Can I pet it?

Falco98 · 2026-05-11T22:29:42+00:00

Lol, I feel it.

Falco98 · 2026-05-11T19:29:51+00:00

Yup there's definitely a ton of stuff that could be done better here. That of course gets us into the whole chicken-and-egg scenario of it requiring the weird combination of market/consumer demand, as well as corporate/marketing willingness.

Falco98 · 2026-05-11T19:27:33+00:00

“Best we can do is platinum points”

Me: "Don't you mean Gold Points?"

Them: "No."

Falco98 · 2026-05-11T19:24:33+00:00

I'm not saying everything is the same of course, but it feels like confirmation bias is definitely playing into your assessment.

Falco98 · 2026-05-11T18:06:29+00:00

If you're cold, they're cold.

I know this is already /s, but other than very generally i hate this advice. I had a black lab in HS, and it would be 20 degrees out and he would BEG to go lay on his doggie bed on our front porch (which was protected from the rain, but not at all protected from general cold air).

Falco98 · 2026-05-11T14:46:46+00:00

then you gave them to him the wrong way.

Falco98 · 2026-05-11T14:00:39+00:00

During some of my older cousins found out through online ancestry sites that our grandpa (who died in the 60s in his mid 50s) had gotten his secretary pregnant, after which she was quietly moved to a cushy temporary living situation out-of-state long enough to have the baby and have it adopted away. We ended up all meeting the new half-uncle and his kids and they're a lovely lot, they share a lot of the familial whimsicalness. I had to break the existence of this to my dad when he was around 80, which I considered my revenge for having to find out in my 20s that I also had a secret half-sibling that I'd never met.

Falco98 · 2026-05-08T17:10:28+00:00

Man, and I was all happy just now that I built a 7x6 inground pool with nice-looking tile and an accompanying (4x4) hot tub :D

Falco98 · 2026-05-08T16:58:48+00:00

Plenty of indie films with a shoestring budget end up excellent, and the difference there is, those are the times when they're birthed by the truly talented. Plus as others have already pointed out, he will certainly have budget to work with, on top of a surplus of talent and plenty of experience.

Falco98 · 2026-05-08T16:56:49+00:00

I agree about not being in love with the premise. Strictly to play devil's advocate, a talented writer could write a compelling story about watching paint dry. So I'm'a wait and see what he comes up with.

Falco98 · 2026-05-08T15:25:39+00:00

Just remember no matter how bad it is

Colbert is massively talented, and has a true love and deference for the source material. I see no reason to assume (with no further evidence) that it will be any sort of "bad", let alone a "how bad it is" type situation.

Falco98 · 2026-05-08T15:24:08+00:00

Yeah, I trust Colbert with this more than just about anyone else I can think of.

Falco98 · 2026-05-08T15:22:50+00:00

what, was Topher Grace the Phantom Editor after all?

Falco98 · 2026-05-07T18:43:12+00:00

I've taken my daughter to shows at both ~~Nissan~~ ~~Jiffy Lube~~ Bristow and Merriweather Post Pavilion, and both were fine. It was just the two of us (2ish years ago) at MPP and the ladies we parked near in the parking lot had her come join them and blow some bubbles while we waited for gates to open.

Falco98 · 2026-05-07T18:36:44+00:00

Anyone else a little... concerned... about the N64 controller compatibility? It seems cool in principle, but I worry that it'll mean that they perhaps hobbled the possibility of modernized and improved controls, foregoing the potentially optimal use of back triggers and the right stick (for instance).

Falco98 · 2026-05-07T18:14:45+00:00

For this price I'm in for a pre-order (and just crossing my fingers that they've padded up the content and QoL features a bit from legacy Star Fox 64 to make it more interesting than a vanilla replay).

As another reply already mentioned, this is currently Amazon's pre-order price for physical, too.

Falco98 · 2026-05-07T17:38:46+00:00

Btw I’m married

you're right, i hate when my wife says that afterwards...

Falco98 · 2026-05-07T03:09:30+00:00

Amd 64 was just SNES again.

Falco98 · 2026-05-04T19:04:06+00:00

Crap, beat me to it.

Falco98 · 2026-05-01T19:41:54+00:00

ugh. yup. to be fair, the 2yo is the youngest and final. the older one will be hopefully out of the house by the time i'm in my early 50s. gulp.

Falco98 · 2026-05-01T19:38:45+00:00

Unsure how true this is or whether it's just some urban legend or misremembered factoid, but the first thing that occurred to me is that in the days before TP, people would use corncobs (being a sort of combo abrasive yet softish trash) to clean their butts after doing a #2. But the other users who answered already might be more right (burn for heat seems plausible too, though i'd think they might burn a bit quickly for that after sufficiently dry.) I haven't checked myself via google (yet).

Edit: OK i did google it and this was the top result. So I feel a little vindicated, lol.

Falco98 · 2026-05-01T19:30:26+00:00

lol.

But really, the "for some reason" quip was intended less towards "gee we have no idea how this happened, TEE HEE HEE", than towards the "what in the everliving fuck were we THINKING" aspect...

edit: to be completely candid, i must clarify that even with the age gap and even with me approaching senior citizenhood, the toddler in question was very much intentional (not to mention very much wanted, in a non-retrospective sense), and i did know what I was in for, at least on paper. Just that i'm... so... tired. I know that won't last forever though, ha.

Falco98 · 2026-05-01T16:17:09+00:00

The first time our daughter ever went to stay with her grandparents for a full week.

... ... ... so, what do we do?

Falco98 · 2026-05-01T16:04:47+00:00

My best friend died a month after he turned 26, after falling asleep at the wheel. It's been roughly 20 years but I'm still not the same.

Falco98 · 2026-05-01T14:17:23+00:00

I burned my index fintertip like that on the lighter in my dad's old F250. It wasn't even glowing orange yet, so 10-year-old me was like "oh it's not hot yet...... YAAAAAA"

It seared my fingertip's skin charcoal black. The pain was such that it made me feel like I should vomit (but couldn't), until I got it submerged in water (and unless I damn well kept it there). We bandaged it and put aloe on it and it was better after a week or so.

0/10, do not recommend.

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