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I've got a really lengthy post I need to make in here about my work with Luminar 4, which I have been putting off for months now. L4 is currently part of a bundle on HIB. It's a fun, if rather buggy app. It has helped me breath life into some mid 00s photos that I took when I knew very little.

I actually know the origin of 0xDeadBeef, my point in drawing reference to the name is that it's similar to Foobar2000 which also use a programmer term as the name for the app. FB2K is still my preferred playback app, but the OS X port is horrible. I use it on my Wintendo for playback, but also replaygain (currently RPG scanning seems to be broken on DeaDBeeF.)

Oh, man. This makes me sad. XIII is one of my favorite single player FPSes from back in the day (the early 00s was a very happy time for such things.) It had a slew of voice actors, including David Duchovny (who phoned it in, TBH) and the late, great Adam West (who absolutely nailed it.) A remake just came out and it's absolute hot garbage. Nearly as bad as the horrible WarCraft III: Reforged cash grab. I won't be buying it any time soon, possibly ever. At least there's a decent version of the original XIII on GOG.

Let's have a shitpost! I've used Vox as my light duty playback app on OSX for ages now. It supports FLACs and other formats, and scrobbles to last.fm. Unfortunately, it's devolved into SaaS and borderline spyware at this point. It now requires an account to even access the advanced options. Enter DeaDBeeF, which is FLOSSy, has a somewhat cringey name but does just about everything one might care about, right out of the box. It supports FLACs etc, has built in last.fm support, and handles replaygain (which Vox does not.) As a bonus, it lacks spyware and doesn't require an account.

Blimey.

In the parlance of our times, trying to get Reddit's RPAN fork of OBS to work with my webcam got me like

Buckle in:

"You think you’re pretty smart, don’t you, Trebek? What with your Diegomustache and your greasy hair!" In just over a week, we lost the two best Celebrity Jeopardy characters.

Wow. Groupees is at it again. They've got more or less the entire catalog of The Flashbulb in a bundle. $3 for a lot of it, $20 for all of it: https://groupees.com/vip18

Abandoned Concrete factory in Italy. 1961 Chrysler Imperial. Click for slightly more bridge.

Last night's show is up: First time I've used my old DAC in years.

Test Tone @ Home live right now: https://mixlr.com/illuminator/

Part of my friend Brent's studio. meow_irl Robert Leiner tuning up his live rig.

"It’s like Jack black and Joe exotic made a meth baby." "Little man with a big eraser / changing history" "The last two... One is an insufferable blonde who likes to throw tantrums and has this weird toxic relationship with the fans who are desperate enough to gang on anyone who doesn't like their icon. The other is Taylor Swift."

I've mentioned on my show a great many times that it's unwise to get into a bidding war with ambient collectors. Demographically, they are the oldest, most well heeled, and the ones most interested in owning original physical media. Today's example. Mama mia.

Mazzy Star live on Late Night with Conan O'Brien 23 August 1994: The highlight of this video is 6'4 Conan offering a handshake to 5 foot nothing Hope Sandoval at the end. She is infamously shy and reserved and it shows in her reaction. Also RIP David Roback. Remember when him dying was the worst thing that happened this year?