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Saints Row the Third remaster is free on EGS until Sept 2nd, which is about what it's worth.

This is a bit of an odd one. Anyone who has listened to my radio show knows I'm not a huge fan of psytrance. With that said, I'm sad to find out about the passing of Olli Wisdom. He recorded a mass of albums and performed live as Space Tribe. In the early 80s Olli was part of the goth rock band Specimen and ran the Batcave nightclub. The club released a couple cassettes including one by the infamous industrial and proto power electronics act Whitehouse. Olli got in early on the UK acid house revolutions (which took place when he was the tender age of ...30) and was active as a DJ since the early 90s. I never met him, but I was aware of his presence and music for a good 25 years. In a scene full of revered egos and people with vastly inflated senses of self-importance, Olli was a very down to earth greatly respected individual. He was quite a character, too. There was a time when I'd have thought 63 was ancient and a ripe old age. Now it's "ulp, that's not that far off is it?"

This post will not make much sense. There's a regular in my group of gaming friends who goes by Redeko. Naturally, I always refer to him as "Dorko," usually in the same intonation as David Lee Roth saying "Sit down, Waldo." One of the many idiot behaviors I get up to with said gaming group is making memes that are so many layers of in-jokes even the subjects themselves don't entirely understand them. Redeko works at a sandwich shop, owns an RE-20 microphone, and recently bought a new car and a 4K webcam (because those are a thing now.) I memes I usually represent him as a sandwich, because of his job: One of the other MicS members has been harping on the fact that Redeko IRL looks like a SoundCloud rapper named Yung Gravy and I should use him instead of a sandwich to represent Dorko: After completing the above two 'Shops, I made the mistaking of listening to a Yung Gravy song. The track that made him famous, in fact: It's not just that I'm old. Your music is BAD. I had to dig up one of my favorite hip hop songs of all time just to feel okay again. I am biased by having been exactly at the right age in 1991, but this is an entire genre and subculture peaking in one track.

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Peak 80s right here. That's ~$1.5M. Never have I been so personally attacked. #ImagesYouCanHear You're actually happier if you don't get this one.

Holy thread necro look at this noob bumping a decade old thread. Hay guise remember this idea? Well, I bring it up because I spent a couple hours looking at remasters of The Rolling Stones. I'm not going to post any images of waveforms at the moment, but I'll say this: post 2000 remasters in general seem to be okay. Dynamic range is a thing. Mid 1990s loudness war remasters are, OTOH, a war crime. I had one example of a Let it Bleed remaster in particular that was an absolute nightmare.

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I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man. M'rawr? Next Daft Punk right there.

Got my replacement Amazon(tm) Chase(tm) credit card and activated it. Still waiting on my Sears(tm) Mastercard(tm) one. Also ordered a new Taxachusetts driver's license online. $25 and "7-10 days" for it to arrive. Solid Masshole/10 right there. Currently shopping for chain wallets on BozosRocketFund.com . As the zoomers would say I am unironically buying a chain wallet so I don't have to go through this ballbust again.

Everyone's favorite hyperactive, high pitched Canadian techtuber got his tiny mitts on a Steam Deck production sample.

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Today in "no good deed goes unpunished" I divested myself of a bunch of things including a pair of JBL 630s from the mid 1980s. In the process, my wallet disappeared. I noticed it was missing when at the checkout of the local grocery store. Two calls later and neither place I'd visited had seen it. I've torn apart my house and my car, but it's just flat out missing. Great way to start the weekend.

Man, my friend Brent (of Bluvessel fame, not fat head) is nuts: He's digitizing a a 1998 record with 500 locked grooves on it.

The moon rising over a hill in California, engulfed in a wildfire.

Today in Absolutely Trivial Slackivism: I have the Warcraft I & II bundle and Diablo + Hellfire bundles on my wishlist at GoG. I just removed both as I will now never buy them. ActiBlizzard is apparently worse than EA, Ubisoft and Riot combined.

[Checks calendar]

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This is a bizarre video. It's about a very zoomer meme (amongus) but it's based on a boomer* film that's as old as I am. *The Pythons aren't actually boomers. They're all from the Silent Generation.

DIY VTA M-125.