Yeh, Road Rash was the fucking shit, it was all downhill since then.

I’d probably rate it similarly to Deathlands as I was enjoying it, just not enough of it yet for me to fully get into it but I enjoyed the fact it was a continuing story. The trader as a character was in the very early Deathlands books and I didn’t particular like him but in these newer books with him as a younger man I didn’t mind him anywhere near as much.

How do you feel about the Mistborn second era as a whole now that you finished it? I didn’t realise there was a novella, I might need to look that up!

Missed this post last week but since then I have done a few things.

I finished the last current Trader book.

I listened to the first Outlanders book which turns out to be set 100 years after the Deathlands books and references a lot of things established in those books but also even just in this first answers a lot of questions that hadn’t been made apparent about the history of the Deathlands so along with Trader being set 40 or so years before they are all giving a good amount of information on the setting and lore and filling in lots of blanks.

I also got the newest Deathlands, number 157, which was OK.

I listened to the newest “Beware of Chicken” by casual farmer. This is number 5 and I really enjoyed going back and visiting that setting again. It fleshed out a lot more of the main characters back story as well as a couple of epilogues that filled in some side characters back stories some more, it was a good time.

And currently I am just over half way through Shopocalypse Saga book 7 “BuyMort Singularity”. This is set 100 years in the future from where the last book left off which left you thinking the main character was dead, this follows his return and him catching up with how the universe has changed in his absence as well as how his legend has been incorrectly told leading him to be some what demonised. It then goes on to tell about how he begins to reaffirm his presence in the universe and try to take back some of the power he once held. Again I am really enjoying returning to another setting I know and enjoyed in the past!

It has been a busy couple of weeks!

But we can’t afford to fund the NHS? Fuck this cunt hole of a country!

Eurgh, give me separate aggression based match making for solos and group play so that when I play with friends and inevitably have to deal with the instant aggression I can then go back to my chill solos and not be dropped into matches full of aggressive solo pricks shooting on sight!

Yeh, they hit the goal within the first minute xD

I guess everyone is different. I want a decent physical keyboard as I hate touchscreens and I don’t give a shit about cameras although we can definitely agree on non android! :D

I miss Blackberry a lot but this ain’t it.

Why not use a mod pack via wabberjack like Viva New Vegas or whatever you prefer and then it is all done for you pretty much.

I don’t have patience for spending hours and hours modding and trying to then get the mods to work in a stable fashion so I would never have played New Vegas if it wasn’t for things like that!

Ah OK, that is fair enough. I think the differences here are our interpretations on the genre label of “dubstep”

What I primarily post is what was originally dubstep and now more often than not goes by “real dubstep”, this is dubstep that was originally derived from dark garage and concentrates on a lot of sub bass with a two step vibe.

The type of dubstep you are describing are the sub genres that derived more from brostep which was what became very popular in the late 00s and what most people tend to call dubstep. This concentrates more on mids than lows and in the case of brostep was more derived from the aggression of metal and the like, popularised by skillrex, that kind of vibe.

There is a documentary on YouTube - All My Homies Hate Skrillex that is a good overview of where dubstep started and what it evolved into when it became popular. As you may guess by the title the originators of dubstep and a lot of “purists” these days do not like what became popular and known as dubstep because it is not in fact what dubstep is or was, if you have an hour to kill it is a good watch and gives you some background on the genre.

To be clear I am not one of those purists and don’t really like the attitude that a lot of the people still within the “real dubstep” scene take towards all the different subgenres that have come about. If you go to reddit and the realdubstep sub you will see exactly the kind of attitudes I talk about and the reason that sub is called “real” dubstep is because they wanted a place where no one would post brostep and the popular, Americanised offshoots of the genre.

I am very much into what derived from the original garage roots although that has now spawned into a very diverse collections of sounds within that genre and so that is what I concentrate on posting to this community but I want to build a community that is welcoming to all of the sub genres, even if I dont love them myself. I dont want this to be a hostile, cliquey place like the realdubstep sub on reddit so I welcome other people to post what they like so please do join in on posting if you have stuff to contribute.

I also very much welcome the dubstep adjacent stuff like the jazzy feel of this post or other left field bass that doesnt have a community yet within Lemmy because as it is right now there are not enough users to have an infinite number of communities for every tiny genre that exists. Only if there is already established communities like drum and bass or something will I remove any posts that would fit in better with those communities.

I appreciate you stopping in and at least listening to some of the posts even if it wasn’t exactly what you were looking for and I hope you at least give some stuff I continue to post a try from time to time to see if anything piques your interest and maybe stop by and post something from time to time :)

I mean this is a particularly jazzy, dubstep adjacent EP and trashbat tends to lean more on the chill / jazzy side of the genre.

But the whole community being like this? I don’t think you have listened to much that has been posted if you think that is the case, there has just been a few releases in the last couple of weeks that lean more to this side of the genre.

What do you describe as “real dubstep”? What artists?

Millennial here. I fucking hate people and conversing with them, especially small talk bullshit, but I hate companies and their profiteering more.

I would rather more people had jobs and were able to earn a wage and the companies had less profit than using those infuriating machines. I don’t even get cheaper prices for having to do the work myself on those infuriating machines.

I think I would be less annoyed if they gave people the option between the two so people like yourself could use the self service machines and they still employed some people to work checkouts but these days there is usually one or two checkouts designed to be run by staff and they hardly ever have a staff member on them so you are forces through the self service bullshit.

Heading Out is a driving game where you are trying to make it across the country and there are lots of branching stories and paths based on your choices and who you meet along the way. It is quite stylised and really had me hooked when I first played it. Definitely worth a try! The end was quite memorable.

Keep Driving is a driving / road trip simulator. This one didn’t click as well with me and I couldn’t really get into it but it also had different paths and stories based on your different choice etc and may be worth checking out for you.

Was gonna say Noita, great game but unforgiving as fuck!

100% that tax money could be used to fund so many positive projects not to mention the money and time saved on the pathetic “war on drugs”.

You know what would be an even bigger “blow” to drug related organised crime? Legalise, regulate and educate so people can choose what they want to do with their bodies. Fucking idiocy.

I really liked his Foundry series of books, I’ll have to check this out! Sounds interesting.

That is because Vans are trash, they aren’t skateboard shoes they are fashion shoes that are marketed as skateboard shoes.

If you buy some proper shoes designed for skating they should last a bit better. I presume if you are riding brakeless then you mostly have issues with the soles, like I do braking when skating.

I have had good luck with Osiris, Es and Globe in the last few years but at the end of the day applying such aggressive friction you are always gonna burn through shoes fast than you would by just walking.

My average is around a year before I start braking with skin.

It says “Early access play starts 4 days early on May 15”, implying the release date is 19th May.

It is still a cool site and I will probably revisit it to get some ideas in the future, I just can’t get behind the Amazon inclusion personally and will then search out anything interesting via alternative avenues.