Job for a Cowboy. Their latest album, Moon Healer, is fucking incredible. If you’re into technical death metal it’s a must listen
Getting high and watching anime really
Linux and foss software. You bunch of bastards now im a huge nerd
3D printing. Don’t recommend it … it’s addicting.
Equal parts addiction, fun, and frustration!
I downloaded an emulator and have been playing Digimon World 2. It’s a game I used to play as a wee lad and never even came close to beating.
Now it’s like the end credits of Step Brothers. I’m here to kick its ass on the playground.
You’ve just unlocked a core memory for me. Idk if it was Digimon World 2 specifically, but one of the World games had your Digimon pooping as a core mechanic, and I thought that was about the funniest thing that had ever been conceived. And, obviously, I also never got remotely close to beating it.
I might have to download it and see if: A) my humor has evolved at all beyond “lol poop” (probably not) and B) I can maybe beat it now (probably not)
That sounds like the very first game, which was more like a raising digimon game. You had to like run your digimon on a treadmill or something to get its stats up. I was actually going to potentially play that one next!
Ever play Digimon World 2003? I came back to that one a number of times.
Yes, but I had rented it at Blockbuster and so I didn’t get anywhere close to beating it! But I remember liking it so I was going to try it after I beat the second game
The solar eclipse in exactly two weeks. In preparing for it though, I’ve become amazed at the sheer recklessness people have shown in capitalizing on it. Ordinary people for example are renting their driveways for hundreds of dollars, weather anchors are claiming you can see the solar eclipse through the clouds to escape having to give overcast warnings, and I just bought solar eclipse glasses which I recently learned ignored a fatal manufacturing error that makes them 100% unusable. So I’ve felt forced to go full DIY.
I’m going to be pissed if this is how things are when Betelgeuse explodes, or I’m going to be exploding too.
Any tips on the offending glasses? I live in the path of totality, and I don’t want to blind my kid.
Composting.
It all began with me saving some coffee waste because I heard that it’s good for… plants, or something… Then it got covered in mold. So I looked into what to do with moldy pile of coffee ground and that’s when I learned about it.
I started by putting the moldy coffee ground in a bucket. Then I incorporated green kitchen scraps that wouldn’t get too wet like onion skin, bokchoy root, and some dried leaves from the yard. After a while it became like soil (even smell like it), and that’s when I knew I succeeded.
Right now I am onto a new batch. I tried something different this time with fruit scraps as well as eggshell. I also put some shallots that I thought was going bad. Instead of rotting, it sprouted in that pile. Guess it shows that it’s good for something, right?
I’m planning on putting together a composter this summer. Do you make coffee every day? If so, do you generate too many spent grounds and have to throw some away?
I make coffee everyday. I brew about two teaspoon of coffee once a day, sometimes twice.
I’d say I’d never generate too much coffee ground as it’s really easy to handle. It pretty much has everything it needs to make compost, yet it can also help other stuff too, be it onion peel, banana peel, green onion bottom, eggshell, ash, you name it!
I recently found that it really goes well with leftover fruit pulps. My wife likes to make juice and would filter it sometimes. That leftover would then sit there fermenting for a few days. In a few days the spoiling fruit smell disappeared. I think I found one of the best combination I could find!
Thanks for the info! That’s about how much I use, too, so that’s great news.
There was also a time in my life when I made triple B (beets, bananas,
Battlestar Galacticaberry) smoothies daily but I stopped because I got tired of dealing with the pulp…might be time to start that up again…Hope it turns out some good one!
Add some red wriggler worms and you can get some great soils addendum out of it. The castings are fantastic fertilizer (they don’t like onions, garlic, and citrus as much though).
I started saving grounds because i heard they were a mosquito repellent. When mine molded i threw them away. Good job learning the better way!
Never too late to retry 😉
Modern emo music. Started with Jank (I was late to the game and read up on it after the discovery) and I’ve done a deep dive into it. I’m mid-30s, always kinda looking for some new music, and the genre seems like a good mix of energy and interesting guitar licks. Just seems fun.
I say modern emo because to me emo was what the early 2000s produced.
Making my own baked beans in tomato sauce. I’m trying to get it good without adding sugar, and have a killer recipe ready for when I visit my family next.
It’s incredibly cheap and delicious and satisfying.
I’ve do some keto BBQ sauces, so I’m somewhat familiar with avoiding added sugar. How are you doing your recipes?
Lately I’ve been throwing everything at it to see if anything inspires. Gochujang, soybean paste, smoked paprika, powdered ginger. And the usual stuff like alliums, crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, olive oil…
I give it about an hour to simmer in some extra been water, then another hour to braise in the oven.
Slay the Spire, a roguelike deckbuilding game. I thought that sounded horribly boring but decided to give it a chance, and I’ve been hooked on it. Playing on the Steam deck is perfect for this game I think.
That game whips ass.
It’s a pretty different game, but another deck builder I’ve become obsessed with lately is Balatro. I highly recommend it
I’ve seen a bunch of people talking about Balatro, and some of my friends have been playing it. I should check it out
Looks good! Added to my wishlist.
Freebords, it is kind of like a skateboard that acts more like a snowboard. Waiting for more dry weather to try and learn to use it!
TIC-80
I’ve played Rocket League a little bit since it came out, but I was never very good. Past couple months, I’ve been playing a lot more, and actually making contact with the ball in the air. I still can’t get past Gold, but I’m guessing the base-level skill has gone up a bit since it launched, or at least thats what I tell myself. I seem to destroy in casual and mostly get destroyed in ranked.
Ahh… Snowday was my go-to, and was what consumed most of my 3300hrs… I recently went cold turkey since they made Snowday only available every so often, and I simply just need to stop playing it. It took up too much of my time (clearly). Maybe I’ll install it in the future, but for now, I’m cool with the extra time for other activities (and games).
This is me except time flies, so I’ve been playing semi-regularly for a bit over a year, and can’t get past Platinum. Have fun and keep improving homie!
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Delicious in Dungeon. It’s delightfully bonkers in a way that works for me as a very occasional anime viewer, and for all of the gore (actually middling to low for the genre, I guess), it’s damn near kid-friendly in its wholesomeness level.
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On a brief break for the moment, but in the last year I’ve made 7 hand-wired computer keyboards.
was wondering about the age rating on this - my kid loves anime, one punch man esp., but this looked like a potential watch for us both. Think a mature 13 year old would like it?
Yes, that’s probably about perfect. There are a few human deaths, occasionally with a fair amount of blood, though it’s fairly stylized, and part of the lore involves the banal commonness of resurrection spells, so I doubt it would be too traumatizing for a teen. The rest of the gore is non-humans and often almost more like a particularly unflinching cooking show.
There’s only a little bit of “nudity,” and it’s thoroughly PG-13. Then the character interactions and themes are pretty gentle overall, though I guess there’s some realpolitik trouble brewing with some of the supporting characters.
On a brief break for the moment, but in the last year I’ve made 7 hand-wired computer keyboards.
That’s neat. For what purpose- better response? Light up? Aesthetics?
Because I can? LOL.
I do try to make to make boards with layouts that are slightly unique from anything I could buy, just to lie to myself and pretend that I “have to” make them. Latest kick, which simplifies construction in a couple of ways, is making boards that have no key wider than 1.75 “regular” ones. Means I have more real estate to play with and don’t need the notoriously noisy “stabilizer” hardware.
The kind of soldering you do with a handwire is also sort of relaxing, like tying fishing flies, except you burn your finger every once in a while.
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Digital kitbashing for tabletop minis: using 3d modeling programs like Blender to hack together elements from different mini model files, in order to make custom minis to 3d print. I’ve even started playing around with rigging them so I can repose them easier.
That’s awesome. I’ve done Blender sculpting for video game projects, and I have a friend who is currently sculpting and kitbashing sculpts for his own minis. Definitely drop your work at any of these:
I’d be thrilled to see it come to completion, or even just see sculpting updates.
I’m still pretty early in my journey, building up a good kitbash library to pull from. Finding good models relatively unencumbered by accessories has been a task. At least some modelers upload models without remeshing, so the accessories/weapons can be removed easily, which is nice.
From video game stuff, I know your exact pain. Good luck going forward.
