rtstragedy [she/her]

Also alas no CRT, a retrotink is a good solution though too.

it’s pretty ok, not the same of course.

ok so actually most of my physical game music is vinyl actually, which may be a bit harder to take this kind of picture of… but uh, here’s my CDs don’t make fun

That was cool, pretty decent turntable. Uh I have the worst and most annoying opinions on turntables so maybe, Idk. A “shuffling” in the right speaker, maybe a ground issue? I do have issues with modern records being pressed badly though.

actually, question about this… i have an amp with a phono input, which sounded pretty good, but it lives downstairs. i set it up in home office today, using the phono amp built-in to the turntable. that shouldn’t need a ground, right?

I do have issues with modern records being pressed badly though.

actually my biggest disappointment was Skyrim, which was a super noisy pressing, and a super quiet mix. the quality is all over the place for sure.

fitting for a Bethesda game, and i’m a little cooled on it now that I’ve heard a bit more about the composer.

my favourite game vinyls are celeste, frostpunk, undertale, but i have too many…

it only just occurred to me that billy cobb may have done other things. i should look into this…

update: i think it was that record actually, i dont hear it on the other record, lol

Yeah I know right??? Also I’d give you one of my CD players if I could. I have a spare single disc and a few changers, Technics and JVC.

i appreciate the thought :) i’d need a new shelf as there are too many retro consoles in my living room lol. and unfortunately we don’t have a DVD player, just a raspberry pi with libreelec on it, a gaming pc which i move around to various places, and … retro consoles. so many retro consoles, lol (I suppose the PS2 or Dreamcast could be a DVD player, actually, and CDs, but using the gaming controller for a CD player is weird a bit, and I don’t want to have the TV on…)

edit: i have a tiny cd collection, lol, i can post a pic if you’d like. content warning: contains classical music and video game music

(no, we don’t have a CRT :( just a retrotink)

I know a ton about turntables so I could give advice :3

I have one (you’ve seen), but honestly I wouldn’t turn down an Ash turntable post if you’re still willing :) (although I am noticing that there’s a shuffling sound in only the right speaker, i tried cleaning the needle with a little needle cleaner, but it’s still there. not sure if it’s this record or not)

Woah did you burn movies in two parts to two CDs? Hardcore.

I mean, if it comes as 1.4GB, you might as well split it up right? haha

thanks for the reply, haha, i was gonna delete the post actually

I’ll respond more properly later but I set up my record player again on my crowded desk thanks to your post, v nice. I like watching it spin lol. (I hope there’s nothing doxxable in this pic)

Okay, so, I know that this video speaks to my extremely specific interests, but surely I can’t be the only one who’s watched Whiterun - A Skyrim Musical … and uh actually really thought it expressed my feelings about my job, my attempts to make a career in music, and my general dissatisfaction with hellworld?

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

Look, ok, it’s a Skyrim shitpost. But, I feel Sigurd’s pain. There must be someone as broken as me out there who cries at the second song, lol.

Mostly I record bandcamp albums onto tape.

this is so fucking cool, i remember doing this when i was little, Partner has a tape deck in his car, so I bought him a cassette as a gift one year and he loved it. I wish I had a physical CD player to play my audio CDs (I only have a computer BD drive, which can rip CDs into Jellyfin, or play them with apps, but it’s NOT THE SAME), and a tape deck to listen to tapes. But I do have a bunch of records of video game music lol. I even got the Outer Wilds OST on record somehow which is super rare lol. god i should figure out how to get it all set up in my office… listen to records at work, get up to flip them every so often is good because it’ll remind me to take breaks … ok once again you’ve got me thinking lmao.

Those fuckin kids don’t know about VCDs, or burning mpeg video to a data CD

fuck yes, or movies as 2 cds

actually, i ended up just arranging it on HB and having the pics in a folder. but i am a vim user 100%, although I use LazyVim these days since I cant be f’d trying to work around work security bullshit to get all the dotfiles copied into the Spyware Zone so that it’s sync’d with my personal computers.

wowee, your post made me feel things, sorry if this is too many words

I’m super hung up on past experiences. I feel like I’m stuck in spectator mode in my daily life until someone expresses interest.

100%. once they express that interest though, i am an actual fire hose. i will wrote a novel. i will not be able to stop myself. i will apologize profusely for talking a lot. while being unable to stop.

I don’t see a point in reaching out when I don’t know what to talk about, or if the person on the receiving end isn’t interested.

i’ve lurked here for a year. on a chance, i made a post, and some very very very sweet people engaged with it, and so … i’m giving the Wired another try. but I struggle with this too. I worry so so so much about whether someone is even interested in what I’m saying. This fear is so loud sometimes that it even crowds out the very real actual signals they are giving me. Talking to autistic people helps too. My dad and I will go for hours a week, even if he does make it a bit weird sometimes and goes TMI (normally I do not have a barrier. But I do not want to hear about s3x from my dad.)

Like those text threads where you keep messaging and the person just says “haha yeah” “oh well you know” but never explicitly tells you they aren’t interested. But you feel their vibe, and even though you text, the responses get further and further apart. I kinda think that’s evil…? and don’t want to be in a situation where I get ghosted.

I struggle with this too.

First, I totally agree. I can 100% see through boilerplate responses like “haha yeah.” I notice that (uh, most of the time I think). Sometimes I used to ignore it anyway because I am obnoxious. People didn’t really like that. At work, I have reined in the Public Speaker Banging Lectern overshares because like only a couple of the people I work with are ND lol (and one of them is a turbolib copyright worshipper yuck), but sometimes people intentionally try to persuade me into talking excitedly about a thing and I go “well okay <100km/h speaking about some dumb shit that i am fixated on>”). One of my coworkers loves it when I rant about anime or video games or Linux and has learned exactly how to prompt me to get talking lol

Second, “you feel their vibe” i’m wondering if you mean this literally? If you can feel mine, I wonder what you would call it? (don’t say manic lmao)

Second Second, I want to solve this so bad. Life gets in the way sometimes and so I find myself spacing my responses out too , I think that’s probably different than what you meant, though. If someone I trust is doing that to me, it doesn’t really bother me, I know they’ll get back to it when they have the time and mental energy, and I will try to do the same. Then again, I barely have any NT friends lol (ok I barely have any friends tbh). I hope that if people find me overwhelming, they will respect me enough to not ghost me. I want to hang with the most direct, honest people there are. Maybe they’ll rub off on me too.

Sometimes I wonder if someone missed my post, too. Like maybe they didn’t refresh, and clicked away or there was some bug. I’ve never felt comfortable enough to ask someone explicitly to respond to something I’ve written, but honestly I really like when people are direct when they wanted me to interact with them or read something they write, and I would 100% love it if they were even a bit annoying (by NT standards), I would find that extremely endearing (although I am but one person, and can only do so much)! I enjoy the long back-and-forths too, and I would feel awful if someone was sad because I missed their post. This probably varies person to person though.

When I was young, I had tons of online friends. I never played through entire chess matches of social norms in my head about every comment I make, the timing, the pacing, the length. I am working on getting back to that freedom I used to have to exist authentically in an online space.

I used to be mildly better at small talk, and got really overwhelmed by big thoughts in my head. I reached a point where I didn’t feel like I could make small talk, because the existential stuff is completely jamming the pipeline.

Damn, I feel you. It’s Iceberg City over here for me, that’s just how I am. “You think I’m done? I’m not done, let’s go a layer deeper.” Small talk sucks, I want to talk about things that interest me (interestingly, the weather kinda interests me lol)!! “Let me rant about video games, o-or autism, or some story I liked!!” And, I feel you about “jamming the pipeline.” We have needs, unfortunately at can be difficult to find people who respect that.

Unfortunately, I think I’ve been waiting for a follow-up that isn’t coming.

fuck, I feel this. i have felt this so so much in my life. having so much to say, but no one to listen enough because I have so many thoughts. writing big things, and having nobody read them.

btw: I really appreciated your Covid pods post, I meant to respond, but, you know, work :( and I couldn’t find the right words either. I hope you find your pod group, and that they let you talk as much as you’d like to.

(it is okay for your immediate reaction to this post to be shock, I am shocked at how much I wrote on this)

last mac i has was an M1, i got tricked into buying the 8GB model by youtubers, it made me a communist, but at least my parents were grateful for the gift. i’m Linux 100% (even split between Arch/Fedora, Debian for a server) now, except for an extremely intentionally broken Windows install I set up just for VR because … long post.

i would say the enshittification happened as far as i’m concerned years ago with all the iCloud stuff, the general inability to firewall system processes, the OCSP fiasco, and system processing bypassing VPNs

good plan! i need a way to build this document preferably with images in one place, i’m wondering if it’s LibreOffice time, but I’m already using a markdown editor, so i don’t want to convert to Weird WYSIWYG stuff in order to just convert back for HB

nah, just mac os things, it takes a long time to do updates, they’re modern computers with all kinds of crazy spyware attached to them that the IT people at Megacorp doesn’t know how to even use properly. we have to change our ports when running webservers for local development occasionally because they just randomly block ports like 8080 and we get really weird error. “AI threat detection” lmfao

and sometimes it pops up with some bullshit that i ignore because i’m trying to actually work lol, or you know, just dragging my feet in defiance. i don’t really care about their idea of “security”

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it’s a work computer, and i’m only rebooting it so that i have an excuse not to work for a minute lol, the thing is a custom popup that plagues everyone and makes people miss meetings etc because of unexpected reboots

thanks!

thanks ill try HB for now, once i get around to it

“To keep your computer safe, it will need to be rebooted.” statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged

Theoretical question. How many pictures is too many pictures for an effort post about an old video game? Can I just upload them through Hexbear? I’m thinking 20-30. Is that too many? What size should I make them in order to make a good balance between server bandwidth and visibility?