Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

Happy Dave wrote:

I’ll tell Neil I’m responsible for at least one new subscription!

Make that two.

Mixolyde wrote:
Robear wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

It also reminded me that I need to read more ALL THE Murderbot books.

Geez, even experienced posters have massive typos...

Stupid auto-carrot!

c'mon man

carrotpanic wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
Robear wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

It also reminded me that I need to read more ALL THE Murderbot books.

Geez, even experienced posters have massive typos...

Stupid auto-carrot!

c'mon man

I calls 'em likes I sees 'em.

Mixolyde wrote:

Lovely story, David! Really enjoyed it. It also reminded me that I need to read more Murderbot books.

Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it. You're not the first person to make the Murderbot comparison - one of my critique partners said the same thing. I hadn't read any of them when I wrote the first draft but I have since. I'm kind of glad I hadn't read them before I wrote it, actually, because Murderbot has such a distinctive voice and tone that I think I'd have struggled to come up with my own if I had that story in the back of my head.

LtWarhound wrote:
Happy Dave wrote:

I’ll tell Neil I’m responsible for at least one new subscription!

Make that two.

Nice, thank you for supporting the magazine. It's really an amazing deal - 50-60k words of speculative fiction a month starting at three bucks. Hope you enjoy it!

I went and chose new glasses last week. I felt like I was in a bit of a ‘devil may care’ mood and chose them very quickly. Since then I’ve been imagining a really ott pair of glasses that wouldn’t suit me at all. Picked them up today and they’re very stylish. Phew. Past me chose well.

Also, my vision is delightfully crisp. My eyes feel like they’re on holiday.

Higgledy wrote:

Also, my vision is delightfully crisp. My eyes feel like they’re on holiday.

Ah yes love that feeling every 12 months or so. Damn vision seems like it changes more often the older I get.

The Queen is Dead

I speedrun the randomizer hack for A Link to the Past. There's an active competitive racing scene, with a ladder matchmaking system based on the Elo system for ranking chess players, and a big worldwide annual community tournament that attracts hundreds of racers.

I have exactly one tie on my record on the ladder, which defines a "tie" as "finishing within two seconds." The ladder admins had to manually re-time our race to make sure it was a tie; they determined that we finished 14 frames apart, i.e. less than 1/4 second. I didn't ask who finished 14 frames ahead of whom; either way it goes on the record as a tie, so I don't want to know.

Anyway, the guy I tied against, who goes by ObscureLifeForm, just won the big worldwide annual community tourney. I can say that I tied the champ!

Congrats! That's amazing.

I watched a couple of Obscure's races in the semis against Andy. Your tie is something to be very, very proud of.
I'm honestly blown away at how creative the ALttP rando community is. The innovation in that scene is so much fun.
Do you stream your races? I love to watch those.

Phishposer wrote:

I watched a couple of Obscure's races in the semis against Andy. Your tie is something to be very, very proud of.
I'm honestly blown away at how creative the ALttP rando community is. The innovation in that scene is so much fun.
Do you stream your races? I love to watch those.

I do; Twitch link is in my signature.

I wish I'd been able to take part in this tournament, but I'm in my first semester of a Master's program and the time commitment would have been too much. You need to do 2-3 races a week and I'm lucky to find the time to do one.

I do race commentary for the restreamed races on Speedgaming when I get the chance. It's a cool community, lots of fun people.

MaxShrek wrote:

I told my brothers I made audio recordings of the fireworks on July 3, and sent them 20 messages containing recordings of farts. Immature, yes, but.. well..

BRavo.

I just found out that the actor John Vickery who played the awesome Minbari Warrior Neroon on Babylon 5 also voiced Kenshiro in the 1986 Fist of the North Star movie. Further google-fu has tells me that Uncle Phil actor James Avery was also in that cast.

Grenn wrote:

I just found out that the actor John Vickery who played the awesome Minbari Warrior Neroon on Babylon 5 also voiced Kenshiro in the 1986 Fist of the North Star movie. Further google-fu has tells me that Uncle Phil actor James Avery was also in that cast.

He's played a few roles in Star Trek, too. And James Avery showed up in Enterprise as a Klingon.

James Avery also played Shredder in the '87 TMNT cartoon.

I remember seeing both of them in the Star Treks NSMike, but...

hbi2k wrote:

James Avery also played Shredder in the '87 TMNT cartoon.

this is blowing my effing mind.

Damn, it turns out he did voices in all kinds of stuff.

For once, youtube recommendations to the rescue:

Toes and thumbs.
No context.

My art group today was ‘demob happy’ or, more accurately, full of post heatwave euphoria. There was a lot of chatting, laughter and gloriously excessive socialisation. Fun times.

This has probably already been discussed, but Everything, Everywhere, All at Once has to be my favorite movie of the last five years.

I was in the mood for a TRPG of some sort.

I looked at my list of games to play and games I have access to:

Own:
Baldur's gate 3
Blood bowl 2

Game pass:
Solasta
Torment: Tides of Numenera

Amazon games:
Fell Seal

It is nice to have access to these games even if I would not want to buy them all. As I seem to be more in the mood to mess around with a game rather than play a full big story I may just play in Baldur's gate as it was cool to see what systems they added.

Stealthpizza wrote:

Amazon games:
Fell Seal

Join everyone plain Fell Seal

Russ Frushstick on my favorite weird indie comedy podcast!

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/jord...

So when all the Dungeon Synth craziness happened, one of the things I did was look through my other mods from that time period to find a track to use as a bonus track. While I was doing that, I realized there's plenty of other good stuff that never got publish as anything other than demoscene mod releases, and I should really polish them up.

So... I did so, and it's out today.

You can get it from Bandcamp here: https://raccoonfink.bandcamp.com/alb...

Or listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6NxcN...

Or, well, get it at pretty much any of the other major streaming/digital services.

Also, I used the MidJourney AI image generator to make the cover art. I wrote a fun thread on my Twitter account about it if you're interested in the process of generating and tweaking a whole slew of images before compositing up the final result.

My daughter was born on Wednesday. Absolutely over the moon. Pretty sure she’s the most perfect baby in the history of babies. Very, very much looking forward to being a dad.

WellAdjusted wrote:

My daughter was born on Wednesday. Absolutely over the moon. Pretty sure she’s the most perfect baby in the history of babies. Very, very much looking forward to being a dad.

Congrats!

Read this.

Congrats!

Parenting thread here when you need it

Don't listen to the above two posts. This is the only thread you need. Welcome to the club.

Thank you all.

mudbunny wrote:
WellAdjusted wrote:

My daughter was born on Wednesday. Absolutely over the moon. Pretty sure she’s the most perfect baby in the history of babies. Very, very much looking forward to being a dad.

Congrats!

Read this.

Thank you. Hadn’t seen that before.

I’ll be taking a deep dive into the parenting thread also.