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Cake day: September 30th, 2023

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  • Oh man I destroyed 3 of those dance mats. we rewired them to use for stepmania (pc hatswitch had simultaneous opposite direction problems back in the day) and taped them to the ground and gave them a real beat down. The layers actually wore down from trying the pledge furniture polish and socks footslide technique which I quicly hated as damaging. I have now ancient solid decks that could handle it but I still hold a grudge against sliding.





  • I collected some disc copies of games, I put on my fancy gloves, carefully opened the overwrap, brought out the disc and cloned it to my pc, then put everything back together in a laminar flow table. fast forward a couple years and I hear about disc rot. I checked a few and they were fucked. checked the rest they were fucked. put them back as before and sold them as unopened to a collector because I’m just an asshole that way. actually I was desperately broke. actually I still am FML, dunno karma?

    Anyway retro gaming, or anything else in life really, will find a way to fuck you over.


  • I watched a bit of in another world with my smartphone and it was peak garbage. I also downloaded the wrong 7 deadly sins once, unforgivably awful. I think I slogged through dog days while in my depressive always drunk phase.

    actual recommendations: bna and little witch academia are my fav trigger (after infern cop obv.)

    I dunno aku no hana for some weird rotoscoped shit thats kinda disturbing and stressful. The character visuals are more convincing than the manga version.

    suisei no gargantia is probably the most any audience friendly mecha anime, apart from the breasty pirate literally named rackage being maybe a bit much.

    knights of sidonia was probably the first all 3d anime I actually liked. I ended up watching a bunch of other stuff by the same studio and they have a distinct animation style and facial expressions that are easy to recognize as being the same studio.

    the promised neverland for some dark shit, but I only saw season 1 and don’t know if there even were more seasons. The manga version became a slog for me after that point in the story but I was also working full time++ when the anime ended.

    attack on titan also became a chore for me after season 1 but it was a novel experience watching it for the first time.


  • its kinda funny because it looks dated even with the graphics overhaul in mcc but the gameplay is still solid, and there are older games that still look as good as release day but the mechanics are kinda rough. And some that always were and always will be perfect.

    I feel like at this point retro is more of a style though. Graphics can only get so realistic and anything made to peak modern visual standards will be harder to differentiate from previous decades as time goes on, if we don’t all die from pollution and war and other shit. Oh fuck, maybe retro will become anything that features a non-destroyed climate/environment in a world where children will be born having never seen what earth once was.










  • they are pretty decent for atomic distros and fully automated updates. I served my time in arch and gentoo and don’t want to update all the time but still want the updates. That said there are a lot of things that have also bothered me at some point that may or may not still be a problem. being out of date sometimes, stupid notifications for the application running in the background when you minimize it, jankiness when launching via clicking a file or god forbid programs launching each other. probably other stuff.