This is awesome! I’ve only ever used ModPlug Tracker and now ReNoise. I need to give Furnace a shot as well.

Sounds like you need this: https://mikeljakobi.bandcamp.com/album/middle-earth-chill

Octopath Traveler II OST by Yasunori Nishiki.

I’m not sure if you were looking only for bands or music with lyrics, but this is probably my favorite video game soundtrack of all time.

Samples:

https://youtu.be/Z9YVOo3tDFM

https://youtu.be/NpORlgHamtY

American here. If I was at a mall here in the US and heard this kind of bragging I’d roll my eyes, too.

I was once trying to buy some snacks at a market and a person’s card was declined so they started bragging about how much money they had in the bank and that the store was wrong. Everyone just sighed and groaned around her.

I used to attend church with a small following (50-60 members). The pastor seemed very kind at the time and still does some charitable things… But when my grandfather was dying in the hospital, he suggested that suffering brings you closer to God and any kind of hospice or pain-relief was a sin.

The next Sunday I attended, the pastor starting mocking the medical staff during a sermon, basically airing my family business and likened my family to Judas. I walked out and never came back.

Some of my family still attends his church. I saw the pastor a few years ago and extended my hand for a handshake and he walked away.

My mom and I talk about this whole situation sometimes (she attends a different church). “If you hear something at church you don’t agree with, don’t bring it home with you.” That was her way of saying that the pastor is just a person, too. Take what you can from a lesson and apply it for good in your life.

I’m currently working with a team of a few seniors and the rest mid-levels. I’ve helped get a few juniors hired but they’ve buckled under the pressure after 6 months.

They studied development at school and did great with their classwork but perhaps they thought they knew a lot and ended up realizing that they barely scratched the surface.

Though not required to learn deeper aspects of development, having a team, partner or mentor goes a heck of a long way. It’s like learning the piano. You can hit all the right notes but it doesn’t mean you have musicality.

When I went on the first few dates with my now-wife, I did not flirt with her as in try to tease her or do anything overtly sexual.

I honestly think I won her over because how enthusiastic I was about telling stories. She said I was so charming because of how passionate and animated I was while telling her about myself that she could see how confident and content I was.

Prior to meeting her at 35, I had never had a girlfriend and had only ever gone on 2 dates.

I really like this! Getting burnt so bad that you’d blow on something cold like ice out of fear.

In Khmer, there’s a phrase “មិនដឹងខ្យល់” which literally translates to “Doesn’t know wind” as in they’re so dumb they don’t even know what wind is.

I guess it’s kind of like calling someone an air head but from a different angle.

When I first started out, I was working on things I found fun like a damage calculator for a game I was playing or a simple habit tracker that just incremented a number for a particular chore or task.

Eventually things got more and more complex until I did enough to impress the first company that hired me.

From what you wrote, it sounds like you’re off to a great start already. Just keep at it!

Spotify on Tuesday said it anticipates reaching profitability for the full year in 2024, which would mark the company’s first full profitable year since it launched 18 years ago.

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/13/spotify-projects-first-full-year-of-profitability-ever

I listen to TechStuff to fall asleep!

Why don’t they call them assteroids?

My headphones. I just love listening to music way too much.

I’m embarrassed with what I wrote last week hahaha!