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i listen to a LOT of podcasts and for years i've noticed that sometimes the audio will just skip back a minute or so and play again, making me think i'm crazy.

lately, i have been relistening to history of rome, and it is extremely jacked up, the audio will skip back ten minutes, there will be ten minutes of silence at the end of some episodes. i assume this is because of the ads that have been retroactively added, i'm getting modern and location specific ads at the beginning of eps, and i also KNOW that the episodes were not biffed in this way the last time i listened to it.

but yeah other podcasts have also been doing this a bit for years. i remember behind the bastards would do it almost every episode, but again, just for a minute and i don't think any content was ultimately lost. i'm using antennapod now, i was using podcast addict for a long time beforehand. do other people experience podcasts this way or have i just picked the wrong apps, or what?!

the most embarrassing thing about this particular struggle session (no i will not read any of the posts) is the revelation that there's a large community filled with discord mods who are having what they consider to be Very Important discussions about the website all day

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okay, i wrote this out a couple weeks ago when the topic came up, but i lost the text so i just got around to doing a quick list now. this is for @LeylaLove@hexbear.net, @dannoffs@hexbear.net, @comradesharkfucker@lemmy.ml, @bunnygirl@hexbear.net, @Thordros@hexbear.net who were all talking about speedrunning youtube in a thread a month ago, and anyone else interested in good old-fashioned content. please share your recommendations too!

Summoning Salt, obviously

TomatoAnus does really good full speedrun explanations showing all the tricks of the current route. silly and funny, really notable is that he does a short mental health segment every episode where he encourages anyone in the audience who might be struggling. i think it's pretty heartfelt and touching, and he deserves more attention just for that. it seems like depressed people might spend a lot of time watching youtube speedruning content lol (couldn't be me)

How speedrunners beat Half-Life in 26 minutes (SPEEDRUN EXPLAINED - Scriptless)

really you could just go to his channel and watch whatever game you're most interested in. i picked this one because it's a good one but also the mental health segment is early in the video, and i think he deserves more eyes because of those segments

Karl Jobst pretty well known, does a lot of speedrun cheating investigations, also does some drama vids, was one of the guys who exposed the completionist scandal. i think the cheating videos are really interesting too but Running A Tightrope: DOOM's Most Precarious Speedrun is a really great world record progression video with all the new strats and such explained really well, i think this DOOM stuff is worth watching even if you arent all that interested in him or his newer videos. i love how because of DOOM's demo files you can watch runs from the nineties recorded exactly the same as runs from today. great video!

OneShortEye does videos on the adventure game speedrun community, mostly Sierra games from the 80's and 90's. both record progression and speedrun explained type videos. his videos are great, super interesting to see the tricks and stories behind the progress the community makes on these games, and super interesting in depth exploration of the mechanics. i'll recommend How Speedrunners Make Robin Hood a COWARD, one of TWO long-ass videos about Conquests of the Longbow. if you have a favourite kings quest game, he probably has a video about it. really good shit.

Bismuth does really good speedrun explained and videos about tricks, TAS runs, etc. How is this speedrun possible? The Legend of Zelda World Record Speedrun Explained is my recommend, goes through every trick and how it works in the modern route of the first NES zelda.

Osukarui does histories for less popular N64 games, usually ones he personally was involved in, because they are not common games to speedrun. The Incredible Glitches of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine for the N64 is a good sample of the kind of stuff he talks about, and if you like that watch the speedrun history video of the same game, i think it's really interesting stuff

Quake Speedruns Explained explains Quake speedruns. noteable for the chill vibes, watching 1000 runs of a level at once in slow motion with chill music in third person hits just right. The "Impossible" Quake Record is my recommend, if you like it, there are a bunch like that

EZScape Speedruns does speedruns explained type stuff, really good if you are interested in the game. covers a lot of stuff i'm not personally interested in, but there's a wide enough variety that there's probably at least a few hours of stuff you will want to watch if you like speedrun content. my recommendation is Bully Speedruns Are BUSTED | Speedrun Explained. great game, great speedrun!

Maximum does videos about flash games. How Speedrunners Conquered The World's Hardest Game is by far my fave of his videos because i'm actually familiar with the game, tho i do eventually get around to watching his other videos or at least having them on in the background lol. if you like flash games theres probably a lot more here for you, good stuff none the less. his series on red ball is a true labour of love.

Kosmic is a SMB1 speedrunner and mostly does videos about that game, individual levels, individual tricks, etc. has been doing a series about all the different versions of smb1 like the game boy colour, PAL, all stars, etc. that's pretty good. 4:53 is Almost Possible is the first video in that series and a good start. the man loves super mario bros!

Special Mention: imo this is a must watch video. 160 minutes of video about History of The Hobbit - The Most Underrated Speedrun. this person has never made any other videos like this, he just LOVES the hobbit game and wants to share the speedrunning story. great example of how a game nobody really remembers can have a endlessly interesting history, and all the tricks and glitches, it's just very good. i'd strongly recommend this to anyone who thinks they might like a long-ass video that's a love letter to both the PC and gamecube versions of the game and speedrunning in general. one of my all time favourite videos.

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i have a 4tb sdd with everything i ever had or saved from every computer i've ever had. i am right now paying for a cloud service to keep it backed up, just in case, because there's lots of stuff on there i would be very sad to lose

but i'm sorting, adding, deleting, renaming, etc on the drive and the backup service isn't flexible enough to keep up. i don't need it exactly backed up all the time but i'd like to be able to back up the changes more often. also i can't really afford the cloud service anymore anyway

i have a 4tb external hard drive that could keep it backed up safely as long as my house doesn't burn down in a forest fire. my question is, is there a way to make it easy to keep a external drive the same as my internal ssd when i want without copying all the files using copy paste? i'd like it to prioritize the changes on the ssd so if i delete a file on the ssd it will get rid of it on the backup (the cloud service doesn't do that, it only adds to the data on the cloud.)

i'm sure it's pretty easy but i don't know how. i'm using windows 10 right now. if i NEED to use linux i sometimes boot mint on a usb, but i'd rather get it working on windows 10 because i'll be using windows 10 until they stop supporting it (not enough free computer time rn to make the switch)

am i going to need to follow a guide again to learn how to do anything

edit: is there anything special about the steam release? im used to the newbpack with tiles and using dwarf therapist

why shrek is piss #italiano

turns out Molly's new album is something different. i don't think she ever really sounded like this, and her lyrics sometimes have political ideas in them but mostly filtered through either alienation or nostalgia. this is Madonna's Vogue except the lyrics are from the committee on un-american activities. it rules.

again i think sonically i prefer her usual style but there's plenty of that material already, im ready for communist molly

been trying to convince myself that life is worth living lately, listening to some music that used to help w that, i didn't even really know Molly Nilsson was still making music. not my fave of hers sonically but always good to see someone not be a ghoul

noticing it more and more. i like to play retro video games but i don't actually do it that often. 5 years or so ago i got a SNES mini and a playstation classic and one of those anbernac handhelds in the span of a year or two, so I was spending a lot of time reading lists online of games people thought were notable, underrated, good games for genre newbies, etc.

i have been playing games again recently so i have again been looking up games and the difference in content you get now is astounding. five years ago if you searched something like "best nes RPGs" or "obscure ps1 games" you would find lovingly handcrafted lists and articles by people who were passionate about it and wanted to share, make readers laugh, or ignite interest in something. Now there's like 20 different sites that each have ai generated "best (genre) games for (system)" lists for every system and genre combination possible, with generic game descriptions, list orders likely cribbed from one of those ranking sites, and nonsensical filler copy ("every RPG enthusiast loves the N64" type words just mashed together)

photographs are also no fun to take or look at anymore, accelerated by new ai image generation but honestly ever since smartphone cameras started automatically editing the shot out of your picture before it even showed it to you.

when i was a kid i wanted to be an author, glad i just got depressed and useless and never pursued it, considering what that space looks like today.

internet was a mistake