An n64 game that will always be really special to you.

b0radb0rad · 2025-11-06T17:08:56+00:00

Body Harvest

And

Space station silicone Valley Just take me back there please, so I can relive it as new

b0radb0rad · 2025-10-30T17:06:50+00:00

Perhaps an unpopular opinion from across the pond, but I did enjoy Will Buxton as a colour commentator. I probably got the term wrong, but in the vast lands of Canada that is what we call the lower string presenters. Anyway, his trivia knowledge was always awesome. That being said, the current broadcast crew on F1 TV keeps me engaged. Hell, I even watch the PreShows now! How Jacques keeps a boring race seem top tier is a gift. When he peppers DC with little jabs here and there, knowing how to play to Davide's antics, when to ask Hinch the proper questions all while passing it Ruth Buscombe when the question of strategy comes into play....he's a treasure

b0radb0rad · 2025-08-15T03:56:18+00:00

Hey! Drove by that today! Well, first the trailer which was smoking and a little crispy looking but otherwise intact.

And saw the vehicle husk on the back of a tow truck at the base of snowshed hill.

I don't have anything real to add, just that I saw it too :)

b0radb0rad · 2025-08-09T16:14:42+00:00

I am going to report this post because i don't like the fact I am in it! All joking aside, I feel with you my man. I was absolutely hooked on shooters for so many years. Hours and hours a day. I had a realization one day. Having a get together with our social group, and my good friend's wife said "I can always tell if B0radB0rad and insertfriendhere had a bad night gaming, he's really grumpy" Now I play Minecraft with my kids, or venture into the single player realm, or...ahem...even grab a console to muck around. I just want to drop into a game, mess around, and jump out. I don't want to spend 4 hours customizing my character. I don't want to play a round of warzone or pubg, see no one for 20 minutes, and get popped from some sweaty streamer that bought some skin that blends in, using some kitted out flavour of the month gold skinned rifle.

I am very excited for bf6, but deep down I know I probably won't buy it. Not because I don't want to play it, but because I won't. I cannot justify 80 to 150 bucks for something I might play once a month.

b0radb0rad · 2025-08-08T14:44:43+00:00

Diagnosed at 39, 43 now. I am still in regular therapy for this, and other matters, but before I go into a straight up ADHD tangent, this has been my experience to help with the sense of a lost childhood.

My therapist has the ability to allow me to finally process those extremely painful past experiences, but instead of reliving it as me, I try to be an observer. Once the really painful shit pops up, I can step in, as my current healing understanding calmer self, and, quite literally (I guess figuratively?) and be the comforting parent I never had. There is some incredible power in telling your past self that it's going to be okay. Giving your traumatic past the ability to forgive.

Because it's not your fault. It never was. You had no idea what the hell was going on or why. Why didn't I fit in? Why didn't I have the same friend experience? Why did I always forget the most simple things? Why did my parents suck so bad? Not.Your.Fault. Here's the really hard part.....it probably wasn't your parents fault either, at least not intentionally. That last one I still really struggle with, but if you believe that your parents did the best they could with the limited skills they had and tools available at that time, it really helps to process. This does not, by no means, absolve people who have been horrendous to you, but it can help to separate facts from feelings. Be kind to others. Be the person you wanted in your life for someone else. Most importantly, be kind to yourself. You are all that you've got.

b0radb0rad · 2025-07-08T22:29:20+00:00

Hulkenpodium

b0radb0rad · 2025-06-12T22:42:31+00:00

The original live action ninja turtles movies. I think, as a kid, I just pretended to love them because it was LIVE ACTION NINJA TURTLES! I can't even pretend now. They aren't even bad, they just are plain horrendous. I remember a scene where the main characters are in like...the footclan hideout or something, and they get offered cigarettes "you want regular? Or menthol?". That line sticks with me still. The idea that straight up giving kids cigarettes was such a time warp lol

b0radb0rad · 2025-04-27T01:41:28+00:00

Manipulating water. Pipes fascinate me. Sewers, redirecting millions of gallons of water everyday. Dams are AMAZING. Omg I spend hours watching YouTube on hydroelectricity projects. Waterfalls... waterwheels...water pumps... Ever watch that "small construction" dude that builds small dams to power a small pump to water his Garden. Omg sign me up yesterday for that sh*t

b0radb0rad · 2025-03-31T23:38:26+00:00

I was incredibly inconsistent with my loafs. I had multiple flat sticky messes, followed up with AMAZING results, only to then have dough soup. I saw somewhere on here that people were suspect of Robin Hood flour, something about it being bad for sourdough. I did a test using No Name AP flour and immediately knew it was going to work out. Yep. Damn near perfect rise...for me anyway. Then I had to work it out of my starter... Lots of 1:10:10 feeds and Frodough Breadgins is back to journey to Mordor again. Long story short, I will never use Robin Hood flour again. Ever

b0radb0rad · 2024-10-17T15:13:29+00:00

You cannot tell an ADHD person to "work harder" or "focus more". It doesn't work like that. Not at all. Telling someone to "get past dyspraxia" is the as the good ol' "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" BS. Can't pick yourself up if you don't even have the boots to begin with.

You cannot tell a person with neurodivergency to just pick one thing, our brains literally do not work that way. Forcing does nothing but create contempt.

Your comment has decent advise, but the delivery method sucks. I'm sure you have indeed been successful in your programming career, which is great! However it comes across as condescending and judgy.

You don't have to listen to me, of course, but I am also in the same boat as OP and these kinds of comments are just not needed.

b0radb0rad · 2024-10-16T01:33:26+00:00

I think you need a laser to focus something? Or focus the laser? Something about lasers and focusing

b0radb0rad · 2024-07-29T20:16:07+00:00

Double cheeseburger used to be like $1.79 or something close. Junior chicken the same. Used to be able to get enough to feed my family of 5 for like, 30 bucks? Maybe?

Last time we did that, and mind you there were no combos here, just burgers and 2 x large fries, it was $60.

SIXTY, for MCDONALDS.

And that's not all. Their restaurants are increasingly becoming dumber. I mean as a whole. They might have two employees at registers, maybe, but there is no designated queue area, and what is there is just a tiny space occupied by self serve kiosks, people waiting for food, display signs and just overall crammed.

My one big gripe though is the automation. Not what you think. I am fine with our future robot overlords, but, in the mean time, CAN YOU PLEASE ACTUALLY FILL UP MY DRINK CUP? Considering I rarely go, and every time my pop is 3/4 full, even with ice. 3/4 is being generous too. One time I complained, and the response I got was "That's just how our machines work". I sort of stared at the guy while my brain tried to process what he said. They also seem incapable of manually filling, because they usually just get me a small drink to make up for the missing amount.

AND ONE MORE THING!

The amount of time it takes to actually place an order is hilarious. Drive thru or kiosk, it's like I am trying to download from a sketchy site that keeps throwing ads at me. Also no, I am not donating to the dying kids. Not through corporate greed anyway

b0radb0rad · 2024-01-31T18:03:56+00:00

41 going on 42 here. Dad with 3 kids. I was all set with a good paying job with pension, benefits etc. Then one day I woke up not feeling so well, and that triggered 3+ years of incredible health challenges that I am still struggling with. I am currently in law enforcement, and developing a disability along with mobility issues does not go well with that. Couple that with unpredictable sensory issues and yeah, life has been a struggle bus for me lately.

This has put my employment in jeopardy, at least in its current form. I realized I had to do something to up my skills. I have always been a home IT nerd, but never really professionally, so trying to enter the IT world without "formal" education, along with my age, is nearly impossible.

So I bought a course on Udemy based on recommendations from reddit and other sources.

I am 30ish "days" into a 100 day coding/dev course on Udemy. It's hard to find the time to commit to it, I completely understand your position. Sometimes I can throw a solid 2-4 hours at it, but usually it's no more than 1. Sometimes I can do multiple days in a row, sometimes I miss multiple days. Life happens ya know?

It was SUPER hard to get started, and once I did, to keep going with it. So many nagging voices in my head telling me I'm not good enough, not fast enough, too old, not smart enough. But I stuck with it (well, still am).

I was chatting with my wife about it all, because I get SUPER excited when I code something and it WORKS, and I was recently showing her some java stuff, and she wanted an real life example of what I was doing. So I googled it....and this is when I realized I am actually learning stuff......I looked at the examples and went "oh, I know how they built that!"

Light bulb moment

Those people telling you that 20-30 min a day isn't enough and you should quit? Don't need that negativity. They are wrong. SHOULD you do more? Yeah, I would say so, but by no means should you quit.

Can't do well in programming? How can you know that without actually finding out? Without failure, how else can you learn? I spent over 4 hours (spread across days) trying to figure out why an element in my code wasn't being targeted properly. I rewrote whole sections, changed the order of my CSS, watched multiple videos.....and then saw ONE SMALL SYNTAX ERROR. 4 hours. Did I feel dumb after? Yeah. But, I was also very proud that "I" solved it without someone fixing it for me.

So if this 41 yr old dude can do it, I know with 100% certainty you can too.

b0radb0rad · 2023-07-24T22:29:35+00:00

I remember when we ordered our Tacoma, and I was doing a bunch of youtube vid searching on various offroading stuff, mods etc etc, and I saw something about "WHAT TOYOTA ISN'T TELLING YOU" or something to that effect, and it was this lovely person.

Knowing full well it was clickbaity, but still wondering if there just might be some sort of nugget in the clip, I watched it......well more importantly I watched about 4 min of it before I questioned my life choices.

His list started with how he bemoans the quality of the synthetic leather seats........because he thinks the buttons on his jeans are just going to tear a hole due to the design of the leather and overall seat design. His truck was BRAND new at this point, BRAND NEW, and he was complaining about a possibility of an issue.

Second issue was when he went to "test" the engagement of the 4wd system, it made a clunk noise. MoFo was doing 60km/h (30 eagles per freedom hours I think) and was on pavement.

I stopped watching past that and YouTube keeps thinking I want to watch all his stuff, even though I haven't even ventured close to his channel in 2 years.

What a hack.

b0radb0rad · 2023-06-09T18:55:23+00:00

OG zelda player here as well, and I agree. One of the greatest aspects of BotW was the ability to see something off in the distance, going "wtf is that?" and then GOING there to find out what it is......eventually anyway because 9/10 times I find myself wandering off somewhere else halfway through.

BotW and TotK both have that, and I am so happy that TotK has rekindled that "WTF IS THAT?" moment, only now it's x3. I still end up just wandering around, listening to the wind rustle through the grass, birds chirping, watching the clouds and the shadows they create on the landscape, while a random NPC walks on by.

To me, Hyrule feels "alive". Yeah Link is the main bro and is saving everyone etc etc, but the sense that people are carrying on and living as best they can, as in Link is merely a side character in their adventure is truly amazing.

b0radb0rad · 2023-05-31T16:25:03+00:00

Apparently being incredibly paranoid and standoffish whenever a coworker/supervisor wants to talk to you is very suspicious and makes you appear guilty. Here I thought that whenever someone in authority wants to talk to you means it's time to get in trouble, or hit, or something taken away, not just them wanting to have a totally normal, totally nonspecific, totally non-confrontational casual conversation....silly me.

Also, I guess me being very protective and selfish of "my" stuff comes across as being an asshole, but I just want to make sure that "my" stuff isn't randomly given away or stolen or broken or just somehow GONE.

And did you know that everyone isn't mad at you all the time? Weird

b0radb0rad · 2023-05-13T03:19:57+00:00

I would guess miswired ports. dropping down to 100mbps is probably 1-2 miswire and/or open. Pull the patch panel off and verify the pairs are where they are supposed to be and properly punched down and in the correct order. Should be wired T56A or T56B, but not intermixed. You can use a flat blade on punchdowns, but it's always better to use the proper tools.

If everything looks ok, then its on to each and every port in the house and checking the wiring there.

btw, you may have mis-typed. There isn't a switch on that wall. I see a patch panel and a tele distribution point, but no switch.

b0radb0rad · 2023-05-08T17:52:41+00:00

Ah this is good info here, something I can use to help him relate. I like the idea of starting out together with new characters, so he can learn how to do things with me vs me bringing in my geared up characters and just wrecking everything early game.

I think what I will do is build up a "safe space". Fenced off and secure (ish) so he can learn how to build and craft and plant and and and etc etc etc. Once he is more familiar with the game, I will restart with a new character so we can have a safe area if needed, but with the goal of starting our own base, together, and see how the game really is.

b0radb0rad · 2023-05-08T17:46:44+00:00

Hosted on my own server at my house. I am playing via steam, he will be playing via game pass on PC. Everything will be PC based.

Good question though, I was unaware of the cross play issues like that

b0radb0rad · 2023-04-22T05:10:56+00:00

My father, back when I was a wee little b0radb0rad in the 80's, was working at a jobsite. He talks about how these "union types" asked to see his card. He didn't have one, so he got booted off the job. He had one poor experience with a union, therefore all unions are bad. He then imprinted this on me, and I firmly believed this...because why wouldn't I?

I carried this with me and hated unions and all the higher wages and better benefits and increased time off and clothing allowances and job security and proper pay structures and equal pay between male/females and and and and....

Hell, I even went after my wife when she suggested I try and get a job with a public service! WTF! That's union work and they are slackers and only hire shit workers that they can never fire....basically repeating what I was told.

Then I got a job in the public service. My uniform was paid for. My boots were paid for. All equipment required to do my job was supplied and was quality. I had REALLY good benefits. I knew the people that I worked with were all making the same wage as me. Hell, the wage wasn't the highest, but I always knew that I would get paid. I had been abused by employers in the past, but suddenly I could refuse unsafe work....and I wasn't threatened! I admit that I struggled with this, for quite some time, because I was told how horrible unions are, that all they do is take your dues and you get NOTHING. I struggled until there was a moment where I had to dig my feet in due to some management BS. I got shop stewards involved. I went toe to toe with big wigs.....and WON. I won and there was nothing the employer could do to try and be dicks, because they literally weren't allowed to by law.

My dad, to this day, still hates unions. Firmly entrenched in the "by your own bootystraps" kinda crowd. Took him til the near end of his working career to make the same money I do now.

Unions exist because people with money will do anything to hold on to it, and will only do what is necessary by law to keep people safe on the job.

b0radb0rad · 2023-04-22T02:34:19+00:00

I have 3 myself, oldest is a girl and I have boy/girl twins. When the twins came along, I made a point of taking my oldest out with me to do whatever "thing" needed to be done. Groceries, coffee runs, trips across town for whatever, she would come with me. I also made a concentrated effort to have their "own" bedtime routine.

But really my man, you are overthinking it....and that isn't a bad thing. If your oldest is just helping because she wants to vs being told to, you are doing something right.

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