FireWire400

Why would anyone spend $900 on a modded iPod?

I love my FiiO X5II. It’s basically like a modern, hi-fi version of the first iPod without the shortcomings (i.e. the hdd).

It can play almost everything, from MP3s to DSD128, and it’s pretty decent at driving headphones up to I wanna say 600 Ohm. It’s very nicely built, too, and the battery is stupidly easy to swap. It has two slots for microSD cards (up to 512GB seem to work fine per slot)

Bought mine defective on eBay for 80€, fixed it up and now it’s my daily driver. Doesn’t have Bluetooth, though.

Pokémon (grew up with seasons one to four)

The Angry Beavers

CEO sex ring

Aiming for radio appeal and catering to the masses is ok, as long as you do it from the start.

Every musician/band I know of that changed their sound to be more radio friendly has given up their own sound.

The first example that comes to mind would be Kevin Parker; the first two Tame Impala albums are amazing, but since then he went full pop. It worked for a few songs, but recently his features in other songs were better than his own stuff (i.e. New Gold by Gorillaz and Neverender by Justice) IMO.

As far as AC/DC goes, I grew up with Black Ice, which is a decent album (albeit a bit bloated) but nothing I would necessarily would want to revisit any time soon. Pretty much all of their (popular) stuff sounds so big, yet lacks real depth in my opinion.

I obviously never met any of them but the band itself just comes across as a bunch of douchebags, especially James Hetfield.

Meatloaf just had this annoying voice that made his music unbearable, the instrumentation is kinda ok if you like bloated overdramatic arena rock.

Being an anti-wax asshat, he died of COVID a couple of years ago. He was gonna do anything for love, but he wouldn’t do that.

Have you listened to their first few albums? They really went down the soulless pop music route after Viva La Vida IMO

To be honest? AC/DC; they’ve got plenty of good songs but plenty of duds as well. It’s pretty much become one of those bands that if you ask someone, who’s wearing their tshirt what their favourite song/album is, they either won’t be able to give you an answer, or pick a really obvious one (most likely either Highway to Hell or Hell’s Bells).

It’s the same with Metallica and, to a lesser extent, Iron Maiden.

It’s not THAT bad I think but I’m really just fed up with some aspects of our government. I think it’s just a matter of time until our right-wing party gets into power, they already are in some states (mostly in eastern Germany), and as soon as that happens… oh boy

If you see a generic looking product on Amazon or eBay by a brand whose name seems like it was created by a random name generator, it’s probably cheap Chinese junk. To be certain you can search up the product itself, most of the time sites like Aliexpress sell generic unbranded versions (for less money).

You could sell it for way too much on ebay, those M1 Macbooks are still worth a fair bit. I recently tried to get a water damaged M1 Pro Macbook and people outbid me like crazy; went for 150€ in the end despite being almost certainly a total dud.

Even ones without a working display go for 170€, which is far more than I’d pay for a fully working non-workstation laptop from that time…

Edit: Just looked at the listing again and the water damaged M1 Pro went for 234€. According to the listing it sat around for 2 years after it stopped working from water damage. 234€.

IBM Model M; there’s nothing better than buckling springs when it comes to tactility (and noise).

Those Keychron keyboards do look pretty neat, though.

Tetris DX, either on original hardware or my Analogue Pocket

I used to wonder about how my family and friends would react and what they’d do If I just stopped existing for one reason or another.

It’s a pretty “normal” thought to have when you’re depressed I think, and it’s what sends you further down the spiral. But yeah, even as someone who wants to believe in an afterlife, I wouldn’t want to know anything about what I left behind.

I’m German. Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit oder so…

Mostly taught myself English, since our educational system sucks so much.

Sorry, eh?

I think you mean the back stories and personalities of the different animatronics? I don’t know anything about the lore.

In terms of difficulty or emotional/mental load? Disco Elysium is pretty fucked up but kinda awesome when you get into it IMO.

FNAF. Just a cheap jump scare game popularised by shitty youtubers. I literally don’t understand how it got so big other than children being easily amused.

Fight me.