Current Events > MLP Social v2504: Quando omni flunkus moritati

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A year or so ago, I was following Friday Night Funkin' and watching various videos of fan mods. While I lost interest in it, I find myself regularly coming back to the soundtrack for the Vs. Cassette Girl mod since it's just so damn good, especially CG's incredibly smooth voice. I'm not entirely sure what its genre is called, but I think city pop is close enough (one of the songs is called City Funk). Also, a month ago, the creator/composer revealed they're remastering the soundtrack.

Headphones are very highly recommended.

Fuck, we just went through a real rager of a storm! Near hurricane-level rains, nasty hail, strong winds, and lightning. Our power actually got knocked out for a moment. Standing on the porch to look at things, I was startled by an extremely close bolt of lightning that couldn't have been more than a few blocks away.

...and after some calm, the rain is picking up again. Time for round two?

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

Fuck, we just went through a real rager of a storm! Near hurricane-level rains, nasty hail, strong winds, and lightning. Our power actually got knocked out for a moment. Standing on the porch to look at things, I was startled by an extremely close bolt of lightning that couldn't have been more than a few blocks away.

...and after some calm, the rain is picking up again. Time for round two?

I bet the eye passed over you, then. the eye is the calm part, so now the other half is moving in.

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MegamanXfan21xx posted...

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:O

My mom's in the hospital. It's nothing life-threatening, but it's something older women have to deal with. She's been trying to self-medicate for it the past few months and seemed to have it under control, but today, it just acted up to a point where she couldn't handle it herself. I'm sure she'll be fine, but it's still another thing to weigh on me.

On top of this, we have a funeral for a distant uncle coming up that'll no doubt involve wearing a suit in 90-degree July weather. What a month.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

On top of this, we have a funeral for a distant uncle coming up that'll no doubt involve wearing a suit in 90-degree July weather. What a month.

that's definitely rough. I don't even like wearing suits in good weather. hang in there, Mega.

She's back home again. Nothing serious was found. She's gonna do a month-long juice fast on my dad's advice. That'll make her body consume unnecessary solids, including the cause of the problem. I'd love for this to finally be resolved. This issue first started acting up what seemed like a couple weeks after the male cat passed, so I was dealing with a nasty combination of grief and irritation.

Our recycling got switched from being collected biweekly to weekly, and the recycling guys haven't shown up for two weeks. Ours is starting to pile up. Just another annoyance for the pile.

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

Our recycling got switched from being collected biweekly to weekly, and the recycling guys haven't shown up for two weeks. Ours is starting to pile up. Just another annoyance for the pile.

that's bad management from whoever/whatever is in charge of that. even if the schedule added more times, they should show up on the time they were supposed to.

It's trash day and the trash guys showed up, but the recycling guys are still nowhere to be seen. I think they're not showing up because they think they can't get in. One of the entrances to the parking lot is being redone with fresh concrete, so is barricaded temporarily. However, there's a second entrance right next to it about 20 feet away. Either they've got bad eyesight, or they're too lazy to make two extra turns. Do they think we're just barricaded in? That a whole community is just sitting back, not using their cars?

MegamanXfan21xx posted...

It's trash day and the trash guys showed up, but the recycling guys are still nowhere to be seen. I think they're not showing up because they think they can't get in. One of the entrances to the parking lot is being redone with fresh concrete, so is barricaded temporarily. However, there's a second entrance right next to it about 20 feet away. Either they've got bad eyesight, or they're too lazy to make two extra turns. Do they think we're just barricaded in? That a whole community is just sitting back, not using their cars?

is there a number you can call to explain that? otherwise they might not realize it for another week.

Well, my playthrough of Hardspace: Shipbreaker came to a somewhat anticlimactic end thanks to a bug. I did complete the final mission and see the ending cutscene, but the usual report of your daily fees afterward isn't responding to the button to close it. There's definitely more after that, since there's also a personal ship someone gives you that you can fix up by stealing replacement parts from your regular job. Guess I'm just gonna have to youtube the true ending.

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Went to the viewing. Saw a bunch of family members I hadn't seen in over a decade (my aunt's funeral in 2010). Had a real nice talk with a cousin. Been a good long while since I had an actual stimulating conversation.

Got to reunite with a bunch of family members at the funeral. I hadn't seem some of these people since my aunt's funeral in 2010. I can't believe how much I missed hearing those kind Southern accents. Only the women had them for some reason. Then again, accents were never my strong suit. I've heard of an American accent, but to my ears, they don't have an accent. They've always sounded straightforward with no vocal quirks.

great to hear, Mega.

and yeah, I guess that's kinda how the "American accept" is supposed to hear to Americans. it's a strange phenomenon of speech.

Our neighbor made us a loaf of banana bread and a big-ass bowl of chicken salad. Between that and her paying me to take out her trash and recycling, it's almost like I have a grandma again.

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Decided to get Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning since it was on sale for $10. Not gonna play it until I'm done replaying Tsushima. KoA has a real interesting story behind its creation. It was made by a former baseball player, funded by the state of Rhode Island, and failed to sell well enough to make its money back. The rights were bought by THQ, who not only ported it over to modern systems, but also made a new expansion nine years after the original release (kinda like how Borderlands 2 got an expansion seven years after release, minus the financial disaster).

It's supposed to be similar to Skyrim, hopefully minus any quests similar to the awful crimson nirnroot collecting. And that reminds me, there was supposed to be a promotion where anyone who had a baby born on Skyrim's release and named them Dovahkiin would get free Bethesda games for life. Someone actually did it. Considering Bethesda has only made two games since then, it seems like a crap deal, especially since one of them was Fallout 76, and I'm not feeling too confident that Starfield's 1000+ plus planets will be too compelling, either. Hopefully that includes their published games, since that's a way better lineup.

I wonder how Dovahkiin is doing, anyway. He should be heading into middle school soon. If he's anything like the fictional one, he's already the leader of every school club, owns the closest thing he can to legendary kid-friendly weapons, fights by sneaking around and firing rocks out of a slingshot, and has a hoard of valuable trinkets stashed away at home.

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oh my.

Is that one of Sunset an AI image?^

All great pics btw

AI_TechGam3FAQS posted...

Is that one of Sunset an AI image?^

Yeah.

Nice, there's finally gonna be some modern ports of Red Dead Redemption, with Undead Nightmare attached. It's coming to Switch and PS4 on the 17th. Weird that Xbox doesn't get anything. Hopefully this won't be another GTA Definitive Trilogy disaster, but it's not being made by Grove Street Games, so that's already a good sign. Definitely wait and see. Still, RDR1 is one of my all-time favorite games, so if you don't have a PS360, the port should be worth getting.

Well, Tsushima's Iki Island expansion is definitely a noticeable bump in difficulty, which must be a really nasty surprise if you try to take it on in act two of the main game where it becomes accessible. They introduce two new enemy types. One is a dude who carries multiple weapon types and regularly switches them up, forcing you to keep changing your stance to keep up with him. And he has extra health on top of that. The other is a priest that sings a song that buffs the enemies around him, making them hit harder and attack faster. Like, I'm wearing tanky armor with health and defense boosting charms, and buffed enemies can still slice a huge chunk out of my health.

This is NOT something you should be taking on if you're only on act two. An endgame character is the only way to stand a fighting chance.

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I wonder why the female cat isn't interested in any of the toys we got for her. She hardly ever goes up on the cat tower. We got a little Y-shaped tube thing for her to go in, but she's ignored that. We got a small fluffy floor cushion for her to sleep on, and she used it maybe once or twice. We once had this little bristly arch thing to rub against, and both cats ignored that (guess the male cat preferred a living human's touch).

Only thing she's ever played with is yarn balls and any dangly thing being moved around by a person.

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I wonder why the female cat isn't interested in any of the toys we got for her. She hardly ever goes up on the cat tower. We got a little Y-shaped tube thing for her to go in, but she's ignored that. We got a small fluffy floor cushion for her to sleep on, and she used it maybe once or twice. We once had this little bristly arch thing to rub against, and both cats ignored that (guess the male cat preferred a living human's touch).

Only thing she's ever played with is yarn balls and any dangly thing being moved around by a person.

oh don't worry, that's just how all cats are. there's plenty of examples ppl post online where they get a thing but the cat wants the box it came in. and yeah, yarn is also a classic thing for cats to go after on their own.

I think the cats that actually use the things we humans make for them are those that were sorta raised with them from when they're kittens.

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I think the cats that actually use the things we humans make for them are those that were sorta raised with them from when they're kittens.

Guess that explains it. The female cat was born on the streets and ran into my brother by chance. The male cat was born in a proper home and made more use of the big cat tower and the little dangly punching toy on it. He also regularly scratched things, while I never see the female cat scratch anything.