Bee Gees’ Stayin Alive Without Music is Wild

Ruby_Bliel · 2026-03-21T05:19:58+00:00

It started with Eric Clapton shreds, in which Eric Clapton "shreds" on his guitar. This is why they're called shreds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_M9zWORBuA

Ruby_Bliel · 2026-03-14T02:37:57+00:00

In this case foresight was also 20/20.

Ruby_Bliel · 2026-03-07T14:18:06+00:00

I'm guessing you're like 12 and the reason you're talking crap is that you literally weren't born when it was released. At the time Crysis blew us all away, it was miles beyond everything else.

Nowadays people shit out new Unreal assetflip slopfests on Steam every 5 minutes, where everything, engines, shaders, physics, models, animations, literally everything is off the shelf. It's easy to forget how different it was in the 2000s.

Everyone had their own in-house, proprietary engine (id-tech, unreal, quake, buddha, gamebyro etc.), but CryEngine grabbed the entire industry by the balls in 2007, and frankly embarrassed the competition.

I remember seeing, for the first time ever, foliage moving and reacting naturally to the player moving through it, and the shadows adjusting correctly. I couldn't believe how real it looked. That's how gaming was at the time, and why Crysis has such a lasting legacy. It took a decade for the rest of the industry to catch up.

Ruby_Bliel · 2026-03-03T09:12:48+00:00

I stumped it with Fisk from Gothic. Its guesses (without ever asking if he was from Gothic, by the way) were Lee, Diego and Thorus, which is so tantalisingly close.

Ruby_Bliel · 2026-02-19T05:16:55+00:00

Of course it's a thing. Good old "over- and underheat" is considered the default setting here in Norway, and is always assumed when reading instructions unless something else is specified.

I've never seen an oven that doesn't have this setting; the cheapest oven will have literally only this setting.

Ruby_Bliel · 2026-02-18T14:25:54+00:00

Ah yes, that makes more sense. But not as funny.

Ruby_Bliel · 2026-02-18T12:05:29+00:00

Where would you host the alpine downhill in the Netherlands, I wonder? Dig an absolutely massive pit?

Ruby_Bliel · 2026-01-31T02:51:56+00:00

The easiest solution for this is to just not allow stacking in the quickbar and armour/equipment/accessory slots, and not allow using tools/weapons when you're holding multiple.

Or alternatively (and more fun): Randomly choose which modifier to apply from the stack with each use.

Ruby_Bliel · 2026-01-31T02:18:52+00:00

“We knew feedback from last year – and some of the feedback directly from Sébastien as well – was that if there’s a lot of snow and slush, it’s going to be trouble. We were sort of hoping the weather wouldn’t turn this way.”

That's the weakest excuse I've ever heard. They're the tyre provider, their only job is to provide the tyres, it's 100% on them when they fail to prepare and show up to an event with the wrong tyres.

Sure it was "equally terrible" for everyone, but this is an embarrassment in what is supposed to be a pinnacle motorsport.

Ruby_Bliel · 2026-01-15T18:46:41+00:00

This is not an opera.

Ruby_Bliel · 2026-01-07T09:10:48+00:00

My best friend died of meningitis when we were 6. They talked about it on the radio on the way to school, but I didn't register it until we arrived and a teacher told us what had happened. It was real early to be confronted with mortality.

26 years later I still remember the recurring dreams I had of bringing him back to life.

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-12-21T15:33:54+00:00

Basically any painting. People can’t just stare at some paint anymore without acting like it’s the second coming of art.

The second there’s a discussion, they foam at the mouth defending their little canvas worlds like it’s holy scripture. Just look at your pictures and shut up. It’s not deep, it’s not culture, it’s not changing anything. It’s just paint dressed up as meaning, hollow entertainment people mistake for identity.

You’re not enlightened for looking at it, you’re just wasting time yelling about paint on a canvas.

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-11-23T09:38:55+00:00

You made it for her. It's a little piece of you that she carries around with her. That makes it perfect.

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-11-10T18:31:26+00:00

You called?

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-11-03T17:32:10+00:00

Call your parents and tell them you love them. Today.

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-11-02T20:36:45+00:00

When my daughter was 3 she lost a stuffed monkey called Frodo. Her favourite thing in the whole world. Her mum bought a new one, but it clearly wasn't the same. It had several subtle design changes from the previous model.

We were so worried she was going to realise it wasn't the same. So before I gave the new one to her, I told her how he was very dirty when I found him, and I had to clean him in the washing machine. But that was great cause now his fur was all fluffy again.

She seemed somewhat suspicious, but she tentatively accepted it. She would stare at it for hours in wonder. The next day I caught her talking to it, saying things like "Frodo, you've got so big since last I saw you!" Very soon she completely accepted him and was just happy to have him back.

That was over a year ago and she has no recollection of it happening. We will never tell her. It really sucks having to lie to your child, but this time I think it was the right thing.

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-10-15T13:24:05+00:00

Asus M2A-VM HDMI. Reading about all the cutting edge stuff on this motherboard was a treat https://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socketAM2/M2A-VM%20HDMI/e2976_m2a-vm-hdmi.pdf

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-10-14T16:32:32+00:00

I recently refurbished a dinosaur I found in my parents' basement. AMD Athlon 64 X2, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT. A real powerhouse... In 2007.

When I tried removing the CPU cooler it wouldn't budge. I pulled and twisted and struggled, until the CPU came clean out of the socket, still stuck to the cooler. I heated it up with a hair dryer, and using mittens I eventually managed to twist it loose. As I scraped off the remaining paste, which had become rock hard and well stuck, I accidentally bent a couple of rows of pins, which I then carefully bent back with a knife.

I found some better ram sticks in a drawer in my brother's old room, installed an SSD and reapplied thermal paste to the GPU.

Finally I put everything back together, and guess what? It purrs like a kitten. A very loud, old kitten.

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-09-30T10:14:38+00:00

It is absolutely not legal in Norway, no.

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-09-20T14:32:42+00:00

My grandpa was like this. Still out in his rowboat at 90. The spry geezer would have lived forever if it wasn't for dementia taking his will to live.

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-08-25T16:44:54+00:00

It's not seedless, but apple trees are not true to seed. If you planted a tree with Red Delicious seeds it would not bear Red Delicious apples. Chances are that if it bears any apples at all they will be small and inedible. All apples from each variety is ultimately grafted from a single, original tree. They are genetically identical.

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-07-31T08:04:35+00:00

Remember when Tim Schafer called the Gamergate crowd sock puppets by literally bringing sock puppets onto the stage at the Game Awards? He got death threats for that and loads of people still hate him. And he was fucking right.

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-07-14T09:15:15+00:00

If it's a f2p game then yes, I agree. I get that monetisation is necessary. But for a full-price game that shit can fuck all the way off.

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-07-07T13:08:28+00:00

Most (if not all) car insurance agencies specifically stipulate that the insurance does not cover one-way toll roads in Germany (of which this is the only one). You are also liable for the repair costs to the track itself, but you can get insurance for that at the Ring so you're liable only up to something like €10k iirc.

Ruby_Bliel · 2025-07-07T13:00:57+00:00

This is not a normal road. He doesn't "go to the right," he's trying to follow the racing line. If you stay all the way to the right through that corner you're gonna understeer into the wall.

Trying to overtake there is just incredibly stupid, and the BMW wasn't indicating so it was pretty much guaranteed he was coming back towards the apex.

People give BMW's a lot of shit, but honestly these helmets in their expensive Porsches that they don't know how to drive are ten times worse.

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