profgrumpypants

David Lynch's Straight Story

I have nothing to add in the mechanical department, as those keyboards drive me insane personally.

I just wanted to add some comments on finding a solid keyboard you love.

• Make sure the texture(s) are right for you. Space-age material is cool, but when you hate the feel of your fancy new keyboard, it's not a fun type.
• Check the travel, everyone has different expectations and needs for the travel of their keyboard. The setup, and in turn the travel will honestly change your accuracy and speed when it comes to typing. You can adjust of course, but picking up a board you enjoy to type on is always better. For this, I had a sit and truly wondered what I like to press and how I like to type. I stuck a piece of paper and just pounded out on it. I saw how I held my hands, as well as where I liked to hang them and where I was hitting keys from.
• Create a list of contenders. Analyze if you feel comfortable with their price-to-value, features, form (see above).
• Do your research. I'll watch videos and turn their sound off and try to watch people using the tech they're pawning off. Asking folks helps weed out the noise machine, but I have also been burnt by trusting others over my gut. So I say a healthy mix of everything leads to a happy purchase.
• Try to purchase from a place you can return to, just in case all else fails.

I often think of purchases as something I am doing to help myself for an extended period of time. So that might also play into your purchase, and I would look to see what sort of support one could get in that department. Good luck, I hope you find your "dream-board!"

The funniest part is DIVI-DEAD was the one that was calling to me the most. Probably because the way you praised it. I figured I would give it a watch to see what's going on with it, and go from there (gotta track these guys down you know?) I think vis-novels are probably the easier of the bunch to get going. Holy jam, Kamidori is set @119 hour playtime? Jesus Christ, that's not a VN, that's War & Peace.

Pumpkin Eater I played once, and have thought of as the grossest VisNovel I have ever read. It's kind of like sad family splatter-punk. It is kinetic however, it's kind of like paying for a show or something. Doesn't bug me, but I do know people are like "Where's the game!?" Speaking of good games (I see you there!) I love those two very much! They capture the frantic joy of flash games to me. Which I think Jars does as well, as long as you're not against grinding in a puzzle game. It's just so cute, a little "spoopy" and has such a fun OST. Right now, I am currently playing Look Outside, which is a RPG Maker game with a lot of love put into it. My most recent play however was Sanitarium which champed it's way through the whole thing on my laptop. I played it with headphones and heard stuff I had never heard before. Was a great game, is a great game. It's Adventure based however, in fact none of these are VisNovs, just spoopy games. They're what's been on my radar as of late.

It's so maddeningly awful. In talking with my partner about this, she ended up bursting out in tears over our latest lost boy. He's been gone for years by this point, it's just still so awful when you think about the circumstances. You do what you do for them, out of love.

Roki is such a beautiful game. The controls I feel might have been planned with mobile up-front. It was really an awful system if I remember, which involved clicking, dragging, and then moving to highlight the item you want to use while clicking on it. But it has a wonderful sountrack to match it's fantastic and whimsical design. I liked it, but the controls were still so trash.

I was wondering this very thing. As some fossils were preserved whole, as others were not. I believe though, the whole ones, or even the ones that captured large contiguous chunks of tail could disprove this. Not sure, just was having a guess.

*Not due to soft tissue being found but more so signs of trapped decay of some sort.

I did some hoping, and some seriously long looks at the list. Thank you for these! I was gunna toss you some back if you don't mind. I realized none of them are JP, but they are all vis-novels.

Mediterranea Inferno Giallo, Homo, Death Game Pumpkin Eater Kinetic, Vomit Fest, Trauma Grotesque Beauty Ito, Dream Realm, Monster We Know the Devil Counter-Culture, Queer, Great OST

Idk if you would like any of these, but they've all been nice games to "play." Some are less interactive than others.

Of course, I completely understand. Mourn well, take care of yourself and remember they always live on in our hearts and our stories!

Retrievers are god's gift to this world. They're just some kind of love, and I am sorry you lost yours tonight. Sounds like she loved you so much, she wanted to stay with you as long as she could. I bet you she was a sweet bug the whole way through. It's really special you got to spend all the time with her. Got me tearing up over here. I hope you've got someone/thing/folks to look out for you. I hope you get a chance to mourn like the dead deserve. I hope you find happiness in the little things you loved the most about her. Allow yourself space to honor your emotions. My gal likes to think they're just waiting for us, and I can tell you I've had moments where I've felt like the little buggers are still around.

It's kind of funny, at least in my own experience. Which I believe I read somewhere was quite common. The friends that I have made and kept around, tend to be neurodivergent as well. I am not saying it has to be exclusively neurodivergent folks. I am saying I know a lotta silly, loveable weirdos. I've got nothing on the last part.

Oh my god, you guys are killing me.

I don't think it was social media. To be honest with you, this is the worst thing I have ever said. Seriously! I swear to god, it was once the "normies" got on the internet. I think "normies" are socialized to be cruel, and they took that cruelty to the internet. I loved it when it was for the freaks and the geeks. It was the best of the best!

It took my favorite activity (reading) and turned it into a social one. An educational one too! It was amazing. There's still bits out here. I mean look at us. But there's a lot of trash on these sites too. Just filter, enjoy your echo chamber, and be open to people entering it with opposite opinions. In fact, be open to opinions all over the place, even in person. Just saying, I use this as reprieve. I don't need to work myself up, I want to chill and cool down with it.