Rush Job - Sheena Ringo

Swamp - Mid-Air Thief, but the whole album Gongjoong Doduk is pretty good.

Dixie - Harmonium

Le tombeau est vide - Chromb!

For fun:

El Corazón - Hard n Phirm

Honorable mention that might not technically count:

Prisencolinensinainciusol - Adriano Celentano

or offering it at a really shitty price

Advertising budget has to come from somewhere. If you can afford to inundate me with constant ads, then I know your product costs way more than it needs to.

Extremely loosely based. Like, almost no actual story similarities. They kind of adapted the premise, to a degree, but that’s about it.

Still an enjoyable show, but not really representative of either Dirk Gently book. The books are really really good, if you like Adams’ writing. I had to stop at least once per page reading Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul to sit and appreciate a fantastic sentence.

Weasels Ripped my Flesh is the first to come to mind, but I’m also partial to The Muscular Sorrow of Sadbrain Beardman

To be fair, that’s just kind of been the norm for… my whole life? It’s not exactly a new normal, turnover has just gotten faster.

If you plan to DM any homebrew, you should definitely watch it. The “lotta hydra meat that’s going to waste” aspect is a driving force, but the major theme is exploring the dungeon as an ecosystem; its flora, fauna, structure, everything.

It’s like Julia Child meets Anthony Bourdain meets Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough meets Brennan Lee Mulligan. If you enjoy thinking about dungeon design at all, you will enjoy this show.

Do what thou wilt.

Jesus loves her more than she will know

I watch basically everything that isn’t music or advanced mathematics at 2x speed. YouTubers talk so slowly.

I dunno, that sounds like a fast track to being the subject of a murder mystery. I think I’m good.

I don’t try to put my pinky all the way down, the difference between a 1 and 0 on that finger is about 90°, though it rolls a bit depending on the other fingers. As long as you can tell the difference between up and down, you don’t have to be that strict about the exact positioning

You’ve never heard of the Trans Siberian Railroad Orchestra?

No? I’ve been counting like this for like 20 years

I feel like usually when I hear about some experiment that changes our perception, the time to adapt is typically about 2 weeks, but that number is almost entirely vibes-based.

I’m talking about editing a backlog, like if you record hours upon hours of content, then spend weeks editing them. Think of those hour-long video essays with animations and stuff. If you live alone and stocked up on groceries, you could easily go quite a while without actually having to leave the house.

Again, a pretty specific scenario, but not exactly hard. Not even that farfetched for some niche video essay creator.

Talk about diminishing returns

I think it would be an unusual occurrence, but not really “hard”. Imagine a YouTuber who edits their own videos. If they live alone and spend an extended period of time editing their backlog, they might not talk at all and only hear recordings.

I can see that, but you can always focus on meeting in person. Just use tech to vaguely call meetings.

Locally

Civilization is basically just bureaucracy integrated over population. Some people figure out how to game the system via the chasm of abstraction between; that’s a function of any sufficiently complex system, look at the speed running community

But ultimately, civilization is just people. All the bureaucracy placed on top of it is just a collection of systems made by people to coordinate themselves. A lot of the dark theatrics are the result of the population becoming so vast that even at the lowest levels, the bureaucracy is distant and abstract. That abstraction alienates people from one another, so they only really know how to interact through the lens of that bureaucracy

The optimism is that you can engage your community. You can meet your neighbors, learn their trades and share yours, start a group chat. You can organize barter networks, childcare rotations, handyman services, mutual aid.

You can join local political groups. Start local political groups. Go to protests and meet people in neighboring areas. Network.

You can promote candidates for local office, and encourage others in your network to do so. You can run for local office, and encourage others in your network to do so. We’ve seen what the other side is offering so far as administrative competence, you think you’re worse?

Go to local events. Talk to your neighbors. Organize with your neighbors. The big system is very top down in its perspective, but it’s really ultimately dependent on the composite people. You can organize the people from the bottom up, and get your friends in nearby neighborhoods to do the same.

If all the neighborhoods are organized, bloodless revolution slides quite comfortably into the realm of plausible futures.

Certainly, but it’s the only real starting place