In Korea, they refer to it as “magic” time. Take that as you will.

Vektor released three progressively more amazing albums of prog thrash before their label dropped them after domestic abuse allegations against the frontman.

Infiltration was an amazing Street Fighter pro who was sometimes completely unstoppable and really fun to watch. At least until he also faced domestic abuse allegations. He got banned from some competitions, his sponsor dropped him, and he nearly completely disappeared. The situation also anecdotally sounds like it’s not just a case of “oh he beat his wife” and possibly was in a mutually abusive relationship. But a judge convicted him based on “a wrist injury and bruises” and that was basically the end of his career.

Bluey is a fantastic parenting manual. Seriously, it should be required viewing for anyone considering having a kid.

Chrome peaked when it was all angular. Why does everything have to be all rounded now?

Oh long Johnson https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwiQmGWK4c

I played through Phantasy Star one more time not that long ago. It came out (in English) in 1988.

Start exercising. Now. Doesn’t matter how old you are. Find the time. Doesn’t have to be a full blown gym habit, just consistent, makes-you-sweat exercise. It will never be easier to get in the habit.

Air quality. I moved from eastern Canada to southeast Asia. It’s always hazy here by comparison. And you can see like half the stars. There has been a little improvement in recent years. Maybe China is getting its shit together.

Discord works absolutely fine in Linux. I use “Vesktop” which is a desktop client for Discord. Performance is identical to using the Discord app in Windows AFAIK.

The only “problem” with buying a nice mechanical keyboard is that you never need to buy another one.

My problem is that because of Linux I can almost never throw away an old computer. I’ve got a bloody netbook around here somewhere running Lubuntu.

Yeah, the past twenty years have been a bit of a roller coaster ride watching what’s happening in NA. Ironically, I thought I’d be moving into a blatantly corrupt government basically run by crony capitalists. And yeah, Korea has its share of that, but wow, things out west have been falling apart horribly recently. South Korea seems to have its head on straight by comparison. Canada at least doesn’t seem to have fallen too far down the fascist rabbit hole, yet.

I’m sure this is referencing someone, but I have no idea who. Twitch is blocked in Korea.

Well, I now run my own (half-owned) school in one of the most beautiful places on the planet, work four days a week, 6 hours a day, and fund several hobbies, a nice house, and a gym habit. I can’t really complain. Maybe I’d have a more secure retirement working as a middle manager back home, but which one sounds like more of a career trap to you? Oh, and I can transfer my pension to Canada and go live there when I retire if I really want to.

I came to Korea from Canada in 2004 to teach English for a “year or two”. I’m still here. I have zero regrets, though I do wonder sometimes what my life would be life if I’d stayed in Canada.

I code Csound. It’s still sort-of being maintained, but otherwise the community is super dead. It’s a shame because it’s very versatile and fun, but realistically there are quite a few more modern alternatives for coding sound synthesis these days.

Imagine my surprise when I just now typed in fark.com and saw that it’s still there and it looks exactly like it did 25 years ago. Mind blown! I might even go back.

You Must Build a Boat is an RPG/match 3 hybrid with no shady shit. Pay once. Own the game. It’s pretty fun.

The one reason I have a nice, relatively new phone is that I want a fairly large, OLED screen for reading after dark. Yeah, I use it for a bunch of other stuff, but I wouldn’t really miss any of those. The only thing I really need is the ability to make it look like text is floating in the dark over my head in bed.

As a teacher, it’s good at making assignments for students. Though I don’t use it out of principal.