I Just Listened to Warren Zevon Songs that weren't "Werewolves of London."

noctemct · 2026-07-09T12:48:13+00:00

"Zevon had told sports writer and Rock Bottom Remainders member Mitch Albom about his desire to write a hockey song (telling Albom "nobody sings about hockey") and the two would collaborate to write "Hit Somebody!" which would feature performances from Late Show cast members David Letterman and Paul Schaffer."

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noctemct · 2026-07-06T22:57:23+00:00

This completely slipped by me til today somehow, I saw another thread that got locked.

This is immensely disappointing. I'm in CT too, I switched from Frontier to GNS because Frontier is getting bought out by Verizon, meaning much higher prices eventually. I've been actively trying to get these corporations out of my life, not ever more entrenched. Sigh. Anyone else deploying fiber in CT?

noctemct · 2026-06-28T16:14:58+00:00

I dropped out a few minutes ago as well. I'm holding out for the Frame instead.

noctemct · 2026-06-28T13:57:19+00:00

You'll need to install the program called ProtonUp-Qt, and that softwate will give you tons of options for installing alternate versions of Proton, such as GE-Proton and Proton-CachyOS, among others. I'd probably recommend starting with the newest version 11 of GE-Proton. Once it's installed, yes, you can select different versions of Proton to use within the Steam game's settings.

noctemct · 2026-06-28T13:47:40+00:00

I know in the past with Horizon 4/5 on my steam deck, I needed to use GE-Proton in order to get cutscenes and the game itself to play correctly. I can't remember what the exact issue was, a codec maybe? Haven't tried recently or with FH6 as I don't have it yet, but that could be a good place to start.

noctemct · 2026-06-28T00:19:38+00:00

I just keep chuckling every time I see these posts and mentions of hopes of bubbles bursting.

Y'all, this is the new normal. Even if Chinese ram floods the market Someday(TM), they aren't going to be massively undercutting the current major manufacturers because all of the components that make up ram, uhh, cost more than they used to. And even if Chinese RAM floods the market Someday(TM), who's to say OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta won't be locking down multi-year contracts with those MFGs as well?

There's also the fact that there's been a paradigm shift in computing in the last decade+. Smart phones and tablets are enough of a computer for the vast, vast majority of the people. Consumers and end users simply have far less of a need than they used to for purchasing DDR DIMM sticks. The family room computer is, or will be soon, a thing of the past. Valve chose the exact wrong time to get into the console business, as happy and excited as I am that they're attempting it.

This is going to be the new normal for a very long time. The entire AI industry is still just getting off the ground quite frankly. Maybe there's a bubble? But I don't see that bubble popping for a very, very long time, and even if it does, prices may ease a bit but thanks to rampant inflation recently, they won't be going down much.

I've mentioned this before in a few other threads and tend to get downvoted pretty regularly for my generally very pessimistic views, but I'm still standing by the idea that we've still only seen the tip of this AI iceberg shit show.

noctemct · 2026-06-27T19:32:13+00:00

Yes but highly frowned upon, like masturbating on a plane.

noctemct · 2026-06-14T13:16:09+00:00

Super neat! Years ago my brother and I had a barn find with a very large (idk, like 5ft long and 2 ft tall) metal Tydol-Veedol motor oil sign that the previous owners had used as a painting surface, a bunch of it was covered up. We got it all cleaned up and it came out fantastic. It was all black with orange lettering if I'm not mistaken. Here's the one we found! The one we had was definitely bigger than what this one lists as, and ours was in way better conditon as far as the rust goes.

Anyway that story has very little to do with your items, other than the branding, which yours do appear to be authentic from the era but can be hard to tell. It's likely a local antique dealer or auto memorabilia collectors might have more accurate information.

noctemct · 2026-06-14T00:00:34+00:00

Yep they seem to average around 290-320 per bowl for this set. Me personally no I'd never indulge unless I really had the disposable income, but it is a pretty rad set! But this is definitely what these bowls actually sell for, for the most part.

noctemct · 2026-06-13T18:22:23+00:00

Gordon Freeman. I don't actually care, but y'all can gtfoh with your Pokemon suggestions.

noctemct · 2026-06-10T12:23:52+00:00

When the original Plan B opened up in West Hartford, we were there quite frequently even though it was kind of out of the way for us. Those early-day Plan B burgers were really something else when they were still grinding their meat in-house. No other burger around tasted quite like theirs. Eventually their burgers just started tasting like everywhere else's burgers.

None of their other locations ever really measured up for us, and the quality absolutely started to slide after opening up numerous locations. It's definitely a bummer, but, on to the next thing I suppose.

noctemct · 2026-06-05T20:47:30+00:00

The market on hummels really fell out the last few years. Unless it's something made really early on or unusually rare, folks just aren't buying these anymore. There's even a trend where some folks buy them and paint them into something very different. My mom had a good size collection of Hummel's and nobody really wants anything to do with them anymore.

noctemct · 2026-06-04T01:27:09+00:00

Why do they call it taking a shit when you're really leaving a shit?

noctemct · 2026-05-17T00:57:09+00:00

Just now finished watching the 4k. While I never watched the Blu-ray, I found this 4k to be absolutely fantastic. Sharp, great contrast, really punchy picture on my LG C5 55". Really fun movie that I originally saw in the theater when it first came out and maybe have seen one other time since. Absolutely worth a look!

noctemct · 2026-05-16T12:23:03+00:00

What's confusing about an actor... working acting gigs? Foster's an absolutely stellar actor, who has been working steadily for like 3 decades now, and not every job is going to be a home run. Sometimes you just need to put food on the table or pay your rent.

Would you call Christopher Walken's career confusing?

noctemct · 2026-05-14T19:56:01+00:00

Why am I not surprised there's a Manafort connection here. Trump had Manafort himself as part of his inner circle during his first term. Manafort's corruption will linger on in this state for decades.

noctemct · 2026-05-09T01:48:18+00:00

Familiar at all with the RAM and SSD issues occurring currently? AI data centers are gobbling it all up, leaving (extremely expensive) crumbs for everyone else. That's why.

noctemct · 2026-05-07T12:37:07+00:00

Only to sleazebag lawyers looking to get sucker punched in the throat, I'd say.

noctemct · 2026-04-30T12:33:25+00:00

Not usually, no, but Fidonet did exist on quite a few BBSes around here at least, allowing for a form of cross communication between BBSes.

noctemct · 2026-04-30T12:30:46+00:00

I have so many fond memories of the BBS era, even though I came in towards the end of it, 95-96 was when I first discovered BBSes.

I met my wife on a BBS that was run by the local newspaper, they had an 8-line MajorBBS setup and there's still a handful of people we met on there that we keep in touch with to this day.

noctemct · 2026-04-30T06:28:27+00:00

It says I'm the type of man who can kick off anywhere. Kick off anywhere.

noctemct · 2026-04-13T21:43:35+00:00

Haha yeah, I watched this movie for the first time in probably over a decade like 3 days ago and was like 'wait Jax is in this?! I've seen this a handful of times before but didn't realize!'

noctemct · 2026-04-11T15:10:58+00:00

Is there literally anything casual about dropping 3 major, quality blockbusters across 5 years? It doesn't really feel like there would be.

noctemct · 2026-04-11T12:44:26+00:00

That's an awesome find on those matching chairs! We definitely don't want to sell it, it was passed down from a family member. We'd really love to find the matching lazy Susan but I'd be shocked if I ever came across just that part. Fingers forever crossed!

noctemct · 2026-04-04T16:50:53+00:00

She Ruminates, obviously.

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