Xenodu.

A Fantasy, A Musical, A Place Where Dreams Come True.

I occasionally drop by Head-Fi

My favorite old school forum is the Silent Hill community at Silent Hill Heaven / silenthillforum

I miss the IMDB forums. Each movie had their own individual forum threads.

''You know what i learned today? I’m not like you."

You can have an Ethan Hawke catharsis marathon.

Training Day, a movie about a rookie cop who gets paired with a corrupt senior on his first day who manipulates him from the beginning. ''I should have been a fireman"

Gattaca. I am not sure if you can call it an absolute ringer, but it does feel all the hard work pays off in the end.

Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid.

A game like Hunt Showdown, an extraction based game set in 1895 Louisiana, fighting other hunters on the same map to get to the bounty (a boss that everyone goes after) and extract.

Imagine that game, but set in something like in the Star Wars world, With lightsabers and blasters in dagobah or tattoine, going after a boss like Darth Maul or Yoda, while every other bounty hunter is going for the same target.

Alot of the serious things that people here already mentioned, unable to see a bright future for humanity. Cant afford a house of your own, etc.

But another thing that affects me day to day is Seeing stray cats and dogs on the side of the road. They just make me sad and then i have the urge to help them. And then realizing that i cannot help them all.

Hmm, I can see what you mean. “I just don’t care”

“That’s why cleaners exist right?” “We are giving the cleaners something to do” “This is not my public space”

The sort of thing people would say when you ask why do they do this.

I’ve seen all sorts of people. People who throw rubbish out from their Mercedes sedan. People who throw their plastic containers onto the sidewalk from the motorbike while waiting for the green light.

Funny true story. A colleague of mine was having a smoke with a Japanese guy who was visiting our country on a business trip.

My colleague threw the cigarette butt onto the floor after finishing. The Japanese guy went to pick up the cigarette butt that my colleague threw on the ground, and threw it into the dustbin nearby. My colleague never felt so embarrassed seeing him do that.

That’s why I think it’s education and upbringing.

People who litter. Throw their rubbish out the window of the car. Or who throw rubbish in public, like into drains or sidewalks.

It’s in the mentality, and I say the lack of education is the reason for it.

It’s sad to see the people of my country do this, and to see it with your own eyes.

Hello there Hexarei. I am glad you checked it out and found it at the very least interesting. I get nervous in real life when i introduce Shoegaze to people, because I am afraid they will think it sounds…off. And then I have difficulty explaining why it sounds great to me.

Okay, I am going to assume you listened to My Bloody Valentine. The music sounds hazy and distorted, and the vocals and lyrics are unclear.

This is because the they use a lot of guitar pedal effects (reverb, delay, distortion, etc) and specific tunings to achieve the wall of sound. The vocals are buried along side the guitar effects, as it is meant to be part of the “sound”, like the vocals are another instrument in the song. The melodies are buried under all that wall of sound.

I admit MBV can sound distortion heavy and intimidating, especially their earlier stuff, where it has that punk rock energy vibe.

The beauty of Shoegaze is that there are many varieties or flavours. Some are noisy and have more emphasis of distortion, while some focus more on the droning post rock vibe, and there are others that are more mellow and chill. But it’s all to achieve that specific textured sound. That dreamy atmosphere feel, being half awake at 3am.

Maybe you can try something more mellow and chill like Slowdive

Or something more poppy like Chapterhouse

Shoegaze and dream pop.

I will always remember the first day I listened to the otherworldly guitars of my bloody valentine, or the combination of the haunting dreamy vocals and guitars of Cocteau Twins.

I did not know music could sound so mystical and magical. It’s like being in another world’s soundscape.

There are some houses that just radiate this feeling of danger. When you look at them, you just want to get away as far as possible.

There is a house I’ve seen in a neighbourhood that gave the same feeling as what you mentioned. All I saw was a house at the corner covered with surrounding trees in the garden, but with a single window in the middle of the house. It’s one of those post modernistic type houses.

The window showed the staircase area with soft warm light. As it’s the yellow warm glow, it should give you that inviting feeling. But instead, it did the opposite for me. All I remember driving past that house is I want to get out of there as soon as possible.

It’s so weird. All from a window. Just like the particular house you went pass.

Thank you 00 and crius for introducing Mullvad. Been looking for a VPN that doesn’t lock you into any subscription plans.

I do not play a lot of mobile games, but when i do, it is Marvel Snap.

I also do not usually play card games, but this one is very very easy to learn and pick up, and quite addictive once the flow starts going.

I wish i do not have to use Whatsapp. Unfortunately, i have to for business purposes, as i am in part of the world where Whatsapp is the main chat app that everyone uses.

Fortunately i have two phones (personal and business), so Whatsapp is only on the business phone.

My father bought me the Sega Game Gear when I was a kid. This brings back memories.

Silent Hill 1 to 4 by Akira Yamaoka. Atmospheric and dreamlike.

Shadow of the colossus by Kow Otani. Epic and mystical.

I’m sure there are plenty but the ones that stick with me are :

The ending of Disco Elysium, and the friends you made along the way of a murder investigation. The writing is so good that it set a very high bar for future games.

Potential spoilers for Forgotten City

Finding out how and why the loop in Forgotten City is happening (the whole objective of the game is finding out why you’re stuck in a loop).

Similar to Groundhog Day, you start to get familiar with everyone’s routines and get to know them better each time the loop resets.

And then realising

“Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies” I hope I am wrong, but I am getting the impression that the game will be wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle.

Understand the art direction that they are going with, but everything looks too clean and sterile to me. Prefer the dirty worn in look of Alien or the original Star Wars, but maybe they are not showing us everything yet.

At least it’s coming to game pass.

I hope that the community from the Hunt Showdown sub would show up here.