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Have noticed a couple hiccups, but never quite seemed prolonged enough to suggest a new wave, and likewise assumed just choppy internet.

Finally caught up/finished Fire Force. God dammit. I shouldn't really be surprised. The vibes were all there. But what a way to wrap that up.

Traffic seems up again this morning. Felt a little sluggish at one point last night as well. I'm just kinda taking this as a preview of where the internet is headed, as bots continue to multiply and turn everything into an unusable hellscape..

I don't think there's anything in this world that could prepare me for Korean bluegrass...

Presented without comment.

Weirdly seems to run pretty ok on mobile. But desktop has been timing out a lot. Did seen slow on mobile at one point, but haven't had a persistent problem. Retracting, been spotty on mobile, sometimes fine, often not.

Bots back in force?

My AC so far this past month:

This is the second time I've seen this series brought up tonight. Weird coincidence.. The first was because I got curious again to see if that King Killer Chronicle ever got its ending. Spoiler: it hasn't. At least you got something?

Yup, that's one for the weird pile (that said, dude's clearly living his best life)

Feels very intermittent. Like, first visits of the day can be really slow to get going, but then everything settles and just works like normal. Not experienced any prolonged hour+ problems myself.

Watched it all again a couple years back since [as] has it on app for free viewing, and yeah, still great. 2nd GIG felt oddly relevant with its whole refugee crisis elements...

No problems previously, but today loading anything is ass on desktop. Edit: seems to have resolved itself.

It was upper 70s here yesterday. Today it tried to snow.

Kinda wild to think about being the last generation to have experienced what "spring" is supposed to be like. The old Shatner "perfect day" joke doesn't even make sense anymore.

Huh.. now I'm going to associate it with Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.. which also recently turned 20 years old..

I didn't even need to click that vid and the song's still stuck in my head now, lol.

Fuckin hell. Work decides to change up some network policies or whatever and now seems like half of youtube is getting flagged as restricted content. Can't watch any of my usual shit on lunch breaks. Worse, seems I can no longer connect if I'm using NextDNS, which I was using for blocking ads on Pandora. And I sure as hell ain't going back to listening to commercials after every song. Fuuuu

You ever just stumble on an old viral meme/trend and wonder how you never caught wind of it before? ..Like, how tf is this ship even a thing? How did it blow up? This shit is so weird I actually watched (skimmed through) a video that did the digging into the how. (also of course Tara Strong caught onto it and contributed to the memery...)

Funny enough, as I continue to listen to new things, I've found an awful lot of exceptions to the idea of "genres I'd never enjoy." Country music? Hard pass, had enough of that growing up. Leatherface singing country music? Y'know, that's just dumb enough to work.

I recall seeing this claim many years ago, and holy shit it could not be more wrong about me. I scroll through youtube recommendations pretty frequently for anything that catches my eye, with pretty good odds of not being disappointed. Hell, I've even started listening to Pandora radio again (thanks, internet, for teaching me how to block ads for free) just to inject even more variety. I'll plug my weird thread for things I enjoy but might not necessarily seek out or listen to often. Been kinda thinking about making a musical world tour thread as well, to collect all the various international tunes that get my attention.. In terms of how often I actually add things to my personal library.. that shit can get kinda expensive, but I do splurge once a year or two on buying CDs from artists I've been digging lately. Yes, I still even buy CDs... even if all I really do is rip them to put on my iPod.. yes I even still have an iPod. In general, with all my music on shuffle, I tend not to even listen to the same song twice a month (or longer). Sometimes new stuff sticks with me and I'll seek it out a little more often. Pandora is kinda bad for this, what with leaning heavily on picking out more popular tracks, forcing me to skip or reject songs just to get to something different. Pandora's also kinda a little not great for someone like me, missing a lot of the smaller names I'd like to add, or international fare that it's unaware of.. but I suppose I can only expect so much from it..

Decided to give A Certain Scientific Railgun a look, since it seemed to kinda be part of the collective zeitgeist of the anime community at one point I guess? Idk, I just see the opening song come up a lot in karaoke streams. Anyway, not bad, I guess. Sorta ok. Then hit with the tragedy of a second season missing the dub. "Licensing issues" it's presumed. Blehhh. Started watching Index instead, but, sounds like that has the same issue....

I been listening to Pandora radio again lately, just letting it do its thing coming up with new station ideas to keep the variety rolling. (also helps discovering how to block the ads without paying....) This song came up at one point.. def a nostalgia gutpunch. It's been an age, but. It's fascinating how a good finishing song can just tie up everything with a big bow. And when you come back to it, that one song is enough to bring everything back..