Yeah, my response was "needs a comfy seat, something to put the TV on so it's eye level, and something to put the pizza and drink on so they're within arm's reach".
But otherwise this is peak. I had a space in my parent's basement like this with an old couch and dresser that had been headed to the dump, along with the big family CRT when they upgraded to LCD. Add some Bionicle and other Lego to fidget with and inject that nostalgia into my veins.
I'm only in my 30s but I have joint issues and since I started stretching before I get out of bed, I have had less back issues, particularly my lower back.
Any stretches you can do sitting on the ground, you can do in bed.
Stretching torso muscles specifically, twisting, leaning, honestly any standing ones you can do from the waist up, and you can even stretch out legs before getting out of bed, too.
By the time all that is done, you can spring up and do the standing stretches without worrying you'll pull a muscle getting out of bed.
And if you laughed at the idea of someone pulling a muscle simply by getting out of bed, you just aren't old enough yet. You'll get there. I'm only in my 30s and I'm already there.
Haha, I was half joking! I seldom have actual back pain thankfully, but being in my late 30s I definitely have to put in some effort to keep it that way
Yeah I do. Not as much as I did then. I really appreciate the comment.
I did do all the parts, but I had originally recorded the drums on an old cheap Yamaha electric pad thing. I met someone online years ago who remastered the recording and redid the drums.
I’ve shared my music like 3 times in the last decade. I mostly just do it for me and for my people when I kick the bucket, in case they want it. I know my son does. He wants everything, even all of the hours and hours of recordings where I was trying to come up with something.
I’m really glad you like it. I’ll share a few more.
I think I’ll do that tonight. I haven’t posted my stuff seriously since 2010ish.
I made videos and everything but I lost them all.
Heck my mom saved two but they’re not in the quality I put them in. My ex called her and said I was deleting them so she rushed to save what she could and got those.
I was in a very bad place back then. Actually ended up being diagnosed with cannabis induced psychosis by the time it was all over.
Here are those two. I don’t care for the one where I did the ghostly images. The song could have been good but it was too long.
Thank you guys for taking interest in this stuff. I might let my brother put it all on Spotify haha. He’s been trying to get me to for a while.
Hell yeah man, good stuff! If you do end up putting your stuff on the streaming services, don't forget about all the stuff you gotta do to collect royalties, this is what's holding me back from releasing my music lol
Just coming to add a +1 on the YouTube links, I don't download random files from mega, but I'll listen to anything you have on YT, Spotify, or any FOSS counterparts.
Those YT links you've posted already sound great! This definitely would have been my exact vibe in 2010, but it's definitely going into the car Playlist now.
Don't be afraid of longer songs, if they've got focus and purpose, they'll hold up. One of my favorite songs back in the day was 22 minutes and 20ish seconds long. Unfortunately it's a religious Christian song (that all the old people assumed was satanic because they couldn't be bothered to try listening to lyrics) so I don't care for the words much anymore, but the guitar is still banger.
Hell yeah these are great! I'm a particular fan of Stone to Throw, Untitled Noise 2, and Hallelujah Further Down. Special shout out to Flip-top PS3 that one's the panty dropper. But for real I've enjoyed myself at shows that aren't this good. I'm excited to have gotten to listen to your music
OOP missed the mark on this one. This is serene. Like you moved out either for the first time or transferred to a new city and brought only the things you love before you fill your house up with trash
Colosseum was great. Maybe it was a different version but I remember you could import your pokemon from the gameboy games so it was just gym battles with much better graphics. Also yeah. The (wavebird?) controller was the shit back then. Your friend having one meant they had rich parents.
I'm in my thirties so I too crave this scenario but what I really wanna talk about is the amount of people mentioning sitting on the floor hurting their back. Sedentary lifestyles and/or the constant push for more labor has wiped out something humanity has done for thousands of years.
I feel weird for fixating on this but it's a little sad a lot of people are losing the ability to just sit on some grass and exist
I ended up renting a room as an adult, not because i'm bad at adulting but because the value of my wage has been destroyed and i basically learned that if i have a desk + chair for my pc and a bed/sofa mix...i am golden.
I just need a computer and no one bothering me (which was an issue at the time as 2 others were quite a burden. One was addicted to hard drugs and the other was a petty criminal who was always in trouble with the police to the point they came looking for him on a daily basis.) Other than the constant noise and not being able to sleep...yeah i'd settle for a minimal life with maximum peace and quiet.
I really do not care for society, i never asked to be put on this planet.
That sure looks like my old TV. The screen was flat but cropped the edges pretty significantly, even eating into the title safe area so sometimes you couldn’t read everything that was on-screen.
Sweeping the floor is cheaper and can be done at any hour, walking on old carpet especially kicks up dust and even after vacuuming it feels kind of gross (probably because I know it hasn't been washed). Non-carpet floors are also easier to actually clean (or just wipe up spills etc), at least where I am where the air isn't super-dry.
I'm with them, a throw rug would be fine so long as you can still pick it up to clean it elsewhere. Though I'd still rather just use a broom.
Also, cold floors doesn't bother me but wearing socks/slippers instead is a nice option.
I agree with him only because I've seen what lives in and beneath carpet. Even fastidious folks can't truly clean it well enough, and they definitely can't keep the moisture from collecting beneath it.
Or live in an area with decent humidity. I've helped renovate a few houses of friends, slobs and clean freaks, and they all had an incredible amount of growth beneath the padding material. The slob obviously had it worse, and you could tell where they had spilled liquids like soda.
I've never lived in a flat/house with carpet floors. Always tiles, wood floors, pvc, vinyl, linoleum or wood laminate. I don't think I've ever visited a home with carpet flooring. The only places I know it from is hotels and videos of really old run down ruins that need to be ripped apart and renovated from the base.
It gives me the ick, I feel like they're always dirty and dusty. Normally I'm not squeamish, but I just don't feel comfortable on carpet flooring. I've grown up washing my floors wet or swiping. It just doesn't fit into my head. However, laying a spatially limited carpet on a hard floor is beautiful.
Throw some dog toys and a dog in the photo, and this was me about 16 years ago before I met my now ex wife. In the bedroom was a deflated air mattress.
Since they were first released. They are known for noticeable input delay, and connection issues causing occasional dropped inputs and/or extra ghost inputs. Their only advantage is being able to sit further away, but in the picture, buddy is going to be within 3 feet of the console. Within range of a wire on a standard controller.
Its probably fine for some Pokemon Colosseum, but there is a reason you are never going to see them at a Melee tourney.
Interesting, this is the first I've ever heard anything negative about the Wavebird (other than lack of rumble). I played a shitton of GameCube in my younger years and never had any of the problems you described, or heard of anyone else having those problems.
I just looked it up and the Wavebird has 9ms or input latency--less than a frame. Regular GameCube controller has 4ms, so only 5ms added. So yeah, maybe too much for competitive smash? But negligible for anything else.
The secondary market also seems positive on the Wavebird: the cheapest (complete or working) one I can find on eBay right now is $60.
HES GOT THE BONGOS
My thoughts exactly! This man is living the dream!
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is amazing
I guess I am too old, my first thought when I see this picture is "my poor back". 😂
Yeah, my response was "needs a comfy seat, something to put the TV on so it's eye level, and something to put the pizza and drink on so they're within arm's reach".
But otherwise this is peak. I had a space in my parent's basement like this with an old couch and dresser that had been headed to the dump, along with the big family CRT when they upgraded to LCD. Add some Bionicle and other Lego to fidget with and inject that nostalgia into my veins.
Well, that's just showing our mileage.
My current setup holds this spirit but does add some back support.
That’s usually my first thought after getting out of bed!
You should stretch before getting out of bed.
I'm only in my 30s but I have joint issues and since I started stretching before I get out of bed, I have had less back issues, particularly my lower back.
How do you even stretch while in bed?
Any stretches you can do sitting on the ground, you can do in bed.
Stretching torso muscles specifically, twisting, leaning, honestly any standing ones you can do from the waist up, and you can even stretch out legs before getting out of bed, too.
By the time all that is done, you can spring up and do the standing stretches without worrying you'll pull a muscle getting out of bed.
And if you laughed at the idea of someone pulling a muscle simply by getting out of bed, you just aren't old enough yet. You'll get there. I'm only in my 30s and I'm already there.
Haha, I was half joking! I seldom have actual back pain thankfully, but being in my late 30s I definitely have to put in some effort to keep it that way
My body reminds me very painfully whenever I forget to stretch out certain muscles.
I don't look forward to the next 30 years and want to go back to a time when I could fall off a 2nd floor balcony and just walk it off.
Actually that might explain some current issues....
I’m recoiling from the greasy pizza box on the carpet
Man, I wish my life were that simple again.
That looks so fucking relaxing, like I have nothing to do for the rest of the evening, and no pressing concerns as I sip my chocolate milk.
Only thing I would change: out that TV on a milk crate so your neck isnt strained even more than it is from sitting on the floor.
That was exactly my setup when I struck out on my own.
GameCube, wavebird, bongos, Twilight Princess. PS2, Guitar Hero, mod chip, case full of burned games. Single twin size mattress on the floor.
Those were the best days of my life.
I had two DVDs. Napoleon Dynamite and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
No internet, no telephone. I wanted to be creative and I didn’t want distractions. I wrote most of my songs in that little window.
Screw it. I never share my music. Here’s one of the songs I recorded.
https://mega.nz/file/MwdwTaAC#ZkyRIAnntCA6tq_sw06y64A2ljX7sldMhKKY0A3a0Bs
This song slaps, did you do all the parts yourself? Are you still making music?
I really do appreciate your comment. You put this stuff together and think it won’t ever be heard, so it feels good when someone likes it.
Yeah I do. Not as much as I did then. I really appreciate the comment.
I did do all the parts, but I had originally recorded the drums on an old cheap Yamaha electric pad thing. I met someone online years ago who remastered the recording and redid the drums.
I’ve shared my music like 3 times in the last decade. I mostly just do it for me and for my people when I kick the bucket, in case they want it. I know my son does. He wants everything, even all of the hours and hours of recordings where I was trying to come up with something.
I’m really glad you like it. I’ll share a few more.
https://mega.nz/file/E00nzD7C#DGOB4O51EalvIREhqAepIe98jvrVIeagR8jcPbmNGgk
https://mega.nz/file/100ShDoD#j5iFTXWk8sSQLVVs1LO9g_ovWoZnslB2sdIbe3x5mk8
And here are a couple more recent songs.
https://youtube.com/shorts/CFfWzOw387w
https://youtube.com/shorts/-b1EuBlsPEk
Can you post the rest to YT? That second YT one reminds me of like a sea sick steve with grunge, shits awesome.
I think I’ll do that tonight. I haven’t posted my stuff seriously since 2010ish.
I made videos and everything but I lost them all.
Heck my mom saved two but they’re not in the quality I put them in. My ex called her and said I was deleting them so she rushed to save what she could and got those.
I was in a very bad place back then. Actually ended up being diagnosed with cannabis induced psychosis by the time it was all over.
Here are those two. I don’t care for the one where I did the ghostly images. The song could have been good but it was too long.
Thank you guys for taking interest in this stuff. I might let my brother put it all on Spotify haha. He’s been trying to get me to for a while.
https://youtu.be/FjTNpGXZEXI
https://youtu.be/cFhnqjXIdSg
Hell yeah man, good stuff! If you do end up putting your stuff on the streaming services, don't forget about all the stuff you gotta do to collect royalties, this is what's holding me back from releasing my music lol
Thank you for this.
Just coming to add a +1 on the YouTube links, I don't download random files from mega, but I'll listen to anything you have on YT, Spotify, or any FOSS counterparts.
Those YT links you've posted already sound great! This definitely would have been my exact vibe in 2010, but it's definitely going into the car Playlist now.
Don't be afraid of longer songs, if they've got focus and purpose, they'll hold up. One of my favorite songs back in the day was 22 minutes and 20ish seconds long. Unfortunately it's a religious Christian song (that all the old people assumed was satanic because they couldn't be bothered to try listening to lyrics) so I don't care for the words much anymore, but the guitar is still banger.
Been uploading while I can today. I have a ton more stuff to dig out so subscribe and you’ll know when I add more.
Thank you for liking it.
It’s been 15 years since anyone has heard a lot this stuff. Most of it was family just being nice.
https://youtu.be/1YfRV3K0E2M
https://youtu.be/rqSI0DdiQLo
https://youtube.com/shorts/7VvSMc--JUA
https://youtube.com/shorts/6JDCnT1wiQo
https://youtube.com/shorts/CEqF2itM9TM
https://youtube.com/shorts/Fo7OxntTySM
https://youtube.com/shorts/-b1EuBlsPEk
https://youtube.com/shorts/CFfWzOw387w
https://youtu.be/TZ0P9fqELvM
Get the royalties stuff figured out and put it on Spotify. I'd love to add these to my playlist there.
I put a bunch on YouTube. I have so so so much more I need to dig out and upload.
I can’t believe I’m doing this haha.
Subscribe to my channel there and as I upload them you’ll see them.
https://youtu.be/1YfRV3K0E2M
https://youtu.be/rqSI0DdiQLo
https://youtube.com/shorts/7VvSMc--JUA
https://youtube.com/shorts/6JDCnT1wiQo
https://youtube.com/shorts/CEqF2itM9TM
https://youtube.com/shorts/Fo7OxntTySM
https://youtube.com/shorts/-b1EuBlsPEk
https://youtube.com/shorts/CFfWzOw387w
https://youtu.be/TZ0P9fqELvM
I added some to YouTube. Will be adding more.
Y’all have no idea how much it means to me that people like this stuff.
I suddenly have all of this motivation to record all my newer stuff that I just sit around and play to relax.
https://youtu.be/1YfRV3K0E2M
https://youtu.be/rqSI0DdiQLo
https://youtube.com/shorts/7VvSMc--JUA
https://youtube.com/shorts/6JDCnT1wiQo
https://youtube.com/shorts/CEqF2itM9TM
https://youtube.com/shorts/Fo7OxntTySM
https://youtube.com/shorts/-b1EuBlsPEk
https://youtube.com/shorts/CFfWzOw387w
https://youtu.be/TZ0P9fqELvM
Hell yeah these are great! I'm a particular fan of Stone to Throw, Untitled Noise 2, and Hallelujah Further Down. Special shout out to Flip-top PS3 that one's the panty dropper. But for real I've enjoyed myself at shows that aren't this good. I'm excited to have gotten to listen to your music
And for rest of your comment. Man, I wish I could tell you how you’ve made me feel with that. I really do.
Your comment and a few others here have brought me back to life, you know?
Especially yours.
Thank you!
:p I love you haha.
I really thought I was leading the way for next gen mods when I put that together.
One other guy did it and he gave me a shoutout. :p
But when we were young and had set ups like this we also had invincible bodies.
Or rather, what felt at the time to be invincible bodies. Now I'm at the part of life where the bill for that comes due.
I threw my back out the other day.... By turning over in bed.
The old joke about wondering how you can "sleep wrong" and then finding out.
Dude sprang for the WaveBird and what I assume is delivery pizza, how many more luxuries should he have?
That looks like a Little Caesars box, so definitely the low end of to-go pizza.
Also, he took the time to decorate with the Konga drums, so its totally luxurious!
People mocking other peoples happiness & low environmental footprint is weak af.
OOP missed the mark on this one. This is serene. Like you moved out either for the first time or transferred to a new city and brought only the things you love before you fill your house up with trash
Ah. Triumphant beach-head phase. Legend.
+1 for Pokemon Colosseum.
Isn’t that like the black sheep of Pokémon games? And one of my favorites: I’m feeling majorly nostalgic RN.
Another +1 for a wireless GC controller. This is a man of sophistication and culture.
Colosseum was great. Maybe it was a different version but I remember you could import your pokemon from the gameboy games so it was just gym battles with much better graphics. Also yeah. The (wavebird?) controller was the shit back then. Your friend having one meant they had rich parents.
It's funny he sprung for the wireless controller despite his clear intention to sit 2 feet from the TV lol
ITT: A lot of guys going "Ah man this was first days in my first apartment out on my own. Good times."
Chocolate milk, GameCube, and me!
My bro got out of army and moved 6000km to a new job in a new city in a new country. His setup was:
He worked like that until the Stuff arrived.
There is remote controls for game cube?
Yeah, I loved my wavebird back in the day.
The wavebird!
Look up the advertisement for it. It's hilarious enough to make you shit your pants.
Ok i just did. I wouldn't say shitting-pants-hilarious but they are indeed amusing.
I just wanted to sneakily reference the toilet one.
I see
I'm in my thirties so I too crave this scenario but what I really wanna talk about is the amount of people mentioning sitting on the floor hurting their back. Sedentary lifestyles and/or the constant push for more labor has wiped out something humanity has done for thousands of years.
I feel weird for fixating on this but it's a little sad a lot of people are losing the ability to just sit on some grass and exist
It's more the TV won't be at eye level so you'll naturally hunch your back which tends to be poor sitting posture.
Looked into ergonomics about 10 years ago after an injury, changed my life.
That's some clean carpet.
my first thought when seeing this, before reading the caption, was "hell yeah im jealous as fuck"
Stop posting pictures of my college apartment.
It’s missing the milk crate stolen from behind a dunkin donuts serving as a tv stand
This is what happiness looks like.
Yeah pizza and chocolate milk sounds fucking gross.
Don’t knock it til you try it.
Gotta find your limit on lactose some how.
I ended up renting a room as an adult, not because i'm bad at adulting but because the value of my wage has been destroyed and i basically learned that if i have a desk + chair for my pc and a bed/sofa mix...i am golden.
I just need a computer and no one bothering me (which was an issue at the time as 2 others were quite a burden. One was addicted to hard drugs and the other was a petty criminal who was always in trouble with the police to the point they came looking for him on a daily basis.) Other than the constant noise and not being able to sleep...yeah i'd settle for a minimal life with maximum peace and quiet.
I really do not care for society, i never asked to be put on this planet.
floor clean enough to eat off of with no extra clutter?
It is nice though
That sure looks like my old TV. The screen was flat but cropped the edges pretty significantly, even eating into the title safe area so sometimes you couldn’t read everything that was on-screen.
No surge protector on the gamecube. Madness.
Not a fan of carpet flooring but otherwise livible
Sweeping the floor is cheaper and can be done at any hour, walking on old carpet especially kicks up dust and even after vacuuming it feels kind of gross (probably because I know it hasn't been washed). Non-carpet floors are also easier to actually clean (or just wipe up spills etc), at least where I am where the air isn't super-dry.
I'm with them, a throw rug would be fine so long as you can still pick it up to clean it elsewhere. Though I'd still rather just use a broom.
Also, cold floors doesn't bother me but wearing socks/slippers instead is a nice option.
I agree with him only because I've seen what lives in and beneath carpet. Even fastidious folks can't truly clean it well enough, and they definitely can't keep the moisture from collecting beneath it.
Or live in an area with decent humidity. I've helped renovate a few houses of friends, slobs and clean freaks, and they all had an incredible amount of growth beneath the padding material. The slob obviously had it worse, and you could tell where they had spilled liquids like soda.
I've never lived in a flat/house with carpet floors. Always tiles, wood floors, pvc, vinyl, linoleum or wood laminate. I don't think I've ever visited a home with carpet flooring. The only places I know it from is hotels and videos of really old run down ruins that need to be ripped apart and renovated from the base.
It gives me the ick, I feel like they're always dirty and dusty. Normally I'm not squeamish, but I just don't feel comfortable on carpet flooring. I've grown up washing my floors wet or swiping. It just doesn't fit into my head. However, laying a spatially limited carpet on a hard floor is beautiful.
There. I tried.
carpet holds on to pollen and pet dander more than hardwood or tile. This would be my personal reasoning.
I agree with him because wooden floors with decent sized turkish rugs are preferable. You can take the rug out and beat it.
Fixed carpet is warmer, but vaguely unpleasant and makes a house feel like a hotel.
You don't walk on the hard floors though. You walk on rugs. It feels a lot like carpetting but looks better and is more practical.
That's like asking why wear trousers if you're going to wear underwear.
The answer is comfort, practicality, and style.
Also, houses already have floors. It's not like you get to avoid having one altogether.
Give me a beanbag chair and we're in business
I need at least a plastic lawn chair and some milk crates for the tv or my back will explode. Otherwise looks decent.
Throw some dog toys and a dog in the photo, and this was me about 16 years ago before I met my now ex wife. In the bedroom was a deflated air mattress.
Ahnold: "milk is for babies; I drink beer!"
Well, I guess if fairlife is all you can find, it's better than nothing
Nuh uh, man. Fairlife is awesome. Dairyland is dead, man, and there ain't no bringing it back.
Don't be so harsh give the guy some time to collect enough pizza boxes f to build up
After coming too close to personally finding out the hard way that alcholoism does indeed run in my patriarchichal lineage...
Take out the Jack, maybe replace it with some Kombucha, or just a nice non alco cocktail, and yep, this looks amazing.
Just keep that carpet clean, eat that pizza with some plates or something, or use the other side of the open box as your psuedo plate.
EDIT: For those with bad backs, they make ... complicated pillows for this sort of thing.
... Or just put the TV up on the box some off screen Ikea furniture came in, rofl.
Ahahah!
I legit didn't see that, I actually need glasses.
Amazing. Choccy milk is a great choice rofl.
Yep! This dudes just missing some chocolate donuts or smth
So glad I kept my bongos.
I'd at least need the TV on some crates, and I might be too old to sit on the floor for more than a little while 😂
I like a nice pair of bongos.
https://youtu.be/RwkCbsnxscg
To much dairy. Other than that. Love it.
I'll cheers to that. TO MUCH DAIRY! TO FAIRLIFE! TO PIZZAPIZZA.ca !
Party on, Wayne.
I ain't drinking cow milk. Fucking gross.
Chocolate milk is the nectar of the gods.
Aint nobody taking my choccy milk from me
Protip: If you can get it, try Chocomel from Holland. It's unreal.
The WaveBird is a problem. Those are notoriously aweful.
Since when? Wavebird is the tits. I could use that thing all the way from the kitchen.
Since they were first released. They are known for noticeable input delay, and connection issues causing occasional dropped inputs and/or extra ghost inputs. Their only advantage is being able to sit further away, but in the picture, buddy is going to be within 3 feet of the console. Within range of a wire on a standard controller.
Its probably fine for some Pokemon Colosseum, but there is a reason you are never going to see them at a Melee tourney.
Interesting, this is the first I've ever heard anything negative about the Wavebird (other than lack of rumble). I played a shitton of GameCube in my younger years and never had any of the problems you described, or heard of anyone else having those problems.
I just looked it up and the Wavebird has 9ms or input latency--less than a frame. Regular GameCube controller has 4ms, so only 5ms added. So yeah, maybe too much for competitive smash? But negligible for anything else.
The secondary market also seems positive on the Wavebird: the cheapest (complete or working) one I can find on eBay right now is $60.