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Exactly same. Gf & I got into it a few weeks ago and just caught up to current. We’re champing at the bit to see what happens next.

Jade #1!

It is - without the quiet zone, it makes detecting the locator pattern really difficult, especially in one’s looking for the 1:1:3:1:1 ratio.

Does Sympathy count? Technical Death Metal that absolutely slays.

In the Adam singularity, naturally!

I remember first listening to this album back in ~99, and man I couldn’t even process its greatness. Love it. I remember reading, seemingly a million years years ago, that a follow up album was still in the works, but it’s been 26 years now… I’ll huff some more copium I guess.

Aye. Granted, I’m on Dynamis so my experience is going to be wildly different from, eg. Aether, but I’ve only had one occasion of long queues, and that was when Aether died. And even then, it was steady progress, unlike the Login Roulette of Endwalker.

Absolute banger classic.

I’ve been playing Heart of the Machine, and really enjoying it. It’s a fascinating 4x ish in a future city, in a bit of an inversion of AI Wars (same developer). Before playing, I was merely intrigued, but now I’m excitedly awaiting where it goes. It was, however, initially difficult to figure out what to do. Perhaps more UX is going to be useful here.

Are there any other death metal bands with a vocal delivery similar to Archspire?

While the orb weavers and Argiope spiders are certainly a shock, it’s really the Brown Huntsman spiders (American version of the classic Clock Spider) that can instill that fight or flight response when they run at’chya. I love spiders to death and always enjoy saving them from my house, but the first time I saw one of those guys in my apartment, my legs absolutely turned to jello.

Dinosaur birds, eh? Maybe Sandhill Cranes – those things are awesome and so cool in person.

Coincidentally, I do work on embedded devices, but as mentioned by ferret, most embedded stuff nowadays is (I think?) an Arm variant. Most all of the device code I write is C++ though; no need to get into assembly land unless clang screws something up, but that hasn’t happened yet thankfully. That said, in the future, this may change as we optimize certain imaging algorithms further.

Proficient: Rust, C++, Python, x86-64 ASM, SSE1 SIMD, C#, C, Javascript / Node.JS
Can get by: Java / JNI, Kotlin, Bash
Been a while: Perl, Haskell, Prolog, Labview, Lisp

That prick Richard Woolsey had a great character arc though!

While I still enjoy the latter & more recent material, I absolutely love the DEI / None era Meshuggah the best. I wonder what bands have similar styles to it - basically a mix of polymetric melodic jazzy thrash’ish. I should take a trip to the Metal Archives and go dumpster diving.

I always wonder what fun & awesome output Chuck would have continued to make if he were still here. Obligatory - Fuck Cancer.

I actually came in here to post just that. It’s something that, while I’ve vaguely known, is not something I typically remember to do - I’m usually returning or collecting Vecs all over. I shall be now diligent & intentional from now on.