misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

Gettin' reeeeeeal tired of Windows 10 breaking half my shit when it updates.

If you like Megaman X4, speedrunning in general, or just hearing the nicest guy in the world do voices and occasionally sing along with videogames, TheBlacktastic is gettin' set to have a first go at learning to speedrun MMX4. Should be good!

https://www.twitch.tv/theblacktastic

"Your candy tastes like soap!"

"Yeah, well, your soap tastes like... uh... flavor!"

Derek: Tanker (somehow survives despite his best efforts)

Richter: Blaster (overconfident and oblivious to team panic)

Edith: Controller (oddly grounding and sleep counts as a mez okay)

Alex: Scrapper (tends to escalate by clawing at everything)

Graham: Defender (desperately failing to keep it all together)

Over half the folks I see with masks leave them gaping open at the top such that the nose doesn't even come in contact with the the mask. This isn't wearing a mask, it's dangling a fashion accessory and pretending to technically meet the rules. It's intentionally conspicuous neglect.

There was one of these in an enclosed area Orrery and I also had to sit in.

I asked him to put it on correctly and he tugged it up to appear to cover his nose then looked away... and it dropped back down to below. So I asked him again. He did the same thing again.

Orrery told him to pull it up. He said he'd been vaccinated, so why did we care? (The CDC recommends folks still wear masks in public after vaccination.)

That's when somebody-definitely-not-me had had enough. They walked up to the guy, stood with their mouth a foot from the dude's ear, and screamed at near top volume, "Put. On. Your. Mask!" Not the best move, and it might technically count as assault, but I know I'd call it defense of self and others. Still, not the greatest.

To his credit, he didn't really flinch... but at least he left the room. I'm sure they stubbornly refused to learn anything from it, though, and I'm sure that somebody-definitely-not-me is somewhat uncomfortable with having snapped like that.

But still, that must have been very, very cathartic for them.

@Leucrotta So much this. It's been an interesting ride, picking up favorite media from when I was younger... and seeing so many ways in which they're anywhere from flimsy to problematic. Do I still love 'em? For lots of reasons, yeah, but not without reservations, and I certainly don't recommend 'em without content warnings (provided I can remember what needs CW's!)

@rainwarrior I tried the beta, took notes on issues, then... apparently never shared those, because I am absent-minded. Oops!

Even in its beta state, I had a great time! Super-solid production values, everything felt really good for controls, totally recommendable.

...though, being a mediocre gamer at best, I'm lousy at the timing for getting max height or range out of block-jumps. Either it's tuned for higher skill than mine, or I missed some movement tech or upgrade along the way.

@Leucrotta There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinichi_Kawakami who claims to be the last ninja ever, but there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaaki_Hatsumi also. That's all I was able to find.

Then again, good ninja are hard to find....

Total Moai head statues: 887.
Moai head emoji: 1.

Currently living ninja: 2.
Ninja-related emoji: 1.

Fantasy people (vampires, merfolk, all that) in existence: 0.
Emoji of "person-fantasy" classification: 11.

Cannabis users worldwide: ~159 million.
Cannabis-related emoji: 0.

Draft candidates for Unicode Emoji inclusion: 37.
Unicode Consortium excuses: Still counting....

Ever since I borrowed (then kept) my father's acoustic melodica – as seen at https://en.audiofanzine.com/melodica/hohner/melodica-soprano-9451/ – I've wanted something similar but not-so-acoustic so I can plug in headphones in and casually play without anyone else having to hear. Most melodicas use a mouthpiece on a connecting tube for breath control, but I think I'd prefer the tube so I can play like any other digital keyboard.

So far, everything I can find is:
* woodwind-style keys (or something even less understandable);
* an expensive device to plug into an expensive MIDI device that understands breath control (huge pro-level synths, obscure keytars found only in Japan, or a PC which significantly reduces the pick-up-and-play factor);
* plans for how to assemble one, something I definitely don't have the skill for.

Oh, and a lot of folks saying they want the same thing, all bewildered that nobody seems to make the damn things. *grumble*

Gettin' reeeeeeal weary of agonizing over the decision to buy an electronic device only to find post-purchase that it does a fraction of what it's advertised to.

@Leucrotta They're all cuties, but the snow leopard is especially cute. :)