I have been playing Star Renegades, which is pretty good for a turn based game. I've got some pain in my left hand, where I can basically play souls games or guitar, and I'll pick guitar. I def gotta go find a physical therapist/hand specialist. But in the mean time I'm just taking it easy, and its def better than it was.

Getting gud was a process, seems different for each game. It took me a lot of back and forth between bloodborne and ds3 before I finally got the hang of ds3 and completed a few playthroughs. Then I spend a lot of time playing Bloodborne def mastered it at one point and completed full playthroughs with every weapon, save a few.

Elden Ring took me a long time and several spaced-out playthroughs until I got good. The trick for me was learning to parry and completing several full runs, developing clear reproducible strategies for Melania, Radagon/EB, Consort Radahn, and other bosses; that maintained the challenge and skill that I could feel good about, but also allowed me to defeat without too much suffering. Honestly I didn't really get there with PCR, he still takes immense effort but its satisfying to beat him with parries.

Sekiro took a long time to git good, I was hopelessly stuck on it for years. I was too much of a bloodborne player and Sekiro's dodge is utterly unforgiving. It wasn't until Nightreign came out and I mastered Executor that I decided to try Sekiro again, this time beating it several times in a row, finishing a charmless run, and beating all the boss run journeys except the final one.

I def know a lot of people whose musical opinion I respect agree with you. I usually dont bring it up. I'm a lifelong musician and am surrounded by many lifelong musicians and my opinion is in the minority.

But to me they're the band that got me into listening to classic rock, Houses of the Holy was an early influence, but over time I've just gotten less and less impressed with them. Part of that might be the sort of disdain I have for the music industry, as the bands who made it at the time weren't necessarily the best but were the ones best equipped to play the game with access to industry connections in a hyper-commercialized, post-Woodstock milieu.

It just irks me to no end, that a huge portion of their catalog is basically straight copied from black USAmerican artists who played the songs better, who didn't get credit or compensation. At the same time, when theyre paying tribute to artists, like Leadbelly in their rendition of Gallis Pole, it's almost unlistenable and wanky, whereas the og version is basically unplayable for all but like one guy who learned to play it from Heddy himself. They just ripped off other people, got incredibly famous and wealthy, while artists who were more original and more talented, like Rory Gallagher and Peter Green, got passed over, and maybe this is stressing the point too much, for not being total whores.

The whole fish (CW)

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child molestation

incident also disgusts me, and casts a pallor on their career. Rock star decadence is not glamorous. I'm sure a lot of the old bluesmen have hella skeletons in their closets but I dont have to think about it every time they come on the radio, which they never do.

I totally accept that it's an unpopular opinion. But there's so much better music out there, I dont really miss them.

30 second intro

Which is repeated in the verses. Its also not like the intro is some insignificant or simplistic little ditty, it's iconic. And its lifted directly from that Spirit track.

But very true about the blues, once you start getting into delta blues music you basically dont need to listen to Led Zep ever again, all their best songs are like 90% of some old blues tune that's usually edgier, heavier, and performed by one person.

Led Zeppelin are criminally overrated

Its cool how the band who stole all their best songs are so protective of the IP that they stole

My grandfather lived through the great depression. He also had coffee cans full of nails and screws. If he had built something, but had benta nail, he would go back and straighten it and throw it in a can.

My dad was kind of a nut and built our family home. Not like, paid a company to build it, but built the whole thing, with very little help. Every once in a while my grandad would come down with a can of nails he had straightened, dad would thank him, and just add it to the collection -- dad would never use a fastener that was damaged like this, but we accumulated many cans full of re-straightened nails

I would really hate it if something really really bad happened to Shane Gillis. I'd be so sad if something awful and terrible happened to him. If his career was ruined, I would never recover. If he was publicly humiliated and reviled, it would bring me no peace. If his incredible shame became a joke and a threat, if his name became associated with disgusting, putrid filth, it would make me so, so depressed.

I hope nobody avoids and shuns him, and that his pets never shit directly on his feet 5 times per day, and his car never gets destroyed by an angry mob, and he keeps all his friends, and his hair, and his bladder and bowel control, forever

This, except the the lever doesn't actually control which track the trolley goes down, that is controlled by the trolley corporation. The third track is being built by people who understand this, in order to connect it with the other tracks so that noone has to be run over, but the person pulling the lever thinks they are pulling the track-switch.

The trolley corporation rigged it so that when the person pulls the lever, it actually bombs the other track, so that it won't connect to the rest of the tracks, killing a few track builders in the process. The lever puller is told by the trolley corporation that the track would have switched except the track builders are terrorists who blew up the switching mechanism because they hate freedom. But not to worry, keep pulling the switch because it is actually individual switch pullers, not trolley corporations, and definitely not track-building "terrorists," who make all the decisions, and that switch pulling is a sign of a healthy and civil society.

Who cares? There's no categorical imperative, only class war

Oh wow I'm getting demolished lol. Doesn't change the fact

My wife and I watched that Claire Danes show The Beast in Me, and it was crazy because you can like see the emotions on her face, and its startling because you usually can't see actresses over 40 emote because of botulism. And it's incredible, she fucking kills it.

We also watched Scarpetta which ended up being pretty bad, but there's a clear difference between Jamie Lee Curtis, who can emote and does a really excellent performance, and Nicole Kidman who delivers her lines like Moira Rose in Schmitt's Creek because she can't even purse her lips.

Like, I'm not judging, it must be hell to be a famous actress, the pressures to look young well into your 50's just to be able to practice your craft are not something I would wish upon anyone. But the difference is stark, and its cool to see women embracing aging so they can perform their craft at the highest level. Imagine a guitarist or something, where the older they become, in order to keep working, they have to immobilize a finger every 5 years over the age of 30. And then some players come along and just won't immobilize themselves, being able to use the full range of their talent that they've honed over decades

the political compass

Marx spinning wildly in his grave