#intel inside

[centralbunnyunit]

[thisisrealy2kok]

Intel Inside Pentium 4 Commercial (2001)

[cool-retro-term-official]

@intel inside with mommy debian on top, all playing t4t (t4t4t actually)

[avatarsofdelight]

[krjpalmer]

PC Magazine August 9, 2005

Big developments in computing (with a little reminder near the bottom that there remained more than two options when it came to operating systems) showed up on the cover of this issue, and there was also a reminder that you could now have a PC and an iPod, too.

[musicmags]

[fatrocka64]

Weekend haul November 11th to 12th 2023. I also got an Amazon Alexa for $2.

[lunar-goodness]

New stickers I got and put on magnet sheet so they can go on my fridge! The snake one a work friend got me and I absolutely love it!!

[circleheads-art-world]

Sprinkle Bally & MCS start building a friendship

[centralbunnyunit]

[crtgirl]

ARMORED CORE GIRLIES: REJOICE! FOR IT IS FINISHED

it only took me like 4 hours and 119 pieces get it here: 3AQDDUK0Y2YX

bonus image of it on my AC

[hiihavebrainrot]

Ohhhhh my god, Terry Pratchett, when I get you...

Knurd is drunk backwards. How did I miss that. It's so glaringly obvious. And yet. AND YET.

[queenlua]

staring at a great horned owl rn 😎

[krjpalmer]

Macworld August 2005

After years of insisting the PowerPC outperformed Intel's "x86" architecture regardless of clock speeds and endless hopes that the G4 or the G5 would perk things up at last, Apple had announced Intel CPUs would start going into Macs. This issue pushed a feature article on digital photos into a text bar at the top of the cover to emphasise its special coverage of the announcement.

[vaguely-concerned]

y'know... once you know the trick, there are a lot of lighthouse scenes especially where it's hard to ignore that varric does look uh. well. not to put too fine a point on it. pretty dead lmao :') I do enjoy how genuinely uncanny and out of place his presence is many times, it feels unsettling and dreamlike and once you know that's very much on purpose it hits different ngl. rook is like 'well that is my emotional support ghost that no one else ever addresses directly or reacts to and without it I'm going to scream and scream until my lungs collapse or maybe fall apart like ash and disappear on the wind I think. so I'm just gonna pretend I do not see that and carry on' and that is so valid. veilguard truly is the cloth mentor wire mentor (and the game was rigged from the start) game frfr

also interesting positioing here right before the endgame, considering the fakeout dead body before the regret prison is always lucanis independently of anything else in your world state -- do you think solas is making observations/mentally noting down details here he'll use for that later, maybe? not that he could know exactly how it'd pan out beforehand, I suppose, but I wouldn't put it past him to plan for getting rook's guard down in any number of ways, including that. (despite my rookanis bias it seems strange for it to be rook's mind conjuring that fear, since there will be plenty world states where rook and lucanis don't get along much and another dead companion would be more emotional impactful for them.)

also 'varric' looking at rook with such quiet pride and affection after they rally the team before tearstone island... solas there is something so entirely fucked in your head and I want to study it as were it a little bug. are those solas' own feelings shining through as well as how he thinks (and rook would probably hope) varric would react??? we do know that he finds being fond of people and spectacularly fucking them over anyway perfectly compatible so it wouldn't fucking surprise me fhsakj. a rich and complex tapestry of a motherfucker, is my friend solas. he has been stealth puppeteer pincer maneuver trickster mentoring rook from two sides this whole time, I suppose one can't help but become attached on some level. your little carefully cultivated pawn going out there doing guerrilla warfare on god just like you taught them *sniffle* they grow up so fast too bad this whole plan hinges on them being disposable once their purpose is served 😬.

except as it turns out it wasn't your pawn that's varric's rook put some respect on their silly nickname sir

[vcstasy]

GO GET YOUR BEAT BACK. I stand corrected. My hat’s off to you, Jiyeol. Or, it would be if I wore one. Song Kyumin. Sept 30, 2024.

Here I am, doing the long-ago (eight months ago, to be specific) mentioned standing and applauding. You can’t see me, but I just took a break from my laptop and did just that. Honest.

Yes, you heard me. Kil Jiyeol (of BONSOIR fame, for about a year and a half) is, against all odds, starting his very own label. Announced only a few days ago—the 26th of September, in fact, on its brand new Twitter (or rather, X? Not that I want to call it that) account in the mid-morning. The name of this new chapter in his life is named, as you may have either guessed from my title or seen for yourself, is BEAT BACK. But they’re not aiming to be an entertainment company like JAGUAR, or SM, or any others that house your favourite acts. In his own words, from a rather heartfelt informal-interview-style video posted over on his Instagram (another thing I was admittedly wrong about him not touching again, but at least I was right for about eight months):

“I’m not aiming for us to end up being this big conglomerate, or anything. I mean, sure, we’ll have groups, but there won’t be much.. Content. You know, like a variety show, or an excursion, or whatever. We do the music, the concept, the distribution, all that, and they can do everything else. Why would I give a [—] if one of them wants to post a video of them out in some club? If they’re seen with other people? Hell, they can go silent for the whole stretch between one release and another, as long as they still show up to the studio.”

—  via  @KILYEOL  on  Instagram.

While it could be argued he’s drawing a little on Seungdae’s ideologies—the “all press is good press” motto of his, the relaxed attitude to whatever trouble people under his care get into—it’s not as if anyone can blame him. He was there for a good sixteen years, after all. Not to psychoanalyse, but after being there for that long it’d be a miracle if he didn’t exit with some of their values burned into his brain.

But wherever he got the notions from, he’s made it pretty clear what to expect from them and their groups in the future—whenever the first will come to fruition. Maybe the eight-month stretch was spent laying down their foundations, planting seeds (you know, things like securing trademarks, finding some funds, building a team of staff, etc. The basics, as someone more experienced in this field than me might have called them). Or maybe all of that had been done before Jiyeol had even left JAGUAR in the first place, and all that time was put into perfecting everything relating to their very first project—allowing for a quicker release in order to really get the ball rolling for BEAT BACK.

However long it takes, though, the factor that will always remain the same is the support it will inevitably receive. The move was immediately met with waves of longtime (and very, very deprived of the object of their idolism) fans jumping onto the newborn BEAT BACK like it was their new lifeline, for example. I don’t really know what it is about Jiyeol to them that draws them in, but for me personally I greatly admire his drive. He’s clearly taking this seriously, and intends to see it through to the best of his ability (which I’m sure will expand with time) as well as pouring every ounce of care he can muster up into it. And while I mentioned a few names back over at JAGUAR I speculated won’t be tuning in to whatever he gets up to in the future, he still has friends like Jalen, the company’s production team (rarely seen in photos and only ever named as Daejin and Joosun respectively in track credits, neither seeming to have taken on titles for themselves), and of course his other ex-groupmates Ilwoo and Hyeonmin—the former more than the latter, the inseparable pair they’ve looked more and more to be over the months.

So. All-in-all (reception-wise, at least), although he’ll have his obstacles—as everyone does—I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’ll come out of it relatively unscathed. Doing well for himself, even, what with all the new fans he would’ve raked in with the announcement of whatever group (or member, if he decides to go down the soloist route first of all) he’s planning to push into the world of idolatry.

To really get any reception at all, the two things needed are a team good enough to put it all together and a group good enough to execute it near-perfectly. Like I said, nobody except those far closer to Jiyeol than you or I (unless.. You know him personally? If this is the case, my work email is linked—please, feel free to tell me more) knows who could possibly be in their lineups for any upcoming acts, so the next best thing is to try and take a look into is the people he’s committed himself to working alongside in this new venture of his—for now, at least.

I’m making the assumption that Ilwoo will be involved in some way, although I doubt he’ll hold any official position in the label. An outsider whose opinions are.. Largely valued, is what I’ll say. I’ve also asked around and received word from one of my many contacts that an old friend of once-JUST4U star Na Yeseul is on the team, as well as a literal relative of JAGUAR COO Sim Hyojoo. It seems that even if he’s left, he’ll never quite be free of his old company’s tendrils. But aside from those three, I haven’t been able to pry much else out—it’s either the insiders don’t want to spoil any surprises, or Jiyeol and his new team are very good at keeping secrets. I’m willing to bet it’s the latter.

I suppose all that’s left to do is wait and see, much was the case when the news initially broke of him leaving. The man is a mystery—maybe that’s where Yijun got it from. Whoever he works with, whoever he makes a group out of; the crowds will be there, and amongst them will be me. I’ll see you on the other side, because who would I be if not the person giving unsolicited opinions on anything anyone in the JAGUAR-related circle does?

Oh, you thought I wasn’t serious? Email me at kyuminsong@pblicenemy.co.kr if you have any info you think I’d like to know.