You say that, but eventually CDs will stop being produced.

Floppies still exist, but they are more and more difficult to find in the wild.

I mean, really the modern equivalent is throwing your phone at a hard surface.

It certainly makes a statement. Fuck all of this to the point I’m going to sever contact with the world and throw away a ton of money.

I mean, the US put out the game America’s Army as a recruitment tool.

Passably decent multiplayer shooter for its time. Good enough to kill some time with.

Play: Hockey, at least in theory. I’m a lot older and more beat up than I was back then, lol.

Watch: I guess hockey? I dunno, I enjoy going to games. I more watch because its on somewhere, or other people wanted to watch, or whatever. I don’t really watch sports on my own.

I’m a gamer, and I do…

Then again, I’m mostly excited about using CUDA cores for cracking hashes and the like, lol.

Anybody have a pic of the underside of a Cybertruck? Need to scope out a place with airflow but limited visibility.

There is at least one asshole in my general area who needs a come-uppance.

My last gig was using Teams as its call handler. As in for the help desk.

I’ll just leave it at that.

Yep, seen them in Dallas and Fort Worth too.

I felt that way about CyberPunk 2077 and CDPR.

CDPR hadn’t let me down. Yet. Ultimately, they redeemed themselves, sure, but at launch… whew, there were issues.

Game companies CAN redeem themselves. Business wise though? Its hard to recoup that kind of shaken faith in investors, board members, etc; let alone the people you’re actually trying to sell to.

There are so MANY fucking games out there these days, that I’ll look at something new, and decide I don’t like certain elements of the gameplay, and just move on.

If a feature looks more frustrating than fun? I’m good, thanks.

I’ve played hard games on the hardest setting for the challenge. I’ve also played “easy” just to get drunk and enjoy a story.

If it isn’t fun though? Then what am I doing here?

I already spend 8+ hours a day on the computer and hate it, but at least they pay me.

Baldness can either cripple you, or make a man of you.

Once you accept it. Rock it. Own it… well, IT at least doubles in size, results may vary.

I will not be taking questions, please refer to the Mr. Sins. If he is not available, Sir Stewart will happy to demonstrate on your mother.

In an electronics tool kit.

Mostly because the only time recall using that specific tool was when I got my Pixel 8, and that was shortly after release, so its been a minute.

Except, no?

Medieval peasants had SOOO many holidays.

It was a cheap way to keep them from violently revolting. Even then, it didn’t always work.

Speaking of violent revolt against an oppressive system, where are we at?

Don’t forget his choice in condiments.

I haven’t heard that term for it before.

Bravo.

My wife will be horrified when I drop that in the future.

Sure, sure… but it all seems to be an interconnected web.

I could read in release order, but that can get rather disconnected… There doesn’t seem to be a good starting point.

So, that is what has stopped me.

Like knowing you need to clean up a disaster, but you just look at it and have no idea where to even begin approaching it. Throw in some executive dysfunction issues, and it seems the only time I can “find” to read for pleasure is when I have something else more important to do that I’m unable to start on.

I’ve seen that, and variations.

I’ve noticed house flys being more common than bees.

That being said, I’d piss on a fly. A bee could sting me. Rightfully sting me, I might add.

Someone pisses on me they have a good chance of being hit.

I had some, before I moved.

Let me just say this, what came easy to young me in boy scouts… well, I’m just glad if I hit a safe area in the general direction I’m aiming.

The other issues is as a boy I shot off the right of the riser on a longbow, and this was an off the left takedown (recurve) bow - still the amount I sucked surprised me a little, lol.

So hopefully you have time to practice.

Oh shit, you just made me realize when I get my first pay check I should really invest in a decent UPS. I had to sell my old one before moving state lines to condense space.

I’ve been a fly on the world in the corporate world for many industries.

No one watches their mouth around the IT guy.

On so many levels, in so many jobs, it doesn’t matter what happened - it matters what can be proven.

I lived around sea level for most of my life.

Then, I went to Bozeman, MT for a night before going down to Gardiner, MT to work in Yellowstone.

I was a metal head, heavy drinker, hop in the mosh pit, feel no pain until two days later type at the time.

3 fucking beers tanked me. 3 raspberry heffeveizens at the Montana Aleworks had me stumbling back to my hotel bed hoping I heard my alarm so I could keep this YS job.

I literally drank with metal rock stars before this point in time. Alexi Leiho fucking poured straight liquor into my mouth off the edge of the tour bus (Children of Bodom front man, Lead guitar, died of complications of alcoholism in his 30s). Not endorsing the behavior (in fact, no, alcohol long term fucking sucks) but it happened. Dime and Vinny of Pantera? More than a few times. I wasn’t an alcoholic, but I could drink. Youth and stupidity, eh?

So 3 beers? Damn.

I also smoked at the time. Climbed Bunsen peak in Yellowstone with some coworkers. I lit a cigarette, and got about halfway through it before I had to put it out and stop to breathe.

Like, this was your first bong hit and it was a filled 6 foot bong that you took in coughing. You might puke from coughing so hard.

What I’m saying is, altitude is no joke. You can handle your shit? Not coming from sea level of basically nothing, to roughly 1300 feet.

Though, if you’re “training” for some sort of drinking contest or something, yeah, drink at a high altitude. I came back from YS, from being a “good drinker” to drinking hardened alcoholics under the table and feeling only the slightest bit tipsy. Altitude training, bitches.

Note: I can not speak for how altitude training would affect tolerance when it comes to health complications. I have no math, studies, or anecdotal evidence to suggest that alcohol poisoning (or death thereof) would be positively changed by high altitude training.