My library is mostly Sierra and LucasArts adventures. Also a ton of D&D titles I haven’t touched.

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds is an all-time favorite.

For the Sierra titles, I’d highly recommend the first Gabriel Knight.

• Song - Only in Dreams
• Album - Weezer (1994)
• Artist - Weezer

Seems fitting to choose this as I’m off to see Weezer tonight. A great album closer and one of their best songs.

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Thom Yorke’s voice is just crazy.

I’ll put my thoughts on this post as it showed up as I scrolled to get to the one from a day or two ago…I have 5 different Lemmy apps installed right now. Figure that there is going to be a lot of experimentation and work being done right now, so it’s nice to see what everyone is doing.

• Jerboa - Personally, I really like Jerboa. Being the most mature of the bunch shows. It’s well laid out, has just enough UI options, and works. Except that now Beehaw isn’t on v0.18.

• Connect - Not open source at this time, I get why that matters to people, but not a deal breaker for me. Typing this comment in Connect. Just updated this morning with additional and redesigned settings. There is about a thumbs width of space between this comment box and my keyboard. That’s kind of yucky.

• Liftoff - I’m hopeful for this one. It LOOKS the best to me, but there’s some weird UX issues. Biggest being that the only place to see your replies/notifications is the top of the Home feed with no quick way to get there if you’ve been scrolling.

• Thunder - I can see the potential, but it’s not for me right now. No buttons on comments, you have to use swipe gestures. But posts have buttons. Changing UI options doesn’t actually change anything 95% of the time.

• Summit - You want a zero frills, dark mode way of browsing and interacting? This is that. I’d love a FEW options (like light mode), but it’s fast and easy. Uhh…just realized I can’t find a way to make a new post…

• Wefwef.app - Last one. Really slick looking and responsive, but too iOS-y for me. It also claims to have light mode, but I can’t figure out how to switch it. Really polished though.

Between you and me, I haven’t been checking. 🫢

It started on the vinyl sub and so that’s what I’m sticking with, but at the end of the day, it’s just about sharing music we enjoy. I’ll update my description for these last few!

• Song - Wildflowers
• Album - Wildflowers
• Artist - Tom Petty

I like to start my mornings off quietly. There will be enough noise and chaos later. For now, let me sip my coffee and relax.

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I wonder what the most well known song with a number in it is…this seems like it would be up there, but probably loses to 1999.

Could just do half of Prince’s discography. 7 would have been a good one too.

Classic. Probably would have been my pick if I had it.

• Song - Mekong
• Album - Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy
• Artist - The Refreshments

As noted in the OP, I don’t really like the prompt. So I’m taking it to just mean that the song evokes a specific scenario. I had a co-worker that decided The Refreshments major label debut was a concept album that deserved to be made into a movie. And he was right. Clyne’s songs are so descriptive and specific that it’s hard not to imagine the scene playing out.

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Great tune. I’m not a Giz devotee, but I really appreciate how they just seem to write whatever the hell they feel like. Stylistically, the new album was just not doing it for me this week, but then there’s this and it could be a completely different band.

• Song - 32 Pennies
• Album - Greatest & Latest
• Artist - Warrant

Back to 80s rock today. Greatest & Latest features re-recordings of some of their songs with a few new ones mixed in. Generally, the re-recordings are a little looser, slower, and not as heavily produced as the originals. I quite enjoy them. Honestly hope that with Taylor Swift’s “Taylors Versions” we see more full scale re-recordings by some artists. Time and experience can really be heard and lend something new.

Good one! We were graced with a lot of great soundtracks in the 90s.

• Song - Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
• Album - The Big Chill (Soundtrack)
• Artist - The Temptations

Probably a top 10 all time favorite song for me. Ruffin just absolutely killed it.

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Ahhh…I remember when that album came out. Lots of hype for it.

Ha. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that one before. Definitely one that would stand out!

Some raw veggies, pretzels, hummus, cheese. Maybe some nuts or hard cooked eggs. Seriously like my favorite dinner.

Song - The Gallery Album - Clouds Artist - Joni Mitchell

Since songwriting is a form of art, I considered going with The Darkeness’ “Solid Gold.” But I kept coming back to Joni. This one was for Leonard Cohen.

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I will readily admit that the late 80s were generally a shitty time for rock attitudes toward…like…everyone that wasn’t a straight white male. All I can do is hope that they’ve all grown some in the last 30+ years.