Raskolnikov

It's another one of those 'resent the entire universe' days...

Strong winds disgust me. What power play do you think you're playing at abusing the poor curtain, I'm gonna start firing shots at the clouds

Below The Lake by Soulmass.

Browsing and preparing to brush teeth soon while listening to Soulmass :3

Scott Benson? Of Night in The Woods?

Bairro calling us site breakers

Tired... very tired. I want to practice more than this but tiredness zzzz...

Pfft, mowing lawns is overrated anyway. The grass monoculture isn't even natural :p

FLAC is king. They are larger file sizes but so worth it.

If we use all of them at the same time we are bound to crash the server

Tips vid on how to keep a straight bow on the violin, I generally stick to Fiddlehed and Joy Lee for violin learning but Katy Adelson has the best video by far, explaining the technicalities of bowing and then suggesting her straw technique - I need to get myself a couple straws and try this!! I notice the bad violin tone from crooked bowing when I play and my bow slips and it drives me mad and this will force me to maintain proper posture :]

Agreed - ratings are arbitrary and too subjective. What a 7.0 means to me will be different to someone else's 7.0. I would prefer people just give their summarised opinion on something than slap a rating on it because a rating tells me nothing ultimately.

I get you but you need not fear. I have a feeling if anyone was mean to you here we'd all be loading our guns ready to kill them

The album My Arms, Your Hearse by Opeth. The remastered release fixes some of the muddiness without taking away the grit IMO, the production has really grown on me. I've grown to really like a lot of the strangeness of 90's metal albums before it all became more and more sophisticated and polished.

I can only echo what the others have said @ComanderZhabikKlavik, I find your willpower and ability to go against family pressure admirable. You mentioned losing a family member so your ability to be productive might be affected - that is fine and it's human to take a rest if need be. You sound like a chad, I need a gym membership Same cardamom tea as Acinonyx, took photo on my bedside table as it would feel weird taking a photo on their desk as it doesn't feel like *my* space - I usually listen to music and browse or read in bed when I drink my tea so it made more sense. I'm about to put on the album Crimson by Edge of Sanity, I liked it before but haven't given it enough attention to make my mind up and I suppose I'm in the mood. I put it on earlier too but I think I prefer complete solitude and silence for this kinda thing. I'm about to send Bairro from this forum a PM about how me and Acinonyx met, it always feels daunting when people ask as it's a very long story and you miss out a lot of details with just a summary. Which is why I'm on Acinonyx's desk as my laptop broke a while back and it can be frustrating typing long messages on mobile. I don't really like to reflect these days so I'll probably not post here much on that regard unless something interesting has happened. I just figured I may post to respond to Zhabik's post and add this. I struggle with shyness too but not as much these days, counselling has made me be more accepting of it and I realised I'm an introvert outside of my shyness... but I would still like to connect with people more, I feel more and more on a different planet each day and trying to put myself out there more exasperates the feeling rather than lessens it. I don't think there's a solution anymore really, it is what it is. In any case, hoping to get a teapot to finally get into loose leaf brewing - I have been meaning to get into it for ages but our old teapot broke when I was washing it in the sink a couple years ago would love to try tea mixes! And to mess with brewing temperatures. I feel like I don't even know what proper tea is yet. I should probably stop procrastinating and get to that PM.

You know when I think about it if I were the one making the 7 Deadly Sins of the Catholics I'd not pick those ones. If you were to ask me Cowardice should be the most fatal deadly sin yet it's not considered as such... hmm. Wonder if "which traits would you consider deadly sins" is a thread idea.

Bleh, accidentally ordered LED bulbs without a remote, so now I'm gonna have to walk to a shop and get different ones :| Already half assembled the lamp and I just wanna get it done already cos you have to put it all together with the bulb already in and I don't wanna have to disassemble sections of the lamp just to put the bulbs and then put it back together

(Credit for this idea goes to @Acinonyx as they voiced it out loud to me a few weeks ago but haven't made a thread about this yet and I'm not so sure they will) The Ask a Pony section seems a bit... hmm, chaotic, when it comes to separating from member threads and character threads. Putting them all together makes for a confusing experience when you're interested in finding topics of other members so you can ask questions, and it's a bit strange to include member ask threads in the Roleplay World section because unless I'm interpreting it wrong, the member asks are for the real life people and not necessarily pony OCs/self inserts? Perhaps they should be organised into different subsections, or member asks moved elsewhere entirely into the Beyond Equestria section. I think the latter idea would be great for an easy way to get to know other members better in a section you may expect to see such threads.

There are some really cool ranks I've noticed like 'Dragon' or 'Evil Changeling' and I feel like when I have earned a rank I like, I'd feel like I'm getting a downgrade for overcoming it if I don't like the rank that comes after as much. Would it be a more rewarding experience for people to get a list of ranks they've earned and pick which one they wish to display on their profile? That way it still incentivises engagement if you have to earn them but you won't be 'punished' for posting if you go up a rank and don't like it. It'd also make profiles feel more customisable so the way I see it everyone would win? (I know forums have their limitations sometimes so idk how feasible this suggestion would be in reality even if people do like it, so my bad if it's hard/impossible to implement.)

God no, Disney has ruined enough franchises they've acquired as is. It'd be a bunch of hairy photorealistic monstrosities that scare children to death with how they do "live action" films now and they'd all lose all characterisation and become mere walking plot devices that go from point A to point B with the world's most awkward, robotic lines. The death of standards. I'm thinking I missed something and I'm massively unimpressed.

Well, if "the occasional chirp" isn't grounds for disruptive noise, this is certain to be acceptable...

I hope not. It just looks like an Australian version of Peppa Pig, and Peppa Pig, particularly the voices and lines, make me feel only one way.

There's an immigrant food shop in town and the shopkeepers are always eager to chat and very friendly, genuinely appreciate them talking to us about various things :]

Some people need real problems sweet jesus lol