Edit: even better than listening to my dumb ass, this website gives a rundown of the common recommendations at the moment: https://www.hifioasis.com/advice/the-best-digital-audio-players-daps/

There are options. I’m trying to work out now what to get my partner who wants to stop using her phone for audio streaming.

Budget options, these are cheap and don’t use Android as far as I’m aware:

Snowsky Echo Mini (made by Fiio)

Hiby R1

Shanling m0s

Tempotec v1

Next tier up would be (and this is where android seems to become the default, but I think Hiby use a heavily customised version of it):

Hiby M300

Fiio JM21

Hiby R3

Then you get into midrange I guess you’d call it:

Hiby R4

Sony nw-a306

More expensive:

Something from iBasso like the DX180

After that you start looking at tech outside what I think is worth paying. You can easily find reviews from audiophile websites about all of these I’ve mentioned.

Yeah, I like what they’re putting down, but I don’t understand the AI = immortality bit.

I thought either; the AI is going to help research a biological immortality solution, or; the AI is going to be an immortal avatar for these dickbags.

Probably be catatonic. This kind of stress, self-doubt and loathing require those extra 32 years of building resilience. Transplant it into 8 year old me and he just shuts off I imagine.

I guess hang out in a school bathroom and eat anyone who comes in. But only make myself visible to one kid so everyone thinks he’s a loser that believes there’s a tiger in the bathroom, and he’s too scared to go to the toilet. I dunno, that kind of thing I suppose.

Even as a kid that scene just made me think “why are they eating playdough”

I don’t follow tna much. Was this expected or took people by surprise?

I don’t know anything for sure, but always thought it was more likely to filter out contaminants in your pipes?

Also the sorcerer boss you fight towards the end of Act 2 in D2 is the sorcerer from D1.

The lore was really nicely done between these two games.

But think about the Diablo lore instead. It’s stated that she is a rogue, and in fact she becomes corrupted and is the rogue boss Blood Raven that you fight in the cemetery in Diablo 2.

The rogue group is different to the amazons. That’s why in D2 you start in the rogues camp, and if you’ve picked Amazon then Kashya will say something like “I didn’t expect to see an Amazon come here”.

I haven’t played it yet, but I’ve loaded it up on my steam deck and got too the title screen… Far Cry 2 with redux mod

I really loved far cry 3, so I hoped this will be a good time. But some stuff going on with my daughter and I didn’t have time for this.

It’s a big problem with this guy for sure, but also he’s usually pretty good at admitting when he’s wrong and calling himself out on it. I wonder if he’ll look into this again to get some clarity.

Sega and Super Nintendo was the original. It was released initially for both Sega and Super Nintendo, but Dave Perry was primarily a sega dev.

Activision ported it to Windows 95, and I believe the dos version is basically based on that port.

One of the things you can do is run Steam from the terminal. When the game crashes/fails to load; the terminal read out could be telling you what’s going wrong.

I think it’s a great game. I always enjoy playing. I only recently found out people think this game is janky and plays poorly! so ymmv I guess.

I reckon each era you can finish in 30 - 45 minutes, repeat 5 times.

Use emulator save states and you can break it up pretty easily.

Area 7 - Start Making Sense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be8BDSYmaeE

I just happen to be clearing out a few old usb sticks right now and saw I’d downloaded this years ago. Good timing.

I once had a VCD copy of their full show supporting The Living End at the Roundhouse in 2001. Wish I could find those.

Death Before Dishonour 2021, Bandido defended in a 4 way against Brody. It was the first ROH I’d watched in about 6 years and I was like “who is this monster”.

I didn’t watch again until final battle, but looks like Brody was upper card for the remainder of the year too but mostly as a tag team, I guess they didn’t wrestle each other again. Still I was thinking about this connection when they teamed the other week.

They were. The timeline adds up.

Brody and Bandido were in a 4 way elimination in the main event of the last Death Before Dishonour in 2021 for the world title.

And they should have both been on the card at the last Final Battle in 2021, except Bandido had to vacate the title because he got covid.

I thought I did remember this but it feels so long ago I wasn’t sure.

EVO The Search For Eden

Do we want a Shadowrun future? This is how we end up with a Shadowrun future.