Boxus
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Dishonored 2 is a big improvement over 1. Both are good, but some of the levels in 2 are insanely innovative. the recommendations for Dishonored were great. finished 1 and the expansions, now onto 2. is quite an excellent series. I just started playing Death of the Outsider and (unsurprisingly) it's also very good! There's a kind of meditative bliss to the process of stealthily incapacitating an entire mansion full of guards and servants and stuffing all of their bodies into the same tiny nook.
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yeah dead cells is excellent, i've played that more than anything else this year.
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Pour-overs all day, every day. Nice to have full control over temperature, brew time, grind consistency, etc. I'm not too particular about beans - I've had some great stuff from local roasters, but my go-to is trader joe's Honduran, cause it's cheap and still decent quality. For some reason I can't get myself to start making cold brew even though it's very easy and I live somewhere with 120 degree heat. Maybe this summer I'll finally get into it.
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Well,, I was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome as a child. It's relatively mild (no coprolalia for example, not everyone is affected in that way), but was pretty intense when I was young - I would get sudden compulsions to flex certain muscles as hard as I could until they cramped, couldn't stand the feeling of skin-on-skin contact or most fabrics, had tics where I'd have to make clicking noises with my throat, roll my eyes, and other strange behaviors. I was home schooled for a few years because I couldn't handle being in the classroom, but being so isolated from my peers at a young age just compounded the social anxiety and depression I was developing, and made it much harder to adjust when I ultimately returned to public school. I'm much more functional now (Tourette's usually becomes more manageable with age), but I am still affected by certain tics on a very regular basis and retain a lot of strange textural sensitivities. Never been on any medication for any of this, for better or worse.
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ambient childrens' music from squarepusher? lush. would purchase.
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WOW. a vast, unpredictable journey. flows extremely well despite constant variation. fun and exhilarating first listen, and there is still so much to unpack. these tracks are immense and details will definitely keep unfolding with repeated listens.
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I am becoming extremely addicted to Dead Cells and loving every minute of it
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totally agree, this was a great experience. I'd been hoping for some more things from the books to be incorporated (especially the gradual tower exploration and the hypnosis stuff), but overall I liked how it was trimmed down and restructured as one conclusive story. the whole third act was spectacular - I thought the climax was really beautifully done.
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I love this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AMY3OYz2Kc
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The first month of recreational legality in California has been interesting. Taxes have skyrocketed way too high, but the dispensaries around here have lowered their prices to compensate, so net prices aren't much different than before. And I guess with the influx of new customers it'll work out for them? Not sure how things are gonna go in the long run, but the state's gonna make a killing on all this weed tax revenue.
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KOTOR with Pye Corner Audio as the soundtrack is just fucking perfect
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YES That description is insane but if they are indeed returning to more experimental material I'll be so excited to hear it. It kinda feels like they've been on autopilot the last few years, banging out solid tracks but without much purpose. But they've been consistently great for decades and Idiology/Niun era MOM remains some of the best music ever made.
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Old Rasputin - once a favorite, always a favorite. Best in show. GOOD (i even have the hoodie. i'm a fanboi)
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The Americans season 5 is on Amazon now, great show.
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Hello from the Magic Tavern is fantastic
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It's the piggy one, right? It's... not great. Tedious stealth, puzzles are find the thing and put the thing in the thing, it's basically just a lot of walking through set pieces and listening to voice snippets. The atmosphere and set pieces are really good, industrial revolution hellscape is captured pretty well. But it was pretty much the death knell for the "walking simulators" microgenre of games. I think it's both the original and a machine for pigs or whatever it's called. Download them and give it a shot? You already paid for them. Ah right. Dark Descent is pretty good! Piggies not so much - but yeah, if it's free, worth it alone for the industrial horror vibes. Speaking of horror vibes, started Darkest Dungeon - I really love the atmosphere, artwork, general tone of the game. Can't tell if I like the gameplay or not though, and if I suck at it real bad. Every time I take a level 1 party in for a mission they've all lost their minds by the end of it and I lose a party member or two. Judging by steam reviews end-game is grindy and RNG heavy too. Worth slogging on? Dark Descent was great! It has a sanity level like Eternal Darkness (one of my gamecube-era favorites) which causes auditory hallucinations and weird graphical morphing when it runs low. Very cool system. Machine for Pigs looked boring, I haven't played that one.
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yesss so excited for this. The books are a lot of fun and I loved Ex Machina, Alex Garland was a great choice for the adaptation. Watched The Bad Batch on netflix the other day, I loved it. Also rewatched Ravenous recently, guess I've been in the mood for cannibalism.
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Yeah I got the regular size 128gb version. I've been holding onto my iPod classic too, had it since 2007 and loved it but this year its age is finally showing, battery won't last long enough to be usable any more. One of the main reasons I wanted to upgrade my phone was to replace the iPod so hopefully the dongle connection won't be too annoying. I'm excited to see what else it has to offer too - the camera looks great, and I'm sure it'll be fun playing with all the creepily omniscient machine learning algorithms.
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cheers I just did the exact same thing for same reason, Fi is so much cheaper than T-Mobile. Replacing my old Nexus 5. I'm pretty excited! It'll be nice to have a phone with enough storage to hold most of my music library. Lack of headphone jack is gonna be weird, but I'm optimistic.
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LOX BAGEL the fucking best
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And so, Cassini, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Saturn, which you loved so well. Good night, sweet prince.
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OK I actually like this a decent amount. Shouldn't be a problem to finish this season. Think I'm half way through Ozark. Not bad so far. Definitely got better as the the episodes progressed. Took me a little while to get used to that fucking blue colour grading too. Yeah that's a little funky, isn't it? Makes me feel like I shouldn't be watching it so late in the day. I enjoyed this show a lot. At first the plot seemed too unrealistic (and derivative), but then it moves so fast you don't really care - a few episodes in and I was happy to suspend disbelief just to see where it was gonna go. Good pacing, and a unique tone - a weird mix of somber and campy. But yeah the color grading was kind of ridiculous, wish they had dialed that down.
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I've been playing this too, very cool. Lush art style and sound design. Definitely easy to get lost before you find the map to a new area. I've also been firing up Fallout 4 again, mostly just to fuck around with console commands. Lots of fun spawning hundreds of enemies around your settlement and letting the missile turrets have at em.
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First season is the weakest one, I liked 2 and 3 more. The dramatic cheese is kind of the point - the characters' interactions become very entertaining in a weird soap opera sort of way. I watched the first season of Silicon Valley and it was kind of forgettable. The humor fell flat a lot, even when it was successfully satirical. I liked the cast a lot, but not so much the writing. I was watching at the same time as Veep though, and I love that show so maybe it just didn't hold up in comparison. I'll probably check out the rest eventually and see if it gets better.
