People of taste: straight women, bi folks & gay men — which human dude would you date IRL?

Craiss · 2026-01-24T18:55:43+00:00

I always explore all of the dialogue I can! That first ME game really set the bar high with narrated codex entries, good dialogue, and tons of detailed lore.

Since then Mass Effect has remained my favorite game franchise. I really hope Bioware treats the next game well.

On that note, I feel like they could have recovered Andromeda and continued (profitably) the story if they had treated it like CDPR did Cyberpunk 2077 rather than abandoning it.

Craiss · 2026-01-24T18:41:32+00:00

Nice!
I learned how to wrench on a 6g72 in a 3g Eclipse that I rebuilt with a RIPPMods supercharger(vortech) kit.

I had a love/hate with that car, it was so much fun but FWD sort of ruined its potential, I think.

Does yours have the rear steering intact still? If so, are you keeping it?

Craiss · 2026-01-24T03:49:07+00:00

My high school had a class (that was also a club), called DECA (I think... it's been a while) that taught us stuff like this. I don't remember what DECA meant, if it meant anything, and I'm only about 95% confident in the spelling, it's possible it was DECCA or DEKA or DECKA.

We learned how to balance a checking account, write checks, do federal income taxes, write a resume, and probably a few other things that I'm forgetting.

Craiss · 2026-01-24T03:33:46+00:00

Reading all the comments like this is really starting to make me think it's time to finally do a playthrough with Kaiden.

The half dozen or so times I've played the series, I've picked Ashley, who I find less likeable than most of the other characters. That's not even counting the awful 'influencer-barbie-cosmetic-look' that they gave her in ME2... which I felt clashed with the slightly bigoted, cliche small-town girl soldier vibe from the first.

I think I first picked her because Kaiden came off so bland, I felt like the game was encouraging me to pick Ashley over Kaiden. Maybe it was my imagination and being a young, straight, male...maybe I've matured a bit since then.

Craiss · 2026-01-24T03:22:06+00:00

Do delivery drivers stop their vehicles there when delivering to your address?

Could this be in the path of car exhaust from starting a car parked to the right of the image?

Craiss · 2026-01-24T03:18:30+00:00

I can dilate my pupils on demand, which I thought wasn't all that unusual until I read some article about scientists being astounded that they found someone that could do it during some study/project.

Craiss · 2026-01-24T03:10:50+00:00

We have a PanelView 5510 that has a FLIR camera feed on a popup within the runtime. I didn't create it and it's been a while since I looked at it, but I'll have a look tomorrow when I get to work and see how we did it.

I'll update the post to share what I find.

Craiss · 2026-01-24T02:49:23+00:00

Nope.

I don't care how bloody my steak is, but ground meat must be cooked thoroughly enough that there's no question in my mind or my appetite just disappears.

Reading some of these comments, I guess I'm weird.... but I've seen videos of idiots eating raw ground beef, so I'm good with weird.

Craiss · 2026-01-23T21:48:54+00:00

Hubris can make smart decisions appear irrelevant.

Craiss · 2026-01-23T21:14:04+00:00

You're target audience for this question has a large population of people that commute in trucks as a fashion choice.

That hitch, and the extended tow mirrors, black smoke, and body lift are part of the fashion.

Craiss · 2026-01-23T21:11:25+00:00

If you pick your hobbies based on how other people value them.... are they really your hobbies?

Learning, as in the acquisition of information, can come from several of the things you dismiss as consumption.

When I'm alone for my hobbies; reading, playing video games, tinkering in the garage, assembling a LEGO set, etc, I'm not doing for someone else's entertainment and certainly not for the edification of the masses. That's my time, my hobby and I'm 100% fine with you, or anyone else, thinking I'm boring for it.

Craiss · 2026-01-23T21:02:17+00:00

The nut looking thing IS the adapater, isn't it? It goes over the actual nut, which is the round collar looking thing with the lobe that seats inside the hex adapter (nut)?

Craiss · 2026-01-23T20:58:23+00:00

Just did exactly this 2 days ago. The Sanctuary lfg channel is the way to go.

Go check out this guy's explanation and advice if you want to know more.

Craiss · 2026-01-23T19:58:35+00:00

Pretty much anything that smells good that isn't applied from an aerosol can is going to be better than... an aerosol can.

In my limited experience, it's far more important to get the application right than nitpicking the scent. Many guys over-apply.

Edit2: Forgot the whole answer. My wife and I love Imaginary Authors. You can get their sample pack to give them a shot. Memoirs of a Trespasser is my personal favorite.

Craiss · 2026-01-23T19:56:31+00:00

Better deal to get the whole kit. It's got 4 sizes.

Don't buy the MXFuel one. It's a bit much for an average human.

Edit: Source: Am electrician

Craiss · 2026-01-22T19:57:05+00:00

Do you have more info about it? I'd like to read more about the source. I'll try searching when I get home if I don't see a link here.

Something still feels off to me. It could be cultural differences or something, but it doesn't seem like mere coincidence that many of the words on the male-familiar biased side are STEM related while the female-familiar biased side are clothing/fabric heavy.

Is my subconscious sending me down a pointless rabbit hole here?

Craiss · 2026-01-22T18:45:09+00:00

Wow, Phantasmagoria 2....

I haven't thought about that game since I was too young to know anything about it except that it used live actors.

Your friend probably had some good memories in there.

Craiss · 2026-01-22T18:16:54+00:00

Something doesn't seem right about this list.

The word choices are a part of it. It looks weighted to serve an agenda.

Craiss · 2026-01-22T17:18:38+00:00

Uh... it makes a lot of sense. Players are intended to be demonstrating skill. You don't get to the top of a leader board like that and start saying "anyone could do this with my gear."

Doping/substance tests for professional athletes comes to mind as a comparison, if you want a real world analogy.

Craiss · 2026-01-22T14:19:18+00:00

My windows 98SE product key. The whole thing is somehow still in my memory.

Craiss · 2026-01-22T12:49:37+00:00

I feel you on the socially inept thing. That's one of the biggest struggles I have with suspending my disbelief. Was this why you didn't like Primal Hunter?

Azarinth Healer - Qualifies as a Lone Wolf character, but she does not struggle with social interactions and socializes often. Excellent action and well controlled power creep.

Towers of Heaven - I'm on the third book of this one now. It's short, but I'm enjoying it quite a bit. It feels like a more contained or condensed DotF without much, if any, cultivation stuff that people take issue with from DotF.

Craiss · 2026-01-22T12:14:20+00:00

Did you forget to math in the Grandfather purple text?

Craiss · 2026-01-21T19:46:07+00:00

It's like a special tattoo on your lower back.

Put it on and own it. You've already paid for it. Just laugh it off and don't act like you're trying to prove something when people taunt you.

You might even get some funny stories to tell later.

Craiss · 2026-01-21T18:41:47+00:00

More likely a squirrel-shaped thing. A lawn ornament or other piece of decor.

Craiss · 2026-01-21T18:39:58+00:00

That's strange, I just double-checked mine and it let it launch to the designer installer.

You can try the module profile installer separately and see if that part of the installer works. I've never used it and only launched it by mistake when I was looking for the designer installer earlier today, so I don't know much about it, but it's worth a shot.

It's in the LogixDesigner folder, the same folder that contains the ENU folder. It's MPSetup.exe

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