Got invited to dinner by my mom for maybe the 2nd time in my life after moving out 10 years ago and of course it's right after I started having chest pains from (foolishly) eating insane amounts of sodium thanks to canned chicken noodle soup. What's for dinner? Chicken noodle soup.

I've played Digimon Story Time Stranger for almost 60 hours and just learned that the training sets used to increase stats are infinite use. I've been avoiding them this entire time. FML.

I wonder if a day will go by where I don't say "nice turn signal, asshole" while driving.

7 songs for 1 hour on An Abstract Illusion's new album The Sleeping City. We're progging good tonight.

The "mmm" sound at 50 seconds in just melts me. The perks of getting into Japanese Math Rock, I don't think I've ever heard delivery like that. youtu.be/zHj6MsXGvgw?...

Office ambient music has shifted from chill lofi back to Boomer rock radio. This is my personal hell. Gotta start wearing earbuds everywhere I go to keep my sanity up.

I've entered rhythm heaven with Spotify adding lossless quality, enabling LDAC on my phone, and listening on the Technics AZ-100's. For some songs it feels like going from 1080p to 4k, I'm hearing things previously unheard or simply in a new light.

Me this year but especially the past month

No joke had a 30 minute boss fight in Digimon Story Time Stranger. It's time for bed.

Getting seriously tired with my jlab earbuds touch controls. It has factory defaults that sometimes override custom controls. Usually a single tap is received as a long hold - the original control for play/pause. So I'll tap once, it pauses, I tap again, it plays for a split second then pauses. WTF

Refunded Hell is Us to buy Digimon Story: Time Stranger instead. The tonal whiplash is palpable. Going from meeting an old man talking about burying his sons to a little dinosaur monster telling me he wants to get swole.

I keep on starting RPGs trying to see what sticks when in the back of my mind I should probably start Persona 4. RPGs in flux: Baldur's Gate 3 - end of act 1 Earthbound - 12 hours in or so, in an annoying desert mine Shadow Hearts - 3 hours in, great music, pervy :( Idk what I should focus on!

I've used q-tips to clean my ears forever but this time I went too far and it hurts like a mfer. Lesson learned.

Shadow Hearts opening with overt perviness and 2 scripted combat deaths is surely a choice. Early 2000's JRPG gonna be like that I guess.

Oh and I made my first ever sports bet tonight. Only $20 but if AD Mitchell didn't have that holding call on Jonathan Taylor's run I'd be $200 richer.

Colts with a historic crumble to lose against the Rams, I'm in disbelief.

Keep getting strange friend requests on Steam. I think people are after my Counter-Strike skins. Guess I could make an easy $120 off two if I wanted.

I've been meaning to play more Hell Is Us but every time I sit down to game over the last couple days all I feel like loading up is Megabonk. It's so freaking fun and a perfect game for listening to music.

Had a dream where I got arrested for hitting a pedestrian while remote controlling a bike over webcam and tried to use lag as an excuse

My love for code red and sugar free drinks has won the battle over my distaste for alcohol. Not bad.

Humanizing my profile includes uploading a picture with my cat Midna. RIP Giant Dad with shaders.

My favorite pastime is adding internet friends on Steam and forgetting who they are because we haven't and probably will never play a game together 😂

Tried to refund Borderlands 4 for performance issues but accidentally spent too much time playing/diagnosing for issues and went over Steam's 2 hour refund window. Won't make this mistake again with games known for poor performance.

Is it weird that I want to date someone named Meryl just so I can shout their name like Solid Snake? I also would do the same for someone named Liquid but that seems less likely.

I think my purpose in this world is to share my favorite music with the 5 other people I know who have similar tastes. Maybe we're talking upwards of 50 if I include sharing to the progmetal subreddit.

Had a good time with Skate 4 til I realized that it's making my thumb sore after only an hour. Guess I'm relegated to playing turn-based RPGs for the rest of my life.

Shocked and disappointed that I can only find ONE mashup of Secret of the Forest and Lost Woods or Saria's Song. I must take this task on myself.

Mowing the grass before 8am should be illegal.

Colts/Broncos had bad ref calls all game and it decided the outcome. It's in my teams favor but still lame seeing the game controlled like that. Anyway, LET'S FUCKING GO INDIANA JONES AND THE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS

I'm biased but the officiating in the Colts Broncos game is truly dogshit. Colts aren't getting PI calls in the endzone yet Broncos do in the middle of the field on an uncatchable pass when the WR isn't even looking. Fucking jokers.

Feeling immense relief finally beating Tenchu after banging my head against the wall known as the final level for 3 hours. Fun game, a little jank but still playable and the music is top-tier. Excited to progress through the series. See you in Hell, Lord Mayo

Dying to the last boss in Tenchu twice because I get knocked down once and chained into unblockable hits as I get up. Super fun 🫠

Beat a mission in Tenchu and went to save. Load was the first option and once you hit X it loads, no additional confirmation. Oh, old games you so silly!

Wow my fps skills must have seriously atrophied. I'm playing Borderlands 4 on Normal and am getting absolutely bodied in the first 90 min. Died twice on the first quest and had to run away multiple times to recharge my shield. Big woof. Not sure if I need to git gud, drop the difficulty, or refund.

Spotify made this playlist that contains mostly math rock but somehow Doechii and The Callous Daoboys slipped in. It's gotta be one of the weirdest but most interesting Spotify playlist I've come across. I don't usually listen to the generated playlists but this is too neat.

Made a playlist a while back for albums I need to remember to come back to. It's getting some good action today.

Ngl I kind of like how divisive Silksong is right now. I've only played for 1.5 hours but it's so funny to see people be like "this is literal sadistic torture" and others saying "the controls are perfect, it's not very hard" The dichotomy is on point.

Unsurprisingly the music in Tenchu absolutely rips and sets a stellar ethereal tone for creeping around a demon-infested mountainside. Side note: hearing the ps1 whine as the music loop starts over feels strangely satisfying. youtu.be/SpPLGtG2Nk8?...

Tenchu 1 does a great job of making you feel like a cool ninja doing cool ninja shit but the controls and ps1 jank is truly testing my patience. After a couple failed stealth kills I say fuck it and bee-line towards the objective.

Midna getting cozy in my gaming spot.

I thought I was still up the practice with language of ps1-era games but Syohon Filter and Soul Reaver are kicking my ass. I'm walking around for 5+ minutes trying to figure out where to go.

Burning ps1 games is kind of a pain in the ass but I find fixing issues refreshingly simple. Game not reading? Clean the ps1 laser. Disc skipping? Bad burn, do it again on a different speed.

I see the misspelling "definately" so often I've started gaslighting myself that it's how British people say definitely.

Weird neither hard nor fast rule but I want to stop listening to metal that doesn't have an interesting riff or build up within the first 15 or so seconds. When you hear a song start with a bass line like this you know they give a fuck about their sound. open.spotify.com/track/7uEI09...

I've been wondering - do women care about a guy's shoes? Today I wore a new pair of sneakers and was complimented by the first stranger I came across. Question answered.

Baldur's Gate 3 continues to be one of most impressive games I've ever played. I have over 350 hours into the game and know there's still so many new things to experience. Playing as an Origin Shadowheart in just a few hours has already been so rewarding.

Copped a ticket to see Ne Obliviscaris this November! I'm not missing my chance to see them play one of the greatest songs ever written, Painters of the Tempest, Pt. II - Triptych Lux! open.spotify.com/track/77lQgP...

My personal hell is being in a meeting with a co-worker who doesn't share the same taste in games as me while I hear two background conversations about Metal Gear Solid.

I've heard people classify lofi music as elevator music and... Well they're not wrong but it kind of pisses me off 😅

Finishing a chapter in Octopath 2 is the best feeling. The boss is always challenging and the music is always perfect.