Andy, but they decided against it at the last minute. However, my dad’s brother and his pregnant wife really liked the name, and a few months later my cousin Andy was born.

Some digital artists use Switch JoyCons for shortcuts in Clip Studio and other painting programs.

Since the Internet Archive has already been suggested, you might also want to check out the Queer Zine Archive Project

You might want to check out Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers. The book is about the people of the Exodus Fleet, a group of multi-generation ships that left Earth years ago. Even though the fleet eventually found other planets for them to live on, many are content to continue living out in space. It’s a neat little slice of life book about this community doing their part to keep these ships going.

When it comes to buying furniture: Get secondhand furniture handed down by relatives, or found at thrift stores, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, garage sales, whatever. It’s more eco-friendly to buy stuff that already exists, it’ll probably cost less than brand-new furniture, and the older stuff is sturdier than anything you’re going to get at Ikea.

With the money you save buying secondhand tables and drawers and such, buy a GOOD brand new mattress. You can cheap out on a lot of furniture, but never cheap out on a mattress. Decades from now, your back will thank you.

I can’t say I’ve ever heard of Duolingo speedrunning, but I already love the concept.

I downloaded a car

If you find an empty community and wish there were most posts, maybe post something.

Hmm, I’m not sure. I can see them from my home instance, but also the last post is from 12 days ago so it might just be because it’s a slow-moving community.

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I got Rhythm Heaven Fever for the Wii when it first came out and just couldn’t get it. I mean, I understood what I was supposed to be doing, but I could barely pass any of the songs. I figured I just didn’t have any rhythm and put it on the shelf.

Fast-forward to 2020 when I was rearranging some stuff and came across Rhythm Heaven Fever again. I hooked my Wii back up for shits and giggles and started playing and was doing great. Either I had magically gained a sense of rhythm or (most likely) the TV I had been playing on when I first got the game had some sort of latency issue.

Now I’ve gone through all the Rhythm Heaven games, but Fever is still my hands-down favorite. I put a copy on my Steam Deck and sometimes I just load it up and play through some songs when I have a few minutes to kill.

💩. Gotta make sure the middle name is an emoji too, none of this “he can go by his middle name if he doesn’t like his first name” nonsense.

Yeah, I bought a couple of iPods from a thrift store on a lark and restored them back to working condition. I use one of them in my car every day.

I failed my first time. The instructor never told me why I failed, so I have no idea what I needed to improve on. I remember thinking it MUST be the parallel parking section, so I asked my dad to take me out to the DMV so I could spend an hour or two perfecting my parallel parking.

I scheduled a second test for the next Sunday. Little did I realize this was Super Bowl Sunday. The instructor I got that time around was very chill and just told me to drive through a nearby neighborhood a few times so we could wrap things up quickly. I was never even asked to parallel park.

All of this to say that I don’t think the DMV has a secret failing policy, but I can guarantee you that some instructors take it more seriously than others.

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Might be one of my favorite modern music videos (assuming you count a decade-old music video as “modern”).

For me it’s usually about availability. If someone suggests I try out a cool game that came out in the 80s, there’s a pretty good chance piracy is the only way to play it. Sure, you can pay way too much on Ebay to get a physical copy, and I have a fair collection of retro games, but it’s not like the money from Ebay sales go back to the original creators.

Same with movies. The version of Star Wars I grew up with, the one without all the digitally added stuff since the late 90s, isn’t on Disney+. If Disney announced a nice blu-ray Star Wars collection that featured the copies without Jedi Rocks and the extra aliens in the cantina and whatever, I’d go out and get it. But they haven’t, so I stick to the fan-made ‘despecialized editions’.

I don’t pirate from the little guy. I buy albums on Bandcamp and indie games on Steam all the time. I want the small creators to be able to eat. But I’m also fortunate enough to have a little disposable income. I know some people pirate as much as they can, and while I don’t entirely agree with it, I don’t know their financial situation (or the availability of these things in their country), so it’s not really my place to judge them.

THAT’LL BE FOUR BUCKS, BABY! YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?

I’d go back to the beginning of 2019. I don’t want to backtrack too far, but this would give me enough time to sell the house, move, and get situated before covid and the price of everything going crazy.

But it’s not just about that, it’s about repairing a relationship with a loved one while I still can.

They forced my company to come back to the office 4 days a week (I’m miserable, btw) but the company on the floor above us on the east side either moved, went out of business, or went full WFH, so I use their bathroom. Specifically the extra big handicap stall farthest away from the door. It’s great, no one’s ever up there. I would stay up there all day if I could.

No headphone jack, no buy.