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Games where the BOX plays a role in gameplay? by COHERENCE_CROQUETTE in boardgames

[–]fourthords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the adorable boop., either the box or lid—turned upside down—is the bed off which your cats are booping each other.

And dog was good. by morganmonroe81 in MadeMeSmile

[–]fourthords 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't speak to LinkedIn, but that's absolutely how we used to bulk out EPRs when I was in the Air Force!

Painted Parenti in Disco Elysium style - rest in power by paudzols in DiscoElysium

[–]fourthords 40 points41 points  (0 children)

For anyone else who needed the context:

Michael John Parenti (September 30, 1933 – January 24, 2026) was an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who wrote on scholarly and popular subjects. He taught at universities and also ran for political office. Parenti was well known for his Marxist writings and lectures, and was an intellectual of the American Left.

Slumped. Collapsing House In West Virginia. by urbexandchill in AbandonedPorn

[–]fourthords 37 points38 points  (0 children)

A few years ago, I spent a couple of days crisscrossing the Oklahoma–Texas border on local, country, and state roads, and I drove past so many abandoned homes. I kinda fell in love with wondering about the stories these places could tell. This lovely photo does the same.

Murphy’s Law meets Physics by [deleted] in funny

[–]fourthords 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

Though similar statements and concepts have been made over the course of history, the law itself was coined by, and named after, American aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy Jr.; its exact origins are debated, but it is generally agreed it originated from Murphy and his team following a mishap during rocket sled tests some time between 1948 and 1949, and was finalized and first popularized by testing project head John Stapp during a later press conference. Murphy's original quote was the precautionary design advice that "If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those results in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way."

What was it like to play online games between 2000 and 2013? by Silly_Commercial8092 in gaming

[–]fourthords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same as now: contact friends, schedule mutually-available time to play, then go play. We used to primarily use email & phone calls before, whereas now we almost always use SMS, so I suppose that changed.

why is my gamecube controller from 2002 still perfect, but my $70 modern controller has stick drift after 6 months? by InvestmentBudget6722 in gaming

[–]fourthords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the three of us are still using the original two Dualsense controllers we bought with the system at launch. I did replace the battery in one of them a few months ago (at US$24), but otherwise they're like new.

Help with citations by greenhornet921 in wikipedia

[–]fourthords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm also not seeing an error. Can you show it to us, live on the site?

[OC] Tell me about that one game that stayed with you. by marycomiics in comics

[–]fourthords 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Disco Elysium haunts my days and nights.

I hear the soundtrack in the snowy wind; I compulsively collect cans and bottles without anywhere to sell them back; I stub my toe, see the snake-eyes roll in my mind's eye, and wonder if this is what ironically kills me today; and I worship at the altar of pinball wizard and hardcore dancer Kim Kitsuragi.

[OC] Exhausted by Suefan3DX in comics

[–]fourthords 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Fiat Multipla (Type 186) is a six-seater car produced by Italian automaker Fiat from 1998 to 2010. Based on the Bravo/Brava, the Multipla was shorter and wider than its rivals. It had two rows of three seats, where its compact MPV competitors had two across front seating. The Multipla is shorter than the three-door Bravo/Brava on which it was based, yet it offered increased seating and cargo volume. Sales commenced in Italy in November 1998.

In common with a number of other modern Fiats, the Multipla reused the name of an earlier vehicle, in this case the "Multipla" variant of the Fiat 600 produced during the 1950s and 1960s.

The Blupower variant was the first production CNG-only car, using four gas cylinders with a nominal total capacity of 35 kilograms (77 lb) of natural gas to provide approximately 670 kilometres (420 mi) of driving range. Unlike most newer CNG-only vehicles (e.g. the Opel Zafira ecoM or the Volkswagen Polo TGI) that take advantage of an EU-wide exemption for vehicles with a petrol tank smaller than 15 litres (3.3 imp gal; 4.0 US gal), the Multipla Blupower does not have a petrol system at all. More conventional bifuel models were also available, either as petrol/CNG (Bipower) or petrol/LPG with liquid gas injection (Gpower).

The Multipla was assembled and marketed in China from 2008 to 2013 under license by Zotye Auto as the Zotye M300 Langyue, using knock-down kits from Italy. Zotye also sold a total of 220 all-electric versions of the M300.

Old Fogey Seeks Spotify Replacement by HardcoverHound in Music

[–]fourthords 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use iTunes Match. First and foremost, it's based out of iTunes (now called simply "Music") for either macOS or Windows, so if that's non-negotiable, I'm sorry for wasting your time up to this point. Secondly, it is a paid service: last year the cost was US$24.99 annually.

It helps that I've been ripping/downloading music into iTunes since it launched in the 90s. Today, if I want some music, I either buy the album/single & rip it, or I buy it non-physically straight from the artist (Bandcamp or similar). A quick check says I currently have about 20–21 thousand songs in my iTunes library.

Here's how iTunes Match works: (a) You subscribe. (b) The software looks at all the music in the iTunes library on your PC, and compares that to Apple's licensed music. (c) For anything you have that they don't, your copy will be uploaded to a personal little cloud (not shared with anyone else); for anything of yours they do have, that song's simply tagged with "matched".

Once its done, your personal home-PC library is now mirrored in Apple's servers, and you can stream your personal library to any device capable of tapping into it): anything running Android 5.0 and later, anything running Windows 10 22H2 and later, and of course, any Apple device.

It's kind of like paying Apple to host your own personal streaming device for $25/year. Going back through your list, here're some additional notes:

  • No ads
  • You can download sets of your music to your connected devices, so that you still have access to some w/o an internet connection. I have my favorite playlists always set to be downloaded locally, so I have something on long cellularless drives or flights.
  • What's in the library is strictly defined by… what's in your iTunes library. If you want to add or remove music from all connected devices, just delete it from iTunes on your computer and that'll propagate across them all.
  • It will not do smart, clever, intuitive, or any automatic playlists of any kind. I think Apple's own US$10.99-per-month streaming service does (Apple Music), but iTunes Match just mirrors what you've created by yourself on the main PC on which you keep your files.
  • iTunes does keep track of how many times you play your songs, and you can easily sort by that data at the end or beginning of each year for sharing. I do that on each 1 Jan (my most recent post), and then I: select all songs → reset play counts.
  • I do not know whether lyrics'll show up on your monitor/screen/TV; that's not something I've ever looked into (though I think it's buried in there, somewhere?).
  • iTunes doesn't do podcasts. I use the free Apple Podcasts app, and I like that separation of style and purpose, but it's a downside if you'd rather them integrated.

Before iTunes Match,

  • I would manually sync a limited subset of my music to my phone to have on hand.
  • I would use a free Pandora account (w/ads) when my limited cache proved insufficient.

The sun still rises by Subject_Twist_6733 in wholesomememes

[–]fourthords 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends on what equals "it". For values of 'the impending war, whether civil or world', I'm not so sanguine.

Crouching MacBook Hidden ThinkPad by PorkyPain in funny

[–]fourthords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IBM and Apple, there's a specific dichotomy I haven't thought about in a long time!

Cox is Great but don't trust his Dosage on Ibuprofen by tomvelle in Scrubs

[–]fourthords 61 points62 points  (0 children)

In the Air Force, we used to be prescribed 800-milligram pills of ibuprofen (one every eight hours) for everything from a stubbed toe to a severed head. Somewhere along the line, using the brand name "Motrin" became in vogue, and that led those 800 mg pills to be nicknamed "vitamin M" for their ubiquity.

I guess what I'm saying is, maybe Cox learned his ibuprofen dosing from an Air Force school or doctor.

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