I’m a metalhead. I have a pretty sizable CD collection so I really only take recommendations from metalheads that I know and trust and even then, I’ll usually check it out on youtube first to make sure it’s not a fluke decent song on an otherwise lousy disc (looks at Muse). Usually one of my friends will turn me onto something, float me a loaner. If so, I add it to the list of CD’s to pick up the next time I come up on loot.

Sometimes, when I’m hard up, I might go to Metal-Archives and just browse. Sometimes you get lucky. Years ago, I found that some specific labels seemed to sign a certain sound that I often liked. I’d often go to their site where they usually had audio clips to listen to. Most of them are gone now, but Century Media survived, and I still hit them up a lot. Again, needle in a haystack kind of thing but it’s so worth it when you find something better than great.

I buy the CD. I listen to it all the way through while reading the liner notes (if applicable nowadays) and take note of the track numbers I like. After, I burn those songs to MP3 and move them to my audio server. The CDs will go into one of a trio of shelves that hold my other discs and once there, may never see a laser again unless I loan it out or have need to play the disc in a player.

For the car, I use a Surfans F20. For the yard and woods and work, I add on a 80W portable speaker. At home, I usually play my burned mp3 files on a client computer thats tied into a stereo system and the network by using winamp (often with the enjoyable milkdrop plugin). It really whips the llamas ass.

Sometimes I use youtube for convenience but considering ads, auto-play and the algorithm, and now playlist swamping (for those who turn auto-play off), youtube is only good to listen to one song and then shut it off. The algorithm actively drives me away with it’s ineptitude. Not particularly relevant, but enough so that I thought I’d take a moment to shit on them for it.

I don’t put much value on the things gamers nexus covers. I feel like they tend to create drama where none really exists, and it’s all for ratings. Much better sources of information out there.

I’m guessing there is an bit of truth in what they found. I’m guessing nvidia isn’t shit stain free either. But I’d bet money that if Nvidia releases another high end card tomorrow, everyone gonna line right up to hand them their money, including gamers nexus.

And for the record, the Kraken Z7 I bought 6 years ago and mounted vertically is still running quite strong, despite gamers nexus all but telling me I was an asshole for mounting it that way because it was going to die within 2 years and I’ll have only myself to blame.

Twisted Metal 2 was insanely fun and if you had it for the PC, it was even better. I had 6 different computers set up in various rooms in my house for TM2 parties since you could LAN everyone together. Couldn’t cheat off of other peoples screens either.

It’s still out there I believe, though it’s not the best port.

That’s a sharp looking game sir. I think since it’s open source and procedurally generated that there will be a lot of interest.

As a hobbyist, I’ve tried for decades to get a 0.0.0.0 of my game. It’s so tough to do on limited resources and time. I’m glad you made it. Congrats.

Obligatory as related. This is a total repeat from the two thousands which saw the napster/metallica feud and was documented via Camp Chaos Flash Videos (linked below) by Bob Cesca. Maturity is recommended as they may contain adult language, adult situations, Cheryl Crow but they do paint a pretty accurate picture.

Napster Bad

Metallicops

Metallica Wants To Be A Millionaire

MP3 Music: Good or Goblin?

Napster Dead

Bizarro Napster Bad!

Such good memories. If you get to watch these for the first time, I extend to you my jealousy.

So, to wrap things up, it’s now October 7th and the garden has been mostly dismantled. I am still awaiting the sunflowers seeds to develop and bees are still visiting the dying marigolds.

It was a horrible weather year for my first garden. It rained just about everyday in the month of May. In fact, I think I lost a green bean seed due to flooding and overflow in the container. June, July and August saw maybe (1) light rain event each with upper 90 deg f temps throughout most of July and August. It was as hot and dry a season as I can ever remember.

The marigolds did well. I observed no difference in insect populations with them around or away. They are technically still going, but are in their last stages of dying. As the bumblebees are still visiting, I’ve allowed them to remain in their pots. They were nice in that they did not require much effort.

The muncher cucumber plants were put to rest. Three plants delivered about thirty delicious cucumbers. The trellis worked well, though they did fight it a little bit. They also outgrew it. I should have probably built it a bit taller. I also had to extend it in several different directions on the fly as it popped up side vines. The fruits were delicious, though small. Somewhere around 5" long at 1-1/2" diameter were the average. It seemed that I had to really allow the fruits to over ripen and start turning yellow before I really got a good shot of the goop that Dale likes. I did self pollinate some of them which turned out to be pretty easy. I had several issues in July where I would spontaneously lose baby cucumbers en masse. I am not certain, but i’m thinking it was due to the heatwave. The cucumbers did NOT seem to appreciate full sun and would wilt in the heat of the day.

The pole style blue lake green beans, also put to rest, had the same issues with their trellis, though they WAY outgrew it. I also had too many plants in one container which led to conflict, infighting and entanglement, which sadly led to pruning shears during flowering. They got planted a week later than the cucumbers (May 17th) and took an additional month until they decided to flower. They had a very small yield, but they did make some nice green beans which Dale also loved. I lost a lot of baby green beans in July, presumably from the heatwave. I lost a lot of green beans in August to cabbage white caterpillars. I was really unprepared for how big these plants get.

The catnip did not do so well either, though I may have contributed to it by fertilizing them a few times before learning you shouldn’t do that. It went into a high plant growth pattern, which made for a lot of buds, but they were all really weak sauce.

The sunflowers were pretty much a disaster. I had (2) pots with a plant each that did not survive the catastrophic flooding at the end of May. I replanted them mid June, much to the happiness of some asshole creature living in the area as it would show up every night to dig around under the mulch. They at least made it to a natural demise, so I am hoping to get some sunflower seeds. (6) other plants in other areas of the yard made it to flower only to get dramatically trampled by (presumably) the ‘self-appointed fire marshall’ from the movie ‘the gods must be crazy’. They were a complete loss without time to replant.

Overall, it was kinda frustrating, but worthwhile. Dale got his munch on, which always makes for a happy baby bird. I learned a lot about several things that before I knew really nothing about. It was slightly pricier than I planned due to buying the containers and soils and slightly more demanding of my time than I planned.

I may try again next year. Additionally, I purchased some stinging nettle seeds which I am going to plant in containers in the spring. Most will be utilized for plant fertilizer but I want to try making the drinkable tea with it as well to see if it helps my allergies any.

Thanks all. Live and help live.

I can honestly say that I’ve never had any issues with the winkey+shift+s on win 10, though occasionally I do wonder why they never added more shapes to the toolbar palette. I’m a designer by trade and I used it a lot when working on drawings to keep specs straight. One of the more useful windows utilities in my opinion.

Listen! Listen! The Cats Pissin… Where! Where! Under The Chair…

Extensive research has not ruled out that Cracker Barrel collaborated with Stanley Kubrick to fake DB Coopers moon landing (or some shizz).

/nonsense

Oh, I would so like to peruse this ‘test’. Anyone have a copy?

Fruit pits are generally a dump spot for anything the fruit doesn’t want. They generally contain a bunch of waste toxins, leftover chemicals, etc. It’s not really ever something that one would want to consume.

As far as my 10 gram parrot, he would get very ill or die from eating a fruit pit. I have to remove them. I’m unsure about pigs but I suspect they are capable of consuming them in at least a reasonable amount.

Give Bacon and Eggs a pat on the head for me. Nom-nom-nom.

Just inadequate vibration. Really take your time with it. What’s your set time?

2 minutes would not be near enough to jog out all of the air bubbles. Ideally, vibrating the slurry and not the mold would be best. You can rent something from a concrete tool rental company. Dunno how far you are from something. Also, in the same vein that anything is a dildo if you are brave enough, any rotary motor that spins off balance is a vibrator if its off enough.

‘Trial Of Thunder (5-3)’ from the ‘Crypt of the Necrodancer’ (Metal Soundtrack). I’m not a fan of this type of game and have never played it, but Familyjules totally shreds the original 8-bit soundtrack it had.

The grain size is small enough. and you appear to be pouring upside down (thumbs up). I think all along it was only the vibration. You may have a breakout. Hard to use last pour for a volumetric comparison if the mix ratio changed. Yeah, I hope it went well.

Weighing and adjusting for temp/ph is also key. These control the chemical reaction and thus the end result.

They also make vibrators that can attach directly to a plate.

we used a custom mix that was affectionately nicknamed ‘the grog’, but it was mostly wd-40 and white lightning lithium grease.

Hi. I’m a refractory designer. I have over 30 years of experience in creating linings for industrial furnaces with bricks and monolithics, including what we would call ‘Precast shapes’ of which this would be included.

Those are definitely air pockets stemming from the pour that were not vibrated out. It could be your aggregate size is making it difficult. I don’t know the product you are using, but often there are ‘fine’ versions that feature a smaller grain size just for better consistency when pouring. I would never recommend gunning something like this.

As far as vibration goes, they sell industrial vibrators with long rubber mixing tips. I might have video from a few of my precast shapes showing a large precast shape getting vibrated. Everything about it just screams dildo and you feel silly, but it is what it is, and it does work.

You’ll know if you add too much water. It will be brittle and fail if you can even get the mold released. More water is never a solution. Better PH is superior to more water.

Vibration can be achieved by building an outer box for your foam insert. Wood can work for something this size probably, but metal would be best. You can then use any vibratory method that works. Pour direction matters too, but it opens ugly doors like lifting and drying.

I own ‘Fear & Hunger’, the game pictured atop the article. I play it. I enjoy it. I have nothing to give but accolades for this game. The author was brilliant in the game design and story. Their target audience is a mature adult. The video game plays as a turn based top down survival horror rpg. It’s a very minimalistic game in it’s world, though it has a lot of unique gameplay programming that elevates it’s style above others. The story though… Wow.

You are simply going to the bottom of the dungeon to kill someone and then leave. That’s it. However, It does have very adult oriented… things… peppered into the game. The setting is pretty dreadful, and as you proceed it only gets worse. Eventually, when you think it’s hit rock bottom, it finds a brand new shovel. It hits pretty hard too.

If you are an adult that can handle adult and survival horror themes, it’s well worth a play and you should buy it immediately. It’s a lot of fun, though get you feet set. The game will shock you out of your comfy place, and it will do so multiple times. Not my favorite horror game, but probably in my top 5. Brilliant and violent, both to the extreme.

Isn’t that how Poltergeist 1 started?