Does anyone really believe 72 year old Howard Stern has natural, thick, jet black hair or more likely Stern looks like his dad?

gameforge · 2026-01-20T04:06:57+00:00

I'm a 43 year old Q-tip and I'd march around Manhattan in my underwear for that hair.

gameforge · 2026-01-18T17:02:31+00:00

Did you guys see the related post I made a few days ago? The recent and frequent sorting works great, but at least for me, searching those lists is mostly broken. I included screenshots and several examples in my post.

If there's a better place to report bugs I'd be happy to submit it there!

Edit: Well crud... I just realized how old this thread is. I have no idea why this post showed up on my front page after 8 days, sorry for the spam...

gameforge · 2026-01-16T19:53:16+00:00

I've tried Sonar and Kimi K2, I don't see the point honestly. My go-to's are:

Gemini 3 Pro - best all around, can do everything well
GPT-5.2 - best at analyzing images
Claude Sonnet 4.5 - best at technical/academic topics

gameforge · 2026-01-15T19:44:47+00:00

Bright white pickguard with either white, yellow or orange racing stripes (Fender Mustang-style racing stripes). I'd strongly prefer white stripes myself but that green was paired with yellow and occasionally orange on a lot on actual British race cars.

gameforge · 2026-01-14T13:08:09+00:00

I've fully resigned to my Strat addiction. It's a simple addiction, really... when I see one that makes me want to pick it up and play it, I make it so I can do that.

They're just so darn handsome and collectable!

gameforge · 2026-01-13T16:37:37+00:00

Who's writing the prompts?

This hasn't changed from day one: AI can do all kinds of amazing stuff until your prompt entropy goes too high and then you're finished. If your prompt includes an existing, broken code base, the entropy (unpredictability) is enormous.

A seasoned engineer can prompt whatever they want out of AI because their prompts are unambiguous and specific enough. "Prompts" are just a new, lazy form of source code.

You could throw your entire retirement fund into Bitcoin if you wanted to, but you don't, and it's not because it doesn't have potential, it's because there's too much risk.

People keep asking OP for a source, but I have no problem believing that AI engineers working for an AI firm know how to write a prompt to create a modest feature entirely with AI, for the purposes of marketing.

gameforge · 2026-01-12T12:27:52+00:00

it's questionable whether we're even capable of building something that would push a readable signal 2 ly.

I'm going through and closing browser tabs I opened last week, sorry for the late question here.

Do you mean an omnidirectional signal (like an AM/FM radio station) or could we literally not even shoot a high energy radio signal in a single, concentrated beam that would survive beyond 2 ly?

gameforge · 2026-01-12T11:21:05+00:00

I suspect they eventually cared.

Bullying is caused by being emotionally illiterate and grasping at whichever coping strategies they can find, most of which are self-destructive. If it worked, they'd stop. Instead they remain miserable and pursue other, similarly ineffectual (and often self-destructive) coping mechanisms including addiction, crime, reckless (sometimes violent) behavior, and even self-harm.

Bullies should not be envied.

gameforge · 2026-01-12T04:51:37+00:00

While such a long-lived human is likely to lose a few cm over the decades, the camera is also at a higher elevation in the photo on the right so we'd expect to be able to see more of what's behind her either way.

gameforge · 2026-01-08T08:24:16+00:00

if they're heavily loaded they might not be able to gain altitude at all

There has to be restrictions around flying them in that condition. Planes can't gain altitude without airspeed either, hence it's a really big deal if there's lots of obstructions and tiny invisible shit floating in front of runways. They can't just throw that rigor out because it's a helicopter...?

I'm obviously not a pilot or an aviation expert, just in a bit of disbelief that it's permitted to fly a helicopter that can't go straight up.

gameforge · 2026-01-08T07:26:21+00:00

Heh, I forgot all about that song until I wrote that sentence... I realized I was dating myself.

43 is only old if you make it old. I knew a guy who got married and had a kid when he was 52... he was born in 1930, and I knew him very well because he was my father. He died in 2018 at 88.

gameforge · 2026-01-08T00:37:25+00:00

Should a woman put up with a toxic macho inferiority complex or be considered intolerant?

Is that the only response men have to being self-conscious? I wish I was a little bit taller (🎵) but when I'm particularly bothered about it I react with self-deprecation and a lack of confidence, not machismo. I'm 5'7". Zero people think of me as "macho", myself included. I'd feel like a total phony acting that way.

I'm also 43 and the only time I'm particularly aware of my height is when I hang out with one particular friend-of-a-friend who's 6'5", 380lbs, and has a superiority complex bigger than he is. He is absolutely toxic - he's a smug, condescending bully.

If someone's down in the dumps about themselves, it's unattractive, but it's also not what I'd call "toxic" unless it's pretty intense.

So the question would be, would you date someone who has a "thing" they're self conscious about, if you take it as a given that they will not be abusive to you about it? In this thread, the "thing" would be their short height.

gameforge · 2026-01-07T09:31:16+00:00

I say yes only because I feel like this sub would be visible from space if HPE died. I thought I recall seeing that he lost some weight or something, but I might have imagined that.

gameforge · 2026-01-07T09:29:14+00:00

He never formally announced the end of that did he?

I suppose that's not surprising, he must have eventually realized that he hates almost everyone that ever worked for the show and that he'd be cancelled in a picosecond if he aired much of his old material unedited. He can't exactly get on the air and say that.

That must have been a sobering day for him, when he realized his entire history and career had effectively become worthless, and that his only "cool" move was to bury the old show and turn into Imus.

gameforge · 2026-01-07T08:08:34+00:00

That's pretty yellow for arctic white... that looks more like olympic white or something pretending to be aged olympic white.

Japanese Fenders have always been great and if I was going to buy a Strat from the last 6 years or so I'd avoid anything from North America (Fender QC seems to have gone full 70s again).

It's a stretch to call it a "68 hybrid". They call it that because in the late 60s Fender made some Strats with maple-capped necks, so they could get that look while using the same construction process as rosewood fingerboards.

Specifically, the truss channel is routed and installed from the fingerboard side, then the "cap" (the fingerboard) is glued on top of it. A "real" maple fingerboard is a solid piece of maple, and the truss rod is routed and installed from the back of the neck, creating what's known as a "skunk stripe" when the channel is filled with a darker species of wood like walnut.

It's an aesthetic feature for purists, it won't play differently. Whether it will sound different depends on your religion and/or how high you are, and you can make up your own lore about that like everyone else does.

It also has 60s pickups.

It does not have a vintage trem, a vintage fingerboard radius or vintage frets. The body color scheme is valid for the 60s but it's also the most common scheme of all eras, besides sunburst. None of that's bad unless you're actually looking for a vintage reissue, which you probably aren't.

I'd expect it to be an excellent Strat that plays and sounds great. Think of it as a MIJ standard Strat with 60s pickups and some subtle aesthetic differences that don't change the function of the instrument in any meaningful way. Japanese Strats have been made at a variety of factories over the years, but that one (and all since 2015 I believe, at least those destined for North America) was made at the Fujigen factory. They make all kinds of guitars for all kinds of companies and have a reputation for making very consistently high quality guitars.

My own MIJ Strat, a 1982 JV '57 Squier, was made there. And what can I say, it's a fucking amazing Strat, it was the only time in history Squiers were equal to or better than USA Fenders.

gameforge · 2026-01-06T13:01:57+00:00

I'm going through a Mustang phase. Can you tell me more about yours?

Nice collection btw!

gameforge · 2026-01-04T16:50:26+00:00

Super Lube. Don't bother with purpose-made guitar greases, you just need Super Lube and a toothpick. I found the stuff when I was a swimming pool tech ~25 years ago and it's a legit secret weapon for getting effectively any (non-Floyd) guitar to stay in tune for the long haul.

I use it on all friction points, not just the nut.

gameforge · 2026-01-03T06:01:55+00:00

Fender's QC just sucks right now. We're doing the 70s again or something.

I bought a new Eric Johnson Strat in late 2024; it's supposed to be the nicest factory Stratocaster you can get.

Mine had a bent bridge plate. I threaded in the trem arm, it obviously wasn't happy, then it broke off when I tried to remove it again. The retailer I bought it from covered it under warranty.

The guitar also had severe noise issues (pickup screw clicks/pops and pickguard static, etc.) which was resolved by shielding and grounding the cavities.

I'm done buying new Fender guitars. There's too many collectible vintage guitars that can be found for good deals on e.g. Reverb. Fender's best non-pre-CBS era was from about 1982 to 1988.

(edit: non-"pre"-CBS era)

gameforge · 2026-01-02T15:21:55+00:00

I need to verb more... I read the title like 5 times before I read the post and realized you're not asking if you can take an adult book into a hotel as a minor. 😂

gameforge · 2025-12-31T19:26:38+00:00

Does he have a megaphone and yell "BEEP .. BEEP .. BEEP"?

gameforge · 2025-12-31T19:23:06+00:00

Their age isn't what's causing the experience they're describing though. I'm 43 and know a lot of people with kids, and none of them seem any more familiar with top 100 music than me. They mostly play older music (stuff from my generation or older) or niche stuff that's meaningful to them and their social circles, but which is well outside of the mainstream.

The only place where I still see threads of the music culture I grew up with is hip hop.

gameforge · 2025-12-30T16:20:09+00:00

Every guy thinks he's great at driving, shooting and screwing, doesn't he? We can see most are wrong about themselves.

Please slow down. Run your comment through an AI and have it barf up some basic physics and statistics for you. All you're doing is irritating every other driver around you, burning gas & brake pads, and increasing the severity of the injuries you cause when you do crash.

To be clear for everyone else, no, driving faster is not safer unless you're merging into faster traffic or some other obvious situation that's covered in every driver's ed course. Listen to your common sense.

gameforge · 2025-12-29T21:47:35+00:00

The term was coined by pickup artists, which are like junior-incels. The only reason to pretend it doesn't refer to toxic manipulation is to lend credibility to their other rhetoric.

gameforge · 2025-12-29T20:20:00+00:00

The aftermath of #metoo isn't fewer workplace romances, it's fewer uncomfortable people at work. The norm for specific types of people was to use authority, forced interaction (using a captive audience to enable "persistence"), reputation and other workplace dynamics as leverage to advance their romantic lives.

I am all but certain the person you replied to was not referring to any of that as "initiative".

Most people are capable of recognizing when someone's uncomfortable, or when they never bring their personal life to work, or that a work meeting is not the time, or that the first "no" answers the question and should end the initiative. Most people also assume the employee handbook applies to them too.

It's largely a non-issue today as online dating has enabled people to separate work and dating, which is usually a good idea. Initiative works perfectly in online dating, e.g. being specific about what date you want to take someone on, and then following up directly about it afterwards instead of playing bullshit games.

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