feotrs

heyy, thanks! i love your profile. i added you cause i love the shark aesthetic lol. i don't have any shark facts except that they're cute little guys but my current fav animal is the lampocteis. a deep sea ctenophore, it's red so as to hide it's bioluminescent prey in it's tummy. red is invisible that deep. and it looks so trippy when it moves.

i don't have friends cause i don't get out on account of online school. hopefully that'll change soon though. besides that i do struggle with socializing, my anxiety goes through the roof. people my age are a lot more difficult to talk to than adults, cause i have less experience with them.

i get you, immersing myself in new music is hard. like you said i either get obsessed and drop it or don't get into it at all. i find that it works best when it's a natural process. don't force it and take it slow. idk that's probably bad advice. i don't have much experience with yves tumor, i liked a feature he did with joji on nectar and then i listened to a couple of his songs and his latest album. i like it but it hasn't made itself into my regular rotation cause i'm pretty stubborn lol. i listen to it when i want something different to my usual stuff and that helps me get more familiar with it, eventually i should play it more.

uhhh i dunno if any of that helps i was just rambling.

also, i had to add an atla enjoyer ofc, i also like the first fiona apple album. reminds me of grace by jeff buckley, you heard it?

by feotrs; 1736188052; Report

hey, likewise. his mixes are soo good for studying, it's like one of the few things that can put me in a semi-focused state lol. that's rad, i hope to build a bit of a physical collection at some point. i remember trying to order some random cassette player once when i was like 14, but lost the bid cause i overslept :')

your music setup looks awesome, bet it sounds crazy. how would you compare it to just headphones? do you get a lot of the stuff second-hand or new?

i enjoyed reading your blog on the alpenflage. very informative, and you can really see how effective the camo is in the pic you provided. i'll be honest i don't know much about the military or gear. do you have old guns or knives in your collection too?

i dig your music taste but don't recognize your top 30 besides maybe pinegrove, i'm excited to listen to it! i'll probably find a new artist to put on repeat lol.

your guide to make cassettes is awesome, refueled my need for a walkman :D
if i get one, i'll refer back to it.

by feotrs; 1735055252; Report

Physical collections are great if you’ve got equipment to play em. As for mine, I always buy my stuff used. A lot of the vintage stuff is better considering that most of the world at that point in time was more geared towards those old mediums, so you have to buy those used. For example, the large speakers from the 70’s and are literally impossible to find unused. That being said, they sound great! Larger speakers with several different cones (ie. bullet tweeters, midrange speakers, the horn, and a subwoofer,) tend to sound better to me than headphones, which have (in my opinion) a bit of a more limited range.

I do like headphones, and I have a pair of koss headphones for my Walkman, but if I had to pick I’d choose large speakers every time. Speaking of Walkman, thanks for looking at my Blog about cassettes! It’s really fun to just take a playlist from Spotify or whatever and throw it on a tape to play. Cassettes don’t sound as good as digital simply due to the method of audio storage, but for novelty and that nostalgia factor they are great, I love em.

As for the milsurp, no, I don’t have surplus guns and I don’t have surplus knives for three reasons. 1. Guns are expensive and you need all sorts of paperwork filled that I can’t be bothered with, and 2. I don’t have the space for guns OR knives. I live in a little apartment right now, and it’s just not practical to collect such things till I buy a home myself. Finally, 3. I don’t have the money. I’m in college working a fast food job until I get into the military, and for now it’s simply not viable to keep up a firearm collection, milsurp clothing collection, knife collection, and my music collection, so I gotta stick to the two I’m focused on now.

by ↑Mack↓; 1735141485; Report

yeah i also think speakers have greater range. and i prefer the way the sound bounces around the room, it almost colours a space. and headphones isolate you in a way speakers dont. i have experience buying stuff used, i had to look a few places to find a good crt tv. i kind of like the hunt though, when you find the right listing it feels great.

yeah i have a thing for walkmans, the buttons, handling of cassettes and the physicality of it tingles my brain. what walkman do you have? i've found them to be very expensive, or hard to find depending on the model.

ah i see, that makes sense. collections are expensive, and space is def an issue. while not directly related i know my ps2 setup takes up a good portion of my drawer and desk space.

also, sorry to hear about your medical issue. i hope you can sort it out with a waiver. why do you want to join the military if you don't mind me asking?

and good luck with college, and the military. what are you studying?

by feotrs; 1736187062; Report

I agree with your point about the speakers. If I had enough of them I could set up a surround sound system in my room, but that's a lot of work for how much I move. My amp does have an audio port for hooking up my system to a TV for audio, but that requires getting a TV, which of course requires that I have anything I'd be interested in watching, haha.

As for the Walkman, I have two! I have a WM-FX321 for parts and then a working WM-FX117 that was a gift from my wonderful partner. It works great! It's nice having spare parts on hand too due to the delicate nature of a lot of the plastic parts that sit under the deck. I also have a pair of Koss PortaPro headphones made for walkmans, but a modern-built one. Koss still makes the same headphones all these years later; it was an obvious choice.

As for the military, I've always been interested in serving. I originally wanted to be a Navy Corpsman, but I was talked out due to the risk factor. While doing some research, I discovered that I could work as an intelligence analyst, which greatly interested me. I've only just started getting into Geographical and Geospatial Statistics, but it all seems very interesting to me and I could see myself building a career out of it. The second reason I plan on joining is because life is expensive and jobs aren't always guaranteed. Having that kind of job security in a field I'm interested in is greatly reassuring, and the benefits of my education are STAGGERING. While I am in the national guard I will have to be present for exercises and training 2 consecutive days a month and 2 consecutive weeks a summer. In the time I'm not doing exercises, I could be at home, working, or in college. I plan to attend university. The benefits regarding education include rent, tuition fees, andthe price of living when it comes to raw monetary benefits (as in, these don't include the benefits towards home loans, savings, credit, and insurance). From my rough calculation, these benefits total roughly 22,000 USD of tax-free benefits a year for my entire time at university (6 years) which is not taken from the modest 35,000 USD salary I will be making while enlisted. This will allow me to save better for a home and car as well as secure better housing for those I love. All in all, the combination of benefits, job security, the honor of serving, and the pursuit of a career I can be happy with are what push me to serve.

As for my current college status, I'm studying for two degrees: an AAT in Global Studies and an AA in Social/Behavioral Sciences. I believe having two degrees under my belt which are geared towards understanding people, policy, politics, international relations, and more are fantastic options as a start towards a career in the military and government, and with the aid of the military, I will be able to afford both a bachelors and masters degree, two things which I would never be able to afford without this job opportunity. This semester, Spring of 2025, will be my graduating semester for the AA and AAT, and after that, I ship off to train for 26 weeks. Honestly, I couldn't be more excited.

by ↑Mack↓; 1736464411; Report