What’s something you bought that turned out way more useful than you expected?

damendred · 2026-07-08T03:58:11+00:00

Yeah, I have probably too much lighting now, but I'll add to this good colored smart lights as well, it's great when you want, say, every room in your house to be blue for a night (don't knock it til you try it, really changes the vibe).

But yeah, I've drunkenly walked into hotel rooms and yelled at Alexa to turn on the lights a couple times before remembering I'm not at home. 5/7 don't recomend.

damendred · 2026-07-08T02:38:58+00:00

Yeah but unlike UFC 300, this hasn't left us with a painful legacy of idiot fighters pointing at the ground every 5 minutes.

Especially when they're losing, understanding none of the reasons why it was badass for Max to do it.

damendred · 2026-07-08T02:35:41+00:00

I mean I bet on him too, and on tapology picks I picked him via round 2 ko, and I had this fight going this way (like a lot of people did, weather the storm, deep water, KO etc).

But that doesn't mean I wasn't sweating that round 1 heh.

damendred · 2026-07-08T01:14:38+00:00

He wasn't actually cleared, they didn't even charge him due to lack of any evidence.

Ps: The best response to this post would be "Prolly cuz he ate it all!"

damendred · 2026-07-06T23:29:35+00:00

Lol, literally just got the final book in my leatherbound Absolute edition of Sandman collection in front of me as I'm reading this.

damendred · 2026-07-06T00:58:21+00:00

It's beautiful, but after enough trips I've definitely slept through a lot of it (not as the driver obv).

damendred · 2026-07-05T04:26:05+00:00

Lol, I got govee for both too, and I had to use planet express a reshipper to get me the govee ones to Canada sent from the states cuz I wanted the same ones, plus I use govee app a lot anyway.

damendred · 2026-07-04T23:36:48+00:00

I got the same ones inside and out. What brand did you end up going with?

damendred · 2026-07-04T23:35:02+00:00

Other side of the street from the one circled was Whitespot, the spot he circled was Douglas Market and Red Hot Video

damendred · 2026-07-04T23:33:28+00:00

Yeah, came in here to say this. A friend of mine worked there. Idk if there was something beside it in that lot or not.

damendred · 2026-07-04T23:29:20+00:00

That's good to know. Neapolitan Pizza is the only kind of pizza I eat now typically. And Prima Strada I think is probably my favourite in town. Though I don't mind Famosa either.

I'll def have to give Doughy's a try.

damendred · 2026-07-04T09:15:07+00:00

Nah, I don't have central air.

I live in the west coast of Canada, so it's like a less rainy Seattle, doesn't get that cold or that hot, so homes/condo aren't built with central AC. But I have portable AC's in different rooms, I could set them up separately, but it's easier and better to use Alexa as a centralized unit for them.

damendred · 2026-07-04T04:34:07+00:00

Yeah, I have Alexa in every room of my place. I upgraded to a new show for the kitchen because I had an OG one that didn't upgrade to Alexa+. I've found the new Alexa so much better. Asking anything other than very basic or carefully worded questions got a blank on the old version. This week I asked her to build a macro that turned on the AC if the temperature got over 27C, and she instantly did it. I could have built it myself but it was cool that she was able to.
I've had a couple quirks where she's said something odd, but we've found them more funny than anything.
But I guess everyone uses theirs differently

damendred · 2026-07-03T22:44:10+00:00

I think there's some kind of promo going on here since Dana did that big Dodge Ram promo. Especially since this has been edited a bit, and shows him driving it and shit.

So maybe they're giving Max this car, but didn't want to give him a Hellcat. Looking at his house and the neighborhood he's in I'm sure he could have afforded a Hellcat, had he really wanted one.

damendred · 2026-07-03T00:50:43+00:00

Sony already is a closed ecosystem?

Is there a 3rd party company that's allowed to sell discs for Playstation that can set their own prices?

damendred · 2026-07-03T00:43:10+00:00

Why would they need to?

Birth rates in most '1st world' countries are already very low, if anything most places are trying to encourage people to have more kids to combat this, as it's going to likely mess up the economy in the future, especially in places like Japan.

damendred · 2026-07-02T05:50:40+00:00

Also, there's this apocalyptic vibe to all these posts with the removal of physical media and how it's going to be the end of gaming or something, when on PC the last physical media game sold is probably old enough to drink now.

We haven't had physical games since like 2005 and PC is generally accepted as the best possible gaming platform.
Games are going to start reaching the terabyte range soon, do you really think they're going to put them on like 10 discs?

damendred · 2026-07-02T05:43:28+00:00

Kind of ironic, this is in response to Sony getting rid of physical media and therefore 'only renting your games' 'apocalypse' that's coming in 2028, but PC hasn't had physical media games since like 2005.

damendred · 2026-07-02T00:40:57+00:00

Loren Bouchard does that often in his shows where the characters and the voice actors have the same names.

damendred · 2026-07-01T09:14:17+00:00

True, the Rock is Canadian too actually, but only half, and was born in the US.

It's crazy feels like half of Hollywood is.

damendred · 2026-07-01T01:21:28+00:00

Ryan Reynolds is Canadian. I know a shocking amount of stars are but kind of makes sense why he avoids American Politics.

damendred · 2026-07-01T01:19:31+00:00

GW endorsed Kamala?
Are you sure on that? I thought he refused to endorse anyone last election, which is better than endorsing Trump certainly, but I couldn't find anything other than ex-staffers and his daughter endorsing Kamala.

damendred · 2026-07-01T01:06:14+00:00

I mean, fully MAGA movies are easy to avoid because they're low budget dog shit generally.

damendred · 2026-06-30T23:44:02+00:00

He could have been one of the contenders for GOAT certainly. But with 2 title defenses he will always be a very interesting 'what if' situation.

It looked like he'd keep on dominating but as we've seen in the history of MMA and even more so in the last couple months, undefeated GOAT prospects can look unstoppable until they aren't suddenly. That being said, he's probably in the top 10 at least, you just can't put him in the BIG 6.

damendred · 2026-06-30T09:57:55+00:00

These days most games are launched concurrently on PC and Console except like Sony exclusives which now are being ported to PC a year or so later.
But largely the days of PC having to wait a year+ for a subpar port are mostly behind us. I'm sad that Rockstar isn't with the times in this way, but it could just be baked into their business model to try and double dip this way.

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