The "small" fee:

Happy Leap Day!

Here's 2 of my favorite songs to celebrate this day:

Kurt Weill - Speak Low (Demo)

From "Tryout (a Series of Private Rehearsal Recordings)" (1953)

Composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics written by Ogden Nash

Introduced in the musical "One Touch of Venus" (1943) by Mary Martin and Kenny Baker, this jazz standard has been covered by artists such as Billie Holiday, The Four Freshmen, the Miracles, Barbara Streisand and many more. [1]

This demo recording was made to help bring attention and convince them to finance "One Touch of Venus", it would not be until 1953 that the recording became public. [2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-_EnBXJpeA

Talking Heads - The Book I Read

From "Talking Heads: 77" (1977)

Written by David Byrne

This one's more light-hearted than "Speak Low", it's about someone you love you found out also they wrote the book you read!

Although not popular as "Psycho Killer" from the same album, David Byrne's vocal delivery is something you need to listen in this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6IxaI1_iYE

Sources:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_Low

[2] https://dannyashkenasi.com/2015/08/16/speak-low-phoenix-speak-low/

"Baby girl, you know what I want

Let me do it to ya, do it to ya

Let me do ya like uh uh-uh uh uh-uh-uh uh uuh

Uh uh-uh uh-uh uh uuh"

- Donald Glover (Childish Gambino), 2010(?)

In other news:

Bluesky is now open to the public, making my 5 unused invite codes useless except to symbolize myself being a Bluesky Elder™.

Hope 2024 starts great.

PLAYED THIS AT 11:24:55 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQJ2og809aQ

When Yukihiro sings the last part of "Present", it's when 2024 starts. 😍

...from yours truly, lalakikenji 🎅

Now watch Whirow's video and listen to his brainrot christmas album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmHJbWi7vZE

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFDkRmknX8h8uqy8FDJQJZzkCdeCJ6gDO

The FPS game that popularized the genre, caused a controversy. brought deathmatch, and started a modding community which still is alive today!

And yes that's why I changed my profile pic back to Rocky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iPFxaKng0M

i'm no longer a furry

Half-Life is 100% off (FREE TO KEEP) on Steam until November 20th!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/

The game celebrates its 25th anniversary by updating the Steam version with new (restored) content (Half-Life: Uplink, new multiplayer models and maps, old Valve intro), optimizations for widescreen, and brings the main menu back to the original 1998 version.

Secret Tape made a documentary about the development of the game with the original developers reunited, which I'd recommend you to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ3HzvFEto

(Counter-Strike 1.6 and Condition Zero (except Deleted Scenes) has "assertion" errors when Half-Life is updated. For 1,6 you can select the beta version which still works.)

Update: Also forgot to mention that Half-Life: Source is unlisted, and to get it you need to buy Valve Complete Pack. At least Valve knew it sucked lol.

(11/30/2023) Update: Counter Strike 1.6, Condition Zero (and Deleted Scenes) got fixed by Valve to support the 25th Anniversary Edition update.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

August 21, 2012 - September 27, 2023

End of an era after 11 years... I have mixed feelings about this (since some Garry's Mod maps needs CS:GO assets 💀), although I was able to capture some gameplay moments weeks ago, but I regret not playing it in the final day. I will try CS2 later when I have time, looking at the maps and graphics it looks more promising than CS;GO's bland-ish colors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSE38xjMLqE

Update:

There's a bit of freezing during gameplay since I think there's some cache loading thingy, in Task Manager its using around 1.8GB to 2GB of RAM (8gb max), 36% to 45% of CPU and 90% of my GPU.

This was just newly released and out of beta, but I wish they delayed it a bit so they could optimize the game. I'll have to wait for updates to see if it improves the situation.

In other news...

I'm back playing Transformice after 5 years of not touching my account. I'm still noob though.