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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • I didn’t ignore it, but I did have to put up with it for months:

    Discord would just never recognize that my PC was being left idle, so I would never get notifications on my phone, which constantly left me gaslighting myself into thinking my friends were ignoring me, or just didn’t have any reason to message me all day.

    I contacted Discord support at least once over it, and they couldn’t do anything to help me figure it out, since I had all my settings set properly to have it switch over to mobile notifications after 1 minute of inactivity.

    After a shit ton of googling, I found out that certain devices, namely third-party xbox controllers, could cause a PC to never actually go idle, and then I found a tool to help me check if my PC is idle, started unplugging things one-by-one, and found out that my 8bitdo Arcade controller was the thing keeping my PC from going idle.

    The issue popped up with an etsy-bought Guitar Hero controller further down the line as well, but thankfully by then I knew how to troubleshoot the issue. Bonus points, my new fighting game controllers don’t have this problem.




  • Probably that I met a bunch of other decently-high-level fighting game players that have similar demeanor about the games we all play. Hanging out with them gave me an entire new community to feel at home in, and got me back into content creation. Plus, they collectively made it not feel impossible to go to my local tournaments on occasion, at which I’m at least not the weakest player in the room by a good margin.

    Oh yeah, I completely quit drinking as well, after overdoing it one night and teleporting to the bathroom to vomit. I’m not counting days or anything, just kinda neat that I dropped it cold turkey, had plenty of opportunities to drink again, and just haven’t wanted to.


  • Literally viewing this thread while laying in bed with a FFXIV cutscene playing on my Deck right now.

    It’s so cozy playing stuff on this thing, even when I have an extremely powerful gaming PC less than 5 feet away.

    And when I go over to my girlfriend’s house, I just bring it with me, instead of having to lug a whole laptop over there and get it set up just to mess around with something casual that I wouldn’t wanna run on my phone.





  • There are a few.

    1, my Mavercade KeebBrawler-01, which has been pretty comfy for Street Fighter 6, which itself I can’t count as my own best purchase since it was gifted to me.

    2, Monolith M1070C headphones. They’re the first pair of closed-back headphones I’ve ever had that I don’t hate wearing for extended periods.

    3, Final Fantasy 14. My girlfriend’s been playing since its initial release, and some of my other friends collectively convinced me to join. In the last couple weeks I’ve already put somewhere in the range of 50 hours into it and it’s been a good way to bond with everyone.









  • Mini Metro and Mini Motorways are pretty chill.
    Both Katamari REROLL games.
    Pretty much every Humongous Entertainment game.
    DREDGE and WORLD OF HORROR if you want an exercise in slow-paced creepy bullshit tolerance.
    Jet Set Radio is probably another solid choice, just for the music and aesthetic.
    Beat Hazard for vibing to your music and some crazy flashy visuals. 2 has support for a bunch of major music streaming platforms, including YouTube.
    Also like any porn game you can get down with.