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Warning - Watching From a Distance

Honestly we got a bit worried about you when you said "not feeling great" after eating that pizza and then you disappeared 😅 welcome back, sounds likes you're going throw it right now.

Oh shit are you an MTU alum? I grew up in Houghton and went to Tech.

He's a private guy and has most of the tracking features turned off (don't blame him) but he can't turn off the Last Seen feature on his profile. Even if he was just lurking, he'd still leave a trace. Hope he's alright and just taking a break - the last thing he said was something about not feeling great 😅

I'm currently wondering where Scary Guy went off too. Probably nothing bad, but he's rarely offline for this long at one time. It's almost like if Tron were to go missing.

Kinda feel like shit 😅 concerts are fun but having a show on a Wednesday doesn't give me any recovery time.

Thinking about how much I really could use a three day weekend, but it's too late to take today off 😕

I don't think I've shown the new cat yet. I need to get more pictures of her alone, but Lenore is the little one with the narrower face. I was told she was a year old, but she was under 6 pounds so I definitely think she is younger than that. She gets along with Edgar very well.

happy birthday!

Whatcha learnin' about? Or are you being vague on purpose and it's meant to be a mystery

It's 2TB and it shares with a lot else. It's plenty for me. I meant that one band makes up 10% of the size of the music library, not the total storage. And it's not a small library. Also if they're so cheap, you should buy me one 😛

For purely informational purposes, you could check out metal-tracker. It's primarily a metal tracker (duh) but there are other genres there too but not as much of it. It's Russian site, but they have an English version. They generally have quality files, including FLACs and quality MP3s. Alternatively, if those artists have bandcamp pages, you can use youtube-dl to get the highest quality they've uploaded there. Also, Bandcamp has the best artist cut so I recommend you buy music from there. On the first friday of the month, Bandcamp waives their normal cut and all of the profit goes to the artists. And through Bandcamp, you can actually download the files and keep it unlike some other places. While FLACs are higher quality, they take up a ton of space. I have the discography of Blind Guardian on my hard drive and it takes up 10% of the total space despite being one of hundreds of artists with a similar discography size. So be wise with how you allocate your disk space.

Oh heck I wish I would've found this thread earlier. I play a lot of Noita. It's best described as a magical Finnish falling sand simulator. It's a pixel-based game, so everything is chunky, but the main conceit of the game is that every pixel is simulated and has material properties. Different materials interact with each other - you can melt snow with fire, solidify lava with water, and melt metal with concentrated mana. It has some of the best emergent gameplay I've seen because nearly anything could happen. The main gameplay is going from area to area collecting wands and gold, then experimenting with different combinations of wands and spells in the Holy Mountain areas between the dangerous places. It's a roguelike, so if you die you will restart completely. And you will die, it's just a normal process of learning in this game. And that's not even getting into all the secrets. There's a ton of hidden areas and things you can accomplish if you can decipher the clues. The only mark against it is that it's hard.

Hey I'm new and I stuck around for some reason. I even say things sometimes!