I zapped myself a wee bit installing a new dishwasher at my sister's old place. Electrical was ancient in the place, and I had flipped the breakers I had assumed went to the dishwasher (because it's really hard to actually label breaker boxes, apparently). Turns out the dishwasher was on the same line as the ceiling light... in the next room over.

Old houses are the worst.

It actually doesn't look that bad in action. The only thing that looks really bad is the animation.

So we started watching Wandavision. My GF got straight-up angry at how pointless the first two episodes are.

Ooo I wanna do one.

You can stick this game in Bay 12, please.

... right next to Colonial Marines.

jdreyer wrote on Mar 1, 2021, 17:07:
Florida golfer drowns searching for lost ball.

First thought: ...... Florida man!
Second thought: . Was DJT??
Third thought: ..... Was an alligator involved?


Edit: Now I'm wondering if he got hit in the head by someone else's golf ball while near the water's edge...

I asked him to let me play through, but he chose the hard way.

Jivaro wrote on Feb 28, 2021, 14:12:
I see we have come to the part where math suddenly gets hard.

You guys are argueing over pennies. Our military budget is the sole reason we can't do all of the nice things for our people. Our dependence on fossil fuels is basically what we are defending. Taxing the rich is great and all, but even that is chump change to compared to what we put into the military.

Change that, everybody gets what they want. In the meantime, this argument is just the same shit over and over. We can be a country or we can be an empire, we apparently can't be both. It's literally tearing what little national identity we have left in two opposite directions.

The problem is all that funding... is money/jobs paid to states. Good luck getting military spending cut.

Is that show actually good or, like everything else everyone "says" is good lately, bad? I'm thinking of Picard and Mandalorian, especially.

They aren't new tables, dude. And if you want realistic tables... they have a bunch of very accurate real-world tables to play.

The only thing that bums me out is fx pinball gets the liscense to the ip, but rarly gets official renderings and artwork, and never gets access to the actors sound bites and sound tracks.

Pretty sure Star Wars pinball tables use official assets (when available). They aren't about to hire the original voice actors to do five minutes of VO work per table, though.

Wow I read that as "Six Flags in Fallujah".

Anyways, partaking in a police academy gave me a good idea of what is so wrong with American police departments these days and why black people keep getting shot by cops. Most of the other men were from the military (a lot of marines, some army, a couple guard guys - and they were ALL white). The army and guard guys were pretty "normal", so to speak. The marines were not. A few of them clearly had unresolved PTSD issues which percolated up now and then. They said a lot of really, really dumb shit (insanely xenophobic) no doubt owing to the "us vs them" mentality instilled in them by the armed conflict they had been in, and they regularly displayed ludicrous thought patterns for people wanting to "protect and serve". The bottom line was they were basically mentally broken by their service, and there's this history of police officers being veterans because what the hell else is a veteran supposed to do, as shooting/getting shot at thousand of miles from home doesn't give people essential skills that translate to civilian life. That heavy emphasis on brotherhood which serves so well in a conflict zone is diametrically opposed to effective, community-oriented policing. It leads police to choke people to death or kill unarmed teenagers, and leads them to not hold each other accountable when they do it. Which is why it keeps happening.

You think PS5s and graphics cards are "critical"?

Not only that, but lumber prices are more than doubled over a year ago (almost tripled).

So once again, renters are fucked and home ownership becomes even less of "The American Dream" and more of "The American Pipe Dream".

Primitive is fine, but performance is pretty bad.

bjack wrote on Feb 21, 2021, 15:51:
Dawn of News graphic <3
I'm glad they never bothered making Dawn of War 3 and stopped when they realized 1 & 2 were great.

Uhhhh Dawn of War 3 came out in 2017. It was terrible.

According to the Bible,...

You realize nobody cares what you say after this, right? I don't know why you insist on continually injecting your dogma into a forum for video games. What do you hope to accomplish?

What's your point? They could put Super Mario Brothers on Stadia; it's not going to attract users. Legacy content doesn't push people to new platforms.

Diablo 2 remains the only video game I have ever fallen asleep while playing. Probably some time around 4 AM.

He was going to law school, so yeah... "enhance the world"...

HoSpanky wrote on Feb 12, 2021, 18:26:
But they won’t be adding Terraria to it.

It really must sting, not getting a ten-year-old game on your cutting edge platform...

Got my V-Day gift wrapped, and for bonus points topped it with one of these.