We had a natural ground water spring about 10 feet from the north side of our house. That then was manually diverted into a culvert that was also sitting right below a second Natural ground water spring. All of this took place under 40 feet away from the housing foundation. The culvert which we bought and installed professionally out of pocket then diverted it all south to connect to the ditch on the side of the road for full drainage.

Despite all this we never actually had flood insurance till post 2000ish. We were playing with a serious disaster and not a lick of insurance coverage for it. The insurance was my mother yelling at me to grab a shovel and clear out the entry to the culvert and hell even the ditch to prevent our driveway from washing away.

In retrospect… It was bonkers.

Side note whenever it was heavy rains… the water from the springs would go from a constant dribble to full on mini white water rafting river at the drop of a hat.

Keeping an eye on this. Story based factory building with a sci-fi theme? Consider me interested!

The design of this is really slick I must admit. And seeing those amazing box covers again is really cool.

Not sure I would commit money to this though. Just nice to see it.

Beamer wrote on Sep 25, 2024, 15:18:
I think I mentioned it here before, but I am a member of my local Moms for Liberty Facebook group.

Well, this topic came up, because our state is talking about banning phones in classrooms. I would have expected the "think of the children and their education!" group to be in favor. Nope. Not by a longshot.

Their arguments were basically three-fold:

1) "If there's an emergency or a shooting, I need to be able to get in touch with my child!" This I kind of get, but if the emergency is on your end, you can reach them the same way we always did. If the emergency is a shooting, what good is the phone, really? This feels like a much larger issue we shouldn't be compromising education for

2) "My child needs their phone so they can record their teacher if the teacher starts trying to teach them the wrong thing or turn them trans." I mean, if you're convinced your child is going to be turned trans by this teacher, or otherwise trust the curriculum so little that you think your child needs a phone to record it, why are you sending your child there? This argument relies upon bad faith arguments from fear-mongerers and has no justification in reality

3) "The state can take my phone when they pay for my phone, but since I pay for it I decide when and where it can be used!" Ok, sure, moron. You also bought your kid their playstation, can they use it in English class? You bought them that hunting rifle, can they take it to gym class? This is easily the dumbest argument I've seen, with absolutely no connection to logic or reason and entirely about emotional outrage at the government telling them what to do, even though the government is always telling us what to do and that restrictions on what can be done where is a big part of what makes the US a successful nation.

How in the hell do you manage to deal with that in your Facebook feed without losing your gourd? I couldn’t handle it, you are more committed than I ever could be.

Blizzard had its own internal problems, IE: abuse, things like the Cosby suit, etc. but then having to deal with that sack of crap in a suit Kotick must have really done a number on Morhaime.

Just toss that pile of digital shit called UPlay and remove it from being another forced layer of DRM. Then and only then will I even consider an Ubisoft game.

Not to mention they still have to answer for their abusive employment practices.

Decades after Miyamoto invented Mario and Zelda, he explains what makes Nintendo special and its transformation into a global entertainment brand.

Is he going to mention the small army of bored lawyers he keeps on hand to sue the shit out of anybody and anything that even blinks wrong at Nintendo?

That is what makes Nintendo special.

I will be getting a Flu/covid shot in the coming weeks. I had Covid again 2 months ago cause I didn’t want to pay €15 and have to make appointments to get a Covid shot. I really need to stick to having the shot. Tired of this wretched sickness.

Also I failed to bring along any immunisation records from the US with me when I moved. So they are now giving me a bunch of vaccines to bring me up to European standards. I know I had a bunch when I was a kid and my mother always made sure to get me any vaccines that were available.

But since god knows what health insurance I was using back then and how without that knowledge I basically cannot find any record of my shots. They have to redo them all here. This time with a record on file with the government.

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Also me personally, with the cat I grew up with, I would not take them along camping with me. But if you have a cat that won’t just bolt into a dark forest on a whim, more power to you.

When you have a big hit and you have that internet kind of popularity, there's more passion and there's more responsibility for the quality that you do. And you look at yourself through a different lens. And sometimes that success lens can be a little dangerous because then you get so paranoid about making sure everything is great that you overstress about things," he told IGN. "But it's that success lens that really drives amazing games into the future. So I do believe that through the success lens that we have, we will just make far better products in the future."

So it’s a big Nothingburger of an article. They know they will be held to a higher standard then before. Got it.

It reminds me of those stupid Center/right leaning news stories about things like „it’s going to rain in the north part of New York State and here is why it’s bad news for Joe Biden and the democrats“ just an article for the sake of having an article.

I need to visit my mothers grave. I was gone from the US for only 5 years before she passed. I was in a bad financial way back then and could not even remotely fly back to visit. It’s on the agenda if I ever fly back.

Sorry to hear it Blue. My sympathies.

Freedom of speech over rules all!

Unless it’s under copywrite… then your goose is cooked no matter what you do.

GHOB wrote on Sep 19, 2024, 16:27:
I've been reading this site since the very beginning. Build my first 486 system in 1993 so I could play Doom and Strike Commander.

I only recently decided to post because some of the people who post here seem so completely detached from the reality of what most gamers actually think. Nothing wrong with providing a counter point to the woke mob who relish in identity politics.

Not sure who voted you to be the mouthpiece of most of The Gamers, nor how you come even close to the idea you speak for any faction of it.

You do not even remotely speak for me that’s for G‘damn sure.

NKD wrote on Sep 19, 2024, 07:14:

ZeroPike1 wrote on Sep 19, 2024, 06:37:
Probably a sock puppet account for somebody else here.

In it, the poster thanks youtuber Asmongold for the video

The moment this goober‘s name is mentioned anything that comes after in relation to the shit he spews out of his mouth, is automatically lacking in any merit whatsoever in my view.

Yeah, back when I played WoW more consistently I used to watch some of his videos and streams. He had some thoughtful opinions on the direction of the game and how things should be. He wasn't always the way he is now. Somewhere along the way, he embraced the "slobby gamer who lives in a pile of trash" stereotype and he got fully captured by the "Angry White Gamer" crowd and when he streams his chat looks like a Trump rally.

That room of his is a FEMA declared disaster area. Gross person, gross in opinion, gross in living habits.

Maybe its all bait-y But mentioning Asmongolds name in anything makes my blood pressure shoot up.

Probably a sock puppet account for somebody else here.

In it, the poster thanks youtuber Asmongold for the video

The moment this goober‘s name is mentioned anything that comes after in relation to the shit he spews out of his mouth, is automatically lacking in any merit whatsoever in my view.

So it’s taking after Overwatch then. Instead of making a whole new game or using the original as a base. They will now just take existing games add some features and effectively call it a sequel.

The future of gaming everyone. Bloody hell

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Seen their version of Freeze Peach, nothing will be missing from my life if they go away.

Its Jensen, he is more then likely talking out of his ass again anyways.

Nine Italian nationals have been arrested and charged with trading in counterfeited goods.
If found guilty, they face up to eight years in prison.

Bloody hell, dancing with possibly 8 years of jail time.

every accusation is an admission

Pretty much.

I dunno we seem to have managed so far with actual artists… but whatever keep trying to sell that inevitable job replacer as a good thing.