My little slice of heaven.
Except for the roadway noise (I live in rural valley in Maine with a state highway running straight through it on the other side of the house, that sees maybe 1-2 statues / sheriffs patrolling it a month so it's a giant drag strip in the warmer months, I still wouldn't trade it though)

Any bets on how much #meta is gonna start charging for API access? I mean the reddit change went over so well I now spend less than 10 minutes a day on reddit since baconreader was forced into shutting down 😂😂

Great to see #threads doesn't have any improvement in spam / bots prevention.
Posted my first thread and got zero engagement so, I probably won't be using that app unless the cage fight is streamed on it 😂😂

Can we get mr.beast to give away a #tesla on #coso I like my odds much better over here then #threads where he's giving one away

#youtubers

Put the AC in two months later than last year. And just in the knick of time. Also super excited for Central Maine Power and our natural gas generation company overlords to basically charge me out of house and home for the use of it -_-

Anyone else that's on spectrum just have like 25% of what they pay for today? Or is it just me?

https://www.pcgamer.com/google-ditches-web-domain-business-moments-after-unleashing-zip-websites-on-unsuspecting-grandmothers/

So glad I got off the Google domains years ago, seriously I do not understand why anyone would use Google for anything remotely related to business.

20 degree (f)temperature swings in may Jesus Christ

Anyone noticed lately how much meta seems to be following the dumpster fire trend that is the new features from the chief twit?

You can now pay to be verified on Instagram, most ads on Facebook seem to have a regularly displayed view count. The amount of ridiculous notifications of "you may like this" which to be fair was not a chief twit idea it existed before that. Like yes let's all vie to be the best dumpster fire

It's not just RAFT that leaps to mind: GuildWars2, Minecraft, Borderlands, WoW, and most phone games.
All seem to possess poorly mixed or ill-thought-out default sound levels.

For raft right now, the master is at 6 percent, and the PC volume is maxed.
And the music slider at 100% is at the perfect sound level, as long as you don't mind hearing any SFX, UI, Ambience, or Notebook sounds!

, everyone was cool with it, and now every game developer just roles with it?

I just fired up RAFT for the first time cause why not, it was on my wishlist, and I got it for a gift this past holiday season.

So naturally, everything is loud, and I turn down the master. Now I can barely hear any game sounds. Still, the music is now at a level that compliments the gaming experience instead of me having to think about rushing to mute it.
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1/2 Is it just me, or does no video game the first time you fire it up (or your settings go bye-bye)

Have no decent existing mixing of volume levels between game music and game audio?

While the developers were busy developing and playtesting, did none of them think to bring up game sound balancing??!? Do we not survey playtesters for that? Did one CEO once say this game needs music, and they dropped in an album from the world's best band at the time, so naturally <continues...>

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