じている by Saury might be my favorite song of all time, I might have fucked it up by having it as my alarm sound for a while but it was just so good at getting me up and pumped!

yeah you know me

probably in the ballpark of 30-40 playthroughs (just a guess, maybe way more) just never happy with my builds and a need to explore every nook and cranny. I’m fairly confident I could count on my hands everything in acts 1+2 that I haven’t seen

also most of this was immediately after launch on my PC that’s kinda underpowered for it so act 2 in specific spoilery areas chugged and I knew act 3 would get much worse if not completely crashing

I’ve got 550 hours in bg3 and maybe 5 of them are in act 3

huh why do you think you struggled with the importance of hygiene? it was pretty intuitive to me tbh, out here in the real world if you’re smelly most people are going to choose not to interact with you… now take that dynamic except you literally cannot make that choice, you are locked in a room with 3 other people no matter how they behave (within reason…)

that being said I showered every day and sweat not even a little(it was cold) idk what that guy’s problem was but maybe the rumor stuck because I was one of very few with long hair? idk tbh

yeah the boredom really was the worst part, at least for my (compared to many others) fairly short stay. didn’t feel short at ALL though. it was a jail, not a prison. prison would be a lot less boring from what I’ve heard but with a whole host of other problems… “the only thing jail and prison have in common is that you’re locked up” is a line I’ve heard a bunch but can’t speak to myself.

we were in cells in pods. a pod is roughly a line of 10 cells on 2 levels with a central communal area for eating/recreation, with a room with grated windows about 10ish feet up… if you were lucky. they would let out one level at a time switching back and forth with who got to go out first. i spent time in 3 different pods, all with very different vibes. all sucked. 2/3 were 4 person cells and one was 2 person.

oh yeah for sure I don’t think it’s a bad fit for your use case tbh just wanted to share my personal hangups.

i really wanna play diamond/pearl (my OG) but really cba with the two screens smooshed into one on my retroid pocket flip 2 but I didn’t even consider it for steamdeck … that doesn’t sound terrible w how big the screen is

considered the remake/remaster/whatever for the switch and could cope w the much less cool gfx but last I looked into it it didn’t emulate well

none of the DS emulators impress me enough to consider yet mainly bc of the touchscreen lag/no hard stylus

probably wouldn’t be impactful for pokemon but in DS games that heavily use the touchscreen it’s pretty noticeable

what are you talking about daft punk is those 2 robot guys they don’t have human names they’re robots

i did a month in county about a year ago. i learned how to play spades and that was always fun and a good time killer.

they gave us all tablets and I’m really quite a “phones are bad for you” type of person. I try to challenge my technology addiction the best I can out here and look up at the world around me … but I am not the least bit ashamed to admit that I bought (yes bought, for $9.99 I’m pretty sure) subway surfers and spent most of my waking hours in there surfing the subways.

a month is laughable time to most people that I came across in there but it felt like a year. time dragged on. and it was really cold all the time (coming from someone who’s from up north and this jail was in the south)

they had chess but I think I only played two games of it with one friend I had made in there (one of those games opening with bongcloud, we both died laughing) I’m not very good at chess tbh. I tried to make a Go board out of paper but I couldn’t manage to keep the lines straight enough or spaced well enough.

didn’t really have too much excitement other than people pointing out the hatches on the walls that they supposedly would shoot pepper balls out of if there was a riot, never saw that theory in action. i did see the Go Squad tackle one guy who refused to go to his cell but it was not really very dramatic, you could tell they had done it a hundred times before so he couldn’t really do anything to stop them… honestly I was pretty impressed at how lighthanded they were with it, like yeah a big guy did tackle him right down to the ground but they weren’t trying to rough him up or anything they just did the minimum they had to after talking failed. i got hired (handing out food trays and cleaning up) and fired (coworker didn’t like me, started a rumor I wasn’t showering and got me fired… not sure what his problem was but I didn’t need the two for one I really just liked having something anything to do for part of the day(the US prison system is modern slavery and that is intentionally built into the 13th amendment))

that last part was really drilled into my head. people don’t take prison jobs for <$1/hr because they want the money, I’m not even sure how common it is for prisons to offer 2 for 1 for a job (meaning your time goes by twice as fast) I think most people take the job because being locked up is fucking excruciatingly boring and anything to make the time go by quicker is a blessing.

sorry that’s really rambly and disjointed, I’d be happy to answer any questions you have

that’s true there’s a form you need to fill out but still, better than paying taxes to a place you’re not.

to be fair it is pretty comprehensible but I am amazed at your eleven-comma-having paragraph sentence.

bravo! long live the comma!

not always true, quoting an older comment of mine:

on the off chance it applies to you, the FEIE rules state that if you spend 330 days (out of a 12 consecutive month period of time, important to note that it does not have to be a calendar year) outside of the US, you don’t have to pay taxes on the money you made during that time

i won’t usually make the case for a usamerican concept making sense (because most don’t), but the UK standard is kinda backwards, innit?

like, a “Public school” (UK) is very much not open to the public … a concept commonly referred to as being “private”, yeah?

am i missing something??

damn your concern made them delete their whole account… do you remember what they said in response?

are you referring to the UK or the American concept of Private schools? It’s backwards over there, right? Private are the basic schools most people go to whereas Public schools are the fancy ones rich kids get sent to?

do you remember where you heard about that auction find? I’d love to see some pictures or video of that restoration if there are any

no

no

the entire jazz tradition is based off of improvising new melodies over the same songs (jazz standards)

probably not exactly what you mean but figured it was worth a mention