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If you're going to be within the path of totality, I strongly urge you to go outside and look up at the eclipse during totality with the naked eye, it's safe: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/safety/#eye-safety-total

Truly a transcendent experience: the shadow of the moon rushing across the land toward you, the air suddenly cooling, the sunset horizon in every direction, the ring of the sun's corona surrounding the silhouette of the moon... There's no other natural phenomenon like it, and video/photos truly don't do it justice!

Perhaps a total solar eclipse? Especially so when seeing half the solar system lined up neatly in a row with the sun and moon (and a comet in case of the recent April 2024 eclipse in the US), and truly feeling that one is riding on a chunk of rock hurtling through space, tethered invisibly to that impossibly distant mass of gas and plasma like a ball at the end of a rope...

Still get frisson every time I think about it ;)

Thanks! That's the best Fratres performance I've yet to see (the "wincing frisson" in her facial expressions) -- but this Gidon Kremer performance from 1984 is the best I've yet to hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmUE8b5kAQ4

mousewheel to zoom, left click to drag works for me on firefox windows

The comic in question: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/12/07 -- Calvin's mom's reaction is priceless.

Or possibly antanaclasis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis

My understanding is that Tesla no longer has a Public Relations department[1]... so they may have simply set their inbox size to zero?

[1] https://electrek.co/2020/10/06/tesla-dissolves-pr-department...

Kyle Bobby Dunn (apparently he's done some unkind things in the past, but the music stands alone): https://open.spotify.com/album/2NVB7DIA1wTUEM7KmXnWeZ

Hotel Neon: https://open.spotify.com/album/4qpdELAzEbL1nI8fvWtLLE

For those wanting to generate some sounds like the above, I made what is effectively a noisy synthesizer / visual demo a while back that can be played note by note on a PC keyboard (or will play itself if left untouched, see attached readme). But to get it into "wall of sound" territory you need to hold down the up arrow and/or space bar for quite a while to speed up the bike until the visuals start distorting:

https://acatalept.itch.io/eternalapex

As a complement to the adjacent comment thread on Shoegaze music, I find a similarly dense, soothing, blanketing effect from some recent noise/drone music genres (especially on good headphones, or out loud with a subwoofer), for example:

The pulsing deep noise of Tim Hecker's Piano Drop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlfwZDR_1Hg

The gradual crescendo to a wall of noise in Abul Mogard's Like Water:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4taaOwvzDMY

Conflicting tension + blanket of sound in Siavash Amini's The Wind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Fut9yEYgQ

NB: All of the above have a significant low frequency component that may be missed on desktop speakers or low quality headphones...

This is a rather different style than the original, but Múm does an amazing cover of Machine Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii2wxG647ds

Custom OEM size/fit has been addressed to some degree for a quite a while now by both the "mainstream" car audio manufacturers [1] and, more extensively, by some lesser-known aftermarket brands [2].

YMMV based on just how old your car is and the type of OEM head unit, but there are kits (e.g. this one for a 2016+ Honda Civic [3]) that allow you to install "standard" head units with a fit/style similar to OEM.

[1]: https://www.crutchfield.com/g_462350/Apple-CarPlay-Compatibl...

[2]: https://www.joyingauto.com/head-unit.html

[3]: https://www.crutchfield.com/p_120957812B/Metra-95-7812B-Dash...

Let users post reviews of the video reviews? ;)

I kid -- but a simple thumbs up/down metric could help separate signal from noise (as is done with current text reviews on Steam).

Highly recommend ExplorerPatcher: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

Allows you to move taskbar to side or top of screen, as well as retoring a number of other Windows 10 features (e.g. old-style context menus):

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/wiki/All-features

Have you tried The Ascent: https://store.steampowered.com/app/979690/The_Ascent/

Doesn't go as far as what you're imagining, but it's a step in the right direction...

Have you tried The Surge? Not quite in space, but in the future, a massive derelict facility overrun by malfunctioning robots and augmented humans, that captures a lot of what makes Souls games great:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/378540/The_Surge/

FromSoftware (Dark Souls/Sekiro) Polyphony Digital (Gran Turismo) Santa Monica Studio (God of War) Kojima Productions (Death Stranding) Larian Studios (Divinity Original Sin) Playdead (Inside/Limbo)

Studios who choose/have the freedom to release a game "when it's ready", and/or have Sony/Microsoft backing.

One can hope Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda will change their ways, but having set the release date of Starfield (11/11/22) so far ahead of time doesn't inspire confidence... hopefully they'll have the freedom to push this back if needed.

Intel Arc discrete GPUs are aimed at high-end gaming PCs, and should start arriving Q1 2022:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Arc

Likely they'll be subject to the same price gouging and limited supply as AMD and NVidia GPUs...

At least one of the authors of that section ("qntm") has Kindle and print versions of those and other stories on Amazon (search "There Is No Antimemetics Division") if you want to support them...