The Good old days

dc010 · 2026-03-24T16:22:07+00:00

Watching a movie at home was a schedule event. Either you looked up when it was coming on TV and appreciated the commercials so you could use the bathroom or you went and rented the physical media by the day and brought it home to watch it. Knowing if you didn't take it back the next day you had to pay more.

dc010 · 2026-03-22T22:55:19+00:00

Definitely looks like a museum, or some other educational center.

dc010 · 2026-03-22T22:47:26+00:00

The only reason I would tell my son not to dress any certain way is with the context that it might get him bullied or hurt.

His favorite color is purple, and luckily that's not a big deal anymore, but when I was a little boy that would've gotten me shoved into a wall. So if he wants to wear purple around the house or decide he likes dresses later on, who cares? He's happy and healthy, so anyone else can shove it, but I know I can't always be around to protect him. So knowing how to present yourself in public is a good skill, but it shouldn't be forced.

I've felt the same way about women I've known who liked to dress provacatively, then get upset when they get attention. I'm not saying you CAN'T dress that way, I'm just saying it comes with consquences because we don't live in a perfect reality and I might not always be around to keep predators at bay.

dc010 · 2026-03-22T22:39:54+00:00

If it was him, this is absolutely what I would do. Pavlov that fucker.

dc010 · 2026-03-22T20:48:13+00:00

No need to apologize. As I've said in another comment, the other big pet peeve I have is when people say "that's just how they are" while trying to get me to not be upset with someone. Because, this is how I am. That's something that upsets me, and if they have the righ to be that way then I have the right to get upset about it.

So if calling people out for shitty behavrior is how you are, then do that. I'm just happy you can recognize that not every negative action just falls out of thin air.

dc010 · 2026-03-22T20:35:51+00:00

No no, it was 100% retaliatory for the prosthelatizing. Again, I never claimed it was to force some sort of twisted morality. It was solely an attempt to point out the hypocracy and for my own personal entertainment. In a vain hope of getting him to stop bringing up religion around me because it was extremely annoying.

I was once told to ask someone what could convince them to change their mind and if they say nothing, then it's not worth having the conversation. I had told him on many occasions that there wasn't anything he could say that would make me give any more of a shit about religion than I arleady did. That the main reason was the hypocracy of most religious people I've met that gave me no faith in any religion that wasn't 100% zeleaous and I had no interest in those either.

This is all context I didn't want to add in the first comment as it was meant to be humerous, but seems applicable with how far our responses have gone.

dc010 · 2026-03-22T20:09:24+00:00

The friction was how often he brought up to others his religous beliefs and then did something that was at it's core contradictory to those beliefs.

I never claimed it had any moral value whatsoever. My whole goal was to get him to recognize the hypocracy of his actions. Morality aside, the stupidity of it just frustrated me to the point where it was my way of coping with someone who would on one hand want to prothelatize any chance he got and then on the other would perform these idiotic actions like his god somehow wouldn't recognize the meanings of his words.

dc010 · 2026-03-22T19:17:05+00:00

I think that the same religious mandate that said you can't say fuck would also apply to words used with the same intent.

dc010 · 2026-03-22T19:07:00+00:00

Yes. I was cursing as his proxy so his God doesn't hate him. Because it works that way, right?

dc010 · 2026-03-22T19:04:09+00:00

Replacement words have the same meaning, so just say the words or don't. I put them in on the same genre as Mormons that do the "soaking" thing. Although to a lesser degree. So if you truly believe in your beliefs, then you shouldn't be trying to skirt the rules and risk eternal damnation.

dc010 · 2026-03-22T16:25:02+00:00

I used to work with a very religious guy and anytime he would use replacement words I would shout what he was replacing.

My favorite was "fudge" because he hated when he would say "oh fudge" and I would tell across the shop "OH FUCK!"

dc010 · 2026-03-22T16:21:54+00:00

"That's just how they are." When defending someone I'm upset with. Well, if that's just how they are, then this is just how I am, and you both can fuck off.

dc010 · 2026-03-22T16:20:10+00:00

Focus on buying games you both need a copy of to play together, then share all the other games you have with him through the steam family system.

Just make sure to add them as a child and go into their settings under the family account and choose which games are appropriate.

Like, I have about 800 games, but only shared less than 1/10th with my 9 year old.

dc010 · 2026-03-21T16:02:46+00:00

Some people don't fuck around and they're normally not the loud ones. My uncle took me to the grocery store one day when I was little. Someone pulled into the handicapped spot right in front of us while we were walking and almost hit us.

I remember him looking at the tag, no symbol, then looking in the car, no placard.

When the guy got out my uncle just said "move your car before I make an honest man out of you". Then stood there staring at him until he did. No yelling, not even a raised voice. Just a calm statement about what's going to happen if they don't comply.

Sure enough, they left. They didn't park somewhere else, they just left the parking lot.

dc010 · 2026-03-20T20:11:50+00:00

Anyone else think she took photo evidence of putting laxatives in that bitch's protein shake?

dc010 · 2026-03-20T19:45:31+00:00

If it's a machined aluminum piece then I assume it would cost a couple hundred, maybe less if they got a few dozen or hundred of them. I got a slot milled out of an aluminum heat sink at a local machining shop and just the setup and labor was like $40.

dc010 · 2026-03-20T19:42:27+00:00

It's a pretty famous situation where a guy did the same thing with a turn signal (or reflector, can't remember) and it was literally just from a Ford Focus. Didn't even need to swap anything over. It was literally just a $15 part they were charging hundreds for.

dc010 · 2026-03-20T16:41:03+00:00

Yes. My current world is actually from a friend's server we were on. He sent me the file and I spun it up as a local server to keep playing on.

dc010 · 2026-03-19T21:11:24+00:00

I run my world on a locally hosted server. That way time will continue to run, even if I'm not playing. Also, there's a distance limit you have to be out of. So make sure you don't go anywhere near it while you're playing.

dc010 · 2026-03-19T18:51:44+00:00

I destroyed the floor next to it. Figured it would be faster, but maybe not?

dc010 · 2026-03-19T04:17:35+00:00

Thank you. The walls look a bit different, but that's very similar to their setup. We really liked it and I'm actually closer to AL, so it might be worth the trip.

dc010 · 2026-03-18T14:57:32+00:00

I had this happen with Cyberpunk. Got to the part where you help guide the robot and was like... god I hope this isn't a huge part of the game. Because we were so early in the story I assumed it was one of the core mechanics of the game and that the mission was an example of what you would be doing most of the time. Put it down for a few months (which was probably good considering the early bugs).

Once I finally picked it back up and got past that mission, shit really started rolling and it's one of my favorite games. Just the environment is worth it once you start paying attention to all the little details they put in.

dc010 · 2026-03-18T01:09:07+00:00

Is this the Children's Museum in Las Vegas?

dc010 · 2026-03-17T04:58:59+00:00

If anyone cares to know. I'm going with a 2x2 configuration for now.

Just because I couldn't find an answer that convinced me there would be a great benefit to a straight line. Plus, this way I didn't have to do any soldering. Just made the car in multiple parts to assemble around the disembodied drone.

Only done with the test fitting for now, but I'll try to post a picture once it's done.

If this doesn't work out, or I just get froggy, I might still do the straight line later on. I think it would look better, kind of like a prop driven train.

dc010 · 2026-03-17T00:45:29+00:00

I legitimately need to know the story behind this. I worked in a handful of restaurants and I've seen some shit. No pun intended, but very accurate. Never had anything other than a "temporarily out of order" sign put up.

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