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  • Debt first but redirect the payments straight into your savings (possibly slightly lower to make it easier).

    And treat yourself to something small (like $50 or so), as a reward for doing the sensible thing with most of it.

    And then have a brilliant time in Japan 😁

  • I like BlueSky, and it's nowhere near as unhinged as Twitter.

    As with how Twitter used to be, it's just a question of curatung your feed. If someone is an asshole you block them and move on.

    The key difference is that you can choose to have a feed of only those you follow, and that's what you actually get, not algorithm-driven nonsense.

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  • Depends what you're interested in really - music, films, politics, food, gardening, TV, books, etc, etc. I

    If you edit your post to give some idea of your interests, hopefully people can recommend some communities for you 👍

    EDIT - alternatively, head to https://lemmy.org/search, and see what you can find (remember to change the setting from Local to All, so that you can find communities that are on a different instance than you).

  • 1 Megadrive (aka Genesis)2 PS43 Wii

    Have also had a PS1 and 2, and really liked them as well, but these 3 are my top picks

  • Everyone would just have a 1

  • This is one where I quite like the original, I hate the Madness cover that made it famous, but I love this more recent version:

    It Must Be Love (Crooked Man remix) - Lady Blackbird

  • You can apply a lot of adjectives to Kate Bush, but I've never heard her described as bland before. That's quite a take.

  • I don't disregard them, but I do think less of them.

  • Great choice. It's my favourite album of theirs too.

  • Mandinka (Guinea) - Yeke Yeke by Mory Kante, either the Afro Acid mix or the Hardfloor remix

    French - Here I Am (Rutabaga mix) - Lexicon Avenue

    Spanish - Llorando - Rebeka del Rio. Spanish language cover of Roy Orbison's 'Crying'. Video includes minor spoiler for Mulholland Drive.

    Greek - Efige Efige - Stelios Kazantzidis

    Malawi (sorry, I don't know exactly what language this is in - EDIT: possibly Chichewa) - A Bale Ndikuwuzeni - Gasper Nali

    Songhai (Mali) - Soubour - Songhoy Blues

    French (Burkina Faso) - Taximen - Amadou Balake

  • Predating all of them by some centuries, you could maybe check out work by Hildegard of Bingen. I don't know enough to suggest any particular piece but I've heard one or two pieces and they're beautiful.

  • Any number of MST3K movies - some of my favourites include Time Chasers, Pod People, Space Mutiny, Skydivers, Red Zone Cuba, Mitchell, Angels' Revenge, Manos: The Hands of Fate, Horror of Party Beach, The Horrors of Spider Island, The Touch of Satan...

    Non-MST3K - Miami Connection, Last Samurai, The Room, and a very recent discovery, an absolutely batshit crazy Spanish/Italian horror film, Tragic Ceremony.

  • "Rowsdower?"

  • A short list

    • The Wire
    • Twin Peaks
    • Dark
    • Spaced
    • Mystery Science Theater 3000
  • So serious question....why would anyone who owns a pc already buy this instead of saving up and upgrading their rig instead?

    I'm not a hardcore gamer at all, not anymore (if I ever was), but my take on this is that I do have a solid PC, and quite a few Steam games, but I rarely play them because the PC is in my home office and I don't want to go there to relax in the evening. Being able to play them on my TV and on my sofa would be great.

    I still probably won't get the Steambox, or not yet. But that's the appeal if it, for me, anyway.

  • I really like the idea of being able to sit in front of my TV and play Steam games on it as if they were Playstation games. I think I'd play them a lot more than I currently do, since I wouldn't need to go to my home office and sit where I spend most of my day already.

    I have a pretty powerful PC for work purposes (image and video editing mainly) so it can handle most games fine (maybe not the absolute top end ones, I'm not sure) but I'm not going to move that into the living room.

    So the Steam Machine feels like a great idea...

    But I can't help but feel that there'll be issues with it - underpowered maybe, or lacking in features. Plus the rising cost is a pain.

    Will wait to see how it turns out for early adopters. But I hope it's a success, I really do.

  • And think what that would do to the snow sports industry.

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  • It's not exactly on heavy rotation, as I tend to mix things up most of the time, but have put on Coffin for Head of State by Fela Kuti quite a lot recently.

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  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    TIL that not only is Measles very dangerous in itself but it also strips away and resets much/most of your immune system.

    www.bbc.com /future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia