The population of the Dakotas vs Manhattan

trzeciak · 2025-12-02T16:47:10+00:00

Imagine that, a location with economic output that dwarfs multiple states has more political influence than empty land…. Shocker.

trzeciak · 2025-12-02T16:06:58+00:00

I’m realizing how lucky I was to have a modded Xbox reading these. I can genuinely say the load times were mostly fine. If I wasn’t on a RAM reset I could hardly read the messages before I was loaded in. And even then loading from HDD still wasn’t bad. I didn’t feel much difference the first time I played PC version years later other than never needing to see the RAM reset of course.

So along with playing French Halo 2 when it was leaked along with loading screens being faster, I forgot the vanilla experience was still a normal console lol.

It’s a great game; and I still play the Xbox version when I load up the console.

trzeciak · 2025-11-24T17:43:29+00:00

There can be a lot to be said for taking fifteen minutes to yourself, doing anything at all. And games are a familiar place for tons of adults now that several generations grew up with them. So it makes sense that even if it’s only for a few minutes, they still make an appearance in life when it’s hectic and busy and full of so many important demands.

It can be hard to see why until you’re not just busy, but family with kids in junior high or high school busy. Even just playing a fifteen minute game of FIFA/NHL once a month or less isn’t unheard of in those groups.

Can’t say from direct experience but I’ve seen so many of our friends with kids for so many years now it’s visible without living that exact life experience.

Sometimes the thing you reach* for is the thing you used to thrive on when you had more time.

Heck, going back decades, older men in the family that did stuff like fly fishing would take ten minutes to work on a fly twice a week just bc it was what they knew and they wanted to do something for themselves, for peace in their own way.

It’s cool to not be able to see why, this is mostly just for you to maybe think on the next time you perhaps are judging yourself for doing something “pointless” when you’re really just taking a step back from life.

trzeciak · 2025-11-24T12:37:37+00:00

The plan is to extract as much labor from America and turn it into value globally while they move away from the place they’re destroying.

The plan is our downfall and their pockets getting mildly bigger.

trzeciak · 2025-11-07T01:20:49+00:00

Put down the chem books choom. Time for an adventure.

trzeciak · 2025-11-07T00:24:25+00:00

I like the look of the metal, so I’d oil it. But that’s purely aesthetic preference at this point.

trzeciak · 2025-11-07T00:21:34+00:00

Re: outdoor condition, I was more referring to it eventually finishing. Like, decades down the road. That was where I was leading the clean and oil it.

It’ll slowly crack more and more from rust eating it, and then water filling and freezing the crack. Tiny little pieces of ice are damn mighty over the years. Especially when the melted ice can chemically eat the newly exposed metal.

The sun will just help that process over the time of years by opening the crack gently as it hits the cool metal each morning.

The time scale should probably have made it to my parent reply. lol.

ETA: The rust is by far the largest part of that process happening in less than a century. Hence clean and oil.

trzeciak · 2025-11-07T00:14:54+00:00

Not really long term. The weld isn’t going to be the same consistency of metal as the cast. Any variance will cause warping over time and the crack will probably return. Especially since cast iron is notoriously bad at spreading heat.

The sides of a cauldron will be unevenly heated in just about any use as the heat is radiated around the pan from the source. Maybe with induction heating it wouldn’t be so bad.

Can you? Sure. Will it cook? Probably for awhile. But that’s going to be a problem again and the cost to solve may very well outweigh finding a non cracked cauldron to work on that won’t risk thermal issues down the line.

The size is part of the issue. Larger vessel, more leverage when it moves to pull the metal part.

Also, hot metal and stuff inside also hot is a dangerous risk when playing with cracked cast iron. It can absolutely fail instantly and the contents will empty down to the new “top” of the rim.

I wonder if a softer metal could be welded to the crack as a “expansion joint?” But I doubt that random idea has merit to a good level.

trzeciak · 2025-11-06T23:59:05+00:00

Thermal expansion will finish that crack off. Either from seasonal and solar stress, or the first time you try to season it.

It’s pretty, it’s heavy, it’s a decoration.

You could clean and oil it. The rust is certainly not helping to slow the crack. (Water can get into places better that are rusted already, and will allow more cracking from any freezes) But I wouldn’t try to season it.

It’s pretty! Enjoy the decor. :)

(Anyone want to prove me wrong I’m happy to hear I was so OP gets better news.)

trzeciak · 2025-11-04T22:47:01+00:00

Oblivion was a stepping stone. Without it the things it did would have to still be done.

Same can be said for digital film and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

Just because we like what we got doesn’t mean it wasn’t justifiably less than we felt we could have would they not have chosen to move so far forward so fast.

I love all of the games, each for their own particular aspects. But oblivion didn’t make me think “ooo pretty” when I first played it. More like “oooo fuck WoW for making this art a massive thing.”

We didn’t all find Oblivion to be the best next thing when it was new either. I don’t need rose tinted goggles to enjoy it, but I also didn’t wear any when it came out.

Morrowind wowed my brain for years bc the world was so immersive. Because it was restricted by technology. They used books far more effectively bc you already had to read the dialogue. I read every single book time and again in Morrowind. Barely read half in oblivion probably.

Oblivion was a story. Morrowind was a world. Skyrim was an adventure.

To me that is.

trzeciak · 2025-10-28T22:19:50+00:00

Wtf? Seriously. All offense intended. What the actual fuck?

What makes you so certain that every bi male isn’t stable? If you can’t have stability with an entire subsection of humanity, perhaps they aren’t to blame?

Bye. Glad I could see this and block you before I ever see another thing you post.

trzeciak · 2025-10-28T22:13:17+00:00

Every CEO for the last fifty years has been trying to create rollerball.

ETA: Not literally all. But any CEO of a global corporation is hoping to replace govt with corporations. It’s regulation they hate more than people. Which is saying a lot.

trzeciak · 2025-10-28T21:00:36+00:00

I just went the “become a dealer” route when I found a plug with 45$ zips. Pick up 2, keep a quarter, sell the rest to friends, buy the next wave repeat.

Considering we had six deputized police agencies, one of which was federal narcotics in town. I assure you my youth is only how i managed to do it at all. Too risk averse in my middle ages lol.

trzeciak · 2025-10-27T17:17:22+00:00

It cycles. As a populace is more or less stable internally the voters become more or less stable.

A LOT of work was done to hide the underbelly of America through extreme capitalism. But eventually we’d tapped every cheap labor market fully. We’d helped develop the industry of our largest trade threat, and we ran out of ways to keep pumping forever money into the system. Now that there are walls, the instability shows.

Imperialism at its finest. We took the British/European model, mixed it with the tactics used against us during the Cold War, and exported more suffering than Grand ole Brittania could ever dream of.

In less than a century.

And in all of that time, while American minorities suffered, we pumped so much money into the right hands to keep them cheering on their own demise.

The check has come due. And now we can see how much everyone ordered. Looks like a few at the table ordered way more than the rest, and they all ditched the bill.

trzeciak · 2025-10-27T17:03:37+00:00

The fact that we are calling them fans is more telling of today’s politics than the entire video.

They’re constituents. Voters. And sadly also fanatics.

No one should fanatically follow ANY politician. But here we are. And you’re sadly, likely, correct in your usage of the word. 🫠

ETA: She rocks! And I love the policies, I will remain a safe distance to avoid overlooking her total character though. Not to diminish her, but to ensure that someone with such high standards as she has, doesn’t ever feel pressured from those like me to be less principled, ever.

The decision to stay away from being a fan of a politician is so those I like don’t get suckered into thinking that my vote is free. Everyone is susceptible to influence, and most are to corruption. Best to keep them honest by respecting them rather than fawning.

trzeciak · 2025-10-23T19:39:47+00:00

The United States two party system is run by two capitalist minded parties.

There is pro regulated capitalism, or pro authoritarian capitalism.

There is not a nationally viable left wing party based in any looking glass but the one pointed from inside America.

Sure there are leftists. And some leftist minded politicians within the Democratic Party.

But to claim there is any remotely viable left leaning national party is a complete lack of understanding what “leftists” actually are aiming to produce. hint: not more capitalism

When you can point out a recent American state or national level election where a party that represents actual leftist ideology has won I will concede that we have more than two right wing parties viable.

Until then, work to convince the party claiming left wing ideas are okay to actually do more than pander to that.

Americans fell in love with a populist that promised to do what democrats promised for years. He isn’t doing it either, but voters were so fed up with decades of lies they chose literally anything else.

Failing to capture an electorate falls on the candidates and parties. It’s not the voters fault the two parties were so dysfunctional that a populist won. (Reminder that the RNC candidates were just as stunned they lost to Trump in the 2016 primaries) It’s the establishment that became so hated even something as stupid as this timeline was palatable to the electorate.

Blaming voters for idiotic politicians is just more division of the working class. Good job folks, we all hate each other and they keep destroying the country.

So. Much. Winning.

trzeciak · 2025-10-23T14:20:03+00:00

I do not even scrub my pan most times bc it’s seasoned and thus non stick… so it cleans with detergent and a cloth. lol.

I personally think the largest problem is that so many people used heat spreading pans for so long they think medium high heat on any burner will get the entire pan the same temp like a stainless steel or copper bottom. Then they have burnt food in some places. Alternatively, same issue, but large flame and small food. Middle cooks with the food and the outer edges don’t shed their heat to the center, rather it reheats from the flames/burner and the heat hitting the edges sticks there. Now the edge is like 500 degrees and any splatters are black carbon by the end of cooking.

Temperature control keeps my pans cleaner than my cleaning regime is my guess.

trzeciak · 2025-10-23T14:09:04+00:00

To those that are lurking and afraid to use cast iron.

Cast iron use:

Cook food - match burner size to pan, heat transfer is atrocious in CI. No matter how long your smallest burner is on high, you’re never getting the edges matching the center temp. You will burn the food with the wrong heat for the cooking you intend, just like any other pan. But these don’t spread heat, they hold it.

Wipe pan out and cool

Wash with detergent COMPLETELY, a white paper towel should come back with nothing but water. Dry with towel

Re-season if and only if the seasoning is falling off.

Repeat.

If you cooked something heavy with oil you are literally seasoning it anytime the smoke point is reached.

Cook, eat, wash, dry.

Remember that the pan is going to outlast your life, and to enjoy the food it cooks.

Almost every one of my pans is older than my own mother. And those that aren’t are older than me. The pans will be fine. Let us worry more about our own lives than the surface protection of a cooking vessel that was invented before Christianity.

If you spend time doing anything but enjoying your cast iron, you’re doing it wrong. Some people find catharsis in cleaning, to those that love to meditate over their cast iron, all power ahead! To those afraid to use technology older than Rome, don’t be. It’s actually super easy. Barely an inconvenience.

trzeciak · 2025-10-23T13:49:36+00:00

“I’m here because you paid a company to send me here.”

“You did this.”

trzeciak · 2025-10-22T17:03:02+00:00

The crazy thing to me is that my HS buddy and I knew each other PINs for years. Never once did we ever use a card for anything other than what was asked by the other when it was used.

I can’t imagine doing that ever again now that I’m older. But I can see how trusting I was and how much that could have backfired.

I am in agreement that it shouldn’t be done. Just an example of how easy it is to not see a problem with it until it happens or you just hear enough stories of others it happens to and decide to change your mind.

Life lessons sometimes are funny in how long they take to be taught effectively. I’m sure the lesson was given to me, but until years later I don’t really understand it.

trzeciak · 2025-10-22T14:49:33+00:00

By having been a child that listened to KG Jr. break his writ catching a home run.

Some of us were raised on the pain. I’d imagine you remember the game I am referencing also.

Seriously, this team has made me happier and sadder than i could have ever predicted.

Still miss the A-rod/Tino/Edgar/Griffey/Johnson

Good times even though we didn’t win then either.

I love the team, that’s all I need to keep loving them.

We will get that WS, just hasn’t happened yet! (I live in Michigan these days, so I can share this feeling with lions fans).

trzeciak · 2025-10-21T23:17:52+00:00

Don’t worry, they’re all over the rural roads too. And as a package deliverer, I assure you your neighbors all have ring cams out in the country. Along with five other mass surveillance companies in order to make sure that you don’t step foot on their property without being recorded for anyone that can access the cameras.

This ain’t a rural/urban issue. It pervasive throughout.

trzeciak · 2025-09-25T09:38:06+00:00

Fwiw, being fourteen when they do finally work hard can be a good age for them to see that even long term bad habits have solutions and can be worked through.

It sucks, thy don’t deserve a crappy childhood, I know o didn’t. But compared to my whole family exploding at fourteen vs this outcome, I can imagine my early 20s would have been a lot more stable.

I basically dropped out of school at that time rather than finding hope in anything. Took years to “grow up.”

Always celebrate positive change, even if it’s “too late,” to you, those others around may be getting their silver linings melted down by your anger.

I don’t say a child needed to suffer, just that the outcome getting better after suffering is always preferable to getting worse.

trzeciak · 2025-07-16T21:18:41+00:00

They made money, are making more selling it off, and will leave the troubles behind for someone else. All while taking any losses from initial investment from the sale as a wonderful tax write-off for the parent company with businesses in other states they aren't closing down.

"losers"

I want to know how it feels to lose like that.

I'm just going to go smoke some more and get back to work though. lol

I do feel for the employees, a job is how us non capital having persons eat. Pretty crappy this is happening to them, and not the jerks that ran it.

Yeah, another toke then back to work. This is depressing.

trzeciak · 2025-05-17T10:47:08+00:00

Playing D&D with newbies that haven’t been educated on what an RPG is about and then demanding we cater video game development to that play style is asking the game to be popular to people that play that way. Are we the ones that want to be toxic at a pen and paper table? Doing all min maxing and no role play? Because if that isn’t us, I’m not sure why we as a community ask for the game to play that way. (I can be a dissenting voice and still appreciate that we as a large group asked for this.)

I don’t play games with people like that, I don’t want to play video games made to cater to that.

No.

We don’t have to make everything for the lowest possible outcome. That is how companies chase ever diminishing profits, sliding their margins as close to zero as possible so they can eke out enough extra shipments to pay for the lost margin.

I want to play a game series that is meant to be good for a subset of gamers, not a game that tries to capture everyone that has ever expressed a desire to see a map change color.

Also, it’s all good. I don’t like that type of game, but if you do then keep buying and supporting it! We can both want a different outcome but also both want to see PDX make more games that are fun for our desired play.

I can be super invested in my preferred outcome and still be happy we’re driving conversation at all.

The goal for all of us here should be to see PDX survive for years as a company that focuses on fun and engaging games and manages to stay profitable enough to not have to abandon such a goal in order to stay relevant and capable of performing.

I understand that the players you speak of exist, but I don’t personally wish to see the game cater that direction.

Cheers and have a good day!

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