10/31/2025 4am Rush is going back on tour. What weird thing! I am really happy for the guys. I think Geddy and Alex are just so wonderful and it really seems like they are doing this for their own love for the music they have made and not just fan service. I think Fan service is nice, but often rings hallow. Rush has never been hallow, from my perspective. I don't know if I'll be able to make it to one of the shows. Living in MN has a lot of draw backs to big things. You'd think with the cities being such a hub, people would go there instead of Chicgo.. but whatever. I could go to Chicgo... in the summer! EW! ... I don't know about that but I did not like Milwaukee in the summer due to the CROWDS of people, I can't imagine what the roads of Chicago would be like... And also... 500 dollars a ticket on ticket master... :( Streetlight's new music is really something. I was telling my wife just how excited I was to hear that they actually released new music and I said, "I love the youthfulness of their stuff, but I am so looking forward to some 'dudes in their 40s' music." I knew it would still be loud and fast, but it has that careful tough of patience. Aww... what a wonderful thing. Florence and the Machine's new album just dropped. What an exciting time for music! Happy Halloween! 6am I was once got really lucky and found a pair of HD6xx headphones for like 90 dollars on ebay. The Lady who was selling them said they had a defect. I asked what it was and it was a small tear in the outer fabric on the top foam. I imagine she works there and get a lot of free stuff with miner defects because she had a ton of Drop products for cheap on her page. I grapped them up and they have really changed listening to music for me. I've had Bose Q 35 iis for a long time now and I used to have Airpods pros. But I knew they always had something lacking in the music listening department. Not these, though. ... I am boring myself with talking about headphones! lol
11/2/2025 I've been playing this spooky game for a few days and a lot of the play relies on realism. I get wood for the stove to heat the house, I light a match for the wood, and then--this isn't what anyone should ever do, but whatever--pour gasline onto the wood. It isn't in a menu, you just put all of this stuff in a pile and it works. Same with your stuff. I have two hands--hilariously no bag or backpack--so I can only hold two things. If I need a flashlight and bear spray, I can't have a compass. If I need wood, I can't hold anything else but a flashlight. In turn, this means that moments that might take me out of the game, become part of the suspense. Getting wood for the fire is not smacking a tree to collect an item in an inventory. It's just going to the wood pile, putting wood in my hand, and then walking back up the tower--I am a park ranger fire watch guy. There is nothing to really manage, but the steps for these tasks not having any menus or numbers or anything very meta, really puts you in the game. Or at least I felt genuinely scared when just doing the daily routine not knowing what might happen. There is also no pause. I really like this but... the whole game itself has a lot of weird holes. Like, on the surface, there is a lot of impactful atmosphere, but so far the only thing they have done with that atmosphere is some kind of evil murderous cult. Which just kills a lot of that suspense since I will either do the right actions that stay alive or I do the wrong ones and get killed by the dorkinest looking enemy I have ever seen. Honestly, I think if the game was just about inner personal conflict, distrust, mishap, and fear of the unknown/imagination, I think they would have a compelling structure to write a story in. So far, though, the scares are jump scares, and the people I talk to don't seem very alarmed by clearly murderous people who want to murder. There is no reason at the point that I am at that any person would stay at this job and the amount of people who have dissappeared in this forest--recently--would mean an immediate removeal of staff and weeks like sweep of the area. I know this is fiction, but realistic fiction should do something to account for this otherwise it just feels like the guy I am playing is stupid. Which would be fine but I also feel like I have atifical limitations, instead of believeable ones and therefore I really don't have a lot of angency. I hope it ends well and not gory. Gory is the laziest thing you can use to make something scary.