Hey, that means a lot. Thanks! :)

I also learned a ton about different instruments by playing that interactive game where you match them to their countries. Thanks to Encarta I was probably in the privileged minority of American 8 year olds that knew what the heck a digerido, pan flute, or sitar was! :D

Ah look at the cute little Viewsonic birds on the upper left. :D

“Scary how hackers are always using DOS prompts isn’t it?”

–Confused Windows Viewers

I’d hope his children would heel-turn and dismantle his empire after deciding they don’t want to be an evil misanthropic Palpatine like him…

…but I’m a bit of an idealist. =\

Rocking Tumbleweed too!

• On Nvidia!
• With multiple displays at different refresh rates.
• On Wayland!

Right now they only update to the “stable” Nvidia drivers branch in the repos, so I had to install the 565.71 drivers manually via the run file from Nvidia’s website to fix an issue with variable sync. (Windows without Wayland support would strobe solid black randomly. Yikes!)

The only annoyance is having to reinstall the driver from terminal any time the kernel updates. (Protip: just make a drivers folder in your /home folder to easily get to it from the terminal.)

This is referred to as “the hard way”, but once you get it set up once it’s really just ls /drivers/nvidia, run it, and then enter -> enter -> enter -> enter -> reboot -> enjoy.

Otherwise, between Steam, Heroic Launcher (for GoG), Lutris (for EA), and Bottles (everything else / standalone games, disc games, etc), I can play pretty much anything I want! and it runs gloriously! (Be sure to get ProtonUp-Qt to get better Proton versions)

I primarily spend most of my time in Blender, but games work beautifully. Plasma 6 is just awesome as well. My win10 install is getting so dusty right now, and I actually made the jump because it kept Bluescreening on Vermintide 2, and refused to “refresh this system” because “Can’t. Sorry.”

My only thing on the wishlist is for my WMR-baser VR kit to work in Linux… maybe that’ll happen and maybe it won’t. Otherwise, I LOVE Tumbleweed.

Automatic rollbacks with Snapper and BTRFS have been wonderful too.

(If any of this sounds like rambling lingo please feel free to ask and I can clarify. ❤️)

Honestly? I often ponder this. It’s amusing when you consider how enamored we are with bosoms.

I’ve heard it described that “Woman is the most beautiful shape in the human consciousness.” And that stuck with me.

My wife often catches me gawking and thinks it’s weird but I’m just like “You’re just amazing. All of you. Everything about you.” I feel like an idiot because I can’t explain what the heck I actually mean.

It’s just hard to fathom how a single being can be so… naturally aesthetic!

Women are just awesome. As a visual artist myself, I totally understand the compulsion to depict cute/pretty/happy/sexy ladies all the time. Heck, some artists do this exclusively. Variety is the spice of life, artists, but I get it. 😂

I think we’re coded to enjoy rounded elegant shapes, but there’s something enchanting about femininity as a whole, and boobs and butts signal “feminine!!” to our brains.

Also I’d say size and such really doesn’t matter. I think the really fascinating thing is the sheer variety, to the point they’re unique to the woman as an individual person. And it has nothing to do with biological essentialism! (Tiny boobs are just as good at feeding young as ginormous ones)

It’s also a bit cultural, I think. They’re so obvious, yet hidden in polite company. So seeing them exposed feels like you have an intimate window into this person’s world, and you feel special for the privilege, I suppose.

Lol now I feel like a weirdo, typing this all out. Does that help? LOL

Edited: Made my reply at root level instead of piggybacking yours with a ton of paragraphs. :p

Would be such a shame if that happened to get bonked right before/after they plug it in. 😏

Too right about the bed bugs. At the library they’ve had to start screening every returned book for them. Yeesh!!

We once took a gamble on a fancy tempurpedic mattress that was on local auction where my wife’s grandma worked. “Nah nothing seems wrong with it!” She said. Cool! Won it for cheap!

We muscle it into the house and only in the enclosed space did we realize it REEEEEKED of cigarettes. It was NAUSEATING. We eventually had to pay more to have it hauled away. Learned our lesson.

The plastic base for it was nice though, and was cleaned pretty well by applying elbow grease and strong cleaning chemicals and sunlight and fresh air.

Excellent list!

Man, how often needle nose pliers come in handy is INSANE.

Even quicker if you help!

Post-apocalyptic economics be like:

Nice list! Very well done.

I am always impressed about how much I learned about the I.A.E.A from Metal Gear Solid. A fantastic example about how to educate your audience without being “edutainment”.

Sure I had a job to do, bad guys to sneak around, super weapons to sabotage…but boy did I just keep spamming codec calls to hear EVERYTHING those people had to say before I moved on. It was really interesting!

The logical result of the game industry’s takeover by “Packaged Goods industry” types.

Are you dumb?

When dealing with corporates, I think they need a modified version of Hanlan’s Razor:

“When explaining a corporate decision, assume a close ratio of malice AND stupidity.”

“It only sold 45 million copies. ABYSMAL. (After we spent 95% of the total budget on marketing promising the world’s most flawlessly perfect game ever designed). FIRE EVERYONE.”

How can this timeline be so dark AND so stupid.

Current events are an ouroboros of self-parody at this point. It’d be hilarious if it weren’t for the very real consequences.

I can’t believe this is actually a thing.

And tractors retrofitted as combat technicals.

Yeah see…that got me into a metric poopton of trouble and conflict as a kid so now it occurs to me in my head, LOUDLY, but I clench my jaw shut. Lol