buru5

buru5, 10 hours ago to random

relevant

buru5, 12 hours ago to random

"Toilets should always be charged to $0.20. At that price, they not only cover their own functioning costs, but also turn a helping profit."

buru5, 15 hours ago to random

the screensaver is coming out of retirement

video of three monitors displaying a screensaver; a red-brick maze navigated from a first-person perspective.

buru5, 3 days ago to random

cartoon portrait of me circa 2019 or so. this was at a work thing, and the artist talked to me for about 30 minutes before doing the sketch, hence the cats and speech bubble contents.

buru5, 3 days ago to random

Dragon Quest III for GBC was released on December 8th, 2000. Big oversight on my part.

buru5, 4 days ago to random

i have joined the "sit around watching jeopardy all day" club; membership dues include a pot of coffee and one pair of sweatpants.

buru5, 5 days ago to random

i love Okami, but there is no excuse for its unskippable 20-minute exposition-dump introduction. it's almost so hostile to the player that Capcom should have been required to put a warning on the box, "heavy object required."

(to hold down the x button while you walk away and clean the house or whatever)

buru5, 6 days ago to random

when you die, you go to heaven; when i die, i go back to grandma's house with chrono cross and the crt

buru5, 6 days ago to music

i've always found pop covers of metal songs fascinating as they clearly draw out the original creator's intended melody and reveal the pop underpinnings of metal (standard verse-chorus song structures, for example), and The Cardigan's cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath comes close to being one of my favorite renovations.

anything else come to mind? #music

https://youtu.be/aAOlvbKmU4A?si=BVgqcV_FCErAd8-_

buru5, 9 days ago to random

"music sucks now" or: you haven't listened to any new music and you're hopelessly stuck mentally in your glory years

buru5, 9 days ago to Cat

i spotted a cool #cat with very curled ear hair on my walk today

buru5, 11 days ago to blogging

presenting an archive of vitriol, negativity, and embarrassment circa 2008; it's fascinating to see my thoughts from so long ago. #livejournal #blogging

https://web.archive.org/web/20181116125323/https://fluorophoric.livejournal.com/

buru5, 13 days ago to random

i don't remember much before being 7-years old but i do remember inviting a friend over for a sleepover and this friend, at the breakfast table with my family, cracked open a can of pepsi and poured it into his bowl of cheerios. my father didn't say anything at the time but after my friend left he said my friend was never allowed to come over again; i knew it had to be the pepsi-cheerios because my friend was otherwise well behaved. this had a profound impact on me.

buru5, 13 days ago to random

"in reality"

buru5, 14 days ago to Nintendo

I have it on good authority that #Nintendo "Switch 2" (named the "Swipe") is a card-based console with a card reader built into the unit. The cards, once swiped, unlock access to: full games, wallpapers, avatars, DLC, and even apps like Hulu, YouTube, and Netflix. The Swipe will be released by the end of Q2 2025, alongside over 200 cards purchased separately in booster packs.

One of the neat things about this is that, if you still have old e-Reader cards, you can swipe them for fun extras.

buru5, 18 days ago to random

two weeks ago i was approached by high-tech security system salesmen who i denied outright. they were legitimate but overpriced and devil-tongued and i don't need 8 cameras around my house connected to some shady company's cloud. flash forward to today's walk and i've counted their signs in over 12 yards. it's a cancer or a zombie apocalypse spread under the pretense of safety when really it's stoked by quota-driven salesmen fanning the flames of yes-yes-fear-your-fellow-neighbors.

buru5, 19 days ago to random

The Beatles never released Rubber Soul, which caused a nuclear holocaust.

buru5, 20 days ago to music

growing up, i was always attracted to a certain madness, and it was attracted to me. yet, i would characterize myself as "tame" compared to some of the people i associated with.

Julian Cope has always been an off-putting but interesting character. he seems like a genuine yet borderline-psychopathic person who channels a violent madness into all his work; writing, music, or otherwise. this attracts me, but none of his #music has really clicked with me yet.

https://youtu.be/ETCYBZWBXig?si=DDZGnBJQNMfGydgf

buru5, 22 days ago to random

i'm noticing more and more people getting expensive degrees just to cc someone's manager for a living.

buru5, 23 days ago to random

are pinball machines indistinguishable from magic?

buru5, 25 days ago to random

do me a favor, next time i post obvious drunk-posts please reply with: you said you weren't going to drink anymore you absolute failure; you belong face-down in the gutter alongside Heroin Jim and Meth Matilda and Freebase Freddie

buru5, 28 days ago to random

soundtrack of my life #VGMThursday

https://youtu.be/OeBKwxAqpOg?si=ccaWI2HYEHfutypW

buru5, 29 days ago to random

i got wound up in a conversation with door-to-door home-security salesmen, and i told them immediately i was not interested and they just kept going and going and going and going and i felt like i couldn't escape the conversation despite being totally indifferent. i need to work on being more comfortable with confrontation and assertive but also these people should be able to recognize when they're wasting their time.

buru5, 29 days ago to random

may this banish the dracula of your day #vgmwednesday

https://youtu.be/vj3T7cVy5eA?si=fQ_TWX8kFr4j3-_-

buru5, 1 month ago to pokemon

playing #pokemon on non-nintendo hardware tastes like coke out of a pepsi bottle or kraft mac and cheese with barilla pasta or something.