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

Ah! Nevermind, found the "problem". Restored default Segoe UI ugliness to Windows, everything works fine now.

Really, Microsoft? This is how badly you need your bullshit branding to stick?

The newest video drivers for my system added advertisements to the driver control panel... and now trying to do any of the actually functional things with it causes it to crash out.

I'm getting really sick of software updates that only make things worse.

I've got to share this album by one of my favourite composers: https://shnabubula.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-diaspora

Come for the really synthy videogamey prog rock, stay for the tonality-twisting alien landscape. No, seriously, it starts accessible and then gently gets weirder, so you can always stop if it gets too out-there. (The last track almost stopped me, but not quite – it doesn't push the obscure microtonal tunings enough to make me nope out.)

At least look at the pretty cover art. Oooh, pretty.

Replacing Segoe UI in Windows 10 can greatly improve readability and aesthetics, but there are occasional side effects. For example, if a program ignores good practice by insisting too hard on having Segoe UI and ignoring the substitutions table, the font offered up may not be appropriate for the task.

Folks, I present to you the new, improved Acrobat Reader preferences dialog: https://awoo.space/media/szLVY0Q_mLdCB_gDQPg

PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE

So I tried to visit anker.com with JavaScript turned off....

https://awoo.space/media/0I31x-u8ggwo_pkRnBA

Proof that my current mental health regimen is working very well: I'm getting back into capsaicin. 🌶​

I think I might set up a regex filter for "boost if you agree".

Boost if you—

Ennh, nevermind.

Fellow videogame music lovers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiHARNmz5fQ is a playlist of a single representative track from every single one of Konami's Famicom and NES games in chronological order. This takes two hours – but it's two solid hours of some very, very good music, with annotations that point out sound engine upgrades, notable composers, and other neat trivia.

Of course, it starts a little simplistic, but you get to hear the evolution of some of the greatest stuff out there. I approve!

Or, just listen to the soundtrack here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B69BAADE72B245D

I especially like the Rusty Ruin, Volcano Valley, Diamond Dust, and Panic Puppet Act 2 tracks. Basically, everything Tatsuyuki Maeda did.

Sonic 3D Blast Director's Cut (Genesis) dropped yesterday. Video and links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nBeppQgFGw

I've never actually liked this game that much, though I really wanted to. The Director's Cut fixes up a lot of the stuff that made it extra frustrating to play and adds some very nice touches. I don't think it's become a _good_ game, but it's no longer such a terrible waste of effort. The graphics are actually pretty sweet and most of the music is amazing. Give it a try!

As the benefit of the TMS becomes clearer, the more I say the words, "Depression is ugly, because it makes it so much harder to $ACTIVITY so everything just keeps getting worse."

$ACTIVITY could be any of:
• clean (house|self|anything)
• maintain (friendships|health|anything)
• fulfil (obligations|desires|anything)
• enjoy (good things|myself|anything)
• feel... anything

It's like I've been half-asleep for a long time, but I'm waking up a little more each day.

FUCK YEAH VIDEOGAME MUSIC

gimme dem beeps
gimme dem boops
gimme dat farty FM synth
gimme dat smoooooove wavetable
gimme some of dat Redbook audio

EVERY DAY IS HAPPY VGM DAY

And it's less than half an hour, which means even my attention span can survive it. *grin*