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Demand better coffee.

That's just because CDs are dying, and streaming revenue is low. Vinyl is still super niche. I mean, the number one album in vinyl was Fleetwood Mac. That's not exactly a top 40 smash hit album in 2020.

This doesn’t disprove your point about vinyl being niche, but Fleetwood Mac got a significant bump in interest across the board this year because of that guy dogface on tik tok.

He was skating on a longboard, listening to them and singing along drinking from a jug of cranberry juice. It was viral. So very 2020.

Cinematic experience of the main scenario was great, however I could be easily and happily distracted by lots of puzzles (not a hardcore puzzle lover btw). The game really nailed in balancing funs from these two aspects. Engagement damn well maintained for the entire hours I spent.

It too much reminded me of the Uncharted played quite a few years ago though.

Lala's character also successfully re-defined imo (wasn't a big fan of the original series). The plot in this work seems rather a characterization than a progression though. Nevertheless, Lala's transformation (young archeologist to mass destroying fighter) felt impressively cohesive between plots and in-game ability progress.

A modern classic.

The part with the Mogwai song. I love that song and it worked so well.

For the record, I don't think VO almighty. But stuffs better than VO in some ways annihilated by Hive to my preference.

You feel the ifi Zen is a comparable side grade to the Bifrost 2?

Yeah.

Zen signature (not non-signature which is leagues below) had less dark presentation, a little crispier attacks, and tad more delineation not losing BF2's beauties much, which all synergize with musical contexts I listen to mostly.

Actually subtle delta. Not enough for me to deal with drop.com hassles.

I agree. ZMF is the only headphones brand I can think of that has such a big flat out collectors. Not good for us normal customers :(.

Those stabilized sets border on works of art. I'm wrestling with the idea of getting a stabilized Aeolus when they come up for sale again.

what would happen if Zach decided to do a $750 "high" volume, not bespoke wood cup HP? Would it kill the brand or build the brand?

I don't get why people are jizzing on this Cyberpunk game. First time I heard about it was last month. Also weird reading it in the WSJ.

I heard about this. nVidia was quite quick to walk it back, but it does set a very worrying precedent.

What makes this weirder is that none of the claims they made in the email are actually remotely true.

The Nvidia thing isn't too surprising, but I honestly didn't think CDPR would lie that much about base console performance.

Hook it up to a big screen, add multiple controllers and invite your friends. The moment you start that Smash Bros tournament X-Box version whatever and PS version which ever are forgotten. Nintendo knows this...

Mario Party for the win!!!

Yeah I need to get a new ssd at some point. My 1tb m.2 is getting pretty full, and was a cheap one so probably not that fast

When I learned to read, I learned whole words; not the "phonics" method. So I occasionally substitute words when I'm tired. I remember reading "Oculists are prosperous" as "Ocultists are preposterous."

As I started to loose high-frequency hearing, I increasingly misheard stuff (it starts with confusing the hard consonants, p/b, d/t and so on). Some of the ridiculous things I thought I heard were genuine mishearing, but my brain soon got in the habit of "preposturising" stuff, which made me laugh, but soon bored my friends...

... It must have set up neurological paths, because, after some years, I started to mis*read* stuff along similar lines.

Lol I just realized the tower placed fairly distant (5-6ft) to the desk and sitting position for acoustic purposes (love inverse-square law), which might make me less sensitive for this matter.

Look, chips can work in the dark. Let it be so. Computers don't need lighting any more than the undersides of cars do. Especially funky lighting. For either.

I have one fan that has a white light: well, it tells me that it is power, I can more easily see it spinning, and know that my hard disks are getting some nice draught. I have never purposely bought lights or a device with lights, for a PC. And never will.

My motherboard and RAM have rgb but I just set them to white. My first computer I built had all blue LED lights, including stripper-heel clear fans. That was pretty much your only option back then. I've also had red themed and green themed PCs, but now I like the neutrality of white.

They basically sound like a harder wood because there's no pores anymore, so they lack decay, but they sound like a wood and sand and finish like one. The extra cost is all cost for the custom large pieces of stabilized wood we have to buy that end up costing around 200+ usd per board foot and takes a long time to prepare.

@zach915m Does the coloration come during the resin in fill stage (colored resin), or is it still a surface treatment like traditional stain?

It's actually in the wood! (which is why the depth and chatoyance is so insane) They use this stuff called "cactus juice" after the wood is at 0% humidity to penetrate the entire thing in a vacuum chamber. it's really wild during machining because of the burl and color throughout the entirety of the wood were always holding our breath to see what the final look of each set will be based on how it cuts.

I found myself buying displays and/or storages exclusively those days every year.

And some of the worst deals too.

@YMO You must be right. Personally less sensitive to such BS as I only look at specific clusters though.

grew so sick of T-bird meat year after year. our Thanksgiving meals are now: tacos and tamales. Or, homemade red posole which is on the stove now! remember #PieFirst !

What I find hard to resist is the Ironwood Verite. This is even though I'm very happy with my Cocobolo Verite...

I resisted. So could you.

I have a closed ironwood, and it’s fantastic. Slightly snappier transients than stock wood and much prettier, IMHO.

Maybe iFi felt like they weren't getting anything out of the partnership with Drop, and are kind of dragging their feet as a result. It seemed weird to me anyway. If you have a good product, why not just sell direct?

They just posted a update about it, seems like Ifi shipped everything on time but their warehouse dropped the ball completely. They say their warehouse has recieved the units but they dont yet know when they are shipping them. Assuming covid has their warehouse in disarray but certainly not a good look for Drop, seems like they are pretty poorly managed these days.

I did the same thing on my end. I already told my grievances to @iFi audio for HQ feedback about this mess.