(New) Love/Hate Thread

[zerostatic]

Merry Xmas, Keenan, and everyone else who posts, visits and lurks!

 

[Darkofeden]

Was thinking to myself yesterday, wish Dave was around to tell us to fuck off

Hope yall had a good day yesterday! and today too, but yeah

 

[zerostatic]

@Darkofeden Listened to your album on Spotify...the album cover and title are the things of Nightmares! haha I am digging the music, it is a stone cold groove! Takes me back to my college days when I was more into industrial and electronica. Bands like Apoptygma Bezerk, Slick Idiot, KMFDM, Bozo Porno Circus, NIN, Front Line Assembly, Chemlab, and Ohgr.

 

[Keenan]

Happy new year everyone! Hoping 2022 isn't as shit as the last few years (though it probably will be)!

 

[Darkofeden]

@Darkofeden Listened to your album on Spotify...the album cover and title are the things of Nightmares! haha I am digging the music, it is a stone cold groove! Takes me back to my college days when I was more into industrial and electronica. Bands like Apoptygma Bezerk, Slick Idiot, KMFDM, Bozo Porno Circus, NIN, Front Line Assembly, Chemlab, and Ohgr.

Very much appreciate the kind words!! Glad to hear you liked the art and whatnot too! I've had the title for essentially the whole time I was working on it, the art was the absolute last thing to come together though so I was worried on that for a while.

Hope your guys' New Year is going alright

Love: 100%'d Horizon Zero Dawn a second time, this time on pc. Took them the better part of a year but they finally made the PC port the definitive way to play it. Also got to see my friend who's been stuck in Japan since 2019 the other day, very very nice
Hate: That visit was a day and a half thing because of very annoying circumstances instead of the two weeks it was originally gonna be which was annoying but at least I got to see my friend at all

 

[zerostatic]

Love: Was able to sign a lease for a place in the Boston area and will probably try to move out there mid to late February. The first place we looked at seemed alright until we saw the basement. It reminded me of this song:

Hate: I got the Covid! The last few days have been rough. Took a couple days off work and have been fighting off a fever since Sunday. Despite being double vaccinated, boosted, and still wearing my mask whenever I go out, omicron found a way to infect old zerostatic. I think I am through the worst of it though, today I am doing better than yesterday.

 

[Keenan]

Fuck! Why does it always seem like it's the ones that have all their shots and masks on 24/7 that are the ones that are getting it these days? It's really disheartening. Like, what were the shots even for? Glad to hear that you're doing better, though. Hopefully it's effects don't last too much longer. Any changes to taste or smell? One of my managers was talking about how she still doesn't have her sense of taste back and she had it most recently in August.


Love : Getting excited for WWE's Royal Rumble event. Now that the "forbidden door" is open and they're open to working with other companies I am incredibly curious to see who they can get.
Hate: : Sister has covid. (Doesn't live with me, though)

 

[Darkofeden]

Love: Was able to sign a lease for a place in the Boston area and will probably try to move out there mid to late February.

Oh hell yeah, as someone from the Boston area (by that I mean an hour away in southern new hampshire), it's a decent enough place. Sucks to hear about the covid though, oof.

Love: eh. nothing really
Hate: Tons of guilt and anxiety lately, also had my main m.2 in my computer fry after being installed less than a week. Whack

 

[zerostatic]

Fuck! Why does it always seem like it's the ones that have all their shots and masks on 24/7 that are the ones that are getting it these days? It's really disheartening. Like, what were the shots even for?

The shots probably kept me alive and out of the hospital, dude! I feel better today than yesterday, and the worst seems behind me. A rough couple of days and nights. Had a high fever that was slightly over 102 on Monday! My bodies defense system tries to kill everything with heat, haha! I took a few at home covid tests that all came back Negative. My wife scheduled and drove me to a site for a better Covid test on Monday and that one came back positive. My wife seems to have escaped unscathed, miraculously. She has been coating herself in a fog of lysol and going behind me and giving every place I lay and sit a lysol shower. No changes in taste or smell.

h hell yeah, as someone from the Boston area (by that I mean an hour away in southern new hampshire), it's a decent enough place.

We are getting a place in Somerville, MA. How is the metal scene in NH and MA?

 

[Darkofeden]

We are getting a place in Somerville, MA. How is the metal scene in NH and MA?

Well, you live about the same distance as me from The Palladium in Worcester which is where 99% of the bigger metal bands go so... hope you like The Palladium because I don't If you want to see like, Metallica or some big mainstream artists though they'll go to the TD Garden, which you'd be super super close to which is nice. Besides that, it's kinda eh. Some artists will go to NH or even Maine but not really.

 

[Keenan]

Love : Enslaved
Also love : Hell Let Loose. Got it as a free PS+ game recently and hated it when I tried it out. Gave it another shot and have since grown to like it. Controls still need tweaking, though. Large deadzones in an online FPS is not good.
HATE : Microsoft bought Activision. This does not bode well for the gaming industry.
Also hate : Our first "post-vaccine mandate" schedule is up at work. We only have a third of our employees still working. A THIRD.

 

[Podgie]

Love : Enslaved

Great band huh. One of my all time favourites. Still haven't gotten round to listening to their latest EP, or either of their recent live albums... but love pretty much everything they've done (minus maybe their first couple of releases) ...

Love: restrictions due to be eased again here, hopefully this is a sign things are actually going to get better

On the flip side,

HATE: 'The Swedish Invasion' fest which I had tickets for here in London has been cancelled... absolutely devasted because I was so excited to FINALLY see DISMEMBER... But no. One day I'll maybe actually get to see them...

 

[Keenan]

To be honest, I never listened to them until November. Loving the stuff I've heard so far, though!

 

[I-TEND-TO-DIE]

Hate: I've had an accident with my leg today when i was running god-fucking damnit how that hurted!
Iam glad iam ok but i felt very strange..

Love: beer and metal weekend in general miss the shows but

 

[zerostatic]

Hate: I've had an accident with my leg today when i was running god-fucking damnit how that hurted!
Iam glad iam ok but i felt very strange..

Love: beer and metal weekend in general miss the shows but

Be carful dude, I ripped a muscle in my calf while running nearly a decade ago and it never healed right. Never been the same since.

Love: Almost ready to move. Sold my car back to Carmax and received more money than I expected.

Hate: Almost ready to move. 90% packed and have donated a bunch of shit. Selling other stuff on offer up app is frustrating. Ready to sell my house and get to Boston!

 

[Keenan]

Hoping it all goes smoothly!

Love : Planet Coaster. Got this game for free as a Playstation Plus game this month. It's basically a modern Roller Coaster Tycoon and it's a lot of fun.
Also love : New Persefone. I've only listened to it once so far, though.
Hate : Work stress is killing me. I've been back at work for a month and I feel like I need another vacation.

 

[Darkofeden]

Hope the move is going well!

Love: Dying Light 2 has been super fun, we're also so close to Horizon Forbidden West and the new D2 expansion. Been making a video game for me and my friends with RPG Maker MZ and it's been fun
Hate: That I have to pay for all these new games myself also making that game has been fun but holy shit its so much work

 

[I-TEND-TO-DIE]

Be carful dude, I ripped a muscle in my calf while running nearly a decade ago and it never healed right. Never been the same since.

Love: Almost ready to move. Sold my car back to Carmax and received more money than I expected.

Hate: Almost ready to move. 90% packed and have donated a bunch of shit. Selling other stuff on offer up app is frustrating. Ready to sell my house and get to Boston!

Oh shit yeah i broke my right arm once when i fell from my bike in 2013 and my arm still hurts some days it's never the same again..
but that with my leg i had often last year in September it was really gross but iam very professional when doing sports and accidents happen very seldom right now but i love running it became addictive to me once you start with it you can't stop it anymore i promise you should do it too
you feel so much better

 

[Keenan]

Love : Got a new laptop battery and mouse. It's like I have a new laptop again.
Also love : Planet Coaster, Kalax, Timecop1983
Hate : Coworkers that are so lazy that they drag down other coworkers down to their level of laziness. Like quicksand.

 

[zerostatic]

Are you a manager, Keenan?

Love: Visited Boston and Somerville last weekend. Starting to get my new place set up. It is smaller than I thought but I think my wife and I can make it work.

Hate: Back in Vegas taking care of all the loose ends. Pray to the metal gods that it all goes smoothly so I can get out of here and not have to worry about it anymore.