I always thought soy milk was pretty good, once I got past the fact that it tastes different. It’s different, not bad, but I feel like there has been about four decades worth of jokes about how soy milk is gross that has cemented the idea that it tastes “off” for many people.

It’s actually pretty easy to make yourself, too. I do that now and then. Makes it even more satisfying to drink.

Holy shit that is beautiful. Ok, dumb question, but is it wireless, or just unplugged? And what is the middle controller for?

Hadn’t heard of this before, great idea!

Yes. In fact, one time someone was handing out samples of pre-workout gummies outside the gym I go to, and they contained kratom. It wasn’t even prominently stated on the packaging. I almost just ate one right away, but then I thought, “Eh, let me check the nutrition facts to see how much caffeine these have first.” Turns out, they had kratom in them.

Has Castle Crashers been getting updates this whole time? Or is this an “out of nowhere” thing? Either way, great!

Also, between this and a new Super Meat Boy coming out, Newgrounds is having a moment right now.

I’m just going to start handing notes to people in my immediate vicinity, like an analog meshtastic. Or a middle schooler.

Honestly buttctl has some nice features once you get used to it.

That’s the case for me. 404 was the first media outlet that was actively using the fediverse (Mastodon, specifically) to interact with their readers and share their content. At the same time, I realized that if I was going to start using non-VC-funded social media, I should probably pay for some non-VC-funded news sources, too.

Especially given 404’s main subject matter, I bet there are a lot of discussions on the fediverse that are relevant to what 404 covers.

WELP, time to go find an even smaller discussion forum! This place really sold out…

Wow, thank you for this response. I hadn’t thought of tracking music preferences as a tool for self discovery.

I’ve been thinking about setting up a scrobble server, but haven’t been sure what I would do with it. What do you use the information for? Does it affect how you listen?

Realized last week that my fail2ban settings are too strict – I get banned immediately if I visit my funkwhale (music server) domain without being logged in. In fact, I think much of my “downtime” might have actually just been me banning myself for 15 minutes now and then…

I was thinking about getting rid of Grafana, which is overkill for my server, and replacing it with Logdy this weekend, but didn’t get around to it.

Bayonetta. Beat the first level last night; this game is ridiculous in the best possible way. I’ve had it on Steam for a while, but never played it. I recently cobbled together a 2010-ish PC out of parts from various family members’ old computers, and installed Linux on it, so now I’m wanting to see which xbox360/ps3 era games it can play. Bayonetta runs perfectly fine.

I love the color palette, absolutely amazing.

Whoa, this is cool. I’ve never had any idea how SHA works.

Have you modified your stride at all? Do you run with a forefoot strike now, and did you already do that before switching to barefoot shoes?

I keep getting this game and the upcoming Shinobi game confused with each other, but they both look amazing. And I do mean that literally, with great pixel art for Ninja Gaiden and a kind of hand-drawn Flash game style for Shinobi. Great time to be a fan of… retro-styled 2D reboots of ninja-themed franchises, I guess?

I have too many games in my backlog right now, but I’ll probably have to pick these up anyway and move them to the top of the queue.

None for me this week. Is anyone reading Batman: The Long Halloween right now? I keep noticing it in the store and am curious about it.

Nice. I had borrowed a friend’s physical copy of Crysis, and that’s how I played it back in the day.

Yeah, I had forgotten how slow an optical drive was, and how that was usually the limiting factor. I installed Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear from the original CD a couple days ago, and it took about 20 minutes to install on my current PC. I’m pretty sure that’s about how long it took in 1999, too.

Downloading it from Steam takes about 10 seconds.