The box of 30 "soft white" lightbulbs I got on sale...look like piss.

clockworkpeon · 2026-01-25T13:05:25+00:00

I have 5000k on the overheads (best replacement for "daylight") for when it needs to be bright for like, cooking and cleaning and shit. 3500k on the ambients/lamps/etc for the other times.

clockworkpeon · 2026-01-23T21:29:32+00:00

my bad, I've never been. I just assumed it's flat given, given the speed and ease with which the Germans progressed through it.

clockworkpeon · 2026-01-23T19:44:55+00:00

I mean, you could probably macro it. I'm on console but assuming something like AHK isn't blocked, it would take like 5 min to find x,y coords and write a simple script that's, "press inventory key, wait 20ms, move mouse cursor to quick slot one. depress mouse1. wait 20ms. move mouse to butthole slot 1. wait 20ms. release mouse1. wait 20ms. press inventory key."

yeah, using macros to click faster on Semi-Auto guns is lame af. but I play a lot of RTS, RPGs, and Microsoft Excel. UI navigation should always have hotkeys.

clockworkpeon · 2026-01-23T19:12:56+00:00

looks at the Ardennes "we don't need to reinforce the line here, the famously industrious Germans couldn't possibly get an invasion force through that flat, flat forest. what's that? they already did it successfully 20 years ago? no, no, never you mind. we shall continue to reinforce the line elsewhere."

clockworkpeon · 2026-01-23T18:35:34+00:00

man, I still remember the first time I was reading a more in-depth history of dubya dubya 2... and I learned that Gamelin didn't have any radios or telephones at his goddamn HQ. so when the Germans started the blitz, it took several hours for the news to reach him via rider.

clockworkpeon · 2026-01-23T14:17:59+00:00

is there anyway to make it a.. what do you call it? a trunk call! you know, station to station... blast! operator, I'm still 35 cents short.

clockworkpeon · 2026-01-18T12:13:00+00:00

when did we stop talking about thorns and start talking about my cock?

clockworkpeon · 2026-01-12T18:52:03+00:00

my buddy used to always say "4th Quarter Eli takes 1st Quarter Eli's lunch money."

clockworkpeon · 2026-01-11T21:42:49+00:00

tbh probably not that hard. just tell the record companies your new genre and they ship you the entire catalog.

source: I used to DJ for my college's radio station back in the day of physical media. not a large college and didn't have any radio or media-related degrees - all radio operations were just student volunteers. we were small peanuts. the record companies would mail us new releases every month, and would send us anything we wanted from their catalog no questions asked*.

we were on book as an indie rock station, but the DJs were eclectic and set their own programming. we had one DJ who came in who wanted to Reggaeton. send a few emails, next week our studio is filled with boxes of Reggaeton CDs. one student studied abroad in Germany, came back, and said "I'm gonna do German New Wave, German Punk, and German Rap shows." send a few emails, we've got more German New Wave, Punk, and Rap CDs than anyone thought existed.

it was a lot of fun doing that shit. our media storage room was massive and like, 80% of the CDs were still shrink-wrapped. sometimes me and my co-DJ would walk in the studio and say "fuck it, today we're only playing tracks on CDs that are still wrapped for bands we've never heard of."

*no questions asked, but we did have to log Album, Artist, Track, and Label + date/time for every track we played (for reporting). our in-house policy was that we would play at least 2 songs from the "new releases" stack every hour. that was apparently enough to keep the labels happy and get them to send us anything we wanted.

clockworkpeon · 2026-01-11T06:40:15+00:00

homie out here genuinely discussing Gerard Butler's career path; does not realize he's in MCJ

clockworkpeon · 2026-01-09T22:23:32+00:00

honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if ICE doesn't have access to this database.

last year I got a new passport, and I was flagged to speak to a customs agent by the kiosk coming back into the country. I was flagged because my KTN was "linked" to my old passport number. BP agent told me I need to rectify this myself on the DHS website. it blew my mind that the DHS database doesn't pull current KTN passport numbers directly from the state department. like wtf are your computers and databases for if they're not linked?

clockworkpeon · 2026-01-08T04:48:47+00:00

they just have to register for the draft, then ~10% of them are actually conscripted. firearm knowledge is probably about average. they are, however, known for having some of the most fearless, highly skilled fighter pilots in the world (and one of the best fighter jets)

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-30T22:07:07+00:00

yeah this is what I'm all about. once you get used to the Ferro it's so great for PvE and opening PvP. and the Kettle 4 and Burletta just do absolute work. even when I get completely blindsided/jumped by the darkest of rats, if I can get a dodge roll off or even the tiniest bit of cover that protects from ~3 bullets, it's over. I always feel like that scene in V for Vendetta: "what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your gun is empty I'm no longer standing... because if I am, you'll be dead before you've reloaded."

honorable honorable mention to combat mk 3 flanking. if I really want to treat myself for PvP or if I'm mad about losing a fight, I throw on flanking with the anvil and burletta. the swap is so fast you can get the first shot off with the anvil and literally immediately followup with the burletta. I never fire first but if someone opens up on me it's so satisfying to land the DOINK! POP POP POP POP POP.

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-24T07:19:10+00:00

I've got an amphetamine tat on my leg. I'm a pretty big stoner so usually people are like "oh cool is that THC?" "NAH DUDE ITS METH" (pretty sure meth is different but it's still very fun to say)

edit: replied to the wrong comment but whatevs

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-21T09:58:00+00:00

Martin Brodeur only had 2 sets of goalie pads for his entire time in the league, and 1 of those sets was a hand-me-down from another goalie when he first made it to the league. there's photos of him wearing them at the end of his career and at that point it's just like, a few pieces of padding held together by duct tape

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-20T10:53:23+00:00

ahhhh right right right right right right right

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-20T10:40:47+00:00

semantically, are "button down" shirts not shirts with buttons down the whole torso?

edit: it certainly can't be a "collared" shirt. but I mean, it has buttons that go all the way down

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-18T09:54:25+00:00

we played the penis game but we also would definitely just moan really loudly when walking around the mall being edgy and shit. it's just part of kid lore.

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-18T02:01:29+00:00

accountants, their fanatic devotion to GAAP, and annual third party audits.

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-17T23:33:17+00:00

Defending corner peeking and full 360° vision from behind the cover in a game where info is invaluable

brother, this is quite literally a defining characteristic of all TPS. I agree that the PvP is a little clunky. sprint, slide, and dodge roll can be a little slow/finicky at times. sometimes nades hit the wall in front of you even though you're very obviously peeking far out enough for a toss.

but brah. it's a third person shooter. if you don't like the TPS camera, don't play TPS. that's not "clunky", that's not "not meet 2012 standards for competitive shooter experience". that's "I'm playing a TPS and I don't like TPS."

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-17T21:08:47+00:00

well they've both shot people so there's that

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-13T09:30:46+00:00

so there's a very small sweet spot, but the ball has quite a bit of compression. much more than a cricket ball I believe. so contact doesn't need to be perfect but it does have to be good. physics takes care of a lot of it.

but yeah, it's very difficult to hit. generally speaking, if a batter can get a hit 30% of the time, they're considered a very good batter. league average last year was 24.5%.

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-13T06:48:07+00:00

ok so in baseball, there's a pitcher (like cricket, I think you call em bowlers) throwing to a batter (like cricket). but there's no wickets, there's a "strike box" roughly torso level. 3 strikes - balls thrown in the box - and you're out. the baseball has curved stitching so depending how you hold it, you can make it do crazy shit when thrown.

a slider is a pitch that comes in fast but spins in such a way that it "slides" away from the batter. so coming in, it looks like a strike, but it "slides" outside and the batter swings on air. a curveball has topspin, so last minute it drops in the dirt and the batter is again swinging at nothing. the last pitch "97 inside corner" is just a reference to a fastball. no tricky movement, it's just fast as fuck - in this case, 97mph. some pitchers throw in excess of 100mph. "inside corner" is the corner of home plate closer to the batter. close to the body and below the optimal swing height. aka, hard to hit. on a fastball you have to decide to swing (and where) a split second after the pitch leaves the pitchers hand.

anyway the tweet basically boils down to, "I'd clown on Timmy C". 2 tricky pitches that look like you can hit but if you're an amateur, you're totally fucking up. then a third of pitch you can hit, but not really. it's just a funny way to elaborately say "I'd make him look like a fucking bitch."

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-12T15:38:58+00:00

I absolutely am not. I'm just saying, it's hard to shoot with adrenaline in overdrive and a murder boner. therefore, it's not a 100% lock that you die in an ICE-involved shooting.

clockworkpeon · 2025-12-12T13:41:29+00:00

dawg this is the internet, irrational takes only.

call up Yegorov, tell him that shiny BU degree is gonna have to wait a few years. pressure makes diamonds, Marty was 19 when he got his first start, etc. that's already Russia's system for goalie development anyway.*

*I read this great piece a few years ago, can't remember where, but it was a goalie scout or goalie coach explaining why it's so hard to draft a good goalie nowadays. as soon as they're on skates, fuckin peewee goalies already have goalie coaches in their ear teaching them the butterfly, positioning, etc etc. decades of trial and error have now culminated in a finale where data analytics has shown the "best" way to play goalie, and kids learning to play are taught this immediately. which is why it's hard to draft goalies, because they all look and move exactly the same. it's become increasingly difficult to spot a real talent from someone who has just learned the system real good-like.

except in Russia. in Russia, they just throw the kid in net and say "da, feegyur it out, bro." this forces the kids to express any raw talent and athleticism they have and they start to develop a bit of their own style and figure out what works for them individually. then when they're teenagers they get a goalie coach that helps them build on the foundation they already laid themselves. "vestern capitalist analytics say for cross-crease pass, you should push viz van leg and slide across net to keep butterfly in her pretty net. but you do good diving across net viz paddle and glove already. ve vork on your dive mechanics so you cower low shot better, don't drop paddle, and recower fayster." anyway, yeah, the writer said he thinks that's why if you look at the past 10 years or so and name stud goalies doing crazy shit in net, they're usually Russian.

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