It's my swan song!
From 2008, this is the Inspiration Edit of The Nightstalker’s “Given Up”, a 4-track light rock song originally written in 2000. This song zeros in on a love born suddenly out of friendship by someone who hasn’t had the best of times in life. The protagonist struggles with the feeling that he has lost a friend in favor of gaining a new lover.
This is a very raw track, and almost has a “stripped down” feeling to it. There was very little in the way of post-processing, which gives this a very raw, real feeling. It also helps that this was one of my best vocal takes of this song, ever.
Lyrics:
It all happened so fast
I never thought it could last
The way that you make me feel
Is any of this for real?
And I’ve just about given up on hope
And I’ve just about given up on hope
And I’ve just about given up on hope for life
Until I found you
(…No you don’t, no you don’t…)
You don’t know who I am
But I believe I can be your man
Yet I know I must get to your heart
So tell me when do we start
And I’ve just about given up on hope
And I’ve just about given up on hope
And I’ve just about given up on hope for life
Until I found you
And I’ve just about given up on hope
And I’ve just about given up on hope
And I’ve just about given up on hope for life
Until I found you
And I’ve just about given up
I’ve just about given up
I’ve just about given up
I’ve just about given up
I’ve just about given up
I’ve just about given up
I’ve just about given up
Given up, given up, given up
You know what you gotta do
Tell me, is this the end?
I never thought I’d lose a friend
But I know I can do this
It comes as a shock you’d actually go through with this
And I’ve just about given up on hope
And I’ve just about given up on hope
And I’ve just about given up on hope for life
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Until I found you
Is that... T-Pain?
Take a good hard look at the mother fucking float.
Did you know that Pavlov's hair was famously soft and silky?
It's because he conditioned it. :ablobcatlurk:
And when the groundhog saw its shadow, the people declared:
"FOUR MORE YEARS OF STRESS EATING!"
Boss: "We need to come up with a number of hours it will take to do this super big project."
Me: "Do you want that number written out, or can I use exponential form?"
🙃
I guess you CAN'T do it with True Value. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/business/true-value-bankruptcy
Former 2 time world champion DogPlayingTetris becomes the first player to ever rollover the level counter in NES Tetris, performing what's known in the community as "Rebirth". Final score: 29,486,164, 4216 lines, level 347 (256 + 91)... all huge world records. #tetris
Back row... Mother with screaming infant, 300 lb linebacker, and me. Or what's left of me. #airporthell
I'd also love a 6 hour layover overnight instead of taking the red eye I was going to take and be 7 hours later getting into Cleveland than I wanted, why do you ask? #airporthell
Why yes, I'd love to leave at 4:40 to get to the airport at 6:20 for an 8:20 flight that got delayed to 9:05 which is too late for my connection so now I'm on a 10:20 flight instead. Why do you ask? #airporthell
I've never had as much fun on comms for a Tetris match as I did tonight with NinjaOfNinjas for the silver bracket semis and finals. What a show!
I'm not done! I'll be casting the later rounds of the silver bracket today at 6:30 PM Pacific at https://twitch.tv/classictetris3. Cya there!
I'll be live casting qualifiers today for CTWC at https://twitch.tv/classictetris2 at 1 PM Pacific and https://twitch.tv/classictetris3 at 3:30 PM Pacific. This year's CTWC is the craziest yet so don't miss it!
Just a note to everyone out there who still believes 2020 hasn't ended that today is Unquinquaginember 21st, 2020.
@shanselman Who at Microsoft do I have to bribe to fix ADO so that those of us on dark mode who copy/paste text from one task to another can do so without our friends on light mode seeing dark text on a dark background?
I updated the blog post with a statement from Revival. While I'm not particularly happy with Revival's decision, I understand their motives. It's just a shame that it was someone from Interplay that had to go and do this. "By games for gamers" my ass.
Damn, got another Tetris world record! This time in the arcade variant developed by Atari. 6,008,005 points, 5,386 lines, round 363. Be warned, it's nearly FIVE HOURS. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2131759212
I certainly didn't have "Overload but with web3 features" on my 2024 bingo card. WTF did Revival Productions just do?
https://roncli.com/blogger/3949527510668683306/wtf-did-revival-productions-just-do
@solitha New rule: cat tax. For every pun you post or repost, you're now required to pay the tax of posting one cute cat video.
Today was a special day. I scored 1,016,221 points in classic NES Tetris, the first time I broke the 999,999 maxout barrier.
With that maxout, I became the oldest person to get their first ever maxout at 46 years 319 days.
After I scored that, I learned that today would have been 7-time Tetris world champion Jonas Neubauer's 43rd birthday.
I am FILLED with incredible emotion tonight.
https://clips.twitch.tv/AverageImportantGoldfishHassaanChop-bRfUxo4q5SxEgJvI
"I'm Sorry, What?!" The biggest bailout in the history of Descent II! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLlTk7wa59A
“BART anime merch" are three words that I would not have expected to go together, but here we are. https://www.railgoods.com/bart/anime/
Does anyone else sing the chorus to "Cherish" by Kool & The Gang to themselves whenever they play or watch streams of Balatro? Or is that just me?
I'm fact that's what Lingo needs: a "phone" block. The clue is an incorrect autocorrected form of the answer. 🙃
It's like my phone knows I've been playing Lingo. I typed in "exited" and my phone was all:
⬜️ EXCITED ------
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A comparison of the classic Tetris and Descent communities. Not a post I write lightly, either.
https://roncli.com/blogger/3703157809000934742/a-tale-of-two-communities
Aptiz played #Pentis again. In the beginning you can see roncli asking in the chat for the right version. About an hour later, he broke the #PentisRankings record with 60K ! Congratulations roncli 🏆 🎉
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2052528360?sr=a&t=11267s
Yeah, it's season 11. But the OTL Season 6 highlight reel is up, this time Fireball has taken the reins! Check out this video jam packed full of kills, deaths, silliness, and Sirius puns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXstLVjnaGo
Over on #thatbirdhellsite, someone retweeted sympathy for the people being laid off today...
...and then said that Amazon Games was hiring. You know, the one that just had layoffs in NOVEMBER.
Honestly? Tech sucks right now.