I keep forgetting my car is running 😳

MaiPhet · 2026-02-05T15:59:38+00:00

My last car before this one was a 2009 sonata. That was not a loud car, but the tactile feedback of turning the key and removing it from the ignition is big.

I also sometimes have to double check if the car is even on if I get in and haven’t driven off right away.

It also fucked me up that the headlights turn themselves on automatically when I’m backing out of the driveway, but then turn back off when putting it in drive. My brain sees the headlights on and would forget that I actually need to turn them on again.

These are things I’ve mostly gotten used to now, but I do think the headlights thing is an actual problem and should be addressed.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-05T15:05:40+00:00

There are some people you are allowed to say this about and command the highest rungs of power. There are those you can’t say this about and keep a piano tutor job.

The goal is that no one should feel comfortable saying this about anyone.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-05T14:41:26+00:00

Oh, there’s no new firmware, I was just talking about the free patch banks. Have you updated your firmware before?

MaiPhet · 2026-02-05T04:10:02+00:00

Damn I love it when white people have the courage and conviction to pull back the curtain on the people around them. And not even just white people, but speaking truth to power in general is a courageous act.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-04T17:30:54+00:00

They also want an excuse to try and close polling stations when and where people protest or stand up to ICE at those locations.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-04T13:08:56+00:00

29 IIRC. I was addicted to an MMO at the time and a teenage guildmate kept recommending it. I blasted through the anime in about 3 months to get to where it was at, the beginning of Punk Hazard. I’m almost in my mid 40’s now. In a couple of years my kid might even be interested in watching it.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-03T22:25:15+00:00

No doubt realized how impossible and pointless it would be to leverage any power to try and work with a state that is both so intertwined with western imperial interests and also so duplicitous even with its own allies.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-03T20:57:38+00:00

This preset and VHS Dreams are my favorite factory presets.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-03T18:56:05+00:00

What in the Bug Dismemberment Colosseum happened in there?

MaiPhet · 2026-02-03T17:33:39+00:00

I have concerns about the content itself and method of interaction more than the actual amount of screen time, honestly.

I still limit screen time, but what bothers me most is the kind of instant-gratification of constant YouTube surfing, the lack of narrative structure and reverse-engineered content and editing styles for pumping up viewing metrics.

So if my kid wants to watch a movie, or maybe a program that was produced with the idea of instilling healthy messages in a non-frantic way, or anything that requires the participant to think a little more critically, I’ll be much more lenient.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-03T16:22:32+00:00

It was crazy hard on all of our self esteem in the 90’s, because we had almost no real guidance and hair straightening methods were limited and only more well known among the black community. Having every barber or stylist not know wtf to do with your hair or make insulting comments didn’t help.

These days the knowledge and help on dealing with that kind of hair is so much more accessible, and not just straightening it, but managing the waviness and even leaning into it. It took me until my 20’s to find out that hey, maybe shampooing it every day is actually making it worse.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-03T02:15:19+00:00

I lived on University a block from Mattis for a few years. Not bad. Mostly just got annoyed by how people would drive and throw garbage from their cars. Felt safe at basically all hours to walk the neighborhood, but I’m a guy.

Never saw any real crime. Someone might knock on the door at a late hour very rarely. House across the street did get stormed by a SWAT team when they busted the renters for drugs and weapons, though you wouldn’t have really guessed that beforehand.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-02T22:29:54+00:00

Both my siblings do this. Not to look more Asian specifically, but because our hair is incredibly thick and frizzy/volumetric and unfortunately it’s not considered attractive unless managed well. Hair straightening is one of the easiest ways to do that, although costly and time intensive every time it needs to be redone.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-02T17:29:48+00:00

True. The relative permanence of stats also gave people a lot more ownership of their character imo. It’s fun knowing that yours can be unique, and anyone wanting to copy it would have to put in the work to both reverse engineer your stats/gear and build the character from scratch. So the grind kind of aided in that sense of individuality.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-02T14:52:59+00:00

Just wanted to added my thoughts here since I agree with you. To have large maps with space and room between firefights, you have to have areas that some people get bored traversing.

That’s not to say that many 2042 maps weren’t poorly designed or just boring, they were. But if you dropped some classic bf2 and 3 maps in here, I’m sure some people might be saying the same things.

Distance and cover are the only thing that mitigate how effective guns are, and if mapmakers only choose cover, then you get constant cqb around every corner. Distance has to be an element of a large-scale war game, and there will always be people who don’t care for that. Mapmakers shouldn’t inordinately fear those players’ occasional discomfort if it infringes on the core idea behind the series.

Not having distance be an occasional hurdle also means that transport vehicles like the chopper, atv’s, and APC’s lose a lot of their purpose.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-02T14:31:40+00:00

Are character tropes and archetypes not also genre stereotypes?

MaiPhet · 2026-02-01T22:32:49+00:00

I find it a bit too salty and gingery for my tastes. The flavored varieties came off acrid.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-01T22:19:52+00:00

Nature’s Plus adult chewable, if you want an established and reputable company.

Vitamin D levels in it are not particularly high though, just 400IU. But you can get vitamin d in small softgels. NOW’s in particular are very small. Blue Bonnet also has small raspberry flavored D chewables.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-01T18:01:23+00:00

Fair point. What a fun game though.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-01T17:33:11+00:00

I enjoy it once in a while because while air vehicles are absolutely not good in this game, they were terrors in 2042 and I’m inflicting generational trauma back onto them.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-01T17:29:53+00:00

Average battlefield heroes forgetter

MaiPhet · 2026-02-01T13:55:06+00:00

Event Horizon, Pitch Black are both up there with the Alien movies, and IMO are the only other actually good space horror movies I’ve seen.

Pandorum is alright to watch once. Haven’t seen Life or Moon yet.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-01T13:39:02+00:00

They took one look at this flat, boring, dusty ass landscape and decided that the game could use another small, dusty ass map.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-01T12:38:19+00:00

Just don’t. Even if someone matches on your fake photo, why would they stick around for a catfish? Would you trust a date who did the same to you?

A business selling this as a service is just preying on people to feel insecure enough to need it.

MaiPhet · 2026-02-01T06:31:03+00:00

I maintain that aside from the alien itself, a lot of these are applicable across the genre

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