highlevelmaker

[1] A heads-up: for anyone who reads this, I'm mostly shutting things down here and will be on bluesky (bsky.app/profile/highle…) and (to a lesser extent) on that one site named after a prehistoric animal we mustn't name on here--same username

This is the kind of victory both the @mnwild and @Timberwolves needed to get tonight--and they did! A #StPatricksDay treat: #mnwild 4[OT]-3 and #TakeRoot 116-104

@Colonthreee New Quake2 coming?--that's a bright'ning of the day. Been neglecting Q2 way too much, but did play the original campaign again beginning last New Year's Eve

Somehow this techbase Quake 2 SP-map is taking shape...! ;w;)/ It's called Base Moi, btw. :3c #leveldesign

@pikuma Nice to come here and see a fun post right off, countering all the trash on this site--and the most awesome apparel i've seen in a long time. (I confess to having highly limited understanding of SSE and so forth, but at least am aware of them)

Alysa Liu recently went viral for her Teen Vogue rant on MMX. “Most Pentium MMX vectorization was premature micro-optimization & aged poorly. The same code rewritten a few years later with streaming SIMD or even compiled automatically often outperformed it with far less effort.”

@TwinCityVTG I've had Fanatics on the blacklist since the mid-2010s when they were mainly a reseller on ebay. The reason is for being overly aggressive in dictating who is and isn't allowed to have one thing or another. An opinion piece from a while back: sfgate.com/giants/article…

@PioneerPress #Nalukataq -- all aspects of which are off-the-charts intriguing -- is one of those things that'll have to remain a far-out fantasy. But that's OK

Carrying on the Winter Carnival’s oldest tradition, the St. Paul Bouncing Team still flies upward pipr.es/VJq0EW4

@PioneerPress Is it this building?

As the St. Paul Winter Carnival’s 89th Boreas, Peter Kenefick strives to be the ‘all-in king’ pipr.es/VY0xC7x

@JakeRudh #TheCure #ClassicAlternative

On this day in 1982, The Cure  released the single "Let's Go to Bed" “I don't care if you don't…and I don't feel if you don't…and I don't want it if you don't…and I won't say it if you don't say it first”

According to this, apparently only "men" can have the one on the left but anybody the one on the right? I don't deal in being "man" or "woman": I am a PERSON. Can I still have the one on the left? And If any mfr thinks I can't have one only "women" can have, two words: Blow Me.

Against my better judgement: it will likely rot out and need fixing. But it's my first @Timberwolves apparel, which is almost impossible to find and access. This will probably rot sooner: I think it might be "new old[er] stock" and was marked down relative to current MSRP

A followup to the rotted out headwear: as expected, it quickly disintegrated further but is now repaired. I'm going to say this again: I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DO THIS. Also I looked at at least three others with liners like this I got in the mid-2010s and they're not rotted

This along with major MSRP hikes, favorite styles almost impossible to find, aggressively dictating who is and isn't allowed to have certain styles and implicit threats of lawsuits on that matter, I'm about done with sports apparel from anyone altogether. Not worth the heartache

This (the #Vikings one--got maybe 2023) is the third consecutive @NewEraCap headwear the stitching has rotted out on--all the ones I've gotten since the late 2010s. Is this planned obsolescence? The other two I later repaired but I shouldn't have to do this

@Colonthreee Also, I've noticed far more behind-the-scenes data transfer going on with Win11 than there was with Win10. Possibly part of it is webpage prefetching (a bandwidth-wasting "feature" useless to me) done at the OS level. Not appreciated on metered connection

@Colonthreee I have update blockers in place but also don't use Edge. What I want to see about is using a cheap unlocked smartphone as a Wi-Fi go-between, with an "uninterested third party" firewall to put the kibosh on software telemetry

Windows 11 is the worst OS-release by Microsoft. Having a client presentation interrupted by an unprompted and unskippable Edge-update that takes up the whole screen is just fucked up.

@PioneerPress Was there--was a good time

Thousands celebrate Cinco de Mayo in St. Paul with a parade and more pipr.es/PGiGMFf

@JakeRudh Need to explore this band more. I wonder if the name of that track was inspired by the colloquial name for "Garden Island" in the video game Riven. Probably not; it would be a pretty obscure reference by present-day standards

Pulp have announced their first new album in 24 years. Titled “More” the record will be released on Friday, June 6th. Along with the announcement, the band have also released a new track called “Spike Island”

@JakeRudh Haa! Not one but TWO Classic Alternative Regional Deities in the same room

Richard Blade’s the best and definitely inspiration number one to what I do in my career. If you wish to do what he mentions, here’s my Instagram link… instagram.com/jakerudh?igsh=… Cheers!

@Colonthreee One thing is unquestionably: "It's never what But who it is you know"

Why do so many struggle so much with basic simple reading comprehension, yet they are employed and earn lots of money? What is going on?

[2] I want the things I post to be publicly available and not just members-only like here, and with the souring bigger-picture climate in regards to the ownership of this site, I prefer to keep things more detached going forward

[1] A heads-up: for anyone who reads this, I'm mostly shutting things down here and will be on bluesky (bsky.app/profile/highle…) and (to a lesser extent) on that one site named after a prehistoric animal we mustn't name on here--same username