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@rain@melonbread.xyz
sharkey 2025.4.7Just a lonely boy living on his own instance (Now with SO @rogue@melonbread.xyz ).
Natural screw up, who often can not make a proper post.
Normally I just post about whatever my ADHD hyper focus at the moment is.
I deal in Random Access Memory & Random Access Memory Accessories
I like to #tag my posts for myself for easier look up. Also enjoy rating and posting quick thoughts on different media.
I like posting frogs in my statuses 
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is what I mainly run and happy with it. I hope you find software that you are happy to run and use.
Alt account (when I break my instance):
@rain@shitposter.world@melonbread.xyz
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So one of the concerns i heard about the #SteamController is its size when in reality it is about the same size as all as thenother "standard" console controllers that are out there already.
I have caught my self checking a few times when playing because it feels real good and I am thinking this just feels like a "normal" controller but with some wanted touch pads. Which os exactly how i felt with the #SteamDeck.
I think for sure this controller is easily my new "main" controller for playing games. I need to find a game where the grips stuff makes sense because thats the one feature so far that i have yet to really try.
I am in sweatpants, oversized crocs, and a tacky florfia tuetle shirt. Crazy you mistaken me for a doctor.
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@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @coolboymew@shitposter.world This is the said truth. I did set setup a 55in Hisense the other day that asked if I wanted the "smart features" or just a display.
Not that I trust them not to run a bunch of stuff in the background but did find it interesting that I was provided the option.
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@quad@akko.quad.moe @coolboymew@shitposter.world Yeah to be honest what sold me on that TCL was that I actually tested it in the retail location and pressed input and it brought up and actual input switcher not the menu thing as you mentioned (that only gets worse as time goes on)
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@coolboymew@shitposter.world hat's the least "evil" possible insteadYeah it is kind of a lose lose game. I wish you the best of luck and am curious to see how things turn out.
started reading Vanishing World
https://log.melonbread.xyz/book/0A1UJR6m4HbobKmOyc1is6
Even though this is the most recent book translated I am curious to see how it plays out since it came out before the other two books in japan.
"I Attack the Moon, Mako!"
started playing Pokémon Pokopia
https://log.melonbread.xyz/game/3c3gCScDWR4pjr0mOBaaN0
I really was not feeling this game at first as it seemed really shallow. But after the first couple hours and doing some multiplayer with @rogue@melonbread.xyz@melonbread.xyz it is really starting to grow on me (no pun intended) and is quite deep and effort went in. Though I will say after playing this this 100% feels like The #Pokemon Company's answer to #PalWorld
finished reading Convenience Store Woman 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
https://log.melonbread.xyz/book/1We1sPE7GqBmzZUgSfK2Pu
Wow I think that is the first time I finished a novel in less than 8 hours.
This book is fine, barley holds a candle to Eathings IMO but still very good in its own right. Way more chilled out and relaxed compared to Eathings as well. Even if the protagonists from both books are both undiagnosed Autistic females trying to make it through life. This book lacking chapters really threw me for a loop and is maybe why I did not stop reading really through the down time of my day.
All in all I am glad this book could walk so Eathlings could run.
finished watching Boardwalk Empire Season 5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
https://log.melonbread.xyz/tv/season/5VKdaiJ0MQHLB8x8wLRJe7
What a overall fantastic series with the last season really doing a great job at ending everything
started watching The Knick Season 1
https://log.melonbread.xyz/tv/season/7l0aqWddwknKygwRBvQxi9
Half way through this first season and it is okay it is not the deep historical drama I want centered around medicine but it will suffice till I find something else by the time i finish it.
No crying until the ending
finished playing Mewgenics 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
https://log.melonbread.xyz/game/668tCsH2AkHivX2jTJLbbY
I hit credits in this game so I figure I would go ahead and rate it.
Wow just wow easily my "Game of the Year", as this was the roguelike game I have been wanting to get lost in for years. It does everything so well with there less is more design. I know why they don't but I do wish there was a way to roll back just a move action because SO MANY times did I miss click and move one spot next to to where I wanted to be.
I know I said I hit credits but the game claims I am roughly 33% complete with the game and their is a whole other act I have yet to even finish. It is crazy how much content is in this game, and their have been talks of DLC which gets me even more excited for new content.
I am 80 hours in and I still get excited to play this game even for a little bit every day. Well worth the $30 (USD) price tag.
finished watching Hoppers 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
https://log.melonbread.xyz/movie/1p3lV4auel8XfxvBiwXAm0
A above average Dreamworks movie from mid 2000s but made by Pixar and came out in 2026.
Finiahed playing Resident Evil Requiem 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
https://log.melonbread.xyz/game/49prCY4Fdg02iQWiV2vNtP
It is like the creative team was afraid to tell a story. There is a lot of good in this game but man is it dragged down by the following:
- Inconsistent pacing
- Grace is insufferable
- lol What bosses
- Game not following its own rules
- Recycling the same "zombies" over and over.
- Kind of short for even for a #ResidentEvil
- That price tag for what they give
- 5 layers of DRM
- Really really bad enemy AI
- Puzzles that are more of a slog than interesting
- Wanting me to POG at every Leon part when there is a callback to a previous games that feels unearned
- And so many other paper cuts
All in all I do recommend this game if you can get it on a good sale, but I really feel this game is over-hyped and seen as the second coming because the current gaming landscape is starved for a decent game. Probably would have dropped it if not for joking will @rogue@melonbread.xyz@melonbread.xyz as I steaming to her.f
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@sun@shitposter.world @ullard@shitposter.world Yes there are times I find myself reading a passage and having to restart like 3 times before I ether kinda get it or just give up and move on because it is normally does not pertain to ANYTHING of importance and I can follow everything else just fine.
In terms of it being over hyped I only had one anoying kid who I met through a friend in High School make this books his personality outside of that I never heard much chatter about them except "Oh those are good". So luckily not too over hyped for me. I can get why they were big upon release for the humor in them shame I just kind of find them average. Also does not help I just get the vibe the whole time Douglas Adams wants to be writing episodic stories and not what I am currently reading on the page. :blobcatshrug:
finished reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Illustrated Edition 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
https://log.melonbread.xyz/book/6bWerF1nO5KIsrqkRbHibf
Crazy how a movie I watched in my teens and cultural osmosis can take a lot out of the "umph" this book tries to bring. Even if that movie is not the best way to experience this story it does hit the major story beats to where reading the book just feels like going through the motions as there is not real intrigue or sense of discovery while reading the book.
Also does not help I think the humor is kind of one note and verbose for the sake of it. Like many times I just would find myself going "yeah I get the joke" with a complete straight face and am just ready to move on. I did find it odd how the illustrations, while cool in style, did not really add much to the experience of uncovering the world for me which is a first. I would look at it and just go "Yup, I guess that is how it would look".
Maybe I built this book up in my head and expected more but it is just the couple of jokes that wannabe internet funny men have been parroting for decades. I don't regret that I read the book and want to keep giving the series a go because I want to love it. Good thing I know very little about later entries in the series.
finished watching Marty Supreme 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
https://log.melonbread.xyz/movie/4XslUtNGGb7s8hOFs2VyML
Nice to know they are able to make another Uncut Gems-like. I wonder how many more times they are going to reskin that concept. Mr Wonderful did a pretty good job even if he just played himself with a new name.
started watching Neighbors
https://log.melonbread.xyz/tv/season/2L4gKWop98MpxmVCcAABu8
Pretty good Dialysis slop to look forwad to on Saturdays. Even if most of the Neighbor "disputes" just boil down to one of them just breaking the law and the other neighbor is like "please dont" until the law gets involved.
finished reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
https://log.melonbread.xyz/book/40ohcVPoqZiUISJ89yDCY7
While I did enjoy this book more than the first one, I really get the vibe that author really does not like any of the characters they have written.
It is funny I noticed the EXACT moment my ADHD Hyperfocus dropped playing Yu-Gi-Oh video games and now I am just lost on what to play to pass the time while at my desk.
Crazy Capcom will put so much garbage DRM on #ResidentEvil 9: Requiem and you can still just "get around it" by doing a bunch of HyperVisor none sense with a 15MB~ crack.
finished playing Resident Evil Requiem 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
https://log.melonbread.xyz/game/49prCY4Fdg02iQWiV2vNtP
It is like the creative team was afraid to tell a story. There is a lot of good in this game but man is it dragged down by the following:
- Inconsistent pacing
- Grace is insufferable
- lol What bosses
- Game not following its own rules
- Recycling the same "zombies" over and over.
- Kind of short for even for a #ResidentEvil
- That price tag for what they give
- 5 layers of DRM
- Really really bad enemy AI
- Puzzles that are more of a slog than interesting
- Wanting me to POG at every Leon part when there is a callback to a previous games that feels unearned
- And so many other paper cuts
All in all I do recommend this game if you can get it on a good sale, but I really feel this game is over-hyped and seen as the second coming because the current gaming landscape is starved for a decent game. Probably would have dropped it if not for joking will @rogue@melonbread.xyz@melonbread.xyz as I steaming to her.f
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@coolboymew@shitposter.world I was thinking HisenseI mean as a display it is fine it does not look bad, was affordable. And does not do that weird smoothing thing (I forget what it is called) that a lot of TVs do now and days that boomers love.
I think i can dig up what model it was....whoops it was a TCL not Hisense but here it is all the same if interested. I paid $240 USD for it
Ended up taking my old PC and refactoring it to a "#Steam Machine" to try and save some money if the official Steam Machine is super high priced (which it will be).
Ended up going with #Bazzite because that is what a lot of wannabe normies talk about when they joke about installing a #Linux based OS for gaming. So after about 5 minutes of research I decided the -deck variant was the way to go since all I wanted was a Steam Deck experience permanently hooked up to my living room TV.
After the install to my surprises I got exactly what I wanted. Went right into Steam Big Picture and was able to set everything up via controller and everything just kind of works.
Even the #KDE Plasma "Desktop Mode" is exactly what you would want as it is set up 98% the same as the Steam Decks. The Bazzite control app or whatever it is called is pretty great because it gives you one click options for doing any extras you would want such as enabling SSH. installing Decky Loader, auto-mounting ext4 drives on boot, and a lot more. It has only been 24 hours with the system but it is pretty much what I would want as "Steam Machine".
The case is a bit bigger than I want but there is not much options in HTPC cases that support the size of the extra video card I was using.
finished reading Earthlings 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
https://log.melonbread.xyz/book/4BqLAqGGFBGHqcaf12Q5HU
This maybe one of my favorite books I have read in ages. I could easily see myself finishing in a day if I did not force myself to wait.
I normally read to help myself sleep but fuck man the two nights I tried to do that with this book I just kept going. I have not had something hit me this hard since Goodnight Punpun.
While also nailing the fact I said this was Haruhi through a realistic lens, I was also floored where this book told me. During the whole book I just wanted Sazuki to find her happiness whatever that meant, & even with its ending and last page I still hoped she had found it.
I may have to put the ManCarryingThings list on hold while I read this other authors work.
finished watching Project Hail Mary 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
https://log.melonbread.xyz/movie/41UlxsHjfxgveP7glXGbI0
Everything that took place on the ship was done fine enough though every flashback was butchered to smithereens. Crazy how they cut out ALL SCIENCE explanation for anything done so things "just happen" or things "just get named" kinda weird. Though I can not imagine a better adaption for super normie mom audiences. Which fun fact my mother loved this movie so mission accomplished.
finished playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
https://log.melonbread.xyz/game/1RJmSVXTdPH9FuRseNfmAy
A worse version of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards that drags on
started reading Convenience Store Woman
https://log.melonbread.xyz/book/1We1sPE7GqBmzZUgSfK2Pu
Curious how this compares to Earthlings since this is the book title that is plastered all over her other English translated books.
stopped reading Life, the Universe and Everything
https://log.melonbread.xyz/book/0VMhQqdT3VH4qnmFdovpq0
Got a couple chapters in and I am kind of over it. I am not sure if I am done with this series forever or if I am just going to put it on hold to read later
finished watching The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
https://log.melonbread.xyz/movie/3fo90a6unReO6Y29s1zXZD
So re-watched this movie just to see how it holds up after reading the book, an man is the casting just spot on IMO. I think they pretty much nailed every member of the main crew. Though I get why this movie got a lot of hate as it pretty much ads what I will can fanfic in the second third of the movie due to needing to extend the run time (as to be honest very very little happens in the first book when you break it down), but I do not know what else they could have done really. There was A LOT of random changes that seemed to happen to tell a self contained story because it did not seem they were interested in making any more movies, but all in all I feel the people who made it really did like the source material and wanted to do the best job they could.
finished playing Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
https://log.melonbread.xyz/game/5ZXGi8d8G32vfk0B11uGWT
A weird mix of forbidden memories and the anime tcg rules. Very quick game even if some of the card effect make ZERO sense.
started playing Vampire Survivors
https://log.melonbread.xyz/game/1kzh5hHrhuFmskC0nH0x3s
I know I am late to the party on this game but after playing the god awful #Medabots Survival mobile game that got a global release a couple weeks back, I figure instead of giving them any of my money it would be better just to buy this game with DLC. And so far I am enjoying it here and there. I kind of wish the game was a bit faster pace or could turn up the speed but aside from that it is pretty solid and get the love for it. Also enjoying the occasional CO-OP run with @roguq@melonbread.xyz@melonbread.xyz .
LOL Someone threaten to contact Gamer's Nexus on me over the phone because they can not read warranty information. Like is this the new meta threat to try and get what you want when stomping your feet does not work?
Not that anyone really cared but me, but see no point in posting translation release any more with Myrient going down
What was that?
Did they like forget Pokemon had a 30th Anniversary?
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Yeah I think it is easy to say I REALLY like this book. Even if it bums me out
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@quad@akko.quad.moe Yeah it is a shame there is not way for the public to demo these controllers somewhere before buying because it is hard to explain how it feels (or maybe I am just bad at using my words). The grip angle is a little less wide that a Xbox style controller but not like the 8-Bitdo Ultimate. though i can use almost any controller for extend play sessions and not have issue so I am not the best person to really speak on that kind of thing.
Though before this Steam Controller my favorite controller to use over all was the 8-Bitdo Pro 3 (the orange controller in OP) and that one is of a even less common/popular style so what do i know.
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@coolboymew@shitposter.world Yeah options and sizes are spares the last time I tried to get one was 6 years~ ago and the meta was to search "for camper or RV"
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Now that I beat it I dont know what to do when not playing with @rogue I feel empty lol.
wants to play Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
https://log.melonbread.xyz/game/0O7dS3DwDvMvuske6jnVh3
Played the Demo today and it is exactly what I wanted which is just more #TomodachiLife . Excited for it to come out and LOVE the updated Mii Maker features as I think people will be able to make some really cool Miis. I do find it interesting for a game that lives by its shareable moments does not let you update clips from the Switch Album online. Guess they were afraid of what people would make the Miis say
finished watching Boardwalk Empire Season 4 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
https://log.melonbread.xyz/tv/season/1iGzYJVPSs6jWZt7JXcei0
Really curious how they are going to tie all these seemingly random plot point together in this last season.
Grace is single handedly the worst part of #ResidentEvil 9.