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

Oh. Oh my.

I recently replaced my really good headphones with an even better set.

Tonight, I put in the _EarthBound_ (SNES) soundtrack.

If you have never sat in a quiet room and listened to this game's soundtrack through studio-quality headphones – ones with a really good soundstage and really _clear_ sub-bass – then you have not yet felt its true power, especially in the context of the story.

If I can provide this environment for you, friends, I must.

Just in case anybody wants a hint at my politics – and this really is only a hint, because this is a really stripped down summary and lacks all nuance — then here you are:

https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=87.8&d=76.1&g=78.8&s=87.0 https://awoo.space/media/zCdceGB-ReIZ_nEnDms

Is anyone surprised? 😸

Damn. Figures today – May Day – would be a no-energy day. I'm getting tired of sleeping through protests, marches, and such because of this.

See what I did there? Tired, sleeping, ha ha?

...maybe I'll pick up into things after a nap.

Riffing bad movies with friends – a worthy use of a Saturday evening. 📽 🍿 🍺 🌿

Who's that Pokémon? Oh, wait, it's just my fightstick, covered in construction dust from the next room over. Now that it's clean again, I can commence with the losing horribly in 3S! (That's _Street Fighter III: Third Strike_ for the uninitiated.)

https://awoo.space/media/u2XGK0hJ0gg-avP8A2M
https://awoo.space/media/7O4GEXeOABbJoeQMDrE
https://awoo.space/media/oTUbQ6rJnVjD1bUauS0

...I really should do more customisation than just that sticker.

https://awoo.space/media/VoE50P3pRZVKjV_HIHU

I should add a content warning for the _Facts But Better!_ podcast. We swear, we banter, we are irreverent about topics with zero malicious intent, and at least once you can hear me hit the bong on-air.

If you happen to be fond of my no-nonsense approach to utter nonsense – and don't have any medical conditions preventing you from enjoying panel-game-style podcasts – then you may enjoy a thing called _Facts But Better!_

http://www.alicia-goranson.com/FactsButBetter/

A new episode just dropped. Quick, listen before the cargo cults start worshiping it as a charming but vengeful deity! https://awoo.space/media/h3PX20BOB21zqwntgRQ

A couple months into my pronound-redefining campaign, "Invader Zim" hit the airwaves and I gave up, settling for "she" because at least nobody could justify screwing that up.

I'm actually just fine with "she" and "they" these days, and I'm really glad at least some segment of our society has finally made it to that point!

—because the set I'd settled on were:

zie / zim / zir / zirs / zirself

What can I say? Every set had its flaws, and no matter what I chose, folks would find reasons to complain, so I went with what seemed to have the fewest drawbacks. This set avoided self-collision (each form is distinct), maintained compatibility with common English phonemes, held audible distinctness from existing words, all of that.

In the year 2000 (*falsetto* In the year two-thoooousaaaaaand 🎶) and still hopped up on the heady rush of long-delayed teenage-style rebellion, I finally got enough courage together to start telling friends that I would be going by a new set of pronouns. Not to trivialise the efforts of "the kids these days", but at that time it wasn't so easy as plopping a couple words in a social media profile. I got a lot of pushback from my peers. Don't judge them too harshly, though—

Since @Fuego asked nicely and I'm probably a jerk for not mentioning directly in my profile, the pronouns I go by are the standard English "she" and "they" sets.

My amazing wife @literorrery just rolled over in bed, woke up enough to mumble, "This track is a great honey trap," and then fell fully asleep again before I could get clarification.

You heard it here first, folks. http://www.di.fm/tracks/57709/spacemusic – genre is "honey trap".

"What's your gender?" has taken a meaning rather like the question, "What are you made of?"

"Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, primal fire, smoke, mirrors, dreams, mud, star-stuff, numbers, and sterner stuff yet. And cute animal noises."

". . . ."

"Oh, and trace amounts of heavy metal, heavy metal, and Heavy Metal. And mercury, because I eat a lot of fish—"

Don't bother asking. There isn't a complete answer to be given, and all context does is restrict it until it's even less complete.

Oh, and here's the punchline:

The most recent time? Windows 10 Creators Edition.

Seriously, they are so obsessed with achieving the "perfect UI" that they have increasingly sabotaged the ability for Windows users to alter system fonts, starting with Windows 8. So, yes, I went that far, and that was the result.

I have _opinions_ on this matter. I seriously want to yell in the face of whatever Microsoft employee was responsible for this decision.

Get to know me! Take a "How Keet am I?" quiz. Find out how Keet you are!

How many times have you replaced the system font of a device or system you own....

...with its built-in config UI?

...with a third-party tool?

...by directly editing text-based config files?

...by hex-editing system-critical files?

...and caused a boot loop?

...that required a recovery drive?

...and then a complete system reinstall?

If any of your answers are less than five, GET ON MY LEVEL, SCRUB. 😸