Milestones my relationship has survived: building IKEA furniture together, meeting my insane family, and getting absolutely destroyed, creamed, and atomised into a fine red mist by her in Pokemon TCG for the Game Boy Color

Not enough people know that the Creed guitarist has a signature wah pedal that looks like this

“NSO has Battletoads” I say during my annual colonoscopy

Black Sabbath Lifetime King Crimson Beatles Parliament Funkadelic Aphex Twin Hank Williams Depeche Mode

When she comes over during the week my girlfriend brings me spicy noodles with extra bok choy for lunch. She’s the best @floppablecat.bsky.social 🖤

I swap out drive pedals like they're socks but I just got a Boss MD-2 and I'm gonna be messing around with it for a while. REALLY good definition of individual notes/palm mutes at lower levels when boosting a dirty amp, and when you palm mute as much as me (read: too much) that is very important

The Indian place @floppablecat.bsky.social and I order from always has 2 for 1 deals on papadums, so I have very helpfully written a song (to the tune of Papa Don’t Preach) to remind me how many we each get. It’s called Four Papadums Each

They should add Zionism to the DSM and call it the Draiman Edition

New guitar day: finally got myself a @foie.bsky.social signature model, aka 2013 Gibson LPJ in red. 24 frets on Gibson scale. I used to have one of the SGs in this finish but sold it, and seeing as Les Pauls are better than SGs this is an upgrade. Praises to Ishibashi

Worst crowd at a gig I've ever seen is A Wilhelm Scream in 2008. So many angry argyle socks and cabbie hats, hell hath no fury like an egg punk divorced. Just got tickets to see them again next year and we'll all be 18 years older, piss & vinegar lost and mortgages & back pain gained. Punks is AARP

Update: they did not go, and now there’s a public health alert about one of the gigs being a superspreader event for measles. Cool and normal

I was bummed about digital MK Legacy Kollection launching before the physical game because that meant I'd be waiting to play it. But seeing as multiplayer is "not feature complete at launch" to paraphrase the reviews, digital customers are serving as beta testers in this case? Wild

Only concern re: the excellent result we just had is Cuomo saying he’ll leave NYC if he loses. If he moves to Florida, where every tri-state old fart goes when they start wearing their glasses too low, there’s a lot of old people down there. If his record is anything to go by I fear for their safety

Cuomo comes from a long and storied lineage of bigoted attack campaigns against political opponents. Google “Cuomo Koch leaflet” to find out more!

Before I get my bass set up and restrung with new Steve Harris flats I feel like I need to record some Motown/dub shit with it. The years-old and dead strings on there now would be perfect for that sort of thing. Thankfully, I can throw that thought aside because I can’t actually play. Convenient!

I talk a lot of shit about my folks but I do genuinely love them, so I made sure they knew about the upcoming Jelly Roll tour. They love the Roll

Funeral doom is a lot like funk music in that all the drummer needs to do is stay awake

Me when I finish a large delivery bowl from the Noodle Box near my girlfriend’s house that they close with a hydraulic press that has like three days of food in it

Mere hours after upgrading my PC to Windows 11 I had a disc write error on my main SSD. Microsoft is actively aiding and abetting a genocide, makes dogshit software, and can suck my shit through a vacuum hose

My girlfriend is learning the bass line for Sunny Day Real Estate’s Pillars right now. She’s so cool @floppablecat.bsky.social 🖤

If I were in public relations and hired by Gearbox to assist with their current issues I would recommend they patch the game but no digital delivery: put it on millions of USB drives and drop them in the lost and found boxes at every Medieval Times

A $39 42” plasma (less than a dollar per inch!) with giant bezels and a Wii U running BotW, with the gamepad configured to work as the TV’s remote control, in the year of our lord 2025. I cannot express in words how fucking funny this is to me @floppablecat.bsky.social

Gamers have gentrified CRTS so instead I got an old plasma TV to connect old consoles to. It'll take up more space than a RetroTINK but instead of $500+ this cost me $39. The stand it sits on will likely cost more than the TV itself which convinces me it's the right solution because that's funny

Two more (bring back Comic Sans on the Jester Race's cover you cowards)

We watched the fireworks~

Riverfire 2025

The only "big sound" I can hear is these planes! Am I right, gang?

Therapist: The Japan-exclusive Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition coke platter isn't real. It can't hurt you The Japan-exclusive Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition coke platter:

Let’s just say I didn’t drink the full, sealed blue Powerade the previous guests left in my hotel fridge. Would I be passing some sort of test of my decency? Will my sacrifice be noted and my harvests be bountiful forever more? Much to consider here

Hate finding out that someone whose work is important to you might be one of those insane people who edits their own Wikipedia page. There’s a little too much self-aggrandising, detail that doesn’t really contribute anything, and the feeling creeps in slowly that damn, maybe they suck

The people I'm seeing going on about out of control crime right now are absolutely the kind to go out in designer everything, luxury car, outdoor table at the fancy restaurant - conspicuously wealthy people. They see the difference between how they live to the average person and they're scared

If your haloumi doesn’t have mint and you want mint, just brush your teeth before you eat it. Same shit

"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you

How much do you think some FB Marketplace wingnut would pay for a full carton of Bundaberg spiced ginger beer in July

Not gonna do it every time but on occasion I’m gonna post the record I’m listening to here. I lived without my records for four years and now that I have them back it’s been so much fun rediscovering them. We’ll start with a barn burner that has that unmistakeable StingRay bass tone:

By the time I got into the Misfits Static Age and the box set were out but there were still a lot of people online referring new fans to the Collections, those Smiths-style haphazard mishmashes of single and album tracks made out of necessity because it was all out of print/unreleased at the time

Really like how Microsoft Authenticator checks my face at least twice, to ensure I am not a soul-stealing shapeshifter like Shang Tsung

My first concert was seeing the original lineup of Black Sabbath at the Spectrum in Philly in 1999. I got the tickets for Christmas and when I took them out of the envelope my legs gave out from under me. Dad says I was never the same after that gig. It's been a sad day. RIP Ozzy

Last night I did a Metal-Archives deep dive on old Australian bands and found the artist page of a dude I lived with in the oughts. He is in at least one active NSBM band, has a sunwheel tattoo, and prior to finding this out/since returning to Brisbane I have seen and said hi to him at a gigs. Gross

Ayyyyy I lose a da primary, I kill da old people, I get a little handsy. I'm not a pervert, I'm Italian! Ohhhhh!!

My biggest problem with Black No. 1 is that the guy doesn't say "loving you was like loving the dead" enough times

I can absolutely see Sony doing nothing with the WipeOut franchise ever again. We'll still have BallisticNG/the Fast games but without Designers Republic or someone doing their best impression of them, something super cool and kind of expected in that genre of game is lost and it's just not the same

Bands that stay in a vary narrow lane stylistically and as a result have basically one song that they minutely tweak to make more songs but are still good bands: AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Electric Wizard, ZZ Top, Dinosaur Jr.

Saw my folks today. They gave me one of those huge Costco boxes of baby spinach, and with no room in the fridge I went to the supermarket, got ingredients and then made it all into creamed spinach, one of the denser and more space-saving kinds of spinach. First time making it, turned out pretty okay

Extension lead IS brat

Standing behind a guy whose shirt has a border on the design that’s just made of swastikas. I fucking hate black metal so much

What The-era Black Flag. Ron fell on his face mid-set and a few nights later they booted him out. Every song was played at half speed or slower and Greg had a fucking theremin. Also, Greg was in the crowd before their set and nobody stopped him for a photo or anything. Bad vibes coming off that guy

Friendly reminder that no matter how funny it is when you ask the AI to jack you off, you can only do that if you're a loser that pays for twitter

For any unconverted out there, highly recommend unlocking the true power of PlayStation and downloading Balatro for free this month