Same, the remake has also got me watching the original. Such a great show. I haven’t finished the new season yet, but it seems good so far, too.

I agree! I do appreciate the apparently zero fucks that this person gives about the downvotes, though. :D

I have the BL-A8 Prometheus, but I’ve heard good things about the BL03s.

My favorite Chinglish example is on a brand of earbuds that I use every day. They’re actually great.

BELIEF

LETMUSICBURN

OPPOTY

NEVERGIVEUP

ANNOTATION

MUSIC AND DRIAMS

https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/hfjpnh/oppoty/

I need that on a t-shirt.

“Chirmany” just sounds like “Germany” said with a German accent. So it’s like, even more German. Cherman.

yes I know they say Deutschland no one needs to say it

Alright, this one got me. :D

It’s amazing how all of my Genesis, Playstation 1, and Dreamcast games still work, as will work as long as I have the game and console and they are in good condition. But that isn’t guaranteed for a game I buy next week.

I believe they were called “candy dishes” at the time.

Two great blogs I’ve found through Mastodon:

• https://nham.co.uk/
• https://www.etherdiver.com/category/other-peoples-music/

Both blogs have an RSS feed, and they post on Mastodon when a new article is up. Those two have accounted for almost everything I’ve bought on Bandcamp recently. Mastodon in general, and the #bandcampfriday hashtag, are great sources.

I also started buying physical media lately. Lemme tell ya, the guy behind the counter at the record store knows everything. EVERYTHING. All bands. Who toured with whom. He is the human scrobbler. Get to know him.

I’ve never played it either, but I remember it getting a ton of attention at the beginning of the Xbox 360 generation. I think it was an early game to use the “Games for Windows” branding, too, so Microsoft was advertising it everywhere.

Thoroughly freckled, nearly alcohol.

Me neither. And I… have it on Steam, apparently?

That is great. :D

Oh wow, Meryl Streep from fairly recently, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about it. I’ll check it out.

A play called Souvenir, late last year, put on by a local theater company. (Incidentally, their theater is in the building that used to be the gym when I was in college. It looks really nice inside now, and you would never guess that it was the most divey, stanky gym you had ever seen for like 60 years beforehand. I loved that place.)

Anyway, the play was about a famously bad singer who gained fame for how off-pitch she was. It was funny, heartwarming, and very well done. I didn’t know it while watching the play, but she was a real person, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins

If you want something physical to read, Glenn Fleishman (@glennf@zeppelin.flights) wrote a book called How Comics Are Made. https://howcomicsaremade.com/

From the description:

This covers the whole ball of wax of how artists, knowing their newsprint medium, drew their comics and marked drawings up for color reproduction; how printers put that work through the most arcane and impossible-to-believe operations to get them onto paper…

I think it’s mostly focused on comic strips in the newspaper, but I’m guessing the process is mostly the same for comic books.

I’m always torn about what kinds of features should be put behind a paywall. Like, if it’s just little customizations, that’s much better than saying, “pay us a monthly fee to make more people see your posts.” It seems silly to make UI customization a pro feature, but that also seems like a non-evil way of monetizing a social media app.

I noticed it when I was going into the bathroom that morning. There was no dirt, it was an indentation in the rug.

I did. I didn’t notice anything out of place, the front door was locked, and I live on an upper floor, so getting in through a window is not possible.

Large footprint on the bathroom floor mat that didn’t match any of my shoes. I live alone. Still can’t explain it.