My library is mostly Sierra and LucasArts adventures. Also a ton of D&D titles I haven’t touched.

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds is an all-time favorite.

For the Sierra titles, I’d highly recommend the first Gabriel Knight.

• Song - Only in Dreams
• Album - Weezer (1994)
• Artist - Weezer

Seems fitting to choose this as I’m off to see Weezer tonight. A great album closer and one of their best songs.

My VT4J23 Playlist

My wife just got tickets to see Hozier…little jealous she’s not taking me.

I tried to start a silly forum-based role playing game once. I wanted the entire board to just be classified ads for and by superheroes and villains. From the mundane to the spectacular. It’s an idea that still makes me laugh at the possibilities.

Well shit, you got 'em all in one go! 😆

I’ll put my thoughts on this post as it showed up as I scrolled to get to the one from a day or two ago…I have 5 different Lemmy apps installed right now. Figure that there is going to be a lot of experimentation and work being done right now, so it’s nice to see what everyone is doing.

• Jerboa - Personally, I really like Jerboa. Being the most mature of the bunch shows. It’s well laid out, has just enough UI options, and works. Except that now Beehaw isn’t on v0.18.

• Connect - Not open source at this time, I get why that matters to people, but not a deal breaker for me. Typing this comment in Connect. Just updated this morning with additional and redesigned settings. There is about a thumbs width of space between this comment box and my keyboard. That’s kind of yucky.

• Liftoff - I’m hopeful for this one. It LOOKS the best to me, but there’s some weird UX issues. Biggest being that the only place to see your replies/notifications is the top of the Home feed with no quick way to get there if you’ve been scrolling.

• Thunder - I can see the potential, but it’s not for me right now. No buttons on comments, you have to use swipe gestures. But posts have buttons. Changing UI options doesn’t actually change anything 95% of the time.

• Summit - You want a zero frills, dark mode way of browsing and interacting? This is that. I’d love a FEW options (like light mode), but it’s fast and easy. Uhh…just realized I can’t find a way to make a new post…

• Wefwef.app - Last one. Really slick looking and responsive, but too iOS-y for me. It also claims to have light mode, but I can’t figure out how to switch it. Really polished though.

Between you and me, I haven’t been checking. 🫢

It started on the vinyl sub and so that’s what I’m sticking with, but at the end of the day, it’s just about sharing music we enjoy. I’ll update my description for these last few!

• Song - Wildflowers
• Album - Wildflowers
• Artist - Tom Petty

I like to start my mornings off quietly. There will be enough noise and chaos later. For now, let me sip my coffee and relax.

My VT4J23 Playlist

I wonder what the most well known song with a number in it is…this seems like it would be up there, but probably loses to 1999.

Could just do half of Prince’s discography. 7 would have been a good one too.

Classic. Probably would have been my pick if I had it.

• Song - Mekong
• Album - Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy
• Artist - The Refreshments

As noted in the OP, I don’t really like the prompt. So I’m taking it to just mean that the song evokes a specific scenario. I had a co-worker that decided The Refreshments major label debut was a concept album that deserved to be made into a movie. And he was right. Clyne’s songs are so descriptive and specific that it’s hard not to imagine the scene playing out.

My VT4J23 Playlist

Great tune. I’m not a Giz devotee, but I really appreciate how they just seem to write whatever the hell they feel like. Stylistically, the new album was just not doing it for me this week, but then there’s this and it could be a completely different band.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard this album, but this song is frigging awesome. I’ll definitely be giving the album some time this week. Thanks!

• Song - 32 Pennies
• Album - Greatest & Latest
• Artist - Warrant

Back to 80s rock today. Greatest & Latest features re-recordings of some of their songs with a few new ones mixed in. Generally, the re-recordings are a little looser, slower, and not as heavily produced as the originals. I quite enjoy them. Honestly hope that with Taylor Swift’s “Taylors Versions” we see more full scale re-recordings by some artists. Time and experience can really be heard and lend something new.

I really dislike the theming and buttons at the top of the page on Lemmy mobile. The tildes theme is better, but some of those targets are pretty tiny for my not real large hands. Jerboa uses my system colors and allows for a little customization.

Every now and then I do find myself needing to leave the app to do or find something on the actual site, but it’s mostly been good for me so far.

No mention of Metafilter or Fark? Pffff.

Many people are leaving Rome expecting to arrive in Carthage.

Now I’m thinking about Reddit as England and the Fediverse as North America and wondering what the world would be like if people decided “Shit, this is nothing like home and it’s too hard. I’m going back.”

Native culture would have thrived. Those who came and made the effort to integrate would have been welcomed and found a place. And maybe the real treasure would be the friends they made along the way.

I have 2 going right now:

• Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash is good, but IDK. It just isn’t pulling me in the way I expected it to, so it’s taking me too long to get through.

Then I have some Jack Reacher novel on my bedside table waiting to be started, and I was just eyeballing a collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories on my shelf.