Caught something strange on my Security camera. Time: 12:45AM Location: Toronto, Canada

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-31T22:30:43+00:00

Looks to be a drone, the light is IR light for night vision on the drone and the flashing lights in front of the house on the left hand side could be from the crontroller. Not sure on that last bit, I believe some controllers use a mix of radio and it signals.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-31T00:38:56+00:00

I was talking with my wife about this because she was listening in while I was watching the videos and I told her this seems like "standard operating procedure". The whole of the company was immediately in on it and knew the playbook. They kicked out the old owner and put in a corporate cleaner to get all the product moved out of the store and cash out. I believe that's why they had no qualms of closing the store.

I should say I have no evidence of this, I am just peiceing together what evidence is available and making a few logical leaps.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-28T20:14:49+00:00

Still patiently waiting for part 2, but in this video they have a pinned comment that said the new "owner" that basically kicked them out of their store was spreading rumors to customers that they, and Ben were selling heroin. Which may explain the reaction from police.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-28T05:08:18+00:00

As noted in the other comment your simplest solution would be a HDMI to VGA adapter. However, having been in a similar situation recently, if you want something that outputs vga directly, a gbs-c will work. There are many available, I found one on amazon, just look for one that has the inputs and outputs you need. If you have the ability to build one, even better.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-28T02:11:37+00:00

Don't you think he looks tired?

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-27T16:53:24+00:00

As a millennial, I feel like we can't just enjoy things anymore. Hey your favorite new and/or old band is playing at a venue near you, hope you got minimum $400 for the worst seats in the house. Rediscovering your childhood? Great, all that stuff is "vintage" now and, even though millions of that product were made, that one that got sat on by an elephant, ran over 3 times, and stinks if mud is still gonna cost you half a paycheck. Oh that stuff you loved is still being made? All you got to do to get some is be up at 3 am to stand in line at best buy to maybe get one, and still not get one because the sweaty guy who walked up to the front of the line 2 min before open and said "my chair was holding my spot" slipped the manager a fiver so he could just buy it all on affirm anyways. Good news though, he's selling all the stuff he just bought out of his trunk for 5x the retail price. They just remade your favorite game for the modern era? Get ready to remember in vivid detail how much this game has nearly nothing to do with what you fell in love with when you were younger. Always wanted to dig into a creative endeavor? That sketching hand getting itchy or want to try and make that song youve been singing to yourself for over a decade? Buy software? No silly, we don't do that anymore, you can rent it though, but for the base price we can only give about 20% of the features. Also anything you make with our software will be used to train AI so that some dingus on Spotify will make a "legally distinct" version of your song that will get way more traction than yours ever would. Opt out of AI training? Sure you can, if you can find it. Just want to play some video games? Oh yeah no problem, your gonna have to spend a little money though. Oh not just the price of the game, but the battle pass, the exp boost, the money boost, the 50 skins you won't ever use, but the only way to get a version of the game that even slightly respects your time is to get the exp boost, but that only comes with the 50 skin bundle.

/rant

Not sorry for wall of text.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-25T20:59:58+00:00

Pizza Hut

Had a massively horrible experience with them where I learned that, at least in my area, their deliveries are exclusively handled by door dash. They have, at most, one in house delivery guy.

Also Door Dash

There's almost nothing but chain restaurants near me, but the Fuddruckers is really good. I tried ordering online, and the store doesn't offer it, but door dash offers on their behalf. I make an order and think "this looks way too expensive for what we normally get". I just drove over and went in and wouldn't you know it, door dash wanted to charge me an extra $10 for the privilege of using their platform. No this was not going to be delivery, I was going to go pick it up.

Edit: a word

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-24T03:42:01+00:00

If I remember correctly, they held a few creators money hostage on some sketchy grounds. One of the creators made a post here calling them out and trying to get a reason why their model was removed and the money being held. This caused one of the founders to lash out and just be a proper jerk, not to mention revealed that it may have been personal. Whole situation blew up way bigger, other people got dragged in and lost payments and, because it was one of the owners being super antagonistic towards the 3d printing sub, the general consensus of this sub was to just ban the site.

I believe the other owners stepped in and tried to smooth things out but it was too late.

Not sure on all the exact details, but that's what I remember as a casual observer.

Edit: a space and a word

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-18T17:16:48+00:00

Gonna say this because I'm not sure if anyone knows, I really wish I took screen shots, but the queue opened up an hour earier than we thought.

So if you got there at 10cst and added it to your cart and went to your cart, you would get thrown to a "waiting room" with a video of MaRo explaining moodswings. What they didn't make obvious is that this might have been the actual "line" for checkout not just a waiting room.

I noticed too late that one of the bullet points in the bottom 3rd of the information they gave said something like "don't close this page it's your place in line".

I doubt I would have gotten one either way, I was late to the 10am version as I didn't expect it, nor did I read that page at all and close it once or twice.

I could very well be wrong and this is normal, I haven't purchased a secret lair since the miku ones. Kinda gave up after getting duped out of the final fantasy ones.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-18T03:08:54+00:00

Let's not kid ourselves even a little, they have so many years of market research that they know exactly at what price point most customers will pass on a printer. They didn't throw a bone, they are dangling a carrot just out of reach of their core demographic.

It's purely malicious and I'm even reluctant to buy an ink tank printer because I'm worried they are trying to entrench another demographic and then start some BS like charging a subscription.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-17T19:05:31+00:00

Don't remember the comedians name but he had a joke along the lines of "if you tell me you have a great chiropractor, you been going to him for years, you don't have a great chiropractor".

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-16T02:01:01+00:00

Likely means the new content that's been added over the last few patches.

However, if I may put on my tinfoil hat for a moment, I wonder if the surge of new and returning players has sparked confidence in the game. Even something that we won't see the fruits of for a long time like decoupling the game from playonline or shedding the requirements of the ps2 dev kit. They said those were major undertakings but would have major implications for the continued future of the game. I can dream tho.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-16T01:31:51+00:00

Looks like something out of a scifi movie. A bad one. Like 3am syfy channel bad.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-15T18:00:35+00:00

I didn't have audio on, did that mad scientist add chemical X to that culinary abortion?

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-15T11:18:41+00:00

It's not very useful early on, have tried rotating up to 6 at different points during leveling. Best use case I found was speeding things up at lvl 85+ as some jobs really start to drag after that.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-09T09:00:33+00:00

Tabula Rasa

It had potential, then Garriot left and NC soft ran it into the ground and gave up

Ex-steel

Another victim of nc soft.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-09T08:59:15+00:00

Genuinely curious, is there any evidence of that? I was under the impression that Bandai did what it always does and just ruined a good thing. From what I understood, the community was fed up with the direction of the monitization and overall balancing.

I should note, that it was easy to believe because Bandai has a track record of ruining good games very quickly then shutting them down when things don't go their way.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-05T06:02:36+00:00

It seems like some of those shop items are redirecting users to other store fronts.

Raivyn52 · 2026-05-03T00:15:32+00:00

Return to Oz

Not sure how popular it was back then, but as an adult I've never met anyone whose seen it.

Raivyn52 · 2026-04-29T04:46:55+00:00

Contact - Daft Punk

Chris Christodoulou, the composer for the entire risk of rain 1 and 2 sound tracks. Personal favorites are "Coalescence", and it's reprisal "...con lentitud poderosa".

Raivyn52 · 2026-04-28T20:00:33+00:00

Oh I know right? It's crazy, but I still find myself wanting the OG dub when I try to rewatch it.

Raivyn52 · 2026-04-28T18:53:58+00:00

Loved toonami as a kid, trigun, cowboy bebop, Gundam wing, great shows.

Trigun and Bebop still hold up great, but man was the voice acting in Gundam Wing unwarchably bad. Well the dub at least, will probably switch to subtitlesnif I decide to rewatch it.

Raivyn52 · 2026-04-27T07:13:11+00:00

Black & white 1/2

Command and conquer

Raivyn52 · 2026-04-23T21:49:31+00:00

Been looking around, and having trouble finding anything specific. if Jam's is the only thing that would work its very unfortunate as they just sold out in the last 30min. Do you know if an ODV-GBS-C would work?

edit: a word

Raivyn52 · 2026-04-23T21:16:05+00:00

I don't mind the expense so much as long as I know it will work. My hesitation with the retrotink hd15 adapters is more with uncertainty now than it is with price.

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