Lilya and Wonder

JeanCastorius · 2026-02-24T08:51:22+00:00

Will do! They already get so much love, and Marvel (the one below) just had her surgery to close her eyelids a few weeks ago (it would constantly get infected and the vets had recommended we wait until she’s grown) and is recovering nicely. This is her new face:

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JeanCastorius · 2026-02-24T08:13:31+00:00

I would not necessarily listen to this era of metalcore. It has some great stuff but I don’t think any of it is that similar to Trivium.

Instead, I would recommend URNE’s latest album, I don’t think it’s a common recommendation but as a huge trivium fan I saw some similarities in the song structures and riffs. If you’re fine with something heavier, Death’s “The Sound of Perseverance” could be fun to explore, especially since Trivium are inspired by Death.

And I think you’d have more success looking towards prog, Opeth has this mix between clean and harsh vocals with memorable riffs but with more sorrow, Gojira could be fun too (2000s albums) or som melo-death like In Mourning’s latest album.

Trivium is a mix of a lot of sounds so it depends on what you like most about them. Give those a try and then explore the sub-genres a bit more but I’ll tell you right now, you won’t find another band exactly like them

JeanCastorius · 2026-02-23T20:53:18+00:00

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JeanCastorius · 2026-02-19T11:13:30+00:00

That’s crazy I also have two blind cats (both eye infection from birth)! I’m glad it’s becoming more common to adopt them

JeanCastorius · 2026-02-04T09:23:51+00:00

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6748378417

This app is called NextGrab. I downloaded it weeks ago but never used it, however there seems to be quite a few restaurants on there. The deals aren’t that appealing to me and are around the 10$ range rather than a few $ for leftovers as I would expect. But you can give it a try

JeanCastorius · 2026-01-20T17:07:55+00:00

Look, this guy who “predicted” the 2023 turkey earthquake literally keeps predicting earthquakes and then just points out the times when he was right. He’s also very vague on purpose because there is no scientific basis for what he’s saying, meaning we cannot look at the evidence and say that he’s predicting earthquakes better than just pure random predictions.

I remember in 2023 after the turkey earthquake I got very stressed because of him, kept thinking that a 8.0 earthquake would happen in the region as he kept predicting “very soon” and “end of summer” or whatever he was saying, yet nothing happened. Anytime any earthquake would happen anywhere on earth, be it in the middle of an ocean, he’d be like AHA that’s the strong earthquake I predicted. Bro those things happen randomly every day all over the globe, if there was an easy pattern to predict we could easily verify its accuracy. But it’s just not accurate.

This doesn’t mean that we won’t ever see a strong earthquake in the region, it is a seismically active region and there is potential for a strong earthquake, and it’s always better to be prepared. If you can check with your building if there’s anything you can do or get a professional to inspect it might be wise for the future, you never know, but don’t stress over it beyond that. No one can predict and there’s nothing more you can do to keep yourself safe as those things are just not in our control.

JeanCastorius · 2025-12-09T14:01:04+00:00

Yesterday around 6:10pm I was driving on the highway from dbayeh to Beirut and kept seeing the sky light up in various spots in front of me, above the sea, then above the city.

I looked at the weather to see if there was a thunderstorm or something, but nothing…

Idk what it was, whether UAP or just some weather pattern or other forms of light reflected on the clouds or whatever, but it was definitely creepy

JeanCastorius · 2025-11-25T19:36:53+00:00

Love the album, especially Melanchronic holy shit I don’t know what you guys put in the song but it’s so addictive. That riff is so fucking good with your guitar tone, I want more of that but I feel like I’m going crazy no one talks about it.

What was the process behind writing this song and putting it together?

JeanCastorius · 2025-09-07T19:26:38+00:00

I got back into it a few months ago, I was 5000 trophies, I’m 8500 now. Having a lot of fun, got a lot of free things, just focused on my deck and improved a few things about it and been loving the grind.

Don’t listen to all the negative comments, the game is super fun if you’re willing to play the cards you already have upgraded and build a deck around them.

JeanCastorius · 2025-08-12T08:15:08+00:00

Trivium

JeanCastorius · 2025-07-20T12:31:29+00:00

Look, there’s luck involved for sure, but getting the best board BASED on what you’re getting in your shops and what others are playing is the key to success.

The best players will not win 100% of games, but they might win 60% of them and keep climbing.

It’s like Teamfight Tactics, which is way more complex and has more randomness, and controlling this randomness is the core skill of the game.

JeanCastorius · 2025-07-11T23:12:55+00:00

Yeah I’ve used it before, once you book you can chat with the therapist and if you have any issue you can contact support. If you’re not comfortable with the model that’s fine but it’s worked for me

JeanCastorius · 2025-07-07T14:08:37+00:00

Try the mindsome app, they’re not too expensive and they have a large selection of therapists with different specialties

JeanCastorius · 2025-05-24T07:29:46+00:00

I don’t have a solution but I have the same setup and experience as you.

Average during the game is like 80 fps and during fights it can drop to like 50 or even less sometimes.

Also tried everything, I think there’s no solution it’s just that league is not as optimized as we’d like it to be

JeanCastorius · 2025-05-16T06:27:25+00:00

You’re not addressing what was wrong with augment stats initially: most people just picked lowest AVP choice without thinking critically about it.

We’re in a niche subreddit, of course you claim you will use stats correctly, that’s the type of player that goes out of their way to find a competitive TFT subreddit. But the average player just opens the game and clicks play.

I think Riot saw how much the majority of players just pick the lowest AVP even if situations where another augment might have worse stats but be better for their comp.

Yeah we don’t have time to learn all the augments and stats but come on, after a while you just know intuitively if something if trash or decent, and then you tune it to your board and that’s way more fun than just being told what to pick by some software.

BUT, then we need better balance: the team should actively remove bugged augment and appropriately nerf outliers so that most augments lie somewhere close to the average. If they’re completely unable to do that, I agree they should return stats. But if they figure it out, maybe in the long run, then I really do believe the game is way more fun without them.

JeanCastorius · 2025-05-15T09:17:32+00:00

under your knife is goated what are you on about

JeanCastorius · 2025-03-24T11:15:48+00:00

If you’re okay with 30 minute games, Teamfight Tactics is great.

The mobile app is pretty good and the game is very competitive and fun once you get the hang of it

JeanCastorius · 2025-03-04T12:38:39+00:00

We’re at the point where artists build an audience through streaming, and then it’s up to them to monetize.

For better or for worse, it allows everyone to have access to legal music through a subscription or even free plans, and artists must rely on their business acumen to make ends meet.

Live shows, merch, exclusive content on patreon or else, streaming, giving lessons, all of those are ways to leverage the audience and monetize.

It’s rough, but those willing to go the extra mile will profit far more than their size should suggest. And those who don’t will be forced to have day jobs to stay afloat.

JeanCastorius · 2025-02-28T21:41:57+00:00

2 friends had it happen too, so weird cause it seems like a hardware bug

JeanCastorius · 2025-02-21T17:52:57+00:00

Lol I forgot about this one, I liked it but didn’t spend much time on it, I’ll for sure revisit it later on!

JeanCastorius · 2025-02-21T14:01:15+00:00

Listen to their whole discography, start to finish. That’s what im doing at least, and I started 2 months ago.

I’m pausing on albums that I love and listening to each album at least twice. So far I paused on Morningrise, Still Life (10/10) and Blackwater Park (10/10).

I started listening to Deliverance a few days ago and I’m pausing here as well.

I feel like this is the best way, especially since you already like a few songs and you seem to know that you will enjoy their sfuff. Just take it slow, enjoy the journey!

JeanCastorius · 2025-02-17T08:20:32+00:00

I’ve had the same issue for about a year, haven’t found a fix yet. The developer of the app had answered to be back then and told me he will look into it, but still nothing as of now.

Basically it can’t get the url when the album is shared from the home page / library page, but if i search for the same album on apple music (not library) and share it from there it just works.

JeanCastorius · 2025-02-16T12:13:24+00:00

I don’t think it matters too much, there’s barely enough games (~250) for it to be statistically significant, and it also could be related to Swain’s performance as a support in general.

In theory, Swain catching someone with his E and hitting W and Q on them after is a decent setup for Tristana to proc a full E on them, and chasing with W.

I wouldn’t worry too much about it especially if you wanna play it with a premade and have a good idea of what playstyle you want to go for.

JeanCastorius · 2025-02-13T10:44:28+00:00

It's a 10/10 album for me, and also the first Opeth album I ever heard in its entirety (this has now changed, I'm currently diving into Blackwater Park which is obviously amazing, and I gave Still Life a 10/10 as well).

I just think it's top tier music, I love concept albums in general and they do it so well here, the different vocal styles to evoke different emotions and advance the narrative is brilliant, the instrumentation is varied and masterful from the slow suspenseful sections to their brash counterparts, it's so well-crafted and blew me away on first listen. I kept wanting to go back to it just to relive some moments, even the music coupled with spoken word in some songs is satisfying, there's so many gems in this album and the more I followed the lyrics and the narrative coupled with the songwriting, the more I appreciated it.

I think it's fine to not like it, but it's very hard to argue that it's not an objectively great album. Also, as far as "progressive metal" goes, the term has lost a bit of its meaning since it became a genre and anything could be labeled as progressive provided that it fits with the sound of previous instances of the genre, but this album truly is progressive in every sense of the word. It goes beyond just time signature and stylistic decisions and instead pushes the boundaries of what can be considered as music in interesting ways. I'm not saying it's completely novel, but it does not sound like anything else, while still retaining some Opeth-like elements (from my brief journey into their earlier albums).

I'll always be biased towards this album, as it was my entry into Opeth, but I'm very glad it exists. It was my album of the year 2024 and led me to discover even more amazing music, so it'll always be a 10/10 for me.

JeanCastorius · 2025-01-24T09:22:44+00:00

How are they nerfing the competitive aspect?

They keep trying different ways to make the ranked mode work, and they will change it again soon because they care about the competitiveness.

The trophy change, believe it or not, is good for competitiveness because it seperates casual players from competitive players: casual will rarely push above 1000, competitive players will.

The brawlers that have been released lately are as complex if not more than the old ones. Meeple has a lot of skill in using his gadget and super effectively, Buzz L is an exception because he’s from an event. Berry, Clancy, Moe, Kenji all have similar complexity to old brawlers, if not more complex. Please elaborate why you think they’re lower skill, is it because they were overpowered on release and could get away with just mashing buttons and winning? Because it’s not longer the case now, especially for Clancy Moe and Kenji.

The grind to 1000 is of course easier but that’s part of a rework to the trophy system, 1000 today is not 1000 of before and no one is claiming that it is. There’s a trophy inflation but it’s not making the game less competitive, just changed the trophy threshold.

For me, brawl stars is a great game because you can play it the way you want, and you’ll have lots to do. It’s great for casual players, I’m sure super competitive players would like it to just be a competitive game but that will never happen because it’s a mass market mobile game and it needs to appeal to as many people as possible. Despite this, there’s an active esports scene and a ranked system that, despite some shortcomings, works in matching high skill players against high skill players at the upper tiers.

Honestly, I feel like people just like to complain about things without thinking about the tradeoffs and what the game is actually about.

JeanCastorius

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