This thread is going to haunt me. One day, years from now while lying in bed and slowly drifting off to sleep, I'll suddenly sit bolt upright and exclaim, "Why couldn't that dude poop!?"

I picked up Hi-Fi Rush on sale about a week ago, blew through it once, and am now working on a second play through/new game plus. Super fun game. After putting it down after playing for a while I still feel like I'm doing things to a beat for a bit.

I just started The Three Body Problem. I'm hoping the plot is engaging once it takes off, because so far the writing and characters aren't doing a whole lot for me.

This changes pretty often, but the top three bands in my rotation at the moment are Mastodon, The Ocean, and Dvne.

Metal Gear Solid

Monkey Island 2 (The first one is arguably better, but 2 was my introduction to the series, so I have a bit of a soft spot for it)

They alternated each night on this tour.

I also saw them a couple of weeks ago with Mastodon closing, but I honestly think it would have worked better the other way around. It felt like the crowd used up all of their energy on Gojira and didn't have much left for Mastodon. I saw quite a few people leave early. For what it's worth, I was there mainly to see Mastodon, but Gojira ended up being the highlight for me. They went hard.

The early 90s Lucas Arts adventure games. Most notably Monkey Island 2.

One of my favorite albums to come out in the last few years is Etemen Ænka by Dvne. The whole thing is great, but I'll give special mention to the riff at the end of the song Court of the Matriarch, which is so heavy it'll make you feel like you could stomp the earth in half.

Earlier this year I was really close to pulling the trigger on a Dunable custom shop order myself. I had everything picked out except for the finish. I wanted it to have kind of a natural, almost unfinished look, with the wood grain showing through, but I was worried about ordering something like that sight unseen. I kept thinking about being potentially disappointed by an ugly or uninteresting piece of wood. So I went back and forth between ordering what I really wanted, or going with what I considered a safer option of a solid color. This went on for a few weeks. Then one night I was poking around on Reverb, and the exact (well, very nearly exact) guitar I had been imagining popped up for sale. I looked at the pictures and read the specs, thought "Holy shit, that's my guitar," and ordered it on the spot. It's amazing, and everything I could have hoped for.

I honestly feel a bit bad now that I lucked into skipping the wait that you're currently stuck in. On the bright side I guess that's one less guitar in the queue ahead of you, so maybe yours will come a few days earlier than it would have if I had been more decisive. Hang in there, you're going to love it.

Even if a woodchuck could chuck wood, and a woodchuck would chuck wood, should a woodchuck chuck wood?

I'd be curious to hear other people's experience with this test. Personally, the two quality levels are completely indistinguishable for me. And that was sitting in a quiet room, using decent quality wired headphones, and really concentrating.

At least I know there will be no need for me to upgrade my subscription if Spotify ever does start offering uncompressed.

I've been thinking of trying out Rocksmith as a practice tool. Does it give good feedback as you're playing? Like if your timing starts to drift, will it let you know?

Have you tried Outer Wilds? I believe it's included with the mid-tier of PS Plus. I picked it up because I was told that it might scratch a similar itch to Return of the Obra Dinn, and it ended up being (in my opinion) one of the greatest games I've ever played. It's an archeological mystery in space. I would recommend going into it knowing as little as possible beyond that.

I have one of these, but I've never been able to get good results with it. The screen doodad that is supposed to sit on top of the coffee grounds always flips up and pushes all of the grounds to one side. The resulting cup ends up bitter and acrid, even with condensed milk. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if there is something wrong with my brewer, or if everything is working as intended and I just don't like it.

Thanks, that link has been helpful.

Before or after you got the fly out?

Any recommendations for nicer scales? I'm kind of sick of the cheap kitchen scale I've been using and have been thinking about upgrading.

I'm seeing them later this week. Very excited!

I'm looking forward to Mastodon as well. I've seen them once before, but the sound mixing was absolutely awful. I'm hoping that since they're co-headliners rather than an opener (as they were last time) that they'll have it dialed in a bit better.

Oh, yeah, I've seen that style. I expect it works much better than what I have. Maybe I'll pick one up some day to give it another try.

That thing is ridiculous, and I love it. What do all of the knobs and switches do?