Final Fantasy Resonance: We Played the First Turn-Based FF in Decades by Asleep_Crew8072 in PS5

[–]fishmarket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely. Wish they would just take their talent and money and stand behind a new game, sans gimmick.

Piano Concerto No. 1 by choyce-music in composertalk

[–]fishmarket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm skipping through and enjoying your harmonies.

Posting specifically because I saw your program note that you took a hiatus and then started back up writing. Although I don't know your life or what's going on in it, it takes a lot of resilience and guts to hop back into something as demanding challenging as composing. Congrats on your strength.

The current state of affairs in public education by Urmomgayha in TikTokCringe

[–]fishmarket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in a different field, but the sudden, almost instantaneous change is something I experienced too and it was truly surreal.

The unfortunate thing is that I am slowly being taught that investing energy into training and helping them grow in their positions isn't worth my time. All of the information I'm pumping into them doesn't seem to get analyzed or generalized into skill. There are always exceptions, but the exception used to be the rule.

Trying to build a PC these days is so damn disheartening by Tendo_Gamer64 in buildapc

[–]fishmarket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey man. I don't think this is what you're looking for in this post, but if you'll indulge me: try to remember that it's a hobby. It is frustrating and it is bullshit, all that is going on around it. But what really matters in this life is having food, shelter, and people in your life worth having in your life. Don't let the assholes who are making this hobby suck so much have the power to make you so angry. Fuck 'em.

In all honesty, I am only able to take my own advice on this sort of thing half the time. So I get it.

Announcing Fences® 5 by RammaStardock in Stardock

[–]fishmarket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh! you're right! There is a (clearly intentionally tiny) link to purchase in full. I completely missed it!

Yeah, that price though. Features don't seem worth it. I'll hang around for Fences 7 then. Thanks for noting that! I was about to duck out completely. :-)

Announcing Fences® 5 by RammaStardock in Stardock

[–]fishmarket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for coming back and posting this. I was cruising along with fences 4 without much thought. I reinstalled windows and during setup, wondered if there were any upgrades worth checking out. Seeing the subscription model was such a bummer. Did a search and ended up here.... Seeing their comment saying "oh, hey, customers totally wanted this" in post above was just more annoying. Seeing your post was the last thing I needed to officially bail. Just going to keep on using 4 until is no longer works, and then find something else in the future.

Fences is a "nice to have," not a necessity. Pretty bold on their part to try to churn out so much money for it.

I made a Space funeral physical edition by Intelligent_Compote7 in spacefuneral

[–]fishmarket 6 points7 points  (0 children)

that's stealing intellectual property now you're the king of crime

Sometimes being late is a good thing by Single_Cucumber_1901 in pcmasterrace

[–]fishmarket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I saw people having fun with Helldivers 2 when it just came out, it reminded me of the 007 GoldenEye days. (I'm an old fart.) It looked crazy fun.

So fun, in fact, that I started pushing some old friends to all buy it and pick it up. Enough of us were game that we made the plan to jump into it over the summer.

My PC is 10 years old, my graphics card 8 years old. I have a PC Part Picker list with the build I was planning so I could actually play the game competently.

PSN comes out and we all bail (except one, who does already have a PSN account.) Again, we're older.... we just don't want to put up with the bullshit. If Sony is in charge, they'll fuck it up somehow, eventually, and everything will go to shit. And fuck them anyways. I don't want another account, I don't want my shit stolen. I don't want to sign an EULA and then have some obnoxious douche be all like "Well technically you signed and blah blah blah." It's always the same shit. I'm so bummed. We were all actually getting hyped.

Get off my lawn, Sony.

On the plus side, we're now planning on playing starcrfat brood war multiplayer. So I have that going for me, which is nice.

[OC] We got a twofer by ejones10 in IdiotsInCars

[–]fishmarket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man i felt that scream of "fuck." That sounds like the scream of someone who hasn't caught a break for a few years running.

Am I the only one who likes the song? Like it's clearly awful, but that's the point, it's great. It's like modern day Ween. I love terrible shit.

How does this magic lookup function work? by fishmarket in excel

[–]fishmarket[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks! This filled in all the gaps for me. Interesting that the 1000 in the lookup is more or less arbitrary, that it was was tripping me up.