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Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on July 02, 2024, 12:19:29 am
I feel like the dump topic is more specific in terms of stuff that should be put into it, so I thought of making a more general topic for putting whatever in.
This weekend is gonna be my birthday and am pretty hyped for it. Moving ever closer to the big 40 :crazy: :crazy: :D :hbd:

I could probably make a topic of what are you watching but i can't be assed to make 400 topics so i'll just put it here.

I've watched:
https://archive.org/details/april-story-1998
April Story
Nice little relaxing slice of life movie about someone moving to Tokyo to follow in the footsteps of someone that she has a crush on.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27503384/
Perfect Days
I keep falling asleep while watching this one (i put it on when I'm passing out) but it's a pretty chill movie kind of in the same vein as April Story but I think it's put together a bit better.

I'd like to find more chill stuff like these so if you have any recommendations let me know.



Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: Saiphirre on July 02, 2024, 01:55:46 am
I’m looking forward to your birthday on next Sunday. It’s going to be fun.

I’m really looking forward to playing the gogo town game. It looks like a fun little town building game. It’s kind of an animal crossing vibe.

I want to play more phasmophobia.

Moonlight peaks is another game I’m really looking forward to. It’s another farming sim but it’s gothic and you’re a little vampire gardening at night.

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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on July 02, 2024, 06:43:05 pm
buying a lot of music on Bandcamp. Found this guy, his music is a little repetitive and could use a little more polish but I like it for the most part

https://jorytbw.bandcamp.com/

I bought his whole discography for $15 (not sure what the minimum price was)

Edit: basically I just scanned the new releases for 'ambient' and look for album art that doesn't seem too cheesy, and a few days ago he uploaded something. You get quite a few harsh noise albums tagging themselves as ambient to jumpscare people though
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Post by: dosmaen on July 02, 2024, 07:57:33 pm
musick

I listened to "Gulp To The Whole Of Life" solely because the title of the album seemed interesting and it was pretty good with some nice sample choices / interesting use of channels.

oh and
Quote from: the bandcamp page
This album name was inspired by the title of an art blog post: butdoesitfloat.com/A-gulp-for-the-whole-of-life

the but does it float page has some cool art on it too. Found this:
https://butdoesitfloat.com/By-means-of-microscopic-observation-and-astronomical-projection-the

I love going down internet rabbit holes. :waycool:
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on July 02, 2024, 10:27:47 pm
musick

I listened to "Gulp To The Whole Of Life" solely because the title of the album seemed interesting and it was pretty good with some nice sample choices / interesting use of channels.

oh and
Quote from: the bandcamp page
This album name was inspired by the title of an art blog post: butdoesitfloat.com/A-gulp-for-the-whole-of-life

the but does it float page has some cool art on it too. Found this:
https://butdoesitfloat.com/By-means-of-microscopic-observation-and-astronomical-projection-the

I love going down internet rabbit holes. :waycool:

yeah the guy's got good taste as far as art inspirations/sample choices if not anything else.



Also reading this:

https://www.amazon.com/Cabinet-Kim/dp/0857669176
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on July 03, 2024, 07:49:49 pm

Important frog video 🐸
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on July 05, 2024, 12:44:31 pm
I haven't played this game in years but had a dream about it so now it's on my mind


I'd like to do some more GW Radio but I'm kinda bored of playing the same old mix of songs.
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on July 06, 2024, 11:22:04 am
I haven't played this game in years but had a dream about it so now it's on my mind


I'd like to do some more GW Radio but I'm kinda bored of playing the same old mix of songs.

schools make for good mazes. Maybe that's why I dream I'm back at school so much

I also dream I'm at the library but it's like a combination of my local library and the one at college, as it has a lot of partitions/desks where you can work on your laptop. I don't really work on my laptop outside of the house anymore though, I'm too worried about damaging it and if I were to work on music it'd turn out a lot more than if I use the nice speakers at home
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on July 07, 2024, 12:50:11 am
schools make for good mazes. Maybe that's why I dream I'm back at school so much

I also dream I'm at the library but it's like a combination of my local library and the one at college, as it has a lot of partitions/desks where you can work on your laptop. I don't really work on my laptop outside of the house anymore though, I'm too worried about damaging it and if I were to work on music it'd turn out a lot more than if I use the nice speakers at home

i also use my laptop as my at-home pc too, don't really like lugging it around. maybe I'll try to get a more lightweight computer later down the line for cheap.
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on July 07, 2024, 02:44:11 pm
schools make for good mazes. Maybe that's why I dream I'm back at school so much

I also dream I'm at the library but it's like a combination of my local library and the one at college, as it has a lot of partitions/desks where you can work on your laptop. I don't really work on my laptop outside of the house anymore though, I'm too worried about damaging it and if I were to work on music it'd turn out a lot more than if I use the nice speakers at home

i also use my laptop as my at-home pc too, don't really like lugging it around. maybe I'll try to get a more lightweight computer later down the line for cheap.

also it helps to know that I don't drive, so anywhere I go with my laptop I have to carry it in a backpack and walk or maybe take the bus. I broke the screen on a Kindle that way too
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Post by: dosmaen on July 08, 2024, 02:09:22 am
Had a good beach day! :koolaid:

beach vid (https://i.imgur.com/oNf5yYw.mp4)
beach vid 2 (https://i.imgur.com/wWE3RE4.mp4)


It was mostly foggy but it was a nice break from the heat.
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on July 09, 2024, 08:29:35 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNPZ473qtg4

Homebrew on GBA is progressing nicely!
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on July 09, 2024, 05:31:06 pm
https://sanshuseiso.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-frog

this is a good album
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on July 11, 2024, 09:11:02 pm
job hunting in 202x sucks more than it did in 201x and I feel like it keeps getting degrees worse rather than better. The hoops get more and more complicated to jump through.
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on July 19, 2024, 10:45:04 pm
Gonna be moving on the 29th and it's all nuts.
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dada on July 26, 2024, 09:04:47 am
Thinking 'bout you...
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on August 01, 2024, 02:57:18 am
Thinking 'bout you...

:blush:

Move was successful!
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on August 04, 2024, 07:54:10 am
https://acreil.bandcamp.com/

gives Autechre a run for their money
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on August 13, 2024, 09:27:51 am
https://netlabelarchive.org/

https://freemusicarchive.org/label/all?page=1

checking out these sites

I feel bad because I could've been listening to this stuff back in college when all I knew about was some CDs to get and some internet radio. I think I did check out Thinner though, which is like minimal techno I guess?
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on August 21, 2024, 06:52:03 pm
Starting college on the 26th, It's gonna be weird going as an adult. :|
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Post by: hero_bash on August 21, 2024, 08:51:39 pm
Good luck.
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: Madolah on September 22, 2024, 12:10:59 am
Life's a rollercoaster, Currently on the down trying climb that next hill.

Keeping sober off hard drugs 2 years come Halloween, and a year Sober off Booze since last NYE.
Keeping busy with work contracts, and solo dev learning blender and Unity as I hobble about making a Monster Rancher Spiritual successor
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on September 23, 2024, 02:06:51 am
Life's a rollercoaster, Currently on the down trying climb that next hill.

Keeping sober off hard drugs 2 years come Halloween, and a year Sober off Booze since last NYE.
Keeping busy with work contracts, and solo dev learning blender and Unity as I hobble about making a Monster Rancher Spiritual successor

Congrats dude, sounds like you've been working your ass off.
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on October 15, 2024, 05:07:27 am
College is going well, I have one class that kinda sucks but the rest are going okay. The professor just doesn't communicate very well what they are expecting in terms of the assignments. Halfway through the semester!
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on October 16, 2024, 04:16:10 pm
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/music

some decent stuff here. They're also on archive.org but that's down I think
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on October 20, 2024, 01:01:08 am
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/music

some decent stuff here. They're also on archive.org but that's down I think
having half of the internet archive down is rough. RPGMaker.net was hosting games there since the site went down, and now they can't access them from their either.
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on October 31, 2024, 07:38:41 pm
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/music

some decent stuff here. They're also on archive.org but that's down I think

Good news is Archive.org is back up, at least in some capacity and for now.
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Post by: dosmaen on November 06, 2024, 01:32:19 am
Political doomsday in the United States :ph34r:
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on November 11, 2024, 01:14:14 am
Final Fantasy IX is a goofy game
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Post by: dosmaen on November 20, 2024, 03:09:58 pm
Evil spam bots have been dealt with.
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Post by: orochii on November 25, 2024, 02:35:41 am
Other M? More like... Others might think this game is bad, and I might agree. Looks good tho, but there's things that already annoy me ´A`.
But also I'm very Super Metroid brained. I really don't like many of the other Metroids. I uh have dumb taste, and I don't like Fusion, I wish Mr. AI went away and left me feeling lonely, I liked that from Super.
I have never played uhh Prime tho, I think once tried first one and it looked alright, you still have an AI sort of thing but it mostly just shows you data, and I guess that's fine.

I just don't want human contact in my "feeling lonely" game, you know?

Other M looks cool tho, there's some transitions I really have been liking. The way you walk around in third person, in a perspective that feels like they were trying to do what the original 2D games did but now 3D, and then it transitions to first person. That is cool even if currently it confuses me a bit xD, guess it's like Mario and Zelda looking around mode. Anyway!

Go make videogames!
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: Medieve on November 25, 2024, 03:36:24 am
No one should give a shit but I need to vent about petty game RNG: I have catalogued 159 books in this game, Book of Hours, for my library and not one book I've rolled has Knock as the principle, out of 13 possible principles...!

Context:
You get to read a bunch of books in a library to learn occult skills, but you also are the librarian so you order and organize books. Books are random every time you find a little package.
I've somehow failed to find books pertaining to an entire occult school.
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on November 25, 2024, 03:54:20 am
No one should give a shit but I need to vent about petty game RNG: I have catalogued 159 books in this game, Book of Hours, for my library and not one book I've rolled has Knock as the principle, out of 13 possible principles...!

Context:
You get to read a bunch of books in a library to learn occult skills, but you also are the librarian so you order and organize books. Books are random every time you find a little package.
I've somehow failed to find books pertaining to an entire occult school.

I've been playing the new Pokemon TCG mobile game, and it's pretty reliant on luck. Or at least at the moment as I don't really have too many cards to choose from.

Book of Hours looks pretty fun, and I just learned that Europe has a fund for creatives thanks to the steam page!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOK_OF_HOURS/
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on November 25, 2024, 08:10:33 am
coming out with a new album soon-ish. Making one track a day on my days off, from composition to mastering. I'm also past my quota of song titles, I have like 9 for an album after this, including another Korean word from this book that I'm reading

uploading mastered versions here in advance

https://www.buzztunes.org/music/ragnar
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on November 28, 2024, 12:44:50 am
coming out with a new album soon-ish. Making one track a day on my days off, from composition to mastering. I'm also past my quota of song titles, I have like 9 for an album after this, including another Korean word from this book that I'm reading

uploading mastered versions here in advance

https://www.buzztunes.org/music/ragnar
i've listened to conical burr grinder and it's good stuff.
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Post by: dosmaen on November 28, 2024, 07:02:11 pm
Happy thanksgiving to folks in the US!
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on December 01, 2024, 03:10:41 pm
taking a bit of a detour because I figured out a new way to do generative tracks. So I'll be coming out with a 4 track EP before the album that conical burr grinder is on (I need to make album art for it anyway)
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Post by: dosmaen on December 02, 2024, 03:28:29 am
i've thought about changing my avatar but i don't know what I'd change it to hmmm.....

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Post by: dosmaen on December 08, 2024, 09:06:24 pm
A week later and Mein Penis is still my avatar.
It's starting to get cold and I love cold weather.
Started ANOTHER new job and it's going good.
I have one last final to toil through.

And uh, that's it for now.
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Post by: ahmadzafar on December 10, 2024, 06:52:06 am
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on December 16, 2024, 10:24:27 pm
I'm doing one track on my work days and at least 3 tracks a day on my days off. Is that a lot? I found a multi-track recorder plugin in the software I use, so I don't have to sit and wait for every individual track to record now. I knew about it before but it didn't work right with 32-bit recording, so I tried 24-bit instead and it works fine. But yeah that saves me like nearly an hour per track. I could maybe even do 4 or 5 tracks on my days off but I'm not a machine
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Post by: dosmaen on December 19, 2024, 07:15:02 am
one of my parents passed away today.
if it wasn't for them I probably wouldn't have liked video games.
Earliest memory was watching him torment himself playing Zelda II.
I remember spending weekend evenings when they were off of work playing that game nonstop.
And he would bring a random big box dos game home every now and then when we first had our Packard Bell family PC.

Anyways, he is indirectly responsible for me finding out about this website because he made me interested enough in computers and the internet to learn everything I could about them.

The last game we were able to play together was Fallout 76. It was a horrible shitty mess of a game. But my sibling and my parent had a good time playing through a bit of it. We never got around to finishing it because it became too shitty to tolerate. They also loved Civilization and would often borrow my Switch to play Civ 6 on it.

I guess moral of the story is people dying really sucks.
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Post by: aarn321 on December 21, 2024, 04:11:02 pm
one of my parents passed away today.
if it wasn't for them I probably wouldn't have liked video games.
Earliest memory was watching him torment himself playing Zelda II.
I remember spending weekend evenings when they were off of work playing that game nonstop.
And he would bring a random big box dos game home every now and then when we first had our Packard Bell family PC.

Anyways, he is indirectly responsible for me finding out about this website because he made me interested enough in computers and the internet to learn everything I could about them.

The last game we were able to play together was Fallout 76. It was a horrible shitty mess of a game. But my sibling and my parent had a good time playing through a bit of it. We never got around to finishing it because it became too shitty to tolerate. They also loved Civilization and would often borrow my Switch to play Civ 6 on it.

I guess moral of the story is people dying really sucks.

I'm sorry to here that man. It never gets easy. But while it may be easy to get lost grieving that they're gone, we musn't let that take away from celebrating that they were here.
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: dosmaen on December 22, 2024, 05:50:58 am
one of my parents passed away today.
if it wasn't for them I probably wouldn't have liked video games.
Earliest memory was watching him torment himself playing Zelda II.
I remember spending weekend evenings when they were off of work playing that game nonstop.
And he would bring a random big box dos game home every now and then when we first had our Packard Bell family PC.

Anyways, he is indirectly responsible for me finding out about this website because he made me interested enough in computers and the internet to learn everything I could about them.

The last game we were able to play together was Fallout 76. It was a horrible shitty mess of a game. But my sibling and my parent had a good time playing through a bit of it. We never got around to finishing it because it became too shitty to tolerate. They also loved Civilization and would often borrow my Switch to play Civ 6 on it.

I guess moral of the story is people dying really sucks.

I'm sorry to here that man. It never gets easy. But while it may be easy to get lost grieving that they're gone, we musn't let that take away from celebrating that they were here.

I am thankful that I was able to move near them and spend the last few months around them. Nice to have a little bit more time.
Title: What's on your mind RETURNS 2024!
Post by: aarn321 on December 23, 2024, 05:03:41 pm
one of my parents passed away today.
if it wasn't for them I probably wouldn't have liked video games.
Earliest memory was watching him torment himself playing Zelda II.
I remember spending weekend evenings when they were off of work playing that game nonstop.
And he would bring a random big box dos game home every now and then when we first had our Packard Bell family PC.

Anyways, he is indirectly responsible for me finding out about this website because he made me interested enough in computers and the internet to learn everything I could about them.

The last game we were able to play together was Fallout 76. It was a horrible shitty mess of a game. But my sibling and my parent had a good time playing through a bit of it. We never got around to finishing it because it became too shitty to tolerate. They also loved Civilization and would often borrow my Switch to play Civ 6 on it.

I guess moral of the story is people dying really sucks.

I'm sorry to here that man. It never gets easy. But while it may be easy to get lost grieving that they're gone, we musn't let that take away from celebrating that they were here.

I am thankful that I was able to move near them and spend the last few months around them. Nice to have a little bit more time.

That is definitely to be thankful for. Too many people don't get that chance =/. But yeah we're here to talk and get your mind off things if you need someone. That's one of the good things about having this place back, not just for nerding out, but we once again have a place we can share our struggles and have people we know that care and will listen.
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on December 27, 2024, 05:20:05 am
one of my parents passed away today.
if it wasn't for them I probably wouldn't have liked video games.
Earliest memory was watching him torment himself playing Zelda II.
I remember spending weekend evenings when they were off of work playing that game nonstop.
And he would bring a random big box dos game home every now and then when we first had our Packard Bell family PC.

Anyways, he is indirectly responsible for me finding out about this website because he made me interested enough in computers and the internet to learn everything I could about them.

The last game we were able to play together was Fallout 76. It was a horrible shitty mess of a game. But my sibling and my parent had a good time playing through a bit of it. We never got around to finishing it because it became too shitty to tolerate. They also loved Civilization and would often borrow my Switch to play Civ 6 on it.

I guess moral of the story is people dying really sucks.

I'm sorry to here that man. It never gets easy. But while it may be easy to get lost grieving that they're gone, we musn't let that take away from celebrating that they were here.

I am thankful that I was able to move near them and spend the last few months around them. Nice to have a little bit more time.

yeah that's always good, I was able to see my grandma and grandpa a lot before they passed away, my grandpa especially, we went to all the Goodwills and tag sales and stuff. I was looking for synths and stuff on a shoestring budget. Which didn't really work out but I ripped a bunch of toy sounds out of necessity
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Post by: dosmaen on January 25, 2025, 12:16:13 am
New job is going good, should have a new house pretty soon here. And baby #3 is on the way soon too.

And then maybe I'll have some time to work on GamingW / Gamedev some more.
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Post by: dada on January 27, 2025, 12:17:30 am
New job is going good, should have a new house pretty soon here. And baby #3 is on the way soon too.

And then maybe I'll have some time to work on GamingW / Gamedev some more.
New job, new house, new baby, I'm looking forward to seeing your GW/game dev work in no less than 10 years from now. :domo:
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Post by: Farren on March 07, 2025, 04:58:35 am
I don't know if it's just a "me thing" or not but the log in and especially the registration on this forum seems to be defunct.

Wouldn't let me log in to my old account or register a new one, got some html error message everytime I tried to open up the password retrieval or make a new account.

I'm ASSUMING it has something to do with the page not being compatible with mobile net devices or applications because it was like THE ONE WORD I fuckin' understood out of any of it.

Got lucky and managed to remember the password off of my original account otherwise I wouldn't be able to once again grace you all with my bullshit.
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on March 10, 2025, 01:18:20 pm
https://shepic01.itch.io/aacd

this is a pretty decent RPG demo, nothing special but nice graphic style and gets the job done while it lasts

suffers a little bit from extra party member bloat near the end, though. I didn't even try out the monk guy

Edit: oh yeah, the sword on the roof is such an oldschool rpg thing to do, literally makes no sense in real life but cool in the context of a game
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Post by: dosmaen on March 12, 2025, 10:49:47 pm
https://shepic01.itch.io/aacd

this is a pretty decent RPG demo, nothing special but nice graphic style and gets the job done while it lasts

suffers a little bit from extra party member bloat near the end, though. I didn't even try out the monk guy

Edit: oh yeah, the sword on the roof is such an oldschool rpg thing to do, literally makes no sense in real life but cool in the context of a game

i dig the style of it, will have to give it a try eventually.

i've been gaming mostly on my steam deck these days and kind of wish that I bought one sooner because it's a super convenient little device.
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on March 13, 2025, 01:27:17 pm
https://shepic01.itch.io/aacd

this is a pretty decent RPG demo, nothing special but nice graphic style and gets the job done while it lasts

suffers a little bit from extra party member bloat near the end, though. I didn't even try out the monk guy

Edit: oh yeah, the sword on the roof is such an oldschool rpg thing to do, literally makes no sense in real life but cool in the context of a game

i dig the style of it, will have to give it a try eventually.

i've been gaming mostly on my steam deck these days and kind of wish that I bought one sooner because it's a super convenient little device.

yeah unfortunately the game kind of doesn't end but there are unfinished parts as the game goes on, so you don't really know when to stop playing. But basically until you get the ship that can sail over deep water, the game is intact.

It's a little annoying though how some areas have virtually no enemies that drop gold, while others practically all the enemies do, like in the pyramid. Basically any humanoid enemy that you can imagine carrying gold, does, while the more animal-like enemies don't, just give you experience
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Post by: dosmaen on March 13, 2025, 10:33:01 pm
if you had to choose one way to listen to music, which format would you pick? (tape, streaming, cd, MP3, etc.)

i'm thinking about getting into collecting music but cannot decide which media format is worth it.
Streaming is obviously the most convenient one, but I would like to actually own music. And I feel that MP3 is kind of cheating even if they don't have DRM locking them down.

I like that tapes are portable, but I can't remember if the sound quality is poor because it's been so long since I've listened to a tape.
CDs are nice but they are a pain to lug around if you're walking somewhere and from what I remember they tend to skip when listening on a portable player.
vinyl seems fun but not really portable.

maybe I should just get an mp3 player.

i dig the style of it, will have to give it a try eventually.

i've been gaming mostly on my steam deck these days and kind of wish that I bought one sooner because it's a super convenient little device.
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yeah unfortunately the game kind of doesn't end but there are unfinished parts as the game goes on, so you don't really know when to stop playing. But basically until you get the ship that can sail over deep water, the game is intact.

It's a little annoying though how some areas have virtually no enemies that drop gold, while others practically all the enemies do, like in the pyramid. Basically any humanoid enemy that you can imagine carrying gold, does, while the more animal-like enemies don't, just give you experience
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on March 14, 2025, 09:16:42 am
if you had to choose one way to listen to music, which format would you pick? (tape, streaming, cd, MP3, etc.)

i'm thinking about getting into collecting music but cannot decide which media format is worth it.
Streaming is obviously the most convenient one, but I would like to actually own music. And I feel that MP3 is kind of cheating even if they don't have DRM locking them down.

I like that tapes are portable, but I can't remember if the sound quality is poor because it's been so long since I've listened to a tape.
CDs are nice but they are a pain to lug around if you're walking somewhere and from what I remember they tend to skip when listening on a portable player.
vinyl seems fun but not really portable.

maybe I should just get an mp3 player.

i dig the style of it, will have to give it a try eventually.

i've been gaming mostly on my steam deck these days and kind of wish that I bought one sooner because it's a super convenient little device.

yeah unfortunately the game kind of doesn't end but there are unfinished parts as the game goes on, so you don't really know when to stop playing. But basically until you get the ship that can sail over deep water, the game is intact.

It's a little annoying though how some areas have virtually no enemies that drop gold, while others practically all the enemies do, like in the pyramid. Basically any humanoid enemy that you can imagine carrying gold, does, while the more animal-like enemies don't, just give you experience
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I download FLACs from Bandcamp, but that's because I have a nice soundcard and speakers that I can only use with my laptop. I have CDs but they're from a long time ago
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Post by: Darius on March 15, 2025, 07:40:10 am
feeling like 23 years is long enough to wait to post--or maybe posts of a certain age simply don't exist anymore... don't remember
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on March 15, 2025, 01:12:18 pm
if you had to choose one way to listen to music, which format would you pick? (tape, streaming, cd, MP3, etc.)

i'm thinking about getting into collecting music but cannot decide which media format is worth it.
Streaming is obviously the most convenient one, but I would like to actually own music. And I feel that MP3 is kind of cheating even if they don't have DRM locking them down.

I like that tapes are portable, but I can't remember if the sound quality is poor because it's been so long since I've listened to a tape.
CDs are nice but they are a pain to lug around if you're walking somewhere and from what I remember they tend to skip when listening on a portable player.
vinyl seems fun but not really portable.

maybe I should just get an mp3 player.

i dig the style of it, will have to give it a try eventually.

i've been gaming mostly on my steam deck these days and kind of wish that I bought one sooner because it's a super convenient little device.

yeah unfortunately the game kind of doesn't end but there are unfinished parts as the game goes on, so you don't really know when to stop playing. But basically until you get the ship that can sail over deep water, the game is intact.

It's a little annoying though how some areas have virtually no enemies that drop gold, while others practically all the enemies do, like in the pyramid. Basically any humanoid enemy that you can imagine carrying gold, does, while the more animal-like enemies don't, just give you experience
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I download FLACs from Bandcamp, but that's because I have a nice soundcard and speakers that I can only use with my laptop. I have CDs but they're from a long time ago
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actually I do get some CDs when they don't sell on Bandcamp. Like I am getting the new Osamu Sato CD. Also Future Sound of London has some albums (annoyingly) only available as CD
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Post by: dosmaen on March 20, 2025, 02:59:29 pm
i don't know what happened with the quote button but it appears that it broke things. oops!

i wonder if I can find a decent mp3 player that supports FLAC.
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Post by: dada on March 23, 2025, 09:43:55 pm
i wonder if I can find a decent mp3 player that supports FLAC.
I'm still on Winamp after all these years.
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on March 24, 2025, 02:17:18 pm
i wonder if I can find a decent mp3 player that supports FLAC.
I'm still on Winamp after all these years.

I think he means a device. But if he means software, Foobar2000 is good.

MP3/music players kind of went out of fashion after phones got enough storage and now all I see are random Chinese devices and the Sony Walkman which is expensive but plays high quality files
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Post by: dosmaen on April 22, 2025, 05:53:29 pm
Sorry I dropped off the face of the earth for a bit, but I'm back.

Got rid of discord because I got tired of it, but I'll still be hanging out here or on IRC if anyone wants to stop by.
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Post by: EpsilonEagle on April 23, 2025, 06:23:30 pm
Cool. I'll miss seeing you around the Discord channel, but I'll go and download IRC again and go to the forums regularly so we can keep in touch.
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Post by: dosmaen on April 27, 2025, 08:47:12 am
https://rogod.itch.io/startron

This game looks pretty awesome, might have to try it later.
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Post by: dosmaen on April 27, 2025, 09:29:29 pm
Tried making bread again, turning out ok I think. I'll let you know how it was when I'm done :o

EDIT: Found out the oven at my new place isn't working right so I had to go over to a friend's house and borrow the oven. But it turned out good. Still don't think it's as good as the last time I made bread. That bread tasted a bit better.
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Post by: dosmaen on April 28, 2025, 12:22:41 pm
Back to work again after having a nice long week off. Only one month left and then I get to enjoy a few months off until I have to go back. Best part of all is that it is paid.
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Post by: dosmaen on April 29, 2025, 08:51:46 pm
Trying to cook more and eat less crap. Might give bento boxes a try again because they’re fun and they also help with portion control.
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Post by: dosmaen on April 30, 2025, 01:55:15 pm
Gonna try to come up with a couple more tracks and put the music I’ve been working on up somewhere later
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Post by: DJ Saint-Hubert on May 01, 2025, 01:25:26 pm
hey, if anybody has the version of Frog World Sessions that I had uploaded to leafo.net a while back, that'd be nice, doesn't matter if it's mp3. There were a few tracks missing from the Bandcamp release still that I never found (at least one called konacof1). Also if someone downloaded ZODNAS before I ended up deleting some tracks, if you could send that version of it (I think there were six tracks in the original, one was called LANDR Skynet or something)

Edit: sometimes I get lucky searching Soulseek for my own albums (found an unused track from Mobb Beep RIP Gentleman's Edition) but no hits so far for ZODNAS except an unrelated track (ZODNAS is SANDOZ backwards)
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Post by: dosmaen on May 01, 2025, 02:06:21 pm
I don’t think I have that one but I can check later when I get home. I only have some of your recent tracks saved unfortunately. You may want to ask Dada / on discord for better results.

Also, I’m on IRC #gamingw irc.libera.chat if you wanna chat on there too but I may be slow to respond.