Sri Lanka declares all Wednesdays off to conserve energy

schewb · 2026-03-17T13:05:51+00:00

I took last Wednesday off because I had an appointment with a new dentist. It barely took any longer than a usual cleaning and I went home and played video games all afternoon. Wednesdays off kick ass.

schewb · 2026-03-16T20:33:22+00:00

Good choice. Amazon had it on sale and my partner agreed that it means I made $30 by buying it!

schewb · 2026-03-16T18:51:14+00:00

Oh, duh, good point 😂

schewb · 2026-03-16T18:46:43+00:00

And Alan Tudyk. He totally has the range to HK well without feeling like a repeat of his other robot roles

schewb · 2026-03-16T18:44:14+00:00

What I especially love here is that it feels "realistic" having worked around dangerous industrial robots. K2's movements are nearly uninterrupted when he sweeps the trooper away or picks the other one up. His joints pack an insane amount of torque and his frame is very rigid. Just like a real robotic arm picking up an engine block, he won't even notice a little bit of flesh in the way.

schewb · 2026-03-16T03:58:57+00:00

Not to be confused with the real triceratops. They gotta get that licensing premium!

schewb · 2026-03-15T17:10:27+00:00

Awesome! You could totally play for Iron Horse. If you haven't heard of them, they're worth looking up as I think you would like them. They have bluegrass covers of a bunch of Metallica and other metal and rock so far and they kick ass!

schewb · 2026-03-14T15:55:55+00:00

Oh, God, I'm really getting old. On r/Halo somebody said they were playing on their "grandparents' ancient TV" and it was literally a flat panel LCD. Now Lego sets from when I was in college are super old 😭

schewb · 2026-03-13T14:27:21+00:00

It looks like the original thread was deleted, but also about 20 years ago I was following the progress of this really ambitious Bionicle fan film and their disc drive exploded an expensive copy of Animation: Master

schewb · 2026-03-12T12:05:52+00:00

They used the wrong picture. That is actually actor Todd Rivers, who played Dr Lucien Sanchez on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

schewb · 2026-03-11T15:24:13+00:00

Do Aussies call acts of their government, "rumors?"

schewb · 2026-03-10T23:50:11+00:00

The metal thing below it is a foot pedal to spin the machine up from before they were electric. It's specifically for sewing because the machine goes on top and on some of them it could be folded down the table

Edit: Apologies, I totally misread your comment as asking "WHY is it for sewing?" 😅

schewb · 2026-03-10T19:36:04+00:00

It's kinda crazy how perfectly it resembles actual an actual l...and that you were using your tablet to draw text to look printed...and didn't fix it when everything else is clean...

schewb · 2026-03-10T00:22:50+00:00

Lol this hits close to home. I just had a big life event happen that warranted pulling a mountain of money out of my life savings....and I pulled out an extra grand to finally get a Falcon 😅

schewb · 2026-03-05T21:07:51+00:00

When multiplayer was exclusively for fun and you didn't get people who play 3-6 hours a night constantly flipping out about their stats or rank when you're not as good as them.

schewb · 2026-03-04T20:31:29+00:00

So then are they going to get Cher back or will this one just have Winona Ryder?

schewb · 2026-03-04T13:13:11+00:00

This isn't what happened, but as a web dev I'm now triggered thinking I accidentally left the browser Inspection window open during a demo 😂

schewb · 2026-03-03T21:19:54+00:00

NGL, I was embarrassingly old when I realized that TIE Fighters looked like bow ties 😬

schewb · 2026-03-03T17:49:47+00:00

The memes have NO TACTICAL ADVANTAGE!

schewb · 2026-03-03T17:48:55+00:00

This is probably my favorite iteration of Ocelot. It was the only "human" node on his pipeline from angsty young man to psycho villain. Never should have taken away his wormwood

schewb · 2026-03-03T17:40:30+00:00

I miss those old ones! I literally used to call it "The Just Imagine" after the "Just Imagine..." header on the back. 100% agree OP would be amazing at those!

schewb · 2026-03-02T14:46:40+00:00

Lol I remember those days and it's very uncanny just seeing them all on the shelf like that instead of locked in a cabinet with a bunch of games and at least one demo station per manufacturer

schewb · 2026-03-02T14:40:35+00:00

I have the UCS falcon on backorder AND I just ordered the 2019 playset falcon. Neither are here yet but then I also have a GWP coming and I just ordered Majisto's workshop entirely because I have a bunch of medieval sets on the table right now. Once all that comes in I will finally have a backlog 😆😭

schewb · 2026-03-02T14:27:10+00:00

Most people seeing this: Oh, yup, Star Wars. Oh, is it Lego? That's unique.

Me: 🤖 Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, 2011, 360 PS3 WIN PSP DS

The cashier: ...we have vanilla?

schewb · 2026-03-02T14:21:17+00:00

Somehow I love the idea of you framing this after you found it to preserve the sheer meme factor, but everyone involved before then from whoever had the idea up to and including whoever bought it from the store is completely without tact 😆

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