PennyRoyal

joined 6 months ago
[–] PennyRoyal 2 points 19 hours ago

That reminds me to go and play Godzilla loudly

[–] PennyRoyal 2 points 2 days ago

I’ve turned mine on, even if only on low, as I light the stove since first reading about this, but I think I’m a little more fact-absorbent than most people

[–] PennyRoyal 14 points 3 days ago

Categorise them as Nearly Safe For Work

[–] PennyRoyal 23 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I read that running an extractor hood mitigates the risk a fair amount. Not completely, but enough that you shouldn’t worry if gas is your only option

[–] PennyRoyal 10 points 4 days ago

The Devon adhd assessment website went from “seeing people referred in 2021” about this time last year, to “seeing people referred in 2020” this year. How do you go backwards like that, are they re-assessing all the people from 2021 that they’ve already seen? Will it keep going backwards until everyone needs to be assessed again?

[–] PennyRoyal 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How high do you have to be to think that dealing ten bags to dolphins is the move?

[–] PennyRoyal 1 points 4 days ago

That’s enough internet for today, not just for me, but also for this dragon-wannabe. May they be so consistently triggered that they soul themselves on a daily basis

[–] PennyRoyal 1 points 5 days ago

Says it’s verified. Very different to everything else, but it looks really intriguing, thanks

[–] PennyRoyal 2 points 5 days ago

Nice, same guy who did Inside, which is proving both entertaining and disturbing

[–] PennyRoyal 1 points 5 days ago

That looks pretty sick, I’ll check them on the watchlist

[–] PennyRoyal 1 points 5 days ago

Thanks, that deal website is a proper touch, I’m going to keep an eye on that

[–] PennyRoyal 1 points 5 days ago

That does look mint, thanks!

 

Hello peeps. Life’s thrown me some curve-balls recently, and I’d like a bit of an escape. Can anyone recommend a decent game in the vein of Skyrim, Fallout or Deus Ex/System Shock for the steam deck, that isn’t 25 or 30 quid please? Something on offer for less than a tenner would be ideal. I’m sure there are some great older RPGs out there that I’ve missed, the Deck is the first time I’ve got back into gaming for quite a few years, and while I’m sure I could quite happily just play Brotato for the next few years, I reckon there’s something a bit more immersive out there for me to find!

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Probably worth a watch, and whether you agree with him or not, being aware of the economic situation here at the moment is probably prudent

 

Hi all, I need a bit of help.

I’m looking to get further down the rabbit hole of interesting photographers, but I struggle to define what I’m after. My general misanthropy extends into photography, people are almost always the least interesting thing in the frame to me. Why would you waste film on faces, when you could be taking interesting images of some nice concrete or rusty iron?!

I love the work of Toshio Shibata, Bernd and Hilla Bescher, Bill Brandt, Danila Tkachenko, and GXAce on YouTube. The problem I have is that searching for “Urban” photographers brings up street stuff, “Architectural” ends up with folks who take pictures of whole buildings, “industrial” seems to lead to people who take photos for corporate websites, or urbexers (though some of those are verging on what I’m after). Constructed landscapes, textures, geometric shapes, and the juxtaposition of human artifice and nature, that’s my bag.

Is there a term or genre that would connect all this? Or am I just going to have to keep finding new artists one at a time?

Ta!

 

I’ve got a little stainless Coast A5, which I love, but its beam pattern is very, very much inspection torch. Dead circular, even spread.

Is there anything similar in body, but with a more every-day torch beam? I don’t really want some black knobbly military-cosplayer’s thing, I’m not too bothered about a built in charging port, I want minimal. I love the simple, smooth stainless body of the A5, it lives in my smart jacket pocket along with an elegant little pocket knife, I just wish it had a thrower-style beam.

 
 

https://open.spotify.com/track/6bsOINgyf4lBBblmJCWcwr

Again, obvious link, but obscure song. Underrated band by my lights too

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Turbonegro - Fuck The World (self.connectasong)
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https://youtu.be/xFYXP19e5KM

Try to unfuck the world all you want, Turbonegro will fuck it right back up for you

 

I’m mystified how this isn’t a more well-known pedal, it’s about the most perfect fuzz tone to my ear. The sub switch takes it from a high, sizzling tone that cuts through a mix like a saw, right through to the noise of an earthquake. It’s in a similar realm to the Carcosa (which I reckon is probably the best value fuzz ever made, really versatile) but a bit weirder and heavier. Joyous.

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Giving me the eyes (sh.itjust.works)
 
 

Bunged a couple of pedals from the B-team box onto a little board I’d bashed together a while ago. I’ve had to cut the right-hand end down a bit to plug the Dirty Robot in.

I’ve been using this on synths, just as a bit of fun really. The dirty robot is fantastic, and very versatile. Seems redundant, using a synth pedal on a synth, but on rhythms it does all sorts of joyous things. The Bass Overdrive is a great little budget drive, and the wet/dry mix and low/hi tone shaping makes it well suited for synths. The Aurora is a nice, simple delay that you can manhandle nicely, and the Exosphere is a reverb that can be rather wild especially with the Little Monster expression switch.

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