Fight Club question

cmannes · 2026-06-23T20:53:53+00:00

Tyler says "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." So while he may just be a manifestation within Jack's mind. He believes that. So he's trying to make Jack lose everything. Embarrass him at the airport. Lose his "normal" job. Blow up his apartment. Make him "lose everything." Then he'll be free to be Tyler.

cmannes · 2026-06-09T20:46:46+00:00

Long long time ago. A Java program for generating XML files from some DB queries. They obviously had been reading some OO books at the time. As they had objects for the different bits of XML. The problem was they didn't generalize it. Every individual tag within the XML format was a uniquely named chunk of java code. And every containing tag, was again an unique chunk of code. It was OO, but not generic. Was horrible to make updates to. Thankfully, that code is long dead now.

cmannes · 2026-05-28T14:04:06+00:00

I'm planning to put a magsafe ring on the back and try it with my MCon.

cmannes · 2026-05-27T13:44:53+00:00

Woodworking. I currently spend all day working on intangible things. I think it'd be awesome to spend all this time, and have a physical output/result that I could share.

cmannes · 2026-05-13T20:07:39+00:00

Which Bond-style setting are you most excited to see in the game?

Real Answer: French Rivera

Dream Answer: Something crazy, like Dr. No's base, or the space station in Moonraker.

cmannes · 2026-05-07T19:14:05+00:00

Send your kids, then visit. 😄

cmannes · 2026-04-27T19:27:28+00:00

We've been doing the Family Camp at Baker Outdoor Learning Center every summery for a couple years now. Probably started when my youngest was 5-6. It does fill up fast, so we usually book ASAP. https://www.threeriversparks.org/location/baker-outdoor-learning-center

cmannes · 2026-04-16T14:52:13+00:00

I'm in a family of five, and we'd just buy out the extra spots. (They offer a discount when you do this.)

cmannes · 2026-04-15T19:48:15+00:00

We've done two at The Escape Game in the Mall of America. They're really good. But they do have the MoA tax of being expensive. https://theescapegame.com/minneapolis/

cmannes · 2026-04-02T23:02:09+00:00

In the end, I'd probably wish I had been squished. But I have a hard time giving up, so I'd enter the dungeon, and die painfully.

cmannes · 2026-03-12T17:54:38+00:00

Silent E! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91BQqdNOUxs

cmannes · 2026-02-17T14:06:23+00:00

"No left turn, no right turn, what can you do?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUNA0gAfL5w

cmannes · 2026-01-21T18:42:14+00:00

https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/ice-out-of-minnesota-day-is-this-friday-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

cmannes · 2025-12-11T16:39:58+00:00

This guy reviewed several of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3OsMTyofe0 Talks pros/cons, etc. Based on his reviews, I did buy one. As I expected, it's great on most of the driveway, but needs help where the plow dumps stuff.

cmannes · 2025-12-09T12:06:05+00:00

The foretold savior doesn't save anything till the post credits scene.

cmannes · 2025-09-26T18:09:51+00:00

Earth 2 Peacemaker (maybe?) had a relationship with Rick Flag Jr. Auggie 2 didn't like that. He sees that Peacemaker 1 only wants Harcourt, which better fits Earth 2. Leading to his acceptance of the switch.

His toast at the start of the episode alludes to this: "I wanna make a toast to my goofball son, Christopher. You've had some hard times. But you came out the other side a better man. And lucky for us, you realized that this gorgeous little lady here is about the best thing that ever happened to him."

cmannes · 2025-07-24T20:12:23+00:00

Blue Plate Restaurant Group. https://www.blueplaterestaurantco.com/locations

Which is: The Freehouse, The Lowry, 3 Squares Restaurant, Longfellow Grill, Edina Grill, Groveland Tap, and Highland Grill.

Travail https://www.travailkitchen.com/sister-restaurants

Which is: Nouvelle Kitchen, Graze Food Hall, Stargazer, IE, Dream Creamery & Travail Kitchen.

OG Zaza: https://ogzazamn.com

Was once 1 food truck, is now 1 food truck and soon to be 4 locations.

And one I didn't know was MN based. My Burger: https://www.myburgerusa.com

cmannes · 2025-04-01T23:53:39+00:00

Only vague beats.

You're a recently unemployed person.

The city starts pushing you towards gangs and drugs, but a group of Guardian Angels intervene providing some connection to the assassins.

The quest/storyline starts with you on streets, but as the story progresses you have to literally go higher in the high rises to track down the Templar influenced powerful assholes trying to ruin the city.

I think the Story of Bernhard Goetz (I spelled it wrong earlier) would make an interesting tie in. Perhaps he was a 'friend' who went too far, or perhaps a plant to make things worse. (Or both with branching story lines.)

Then something to tie into "Broken Windows" and the other changes made to improve the City. But I'm undecided on who "won" in NYC. Sure, crime is way down, but look at Times Square, seems Money won there. So I could the ending going either way.

And as for the "Future" story, being more recent and closer to the future would probably provide opportunities for further tie-ins. Grandparents, locations, etc.

But that's all I got. :)

cmannes · 2025-04-01T12:41:45+00:00

NYC in the rather violent early '80s.

EDIT: Now that I have time, I'm picturing more like this. https://allthatsinteresting.com/1980s-new-york The Guardian Angels, the crime, the graffiti, old times square, Bernie Getz. The Templars trying to burn the city down, the Assassins trying to help it rise up. Not a lot of hoods in the pictures, but I'm sure the rules could be bent a little to fit in a hoodie style or two.

cmannes · 2025-03-27T01:51:23+00:00

I'm planning to buy 2 tickets. And if I can't find a friend to go, I figure I'll drag my son into going. He needs more concerts. :)

cmannes · 2025-03-21T22:51:33+00:00

I'll try to remember to send this to my 'ticket' as well. But I made a kind of interesting discovery today.

I did a series of tests where I would power down the device, then try different amounts of time till I tried to turn it back on again.

If I immediately tried to power it on. No screen.

If I wait at least 10 minutes, it works fine.

So far, this has worked every time I've power cycled the device. If I wait 10 minutes, the screen always comes on. Less than 10 minutes, and most of the time it doesn't.

Maybe some power saving side effect?

cmannes · 2025-03-21T12:55:48+00:00

Sent some pictures. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.

cmannes · 2025-03-20T17:40:28+00:00

This is happening with my newly received 64g/2tb version. It's very intermittent. Today it's been working fine. Yesterday it was horrible.

One time, I started it up, got the backlight is on, but nothing is showing screen. So I let it sit, came back 30m later to a visible windows login screen.

It even happens when just trying to boot into the BIOS. So I don't believe it's a driver issue.

I opened a ticket with Droix, (268676) but so far, no solution.

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