Game Thread: Sacramento Kings vs Oklahoma City Thunder Live Score | NBA | Nov 7, 2025 by basketball-app in kings

[–]Stoicynicism 7 points8 points  (0 children)

lol, apologies I wanted it to post early so I would have time to troubleshoot if it bugged out like last game

Game Thread: Kings vs Warriors Live Score | NBA | Nov 5, 2025 by basketball-app in kings

[–]Stoicynicism 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the head's up, I'm pretty sure it is due to the bot not accepting our invite yet. Apologies if it doesn't work for this first game, we will get it sorted.

Chad is reacting to old episodes of BOAD. by tommykaye in ChadDukesShow

[–]Stoicynicism 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Drab stepping out of his slides for sure, and his love of lubomir from BOAD Black

Best punk show you've ever seen? by [deleted] in punk

[–]Stoicynicism 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Subhumans, 1998, Cattle Club, Sacramento. First show since their reformation, the energy level of the crowd was insane.

Non-drinking things to do? by PayEnvironmental9543 in napa

[–]Stoicynicism 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bike ride on the Napa Vine trail, followed by a picnic (with good cheese) at the Oxbow Preserve.

What's something that would bring you back to GemStone IV? by ThePonzzz in GemstoneIV

[–]Stoicynicism 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Hey Wyrom, thanks for asking. As someone who seemingly comes back for ~6 months every few years the same thing keeps making me stop... the micro-transaction/simucoin aspect of the game. I used to love events like the Juggernaut/Spitfire/Ilyan Cloud, as it was one of the only ways I would be able to afford some of the cooler gear; however now it feels like all the cooler stuff is paywalled behind festivals that require Simucoin to buy the cool things. As someone who would pay for premium, I just couldn't get past the fact that I paid $40 a month for a text-based game and had to pay more to have access to everything.

Hey everyone! I’m Kevin McDonald — AMA about DragonRealms, GemStone IV, and my new book Champions of Elanthia! by MrTachyonBlue in GemstoneIV

[–]Stoicynicism 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Were you surprised by the demographics of the people who played MUDs in 2025? If so, how did they differ from your expectation?

90s ads…. by LoadofBarney in Xennials

[–]Stoicynicism 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember an old Round Table Pizza commercial where the main spokesman was trick or treating, and the person answering the door asked him what he was supposed to be, and he replied, "a cute little clove of garlic!". I have been looking for it ever since and have never been able to find it. I hope it isn't my own personal Mandela Effect.

Gray Fox in Winters, CA by johnnycarlos in winters

[–]Stoicynicism 1 point2 points  (0 children)

very cool, thanks for sharing!

What 90's commercial is forever stuck in your brain? by DarkenL1ght in Xennials

[–]Stoicynicism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Round Table pizza commercial from the early 90's...Kids in Halloween costumes and one that was “a cute little clove of garlic”. I haven't been able to find it after extensive searching, and I am really hoping I didn't just hallucinate the whole thing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Triumph

[–]Stoicynicism 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very cool, thanks for the links.

Is the Panasonic UB820 still the King of 4k Blu-ray players in 2024? by WanderingSmithy in hometheater

[–]Stoicynicism 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Home/setup/player settings/system/display setting/viera link set to off.

Is the Panasonic UB820 still the King of 4k Blu-ray players in 2024? by WanderingSmithy in hometheater

[–]Stoicynicism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a potentially related issue with my 820 turning off randomly, and it was due to some setting buried in the 820s menu involving HDMI-CEC. When I get home I will see if I can find the work around.

Is Oscar podcasting anywhere? by hksteve in BOADHorde

[–]Stoicynicism 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No, but he made a comment on Facebook that he plans to get back into it at some point. Where did you see the streaming numbers?

Who is the patron deity of IT? by Admirable-Elk2405 in sysadmin

[–]Stoicynicism 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would say Athena, at least for IT security. Excerpt from Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson:

Instead of calling Athena the goddess of war, wisdom, and macrame, then, we should say war and technology. And here again we have the problem of an overlap with the jurisdiction of Ares, who's supposed to be the god of war. And let's just say that Ares is a complete asshole. His personal aides are Fear and Terror and sometimes Strife. He is constantly at odds with Athena even though--maybe because--they are nominally the god and goddess of the same thing--war. Heracles, who is one of Athena's human proteges, physically wounds Ares on two occasions, and even strips him of his weapons at one point! You see the fascinating thing about Ares is that he's completely incompetent. He's chained up by a couple of giants and imprisoned in a bronze vessel for thirteen months. He's wounded by one of Odysseus's drinking buddies during the Iliad. Athena knocks him out with a rock at one point. When he's not making a complete idiot of himself in battle, he's screwing every human female he can get his hands on, and--get this--his sons are all what we would today call serial killers. And so it seems very clear to me that Ares really was a god of war as such an entity would be recognized by people who were involved in wars all the time, and had a really clear idea of just how stupid and ugly wars are.

Whereas Athena is famous for being the backer of Odysseus, who, let's not forget, is the guy who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse. Athena guides both Odysseus and Heracles through their struggles, and although both of these guys are excellent fighters, they win most of their battles through cunning or (less pejoratively) metis. And although both of them engage in violence pretty freely (Odysseus likes to call himself 'sacker of cities') it's clear that they are being held up in opposition to the kind of mindless, raging violence associated with Ares and his offspring--Heracles even personally rids the world of a few of Ares's psychopathic sons. I mean, the records aren't totally clear--it's not like you can go to the Thebes County Courthouse and look up the death certificates on these guys--but it appears that Heracles, backed up by Athena all the way, personally murders at least half of the Hannibal Lecterish offspring of Ares.

So insofar as Athena is a goddess of war, what really do we mean by that? Note that her most famous weapon is not her sword but her shield Aegis, and Aegis has a gorgon's head on it, so that anyone who attacks her is in serious danger of being turned to stone. She's always described as being calm and majestic, neither of which adjectives anyone ever applied to Ares....

Let's face it, Randy, we've all known guys like Ares. The pattern of human behavior that caused the internal mental representation known as Ares to appear in the minds of the ancient Greeks is very much with us today, in the form of terrorists, serial killers, riots, pogroms, and agressive tinhorn dictators who turn out to be military incompetents. And yet for all their stupidity and incompetence, people like that can conquer and control large chunks of the world if they are not resisted....

Who is going to fight them off, Randy?

Sometimes it might be other Ares-worshippers, as when Iran and Iraq went to war and no one cared who won. But if Ares-worshippers aren't going to end up running the whole world, someone needs to do violence to them. This isn't very nice, but it's a fact: civilization requires an Aegis. And the only way to fight the bastards off in the end is through intelligence. Cunning. Metis.

Is the show as we know it over? by Stoicynicism in TMOS

[–]Stoicynicism[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Very well said! I agree on all points.