Well, that sucks. My condolences.

I see your, Call Your Mother (Official Video) , and counter with Mama (also NSFW)

I would not have labeled that video as "Turtle Chases Lions From His Waterhole". More like "Turtle Annoys Lions Away From His Waterhole".

RedEye9 wrote on Sep 20, 2021, 17:12:

Mr. Tact wrote on Sep 20, 2021, 16:41:
Been waiting for this announcement.. COVID-19 surpasses Spanish Flu in US

As the article points out it doesn’t mean anything

You have to consider population, and a myriad of other things, when talking about pandemics.
The 1918 U.S. population was less than a third of today’s. The 1918 flu killed about 1 in every 150 Americans, compared with 1 in 500 from Covid.

While true. But if we did not have modern health care, even if this was 30 years ago. The death rate would be ridiculously higher.

Why is banks and porn on OnlyFans an issue but the major porn producers that have paid websites have no problem it seems?

mch wrote on Aug 23, 2021, 14:44:
I too have fiddled with so many different forms of Quake over the years that I was shocked when I just checked and realized I don't own it on Steam.

I may just re-buy it for convenience. I still have the original Quake CD (with soundtrack) next to me on my desk, but sadly I no longer have a CD drive

Man, you missed out. I got every ID game up to and including Doom 3 and its expansion for $24 in 2008. Just checked the history!
And it is paying off still, hah!

Hopefully as part of that activity, you are doing resistance training of some kind! Great for health and longevity as well. Little hard now because of elbow, but, still, do it! I need BN for another quarter century!

phinn wrote on Aug 9, 2021, 12:35:
How are they still funding support for this game for so long? Haven’t seen any DLC or micro transactions talked about.

People still buying it. I finally got it this year. With all the updates since release and when I acquired it, while on a steam sale, I more than got my monies worth.

The other problem to your proposed solution for a lot of situations is the rental car. There are rental car shortages, too.

Nullity wrote on Aug 3, 2021, 17:43:

Enahs wrote on Aug 3, 2021, 17:32:

Nullity wrote on Aug 3, 2021, 17:00:

Enahs wrote on Aug 3, 2021, 16:44:
I have the S20FE that has the in screen finger print sensor. Works great, love it. Previous phone had a rear finger sensor and the front sensor is just 10x more convenient and easier for me to use, at least the way I hold the phone.

So you don't keep your phone in your pocket? The rear sensor is perfect for pulling it out if your pocket and unlocking it with your index finger in one quick motion with one hand. In fact, the only way I can see the front sensor being more convenient is if you usually use your phone while it's sitting on a table/desk/etc without actually picking it up.

I do keep my phone in my pocket. Is your natural instinct when you grab your phone to not grab it in such a way that your thumb is facing the screen and ready to go and use the screen? All with one hand. If it is not, then you are having to do an added maneuver to then move your hand in a position to use your phone. I am not really sure how you can even hold a phone with one hand without your thumb facing the screen, since it has to oppose the fingers to grip. The finger print sensor works just fine on thumbs.

I put my phone in my pocket upside-down, with the screen facing my body. When I reach in to grab it, I place my thumb along one edge and my fingers along the other edge, except my index finger, which rests on the back ready to be placed on the sensor as I pull it out. Once the phone is out of my pocket and facing me, both the phone and my hand are already in their natural positions, no extra adjustment is necessary.

Sounds like how I do it, as well. So in theory, your thumb should be facing the screen ready to flick and touch and swipe and can hit the finger print sensor right away. I think you will find it natural and super easy to use and get accustomed to. Hopefully so. Assuming it works as well as the one in the S20FE. The one in the S20FE is pretty nice. If I grab it crazy or from some awkward position or the phone is upside down, it works just fine. The finger print can be arbitrarily rotated is what I am saying. How many quotes deep can we go?!

Nullity wrote on Aug 3, 2021, 17:00:

Enahs wrote on Aug 3, 2021, 16:44:
I have the S20FE that has the in screen finger print sensor. Works great, love it. Previous phone had a rear finger sensor and the front sensor is just 10x more convenient and easier for me to use, at least the way I hold the phone.

So you don't keep your phone in your pocket? The rear sensor is perfect for pulling it out if your pocket and unlocking it with your index finger in one quick motion with one hand. In fact, the only way I can see the front sensor being more convenient is if you usually use your phone while it's sitting on a table/desk/etc without actually picking it up.

I do keep my phone in my pocket. Is your natural instinct when you grab your phone to not grab it in such a way that your thumb is facing the screen and ready to go and use the screen? All with one hand. If it is not, then you are having to do an added maneuver to then move your hand in a position to use your phone. I am not really sure how you can even hold a phone with one hand without your thumb facing the screen, since it has to oppose the fingers to grip. The finger print sensor works just fine on thumbs.

I have the S20FE that has the in screen finger print sensor. Works great, love it. Previous phone had a rear finger sensor and the front sensor is just 10x more convenient and easier for me to use, at least the way I hold the phone.

Think it is cool you are not just throwing away knowledge and history and working to keep it Blue and Frans!

Just to point out if it is not obvious for everyone. It runs Steam OS, aka Linux. While there are a lot of games that work on SteamOS/Linux now, it is far from all. Lucky if it is 1/5th of games on Steam.

Seeing as how I have long lost my disc's for these games, great to be able to 'claim' them again. Though not likely to play them again anytime soon. But, yay!

The best advice I can give to people in the US, and likely Canada and all other majority English speaking countries. Find some Picanha!!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picanha
It is not super easy to come by here, but well worth the effort of finding it and trying it. It has an amazing flavor and is also tender. When slicing it for steaks to cook, cut WITH the grain, so that in the end the steak on the plate you can cut a cross the grain. I would recommend the first time you cook it only salt it 2+ hours a head of time. It has so much of a flavor compared to other typical cuts of steak we grill, you want to try it first before you add your traditional seasoning you prefer on it; as you likely might want to adjust it some.

Everything the article gives credit to Black Mesa and why it is great, was because of Half Life 1. Black Mesa does change a lot about the HL1, but it is all mostly superficial. So the article waxing poetically about Black Mesa annoys me, as it is not giving any credit or even a tip of the hat to Half Life 1. If it was praising the improved graphics or the changes they made with BM, sure, but they are not, they are praising what made HL1 HL1.

I have lots of issues with that list. I suspect the writers if were alive in the 90s were less than 10, so they are discussing things from not living through it, and only know about what other gaming articles told them anyway. Could be wrong.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition is also 17% off. Nothing major, but best to expect for a year. Been waiting for a small sale. But man, it is 100gb basically! Damn!

Ya know Blue. A decent but cheap "flight stick" with lots of buttons could allow you to play a lot of games, especially older ones with simpler controls such as, I dunno, your name sake, or Decent, etc., or even simple flight simulator/dog fighting games. It is not to hard to just map them to keyboard buttons and work easily in DOSBox. And even if it is your non-dominate hand, getting the cheaper one could be fun way to make it more functional!