luke viia

these aren't free anymore ($10 for all of em, close enough) but man i was struggling to remember the dev name and couldn't track em down anywhere but here! thank goodness for KAEN

i prefer plugins to hardware. *ducks*

also from reddit apparently, it went on: so that's fun

from that reddit thread: that's a hell of a burn

new single

these look cool, thx for the link, but: oh fuck off motorola

i can't stop listening to this guy

i've been trying to cancel my internet service with centurylink for days. their online chat redirects me to endless "specialists" who keep transferring me, i can't use their website to do it (wtf??) and i'm pretty sure they dropped my call after being on hold for an eternity. eventually the phone rang once, then dead silence. it's been ~15 minutes since that happened - i'm still holding on. cant bring myself to go back to the end of the queue and endure the movie announcer voice interrupting the loudest yacht rock bullshit literally every 8 seconds to tell me how easy it is to get support and how much they care about me. and i'm also currently chatting with someone named Armando who is "taking a few minutes to review my account" and has now asked me for my cell phone number. jfc. #boringdystopia oh, okay. the chat man just disconnected it for me. i think. goddamn. these corporations are living nightmares.

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God, I'm such a softy. I honestly feel bad about blowing up on that guy on the phone. I don't want to hurt people, and it's so rare for me to do that kind of thing... when I get legit angry I go straight for the jugular and guilt plagues me for months to years. It's not who I want to be. Ugh, I'm just so sad about losing that place, I really care about it. Being misled was just too much for me I guess. ?

My old landlord is trying to fuck me over. He made a bunch of promises when he needed my help, puppy-dogged me on the phone acting all apologetic that my lease had to end (situation was outta my hands - and entirely in his), asked me if I could move out early, he'd help me financially if so, that they'd reimburse me for repairs I've done, they'd let me keep stuff in the home for a few months after I was gone (no other tenants are moving in), I'd get my full deposit back no questions asked etc. I told him I wanted all this in writing, he said he would, never did, ignored my calls for weeks at a time, ignored my emails, etc. So finally I wrote it all out myself and said "please confirm our prior agreements, and let me know if changes need to be made to what I've written." No response for weeks, full voicemail inbox. He's gone back on *every single one* of those promises. And I did move out early. Costing me a goddamn ghetto fortune. Yesterday he called -- I'd been asking him to email me for weeks -- and told me they'll have to charge me full February rent (I was out on the 7th). That was the *first* thing he said. In my entire life I've never popped off on someone like I did with this fucker. Eventually he hung up on me. I mean, I would have hung up on me too. I called him out, called him a manipulative, incompetent, lying fuck that has no business doing his job; that his co-workers all hate him (that's true, they've told me), that the neighbors want to sign a collective letter about how angry they are about my leaving this place (I was a park caretaker), that if he doesn't live up to his word I'll be writing a company-wide email telling the entire story of how he botched this project, fucked me over, fucked the park over, and lied to get his way and is now weaseling out of his responsibility. If I had been with him in person I probably would have punched him in the mouth. So yeah, he hung up on me. I was fucking furious, I don't think my mind even knew what was coming out of my mouth. The part about his co-workers hating him really upset him lol, and I admit, that was pretty brutal, but seriously, fuck this guy. I tried to help him and he is absolutely fucking screwing me out of thousands of dollars. tldr kill all landlords

same here - absolutely love VR, fell in love with it when I got my CV1 years ago. just insanely impressed. now own a quest 2, and yeah while it's fantastic to play, I don't dig it out of the box that often (though I do still use it). I don't mind the short ritual of putting on the headset, getting a little clutter out of the way etc -- but my theory is that I often decide against it is because it literally feels like going somewhere else. there's something mentally exhausting about it before putting on the headset. imagining the other world that I'll be going to gives me this real sensation that i'll be leaving whatever comfortable space I'm currently in. "do I really want to go downtown and shoot robots?" "do I really want to float around a space station?" "do I really want to go pilot a mech right now?" that said, the games that keep me returning usually aren't actually very gamey. I love the art programs (Vermillion was my most recent fascination) and I'd soak up all sorts of educational stuff (4D Toys is amazing), and among the actual games, the really repetitive ones were the ones that always brought me back. Rhythm games, and oddly, fishing games lol. (modded Skyrim being the exception here, omg so good.) I'd probably play more if I was a social gamer; VRchat is honestly a lot of fun, and Pavlov/Contractors/etc are a really good time when you're in the mood for it also anything even slightly horror based in VR is fucking heart-stopping. man.

leading the way

posting in a troon thread

the way i see this is, if you're pure cuntsciousness, who knows where you are? why can't you hear? maybe you can hear more in your pure form? anyway why are you watching humans? why are you missing physical pleasures? i've cummed stupid hard and tbh being without a body still sounds better, this thing i inhabit is all lazy and refuses my ideas like having twice as many bones, anyway, wtf are those feelings if you're incorporeal? how about incorporeal pleasures? even if the currently measureable spacetime is all that exists (an eternal oops assumption) the universe is an autechrian bigger than that, it likely isn't even the only reality, let's say yr just a giant 10 million meter wide ball of energy in a void, or a wash of love, whatever you might find yourself in, assume you can do what you want. i suspect, without empirical evidence, that if you have any prior relationships with beings of any sorts - humans, cats, mollusks, dead trees, whatever -- you might continue to be influenced by them. NOW let's say, for some reason, you just miss idm so much that you can't live without those early 00s warp jams, and you remember your gran so hard you're like hey i can't wait to be somebody's gran and show them idm because abusing 303s was just unbelievably meaningful in what those hairless dunces called the 1990s. now what do you do? don't forget what thread we're in btw

1. i know i shouldn't be but i'm hot for princess daphne from dragon's lair. don bluth could draw the best babes, i swear. jane fonda's barbarella is the opposite living version of this and i'm into that too 2. i don't usually eat meat but i gotta admit after hearing that apparently human beings taste like sweet pork that's not not tempting, i mean i'd only eat you if you were already dead but you know 3. if you were dead and still had consciousness and had a choice to come back to earth or hang out as pure consciousness, what would you do? 4. how is it that we all acclimate to whatever conditions we're used to? is this our downfall as a species or our saving grace? i propose the former 5. the idea that there are real generational separations (boomer, millennial, zoomer, etc) is just modern horoscopes 6. humans are almost certainly going to devastate this planet's major ecosystems and i'm okay with saying we should hand over the baton and promote living diversity over our own species 7. compassion is the point of life

big thanks to @iococoi for introducing me to this channel, this is what youtube is for

flol i wish this was real ta ta and farewell