Tonight I've been messing around with this new open-source cross-platform rebuild of the Zune app, and it's working great on my MacBook! It's got built-in encoding to WMA Lossless (a format literally nobody but Zune freaks care about) and it's tackled my FLAC and ALAC files with no complaints.

#zune

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I've noticed in the Zune subreddit that there are, like, *a lot* of people who were all-in on the Zune back in the day but have since moved to Linux or Mac, but the desktop client doesn't run well in Wine or a VM. I've been running a Windows 10 install on a backwater partition of my home media server just to sync music to my beloved Zune HD. Being able to buy an album off Bandcamp, download it to my laptop, and then pop it onto my Zune without having to deal with booting to that Windows install and moving the files over is huge for me.
And now I am putting my Zune away and getting ready for #monsterdon. :3

Aw yeah time for lots and lots of scuba footage

#monsterdon #TheMonsterThatChallengedTheWorld #ChallengedTheWorld1957

Nobody's named Jules anymore. It's a good name.

#monsterdon #TheMonsterThatChallengedTheWorld #ChallengedTheWorld1957

That's some pretty great horrified reaction there.

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Making personal calls on the office phone? What is she, my last Least Favorite Coworker?

#monsterdon #TheMonsterThatChallengedTheWorld #ChallengedTheWorld1957

"I've got a reading of some numbers that totally mean things."

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"I always cooperate with the authorities!" - a very unsuspicious person

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We're not exactly challenging the world here.

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I don't understand why these snails are so chitinous.

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Kid's shrieks are on the tame side, I'm not buying it.

#monsterdon #TheMonsterThatChallengedTheWorld #ChallengedTheWorld1957

I hung out in a university biology lab with my father who was working on his Masters when I was a kid and I managed to never unleash a monster upon the place.

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Is he gonna die? Is this a Sean Astin in Stranger Things moment?

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"We're definitely not traumatized by that entire experience!"

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And now we fuck off into the Salton Sea, where we definitely will not die of pollution.

The creature effects were surprisingly good, though I am unconvinced anything that chitinous could be a mollusk, and also I don't know what it has to do with the cray-kin.

Goodnight #monsterdon, give a nod to @Taweret for hosting and I'll see y'all next week!

@trixter sounds like you weren't trying hard enough

@trixter in any other movie, he'd be the killer. In this one? 3rd act hero delivering the news the protagonist needs.

Love it.

@trixter That's what she said.

What could possibly go wrong?

#monsterdon

Today on Monsterdon: zoology lessons!

#monsterdon

"If these creatures should hatch, they could threaten the world with sequels."

#monsterdon

The Exposition Dump that Challenged My Insomnia

#monsterdon

boooooring get back to the sea monsters

#monsterdon

"moonlight becomes you, sarge"

#monsterdon

A woman eating?! scandal

#monsterdon

@xerozohar It was mostly offscreen, so it slipped by the censors.

"I've got a confession to make... I'm only doing this movie for free lunches"

#monsterdon

ACAB (All cops are brunch)

#monsterdon

GOOOOOOP 2: GOOP HARDER

#monsterdon

"We're gonna find this pool! check every house, outhouse, henhouse, boathouse"

#monsterdon

@xerozohar What I need is a hard-shelled search of the target area! #Monsterdon