Damn! Broke…broke my knife…!

Olioliolioliolioooo!!! 😮

Blender’s workflow of “One hand never leaves the mouse” is brilliantly underrated. They’ve made the UI more newbie accessible but I always encourage new folks to learn the hotkeys from the start, because you can get SO FAST!!

Thumb on the spacebar and left pinky pulling double duty between CTRL and Shift! :p

Smart cookie, you assumed correctly! :)

It was a hard habit to form if you were taught that way, but it does wonders once you learn it.

Yeah, I feel like Discord (ugh) got that way quick, too, in more populated rooms. IIRC, IRC didn’t have that “quote for context” either, so if you were hunt-and-pecking the conversation already moved on lol.

There we go!

I spent more time socializing on World of Warcraft than actually leveling. Had lots of friends, and since been happily married to my best one!

Touch typing skills were essential, especially mid-combat.

…Or being the undiagnosed ADHD socialite I was, keeping like 8 running whisper and guild chats going in the game’s single chat window at once… 😂

Just looking at it made me angry thanks!

Lol

There it is, the 50 pin connector the A+ test asked about! XD

I’ve heard self-hosters say USB isn’t great for server / NAD drives long term but I don’t know where they get that. It actually sounds pretty rad to have a small server plugged into a powerful dedicated enclosure! Especially with those Thunderbolt speeds.

But wow that IS stupidly complicated. I have all those different USB ports on my motherboard IO and I get the nagging feeling I’m not taking advantage of them but also…whatever, don’t care, they do the simple jobs. Lol

to eject a disk, you just did the oh-so-fucking-intuitive thing of dragging the disk icon over the trash can icon.

"Ah yes, just delete the disk to eject the disk drive. Of course!"

That’s such a crime against UI LOL.

Especially because I am sure it feels very scary to people with important data on the disk.

That would be a neat shortcut for formatting it though lol.

Handle checks out 👍

We’d literally and figuratively come full circle back to barrel plugs hahaha.

This got weird SO fast.

This one won’t automatically be a spy for any agency that asks tho, so that’s cool…

Damn, that’s cool.

❤️

That sounds wicked! I should totally decorate my PC case with an emblem like that too! I’m still using that Corsair C70 that looks like an olive drab ammo box. :D

Awesome (and super spooky) chryssalid figure! I didn’t even know they made those. 😲 It definitely does the creature justice!

Now I wonder what other figures there are, but I realize at this point I’m probably better off making my own fan models to 3D print. XD

I don’t wanna know how old X-COM WoTC is. I always start it, make a bunch of progress, and then have to abandon it for like half a year at a time. One of these daaaays!!!

I gotta go back and try the classics too. There’s open source engines for them now! :D

SO MUCH. I got so hyped for a brief second there a while back, until I realized it was “2042” and they missed the “1”. Then I was like “Aw c’mon for real?”

The aesthetic was really cool, and Titans mode was awesome. Although I’d like if we could solve the problem where every server owner froze titans in place because they’d crash / slow down the server if people moved them! 😂

I even got that preorder version that gave you a flashdrive that looked like one of their dogtags. THAT was cool!

But we need a good smaller studio to basically create a spiritual successor. Definitely wouldn’t trust EA with this anymore! It’d have some rootkit-style windows-only anticheat and a storefront baked in.

It’s right up there on my unlikely wishlist along with “Sims 3 but allow more RAM and multithreading.” 😂

Actually know what tho? Titanfall 2 fills that 2142 niche somewhat closely. That game’s incredible. I’m glad we seem to still have that, at least.

Right on! Just for you…

I’m on overwatch. 😉

Yeah discs are mostly a backup medium for me now, as I’d rather just read things off my server. :)

HOWEVER… I’m not absolutely swimming in terabytes as a lot of self-hosters seem to, which makes storage really suck right now.

…So we still use our blu-rays because I can’t afford to just throw gig after gig on platters like that. :(

This would make for a KILLER Hackaday read if you got a proof of concept working though hahaha.