matt 🏴 @matt@cybre.space

Just a heads-up, I'm turning on "manually approve followers" mode, but most posts will still be public and most follow requests will be approved, as long as they're from people. Just recently had a few more bots and blank accounts trying to follow me than is typical.

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Inventing a new subgenre of rock designed to be gentle and lull you to sleep. I call it bed rock. My band is The Barney Rubblers. We'll have a gay old time.

It rules that you can get a minimalist laptop that's just for writing but it costs more than a real laptop. It owns so hard. Here are some other fun product ideas:

A refrigerator that only holds eggs. $10,000
One scissor (collect all 2.) $40
Mini staples. Long enough to staple 2 pieces of paper and that's it. $1 apiece
Nintendo S. One screen only. $700
Non-fidget cube: $119
Cat. Similar to the goodpet, but not useful, does nothing. Eighty bajillion dollars.

Anyway, if anyone else wants to try it out, this is the package I downloaded https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Iwxm6WqHCwbEHPQgGQJORlIHyqpzG05/view?usp=sharing and here's the song pack https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1J7y6aR1cqK5Hl8WcE5NJG7bkAD6XYYSE&export=download

The interface is perplexing, and not just because I don't know Japanese. The songs are organized by genre, but there's no way to jump to one of them - it gives you some sorting options but that's it. If you're looking for a specific song get ready to scroll through 800 tracks. No text search, no bookmarks or favorites AFAICT - It's a faithful clone almost to a fault. Saving the songs I like and playing them again is presenting quite a challenge. Still, how awesome that I can play at all! I'm stoked

Okay, this is a little more my speed. No audio unfortunately because I can only get it to work with ASIO or WASAPI output, and I can't record and listen at the same time, but I assure you this is me playing. TJA Player is an incredibly good clone! This is definitely worth picking up a good controller for. I got the second most recent arcade song pack, which since they're official charts it has all the different difficulty levels. And like 800 songs. It's insane. This'll last me a long time, I reckon

We did the parcel run with three cossacks

Well, I can't tell if any of the taiko clones are good because all the songs that come with them are fucking impossible. This is the problem with homebrew rhythm games; they're not made by people who want a substitute for the real thing, they're made by people who have perfected every song on expert and need more. I swear to god none of the songs are less than 8/10 star difficulty. Maybe if I can figure out where to get some official song packs and how to install them...

Bröther can you spare some töner

I refuse to believe there's a computer peripheral called a "thrustmaster" that isn't for teledildonics

Weird how every rock station is a classic rock station by default now

Nothing against Weezer, but the last time Buddy Holly was interesting was when it came on the Windows 95 CD

Restaurant radio station unironically playing Weezer in hell year twenty hateteen lol

Y'all need to get out of the nineties, and get into the MIND-ties

Then again, maybe the fact that it was so steeply discounted means it sucks. Maybe it's ALWAYS marked down and only a total rube would ever pay MSRP. Maybe that's how they get you. Maybe if I had waited til black friday I coulda gotten it for 40. But whatevs. It looks good and it seems pretty well made.

I couldn't find a single heavy winter coat in my size at the regular store, so for a lark I checked out the slightly fancy people store, and found one in my size with a popular name on it that was normally priced at $250 marked down to $80! Which is still a little more than I'd have preferred to spend, and I know the name and the MSRP doesn't automatically mean it'll be better, but hey, maybe this one will last more than a couple winters. That'd be neat.

Cursed idea: some Jordan Peterson-ass edgemaster has a kid who learns about Harry Potter and asks him to read the book to them, so he reads them the Yudkowsky fanfic and tells them it's the real thing 😨

There are two types of people in the world: the ones who want to be 21 forever, and the ones who rue the day they turned 21

I have no idea how this actually works tbh. Do Chinese encoding systems actually have 3000 separate characters? Would a 500 character post limit equal 500 words? Or are the characters made from combinations, like the emoji variations? Obviously Chinese keyboards don't have 3000 keys. Do they have to do shift codes for every word? Or is it a chording system?

I don't have the answers, but I know who does. To the library! 📚🚄💨

Learning a language with a logographic writing system just so I have more room to crudpost on elephant site