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@dosnostalgic Greenland also sounds like a harsh environment to be without ready money for indoor lodging

@dosnostalgic So I've thought about this one and what I concluded is that in the era the story takes place, someone would only be in Greenland if they traveled (or were transported there) for some sort of job. So the narrative I imagine is someone gets offered to be transported somewhere for work, agrees, loses or (because of bad treatment) quits the job, and now they're screwed because they're stuck in Greenland, other work is limited, and they have no way to get back to job-richer environments

There are days when I think the radio / "why try harder" version of Demons is Fatboy Slim's best song

Piece of advice. If you ever take the train to Kamakura. Be REALLY careful before taking an exit. If you take the wrong one (eg you want to transfer to the Enoden line and you get out on the gate opposing the Enoden boarding) JR will literally charge you 150yen to walk from one side of the station to the other lolsob

I'm going to Kamakura! They have the Ocean there and a large Buddha. (Also possibly some cool rocks and a bird that steals your food.) I have not seen the ocean since like 2018 or 2019 and the witchy parts of me are crying out in longing. A part of me has been missing.

The train ride is pretty long so I have a stretch goal, which is to answer the question: can one successfully install and configure Termux on a train?

Alright. I am on a tiny cute train, where I have a literal front seat. I have a small bag of fried dough shaped like tiny bears with various fillings. I am listening to Radiohead. I am only about 40% sure I know where this train is going. Rock on

@dosnostalgic :O

We saw "Megalopolis" on Thursday and I did like it but I have to admit, we saw "Tetsuo: The Iron Man" (1989) tonight and in addition to having more coherent politics, it was simply a better film

Raspberry Pi¹ for DOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogHqmjn6sY4

Kinda interesting decisions. Hardware recreations of the Pentium and various vintage sound cards, handles various problems like ISA³ not being available on modern computers (in case you want to connect a sound card directly), can present USB kbam as PS/2 kbam, and presents an sd card as a DOS-recognizable hard drive.

¹ Not literally²
² Except it also has a literal RaspPi inside as a USB helper
³ Edit: Oops

@dosnostalgic has the goat puzzle been rethought

@dosnostalgic i had it in a CD 4-pack with Journeyman Project and Indiana Jones but I never played it because at the time i defined myself as someone who Didn't Like Horror

@dosnostalgic Soul Brother
Dys4ia
Don't Look Back

hm

I know I'm missing at least five things that were deeply important to me at the time.

I remain proud of my one, very simple Flash game. https://data.runhello.com/f/swim6/

@dosnostalgic @jplebreton Something I keep noticing is that *people who make YouTube videos* seem to as a group be a lot more interested in AVGN than people who do not.

I watched, and enjoyed, the Dan Olson AVGN video. It mostly felt like a recap/coda/extension of the Lady Emily video(s) on the same subject, but he thanks Lady Emily at the end so I assume this happened in a cordial way.

I think, if you're in a position to spend hours watching deconstructions of mediocre media & internet culture, you should watch these 3 videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmC5Zte5RnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIn66K2_Wzg (either order)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3gZOt1Lo4A (after)

Thinking about it that way, I enjoyed having Dan's alternate perspective to Lady Emily's on what is basically the same narrative ("AVGN's channel got less watchable because he decided he'd rather spend time being a father.")

I've now watched like 3-4 hours of Emily/Dan AVGN explainers and I have never watched a complete AVGN video. I watched the Castlevania II video when it first came out and was like "Why are you behaving this way?" and turned it off 40 seconds in. I never watched one again

At the center of Dan's video, he discusses a short film "Wavelength" (1967) which is 40 minutes of an apartment bldg.'s lobby, a film that's only important because as an object it's strangely devoid of meaning and therefore forces you to project your own thoughts onto it in order to make any sense of it at all. I believe Dan's thesis is AVGN is the "Wavelength" of YouTube. There's not much to it, so if you try to deconstruct it you're really just talking about yourself & what you see in film.

@jplebreton When I watched that original Castlevania II video (I think it might be the first one? I didn't know that at the time) I imagined someone like, getting angry at a toaster. He puts bread in a toaster, and toast comes out, and he's like, shocked and surprised. Oh my god, why is my toast all brown and crinkly now?!

Mood

I would like to suggest you watch the first three seconds of this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0S92Fs5gOg

@dosnostalgic We finally got around to following this rec, and that was really fun.

Should we watch Day Watch?