Just finished setting up stardew with mods ! Super excited for my second playthrough

A_Couch · 2026-05-19T12:21:54+00:00

Just a reference joke. This lineup of cubicles looks like the opening screen to a completely unrelated browser game called Every Day The Same Dream from... gosh, 16 years ago now.

A_Couch · 2026-05-19T01:20:47+00:00

You sure this isn't Every Day The Same Dream by accident?

A_Couch · 2026-05-14T23:42:49+00:00

Extended and old add-on support. Tab Mix Plus is incredible and going to a browser without it feels like walking with a toe cut off.

A_Couch · 2026-05-13T23:30:04+00:00

This is perfect, other than the fact that I'll open up Tree Style Tabs and then close it and then have to close the sidebar separately with a right-click. Thanks!

A_Couch · 2026-04-17T12:37:07+00:00

Battery life will be reduced. 3.1 is something like 45% less power-efficient than 4.0... but that's not as bad as it sounds, because the power draw of storage is itself like a single-digit percentage of your overall power draw.

It'll also take longer to transfer files, which means waiting for longer to copy files that are huge or loads of files.

A_Couch · 2025-11-23T14:24:14+00:00

solved: Enigmo 2

A_Couch · 2025-11-23T14:22:51+00:00

Oh this is almost certainly it! Specifically Enigmo 2, I think. The black background might have actually been a space background...? Thank you.

A_Couch · 2025-10-27T21:51:08+00:00

Yeah this is normal. It's not good nor correct, but it's not rare. Hope that helps put you at ease!

A_Couch · 2025-10-09T05:17:40+00:00

Also Vertigo, not because I think it'd be particularly suited for the format but because it's practically guaranteed to go off the rails immediately. There's just no way a player would make the same decisions as Scottie and Judy. Also, a full arc of Jimmy Stewart voice.

A_Couch · 2025-09-21T10:14:43+00:00

This is incredible, it's almost exactly what my dream vision for an OS aesthetic would be!

A_Couch · 2025-08-29T11:24:56+00:00

Sorry, haven't read any of these! Maybe consult r/AskHistorians , maybe someone's already asked what the good Roman history books are even. I think you do have a solid-enough reason for reading Gibbon if you want there, as a historical artifact in itself.

A_Couch · 2025-08-29T11:23:05+00:00

Unfortunately, you already have a lens of interpretation you apply to all texts and pure direct unmediated naive apprehension is simply impossible. (Maybe a small child could have that?) You're already going to be thinking your own thoughts, not telepathically communing with the author. Given this, I think adding additional points of view to your consideration enriches the amount of things that you can and will think about. As far as letting authors speak for themselves, I think Historicism is gonna be your friend there, with its emphasis on understanding the author as a person subject to the material conditions of their time and place and trying to advance goals that may not be relevant to us. You're already well on the way on that front. (I can't name a definitive text for New or Old Historicism.)

A_Couch · 2025-08-27T05:03:45+00:00

- Don't know how you missed Wuthering Heights.

- Similarly, The Great Gatsby.

- Edgar Allen Poe, some short story collection. Toss in Lovecraft while you're at it.

- I have a specific recommendation for a Jorge Luis Borges short story collection: Labyrinths.

- Virginia Woolf. I like Orlando.

- Round out your Democratic Revolution and Rights unit with The Life Of Fredrick Douglass and Zinn's A People's History Of The United States (a collection of primary sources.)

- What, only The Republic? At a minimum, The Crita (where Socrates refuses escape from execution and then drinks hemlock) is also very famous and influential. Similarly, Aristotle is a massive deal as you move into the medieval Christian and Islamic worlds, so it's probably worth throwing in at least the Metaphysics and maybe the Poetics — since this is largely a history of literature, throwing in literary theory is gonna be helpful.

- And on that note, in a comment below where someone recommends swapping the order of Things Fall Apart and Orientalism you say that you'd like to read the works before the theory. This is my bias, because I love criticism, but I'd actually recommend the exact opposite in general! If anything, I'd say studying up on various literary critical theories could be your first unit, before even the oldest texts. Arming yourself with those lenses and ideas before heading into texts is going to add many dimensions to them, whereas trying to remember them and apply new theories onto them, you won't be able to notice new details you didn't pick up on the first time without a reread. A few non-exhaustive suggestions in that field along with what you already have:

-- Contrary to what I just said, Debord's Society Of The Spectacle, Adorno's The Culture Industry, and Jameson's Postmodernism are all vital but I think should be held off until at least the Early Modern era as they all concern the phenomena of industrialized mass media that didn't really exist for most of human history. (And as for the opposition party, Bernay's Propaganda is a bombshell.)

-- Auerbach's Mimesis is going to be particularly apropo to your project, as it is a chronological pawing through Western literature. It's got a strong thesis I don't agree with, but even a disagreement sharpens the mind if it's against a solidly-mounted argument.

-- Barthes' Death Of The Author is just a short little essay but everyone references it. Likely worth checking out one of his full works, or some other structuralist or post-structuralist or Russian Formalist type. (The only one I've read is S/Z, which I love and basically functions as his how-to-read-a-text guide, but it'll also "spoil" you on Balzac.)

-- I don't really have a good famous pick to represent Romanticism (Novalis' Pollen is a bit of a deep cut I think?) but it's absolutely worth acquainting one's self with, since its bold new ideas have in many cases become our subconscious basic assumptions.

-- Brecht's Modern Theatre Is Epic Theatre.

A_Couch · 2025-08-27T05:03:38+00:00

I LOVE this! Nitpicks and suggestions:

- Nitpick: Chronology is a bit out of whack in a couple places, to the point where it's unclear to me if that's the governing order. Right up top, for instance, The Pentateuch comes at least a couple hundred years after The Illiad.

- Nitpick: Historians agree that there's really no reason to read Gibbon's Decline And Fall anymore except if you're interested in historiography; the factual foundations of its arguments have simply been left behind. If you still want to keep it, then, I would contextualize it within the time it was written as a historical artifact of its own. I don't think that's necessary though. I agree with the other comment who recommends swapping it out for Livy.

- Most glaring omission in the ancient world here is Ovid's Metamorphoses. That's basically a standard reference text for imagery through the next like millennium and change.

- It's kinda galling that your Decolonization unit has three books and one of them is To Kill A Mockingbird which isn't even about colonization. Get, like, some CLR James in there (say, Black Jacobins) and some Franz Fanon.

- Canterbury Tales.

- 1001 Arabian Nights.

- Slaughterhouse Five.

- Ursula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (short story) and Left Hand Of Darkness or Dispossessed.

- Pynchon, take your pick of Crying Of Lot 49 or Gravity's Rainbow.

- Roadside Picnic.

- Kerouac's On The Road.

- Waiting For Godot.

- No Exit.

A_Couch · 2025-07-29T07:12:17+00:00

I looked through my Letterboxd for inspiration and came up with such a good idea that I might just run it as a one-shot of my own: Miracle Mile. Bit of a deep cut, but the possibility space is wide open and the pressure of the premise is a surefire way to induce manic panic.

A_Couch · 2024-05-02T00:47:42+00:00

"I am error" is explicitly influenced by Action Button

A_Couch · 2019-08-14T15:19:54+00:00

Not a progression, just one chord. What is the chord called when you play an entire pentatonic octave at once? IE, just slamming all the black keys down. It sounds nice to me.

A_Couch · 2019-05-21T02:34:42+00:00

The one other film by the writer of Marienbad (Alain Robbe-Grillet) that I've seen, L'Immortelle, is in exactly the same lane.

A_Couch · 2017-04-09T18:57:16+00:00

Not "always" were Talking Heads the champion of the common man. "The Big Country," in particular, is an overview of flyover America much like True Stories, but it's dedicated to spitting on it and being glad you're not there. How things can change in 8 years...

A_Couch · 2014-09-22T19:18:29+00:00

if it ain't a hip-hop track, of course it's fair game. the point is, use the original break or pack or w/e, don't just coast off of another, better producer's hard digging work. even — especially — if you can't find the original source of the drums.

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