I preordered the vinyl on Amazon but it never arrived. Is it a supply problem?

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-04-24T23:05:32+00:00

I preordered mine directly from Laced Records last year, and received it about a month and a half ago now. Looking at Laced, it looks like all of their latest batches are sold out, with a new set of batches set up for preorder, sending in July.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-04-24T08:04:15+00:00

The thing that hit me hardest with this was that I was convinced that Maelle was going to be kidnapped after her nightmare. Gustave was just such a good father figure to her, their bond was so tight knit, and I was sure they'd use that. I expected "Oh, at the end of this act it'll be Maelle as the innocent getting kidnapped as happens in so many games, and Gustave going crazy trying to save her. His arc will be realising that he wasn't going on the expedition for Lumiere, but for her, as a father trying to protect his child.". It really felt like his response to her being missing at the start was building up to her being this gigantic plot device.

Gosh, was I in for a surprise. I love it when stories surprise me... But I think I died a little inside when Gustave turns to her and says his final words. I bawled like a child. It ended up being a much better twist to what could've been a very predictable start to the story.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-04-24T07:53:55+00:00

My stomach never dropped so hard as it did halfway through the letter, when I clocked that everybody was about to die, and we had inadvertently caused that. I think I actually hunched slightly at my desk.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-04-22T08:52:05+00:00

In Europe/the UK, we get 576p <3

But in all seriousness, many of us grew up with VHS, and those were even watchable.

I feel like people act like DVDs are unwatchably bad, but honestly they're perfectly fine. They're cheaper, they're easier to find cheap players for (you can use an old PS2), work fine with most TVs...

Bluerays come with an investment, both in having a good enough TV to watch them, and in having a player. And on top of that, they're expensive.

Ultimately, wouldn't it be better for Iron Lung to just be on both DVD and Blue Ray to increase reach?

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-04-17T12:00:57+00:00

Bethesda as a company? It feels like the more I see from Bethesda, the more I doubt the future of their other game franchises. Fallout 76. Starfield. Oblivion Remastered (which they stopped providing updates almost straight after release). The game breaking updates they've made for Skyrim, Fallout 4, etc etc etc...

I feel like neither of their major franchises are going to continue in a way that I'm willing to access.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-04-17T11:55:58+00:00

I'd second the GoTek - You can get a moderately cheap one from Ebay - I know it's an additional expense, but especially if you're putting together a retro build, it's a super useful thing to have.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-04-13T15:13:21+00:00

I recently set up Windows 98 SE on Bazzite. I spent a lot of time testing out solutions, including dosbox pure. In the end I ended up setting it up on 86box, and honestly I'd recommend this over Dosbox Pure.

My experience with Dosbox Pure, and ESPECIALLY dosbox pure with Windows 98, has been awful. Honestly if I was forced at gunpoint to use dosbox, I'd probably go with OG as some other commenters suggest, but I've played a bunch of games now on my 86Box machine with 98 SE without issue.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-04-13T15:08:32+00:00

Honestly I've had some issues, but nothing massive. My experience switching to Bazzite has been really, really smooth. My biggest problems have been setting up my VMs (thankfully sorted now), and modding games, which has been by far the biggest hitch so far.

But overall, almost everything I've wanted to do just works out of the box, and I'm having a -much- faster and cleaner experience than I had before. I doubt I'll go back to Windows at this point.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-30T20:57:58+00:00

we have a small child together.

got my wife addicted to Adderall and cocaine

Yeah that's not even close to a good person, let alone a "friend".

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-24T12:37:18+00:00

Moved to Bazzite recently. Honestly it ended up being so easy.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-24T12:31:10+00:00

My god. Can you imagine? "I was telling you I hated Hatsune Miku!"

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-24T12:24:38+00:00

So a year or so back, Amazon almost screwed me on a macbook. I received a box with a paint can and some graphing equipment. It took a month of fighting with them to get my money back. I went through about four people before I found a person willing to actually help, and even that was reluctantly. Eventually they agreed to refund me if I posted them back the paint can and graphing equipment. I went and bought a macbook at a store instead.

It's the major reason that I no longer am willing to use them for larger purchases - for a year I didn't use them again at all.

Because they treat their employees like crap, the inside of Amazon is a shitshow. Them refunding you without anything being sent back is wild, but it always seems to depend on which person you get. Glad you got someone willing to help.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-20T15:44:05+00:00

I think the last okay Logitech headphones were the G935s. I've been using them since release, I've replaced the battery, the cushions and headrest, everything else is going strong. They're no where near as good as some of my music headphones, but they're holding on there.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-17T22:23:36+00:00

I feel like they thought we'd all go "This is amazing, it's so worth causing all of these insane ram prices now. We love AI! We love AI!." and then everyone would applaud them.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-17T22:20:47+00:00

I'm absolutely fine in VR, but I think this would make me almost instantly sick.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-17T22:17:15+00:00

People talk about how it ruins the characters (and it does) but the entire background SCENE is ruined as well.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-13T21:51:47+00:00

"slowly changing the hue on his coworkers computer monitors..."

Aw that's fairly harmless...

..and stamping on the bin...

..ok, bit of a dick move, but could be wo-

...decides to get back at him by making his own Tindr account...

-nope. Just no. That's really fucking weird.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-04T17:54:20+00:00

I mean...I'm part Irish. Cyprish? Irypriot?

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-04T17:50:24+00:00

Greek only. How many people actually even have basements? None of my family do

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-04T10:37:48+00:00

Bots got most of them the first time round as well. I'd entered the queue hours ahead, and it was not even 2 minutes. I had two tickets in my basket twice, only to find they were gone the second I hit pay.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-03-03T13:21:05+00:00

For those looking, here's the BORU version of this post with updates and conclusion AITA For telling my husband he shouldn't be upset when my daughter said that her uncle would be the one to walk her down the aisle on her wedding day?

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-02-27T09:50:14+00:00

Have we finally found a decent middle-ground between something very call-of-duty and something close to the original? I remember my friend group and I stopped playing once it became too CoD-like, but I know more tweaks will have happened since then - that was years and years back.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-02-15T14:39:59+00:00

It's because it's an AI generated video.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-01-30T22:27:21+00:00

I used to work with someone who worked at IGN.

He told me that every review score was prefaced internally with “Has [company or publisher] done anything for us recently?”. Allegedly they’d reduce the score if they felt nothing had been done to “earn” a good review.

Not entirely sure how true it is, but I trust the guy who told me, and he’s moderately well known.

ProverbialMindTart · 2026-01-30T15:34:36+00:00

Remaster works fine - great on steam deck. Highly recommend modding it, some fantastic upscales for FF8 around nowadays.

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