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Managed to find an alt I forgot I made and gave up using years ago. I do wonder about other high up people. Like what about our mutual histories makes us have similar word usage? Are we from the same areas or did we hang out in similar places online?

In Seattle at least they do posters. Mostly in Cap Hill (the gay area). The super small stuff is generally social only but anything with an actual venue will pop up. 19hz is also a good resource, it's searchable and city specific.

19hz has a good listing of events. A lot of it is announced on Instagram or Telegram (or the old classic of looking at the fliers on the telephone poles of cap hill). Renegades still happen (the bridge has been a super popular spot) but that season is sorta over. I more favor the Kremwork (that's more my scene) or digital hardcore shows which seem to just pop up everywhere.

PNW in general. Seattle is for sure active. They're not even that hard to find if you go looking for them.

I'm a big fan. For me a lot of the fun was mastering that movement system. The way the game is set up it incentives you to be fast and take risks. To get around faster you have to treat yourself the same as the chunks of the ship, using the tether to pull yourself in. You can also magnetize yourself to the hull and spider around like that. With upgrades and practice I was able to get most of the smallest level of ships done in one in game day.

I've been thrifting a bunch recently and it's amazing how different even a 90s tshirt feels compared to a modern one. There's a heft and thickness to it that just doesn't seem to be the priority anymore. Also everything now seems to not be just cotton but blend in something that lets it stretch.

I think that the issue is that it's always assumed that similar things are a better recommendation. The issue is at least for myself and other people I've talked to about that a lot of times we're looking for something different from the last thing. For example if I spend a week listening to vintage surf rock the recommendations that could be given might be 60s pop, or more surf rock. But what actually I wanted was to listen to experimental jazz with a retro funk twist on it. How could they anticipate that? Talk to anyone who's deep into some art form, movies, tv, music, and you'll see recommendations given that maintain vibes more than just similar things.

What are people using for rss on mobile? I feel like that's the biggest change, at least for me. The way I consume news moved from something I did on my laptop to something I did on my phone.

I would if I could program them relatively easily. And if there were other colors then just red LEDs.

I switched to movies only because I realized that TV was encouraging this behavior. It's a lot easier to watch television without looking at it. It's easier for me to consciously put down my phone for 90 to 180 minutes then it is for me to do so for however long I get stuck in a television binge.

Seattle is like this too. There seems to be one or two machines in a lot of bars, particularity the sleepy ones. There are a few dedicated pinball bars as well which are always fun to kill an hour or two in.

I move frequently enough that it would be a hassle. I would love if there were a way to make a smaller version that still felt worth playing.

I worked at another retail site. We were also looking at doing this with SEO purposes. Whatever they were using to generate the articles was picked up by Google I assume because those pages were never indexed. It was also a secret from the ten person team they had turning out copy for seo blog articles.

The crazy thing was that whole section of the site was getting maybe a thousand views per hour on a site that got seven figure hits a day. Most employees didn't even realize it existed. The amount of money burned on it attempting to chase SEO was crazy.

That'd work great until someone realizes there's all these bins of precollected trash all over the place. Perverse incentives.

I sold my Onewheel because I was seeing more reports of this sort of stuff. Personally never experienced it in about 2.5k miles ridden. I guess I was lucky. The way I've seen people take drops on these things, or modify the electronics can't be good. I've honestly wondered if those little front wheels (called Fangs I think) would become a standard thing.

Maneuverability. You can turn in place. The tire is massive compared to a skateboard wheel. It can run off road, it feels nice on road.

I did LAN parties through out highschool in the late 00s. It's funny looking how different our era of lanning was. This was post Steam, and so the piracy was less rampant. By the time I went to college, they also had a lan club and I started doing that. It was the early 10s, and that's when the lan part of the lan party was truely dead. Everyone stopped playing TF2, and CS, and everyone moved to League of Legends. There was still SC2, and a bit of cs going on but the majority of the lan was just people grouping into fives/tens and playing league. Esports became a thing a few years later and sorta ate the lan club. I can't say I every lugged a CRT but games of UT2k4 and TF2 in a dingy basement full of nerds are core high school experience memories for me.

Most of the chiptune people are using gameboys with LSDJ or a Dirtwave m8. The latter seems to have really taken off.

Right there with you. I didn't start listening to hiphop until college. Did a lot of Indie in highschool, that's sorta out now. Electronic music has completely changed for me. I've been loving this new wave of music that'll change genres mid song to just hit the right vibe. It's fun to watch all the stuff that you heard in middle/high school be thrown in a blender and turned into Hyperpop. DnB has been sneaking into all sorts of genres as has chiptune. The availability means things like city pop can shine.

What do I want to listen to today? Japanese garage rock? Phonk? Industrial Hip hop? This was so much harder to do even in the torrenting era. Music has such a low amount of time investment to listen to, why not just try everything if there's no additional cost?

There is one part of me that sorta misses the era when I'd get twenty albums and that was 3 months of music. I'd know them back to front, get excited at the ending notes of one song as I got hyped about the next one. The lack of commitment has made me more like a humming bird flitting from one flower to the next.

I normally would stick the one wheel in the bottom of my cart. I also could stick it under my desk at work which helped a bunch. Bikes got locked in a parking garage that was "secured" but would have a bunch of bikes stolen every 3 months.

I don't. I just can't take the escooter to the store. I can really only commute on it as I can't really do anything with it when I get to a store/bar/whatever. My friends may or may not be able to fit it depending the apartment size. Now that I'm laid off I'm probably going to try to sell the scooter.

Those trolley handles look great. My next PEV is probably going to be an EUC of some stripe. I like that there's more than one brand after watching Future Motion get more restrictive and have more problems with their recent releases.

My interpretation of that is not they want recent music but they want novel music.

I switched over to an escooter. The no brain thing is right. Press button, go forward. I suspect that's one of the reasons they're super popular.

I used to have a one wheel I commuted on. It was fine. I was fine getting it up to full speed a lot and had a good commute for it (mostly flat, mostly bike lanes). At some point you realize they can break 20 in the right conditions. This is a stupid line of thought I suggest no one reading this follow if they get one. Didn't crash but I could have. Always wear safety gear (I have a replaced cracked helmet to show why).

Bikes are the best, locking is the worst part about them. If they had a bike I didn't have to lock you'd never get me on anything else.

Would also love to do more then a few demo rides on an EUC. From what I've been told by riders who've done both they're much harder than a one wheel. I've honestly kinda wondered about safety on them. On the one wheel if I crashed, I normally ended up falling backwards or forwards off it and rolling. On EUC it feels hard to fall anyway besides forwards or backwards without getting your feet tangled in it. Those things are heavy and fast, I'd hate to see what they can do to ankle bones.

Yeah scooters are much bigger. You may not realize it on the street but escooters are actually pretty huge. My scooter is about half the height and 3/5ths the length of a bike while the scooter folded up. It's also twice the weight.

To compare I was fine taking my one wheel in the store, carrying it. There's something awkward about taking an escooter, in the same way you wouldn't roll your bike around a grocery store.

Also in my experience escooters are much harder to lock then bikes. Being able to just take an EUC or one wheel inside and stick it under my desk at work is a good thing to me.

I've done it, they stop really fast if you're standing on the tail. I've ridden city streets, side walks, gravel paths, and on board walks. I've had to rapidly stop more then once.

If you're coming from a scooter, you're not going to be used to how much balance you're going to use. I currently ride a scooter around (a much less substantial then your own), and if I just stand on it and press the button it'll pretty much go up to top speed and cruise. Turns can be tricky at speed but it's over all a much safer. I pretty much could ride one in the street (bike lane) on unboxing.

One Wheel took me maybe 4ish hours of practice before I attempted a street, and 2 weeks before I was comfortable unlocking it's full speed. It's not an easy thing to ride but it's really fun in a way that the scooter just isn't.

The worst is when you rent. I live in an area that doesn't really expect much cold or heat. All the windows are single paned. The sun beating on the roof raises the top floor to the outside temperature plus 5 degrees. I can't fix any of it because I'm only here for a few years.

I'm going to miss reddit. I was one of the people who came over from digg. I deleted the app and stopped using the site when the protest happened. There's a missing itch for me for short to medium form content that isn't straight news, or straight memes. A thousand person discord server works differently than a 10k person reddit.

Part of me wonders if this is inevitable. We used to do this ever few years. Hoping from aim/man/yahoo to Skype to discord. I guess we figured things had gotten stable enough. Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe we all got too comfortable and thought our content consumption habits could stay the same for ever. The internet has changed from when I first got on Reddit. I wont say for better or worse. I don't like it as much.

Slash dot, an older tech site news that was popular pre digg/reddit

They have a 1/10 from iFixit on the repairability score.

I hope they do a true wireless earbuds set. Those tend to need repairing much more frequently.

In the documentary (I'm assuming Fantastic Fungi), he came off as one of those types that are first and foremost making money off it, but also believes some of what he's saying. I honestly just wanted that documentary to just be a Planet Earth style thing with mushroom footage, and less talking heads.