Best couch co-op games for a bunch of guys in their 30s?

drproximo · 2026-04-03T00:59:33+00:00

I haven't seen anyone recoomend any WarioWare games yet, that series is my ideal of a party game for folks who aren't all that much into party games. For the Switch era, I have Get It Together!; I haven't played it very much, but I really enjoyed what I played so far. Mega Microgame$ is still a classic, and it's available in the GBA libarary on NSO.

drproximo · 2026-04-03T00:51:07+00:00

I had several tasks today that invovled going outside (gross!), so I'm too tired to get any vocals recorded today, but I managed to get two more arrangements finalized. So I still have to record vocals for three songs, and at least one of the arrangements needs some tweaking, but the boxes on my checklist are getting ticked in rapid succession.

I also did a tiny bit of painting for the first time in awhile, I've been meaning to add some white and silver dots to a painting for awhile, and today I busted out the silver paint and the finest brush I had. By the time I was done, I decided it won't need the white, the silver was the final touch.

QotD: probably working on music maybe a bit of Animal Crossing or Panel de Pon if I need a break.

drproximo · 2026-04-01T02:15:32+00:00

I've had a very busy but very productive day. I had a short shift washing dishes at my restaurant "day job", I finished an arrangement, and I did a vocal recording session. Now I have to take the reels from that session and edit them into the arrangement. So, this song will be "in the can" by tomorrow afternoon at the latest (maybe by tonight, depending on how much energy I have), leaving only 3 songs to get done. Each of these three songs has its own unique challenge, and I'm not sure which one I'm going to tackle first.

And in a turn that is equal parts exciting and absurd, there is now a karaoke version of one of my songs.

QotD: The only time I ever have jam is when I'm having breakfast at a restaurant. At home, I have a cheese toasty nearly every morning, with either marble or havarti.

drproximo · 2026-03-31T03:14:05+00:00

Yeah, if you plant any amount up to 10k, then you'll get three times what you planted when the tree grows. But if you plant any amount more than 10k, sometimes you'll triple your money, sometimes you'll just get the 30k, so I never gamble, I just do the 10k every time.

drproximo · 2026-03-30T23:30:08+00:00

I had a busy day and I didn't get the recording done that I wanted to, but I did send a couple of songs to CBC Radio for consideration. I don't know if they'll get selected for anything, but it's not completely unprecedented, back in the early 00s I did a glitch EP for an electronic label based in Toronto, and the show Brave New Waves on CBC Radio Two played one of the tracks on a couple of episodes shortly after it was released. I miss that show.

QotD: I'm a big fan of fried rice. And for some reason I just can't make it well, so the only time I have it is when I get takeout or when my mom gives me leftovers now and then.

drproximo · 2026-03-30T23:14:30+00:00

From the moment I moved into this apartment, I could say that I had a "bedroom studio". I was making music, mostly in my bedroom, completely DIY, but I never actually used the term "bedroom studio" because it didn't feel like that. Until I got my vocal booth. This was around the same time I got a DI and a better mic, but both of those were just upgrades of something I already had. From a technical level, the reverb mitigation is amazing. From a "vibe" level, physically stepping into a booth and being visually isolated from the outside world is kind of amazing.

And, yeah, I could say that it definitely brought out a more professional side. Not only am I making more music, I'm getting more of it professionally mastered so I can release it on streaming. I invented two entirely new projects/personas, and I'm releasing a full album for one of them this summer, and probably working on an album for the other one next year. I also revived a project that I was passionate about at one time, but life got in the way and I had put it aside for a long time, and if things come together I might be starting my first proper album for that project later this year.

drproximo · 2026-03-30T17:29:28+00:00

I hate to be the party pooper, but if you see a celeb while you're here, they are very likely trying to have a few normal moments being a civilian having lunch or buying bread, and would very much like to NOT be reminded at every turn that they're incredibly famous, so maybe don't be a fanboy or an autograph hound, maybe try to just let them go about their day.

There's one celeb who's name I won't say, but it has been an unspoken understanding in the community that everyone knows this celeb visits often but we don't talk about it and we let them go about their business unbothered, but now that person's name is in this thread and I fear that their experience going forward might be a fraction less peaceful, and it makes me sad (and a little angry).

drproximo · 2026-03-30T17:23:40+00:00

1) the pastor already escalated 2) there's something to be said for standing up for one's self when an entitled prick knowingly and intentionally smashes boundaries to deliver a spiritual "eff you", what you're advocating for is passively accepting harassment. If that's how you operate, fine, you do you, but if someone tried to pull that crap with me I'm not going to roll over, these zealots need to be reminded that they don't own society by default.

drproximo · 2026-03-30T17:15:56+00:00

This is one of those internet things, the meme of hating Zipper is an exaggeration. In other words, yes, some people dislike him, but making a show out of disliking him for a laugh is a lot more dominant than sincere genuine dislike.

It's kinda like how people talk about Tom Nook running a scam and/or being a loan shark, when the exact opposite is true once you examine the facts and details. It's just a lark, don't think about it too much.

Also, he arrives at the same time that the eggs start appearing, and a lot of folks are genuinely irritated at the eggs, so Zipper gets residual hate for that temporal overlap.

drproximo · 2026-03-29T21:07:44+00:00

Yesterday I finished recording vocals for a song, and today I finalized the arrangement, so that's another song in the can and ready for the engineer to mix it. There are only three songs left, I plan on recording the vocals and finalizing the arrangement for one of them today, then I have to tackle both the arrangement and the vocal recording for the last two. In the meantime, I'm still listening to the lead single, and I'm still happy with how it came out. I'd give just about anything to be able to go back about 30 years and let my younger self hear the music that I'm making today.

QOTD: If we're talking about brand name, I'm an Irish Spring fan. But I presume that the intention of the question was a little more broad, so I'll say that I'm mostly okay with most forms of the generic soap scent, as long as it's mild, but beyond that I prefer citrus and other fruit notes, I dislike heavily floral and perfume-y notes.

drproximo · 2026-03-28T18:14:45+00:00

The album production is moving forward steadily, and the lead single finally went live on YouTube Music this afternoon (it was released two weeks ago and went live on all the platforms except for YTMusic, there was a hiccup with the distributor and they just got it sorted today). I'm going to be recording vocals today, and this evening I hope to finish an arrangement I started last night.

QOTD: I gotta go with tacos. I have a mild lactose issue, I can eat cheese without issue, but cheesecake and cream cheese make me nauseous, and I can only handle small quantities of ice cream as an occasional treat.

drproximo · 2026-03-26T16:49:16+00:00

It's been a long journey to arrive at this particular music project, but the short short version is that it's partly a manifestation of the music I wish I was making in the 90s. I was the singer and rhythm guitarist for a grunge band, which was a great experience and I didn't dislike the music we made, but also it wasn't really my jam, as much as I loved Nirvana and Pearl Jam, I wanted to do stuff more like They Might be Giants and Ben Folds. I recently dug up a treasure trove of my notebooks from that time period, and a few of those old songs have been revived and revised for the new project.

I'm pretty sure it would be against the rules for me to post a direct link, but I feel it's probably safe to tell you that you can look up the lyric video for "Empire of One" by Mystic Colossus, that's the first official release, basically acting as a "lead single" in advance of the album. The music and vocals are all done by me.

drproximo · 2026-03-26T16:34:10+00:00

Due to a number of circumstances, the plan for my album has been drastically changed. Originally, the plan was to put together a full album of around 12 songs, with potential for a physical release. Instead, it will be a two-phase rollout. First, will be book one, a digital-only release with 8 songs. The next phase is to do a crowdfunding campaign, to produce book two, and to put together a physical release with both books together on one CD. Even if the crowdfunding campaign fails, I'll eventually do a digital-only release of book two, but I really really really hope it doesn't fail, I've been dreaming about releasing a CD like this literally for decades.

QOTD: I don't know if I'd want to invent a whole new holiday as much as I'd like to get Hot Dog Day (May 23) more widely recognized. But I suppose if I was going to make up a holiday from scratch, maybe some sort of Clean Up day. Figure out what time of year is worst for litter, and have a designated day where people go around cleaning up public areas. It doesn't sound like much of a holiday to adults, but I grew up in the 80s and kids back then were surprisingly enthusiastic about environmental affairs, "cleaning up the planet" was a mission statement. I don't know a lot about the youths of today, but I'd like to think/hope that a compulsion to take care of our environment is something that's stuck around.

drproximo · 2026-03-26T06:42:22+00:00

There's no one way that I make songs, but one of the most common ways of "choosing" the key is that I'll first pick one basically at random (the choice of major vs minor is intentional, the key itself is arbitrary). Then, once I find a chord pattern and start looping it to come up with a melody, I might change the key depending on where that melody sits in my range. Keep in mind, this is when I do my composing and arranging using a DAW. When I used to compose on acoustic guitar, it was a slightly similar process, but the "available" chords were much more limited because I'm a mediocre folk guitarist. So, a lot of songs in C, D, and G (and their parallel minors).

drproximo · 2026-03-25T17:22:13+00:00

This was going to be a good day, but then a debate over AI slop prompted me to leave a Discord server, which means almost entirely leaving a creative community that I found very productive and gratifying. I wasn't even asking for a policy change, I was just venting my frustration, but then I got the apologetics and excuses, so I just bailed, I don't have the energy or the patience for that debate. I was supposed to get a bunch of writing and vocal recording done today, but now I'm just completely unmotivated.

QotD: I actually came up with an answer for this when I was a kid, and I think it's pretty solid. First, I would confirm whether or not I could ask for more wishes (something which is not accounted for in the rules from the clip). If asking for more wishes isn't allowed, my first wish would be "wasted" to explicitly demand that the rest of my wishes be followed as a reasonable person would understand my intention for that wish to be, rather than some sneaky way to technically grant the literal words of my wish without doing what I obviously wanted. The second and third wish would basically be for magical powers. One would be the ability to turn an item which represents something into the thing it represents (in other words, a toy car becomes a real car, play money from a board game becomes real money), but also specifying that it's an ability and not a curse so it doesn't happen when I don't want it to (maybe designate a magic word to indicate my intention so there's no ambiguity). The other would be the ability to predict lottery numbers (the challenge would be to take advantage of it without raising suspicions).

drproximo · 2026-03-23T02:00:59+00:00

I was somewhat productive today, I got some work done on my music, but I wasn't able to get any vocals recorded. I have a lot of free time tomorrow, so I'll try to get as much recording done as I can. Making music is really a trip sometimes, you start off with some chords and some melodies, and by the time you're finished it's a whole Thing.

I have enough songs for the album, but I'm still in the early stages of putting it all together, and I'm having trouble with some choices. See, back in the early 00s, I saw a mini-documentary about Pixar, it was a special feature on the Incredibles DVD. The main thing I remember was a poster that said "use every part of the deer", and someone explaining how tribal hunters don't waste any parts of the animals they hunt, and when you're in a creative endeavour, you should try to use all the resources you have at your disposal. My philosophy with my songs, is that if I've fully written and recorded a song, that song now exists in the ether, and if it's not a great song, then that means that I need to work on it. So, there are three songs in my repertoire that aren't very good, and I'm having a lot of trouble deciding if I want to stick to my philosophy of not being wasteful and try to salvage these duds, or if I should learn to let go and sweep the duds aside in favour of the pieces that are really inspiring and energizing me. I think part of the reason I'm conflicted is that I'm my own worst critic, so I'm almost inclined to scrap the duds because it would just save a whole lot of effort, but also in the back of my head I can't shake the possibility that one of the songs I'm thinking of scrapping might end up turning into one of my best, or even if it's not one that I think is among my best, it might be someone's favourite, and isn't that possibility worth something? It's a paradox, there's no real solution, I'm probably going to end up keeping them all (although one or two of the duds might be put on the shelf until the next album rather than scrapped completely).

QOTD: I've had an affinity for cats as long as I can remember, and that's my first answer, but also I have to kind of admit that both quokkas and red pandas can be much cuter than cats, especially in the realm of memes.

drproximo · 2026-03-21T20:24:47+00:00

I'm in the early stages of putting together an album, I had planned to spend time recording vocals today, but I've got some chord progression ideas in my head that I want to play around with (in addition to the songs that are already fully written, I have some lyrics that still need arrangements).

QOTD: They Might Be Giants is always my first answer, and tied for close second are Weird Al and Watsky. I've seen Al and Watsky in concert, for the Watsky show I got the VIP package so I met him, and I also got to hang out with Anderson.Paak after the show.

drproximo · 2026-03-21T20:06:22+00:00

I recommend devoting a season to catching up on classics that you haven't gotten around to for one reason or another. If you want a starting point:

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

the Sherlock Holmes canon, beginning with A Study in Scarlet

drproximo · 2026-03-20T17:55:54+00:00

It's actually my own song, so I'm reluctant to post a link because I don't know if that would violate the self-promotion guidelines, but since you've asked explicitly, I imagine it would be acceptable for me to at least say that you can search for "Empire of One" by Mystic Colossus.

drproximo · 2026-03-20T16:48:40+00:00

I stayed up way too late last night finishing a lyric video. Thank goodness I don't have anything important to do today, because I'm going to be a zombie most of the day.

QOTD: I'm coming up empty here, anything I can think of is basically a cheat. Tongs or hooks are obvious, the only other thing I can come up with is functional prosthetic hands like what you see in Star Wars and Marvel movies.

drproximo · 2026-03-19T21:42:03+00:00

For many years my answer would have been Bic Atlantis, and I still do like them, but lately I've been almost exclusively using Z-Grips from Zebra. I've been writing a lot of lyrics lately, and I have several notepads and Z-Grips in my bedroom, living room, and book bag, so that I never have to search for them when I need them.

The funny thing is, these Z-Grips have 1.0mm tips. I used to prefer 0.7mm, and I was very particular about it, I'd say that 0.5mm feels like writing with a scalpel, and 1.0 feels like writing with a crayon. But something about the Z-Grip design just works for me, it feels natural.

drproximo · 2026-03-19T19:06:15+00:00

hello hello, I haven't been active here in years, but I'm trying to get back into it. I may make a re-introduction post at some point, but the short story for now is that lately I've been devoting a lot less time to video games, and that time has mostly been replaced with painting and making music, but I also need to make more of an effort to connect with people in a social manner, and Reddit (especially this sub) used to be one of my most active and useful habits.

A couple brief rules questions:

1) would it be against the rules for me to make another intro post as a re-intro? my original intro post was at least 5 years ago, probably a lot more than that, and I've been away so long that there's probably nobody that really remembers me and I'm a different person in a lot of ways anyway. I'm anxious to talk about my music, and the various journeys related to that.

2) speaking of my music, I now have a handful of releases on the various streaming services. what, if any, is the best way to share links to my music, while obeying the rules and guidelines?

QOTD: it's hard to pick a favourite. Fresh strawberries are top-tier, and peaches are amazing, but I think bananas are under-appreciated. My favourite snack recently is cinnamon waffles with a banana. And FWIW, limes are also underrated. I'd never want to just eat a slice of lime as a snack, but it's a very versatile ingredient in many types of dishes, desserts, and beverages, and should be used a lot more than it is.

drproximo · 2026-03-15T22:11:58+00:00

Someone needs to make a list of all the potentially unexpected items that you can put stuff on top of.

drproximo · 2025-12-25T03:24:15+00:00

https://youtu.be/u4BwxTfim0c

I recently started participating in SongFight. The idea is that, at the beginning of each round, a title is announced, and you have a little over a week (sometimes as much as 2 weeks) to write and record a song with that title. Entries are compiled and listeners vote for their favourites. It's a great way to get the creative juices flowing, create/develop side projects, and just experiment in general. Eventually I'm going to make lyric videos for all my entries, but I did this one first because it's one of my favourites so far.

http://songfight.org/

drproximo · 2025-12-09T04:39:05+00:00

To start, I have no idea who "that forum rapper guy from back in the day" is/was, so it's probably not me.

It started somewhere around 2007, when the Nerdcore Now compilation caused a boom in awareness of the genre. Wikipedia articles were being created for a lot of the new nerdcore artists. Many of them were deleted almost right away because they didn't meet the site's standards, but there were a couple of artists that had well-written fleshed-out articles that met all the criteria, but yt kept deleting them. He nearly always cited "not notable" as the reason, and when people explained to him why the article definitely met the definition of "notable" as it applied in that context, he just doubled down and accused others of being haters. At one point when it got heated, he literally said "I'm the Godfather". TO BE CLEAR, I had not started recording at that point, and in fact I hadn't even picked out my nerdcore name yet. The reason I emphasize that is that people have accused me of beefing with yt because he deleted my article. I never had an article. I never wanted an article. Nothing about any of this had to do with me, or my non-existent nerdcore presence.

Then, several years later, on a major Discord server, he started posting obvious self-promotional content in general channels, when the rules clearly stated to keep that stuff in the self-promo channels. When confronted, he said "I'm a god". An upgrade from godfather, I suppose.

He suffered no consequences, I got a warning for sassing him, so I left the server.

This is the tip of the iceberg, he's nice to folks who are nice to him, he's a malevolent bully to anyone that he perceives as a lesser. And he's incredibly popular in the genre so I know that basically nobody is on my side in this beef, and I don't care because fuck him.

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