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I see a lot of homeless people around where I live, and 90% of them are senior citizens.

Hey, I'm still waiting for the sky to open up and a piano to fall out. I just hope it doesn't miss.

Very artistic. Wouldn't you rather have a girl fall off the balcony onto your head and die together?

That happened in a movie, and it was an old comedian falling. Nobody died though, but there were injuries.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1178663/
I saw it a very long time ago, but I recall it being rather good.

I get severe anxiety episodes late in the evening when it's just me vs. me in a large empty house and I have nowhere to escape. I write stuff that isn't entirely false, but also makes other people uncomfortable.

That's great movie! Omigotham I wanna be cremated too, it's cheaper, I found a nearby facility which does it, no burial needed and the priest refuses to do a ceremony for it, and they can shed my ash in somebody's back yard. Ash is beneficial and nutritional especially mine. Just want to contribute to creating tomatoes and hot peppers. Maybe trees in the woods.

There's this spot in the woods where somebody shed like 5 bras and some panties. It's very weird. Somebody should plant a camera in that spot.

You've seen that one? Might have been the only Woody Allen film I've seen in entirety. I have so much on my watchlist that I don't think I can revisit it.

I never planned my death in such detail. Perhaps I should consider registering myself as an organ donor or write a will leaving my body for scientific research (there were human cadavers at the biology department at the university where I studied). Perhaps the only thought that went into it is the life insurance policy that comes with my employment, and additional insurance in case of a serious (generally terminal) illness.

I do hate the thought of your death though. In life you're are as delicate and gentle as a tomato yourself.

As long as our organs end up in the same man, my juiciness is ensured to go on.

i wrote a self-comforting little ditty about the fate of many aspie men-

i collect stuff
it's never enough
my place is a mess
this i will confess
i could be on the tube
like those other poor boobs
on TV shows about we hoarders
all disorganized old molderers
and all of us are so alone
with nobody which to atone
i'm only slightly blue
but don't know what to do.
my sis will inherit my mess
she will exclaim, oh god bless
or maybe a few different words
synonymous with fornicating turds
lord please help me
i pray to thee
i can't fix it all myself
i need providential help
otherwise one day they'll find my skeleton
under piles like a heap of rotten gelatin
and stinking to heavenly hell
with my spirit in heaven to dwell
but for ever and a day
in my real divine home to stay.

Wow. That's amazing.

What is it about the stereotype that autistic people have everything neat and organized? Literally the first thing my mom said, "no way, you're not autistic, your stuff is not all sorted, stacked, and not in rows". *smacks forehead*
My spaces have been messy ever since I've been a teenager, and since I've been a teenager I've had a lot of mental health problems that I feel contribute to my overall indifference to the mess.

So do you hoard more than you think perhaps you should? I do tend to keep things myself that others would probably throw away. I'll get around to that spring cleaning... Some day. What do you hoard anyway? I have a major computer hoarding problem. I probably have 40+ computers (mostly in my garage for now, since I recently moved), probably a full insanely heavy box of just hard drives, probably like 50 of them in there. I keep all that stuff, but I know I will never use most of it.

The place of setting for Frankenstein's monster is Switzerland, but I suppose we can still make it work. How do you think it's going to feel, the two of us in there...? One heart, two hearts? Redundancy?

for the better part of a decade i've kept a handle on accumulating stuff that takes up room [with the exception of DVDs/Blu-rays and CDs], but digitally i have terabytes worth of legacy stuff, and i have legacy stuff when i was working that needs another house by itself to store. it is inherited, this tendency to accumulate. my dad owned 50 different cars in his lifetime, i've owned about 15 which is not as bad, if only one of them were a luxury car though. my dad had Mercedes in the driveway but i've never been that lucky. not even a GD Cadillac to my name. if i had a humongous place, i'd collect organs, even though my playing skills are kindergarten-level. i would also collect stereo systems. i'd love a different system in each room. alas, not in this lifetime. i have a fridge crammed full of semi-iffy food that piles up in the rear that i'm not brave enough to excavate. same for cupboards/pantry. when i was laid up in-hospital a while back, sis kindly went through and ditched a ton of old rotten food and other trash.

Terabytes of things you can't talk about?
I built me a 64TB ZFS RAIDZ2 setup, running FreeNAS. That's where I keep all my stuff and backups, which makes my pile of hard drives kind of obsolete at this point. I already ran out of space on the old 16TB box. Half of it is machine backups, the other is my movie and game library, as well as backups of software disks.

I don't value luxury a whole lot. I don't need it, and don't really have anyone to show off to, and not really my personality either. There's a video of a guy on YouTube restoring a damaged bargain Maybach. Could be your next hobby if you like wrenching.

I've been a headphone user for the past 17 years or so, and I have been using a custom-built DAC+amp setup for the past 11 years or so with an old pair of 600ohm DT770 Pro.
I'm planning to build one of these this year:
https://www.amb.org/audio/beta24/
https://www.amb.org/audio/
What do you think?
I want to build my own speaker cabinets as well.

^^^wow you and my electronics expert brother would be on the same page for sure. i am innumerate and can't do the maths required for even an elementary grokking of electronics. i'm just an end user. the terabytes of stuff are not even on hard drives but countless DVD-Rs stacked in a spare room. not advanced enough for multiple hard drives/SSDs. i know just enough about my puter to make it do what i want, namely audio restoration. that is all i know. the digital info in storage is basically just pictures and audio files. in terms of luxury, i concentrate on one thing- a car with abundant interior room and abundant library-level hush inside over the noisiest pavement, no wind or road or engine noise, along with a magic carpet ride over the worst roads, that is luxury to me. never had a car that was up to that spec, though. i've ridden in them, though. test-driven them, but never owned.

Been meaning to ask about the audio restoration. What exactly do you do?

There was a lot of restorative fan work on Blade Runner, I have yet to see a proper definitive version of the film that has all of the sound tracks matching up. From what I recall the Director's Cut lost a lot of the necessary plot narration because the additional footage shown made scenes longer so they no longer match up to the narration, and so necessary chunks of the narration were dropped entirely, creating a rather confusing film for those who are not familiar with it.
I, myself, love the book, but I always found it a bit dark and gloomy. Ridley Scott's take is refreshingly pleasant, albeit not nearly as deep. So I consider both essential without picking a favorite from among the two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_of_Blade_Runner
Know anything about the fan-made restoration on this?

i've long been a fan of the original international version of the movie which was basically the uncut version with the narration, without which the movie would not have made a lick of sense to me. as for the audio restoration, i collect interesting musics from youtube and elsewhere, a lot of stuff on youtube has degraded sonics due to data compression and other ails. what i do is try my best, using state of the art tools, to remove or disguise those degradations. if it is monophonic material i do what i can to make it sound like it was stereophonic from the git-go, via various processes described as a mix of DCS [Digitally Constructed Stereo] and DES [Digitally Extracted Stereo, or Spectral Stereo]. if i don't like certain bits of the performance in a recording, i can rearrange things, shorten them, speed them up, change the keys, remove/replace bum notes, correct wow and flutter [unsteady pitch due to mechanical problems], restore missing bass and treble, fix drop-outs, remove static and impulse noises, etc.

Hmm, I'll have to check out that version specifically. I'll have to pick a day when I'm in the mood for a film like that.

Yeah, that's quite impressive. Wish I had the knowledge and patience to do that, because I'm a bit of a music fan/collector myself. I can mess around with filters in Audacity a bit, but otherwise I'm pretty useless. I make ringtones for my phone, that's about it.

Indeed, my ears bleed from compression artifacts, destroys the percussion. I like a nice sparkly splash of cymbals you don't get with high compression.

Take a crack at this? It sounds tinny and the percussion is a mess, but otherwise not a bad cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW1WGLMquSo
Or this glorious concert:
https://youtu.be/zKKo5x4f9EQ?t=3015
I think there was a better version on YouTube at some point, but like anything good, it's there, then it's gone.