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Ok maybe it was a bad idea to start setting up this rack this late at night. I'll just continue it tomorrow. Also I need to get a rug.

Why are we filling vinyl records with water again? I'm just seeing them leak more and more. That might be mixed generally with poorer QC at vinyl record plants though compared to like 20+ years ago. Maybe they do hold up if it's actually pressed well.

I hesitate a bit and then take it with water. I had major issues with it when I was younger. It had to be crushed or ground up and mixed with water because I didn't like the way it went down the throat. It still feels weird, but it freaked me out as a kid. I take them as it was intended now.

Ok I accidentally changed the title of this while scrolling (and changed it back, followed by the forums going down for a bit) so now I have to pay for my crime by responding. A combination of "It's not that bad / It was bound to happen anyways / It doesn't affect me so I don't care / You're overreacting" to anyone who says this stuff when someone is emotionally distressed: you probably wouldn't like it if someone else said any of these things to you if you were struggling really badly with something and came to them for some sort of comfort. And now I realize that "you probably wouldn't like it if" would be a fit for this thread.

There's a bridge near where I live with a paranormal history attached to it. It's been out of use for a long time until fairly recently when they turned it into a pedestrian walkway. I literally had no idea this existed. I've driven right by this place almost my entire life (though ever since they expanded Gate City Blvd./Jamestown Pkwy, I've used that because it's faster). I thought they were just slightly making the road bigger and making it nicer, I didn't know it was a much larger project to also clean up the bridge for a walkway and to celebrate it's paranormal history. It's called Lydia's Bridge. It gets confused with the current one in use (the one with graffiti all over it, that's from high schoolers and yes they're allowed to do it, it's tradition) but right next to it literally in walking distance is a much older underpass which runs under the same railway. The legend got garbled up over time and there's multiple versions of it, but the consistent detail is people will stop to pick up a young hitchhiking woman wearing a white dress only to realize she isn't there anymore. Or they floor it because they get spooked (and I know that specific road, it's narrow (used to be even more narrow) and REALLY curvy, so that's a really dangerous thing to do there. But usually she just disappears when they get close to it. There's also been a lot of reports of headlights flickering (this I've experienced) or other strange anomalies involving radio signals, camera equipment, etc. It seems like the origin comes from a real accident that happened in the 1920's and involved a car accident at the bridge, where one woman died and everyone else survived but with varying injuries. Annie L. Jackson is the woman who died in the accident. Not long after, the legend started to go around about this bridge. It's suspected of course that her middle name stands for Lydia from a descendant of hers, but they're not 100% sure. It's just assumed because she wasn't spoken about much by her family. Otherwise it does match up the most considering the tale itself. Who knows where the "prom" thing came from, but tales like these are just one big game of telephone anyways. https://www.wgpfoundation.org/historic-markers/lydias-bridge/ https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/lydias-bridge-mystery-solved/83-487001437 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58464999/annie-lydia-jackson

Whenever a hobby community talks down on a new hobbyist for getting things that are recommended by said community. Like, why recommend those to newcomers to begin with if you're just gonna be mean about it to newcomers? Makes no sense to me.

This wasn't last night but it happened a few days ago after a nap. I'll spare some details. I fell in love with a street performer; a trumpet player to be exact. I'm talking head over heels, like I was hypnotized. They were finishing up a street performance with their friend who was a percussionist and they had a little crowd around them. When they finished, the percussionist went to go to a bar because the trumpet guy wanted to walk and talk with me. But it was like we were suddenly on a date and it felt like forever. He was just so easy to talk to and very sincere. Why did he pick me? There was already a crowd where I'd literally just shown up and he singled me out. I was flustered for the rest of the day after I woke up. I've never been properly in love with anyone but I guess now I know what that feeling is like.

I forgot I ordered this book a while ago, How You Make Me Feel: The Life & Legacy of Marcus Intalex by Sherif Dhaimish and Mark O'Donnell, and it came in yesterday. I'm going through it today and so far it's very interesting. I've been researching a ton into the history of jungle and drum & bass so it's been very helpful with that, shows how interconnected a lot of people are. It's a biography of DJ and music artist Marcus Kaye, otherwise known as Marcus Intalex, and his career in the rave music scene as well as some parts of his personal life. He's one of my personal idols and I don't have that many. It's great to hear he was a decent bloke, very blunt and honest but that was his way of showing his kindness. There's an excerpt here: https://ukf.com/read/how-you-make-me-feel-an-extract/ The little story on there about Goldie giving them that mixing desk is funny. Why was he in his underpants? We'll never know, but that's really just classic Goldie nonsense.

My tinfoil hat is on, so I'll say it intentionally got "left behind" by Toshiba for business reasons because Toshiba is a founding member of the HDMI Forum, which initially consisted of Hitachi, Matsushita (Panasonic), Maxell, Philips, Silicon Image (Lattice Semicondictor), Sony, Thomson (Technicolor SA/Vantiva SA), and Toshiba. And because HDMI involves a lot of licensing, there's lots of money to be made. I'm sure they've all made bucketloads of money from it. Everyone is scratching each other's backs basically.

I don't remember if it was weighted or not but I graduated high school with like a 2.5 GPA. Might've been a bit less than that actually.

Flim and Flam on their way to finally put the Apple family out of business

So initially I didn't know what I wanted to do as I was getting close to graduating high school. I decided to take a break from schooling but I was pretty close to thinking about becoming a teacher. Decided not to pursue it because of how thankless and terrifyingly stressful that career is. Got by during the covid pandemic working in the kitchen at a tea café. No longer working there (thankfully). Right now my money comes from selling PCs and PC parts but while that's been good for me, it's also stressful and I lost a lot of enjoyment from it recently because of memory prices skyrocketing due to AI. It used to be one of the most affordable parts but now it's worse than even GPUs. I want out. I want to pursue music as a solo artist, along with DJing now (that just comes with the music I make) but that's also stressful in a different way. I don't want to play the social media game. It's necessary these days but it's overwhelming me just looking at it. I would say I don't know how people do it, but I used to sit on Discord constantly from 2018 to like 2023 pretty badly. So uh... Don't get me started on AI bros. They say otherwise but there's a lot of issues and contradictions there that tells me they want to become popular and make money through no effort beyond trying to type the correct prompt for a few hours. Yet people just... listen to it and give their support blindly. "Talented" sure bud. Takes a lot of talent to write a prompt that something else will churn out, the result sounding all the same but in a really bad way. Go ahead and keep telling me I'll get left behind. I don't care about being in this race, creative endeavors aren't even a race. The only race here is AI bro vs AI bro. AI bros are missing what puts "human emotions & expressions" into "human emotions & expressions". Posers.

I finally thought of something for this thread and I know it's a hot take, but it's wrestling for me (WWF/WWE-type, "normal" wrestling is fine). Well, I don't hate it. I just don't like it, something is off about it. This is in contrast to boxing, even though I consider both sports to be unsafe for the fighters, boxing doesn't give me that same feeling. I'm more indifferent to it, idk.

So, I know back then that there was a teacups reaction which eventually got removed (alongside some other reactions) because it was generally used as a negative reaction. I don't know or remember if this was ever brought up before, but if a replacement ever gets considered, I propose cider mug cheers like in the screencap above. Maybe simplified to just two of them so it isn't too busy when it's small, and named simply as "cheers". There's been some asks for it here and there, so if it were to return in some capacity then this seems like an appropriate replacement. I'm not sure how anyone could take this the wrong way as this gesture is universally positive.

Hovering just under below freezing and we're starting to get heavier fog and snowfall.

I have a thing where I feel like crap if others clean for me so probably not. If anything, I become the maid.

"Rabid" describes the fanbase for it. Like what you want but jeez, some of them are absolutely feral and borderline bullies if you don't like tamers content. It might be worse than (or on par with) when people argue about who's the "best pony" and literally go to war over something that ridiculous.

DISTURBED. That's the most I'll say about it.

This never went released but it sounds like it could be from a video game doesnt it?

So happy to own this now! Now to get the full album and the other sampler, as well as the Just Fine EP. Whenever those want to pop up in the States and aren't $50 for "one disc only" I'll be ready.