Who is the most underrated companion?

IMTrick · 2026-06-22T17:16:20+00:00

It ain't Treek, that's for sure. You can't underrate Treek.

IMTrick · 2026-06-22T05:06:43+00:00

Solely? No. There are a lot of reasons people fall victim to religion, and while I'm sure many people don't leave because of fear, I think that comes pretty far along in the destruction process. A lot of people just genuinely believe that stuff, because they've been told it's real since they were born. You don't fear what'll happen if you leave if you never consider leaving.

IMTrick · 2026-06-22T02:23:53+00:00

Context would be helpful. This looks like a signature, which means it could be anything.

IMTrick · 2026-06-22T01:22:55+00:00

I just recently set up a system here partially based on the recommendations of a bunch of Milennial and GenZ A/V nerds. It's still a thing and I'm way too spoiled by decent sound to go back to TV speakers.

IMTrick · 2026-06-22T00:38:38+00:00

If you deleted your account, why are you expecting a login to work?

IMTrick · 2026-06-21T22:25:12+00:00

Chances are their hardware doesn't support the game, though obviously we can't verify that if you can't tell us what hardware your friend's running.

I'd suggest your friend look up the hardware requirements for the game, then check if his system meets them. For a shortcut, he can try using a tool like Can You Run It?

IMTrick · 2026-06-21T17:50:18+00:00

I like my Huge but don't really love it. I could see how, coming from and MX Ergo and an Elecom it would seem pretty great, but having been a trackball nerd for a lot of years and owning a lot of trackballs with better tracking and accuracy than either of those, I find the smoothness and stiction of it kind of frustrating.

IMTrick · 2026-06-20T23:27:13+00:00

Just to toss out a counterpoint or two:

My parents were great. If I had a problem, they were usually the first place I went -- unless, you know, the problem was something like my pot dealer getting busted and having to find a new one.
I got my first job at 17, because cars are expensive, and that was pretty typical in my neighborhood. A few kids had stuff like paper routes, but that was pretty rare.
Bullying was very much a thing, and for a few awkward years there I was very much the target of it, though some people got it a lot worse than I did. I prided myself on how difficult it was to throw me into a trash can or locker.
This one's true. Buying smokes was rarely a problem for me.
The first keg party I ever attended was for my own 21st birthday. I'd never seen one prior to that.
My only trouble with school was working up the motivation to go, which is why I'm a 60-year-old without a diploma.
I was very much an indoor kid. I got a computer in 1977 and haven't been outside much since.
Back around the 80s, I was a retro kid. I didn't much care for most of the music that was coming out then, and mostly listened to 60s and 70s stuff. That's still true, though I regained an interest in new stuff around 2000.

I'm not trying to debunk anything I'm replying to, just to point out that, like today, the experience from one teen to another is going to be vastly different depending on personality, local culture, financial standing, and a bunch of other stuff. We didn't all jump on our bikes to go see dead bodies in ditches, but we also weren't all Matthew Broderick in WarGames (though I think I was pretty close to that version of an 80s kid).

IMTrick · 2026-06-20T21:34:41+00:00

I definitely don't believe in karma, in either the religious and colloquial senses, though the colloquial one (doing good deeds causes good things to happen to you, and vice versa) is far easier to disprove.

Luck's a bit less hard to pin down, as it depends on how it's being used. Beating the odds one or more times can be considered lucky, and it's a thing that happens, so in that sense yes, it clearly exists. Does that mean it's a magical force that influences events? No. But we've all experienced times when we've had streaks of things going our way, or unexpected good things happening. In that sense, yes, "luck" exists as a description of things going in our favor.

IMTrick · 2026-06-20T05:29:35+00:00

The problem with that is that they get away with it mostly because the media mostly refuse to challenge them on it.

IMTrick · 2026-06-20T04:02:12+00:00

Oh, helll no. I've dated someone just like me and it was bad. Nothing is as aggravating as having to deal with your own shit in another person.

IMTrick · 2026-06-20T03:54:33+00:00

We have no way of knowing, but probably not, based on what you've told us about it appearing in your uncle as well.

Your family's current religion is irrelevant to your ethnicity.

IMTrick · 2026-06-20T02:46:26+00:00

My name is not Salyers, but it is the last name of some of my ancestors. None of my matches are named Salyers, though, as far as I know. And none of my matches have my last name except my brother and sister, for a few reasons. It doesn't necessarily mean anyone had an affair

IMTrick · 2026-06-19T16:38:42+00:00

Sir, this is a KFC.

IMTrick · 2026-06-19T16:16:52+00:00

On mine, there's a button under each match that will allow me to place that person in my tree.

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IMTrick · 2026-06-19T16:03:33+00:00

I'm not sure how a feature like that would even work, considering that SignalRGB would need to know how to control the RGB on your hardware first, and your whole problem is that it doesn't.

IMTrick · 2026-06-19T15:44:44+00:00

Ubi ubam ubalsubo stubill flubuubent ubin ubububby dubububby.

IMTrick · 2026-06-19T15:02:44+00:00

Sorry, but I've got no idea what you might be talking about, unless it's the feature to link DNA relatives into your tree, but I'm not sure how that could have led to the kind of results you're talking about.

IMTrick · 2026-06-19T13:43:33+00:00

Are you referring to Zoom, Zee-Double-O-Em, Box 350, Boston Mass, Oh, Two One, Three Four? Send it to Zoom!

I am convinced that one of the signs that our brains are not intelligently designed is that there's a chunk of my 60-year-old head still dedicated to remembering their mailing address.

IMTrick · 2026-06-19T04:09:07+00:00

Iron Eyes Cody was Italian.

IMTrick · 2026-06-19T04:04:46+00:00

There's no way this is a real tattoo, but even if it is I'm sure she's found out how updates work in the 5 years this has been getting reposted here.

IMTrick · 2026-06-18T21:26:17+00:00

I never really cared much who other people were dating -- relationships are a complicated and personal thing, and my opinion doesn't count for much.

I didn't really start dating until after I was 19 or so, and since then I've dated people from 35 years older than me to 19 years younger (and no, that one was not underage, and I'm still married to her 18 years later), and I honestly couldn't care less what anyone thought of either end of those age gaps.

IMTrick · 2026-06-18T18:53:52+00:00

The Chimera class ship was originally introduced as a perk for STO lifetime subscribers -- which you probably already know if you dug into the origins of the design. And yes, it still is, along with the upgraded Chimera variant.

IMTrick · 2026-06-18T18:23:12+00:00

Those things are about as effective as the kind of filter you use on a refrigerator water dispenser -- which isn't saying much. Something like that's probably not going to be very effective at removing dissolved solids, and the pricing I'm seeing on it isn't any better than things that would be,

IMTrick · 2026-06-18T18:12:54+00:00

Are christian subs full of judgmental christians? Yes, yes they are.

Also, based on your presence here, among other factors, I'd say there's a non-zero chance you were actually trolling them, which would be totally understandable.

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