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  1. Well my fucking luck just keeps getting worse... 

    I was laid off yesterday just after lunch without warning due to company downsizing... Apparently they let my boss go earlier in the day as well, and since I was the new guy I was next on the chopping block. They are giving me 2 weeks severance, my accrued vacation time and I'm pretty sure eligible for unemployment, but it still fucking sucks. I don't even think I'd been there 90 days yet.

  2. Yeah, it was quite a shock when I went back in today to grab clothes and stuff seeing the store room and just how close it came, and how it easily could have spread. We're super fucking lucky it contained to the room across the hall. I'll deal with smoke and cleaning (insurance told us the apartment management company is obligated to cover that as smoke is a health hazard), at least I still have all my stuff.

  3. There was a fire in our apartment complex Friday evening. It was an electrical fire and it started in the first floor storage unit where all the electrical fuses and meters are, pretty much below us and across the hall and rose into the custodial closet that is literally across the hall from us. Thankful as fuck the local fire department responded quickly, no apartments were damaged by flames, and nobody got injured (although the unit next to the storage unit has some smoke damage). The storage unit is toast, we're lucky they got to it so fast.

     

    We got an update from the apartment office this afternoon. Unfortunately the Fire Marshall declared we can't go back in until at least Monday, until our wing of the complex ventilates and air quality has improved. Fortunately my parents live about 5 minutes away and they're taking us in until we can return. Power isn't back on yet but they're hoping to get it on before then. Electric guys have been working on it all day. This really sucks but I understand why we can't go back in, even stopping in to grab some clothes and things to bring to my parents' place and it got hard to breathe in there. We're most likely gonna need professional cleaning done to the carpets and walls...

    FFS, I was so looking forward to going home and relaxing on Friday evening after a long week. I've spent maybe 15-20 minutes in my apartment this whole weekend just grabbing some things to bring to mom and dad's and cracking our windows a little to help ventilate...

     

    Just gotta keep reminding myself we didn't lose anything to flames, and it easily could have been so so so much worse.

    Pics and video of the damage in the storage units: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt9Fb1LnRO4/

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  4. You are at the point of no return for the police station. No idea what’s on the film.

     

    It seems I'm not, see below

     

    RE2 spoiler regarding said roll of film

     

     

    If it's the one you found in the sewer section, I'd return to the police station with it and develop it in the dark room. If you examine it, it should say "Hiding Place". You can shortcut back to the police station if you have that T-shaped crank, as well as the key to the room in the treatment facility. You can take the lift up after you move that shelf in that room you unlocked with the key. (the room with the door labeled "Treatment Facility" IIRC, but mind the zombies)

     

    Once you've developed the film, head back to the S.T.A.R.S. room and search around. That photo from the developed film provides a hint. Thank me later. Just make sure you do this before inserting the 6 chess plugs into the appropriate sockets that open the bulkhead door.

     

     

    I had the utility door open, and was still able to backtrack all the way back up, unfortunately forgot to revisit the S.T.A.R.S. room, but I did get the first hint. In the "next area" beyond the sewers now... Will probably finish Leon's run tomorrow.

     

    This has been a great game so far, really hones in on the survival aspect of the survival-horror genre, for most of the game it felt like I was barely scraping by and keeps that tension.

  5. I'm right at the boss fight to save Ada, but I have a roll of film I haven't developed yet. Should I risk going back up to the police station to develop it, or will I get a chance after this fight?

     

    Bloodborne is excellent, really looking forward to Sekiro, but I do hope they eventually decide to do a Bloodborne 2.

    Sekiro should be nice yeah, BB is so perfect I almost don't want a sequel.

    But I do. Won't be mad if they don't do one tho

     

     

    Yeah, I'm with you on that. On one hand I want more, because it was excellent and I want more Lovecraftian goodness. On the other, the game and it's lore were self-contained nicely far better than even the Souls games.

     

    Also for those that have finished RE2, I need advice on something...

     

    I know I'm at the boss fight to help Ada, cause I attempted once and died... but I also have a roll of film I haven't developed yet, should I do the boss fight first or run back up the the police station to develop the film? Will I get a chance if I don't do it now?

     

  6. The album title may be a bit cringey but I'm really looking forward to the new Sunn O))) album... Albini doing production along with some interesting collaborators should make this one a great one, previews sound nice although they're just fractions of the songs.



    From the YouTube Description:

    At the very beginning of 2018, Sunn O))) co-founders Stephen O'Malley & Greg Anderson set out on a path toward a new album production. They were both determined to create new music and a new method of working in the studio, without forgetting the long and proud history of production and studio accomplishments forged during their first two decades of existence (and the members' own musical experiences out of the band's). One long term goal was completely clear: to record Sunn O))) with Steve Albini in his Electrical Audio studio. Steve took the call, said "Sure, this will be fun. I have no idea what is going to happen."

     

    Greg and Stephen gathered twice that spring for writing, conceptualising and riff woodshedding in the very building where the band was formed: Downtown Rehearsal in Los Angeles. Sonic cosmoses, flashes of abstract colour (synthetic and objective) and themes emerged from the mastered depths of saturation and circuits between the two players and their mountains of gear. Themes developed in terms of brightness and energy, while visionary cues pointed toward subconscious areas of practice and the pair realised they were exploring other zones of consciousness via sound/time and sound/energy manipulation. In early summer a pre-production session with full backline, as a trio with T.O.S. on Moog, was recorded at Dave Grohl’s 606 studios, Northridge, California.

     

    In July 2018, Sunn O))) spent just over two weeks in Chicago at Electrical Audio (Studio A) with Steve Albini at the helm. The results are astounding: there is breadth and luminosity of colour, it sounds vast. The sessions were impeccably recorded, authentically represented and completely accurate. The spectrum cracked the firmament open in clarity. An all analogue technique was used, they recorded and mixed on tape, providing a creative gateway for Sunn O))) to evolve their production methods into stronger, confident, performance based and a more logical executive process. The album was mastered and lacquers cut from tape in October by Sunn O))) ally Matt Colton at Alchemy in London. The LP version is a AAA album, recorded and mixed on tape via a completely analogue production, from the input of the band's amplifiers and the air coming off the speakers in front of the microphones to needle touching the pressed vinyl on your turntable.

     

    Continuing one of the main currents of the Sunn O))) concept, depth of exploration within collaboration, brought forth Hildur Guðnadóttir to the Sunn O))) constellation. Hildur is a sometime live collaborator of Sunn O))) and a renowned film music composer, former member of the bands Múm, Pan Sonic and Angel. She was a long time collaborator with the composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (RIP). Hildur lent her incredible attitude, as well as her voice, breath and electric cello, and the enigmatic haldorophone to the proceedings, culminating in the epic composition/concerto "Novæ". The cosmos clearly expands.

     

    Tim Midyett, a close friend of Greg and Stephen since the Seattle days of the early 90s (and member of Silkworm, Bottomless Pit and Mint Mile), joined in a foundational role tying earth to sound with wicked performances on aluminium neck bass and baritone guitars: instruments he helped pioneer playing back in the 90s (alongside Steve and Shellac of course). Dark matter is reality.

     

    Prolific new music composer Anthony Pateras arranged and recorded an incredible contribution of pipe organ for a piece titled "Troubled Air" (titled after an essay by author Aliza Shvarts, who also penned the liner notes for Sunn O)))’s Kannon) at Schlosskappelle, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. String theory of space.

     

    The resulting album is titled Life Metal. It is fully realized and completely real. The record was produced by the core of Stephen & Greg & arranged by the greater constellation Sunn O))). Paintings by visual artist Samantha Keely Smith graciously adorn the sleeve and provide a perfect suitable mask to the proceedings. They collide ideas of 19th century romanticism & late 20th abstract expressionism (mysticism) with Sunn O)))’s approach to metal (via reference points of Arbo, Turner, Delville, Richter, Turrel, Wou-Ki). Photographer Ronald Dick shot them in baths of light colour representing depth of sound pressure in the work.

  7. Started playing RE2 last night, I've never really played much of the series, so it's all fresh to me (was always more of a Silent Hill guy... (fuck you Konami)) I'm loving it so far though, always knew the original was a classic and this is really scratching that old school survival-horror itch I've been missing in gaming for a while.

     

    Noticing the sound design is really well done also, I was playing last night in the dark with headphones on and the atmosphere definitely got to me. Good times, looking forward to how it all plays out.

  8. I decided to start off with one from the beginning of the new sets and one from the end, before I eventually go through them all... Chicago & San Fran, pretty contrasting imo. Chicago is a bit of a "dryer" set, less reverb, fx and chaos. San Fran though, seems like it's ready to go off the rails at any moment. 

  9. 1st 44 is my favourite track he's done in ages. I like it more than anything on Syro (which I like a lot) and certainly above all the Analords.

     

    I think "MT1 t29r2" is the standout for me, awesome programming and I dig the callback elements of "Taking Control" that come in later in the song.

  10. I revisited Aenima and Lateralus in entirety for the first time in a few years today... I've moved well away from being the obnoxious Tool fanboy that I was in my teens, but I'll be damned if those 2 aren't still damn good albums (no discredit to Undertow either.) I never did get quite as into 10k days, I suppose I'm due for a revisit to that album as well, but I still think it's probably their weakest. 

    I'm hoping the new album is a return to top-teir Tool and ends up being worth this exceedingly long wait, it'd be nice to have a final epic swan song from the guys, as I'd almost guarantee this is going to be the final Tool album.

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