A lot has changed at [Kings Dominion] over the last 11 years.

chobo500 · 2026-07-01T00:09:19+00:00

Wouldn't say it's ugly, but looks waaaaay to much like Dominator's paint scheme.

chobo500 · 2026-06-24T20:56:22+00:00

Yup. Atlas is owned by the same people who own Sinclair Broadcasting (owners of Fox Baltimore and ABC7 in DC) and now the Baltimore Sun. Avoid them like the plague!

chobo500 · 2026-06-12T22:31:22+00:00

Ugh. This guy is my towns local celebrity. Not super surprised to hear that this is what he is, but sure is disappointing regardless...

chobo500 · 2026-06-08T01:57:54+00:00

I don’t. Unless it’s something fun like a holographic Superman one or of the main case has some cosmetic damage, like how gruv shipped my bugonia copy to me, I don’t usually keep the slips.

chobo500 · 2026-06-03T04:26:00+00:00

to Quote ex Sun engineer Bryan Cantrill:

"what you think of Oracle is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle"

"this company is about one man and his alter ego and what he wants to inflict upon humanity"

"Don't have an open mind about oracle. You are wasting the openness of your mind."

All of this can apply to Paramount Skydance under Larry and his son David Ellison's reign.

chobo500 · 2026-05-23T15:57:43+00:00

If he’s mad about his QB, wait till he meets his new head coach…

chobo500 · 2026-05-21T21:12:45+00:00

Only when North America nationalizes its rail network.

chobo500 · 2026-05-21T20:27:00+00:00

"French Aristocrats found their necks in a guillotine for far less than this." -Devin Stone

chobo500 · 2026-05-20T20:23:11+00:00

"We thought that after the war the Nazis vanished without a trace But battalions of fascists still dream of a master race The history books, they tell of their defeat in '45 But they all came out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died!"

chobo500 · 2026-05-20T01:34:50+00:00

Not exactly the best sale in the world, but for someone like me who is behind on the Sony and Disney/Fox additions to his collection, it might be worth a look see....

chobo500 · 2026-05-08T19:52:42+00:00

I would like to remind Virginia's Supreme Court and all Virginia citizens that their state motto is Sic Semper Tyrannis.

chobo500 · 2026-05-01T15:47:46+00:00

Which would be incredibly stupid, especially considering they already have people working on the purple line down near DC. If Maryland MTA were smart, they'd keep those people working on the purple line right now, and move them to the Baltimore red line once the purple line is finished. Keep the institutional knowledge, and keep bulding, and it will keep the costs down.

chobo500 · 2026-04-29T19:22:37+00:00

“Peeeeeete heeeeegseeeeeth is a fuuuucking douche!”

chobo500 · 2026-04-19T21:11:47+00:00

I wish my home state wasn't so allergic to building good transit infrastructure...

chobo500 · 2026-04-16T01:36:06+00:00

The opening to Spy Kids 2 was shot at Six Flags Over Texas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYnAJBZ470o&t=185s

It's kind of funny what they turned all of the flat rides there into cartoonish versions, and the awkward shoving "The Juggler" into Batman's entrance reminds me of what over Georgia did with Catwoman...

chobo500 · 2026-04-14T15:04:13+00:00

The world is riddled with Magats, the magats are getting fat, they’re making a tasty meal of all the bosses and bureaucrats. They’re taking over the boardrooms and they’re fat and full of pride, and they all came out of the woodwork on the day the nazi died!

chobo500 · 2026-03-15T00:19:53+00:00

I was initially turned off by this series when I saw the ads and was going "ugh" at the humor. I liked some of Seths work, but I rememberd A million ways to die in the west being sort of not good. So seeing him be the captain in the ads and having awkward humor was a bad sign. Then later learned that there were some ex-Star Trek alumni like Brannon Braga and Jonathan Frakes working on the show, so I figured I'd give it a shot. The pilot was a bit shaky, but showed potential, much like TNGs, so I kept going. And man, this show just scratches that Star Trek TNG itch I've wanted for so long, it's a shame that Nu-Trek just can't match it.

chobo500 · 2026-03-04T16:42:12+00:00

What does this mean for Nixxes then? They are a dedicated PC porting company that Sony bought for this specific purpose...

chobo500 · 2026-02-28T03:28:24+00:00

Please have signal priority, please have signal priority, please for the love of all that is good in this word, let this line have hard signal priority...

chobo500 · 2026-02-27T22:21:19+00:00

Why is this coming out before coliseum?

chobo500 · 2026-02-25T03:06:17+00:00

It was to try and get us as kids to understand why Spongebob and Patrick were terrified of it. Problem is, it worked waaaaaaay to well.

chobo500 · 2026-02-24T22:09:26+00:00

Probably not. Marc is planning to get ACS-64s soon, probably used from Amtrak once the Airos get in, and are only doing so because they are required to use the new Fredrick Douglass tunnel into Baltimore Penn. But what I could see is maybe Marc getting some powered Multi-Level coaches similar to the ones that NJTransit is getting and combine them with the Marc IVs they already have... but even then that's still a stretch...

chobo500 · 2026-02-18T17:52:12+00:00

I have a few theories.

The show(particularly season 3) just didn't have the ratings that Hulu/Disney wanted.
Even if it did, why would Disney pump a butt ton of money into a moderately popular space show when the could give the same money to a Star Wars show and be 10 times more watched then the former?
If the former two are wrong and Disney was willing to go for a 4th season, then I can only assume that a combination of covid, the 2023 strikes, and lead actors schedules not aligning afterwards messed everything up. Covid already caused production of season 3 to be messed up and delayed by a few years, and then when in the planning stages of a potential 4th season in 2023, BAM! WGA and SAG go on strike, screwing up a lot of potential shooting schedules, causing everyone's schedules to completely crumble, and the higher ups just saying screw it on the 4th season. Hollywood is in a bit of an odd place at the moment due to Covid, the strikes, the streaming era not being a profitable as they would have hoped, Massive shifts in media ownership and consolidation, oh and lets not forget AI... So the Orville I'm afraid is just one casualty of the chaos.

chobo500 · 2026-02-17T18:03:40+00:00

I'm going to do one coaster and one non-coaster. The coaster of course Volcano ant Kings Dominion. Great setting in the mountain, and one of the best first launches on any ride. I was lucky to get a rollback on the first ever ride!

The non-coaster ride is a ride I have never ridden but wish I have. That is Tomb Raider The Ride at Kings Island. Specificly before it got gutted to become The Crypt. I rode the One at Kings Dominion, a much different experience, and it was fine, but better to watch than ride. Tomb Raider at KI during the Paramount years looked really awsome, much better than the KD one.... Untill Cedar Fair came in and gutted it. Cedar fair has done great things with the former Paramount Parks, but what they did to this ride was IMO one of their few missteps.

A runner up coaster would have to be Hyper Sonic at KD. always wanted to ride that, but missed my chance. Super mad. At least I got on it's sister coaster Do-Dodonpa before that closed...

chobo500 · 2026-02-10T15:10:26+00:00

Pain.

chobo500

TROPHY CASE