Dizzy Devil Ducky

I am Zach, AKA AceFuzzLord, AKA Dizzy Devil Ducky!

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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Highly dependent on the game and features in it. I most certainly wouldn’t want a 3 year old playing a game like Gears of War but wouldn’t want them to be outright banned when they could be playing edutainment games specifically designed around kids their age.

    I also wouldn’t want kids near almost any online games with voice or text chat since even with the best moderation you’ll probably still find the most toxic and exploitative messages sneaking through.

    Same goes for games with the legalized gambling feature called loot boxes (or whatever cute and quirky name they decide to give them to disguise the fact it’s teaching kids to gamble). Ironic thing about the gambling thing is I grew up with some sort of casino game on PC, but there was never any incentive to keep gambling.


  • Have lived in the states my whole life.

    No idea how much it costs since I’m still on parents plan. We supposedly get something like unlimited data, but it slows down after a certain amount used.

    Don’t know whether the 5G even works on my phone since I can’t tell the difference between it and 4G on the other phones I’ve had in the past.

    There’s a specific spot in my city I absolutely hate riding by on bus because at this one specific light I swear service just dies until we get passed it (which takes what feels like forever since the bus somehow always hits it at red or just turning red).

    Otherwise, no complaints other than the time I had to uninstall corporate spyware (social media/games) that they decided I absolutely needed in my life after an update. I’m thankful that they didn’t push them as system apps.

    Also thankful that the phone I got came with a sim card slot and they let me transfer my number to a new one because I couldn’t retrieve my old one.


  • One of the only things I miss from winblows is how I can download an exe or msi installation file and just install.

    I mean, I do enjoy getting things installed via cli through a repository, but I suck at installing from source for those things that don’t have a deb installer or an appimage or something similar.

    Otherwise, not much right now other than the fact I cannot figure out how to get the headphone jack to work on my laptop (galaxy book 3), leading to me having to use bluetooth headphones and my OS sometimes deciding I don’t need the high fidelity audio profile options, making everything sound like ass.


  • Focus on the fake company I have created. Spread ourselves across the web. I would make sure people know the name Paranoia Paranoia Entertainment Media Group (PPEMG/P2EMG/P²EMG) and what we stand for.

    It would also allow me to get commissions of not just my fursona, but also get commissions of all the other members, all characters I’ve made up. And would also allows me to get a good vtuber model for my fursona and another OC of mine for when I am either sick or incapable of speaking, alongside a good setup to make sure my videos would be good enough quality.



  • My memory has been somewhat blurry/fuzzy since 2011, so yeah. After coming out from a surgery where I was under longer than the surgeons thought I was gonna, it’s been a bit fuzzy. I can remember things from a long time ago, but ask me pre-2011, middle of tweenhood and below, is hit or miss what I remember. Even after then, it can sometimes feel a little hit or miss whether I remember an event that happened.

    Fire at a nearby apartment building a couple years ago? Remember. The song I was listening to 10 minutes ago? Absolutely no clue. Name of someone in my ENGL 101 class I’ve been attending all quarter? No clue for almost all of them. The time my parents got a Sonic Mega Collection game for me and my brothers when I was 4-5 years old? Absolutely remember that!



  • Currently, at least for the windows version, you need to be part of the patreon if you don’t want to have to build from source. Right now I can get on my desktop and load Strawberry (which I got before this started happening) and it’ll tell me there’s an update for the windows version, the one I have because my desktop currently runs win10. If I click the button to update, it’ll take me to their patreon account and ask me to support them if I want the precompiled update.

    I’d build from source on windows, but that sounds like a nightmare, so I just haven’t been able to update.



  • Minor warning about Strawberry Music Player:

    If you are looking for a completely free local music player on windows or mac without paying, I’d skip this because both versions are tied to patreon last I checked. I know as a fact the windows version is, but not 100% sure on the mac version since I don’t have a mac.

    I personally think it’s good enough if you feel like paying for it so they can keep developing it, but it’s good to keep this kinda stuff in mind.


  • I mostly use this on my desktop running win10, but GridPlayer for playing shows off an external hard drive.

    At one point had it on my laptop running a Debian based OS, but I must have uninstalled/removed it somehow because I couldn’t find it a few days ago when I needed it. Thankfully I found an appimage as I couldn’t find it in the repos. And as I am writing this comment, I checked to see if it was available through flatpak and it is.

    Love it because I can have my shows take up the full program area and stay that way when I change program resolution. I try that with other programs and it either doesn’t fit the whole program area or doesn’t take up the area when I change program size.

    Only thing I wouldn’t really recommend it for is shows with subtitles since I have yet to figure out if it even supports subtitle files. Couldn’t watch the latest season of a show on it and had to switch to VLC because of that.


  • Design wise, absolutely peaked in the 90s/2000s. Now everything looks like a copy of each other with uninspired designs across the board.

    In terms of what it has to offer, I personally don’t think so. Couldn’t imagine going back 10-20 years ago and not having a device like my Steam Deck that can play computer games on the go (laptop not included since when are you realistically pulling out a laptop on a drive when heading out for errands?) or having a laptop not as thin as my current laptop or even just the touchscreen feature. I also couldn’t imagine going back 20 years ago and not having a 1 or 2 TB portable external hard drive (or if they were out, being a lot more expensive than now).