Post your random thoughts.

FA FA FAIA FAIA.

FA FA FAIA FAIA.

SWEET GIRL OH SO SWEET.

I was at the local bookstore today, not intending to buy anything, and I was looking through the teen/YA section and I noticed just how many clones of popular books there were. It was pretty disappointing.

Also I got a cool new calculator for school.

The frequency with which they show the commercials for 36 Hours have ruined it for me. Yes, Travel Channel, we get it already, this show exists.

i can back this up: sanrio or whatever the company is calls has officially announced that she's a regular (british, iirc) girl who just so happens to look exactly like a fucking cat.

that isn't cute, that's a horrible disease.

Who else does that?

Don't most gamers like to listen to VGM?

I know I do, hell some of the best music I've heard was VGM. Of course my favorite kind of music focuses less on lyrics and more on atmosphere.

edited 27th Aug '15 6:43:57 PM by ParadoxialStratagem

I can never listen to, like, video game background music. But main themes, and stuff with lyrics? Hell yeah.

Ah. Purely instrumental soundtracks work out pretty well. Especially orchestrated ones.

I could listen to say, a Zelda soundtrack for hours on end. There are some VGM soundtracks that are just really awesome.

What is fun, never stays fun for long. And what I find fun isn't always what I expect.

But most of the time I don't know why I do or feel a lot of things. Sometimes it seems almost counter-intuitive.

But can you choose what you like? Not just what you do.

The past three posts I've made all have the same format where there's one or two normally written sentences in the first paragraph followed by a sentence beginning with an ellipsis in the second paragraph.

...That could get annoying.

You don't know what you'd ultimately find fun until you do it, therefore logically you should do as many different things as possible to maximize fun-ness generation.

Asides from composed music for games, I'm quite partial to licensed music in games as well. Or at least those in Need for Speed and Burnout.

...what is it with cheesecake cheese that makes me need to rendezvous with the porcelain throne so badly?

Actually

Lior

People do fucking think I'm weird for listening to video game soundtracks all the time

And at some point in the next [insert arbitrary period of time here] I will be playing fucking video game music on the piano

So there

Incidentally on that note GUYS GUYS GUYS

So I think I mentioned that I settled on a $500 keyboard

But see, I bought it from Fry's Electronics, which has a 30-day no-questions-asked return policy

So in the B Plot, I mentioned that I have a Costco American Express card that is going to be useless in April when Costco's agreement with Amex ends, so Amex sent me an offer for a new card, and while I—like any sane person—ordinarily shitcan all credit card offers, with this one I was like, "Actually, you know what, Amex has some nice fucking credit cards and my Costco card has been my favorite credit card—great benefits, a generous limit, just an all around nice card for me to have." So I applied for it and they approved me for the new card—which has a promotional offer of $200 cash back if I spend $1000 on it in the first three months.

So back in the A Plot, I realized, whoa. I spent $500 on a keyboard that I can return for a full refund at any time, no questions asked. I also have a credit card that will give me $200 back if I spend $1000 on it.

So basically

I can return this $500 keyboard, buy a $1000 one, get $200 back, and when all is said and done, I will have upgraded from a $500 board to a $1000 one for $300.

For comparison

If I had owned this $500 keyboard for a year before deciding to upgrade, I would have to sell it on Craigslist for, like, $200, losing $300 on the deal. Even assuming I were getting this credit card promotion at that point, it'd still cost me $600 to upgrade.

So it's a pretty fucking great deal.

So I returned the keyboard and put a down payment on a Casio PX 780.

Which is a pretty fucking sweet digital piano.

I got to put my hands on a PX 760 in the store, which is just a lower-end version of the same piano, and it feels amazing. The black keys really feel like wood (but they're not). The action is smooth and sensuous. The sound is gorgeous (coming from four fatass speakers under the cabinet). And right out of the box it comes with three pedals (most come with one or none).

And I bought the next higher-end version

I cannot fucking wait for this thing to arrive in the store.

edited 28th Aug '15 8:33:03 AM by SolipSchism

I hate you for using your smarts to get things.

I never am in situations where I can do that.

I wonder if I was a shady, unscrupulous investment banker or hedge fund manager in a previous life.

HEY FRIENDS (who just consist of my two dads, but that's okay)

Silkydad, did you listen to the song I sent you?

Amex are pretty good, although I say this as a woman who has a limitless Amex...

Oh Rachel, thought you might be interested to know I met a red haired lady named Rachel yesterday.

Only she was cute and kinda waifish and not all sexy and imposing like you. And her name was spelled Rachael. And her hair was dyed.

So nothing at all like you then and this was a waste of a post.

Also hi son

edited 28th Aug '15 9:20:12 AM by LeGarcon

Damn, fair enough.

She's one of my agents who I have sent out so I can glomp you one day.

mother

when

will we hang out

Rachel: A limitless Amex? I thought those only existed in the movies.

That's... actually fucking terrifying. You could easily ruin your life with a card like that.

Also hopey I fucking RESPONDED TO THE EXACT MESSAGE IN WHICH YOU SENT IT TO ME

The Platinum Card. You need an income of at least £40,000 to get it.

And Hopey - SOON, SON, SOON

WAIT HOW MANY US DOLLARS IS THAT

I HAVE AN INCOME OF ABOUT USD$60,000

CAN I HAVE THAT CARD

Edit: Oh wait there's a $450 annual fee, gross.

edited 28th Aug '15 10:23:45 AM by SolipSchism