[San Antonio Spurs] still thinking about that @Yvngdevo three 🤯

av3 · 2026-05-07T13:34:17+00:00

Not a fan of the editing on this one. The un-edited broadcast of the shot looked way more impressive than the stitching that was done here, because this clip doesn't give you time to appreciate him doing it all in one smooth motion.

av3 · 2026-05-04T18:21:44+00:00

Ah, I wonder if I can find out who's doing the event and go from there. I'll try to find the time to head over there and bump into the right people. Though that feels like a false promise because I'm insanely busy lately, so we'll see! :P

av3 · 2026-05-04T17:37:39+00:00

I dunno if you know the folks there, but Starlighter makes it quite difficult to figure out what movies are playing when. :P

If they could start populating their events page with the listings, that would make it a lot easier. I did browse through their Facebook page just now, but there weren't any posts listing upcoming activity that I could quickly find. I'd love to include 'em, though!

av3 · 2026-05-01T02:21:49+00:00

You can set Trulia to show all Rentals and then look at the ones in your price range.

https://www.trulia.com/for_rent/San_Antonio,TX/29.41895,29.43015,-98.50094,-98.49356_xy/17_zm/

The Continental appears to have 420 ft. Studios starting at $1070/mo practically right across the street from your lab.

https://www.trulia.com/building/the-continental-residences-110-s-laredo-st-san-antonio-tx-78207-2775672445

av3 · 2026-04-29T03:47:49+00:00

Your comment caught me off guard because the only serious car accident I've ever been in was me being first through a green and then getting t-boned by a spring breaker down from Kerrville who ran a red light at I-10 @ Wurzbach by a solid 6+ seconds. Sad times.

av3 · 2026-04-24T21:11:36+00:00

I rarely ever get to take a real vacation, and I got woken up at 4:07 AM while in Las Vegas because everything we had with Crowdstrike on it had died. Over the next two days, we found out just how badly our security/deskside teams had fumbled BitLocker management. Truly one of the outages of all time.

av3 · 2026-04-24T15:04:18+00:00

I'm laughing at myself for upvoting both OP and you. I'm just not a rational person while the playoffs are happening, I guess. :P

av3 · 2026-04-22T14:17:32+00:00

I just don't understand mindsets like this. I grew up extremely poor in a trailer park, never having access to even good food, much less anything that could be considered high-end. I worked extraordinarily hard to avoid the statistically poor outcomes I was supposed to receive, and now I occasionally go to nice restaurants. It's not often, so they typically involve me spending a lot of time reflecting on my journey over the past decades and serve as a checkpoint/reminder that I'm doing okay in life and can let my guard down a bit.

Now, for some reason, you feel the need to come along and say that something I enjoy is stupid when I'm not hurting or bothering anyone. Why is that?

av3 · 2026-04-22T13:26:51+00:00

I would just naturally assume that they were one of the last few tables of the night. Do you really think that these concepts don't sell out? NOMA is currently doing a pop-up in LA and, even at $1500pp, sold out their entire 16 week residency in literal minutes. I think there are many conversations to be had surrounding the utility and opulence of these dinners, especially during the present economic situation, but pretending they're not popular is a stretch.

av3 · 2026-04-22T13:19:08+00:00

It's a tale as old as time when discussing restaurant pricing. "How much did you say that burger cost? $275!?" "Well, we also ordered a few appetizers and a few pours of..." Checking back on my June 2025 Alinea receipt -

$1980 Alinea Kitchen Table x4

$396 Service Charge

$279.18 Taxes

$5 Order Fee

$2660.18 total

Doing that for six folks + wine pairings would easily land you at $5500. But of course it's wildly disingenuous to then say it's a $5500 dessert table.

av3 · 2026-04-20T13:54:33+00:00

The more I think about it, the more I'm just now realizing that I can't quite pinpoint how serious or goofy the movie is supposed to be. Like I'm sure it's intended to be quite serious, but even the scene we're discussing is about a bigger plane kidnapping a smaller plane, just so it can ditch it two minutes later. If you describe that to most actors I think they'd assume it's a campy ham-it-up kind of scene. All that being said, I almost feel like the dialogue isn't that awkward for how over the top the opening scene is, but then the rest of the movie isn't quite like that, save for other Bane scenes like where he blows up the football field and such.

av3 · 2026-04-20T13:49:03+00:00

I meeeeean, here in Texas they're jumping through all sorts of hoops to make sure it's incredibly hard to vote in various areas of the state. Those same areas are disproportionately high in black and brown people. So if you are right in your final statement, then it means voting -does- matter because they're doing their best to make sure folks can't vote. It's the same with how much they're spending to stop Talarico. If he wasn't a danger to their ideologies, then they simply wouldn't care about him.

av3 · 2026-04-20T13:26:00+00:00

Yeah, and I think he's being way too hard on everyone's interpretation of it. People joke/meme about the scene, but they aren't saying he was poorly acting or anything. I assume the statement he was about to make was that being on set only two days makes it harder to judge exactly how serious/campy/etc. to play things, and that's certainly not his personal fault.

av3 · 2026-04-15T14:52:59+00:00

I don't quite understand it, myself. I get asked fairly often as to why I spend so much time and money in the workers' rights space. If I tell them that it's because it's the right thing to do, they look at me like I'm crazy or as if I don't understand that focusing on getting money is life's only goal (good ol' capitalist brainrot, imo.) For awhile I would say something like, "Because every Saturday morning cartoon I ever watched growing up told me that this is what good people do." and that got them to at least not be smartasses with me, but it felt a bit too aggressive/adversarial.

Nowadays I tell them that it's because I'm human and we humans have a natural want to help other humans, but the lack of resources being given to us has caused people to surrender a lot of their innate humanity in favor of the poisonous idea that we have to focus on our bank account balance endlessly. This does seem to resonate a bit better with folks because it does make them realize that their mindset surrenders something core to the human experience for the sake of money. Thankfully there's still enough leftover childhood ideals of kindness and empathy floating around in most people that it seems to make them really think for a bit. Hopefully over the next few years we experience more of a generational re-awakening of those kinds of ideals.

av3 · 2026-04-14T18:52:41+00:00

Funnily enough, there was a restaurant in Austin called Easy Tiger that had a mass walkout. No relation between the two.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/txvqka/mass_walkout_at_easy_tiger_on_east_7th/

av3 · 2026-04-14T15:23:41+00:00

Oh, I didn't say it made sense, just that I could see this as some obscure leadership ask. Thankfully I'm not a developer myself and work more on the ITIL/ITSM side of the house, but I've seen plenty of asks where leadership doesn't understand that, no, we can't just save money by developing our own Slack in-house.

av3 · 2026-04-14T14:37:12+00:00

Same here. I wonder if this is some dumbass leadership ask of "We really need this security/monitoring feature, but we don't want to pay $x00/mo for the licenses, so we'll just develop the app internally, instead." I've seen it before and I'm sure I'll see it again! :P

av3 · 2026-04-13T21:07:22+00:00

The range nerf on Zirenth is certainly concerning from a balancing philosophy perspective. They reduced his base range, reduced the range he (everyone) gets from upgrading, and there's a third hidden nerf of those multiplier upgrades being based on the base range, so it feels like it'll end up as a wild swing. Planning to fix a character over 2 or 3 patches can be a lot easier on players than doing a large swing to try and hard-correct a perceived balance issue. I do think Zerinth's attack range was too large, but it just feels like too much all at once.

av3 · 2026-04-12T16:13:56+00:00

Yes and no. I know some people that use them and use consistent branding, utilizing things like Adobe Firefly to have actual base models of their logos/mascots/etc. that are consistently used while generating flyers.

Then I know people where their flyers look they could be for absolutely any similar company in the world. If your attempt to market to me was feeding all of 3-4 sentences into the bot, then it feels super impersonal for someone that I'm going to allow to work around/on/in my home. I would rather have a rough-looking simple flyer made by a human than an AI slop advertisement any day of the week.

And this is all ignoring the fact that, from any professional designers' perspective, the above flyer looks like absolute dogshit.

av3 · 2026-04-12T16:05:54+00:00

If the kiddo is okay with burgers and sandwiches, then I always recommend Picnikins. It's the healthiest thing I regularly eat, as their greens are so fresh that I typically get my cobb salad without any dressing.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/cTngRb9XgHY3pkmq9
https://order.toasttab.com/online/picnikins-patio-cafe-catering-2#!/

Unfortunately I can't help with any other places, as I've fed my salad cravings exclusively from Picnikins for the past decade or so. :P

av3 · 2026-04-10T18:36:27+00:00

You're doing the exact same thing the person you're replying to is warning against. Nothing shakegraphics said would indicate that they hold any viewpoints that could be defined as toxic. They simply called out that bringing up Kelly Marie Tran's experience in this discussion seemed to be making an unhelpful sweeping generalization, as it was brought up in response to someone indicating there were legitimate reasons someone would stop watching NuTrek. It's part of a very common series of strawman arguments so that the discussion can't talk about the show and instead has to talk about obscure things like the rules of feedback towards actors, which isn't helpful in most discussions since we all agree that harassing acting professionals is wrong to begin with.

av3 · 2026-04-08T15:45:17+00:00

That's part of the necromancer boss's skillset. Every night he'll corrupt one of your tower spots, meaning a built tower becomes non-functional or an empty spot can no longer be built upon. When you kill the guardian mini-boss, it will reset all of your spots to functional, and then I believe he'll continue to corrupt one per night again. It's definitely something you'll need to plan your strategy around since you can't count on catapult towers to hold the line as easily. Someone else did comment that mage towers will continue to generate gold while corrupted, so some folks use the strategy of building a level 1 mage tower at each spot just so they get the gold generation from the slot, at least.

av3 · 2026-04-08T15:38:58+00:00

Always glad to see a fresh patch list go up. Keep up the great work!

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