The game comes out today. Has anyone had a chance to check it out yet? I played the demo and wrote my review below.

I played the demo on steam deck and I mostly enjoyed it. It more or less plays out a tutorial mission while the events of the pilot play out.

Game play (in the demo) had 4 distinct parts: space combat, away missions, navigating and flying around space, and ship "stuff".

I disliked the space combat the most. It was an odd mix of turnbased and real-time actions. I never knew where the enemy ship was, and I had trouble balancing the repairs i needed to survive.

Away missions are essentially choose your own adventure text games with some cool art depicting the scenes based on who you select for your mission and what they do.

Navigating and flying around space was fun, but I can see it getting very boring very quickly. Fly from wherever you are to the next system. fly around the planets picking up resources, investigating signals, talking to civilizations. I think if they find a creative way to mix this part up, it can be tons of fun.

Ship "stuff" is very derivative of games like fallout shelter. You have a sideview of the entire ship. you can repurpose rooms for different things, assign personnel to various places like medical or engineering. You can even install new weaponry or equipment to use in space combat or for flying around.

I'll be picking up this game eventually, I am curious what anyone else thinks about it, too.

I have recently been going on a city pop genre binge, and previously found this song. I also saw it on an instagram reel, that I no longer have. I was impressed by the trumpet playing, and wanted to listen to the whole song, and possibly more from that artist/group.

I've tried looking through japanese city-pop playlists on spotify and youtube, but it doesn't seem to be a big one, like Stay with Me or something. I also tried looking into japanese jazz (and found some great music), but no luck identifying this song.

I dont know what the lyrics were, but the bits I remember are a short trumpet introduction, with a chromatic pick up into when the phrase starts. The female voice is harmonized and sings a phrase, which is then responded by a group of trumpets belting very high notes in a loud and powerful chord. This sort of voice/trumpet switch off happens for the verse I can remember, but thats about it.

Does this sound at all familiar to anyone?

Hello everyone,

I am learning piano for the first time. I have been a musician for 25 years or so, entirely on brass instruments. I can read music (mostly bass clef) and I recently bought myself a casio piano keyboard with the intention of learning how to play more "complete" music than I could on my euphonium.

I can fiddle around on my horn and recreate any melody I hear, but it would never be complete chords or a melody with a harmony all at once. The piano seems like what I want in order to achieve that goal. Right now I am trying to nail down the muscle memory required to play both hands at once, and also fiddling around with the muppet show theme song. I'll likely be back to post what tutorials work for me and maybe even some of my progress!

I'm trying to emulate the functionality that Reddit entertainment suite had, but I mostly browsec Lemmy on my phone

I am looking ahead to Christmas gifts for my wife. We have the week off and have talked before about having an at home spa day. I am going to get some exfoliating scrubs and some lotions. What are some things you like? Are there any whole kits for the home you are aware of?

I feel like I'd go to bath and bodyworks or bed bath and beyond, but there aren't any of either nearby any more.

I dont know about others, but sometimes I am not able to check my phone, or be fully present in a conversation that I'm part of. Maybe I'm concentrating on work, or driving, and not able to look. It gets distracting when my phone is constantly buzzing and chiming for 5 minutes straight. Muting the chat can help, but if you forget to check it, or get added to a new one, you can't really do anything about it. I just want to be able to get notified once that the chat has new messages, decide how I want to react, and then move on from it. Is that too much to ask?

No release date, but its looking to me like it will come out mid-september