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- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 12 hours ago:
The books are good-ish, but are wildly different from the show and I am not sure I can wholeheartedly recommend them to people just because they like the show. IMO the books, as written, wouldn’t not be able to be made into a show that most people would want to watch. And yet, I only tried watching the show because of the books and didn’t stick with it because of how different it was. It could be worth your time, but it’s not a slam dunk.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
There’s the twist M Night Shyamalan wishes he could still pull off.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 3 days ago:
I had a coworker that had bats take up residence in his attic and he wasn’t allow to remove them. That was all fine and well (not really because of the horrific noises) until they gnawed through the drywall and started pouring into his house. I can’t get the image out of my head of him swinging a tennis racket at them as they flew around his living room. It was right out of an 80s comedy except he had to live with the results. In the end, he just moved because he couldn’t do anything else. From that point forward, I decided that I would tell no one about bats if they wormed into my home and would make sure they wanted to leave.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 3 days ago:
I’ve often wondered about what a person can legally do if bats have moved into their home. My initial crazy thought was to get some new “pets” that are bat predators. Who wouldn’t want a house filled with racoons, snakes, and venomous spiders?
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 3 days ago:
I’m not sure what’s more alarming here: the bat bugs or the people willing to steal fingers out of spite.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 4 days ago:
I learned to drive on two cars because my parents were divorced: my Dad’s Ford Ranger (manual) and my Mom’s silly “talking” Chrysler Laser (it literally talked to you, felt weirdly futuristic see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voice_alert ). I never really had a problem with using a clutch, it was the last of power steering on that truck that sucked. I made sure that I never bought a car without power steering after learning on that truck.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 1 week ago:
Ok, here is my tl;dr of the last part of the story from the comics. The gist is that after the snap, every remaining hero + Dr Doom do an all out attack on Thanos along with all the “cosmic” super bosses (Galactus, Chaos, Order, all sorta wacky beings) and they were going to win until Doom tried to steal the gauntlet and fucked it up. Thanos kills every hero and traps the all cosmic weirdos and then becomes the new “God” of the universe. When he does that and leaves the gauntlet sitting there, Nebula (that he had been torturing) grabs the gauntlet and tears the whole universe up and takes over. In the end, Dr Strange saves Thanos and convinces him to help fight/trick Nebula and restore the universe. I am sure I missed stuff, but it was pretty crazy. One of the more fun things I remember was Wolverine sticking his claws right into Thanos through the neck and for a sec Thanos thought he was dying until he remembered he could essentially just make himself “not dead” and then he turned Wolverines claws/bones into Play Doh.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 1 week ago:
In the comics all the snapped people were contained within the soul stone. They never mention anything like that in the MCU, so it’s just that way “because”.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 1 week ago:
Hah, came to comment this. Honestly, the comic got pretty wild, especially once Nebula got a hold of the gauntlet.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 1 week ago:
Yeah, it sucks. I was not relying on that pension as it was never going to be huge, but it was a big part of why I stayed at that company for over a decade.
- Comment on Soon... 1 week ago:
I love your optimism. Keep up the good fight. FOR THE MOON!
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 1 week ago:
I had a pension at my last job about 11 years ago. Then not long after I left with it fully vested congress passed a law allowing companies to creatively value pensions far lower than they should have been able to and most companies “bought out” the pensions for a fraction of their value. My pension got turned to mush, then a few month later congress passed a law “fixing the glitch” after most large corps had done their dirty work. My pension would have paid out about $800/month on retirement (likely not great depending on inflation), but their reassessment made it more like $150/month which probably won’t cover a phone bill when I am retired.
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 2 weeks ago:
This doesn’t have the wacky openness or difficulty of Rimworld as much as the idea of having semi-random villagers that you can either recruit (in the wild) or that periodically come by and you can acquire. In the early game, it mostly feels like top down Terraria, but the village aspect with semi-autonomous members comes together pretty quick and there are raids that happen. It’s honestly pretty great. I have never managed to get anyone to play co-op and stick with it. To be fair, this feels like an issue I find with nearly all co-op games as my friends and family either aren’t nearly as into it as me or just never have their schedules line up.
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 2 weeks ago:
It’s like a mix of Terraria and Rimworld. You get villagers of various types that join and can automate tasks. The work assignment view is straight out of Rimworld and I think the game is super fun. The end game has been redone a few times and it was kinda wacky and ultra hard. I am curious to see how different it is now in 1.0.
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I played through it multiple times (basically replayed when major content was added) and I think it’s great. The changes from 1.0 are significant, so I’ll be down for a replay in a bit after I finish the mulitple games I am already playing.
- Comment on Red balloon 2 weeks ago:
Clown of the North Star
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 2 weeks ago:
Ah ok, fair enough lol. My own mother has convinced herself that Taco Bell is good semi-authentic Mexican food, so you never know when people mention it without explicitly stating how bad it is :)
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 2 weeks ago:
You almost fooled us until you snuck in Taco Bell.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 2 weeks ago:
Because they aren’t fully baked and they aren’t properly backed by billion/trillion dollar companies.
- Comment on My fat ass got excited 3 weeks ago:
Hah, I believe that is the scene where he says he loves “soul food”. Excellent.
- Comment on Anon watches Lord of the Rings 3 weeks ago:
Great, now this will be stuck in my head for the next six months… again. Worth it!
(bustin’, bustin’, bustin’, bustin’…)
- Comment on My fat ass got excited 3 weeks ago:
I looks like the strange middle ground between pizza and Freddy Krueger. Oh well, man’s got to eat, sorry Freddy.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 4 weeks ago:
Saying “old enough to remember buying physical media” makes me feel like one of the ancients.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t stream my music, and only did for a little bit when it was newer and fairly novel. I strongly agree with you, most people don’t listen to diverse enough music that streaming makes sense other than pure convenience. That convenience is clearly all it takes for the majority of people.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 4 weeks ago:
Hey, maybe you’re more common than either of us suspected. I do all of my steam usage on my desktop with a large monitor. Their UI is trash for it IMO.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 4 weeks ago:
That could very well be the case. We don’t have their stats, so maybe they do get a lot of store users on their phone where people make purchases and then later play on their PCs… but I am pressing F to doubt here.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 5 weeks ago:
This is my first time actually looking at the new Steam store UI and I have to say that I don’t like it. They seem determined to fit less and less information on the screen and make it harder to find content. I didn’t like their previous UI revamp either for the same reason, but this one is worse. That’s fine Valve, my backlog is eternal, I won’t buy more games if you make it hard.
- Comment on Doug Bowser Retiring From Nintendo, Successor Announced 5 weeks ago:
I was hoping the next CEO would be something like Walt Wario or something.
- Comment on Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect 5 weeks ago:
Well, as I said, it was flawed. The XP grind near the end got roooough, especially since that was still in the era of losing XP when you died. That was especially frustrating when they had lag issues that killed you and then you lost a week of progress leveling up. The game was still a lot of fun though.
- Comment on Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect 5 weeks ago:
For real, now THAT would be something I’d get behind.