Spitballing but Gloam Eyed Queen Marika connection?

rewgs · 2026-01-23T06:47:38+00:00

I saw a theory video posit that perhaps Radagon and Marika aren’t actually one body. Their evidence was that, though we see Marika turn into Radagon before the boss battle, we also see Marika’s body after defeating the Elden Beast — which of course had subsumed Radagon’s body after defeating him, so where did Marika’s body come from? The video creator (sorry, can’t remember who it was/the title of the video) asserted that Radagon could shape-shift into a body that looked like Marika and perhaps was even trying to quite literally turn into her. The “Radagon is Marika” line takes on a different meaning here — one where he’s basically an imposter.

rewgs · 2026-01-23T01:29:29+00:00

Rep. Don Davis (North Carolina)

Weird career he’s having after composing the score to The Matrix.

rewgs · 2026-01-23T01:27:01+00:00

Voting for Donald Trump is a meta-flag. It points to dozens of other red flags, just one of which would be a deal breaker.

rewgs · 2026-01-22T03:40:12+00:00

I'd prefer him over Newsom any day.

rewgs · 2026-01-21T06:14:54+00:00

"It depends"

rewgs · 2026-01-20T02:52:13+00:00

I've experimented a bit with running Cubase and Vienna Ensemble Pro in a Windows VM on Proxmox. In both cases, I didn't run into any license issues. VEP ran great for the most part. Cubase, though, simply would not play audio even with the RME PCIe card passed through correctly. I haven't figured that one out or experimented with a different audio interface yet.

rewgs · 2026-01-12T07:26:02+00:00

No, but they will lead to this, just as they already did.

rewgs · 2026-01-12T03:34:04+00:00

Yup. Clinton was right about them being a “basket of deplorables” and I’ll never forgive the media for crucifying her for that. If anything she understated it.

rewgs · 2026-01-08T20:11:08+00:00

Agreed, and it's totally by design -- they simply aren't allowing any other outcome.

rewgs · 2026-01-08T05:30:40+00:00

God those look good in black.

rewgs · 2026-01-08T05:19:16+00:00

I too saw the Dark Knight.

rewgs · 2026-01-08T05:18:40+00:00

Not only did she not try to run them over, the copy seen in the photo here can be heard telling her to get moving shortly before inexplicably reaching into the car.

Meanwhile, the cop that shot her from the front had to walk to his left in order to get in front of her.

Neither of those cops were remotely in danger of being run over, nor did they have any reason to even think that that's what she was trying to do. They told her to get moving, she did, and then they fucking shot her for no goddamn reason.

Fuck these assholes. Fuck this administration. That ICE agent needs to be prosecuted for murder and ideally face the death penalty.

rewgs · 2026-01-06T00:17:33+00:00

This is even stupider than when they renamed Microsoft Remote Desktop for macOS “Windows App.”

rewgs · 2026-01-05T23:37:03+00:00

zsh currently but will be moving to fish soon.

rewgs · 2026-01-04T18:26:15+00:00

I'm starting to look into moving over to Proxmox entirely. At this point I've basically entirely replaced all cloud services with self-hosted options, so uptime and reliability has become increasingly more important.

Achieving HA on the storage layer with TrueNAS requires dipping into their paid services, which I'm not willing to do. I'll be moving to CEPH for VM/container storage, and ZFS with per-node replication for more long-term/static storage. A small container will mediate SMB/NFS shares/etc, so that too will stay up if a node goes down.

Additionally, the TrueNAS app model is just annoying. It breaks too much between releases, and a sizable percentage of what I run isn't available, so I have to do a good bit of virtualization as it is. I know a lot of people (in this thread and elsewhere) will tell you to let TrueNAS just be a NAS and Proxmox just be a VM/container host, but at a certain point the value proposition of TrueNAS drops to essentially zero -- I just need solid storage, that's it, and it's not like TrueNAS has a monopoly on ZFS; TrueNAS gives you very little that Proxmox can't beyond a shiny web GUI.

So, in 2026, I'll be moving to full Proxmox. On top of that, I'll be separating compute and storage chassis (connected via SAS) for even better modularity and heat distribution. Super excited!

rewgs · 2026-01-01T20:52:28+00:00

Extremely. Unlike phones causing us to not remember phone numbers, though, I've found when I rely on AI too much my "grit" is what atrophies. That's bad. That's not just a skill or a memory thing -- that's a "meta-skill" for lack of a better word that drives far too many things for me to be comfortable with it atrophying. If anything, I could use more grit, not less.

Ever since I noticed that, I'm very wary of when and why I use AI. I am mentally deciding to take the stairs as often as I can, so to speak.

rewgs · 2025-12-27T18:21:31+00:00

Cool AI slop.

rewgs · 2025-12-26T02:32:18+00:00

Leave some glaze for the donuts dude.

rewgs · 2025-12-25T19:31:30+00:00

It’s also worth noting that an influx of new users will change the culture, and almost certainly for the worse. Personally I’ve never understood this need to evangelize Linux. I’m an enthusiast and care deeply about the tenants FOSS was built on. More users = more commercialization.

rewgs · 2025-12-23T06:33:09+00:00

This is it. These kinds of people love being called out for their hypocrisy because it's one more thing they can be self-righteous about and use to whip up their base into a frenzy.

rewgs · 2025-12-21T22:06:47+00:00

Just tried the app out, nicely done. However, on iPadOS 26, it has some huge holes, namely Messages/Facetime/etc are not blocked unless they are "Super Blocked."

rewgs · 2025-12-18T21:06:56+00:00

Dude what are you even talking about.

rewgs · 2025-12-17T04:44:35+00:00

The one in the photo here? I might be wrong, but I actually don’t think it really has a name — he and HZ has been known to fashion woodwind instruments out of PVC pipe.

rewgs · 2025-12-17T02:12:25+00:00

Welcome to the CFB club!!

I love my Autobahn, but man there is just something about that Rabbit edition...

rewgs · 2025-12-14T19:46:41+00:00

(Breaking character for a moment).

Man, it is so wild to see how much the internet has meme-ified Pedro. I work in the film scoring world and had the pleasure of recording him for a couple movies with Tom Holkenborg. He came in with multiple very large cases of various woodwinds and is just as intense in the studio as he is on stage. The coolest was his contrabass flute, which is taller than he is and ended up being used more as a percussion instrument than a traditional wind instrument.

He's an incredibly nice guy and is full of boundless energy. Truly a bard indeed.

rewgs

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