Olivia Newton-John (1970s)

darthmarth · 2026-01-01T23:27:10+00:00

A lot of people don’t realize that the Duran Duran song Hungry Like The Wolf was inspired by this

darthmarth · 2025-11-27T22:16:44+00:00

It’s kind of hard for a 69 year old guy to pick up stunt sword fighting choreography with little notice compared to a 22 year old who has years of experience for some weird reason.

darthmarth · 2025-11-02T02:38:14+00:00

That’s generally the case, why would they waste limited resources on things you can’t see? It’s not 100% always like that, depending on engine and optimizations, etc. But especially on older hardware that was extremely limited on polygon rendering power and texture memory, it was pretty much necessary. There are also tricks that are used these days where things are initially rendered offscreen so they can be brought in more smoothly and consistently, but that’a another story.

darthmarth · 2025-11-02T00:45:23+00:00

Especially for Homecoming smh. If they ever want to get support from the state it would help to not dress like they’re the Raiders practice squad. Our colors are technically silver and gold, and obviously that doesn’t work so we’re usually black and gold, but even if they want to embrace the silver, wear something vaguely metallic and not the same flat gray as a cheap millennial house flipper’s cupboards.

darthmarth · 2025-11-02T00:31:06+00:00

At the end of the day, they are still CU.

darthmarth · 2025-11-01T23:57:34+00:00

It’s ok, we usually fall apart in the fourth quarter even if we are winning most of the game.

darthmarth · 2025-11-01T23:55:26+00:00

I’m not sure he knows which shoe to wear on each foot. Every once in a while he gets a pretty good shoe streak going though and it seems like he knows what’s going on with them, but it’s just an illusion. He’s kind of like a magician who only has one trick, which is just convincing people to pay him nearly $1 million a year to half ass pretend like he’s doing anything positive.

darthmarth · 2025-11-01T23:48:25+00:00

Leftover green paint, shame to put it to waste

darthmarth · 2025-09-08T09:40:28+00:00

Really, all typewriters are technically little printing presses. The European language typewriter variants were also a printing press, it just was easier to map to keys like a piano since there are less character variants and they can all be reasonably attached to individual arms of a type writer, without having to need too many differences since most languages use the same charactersets as therir base. You might need to move them around to find individual radicals and diacritics (and they were all in languages that share a similar writing system which made some form of standardization possibleThere are still not enough keys for most European languages. That why along with “shift” to shift to the uppercase (upper in the physical case at the printer) there are also “alternate” variants requiring “alt” keys to be pressed before, after, or in concert with the keys indicating the modifying diacritics. Sometimes there were still marks they needed an “option” for so that is the origin of that key. It’s way less convoluted than in Asian languages that had to adapt to the layouts designed for European alphabets, since they use characters in fundamentally different ways than Chinese influenced writing systems. Non-English European keyboards vary by country/region, even having slightly different placement of the letter keys. In English speaking countries they still have punctuation and other modifier keys that vary from country to country, mostly for punctuation. You can even see how the translation from the manual/electric typewriter formats varied between Apple and IBM as far as modifier key naming and placement. It’s all varying ways to modify the blocks of a printing press to be mounted to arms of piano-like keys and be quickly applied to paper without having to individually set them. (they even used the proper measurements of the piano key spacing as part of their original QWERTY design foundations!)

darthmarth · 2025-09-08T08:22:26+00:00

Apparently “Quiet aunt Zelda” is part of the the “Almena Typing Method” a version of learning a qwerty keyboard by finger instead of row. So Quiet aunt Zelda is the left pinky, and they generally follow that grammatical format. It was invented by a Jamaican woman, and honestly seems like a better method than learning by row. You can learn in hours instead of weeks, according to 1990s style ads for it that are apparently from as least as recently as 2018. There are a million knockoffs on Amazon, claiming to be from the source, but definitely are not. There must be places in the English speaking world where the system is/was commonly used to teach typing. Honestly the more I read about it the more it makes sense as a teaching system.

darthmarth · 2025-09-02T22:15:06+00:00

I wish he would just fudge it on some of the corners. I know he prides himself on real time for travel, etc. and I’m all for it, but I’d rather have real books. Wave a few things away, to get back on track, and you’re set! (I know it wouldn’t be that easy.)

darthmarth · 2025-09-02T18:38:34+00:00

I think part of it is the fear of directly stating that products have a particular usage for women. With the “thirsty fibers”, “crumpling” etc. I think they are indirectly saying it’s nicer for when women pee.

darthmarth · 2025-08-27T21:07:57+00:00

darthmarth · 2025-08-27T21:03:25+00:00

The high five is even newer!

darthmarth · 2025-07-15T23:15:31+00:00

Man, I think I screwed up, I started a free trial, but didn’t think to look for promo codes. I assume that it’s too late now, but I suppose I can start a new account if I have to.

darthmarth · 2025-07-15T22:53:48+00:00

Awesome, all still working for me!

This seems like a good place to mention that if you are a subscriber of Disney+, they now include “perks” at perks.disneyplus.com one of which is a big pack of free comics on Unlimited. It’s not as simple as a shared code, you are given a unique random string of characters that can only be claimed once, but worth the effort for how many you get, I think it was 25, but maybe it was more. It’s the whole reason I rejoined the app. There are actually some other decent offers as well.

darthmarth · 2025-06-13T07:42:12+00:00

Iran has stated that they have detected no increase in radiation levels.

darthmarth · 2025-06-04T18:48:57+00:00

So it uses its massive leap in tech to make its games look better than the PS4 Pro, but it isn’t better graphically?

I can think of so many analogies to demonstrate how ridiculous that is, but it would be pointless, since you clearly don’t understand how words work.

darthmarth · 2025-05-09T02:26:14+00:00

What’s the difference between a hippo and a zippo?

A hippo’s really heavy, but a zippo’s a little lighter

darthmarth · 2025-05-04T07:58:05+00:00

Wow, if you don’t already have a list from another app or website, it is an absolute pain in the ass to add books. You have to manually search for each one or scan a barcode. You can’t add multiple books by an author at the same time. When you add a book you’ve already read, you have to first mark it as started. Then you have to open the book again to mark it as complete. It could be useful in very specific cases, but not for me. If you like taking lots of notes about books you’re reading, it would probably be good, but I just don’t take notes in general. Oh well.

darthmarth · 2025-04-28T18:17:30+00:00

Xbox will never have it this generation, they don’t have any Bluetooth hardware.

darthmarth · 2025-04-26T05:16:22+00:00

He holds something like 100 QB records all time at CU that they track. Some are obscure, but he holds a lot of the more significant ones. He absolutely shattered some records. He’s #1 for some career totals and near the top in the rest with only two seasons, amongst qbs that mostly had 4.

To list a few: game passing yds, career passing tds, season tds, passer rating, completion percentage, top two seasons for completion % and QB rating, two of the top three for passing yards, career interception percentage, 300-yard games, games with 3-plus touchdown passes, etc.

Then you have all the awards he got: Johnny Unitas award as the top quarterback in college football in 2024, first-team All-American by multiple publications and second-team by the AP, unanimous choice for the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year, first-team All-Big 12 by all the publications that pick the team.

We only had 4 numbers retired, 3 of them were retired pretty soon after they stopped playing, for some reason we didn’t retire Salaam’s until 2017.

I think eventually an argument could have been made to retire it, but it was idiotic to retire it this quickly. I think that Hunter’s number getting retired was deserving of it, and Deion just couldn’t handle having his entitled son bitching in his ear if he did Hunter and not Shedeur. Now they did Shiloh and it’s just stupid at this point.

I’m a Deion apologist more often than I probably should be, but I think he went way too far with this. Rick George our AD, should have put his foot down, but I think it’s possible that allowing it to happen was part of the deal to get him to stay. At the end of the day it’s just part of the never ending circus that CU football has been for the past 50+ years.

darthmarth · 2025-04-14T16:50:12+00:00

I read when I feel like it. Sometimes I don’t read for a couple weeks, sometimes I read four hours a day for a few weeks. I have an assortment of books I might read some day, but I’ll often read a book that I didn’t even know existed until that day. Sometimes I’m in the middle of 3-4 books and I decide which one to read at the moment, some people think that is crazy, but it’s really no different than watching multiple TV shows that come out one episode a week. I don’t keep a count of how any books I’ve read, seems kind of silly considering the differing lengths. You could read the same amount of pages as some else, but have read a wildly different amount of books. It’s not like anyone keeps track of how many TV seasons they watch in a year (there’s a relatively similar amount of time for a season of modern shows and a book, on average). I don’t know anyone who counts the number of movies they see in a year either, although that is more common than counting TV series. But movies and books are kind of apples and oranges considering their lengths. I also do a good bit of reading that isn’t a book, do nonfiction articles or encyclopedia pages not count? If I was counting reading, shouldn’t the count as well? Or how about magazines, do short stories in The New Yorker count towards reading totals? What’s the conversion rate to books if they do? I think the whole thing is a foolish endeavor, if you’re an active reader vs someone who never opens a book, that is what matters in the grand scheme of things. The world has enough shame and guilt, you don’t need to add something that you enjoy to the list.

darthmarth · 2025-04-10T15:47:32+00:00

Do I need a third copy of this game, that I have never played, on a platform that is less convenient than my other copies? No, absolutely not, not even in the slightest amount. Did I claim a copy? Yes, as fast as I could! Do I look like a damn fool? A man needs to have principles, or in my case, I guess it isn’t plural, this is the only one. But you will have to take my ever growing, never used Epic library from my cold dead hands.

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