That is fair enough, to be clear I didn’t mean that buying books in itself was throwing money away, more if you are unsure what you like from books and end up buying a lot of stuff you just don’t like it is a waste.
I think you should get your library on whilst you figure out your tastes a bit more. It’ll save you money as well as getting you away from screens as you want. Win / win.
Unless you have money to throw away why not continue to pirate stuff whilst you figure out what you do and don’t like.
I, like you, didn’t get into books until much later on. I found something I liked (for me it started with Lovecraft) and then just explored all of his books before then looking for stuff that was within that similar vein.
I also used other types of media to inform what kinds of things I might like (predominantly video games) which lead me off on to other tangents.
I think this gave me a good basis of what I enjoyed from the stories and writing themselves and then from there I went on to trying other things, usually randomly based purely on a title or blurb and just giving things a go. If I didn’t enjoy something after a few hours then I’d just drop it and move on. When I found something I like I’d usually just binge that author.
You can always go to a library and borrow some stuff to get an idea of the form factor you like in terms of your last question. I’m an audio book only kind of person so have no input really in terms of that.
I’ve owned 5’s and 6’s and used 8’s and 10’s, as you say there are probably objectively “better” monitors but for some powered speakers that are of a high quality both sound and build wise I have no qualms recommending them.
I don’t know if I would consider myself an “audiophile” but I do DJ for myself and like to have a decent set of speakers.
I have owned a few pairs of KRK Rokit speakers and currently have a set of Rokit 6’s. I like them for their overall pretty neutral sound, ideally I would have a sub along with it but space is an issue for me right now so I can make do. They have a sufficient amount of bass for my small flat by themselves to be honest.
I run them through my DJ controller (Traktor S4 mk3 if you care) and have run past pairs I’ve owned through other DJ controllers and basic focusrite USB audio interfaces.
I wouldn’t say these are super high end but I find they offer a very good listening experience for not a great deal of money (I always buy second hand where I can), this set set me back around £160 if I remember correctly.
awkwardly looks at IGN’s previous Souls game “guides” on yt Oh yeah, games journalists are great at games…
Thanks for the recommendation :D
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check it out!
Fair enough, research time for me! Thanks for the reply
Any recommendations of a good alternative on android? I’m thinking I’ll move to librewolf on desktop but they don’t appear to have an android version.
“The way the trees look dead, reminds me that there’s more to life than living”
Bayside - A Synonym of Acquiesce
Nah not shavings, it was a chocolate sponge cake with a chocolate sauce over the top
Not “fast food” but a junk food, cadburys used to do a chocolate sponge cake in a tin that was the best. Im not even a massive fan of chocolate but these things were great!
Ours are getting so out of hand that they are starting to encroach on the TV but I’m not even mad. TV looks better when viewed through a jungle anyway xD
Our outdoor plant game is much weaker though, I feed all the neighbourhood birds and the pigeons love to get into the outside plant pots and wreck out shit!
Started off the day with some Mad Caddies, now progressed onto a DnB Rollers playlist. Finally getting some sun has me feel energised!
I would also love this feature!
“The man in Black fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed.”
Stephen King - The Gunslinger
I’m 25 hours into FO: New Vegas so will be continuing that. I have finally got into it on this, my third attempt to do so.
I used the viva new Vegas mod guide and everything has run so smoothly and generally been a great experience so far so slowly making my way through it and finally enjoying it :D
Ah OK, im with you now. If there is a way to do that then I don’t know how I am afraid. I would personally just change up the connections so you could use the TV as one of them purely for the ease of it as I like to make my life as easy as possible xD
Sorry I can’t help any further with that but good luck with your endeavours, if you choose to go stremio I think you’ll be impressed compared to kodi :D
It absolutely is, I even set up stremio on a fire stick for my sister and she is absolutely technologically illiterate and would never have understood kodi but with stremio she is doing just fine!
I’m not really sure what you are asking in the second part though. If I’m running stremio on my laptop then I have my airvpn connection running in the background so everything is going via that connection.
On the fire stick I use the proton VPN app and open that up, connect there then all the traffic on the fire stick is forced to go through there.
Using either method the stremio traffic has to go via the respective VPN. Maybe I’m missing something with the question though so if I’m being stupid please say and I’ll try and help further :)
I spent 15 years working nights. 3 x 12 hour shifts (which was the best way to work IMO) and 4 x 10.
I’ve been working 5 x 8 hour days for 4 years or so now and I guess I have adjusted some what but I still fucking hate it. 5 day working week is the absolute worst. The only saving grace I have now is my current job doesn’t care when I start / finish as long as I complete my 8 hours so I end up going in at 4am so I can finish at 12 and actually have some day time to do other things.
Actual 9 to 5 is possibly the worst way to work imo