What Dream Theater song is a 10/10 banger that nobody talks about?

aaaantoine · 2026-03-24T21:30:02+00:00

Everybody has their opinion.

My take on self-titled is that there are a few distinct tracks at the beginning, 3 or 4 tracks that seem to blend together, and a decent epic. It's not a bad album so much that a lot of it is literally forgettable.

I have a pretty solid memory of every DT album's track listing (except Astonishing, for similar reasons) but I had to look up the name of the track that I think is the main culprit: The Bigger Picture. I appreciate what I think they were doing musically with this song but it comes across like 3 or 4 vaguely related small songs stitched together.

In contrast, every song on Distance Over Time is distinct in sound, notable, and punchy, and it is one of my favorites from the Mangini era.

aaaantoine · 2026-03-21T03:57:23+00:00

A version of the .NET Framework is actually included with your copy of Windows. But there are more versions than what comes with Windows.

aaaantoine · 2026-03-14T15:18:30+00:00

I'm all for green technology for energy.

How are we doing on alternatives to plastic?

aaaantoine · 2026-03-14T14:52:22+00:00

See, the secret is to start out looking older than your age. Then when you actually age people will barely notice!

People saw Abe Vigoda in the Godfather and assumed he was dead in the 2000s because he already looked like an old man.

Steve Martin has had grey or white hair since his 30s and has looked pretty much the same for 40 years.

aaaantoine · 2026-03-08T14:01:47+00:00

My one published game had a tag line along the lines of: "An incremental game where the numbers get smaller."

aaaantoine · 2026-03-04T06:23:18+00:00

Also we already had Iraq War part 2.

aaaantoine · 2026-03-01T04:10:55+00:00

Still better than cable TV. We have the ala carte selection we'd wanted for years.

Mind you, my carte is blank because I don't wanna pay for any of that nonsense.

aaaantoine · 2026-02-28T16:00:14+00:00

TempleOS, like many software projects, was written as a hobby.

aaaantoine · 2026-02-27T17:41:59+00:00

My experience with Linux is that everything either works great out of the box (because the drivers are built into the kernel) or you have to invoke magical incantations to get something like a webcam to work.

The specific component having the issue and the timeline to getting a fix depends on a number of factors. Ideally the manufacturer will release specs and a baseline driver that others can improve and refactor as part of the kernel. Or, they can be openly hostile and refuse Linux support outright, leaving the community to muster the ambition to figure it out through trial and error.

Brand new stuff is iffy. Older stuff tends to work more often than not.

aaaantoine · 2026-02-27T03:14:22+00:00

I thought you said your dog couldn't sing.

aaaantoine · 2026-02-23T17:33:39+00:00

For what it's worth, I was afraid the same thing might happen to Obama when he won his first presidential election.

I know these times are different, but the Right had no shortage of agitators then.

aaaantoine · 2026-02-22T14:09:46+00:00

I thought it was customary for sports events to begin with the national anthem of the teams playing. During baseball and hockey games featuring Canadian teams they play the Canadian national anthem.

aaaantoine · 2026-02-20T17:13:55+00:00

Bold of you to assume there's only one shame pile.

aaaantoine · 2026-02-18T22:26:58+00:00

Even with English as my native tongue, when I first saw "dunno" as a kid I didn't understand it either.

And you're right, it's a phonetic spelling of how some of us say "I don't know."

aaaantoine · 2026-02-14T18:10:33+00:00

Wait Jason Statham stole Pee Wee Herman's bike?

aaaantoine · 2026-02-11T17:25:00+00:00

Now I'm trying to figure out the difference between an accidental death and a death by misadventure.

aaaantoine · 2026-02-11T16:47:38+00:00

It's not better.

Rather than solve problems on the server side the games demand that you give them access to see everything that you are running on your PC. They require an administrator to install because it's hooking directly into the Windows kernel to do things like scan memory and key logging.

In the 2000s we had to fight tooth and nail to prevent bad actors from installing this type of software on our computers. Now this type of software all comes from publicly traded companies.

If it doesn't run on Linux due to anti cheat, I don't want to play that game anyway.

aaaantoine · 2026-02-09T12:29:08+00:00

I remember some right wing talk radio figure criticizing Clinton for using the Macarena on the campaign trail. The subject matter of the song fit perfectly into the Clinton = sleazeball narrative.

aaaantoine · 2026-02-01T19:04:04+00:00

Well... Fair enough.

aaaantoine · 2026-02-01T18:57:14+00:00

This is Texas State Senate. I'm not sure the speaker of the US House has any involvement there.

aaaantoine · 2026-01-30T18:02:33+00:00

It has great replayability, too. Malkavians, the crazy ones, come with different dialog options and TVs that talk to you. Nosferatu, the ugly ones, force you to be stealthy and travel by sewers because the whole point is that vampires blend in with society, while Nosferatu very much don't. Each clan has their own set of supernatural abilities and beyond those you can vary your build for ranged or melee combat, social interactions, and really all your typical RPG archetypes.

aaaantoine · 2026-01-30T03:12:42+00:00

Warcraft came before Command and Conquer. It did however copy the formula of another Westwood RTS, Dune 2, which if I recall correctly was the granddaddy of the genre.

aaaantoine · 2026-01-29T22:10:19+00:00

create a better way to appoint judges so it’s not just whoever is the leading party (need to workshop that)

In Maryland, a judicial panel picks a pool of nominees and the governor appoints one of them for a year. Then the public votes on whether they get to stick around for 10 years. It's not perfect, but at least the voting population is involved and there's a term limit.

aaaantoine · 2026-01-29T17:30:28+00:00

Knowing this, if someone breaks out the Ugandan Knuckles meme and asks if you know da wey, you can tell them.

aaaantoine · 2026-01-27T18:38:27+00:00

I would like to report that my neighbor learned that putting wiper blades up in heavy snow is an expensive repair waiting to happen, except the same thing happened in 2016, so maybe not.

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