Haha, yeah. Same guy. I lost my shit when I disxovered them because it was like finding more Wolf Parade (somewhat, they do have a different, more experimental and sweeping opera-ish sound). Dragonslayer is hands down one of my favorite albums of all time.

One of my favorite bands of all time. I like Expo '86 better but this is still an excellent album. The lead singer’s side project is good too the band is called Sunset Rubdown.

What me wory?

I’ve actually got pretty good at setting aside my usual preferences to just grab something new and random. It’s worked pretty well so far and I’ve discovered and read things I never would have otherwise. Usually I just browse the shelves and pick stuff out that stands out for one reason or another. Also, if your library is like mine they have ‘grab bags’ where you can request a librarian to put together a random assortment of stuff. Right now I’m reading ‘Audition with a Fox’, about a girl undergoing a religious training under the tutelage of the fox trickster god and the other book is ‘The Anubis Gates’ set in 1900 Egypt and dealing with Egyptian occult beliefs and time travel. Both things I wouldn’t have typically picked up…well Anubis Gates probably but the Audition with the Fox book not likely.

Being sober damnit

Please no

Politics concerns everything, and everything under the sun has a political component. You can’t extract human relations from governance and political action.

Political (n) Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power or authority.

One of many meanings, but the one most relevant to this post.

Also: Exhausted with the same damn argument of “Why does everything have to be political, there doesn’t need to be politics in x,y,z thing!” Jesus, the root of the word politics is the Greek word ‘polis’ which meant anything having to do with the citizens, the people, so yes, it’s all goddamn political.

Polis (n)

1. City
2. Community

Of course!

It is REALLY good. I mistyped the title it is Once Upon a Time in France, not Paris lol. Here’s a review: https://comicsgrinder.com/2019/10/23/review-once-upon-a-time-in-france-published-by-dead-reckoning/

It was bad for me for a long time. I don’t know if I mentioned it before, but my fiance passed four years ago and I took to the bottle harder than I ever had before in my life. I literally drank everyday for two years. I had to go to the hospital for medical for the first time in my life ever, and after that day two years ago I’ve been steadily chipping away at trying to beat back the damn bottle. I’ve had more sobriety in the past two years than the two previous. I think I am FINALLY done. I have four days sober today ;D

I’d highly recommend trying to quit if you can, especially because of those dark places. Do you have legal pot where you’re at? That might be a good alternative if you’re self-medicating. I’m actually starting a recovery group in town (non-AA because I hate that program for a variety of reasons, ‘higher power’ being especially egregious for me) and am going to start working on making a positive change in the community here where I can, I’ll do what I’m able at least.

Haha, for sure! Sorry I haven’t got a chance to post anything new in the new space. I’ve been busy with life issues (sadly, having to kick drinking again and tappering off for several days so I could start the detox was pita). I’m getting back to normal though and should be able to feel well enough to post soon. Been reading Once Upon a Time in Paris which has been fantastic. Hope you’re doing well lately. I’ll be around ;)

Well, there’s always lemmy.ml ;p

We have had a name for it for awhile, my fellow Washingtonians call the Washington/Oregon/California union ‘Cascadia’. Wouldn’t be such a bad idea.

Some are talking about power consumption in this thread and I’ve had similar ideas. Gone are the days where I can run a beefy spec’d desktop in good conscience, it’s just such a resource hog. I have a laptop that stays in hibernate mostly. My other idea for a low power consumption home computer was to get a Le Potato single board and pair that with an e-ink monitor (there’s some really nice ones out there) which I think was sitting at maaaaybe ~5kwh. I think the more we can limit our power consumption, the better, all that electricty directy translates into coal being burned and additional CO2 being created. I’m no luddite, but it has impacted how I consume media which is now very mindful of the impact watching a few episodes/playing a couple hours of games versus just one or two hours of content on any given day.

Oh man, that’s awesome. It made me sad that the old version didn’t work through WINE. It ran, but at like double speed, which made the game too twitchy to play. I’ll have to bookmark that for when I’m at the library (my internet service at home is garbage right now).

Yep! My favorite so far was the scifi-themed golf game, can’t remember the name. I haven’t touched it in awhile since I’ve been busy.

The game that gets most of my attention these days is Shiren the Wanderer The Eye of God and the Devil’s Navel on PSP (through an emulator on Android). I just beat the DS version of Shiren weeks ago for the first time after playing off and on for about twenty years (I never really got serious about completing it until now, it was always a casual timewasting roguelike for me) and moved onto the PSP fan translation of Devil’s Navel.

They have a browser version? Or do you just mean free download version? I run Linux and when I tried the old version it didn’t play well with WINE sadly.

Derek is a workhorse for sure. Have you seen his new project: UFO50? I’ve played a few of the 50(!) different games, all good stuff so far. A nice little homage to old retro computer games all ZX Spectrum late 80s era stuff.

I’ll check it out. A surprising amount can be found through the library inter-loan service.

My man, Spelunky was a whole era for me. I actually used to hang around the Independent Game Forums (TIGS) in 2008-2010ish and played the original version before Derek made the commercial version. To this day I prefer the old version, but the commercial one is a great game too (it has good bones lol). My then girlfriend and I would spend hours on that game. Side note too: Notch of Minecraft fame was also a forum member then and released the first initial alpha builds of Minecraft, so I played Minecraft before it’s meteoric rise when it was just a hobbyist project based off of an old digging game we played on the forums called Infinimer. There were a lot of early indie ‘stars’ on the forums, Phil Fish that created Fez and Edward Mullen of Super Meat Boy and Binding of Issac fame. It was an interesting and exciting time. It’s still crazy to me to see Minecraft blow up like it did from this little project on the forums to this video game giant.

That’s a fantastic list of recommendations. I have only encountered Tardi briefly, but I can’t remember the work. I do remember liking his style though. Didn’t he do Adele Blanc-Sac (I think it’s called).

Woodring’s stuff is generally pretty fantastic and wildly weird. Been awhile since I had anything by him. His work reminds me of what would happen if you took old 20s-30s cartoons and had the animators drop a few hits of acid.

Rich Corben’s horror work in the 70s/80s was phenomenal, truly one of the greats.

The rest I’m not entirely familiar with, but you’ve given me some stuff to keep and eye out for. Thanks!

Yeeeeaaah, go thirteenth amendment!!!

It’s like banging your head against a brick wall inevitably causes you to see the truth, but at that point your brain is so addled that you are hallucinating the truth, despite your best tries at avoidance.

Buuut it’s your guy’s fault, if only you’d have voted for the less evil of the two evil guys we’d have a waaaay less evil guy doing less evil guy shit and being waaaay less evil-y obvious about their evil shit. Don’t you see? You made it obvious that the evil guy is an evil guy, instead of the less evil of the evil guys, damnit!!!