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[BIL]

RIP Steve Albini you amazing asshole

Fuck. Helluva run. Will always treasure the little sticker on my Songs About Fucking warning that it's not as good as Atomizer.

[Lord British]

RIP Steve Albini you amazing asshole

Fuck. Helluva run. Will always treasure the little sticker on my Songs About Fucking warning that it's not as good as Atomizer.

He was honest. It wasn't as good as Atomizer!

[BIL]

I still have this bankers box heaving with BB/Rapeman/Shellac vinyl, and a bunch of production works... my brother-in-law handed them off to me when he "couldn't be arsed anymore m8" after FLACing everything, circa Napster. Atomizer/SoF and Goat are still among my go-tos when demoing new gear, bone-crushing power.

Damn though. 61's no age at all, but otherwise, him going out in a studio heart attack is about as on the nose as it gets.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/artic ... es-aged-61

[vol.2]

Oh holy nuts and a half. Albini!??

What a young dude to buy the farm. Idk, I guess cheeseburgers? Damn. Sad Otter man. Sad Otter

[PC Engine Fan X!]

The world famous low budget B-movie director/producer, Roger Corman (the "King of BS" films), died at his Santa Monica home. He was 98 (1926-2024). The initial film screenings by the MPAA back in the 1970s that were made/produced by Roger Corman's film production company, Concorde Films, according to director Joe Dante, were originally rated X. Dante said that they would remove the questionable scenes to satisfy the MPAA, and reinsert the scenes right back in before the movie was released on the big screen (i.e. -- Inhumanoids From the Deep circa 1980).

May he rest in peace.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[BIL]

Blimey, good run. I'm a little ashamed to say I didn't know he was still around all these years! A legend in his own time. ;-;7

[EmperorIng]

Hats off to a real one ;-;7

And Albini too. Yikes.

[Sumez]

I'd figured Roger Corman immortal

[vol.2]

He survived WWII anyway. He clearly had a strong will to continue, and a great drive to create

[vol.2]

It is the end of the road for the venerable Z80 microprocessor. We've had a long road together.

[BryanM]

Man, 50 years is a hell of a run.

It's really a trip considering how short a lifespan most of these things have. These state of the art cards meant for AI being made by NVidia will all get discontinued very quickly as their successors become available in significant numbers. The cost of the cables, manpower and space to connect them all alone eventually get them to a place where they can't compete even if they're given away for free... almost nobody will be talking or thinking about the H200 even five years from now.

Edit: I think this is a good time for the robocop.mp3 and related copypasta meme:

This song always makes me think things will be different this round. No shicurity spacing anyone with access to cargo or chemistry. No clowns spraying the hallway with spacelube. No hallucinogenics in the food.

But my hopes always get cruched.

[vol.2]

Edit: I think this is a good time for the robocop.mp3 and related copypasta meme:

lol. Yes, it's always a good time for Jonathan Dunn. Dude crafted some tasty 8 bit. tbh I prefer the C64 SID version, it's got the great bass notes. The in-game music is spectacular and a lot more rhymical.

Also ran across this fan made video incorporating the Spectrum's version of Robocop into the soundtrack.

Gah. And Platoon is also great.

[Bloodreign]

Apparently somehow Dabney Coleman passed away last week at the age of 92, found out literally just today. Guy seemed to always play a sleazeball in some capacity, and did it quite well, great character actor.

[vol.2]

I remember him most from Cloak and Dagger, a film I loved as a kid. It probably doesn't hold up lol

[KennyMan666]

Possibly the most well-known dog on the internet, Kabosu the Shiba Inu, face of the Doge meme, has passed away at 18 years old. Definitely made it to a good age, given that she was diagnosed with leukemia and liver disease in 2022, and the average expected lifespan for a Shiba is 15½ years.

[Sturmvogel Prime]

Morgan Spurlock, best known for Super Size Me 1 and 2, just passed away from cancer at age 53.

[GaijinPunch]

Morgan Spurlock, best known for Super Size Me 1 and 2, just passed away from cancer at age 53.

Yowza. I can't imagine the research for those films helping at all.

[BryanM]

Fuuck that's young.

I guess I'll give that "all the lies in supersize me" vid that's been haunting my youtube recommends for a week a shot... the movie was entertaining.

My friend's wife we were watching it with had to leave the room for a bit during the puking scene : D

(It was 'cause of the fish sandwich, right? It's the only thing you could expect to have happen putting something like that in yer belly. I feel bad for the poor catholics who harm themselves with those things.)

(And seriously, that anti-foaming agent they use in the food? It tastes like formaldehyde how can anyone bear to eat such a thing, let alone part with a lot of money for one....)

[Udderdude]

Geoff Follin. Pancreatic cancer. Sounds pretty rough ..

https://x.com/FREEZE64UK/status/1796474509194928536

Crank Silver Surfer one more time. RIP.

https://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/silver-surfer-nes

[BIL]

Geoff Follin. Pancreatic cancer. Sounds pretty rough ..

https://x.com/FREEZE64UK/status/1796474509194928536

Cruel bloody world. A name forever synonymous with excellence. ;-;7