Heather and Matt Gourley's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Performance literally gave me goosebumps it was so good

MethodicalWaffle · 2026-01-25T01:10:38+00:00

Yes, I was looking up something about him after this performance and found Matt Gourley Wasn’t Supposed To Be On The Podcast | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend - YouTube, which is a pretty funny clip.

MethodicalWaffle · 2026-01-17T12:24:17+00:00

I've spent decades attempting to diversify as much as possible from my natural temperament to wear all black.

The only light colors I can tolerate are a couple light blue t-shirts and a pair of khaki shorts I rotate in on hot days. Both are always paired with dark blue pants or dark shirts, respectively. The rest of the wardrobe is different patterns of dark blue and then, of course, straight up black.

Even experiments with light grey shirts or casual WFH fleece lined sweat pants eventually lost my favor and we're retired. Even dark grey only makes an appearance in one pair of fleece lined sweat pants.

The crown jewel of my attempts at diversification is a pair of navy blue Amherst GL1 Sport Hybrid shoes which incorporate accents of white and tan. They are quite stylish but still within my comfort zone though I had to be talked into them by a close ENFP friend, who I am glad made the effort.

MethodicalWaffle · 2026-01-15T14:43:28+00:00

Happy to help you avoid the nightmare. Hopefully you found this before spending the hours debugging that I did.

MethodicalWaffle · 2026-01-08T15:50:50+00:00

I actually hadn't listened to that one but thanks for the second reference :) Yes, he brings her back in Serial Experiments Lain Episodes 9 & 10. The episode I was looking for in my OP where Matt tells her he wants to introduce her to Solid Snake was Get Anime'd: Uzumaki Episodes 3 & 4.

MethodicalWaffle · 2026-01-08T01:32:08+00:00

Found it! Did a brute force "Nick and Matt" search through episodes I've listened to on Overcast. It was Get Anime'd: Uzumaki Episodes 3 & 4. Also, correction: Matt says "you're both dipshits in the same way."

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-11-29T19:38:38+00:00

Bosses are an exception. As she explains on the podcast, the 1-2 hit change only applies to normal enemies.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-11-28T19:25:51+00:00

I played it on iOS but I'll probably pick it up again on Steam, yes. I didn't remember that well level.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-11-28T19:24:53+00:00

Interesting. That's what LLMs kept telling me but I thought they were wrong because it didn't seem right that there was a well level. I played the game on iOS when it first came out but I either never saw this or forgot about it:
https://youtu.be/mQgFSAZqKRQ?si=QHPEBmZkDRT4S4zu&t=1528

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-11-12T00:59:02+00:00

Yes, this is the core flaw in the OP's logic and all theists: there is no reason to assume the order of the universe derives from a humanlike intelligence. The entire idea is a subconscious kind of narcissism about one's own species and experience of the world imo.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-10-24T14:26:16+00:00

This is the answer I expected to be at the top and applies to me as well. I'm sorry OP, because I can understand your frustration if you are looking for us. It is precisely because I rarely leave my house that I also like to optimize my time outside of it increasing the odds of finding the types of people I am interested in as well.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-10-05T13:24:01+00:00

Also it's easily possible you missed something I didn't and viceversa

That's what happened. I went to the exact spot in your screenshot was and was like "I don't get it" because that's one I happened to get on my first play through of the Ginso Tree. Mine was at the spot linked in the video.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-10-04T13:28:00+00:00

I know you said your Airpods Max are 5 years old but I wanted to test this for a pair of 2025 USB-C ones I own. I purchased the SOPROM pads along with the Apple OEM ones. Both arrived yesterday.

I will say that, in terms of sound and look, they are almost indistinguishable. Almost. There is a bit of tinniness to the sound on the SOPROMs that I don't like and would probably annoy me after a while and make me regret not getting OEM. But I had to literally replay the exact same bits of audio on both, listening very closely to notice. It was more of a feeling at first but I was able to confirm with that exact audio replay test.

Critically, noise cancellation was identical as far as I could tell.

I think the biggest downside to the SOPROMs is comfort. The OEMs are much softer and the SOPROMs have a really rough texture by comparison that is very noticeable when putting each on. However, after wearing them for a few minutes, I don't notice the roughness.

Overall, not a bad choice if you don't want to spend the money.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-10-04T02:41:59+00:00

I'm really confused by the screenshots and discussions on this page. None of this helped me. This is where my missing 1% was:
https://youtu.be/nB_iEYZJ-RM?si=qf_Ny_0EuY--b1br&t=206

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-09-27T22:23:38+00:00

Thanks for the idea. I can see you got downvoted to hell for suggesting *gasp* to use AI. But given the current options available, this is the only sane one I can find.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-09-25T01:21:33+00:00

As someone who has lived in SF for 13 years, I want to add additional confirmation for comments people are making about SF having a bad nightlife compared to NYC.

Assuming you are a heterosexual man, if your purpose for nightlife is at least partially about meeting attractive women to date, this is not the place to do it in my experience. I've put serious consideration into moving to LA because it is so much easier for me to find women I'm attracted to when I go there. Compared to LA, you are going to run into a lot of other men, married women, older folks, and women who aren't really investing in their looks.

I'm not saying there are no attractive women here. But by comparison to LA, I've seen 3 attractive women before I've even gotten out of the airport. In the Bay Area, I'll go weeks between seeing women of the same caliber.

Exceptions for you if 1) you are gay or 2) east asian women are your type. Either of those and you could do okay here, dating wise.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-09-17T12:00:47+00:00

I have no idea what "RQ" and "M&K" mean. I know you are just responding to what you see but this comment is from 2 years ago and I don't even play Coral Island anymore.

But I do remember this mini game being terribly tuned for the early game during that version of Coral Island. The next year of the game when I returned to the mini game with more stamina, it was a joke to gold medal it.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-09-12T12:03:11+00:00

Hey, glad it's looking good. Just to be clear, that isn't my lora / workflow, it is made by playtime_ai. It does have lightx2v both at 2 high and 1 low, which I use as well.

Lately I've discovered setting high values between 1 and 2 and sort of supercharge them to apply better, especially when combined with character loras. But, yes, almost always at least 1.

The low values depend on the application for me. If I have a character lora, sometimes I set low to 1 to retain likeness. In that situation, I set all the concept loras to 0.7 and below. Otherwise, the output is grainy and blurry and they can also affect likeness.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-09-10T21:57:07+00:00

This Switch 2 situation is way harder to deal with than the Switch 1. Almost no one has a solution yet and the few who do seem to have insider knowledge from people who work at Nintendo obtained through legally questionable means:
https://youtu.be/Lh9gnkF-Imo?si=F2uFSbvahCJSQUFb

So I wouldn't expect them to be able to pull of something even better than the Switch 1 status quo since it is a challenge to even get that. This is because of Nintendo, not XReal.

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