Yep, for sure. I don't know if I truly "believe" in any of it but it's a fun "what if?" sort of thing. It's sort of an exercise in imagination and creativity, as well. I'm writing a roguelike with lore vaguely based on the idea of alternate planes/realms/etc, and while roguelikes aren't known for their heavy story it's still helped give me inspiration for coming up with the lore.

Huh, apparently I'm approaching the mark, sort of. 826 days (827 on my first before I decided to go by this name instead). I've contributed almost nothing in that time, though. I pop in on occasion just to read some of the discussions here, and while I "know" a lot of the people here I don't really know them. I have no idea how it's been 800+ days since I signed up though, I figured it was less than half that.

Every time I come here, I always think "hey, maybe I should get in and contribute, this place is an awesome community" and then proceed to.. not. Not sure why, I guess I'm not much of a talker and more of someone who just likes to watch everybody else talk and learn about them that way.

I did some research when I was in the market for headphones and landed on the ATH-AD900x. I went for open-ear because they were supposed to have better soundstage, and I like being able to hear my surroundings as well. Listening to music and playing 3d games was almost a whole new experience when I got them. I could pick out instruments and sounds that I couldn't differentiate before, everything sounds so much nicer and it was completely worth the money. I grabbed a cheaper Xonar sound card as well, since supposedly theyre good for pairing with headphones for 3d positioning in games, and have a built in amp.

All in all, if I had to pick peripherals to spend the most money on, I'd probably put Headphones up top, then monitor, mouse, then keyboard. It made THAT much of a difference.

I will always remember the music from King's Field: The Ancient City. It's honestly nothing mind blowing, but it gives the game just the perfect atmosphere and is just great. I mean, maybe I'm just remembering the fun I had trying to actually make it through that game when I listen to it, and maybe that's why I like it. But I do like it a lot.

    Woke up at noon, and
    I played Smite as usual.
    As always, I died.

I feel the same way. I go to reddit for my more specific/niche discussions (such as coin collecting, metal detecting, and so on) as well as the fact that it's fun to watch the gears of reddit's admin/mod/etc situation turn, especially lately.

I haven't really been checking out Hubski as much as I hoped to. I do enjoy the... longer duration of Hubski stuff, I suppose. There's a heck of a lot of discussion worth reading here, and I've only really checked it on occasion to read my feed/global feed; I haven't quite dug down very deep yet but I already like it.

And I don't have much of an opinion of Voat. It's got some interesting ideas as far as voting, but I haven't really been much into the topics that are more typical of that. Tons of it's about reddit (which I already see/read discussions about anyways on reddit itself), and the rest of it feels like a smaller reddit that's pretending to be more established than it really is, or something. That might not quite be the correct way to explain how I see it, but it's something along those lines. I know one of my earliest impressions of it was "reddit for people who aren't allowed in reddit". I know that's not really true, but the amount of reddit hate I saw made me feel that way.

And now yesterday I hear about commentum and snapzu, but again I have pretty much no opinion of them, other than that commentum left a good first impression and snapzu left a worse one.