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The band is Apoptygma Berzerk, "Norwegian Futurepop" apparently.  Jeez the CD I had, Welcome To Earth, was released in 2000...  Couldn't have been more than a year or two old when we got it.  Dad was way into trance back then, but I preferred stuff like this that was a bit more compact and hinted at a story.  Though nonvocal electronica was great coding music.

Huh, been a while since I seen that name (well, outside the music files that've been following me around for years). Listened to it a fair bit back in high school, if I'm not misremembering. Pretty sure I initially ran into them via AMVs, ha. Not super keen on them anymore (I still got one or two of their songs lingering in my old music junkpile), but it's still pretty listenable. Quick check and I think it was Non-stop Violence I remember from 'em. Quick check also shows that wow that indeed sounds like it was from decades go now :V

Any case, I'm still not quite sure exactly what the overarching genre shivelight highlights, but damn if I don't like whatever the hell it is (that particular one being Skope -- Beneath). Downtempo, global/tribal stuff, seems to be the most common shared designations.

... frankly the stuff's largely very, very obviously drug music, but it's still right to my tastes. Day to day work music's mostly been just pulling up that channel and letting it go.

Poor goddamned Louisiana. It's just been friggin' pummeled this hurricane season

Someone cheeky over at thorndike slipped a 666 into the isbn of a book of christian fiction dealing with the rapture. For those that want to see it, have a link to a random library in Kansas that apparently has the exact edition in their catalog: http://catalog.tscpl.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=1080951

Part of me's curious what the hell he's doing to render him unable to register something landing in his hair. I've had flies and such land on my head before and that shit is super noticeable, but I've seen other folks seemingly not, occasionally.

Is it just another side effect of hair spray or whatever?

Kalpa, kalpa... a looped kalpa is a kappa, making the whole thing an extremely long form twitch joke.

With this in mind, the giant dong floating over jaggy's head on the new book cover makes more sense.

Quote from: Frumple on October 02, 2020, 11:26:38 pm

94% Socialist
93% Green
92% Peace and Freedom
91% Democratic
90% Transhumanist
49% Libertarian
16% Republican
16% Constitution

Yeah, that... isn't a surprise, save maybe that it seems to be suggesting peace and freedom and transhumanist are actual political parties. If they are I hadn't noticed :V

I like how almost every forum member is a green socialist hipie. Until we boot up DF that is. There we rob the first elven caravan, proceed to burn the surface world with magma, and send any migrants we dislike to the atom smasher.

I mean, day before yesterday, in a game I've been playing recently I murdered hundreds of people trying to defend their home from an invading force, and hundreds more trying to rebel against a totalitarian criminal gang that seized the local government.

These are not things I'd do, recommend, encourage, or accept as reasonable in real life, under most any circumstances. A game is, in fact, a game, and not only is there nothing unusual or contradictory in holding beliefs and to behaviors at odds with those incentivized in games, I'd hope to every fucking hell imaginable most people would hold beliefs and to behaviors at odds with the omnicidally sociopathic horseshit games tend to reward

... that said, I think the actual worst I've ever done in DF was way back in the day I lined an entire map (except the road in) with serrated disk traps. Migrating animals kept getting their feet chopped off, which was pretty unkind. Never really got into the world flooding, caravan ransacking, migrant squishing stuff, though.

Man, that Salazar thing is getting weirder. Sultan attempt is turning out odd/interesting, in any case. I've taken over pretty much the entirety of twinluna from the Nasir (after everyone except the horse guys and the thur went and declared war on me with no provocation or, with the dhib and dahkn, even any interaction whatsoever) extremely early (like 2-3 months in, with an army that can take their functionally undefended towns but would get whooped if they sent even one character) and they're just... not responding to it. They didn't send help when I sequentially sieged all but two of their twinluna towns (which the horse fellows snuck before I got to them). They haven't sent anything in the week or two since I took the last town in the area.

I'm guessing what's happening is they're actually tied up with some fight in one of the other regions and basically had bigger problems that a one character faction with all of fourteen or so squads (versus their 7+ characters and 200+ squads ), which would make for some amazing accidental opportunism (oops, one random hick with a passel of half baked mercs and a few other things just stole half your empire lol) from me, but... still.

Feels almost buggy, like the AI considers me so little of a threat it's not worth taking the cities back from me. And, like. Fairness where it's due. I have less than twenty sub level 20 squads, several unpromoted, and all of a single hero character (albeit one that's got absolutely brutal AoE -- the mechanist skill tree is pretty damn vicious and will only get nastier if I ever figure out how to build the friggin' library) that hasn't even hit the level cap. I absolutely am not an actual threat relative to the established factions, yet.

Becoming one's coming along a lot faster when I'm raking in 2k(+, considering caravans) money and hundreds of iron and wood per income period thanks to having yoinked half the nasir's empire, though :V

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