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Xorkoth said:
I have a ton of things to try... DOB, DOI, a higher dose of DOPr and DOiP, a higher dose of DOM... 3C-P, MiPT, MPT, 2C-E... not even sure where to begin.
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If it were me I'd be in that 2C-E first for sure. ;)

I ended up not taking that MDMA yesterday, been wrapped up archiving everything related to the Vegas incident. Finally taking a break from it and working on some software. Recently got back into programming again after my DMT breakthrough, been good fun coming back to it after so many years away. Working on an implementation of forum software over the new IPFS protocol with a bunch of other people.

Going to wire up an LED kit to my arcade stick later today and swap out some buttons and other parts. Just recently dropped in a new PCB and I'm about to add another for legacy consoles. Currently it supports 5 or 6 consoles, once I get the other PCB in it'll support 20+ plus have a supergun attachment for wiring it directly to arcade cabinets. Trying to keep myself busy while I'm between jobs. Thinking about getting back into software to pay the bills while I get my own business going.

I'd share another picture of my slice of heaven. Just picked up this cabinet, need to play with the CRT in it but otherwise it's perfect. Always wanted one so I had to snag it when I had the money. Matter of fact think I'm going to play it right now. Currently had a bootleg 161 cart in it. Going to be buying a flash cart for it soon as I get $500 more dollars to blow on it. Also going to do some minor work on the cabinet to bring it back to mint condition.

https://i.imgur.com/t7pTkpy.jpg
 
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^Nice Neo-Geo cabinet man, I've always wanted one too. I guess I didn't wan't it badly enough heh.
 
Cream Gravy? said:
^Nice Neo-Geo cabinet man, I've always wanted one too. I guess I didn't wan't it badly enough heh.
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I drove 800 miles round trip for it. Found a guy in northern VA (might as well been DC) with warehouses full of cabinets and pinball machines. Going to be buying more stuff from him as soon as I'm flush with cash again. He's a little sore at me because he sent me to a guys house to pick up an empty cabinet and I bought a WaveRunner machine he wanted while I was there. It's the full set-up with the Skidoo that you ride. It's the same machine that survived the Myrtle Beach tornado back in 2001. The last sticker on it is dated 2003, it sat in the Pavilion until then when the guy I bought it from picked it up in a lot.

Xorkoth said:
Holy shit, Neo-Geo. You, sir, are what some like to call "old-school". :)
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It makes me feel old that these games are consider "old school" now. The man that raised my mother owned our local arcade when I was a kid and I've been working on these machines forever. If y'all are ever in my neck of the woods come by. Everyone calls my home "gamers paradise" because I have so much stuff laying around. I ended up with most of it for free but a lot of it is stuff I bought growing up that I never sold. Last few years it has all gone way up in value. If I were willing to part with any of my collection I could probably make a lot of money. I own an old pinball machine that was built in 76 that I didn't realize was so rare. It's all electro-mechanical (no computer) and there are only 2 known about in the entire country. One is on a floor in NJ and the other is in a private collection. I have the 3rd but I don't list it anywhere for fear that someone would try to buy it from me. From what I know most of them got tore down for parts to service other pinball tables of a similar design.

I had a BLer over here a few weeks back and he sent out a picture of this Neo-Geo cabinet over social media and everyone went ape shit over it. I didn't understand why it was a big deal but I reckon when you see the stuff day in and day out it isn't. He didn't show much interest until I fired up Metal Slug. Once I put that on he was all excited and played with me for awhile. He didn't even know it was a Neo-Geo game. In his defense he's in his early 20s so all of this stuff was a little before his time.

I'm _hoping_ to turn this into my job at some point. I'm already building custom arcade sticks for folks that play fighting games but I really want to open an arcade at some point. I'm just paranoid about letting people near my stuff. I hate watching someone bash on cabinets while they're drunk. They don't realize how easy it is to break the stuff. American cabinets can handle it but the Japanese parts...not so much. My personal arcade stick is delicate as can be and I won't allow anyone to use it aside from my sparing partner because I had a guy in here one day that broke one of our sticks with his mashing. Those poor Sanwa buttons couldn't handle his excitement. :)
 
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I've always gotten SAD (seasonal affective disorder) in the wintertime. I live on the east coast of New England where the weather can be very harsh. I've heard of people in California getting it in the fall though, when the Santa Ana winds start to blow (heh heh, I said "blow"). Everybody seems to have that one time of the year that they hate, just like there are morning people and night people.

I get it every day around sundown as well. I love a beautiful sunset and have had the pleasure of photographing many of them. Once it goes down though, I need to get back indoors to pull down the shades and turn on the lights... especially in the winter. (Ironically though, I'm actually a night person; Once it's dark outside I always get my "second wind" and feel like I could run a marathon! Go figure...)

Peace, Love and Faith,
Dreamflyer :D
 
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I get depressed in the winter too but only because I hate the cold. Years of working the fields plus a stint in the Florida sun doing manual labor screwed my blood up. Once it gets colder than 75F I'm stuck indoors til next Spring/Summer. Which reminds me, I'd better go hiking this week if I want to climb the mountain again before the end of the year. :)
 
Haha, below 75? Damn, I love it when it's 55/60 degrees, I mean it's not as nice as 75 but it's T-shirt weather for me.

I think for me, I hate winter because of the lack of light mostly. when it gets dark at 5-5:30pm, before I get off work, I get bummed out. And the light isn't as bright even during the day. I hate those long nights.
 
I don't mind the nights, in fact I'm up more often when the sun is down than when it's up. Yea, 75F is about my limit. I wear hoodies when it's 80F out. It comes from working so many years in direct sunlight and weather over 115F+ in 80%+ humidity while wearing flannel/heavy pants I think. My body is just adjusted to that type of environment permanently. It's about 72F in my room right now and I'm wearing pants + a hoodie just to keep the chill at bay. When I was in Florida we slaved away in the sunlight all day and it was so hot that the pavement would melt the bottom of your boots. On the upside I don't really have to worry about heat stroke. :)

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I do work in the cold I just can't stand it. Work doesn't stop just because it's below freezing. I do turn into a little bitch about it though.
 
Ahh that sounds horrible! I hate high heat, it's so oppressive, it makes me feel agitated and uncomfortable. I sweat really easily too, if it's above 75 I wear underwear only if I'm at home, or I at least take my shirt off. I grew up where summers would top 100 degrees on a variety of days every year too... I guess it's my Swedish blood or something, I just hate the heat. Unless I'm swimming, then I want it to be hot. :)
 
Xorkoth said:
Yeah, sucks when you finish a great series. I was really bummed when I finished Malazan. Now I'm reading the Thomas Covenant books by Stephen Donaldson, I'm on the 5th one (there are 10, he wrote a trilogy and then like 10 years later he wrote another and then like 10 years later he wrote 4 more). The first book is kinda like, ah I'm not sure I'm so into these. The main character is a shitty guy, but over the course of the first 3 there is a lot of character development. But still not the greatest. But the second trilogy has been amazing so far.

I'm planning some trips pretty soon myself, I haven't had more than a museum dose in quite some time. My girl is going out of town for 2 months soon so I'll find myself with a lot of extra free time. I have a ton of things to try... DOB, DOI, a higher dose of DOPr and DOiP, a higher dose of DOM... 3C-P, MiPT, MPT, 2C-E... not even sure where to begin.
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I ran through the first 100 pages (My "The Crippled God" is a large paperback ~890 pages. I think the smaller paperbacks are 1100+) of the last one last night. It is definatly a series I will be re reading. So many character/event/place references I'm like " was that in the first/3rd/5th book? I dunno I started this shit in march".

I had The Thomas Covenant books on my mind because Erickson thanks Donaldson so many times and cites him as an inspiration in Malazan.

The Kingkiller Chronicles you mentioned sound good. A lot of people hate them though because it looks like dude won't ever finish. Not sure I want to start that.

Are you going to read "Oathbringer" when it comes out, or wait til you finish Thomas Covenant? I think I will just reread the first two books in Stormlight b/c I have them and will be done about when Oathbringer comes out.

Got my 4 aco dpt today. Beige/Offwhite powder. Was like 1/2 the price of their other tryptamines, dunno why. I picked up some 4 aco met from them 2 years ago for cheap, but the stated it was lower potency then. Will be bumping that 4 aco dpt thread soon.
 
HeadphonesandLSD said:
If it were me I'd be in that 2C-E first for sure. ;)

I ended up not taking that MDMA yesterday, been wrapped up archiving everything related to the Vegas incident. Finally taking a break from it and working on some software. Recently got back into programming again after my DMT breakthrough, been good fun coming back to it after so many years away. Working on an implementation of forum software over the new IPFS protocol with a bunch of other people.

Going to wire up an LED kit to my arcade stick later today and swap out some buttons and other parts. Just recently dropped in a new PCB and I'm about to add another for legacy consoles. Currently it supports 5 or 6 consoles, once I get the other PCB in it'll support 20+ plus have a supergun attachment for wiring it directly to arcade cabinets. Trying to keep myself busy while I'm between jobs. Thinking about getting back into software to pay the bills while I get my own business going.

I'd share another picture of my slice of heaven. Just picked up this cabinet, need to play with the CRT in it but otherwise it's perfect. Always wanted one so I had to snag it when I had the money. Matter of fact think I'm going to play it right now. Currently had a bootleg 161 cart in it. Going to be buying a flash cart for it soon as I get $500 more dollars to blow on it. Also going to do some minor work on the cabinet to bring it back to mint condition.

https://i.imgur.com/t7pTkpy.jpg
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On a somewhat video game related note. I ran through half of Perfect Dark mission co op with my brother about a month ago. The N64 was the last gaming system I really got into. I wish they had more mission co op games like that. It's so much fucking fuuuuuuuuunnnnnn. Plus it makes it easier having someone to play with. ahha. I read about a "Goldfinger" fan made N64 game. Reading about rasberry pi and booting a lot of games and whatnot. Kind of interesting. I still need to finish Chrono Trigger though. I got like 10 hours into it a decade ago and said fuck it. Come to think of it, I put 50+ hours into FF3(6) and never beat it. Got to the last tower or whatnot, went on vacation, came back and never touched it. fuck.
 
FF3 is one of my favorite games of all time, I love that game so much. I beat it long, long ago, and then I kept working my save game to find as much stuff as I could. I tried to get every monster's ability with Gau (I got close), and there is a Coliseum where you can wager items and fight battles and you get a different item if you win the battle, I found some really crazy weapons and shit that I don't think you can get anywhere else.

The N64 was the last game system I got into too, when I went to college I pretty much stopped playing video games because I found I didn't have time/wanted to spend my time on other things, even though as a kid I was obsessed.

yepyepwoah said:
I ran through the first 100 pages (My "The Crippled God" is a large paperback ~890 pages. I think the smaller paperbacks are 1100+) of the last one last night. It is definatly a series I will be re reading. So many character/event/place references I'm like " was that in the first/3rd/5th book? I dunno I started this shit in march".

I had The Thomas Covenant books on my mind because Erickson thanks Donaldson so many times and cites him as an inspiration in Malazan.

The Kingkiller Chronicles you mentioned sound good. A lot of people hate them though because it looks like dude won't ever finish. Not sure I want to start that.

Are you going to read "Oathbringer" when it comes out, or wait til you finish Thomas Covenant? I think I will just reread the first two books in Stormlight b/c I have them and will be done about when Oathbringer comes out.
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Yeah I'll re-read Malazan sometime, there is SO MUCH there. Also the writing is just gorgeous. The writing is also gorgeous in the Thomas Covenant books. The first 3 really aren't as good as the second three, the development of his storytelling is quite evident. They're still good though. He uses a lot of obscure words which is interesting, I don't bother looking them all up, I have a hunch some of them aren't even real words but I like that.

The Kingkiller Chronicles are awesome, but yeah he sure is dragging his feet. Also, I can't possibly imagine how he will finish the whole story in one more book, but he's said he definitely will only write 3. I love the two that exist so far though, really beautiful, poetic writing, and the first-person perspective is really interesting. I recommend them for sure.

As far as Oathbringer, I will probably finish Thomas Covenant first. My girlfriend is eagerly awaiting Oathbringer and she doesn't have a book to read right now (she didn't care for the beginning of the first Thomas Covenant book, and hasn't been able to bring herself to read them yet even though I told her they get way better), so I'm gonna let her read it first. I will probably finish this series and then re-read the first two Stormlight books before I read it because I've read the entire Malazan series, half the Thomas Covenant books, and some assorted other books since I read them and I don't remember all the details anymore.
 
Hooray, I finally posted my first-ever trip report here... a DXM/alcohol/cannabis-induced train wreck appropriately subtitled "The Nightmare Before Christmas"!

It's a pretty long read but I think you'll all enjoy it.

Dreamflyer :D
 
Ahh I fucking hate Facebook. I replied to an old college friend's post asking why Americans are so obsessed with guns. I'm not really against guns but I do think we have a serious problem that is more or less the result of the sheer availability of guns that you don't see in other "first world" nations. Anyway I tried to make that point, and used my cousin as an example. I consider him a gun nut, he has assault rifles and at my sister's wedding he ranted to me for like an hour about how he was going to take all his guns up to our place in Wisconsin and Obama was gonna have to come take them over his dead body. So I used this story as an example, didn't name my cousin or anything, and this guy doesn't know my cousin at all. I figured I was safe to do so, as my cousin and this guy aren't connected in any way. I really wasn't trying to talk shit anyway, it just helps to make your point when you have a personal example. Well, I woke up this morning to angry texts from my cousin and now he wants to have a serious talk with me about it on the phone later. 8(

First time I actually posted anything at all on Facebook in like a year and there's drama. Fuck that shit.
 
Dude do yourself a favor, delete everything on your page and just use messenger. My life is so much better since I did that shit. What I did was run a script that just cycled through all my posts and information deleting it one by one. I don't even use it much but it took days to purge it all. Facebook just kept shoving up more content that I posted way back when the site was new. It was like they were messing with me, I'd delete it all and something I posted in 2007 would pop up out of nowhere a few days later. I did manage to finally get it all. I use that shit for finding events and talking to people, past that it's useless to me. Dumped snapchat, instagram, twitter and all that other bullshit too.

Life is 100% better, I actually catch up with people now and only see close friends or friends at events. We're not supposed to be in each others business that much.
 
Yeah, I almost never use Facebook, I log on once a month at most to see if anyone has messaged me. This is the first time I've participated in anything in so long. Really drives home the point. I completely agree, it's this weird violation of privacy, mental space. Many people do it totally willingly. In my opinion it's fucked up and detrimental to society, it's redefining what is socially acceptable and how people interact with each other in a pretty profound way.

My life is the same way, I more or less left social media behind years ago, but I do still actually have my account. I use it to help promote my band and I used to use it to promote my art, too. It's a useful tool for those purposes. I was actually using it for that yesterday when this happened, I just happened to see a post by a friend that I felt compelled to reply to.

Fucking aggravating, my cousin is going to turn this into family drama. Not like spreading it through the family, but like, we're family, you betrayed me type of shit. Because he was able to see my thoughts that I wasn't trying to share with him.
 
I was on Facebook back around 2006/2007 and deleted my account after a year because it was turning into a drama fest, and being in my 30's at the time said, "I'm too old for this crap." (even back in high school I always hated all the gossip and everything).

I ended up with several women that I had dated over the years on there because I'm still friends with them, but none of them really knew each other. Then, all of a sudden they became Facebook Friends and I started getting messages like, "Hey, so-and-so told me that you were planning to have kids. How come you didn't want kids with me?" 8(
 
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Yeah it just makes everything too out there, there's so much weird social pressure, and like, in this case, I shared an anecdote about my cousin and revealed an aspect of his personality I struggle with. He wasn't supposed to hear that, everyone has little things that bother them about the people they love. It doesn't do any good to unload all that on your loved ones unless it's causing a problem, but I'm gonna get chewed out for saying something about him that he didn't know about. It's bullshit.

I already think cell phones, though I wouldn't want to not have one since they're incredibly useful, caused a certain lack of privacy, because people get pissed if you don't reply to texts right away or if you don't answer your phone. Whereas when I was young, we just had land lines, not everyone even had answering machines. If you wanted to talk to or see someone, you tried calling, or knocking on their door, and if they didn't answer, you said, oh well, guess I'll talk to them later. That was nice...
 
I had an intense dream last night. In it, my brother and sister and girlfriend and I were going to stay at a house with some other people to go skiing. The other people were cool and we were partying, and then my sister suggested we do some MDMA, and this guy had some. The pills were gigantic and purple, and we each had one. It was interesting because usually in dreams when there are drugs, I never actually do them, it's like this constant chasing of them, but this time I just ate one, and started to feel nice, not like actual MDMA but like a sort of very light version of that. My siblings and I and these guys had a great time. Then in the morning we were going to go ski, but I couldn't find my ski boots. My brother and I looked everywhere, for like an hour, and then I realized, oh wait, my skis also aren't here. Shit, I forgot to bring all that stuff, I left it sitting in my living room. I figured then that I'd just rent some. For some reason, to rent them I had to drive somewhere separate from the ski place, so I was doing that, when all of a sudden this sports car going the other direction slammed into a tree on the side of the road in front of me. The car flipped end over end and was totally smashed. I stopped in time, but the guy behind him caught the edge of it and flew through the air and smashed the front of my car. My hands and fingers got all jammed, which actually hurt in the dream. Next thing I know, the guy who crashed climbed out of the vehicle and starting crawling away before the police came, and somehow he got away. My car got towed away since it was totaled, and I was being told that since the guy got away, no one's insurance would cover it except my own. And then I realized my instruments were in there and had been taken away. For that matter, I didn't know whether they had been destroyed or not. I stood there and looked at my hands. I had some knuckles out of place, and some of my fingers wouldn't bend all the way. They were throbbing with pain. I was just thinking to myself, oh fuck, my music career is destroyed, my hands are fucked and my thousands of dollars of equipment is all gone. Then I woke up.

It ended poorly, but the beginning was fun. Overall I was struck by how vivid it was, I remember the details of watching the crash and watching the guy climbing out of it, semi-maimed. It sure felt real, down to the thoughts running through my head.
 
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