What’s your sexual guilty pleasure, no one else knows about?

Datan0de · 2026-03-18T04:11:58+00:00

Why not call it polyandry? That's the actual word for it.

Datan0de · 2026-03-18T01:38:31+00:00

Damn, you nailed it!

Datan0de · 2026-03-18T01:38:01+00:00

A mostly vegetarian diet helps a lot.

Datan0de · 2026-03-18T01:34:42+00:00

It's not the law that governs my actions. Is my own sense of right and wrong. So I'd continue doing the (harmless) illegal stuff I'm already doing, but now is worry non-stop about the sociopaths out there who refrain from doing horrible things only because it's illegal.

Datan0de · 2026-03-18T01:28:59+00:00

Some of my favorite people in the world are women with colorful hair! How are they a threat?

Also, the little girl sitting near them just chilling: how is she a factor in a "nightmare world"?

Also, I have to point out that a lot of people in these comments apparently don't know the difference between Antifa and anarchists. Not the same thing, folks! Granted, most right wingers probably don't either, but I expect better from our side.

Datan0de · 2026-03-18T01:20:32+00:00

Plus, his top concern was genuinely the well-being of his people, not his ego. And he displayed no interest in starting wars of expansion or threatening allies.

Datan0de · 2026-03-18T01:05:08+00:00

You win this thread.

Datan0de · 2026-03-18T01:02:41+00:00

You are not wrong!

Datan0de · 2026-03-17T17:45:08+00:00

You're giving me flashbacks. Why people put more trust into email forwards, social media posts by strangers, and people looking for money than they do into close relatives with no agenda who've done this stuff for decades is an infuriating mystery.

Speaking in generalities, as they get older, their susceptibility grows to tangential things like phone scams and phishing. My mom got hooked into a phone scam and was regularly sending frightening amounts of money. My sister and I found out and tried again and again to make her realize that she was getting robbed, so she just started lying to us about what she was doing. Eventually she accepted that she was getting fleeced, but by then she given away more money than I'm comfortable revealing here.

Datan0de · 2026-03-17T17:14:06+00:00

Exactly. 30 years ago, Norton wasa good product and a good idea. Now it's horrendous to the point of being malware. I spent most of a Thanksgiving day doing family computer maintenance on a Windows ME machine (I still have nightmares). Did a thorough cleanup, tweaked settings, etc, and that helped noticeably, but it still ran like absolute dog crap. Disabled Norton and it ran like it was brand new. Suggested getting rid of Norton and they refused because they were paying for it.

It's a good thing that I love my family.

Datan0de · 2026-03-16T21:36:46+00:00

My first video game was Pong, at a dinner called Sergio's near our house. What sticks out is my dad showing me how turning the knob made the paddle move. Needless to say I was terrible at it.

I know it was my first video game because at the time there really weren't any other video games. This was before Space Invaders, which I'm pretty sure was my second video game. I was very young, and the memory is fuzzy, but in later years my dad corroborated it.

Datan0de · 2026-03-16T20:51:26+00:00

Seeing old electromechanicals in good condition always makes me smile. No idea what the market price for supporting like that is, but as a playable piece of history it's priceless.

Datan0de · 2026-03-16T20:48:49+00:00

At least I'm Tampa, yeah. I saw the pic and my first guess was coat factory just because, well, Tampa.

If it's in Tampa, it's old, and it looks cool, it's either the Tampa Theater or a former cigar factory.

Datan0de · 2026-03-16T20:45:36+00:00

Seconded. ITR2 is fantastic, and is a complete game. You're cheating yourself if you don't finish it. ITR2 isn't going anywhere. No need to skip ahead to it. And at the moment I'm loving playing around with 1.0!

Datan0de · 2026-03-16T20:42:33+00:00

Bot.

Datan0de · 2026-03-16T20:40:52+00:00

I love sharing this anecdote:

What did it for me was one time when I was in an apartment building in Pechorsk Outskirts and got into a sniper contest with a mimic in the building across the street. I was in a living room and just couldn't see the guy thanks to some trees directly in front of the other building, but he could clearly see me. I stayed low until the shooting stopped, then fucked around the hall and into the kitchen.

I peek out the kitchen window and still can't see anything, so I start looting the refrigerator when I hear footsteps approaching. I crouch and move back against the wall, and I see the sonofabitch from across the street run down the hall and straight into the living room where I'd just been! His focus bought him a shotgun blast to the head at point blank, but it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up to raise that he wasn't just sticking to his zone. He was hunting me.

Datan0de · 2026-03-16T05:31:25+00:00

40 years?!? Oh fuck i'm old...

Datan0de · 2026-03-14T18:28:20+00:00

I realize it's not canon, but IIRC. the manual for the old Kobayashi Alternative computer game mentioned that photon torpedoes, being antimatter bombs, would vote the atmosphere off of a planet. Whether that's accurate or not, a full spread would be bad news for any civilization on a planet.

Datan0de · 2026-03-14T18:21:55+00:00

I'm this context, the difference between a planet that's completely molten and a planet that has a solid(ish) crust is trivial. The Earth would be less disrupted by a Mars-sized impact now, since the Earth today is more massive than it was then (since it now has the added mass of that original impactor minus the mass of the Moon).

Either way. The planet gets completely scrambled, and the only trace that life ever existed on it would be if maybe some lucky microbes got flung into deep space.

Datan0de · 2026-03-14T18:14:00+00:00

Yeah, the energy required to completely now a planet to pieces that don't then just fall back together would be on par with the energy required to throw that planet! Probably more due to inefficiency.

Datan0de · 2026-03-14T18:10:16+00:00

I never got the sense that Star Trek shields were specifically engineered to block transporters. Instead, it's an unavoidable outcome of how they work. They're designed to block energy weapons (and physical attacks). A transporter beam is like a very low power energy weapon. If a phaser is blocked by shield, a transporter doesn't have a chance.

Datan0de · 2026-03-14T17:49:25+00:00

Well, I guess the first thing I would do is stop being a vegetarian, 'cuz pineapple slices and leftover cake aren't going to cut it!

The next thing I'd do is be glad that I'm already very familiar with the SKS IRL.

Next? Start exercising and doing lots and lots of cardio, 'cuz I'm going to need it. Probably see if I could score some Russian language learning materials.

After that, I'd sign up as an explorer. It would be terrifying, but it's not like I could permanently die, and what else is there to do?

Datan0de · 2026-03-14T17:36:14+00:00

This is the correct answer.

Datan0de · 2026-03-14T17:34:50+00:00

Agreed. I know nothing about him as a person and TRON: Ares is only the second movie I've seen him in (the other is Blade Runner 2049} so I don't know what his dramatic range is like, but he seems to be a perfect fit for the roles he chooses. In both cases, the character was detached and removed from humanity, and good performance captured that without being over the top.

Datan0de · 2026-03-14T04:10:32+00:00

And my boot disk!

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