The Haus of Talk Thread

[Awoo]

It's an acquired taste, if you like Absinthe you'll like it (I do). From what I understand it's pretty popular in Finland or at least the majority of Finnish people I've friended over the years have told me they enjoy it

[alleightbits]

I feel like doing pacifist runs of games that don't conventionally have them. Also want to upload them onto YouTube, but I haven't played a lot of games with that option available and I'm not sure if anyone would want to watch that.

[Ivy]

Does anyone enjoy the taste of licorice? I certainly don't.

Yes. It's pretty polarizing. I for one can eat a sack of licorice candies no problem, and it/anise do taste nice in alcoholic beverages too

[Awoo]

I feel like doing pacifist runs of games that don't conventionally have them. Also want to upload them onto YouTube, but I haven't played a lot of games with that option available and I'm not sure if anyone would want to watch that.

There's probably a niche for it on YouTube. No harm in trying

[BobisOnlyBob]

I hate licorice, but I love the taste of Jager which many compare to it.

[Ashan]

So you prefer a liquor-ish flavor to a licorice flavor?

[Bean]

I approve of that pun even though I don't go near liquor.

[Ashan]

My pun was so good we had to finally change the name from "Clever, witty, pun-based thread title!" after 6 months

[GforGoomba]

Im doing this so nobody explodes: *trombone noises for life plus 100 years*

[BobisOnlyBob]

[Bean]

My pun was so good we had to finally change the name from "Clever, witty, pun-based thread title!" after 6 months

You joke, but that's exactly why I did it. BW

[Ashan]

It's gonna take a while to get out of the habit of checking the iso forums. Multiple times a day I end up on a "this site can't be reached" page cause I open a new tab, type "is" then hit enter

rip in peace

[Alice]

It's gonna take a while to get out of the habit of checking the iso forums. Multiple times a day I end up on a "this site can't be reached" page cause I open a new tab, type "is" then hit enter

rip in peace

I actually had to get rid of my bookmark for similar reasons. I'd kept it since it shifted most of my bookmarks out of alignment when removed but as it turns out getting used to that change was easier than IsoNation being gone, lol.

[Ashan]

Just finished my last day at my software dev internship and wow

Crazy how fast that year went. Now to go back to living with my parents and going to school again. Gonna be a big changeup.

[Bean]

Congrats on that. Did the internship go well for you?

[Ashan]

Yeah I think so! I'm a little disappointed that I didn't get the social improvement I was hoping for I suppose. I think I had much bigger expectation for all of the fun and interesting stuff I'd be doing once I moved out on my own but I kinda didn't end up doing anything. So now I'm trying to make more of an effort to force myself to do things cause I need to spend less time staring at a computer and getting nothing done. I took the first step towards that today and finally pulled the trigger on signing up for vocal lessons! First one is on the 13th

[Ashan]

Gonna do a tiny bit of shilling for myself here.

If you're on Android, I just released my first Android app!



Pretty simple thing, write and save quotes so you can see them again later. You can export them as an image or share them to other apps.
Bigger writeup here with some screenshots.
Or go straight to the Play Store and check it out here!

App is free, with an optional $1.99 upgrade to disable ads (and more coming in the future).

Bonus points if you can figure out what the icon is referencing (name is also a hint). Answer is in the reddit comments.

[Awoo]

Quickman?

[Ashan]

Yeah

[Bean]

I took the first step towards that today and finally pulled the trigger on signing up for vocal lessons! First one is on the 13th

Good luck! That's part of the reason I got into trying out voice acting last year. I just want to be more confident as a speaker. It's working, so hopefully your own deal will help you out, too!

[SAJewers]

Figure I would post this here for any programmers or people who like to play retro Japanese games (like raocow)

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/521 ... y-language

[Ashan]

I took the first step towards that today and finally pulled the trigger on signing up for vocal lessons! First one is on the 13th

Good luck! That's part of the reason I got into trying out voice acting last year. I just want to be more confident as a speaker. It's working, so hopefully your own deal will help you out, too!

Thanks a lot, glad it's working for you!
I heard from a friend that learning to sing helps you with projecting your voice. I'm much quieter than I'd like to be so hopefully this fixes that a bit.

[SAJewers]

3 SNES protos were just released.

[BobisOnlyBob]

3 SNES protos were just released.

Nothing too drastic - all protos of known games with corresponding regional titles - but still cool shit in the world of game preservation and archival. Sad to hear about that collector's passing.

[Ashan]

I had my first vocal lesson today. The guy that is supposed to regularly be teaching who I've never met apparently is working on a musical right now so his nephew is filling in for him. It was a lot of fun. He asked what kind of music I listen to/want to sing at the beginning and I listed a few artists. The second artist I named was Jonathan Coulton who I assumed he wouldn't know since he has kind of a small cult following, but to my surprise the guy was also a fan! He said he's been listening to Solid State recently and I told him I had recently bought in on vinyl.

Later we were just trying to find a song to sing to get a feel for things, he threw out American Pie as it was one of the first songs listed in the giant book of piano songs he had so I said sure, and before we started I said "I think I probably know the Weird Al version better" and he was like "yeah me too" so we belted out the entirety of The Saga Begins from memory together, he even remembered the lyrics to some verses where i was forgetting.

It was a good time!