rhacer
@rhacer@lemmy.world
Husband, Father, Gamer, Nerd
- Comment on Clip shows Germans being made to walk around a Nazi camp after WWII 5 hours ago:
Band of Brothers has a scene about this very thing. It is quite extraordinary to watch.
- Comment on How to wake up during nightmares? 1 week ago:
I suffer night terrors, not horribly frequently, but frequently enough that they are memorable experiences. I wake up screaming and I apparently scream very loudly.
Entertainingly they have a common theme across all the years I’ve been having them (they started in my teens, so over 40 years). The always feature men in black leather trenchcoats (think SS), dogs, concertina razor wire, an cliff’s edges.
I always end up dead either from machine gun fire or going over the cliff.
I blame The Great Escape.
I would love to be able to wake up before the screaming starts.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
I think there is a lot of wisdom here. I’m old, many of my meaningful relationships were formed before three was an internet. Now I use online tools to stay in touch with friends who are friends I have interacted with face-to-face, not people know solely online.
That’s not to say meaningful relationships cannot be owned online. I have met a number of people IRL who I originally met playing Football Manager or on XBox Live.
But online relationships are not a substitute for real face-to-face interactions.
I tell people that making friends needs to be intentional. It takes work and commitment.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
She knows she is in the minority.
I am just sad she’s missing out.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
Witcher 3 is my number 1 game of all time. My wife won’t play it because she hates Geralt’s voice.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
We’re playing on XBox Series X, and it behaves reasonably well. We typically split-screen while exploring, and merge the screens during battles.
When playing Divinity:Original Sin 2 we remained in merged screens 90% of the time, but for some reason it feels off in BG3, so we go with the merge only in battles.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 3 weeks ago:
Baldurs Gate 3 split screen with my wife.
- Comment on What Is The Most 80s Movie Ever? 3 weeks ago:
I re-watched Commando last year. Forgettable except for that scene which I remembered almost exactly from the first time I saw it.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if some mysterious force started to jam every radio frequency, how would modern day society adapt to this? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s that one, though that pilot is a pretty smart fella!
It’s this one…
The smart guy: You really think you can fly that thing?
The pilot: You really think you can do all that bullshit you just said?
- Comment on Hypothetically, if some mysterious force started to jam every radio frequency, how would modern day society adapt to this? 3 weeks ago:
No we wouldn’t, there’s a documentary about this kind of thing. We’d send a super-talented pilot and the World’s greatest hacker (who no one listened to). And they would fly into the Alien ship and the hacker would hack it and it would blow up.
- Comment on Person detained in manhunt for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson murder suspect 1 month ago:
I had not seen anything about the manifesto.
- Comment on Person detained in manhunt for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson murder suspect 1 month ago:
So Thompson a murdered last week. The suspect has made his way to Altoona just over 200 miles.
And in those days and miles he didn’t manage to get rid of evidence that would tie him to the killing?
That’s pretty dumb.
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 month ago:
Recently at a company town hall, “please respond the anonymous employee satisfaction survey.”
My boss a couple of weeks later, “HR says they need more surveys from our group. Please encourage your teams to fill them out.”
Yeah, completely anonymous.
- Comment on We have the best shaped states, don't we folks 2 months ago:
In June we moved from the Fried Chicken to the chef’s nostrils. Now we are boogers
- Comment on Through the Fire and Flames (DragonForce), if it were written by Dire Straits 2 months ago:
Absolutely fucking brilliant.
- Comment on Is There A Source For Unbiased Election Results As They Happen? 2 months ago:
You can try The Free Press their coverage starts at 7pm Eastern tomorrow.
- Comment on Abandoned Classic 2 months ago:
Reminiscent of the garage finds in the Forza Horizon games.
- Comment on Lionsgate will be releasing "KILL BILL: VOLUME 1" and "KILL BILL: VOLUME 2" on 4K Ultra HD on January 17, 2025. 2 months ago:
My favorite Tarantino.
- Comment on Paradox think there's no point competing with XCOM after their Lamplighters flop - it's "winner takes all" in the "tactical gaming space" 3 months ago:
This is so disappointing. I am a huge fan of Harebrained. Battletech is fantastic. I’m unsure why Lamplighters was unable to do what it needed to do.
- Comment on Where does the music go? 3 months ago:
Everyone knows this duh!
Into your heart!
- Comment on Football Manager 25 delayed til March 2025 3 months ago:
I’m gonna have to refire up my 2024 save.
- Comment on Nolte: CBS Corruption – Anchor Shamed for Coates Interview, ‘60 Minutes’ Rigs Kamala Interview 3 months ago:
So, definitely not conservative, but the first part of that headline is absolutely accurate. The man who asked Coates difficult questions has been publicly criticized by the network.
The second part of that headline is absolutely bullshit.
- Comment on Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage 3 months ago:
I had never heard of this before. Fascinating read.
- Comment on Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead 3 months ago:
Fixing…
- Comment on Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead 3 months ago:
Fucking appointment behavior from the State.
- Comment on Another job lost because of technology 👿 3 months ago:
Yes, but what gorgeous country to get fucked in! When my wife PCSd from Long Island to Fort Knox, we drove through that country several times.
She would also spend a lot of time at Fort Lee (now Gregg-Adams) and the drive from Fort Knox to Fort Lee also crossed amazing parts of WV.
- Comment on Another job lost because of technology 👿 3 months ago:
My father was an itinerant minister. He traveled all over the country. We made great use of TripTik (I think that’s what it was called).
- Comment on I Completed Assassin's Creed Blackflag And I'm Crying Why It "ENDED" 4 months ago:
My absolute favorite AC game. My wife just got me Sideshow’s Edward Animus statue for my birthday. It’s stunning.
- Comment on How Do Archers Resist Firing Arrows At Everyone In The Spectator Gallery? 4 months ago:
She was on a team in Kentucky 6th through 8th grades. She’s starting her Freshman year in Iowa.
Her response is sadly always the same. “Dad! I’d get in trouble!”
- Comment on How Do Archers Resist Firing Arrows At Everyone In The Spectator Gallery? 4 months ago:
My daughter is an archer. I have asked her this question many times.