caught them on that tour as well about a month ago (pnw). second time seeing them and it was even better than the first. they are one of the best live shows touring right now. the lights are so incredible.

you forgot the second :
love me some Devy

I would watch infinite Clue sequels where they just shuffled the evidence cards and started a new game.

pack of zig zags, some funyuns, water man, lots of water. and some of that stuff… we used to eat it all the time back in the day…

It’s one of the promoted ones from AliExpress. Just a generic black and white screen with a hat switch on the side. Seems like they’re basically all the same guts with a different shell. Found a few utilities to access it on a win vm but no updated .bin files yet. It had a bunch loaded, yeah, but I’m looking for new ones like the Resident Evil Requiem set and the like.

Same here. Jumped in to the thread to post it if not.

As someone who is not a fan of this decorating style, I came across the term “Millenial Grey” it’s a fun thing to read up on to get a handle on why this seems to be the prevailing decorating style. I dislike that it is another thing being put at the feet of an already put upon generation when the reality is, it’s economically more viable to corporate interests and the algorithm.

Sólstafir - Fjara Reading the lyrics in my native tongue only makes this song even more beautiful.

October Rust - Type O Negative.

The quintessential goth metal album. Their layers of sound, Pete’s incredible ability to make the most sardonic lyrics sound romantic and the bands utter control of melodic harmony make it an album that I have listened to an innumerable amount of times since its release. There really is something special here than no band since has captured on tape. It came out when I was a sophomore and immediately became something that I knew would be with me my entire life. This album bleeds sensuality with a not so subtle wink and nod to the ridiculousness of the human condition in a way few, if any before or after it ever have. It is equal parts sexy and hilarious. Type O was a band whose depth was often missed by the outlandish nature of who their frontman Peter Steele was. A man capable of being a sulking giant with a broken heart one second and a sexy rock and roll god doing a centerfold photoshoot for Playgirl the next.
I never stopped loving this band for that perfect mixture of mischief, tongue in cheek self awareness and Gen X melancholy they brought to everything they did. There are great albums by them before this one and great ones after. But October Rust stands as a truly unique album without peer in my heart for all time.

Moving forward a little,

Gin - Cobalt

This is a pure slab of American Black Metal by way of a multi-instrumentalist that grew up on 90’s alternative, particularly Tool. It bridges the gap between two eras of metal so effortlessly it boggles the mind at times. Erik Wunder played all the instruments and was the primary songwriter on this album and it is so complete in a way that can only be achieved through that singular of a vision. It’s like a dark mirror version of the first Foo Fighters record in a myriad of ways. He sadly passed away last year and was only able to perform these song live a few times in the decade and half since its release. I was lucky enough to catch two of those performances and they were as beautiful as I had hoped.

His passing hit like a brick as I was able to talk quite a bit with him on Facebook in during the early years of the band and spend some time in person when they played near me. He was always very gracious and intelligent in person. He had that specific blend of honesty and intelligence that separates the good from the great in music. I often wonder what could have become of the band if he had been able to find more stable vocalists and the ability to create while sober. It’s a real bummer we will never know.

Finally,

…Like Clockwork- Queens of the Stone Age

This is one of those albums that came at exactly the right time in my life to become an encapsulation of moments of darkness and hope being perfectly intertwined. It gave me a place to put my sadness, my longing, my fears and my dreams while I sorted out who I would be for the second half of life on this planet. There are moments of spite that feel so real you can almost feel the tension in the rooms that inspired it. Then there are moments of such soulful beauty and longing you can’t help but get lost in thoughts of heartbreak right along with the band. I truly believe Josh Homme wrote his opus here. It’s the perfect Queens album and, in my opinion, the greatest rock and roll album of all time.

Oh yeah, man. Thankfully, I had no delusions about it being anything other than a shit show.

I certainly miss those days. Bring back, dedicated servers dammit!

Support for the BDS movement has kept my Xbox powered off, gamepass expired and prevented me from playing Doom Dark Ages, Avowed and a few other games the last couple years.

Our wallet is the only voting tool we have left. Use it. Fuck these corpos.

I had one of these in a build with a mobo that supported Crossfire x4 (ATI’s implementation of SLi at the time). Fast forward a few years later and I’m on a different build and so are all the guys in my lan group. One of them mentions throwing theirs up on Craigslist to make a little cash. I offer him $50 so I can mess with crossfire. Turns out there’s a few other 4850’s I can swoop up on the cheap and for the fun of a 4x crossfire mess.

Man… that didn’t do shit but generate needless heat and run everything worse than a single card. But I did manage to try a 4x GPU’s build and we had a good laugh running stuff like Crysis on it with an old Phenom 3 at the next lan.