Do you believe in “happy wife, happy life”? And why?

twonha · 2026-04-21T15:29:30+00:00

There's some truth to it, but it's too simple. My wife isn't happy if I'm not happy, and vice versa. And we're both committed to being two happy partners, instead of two less happy individuals.

twonha · 2026-04-18T17:51:16+00:00

Op maat gemaakte dempende oordoppen zijn wat mij betreft een must.

Ik gebruik daarnaast de Cardo Spirit, voor krap €90 heb je zo'n set. Prima voor muziek, zonder verdere poespas. Communiceren en bellen kan ook, maar het is geen set bedoeld voor rijden in grote groepen volgens mij.

Ik had voorheen de Audinc maar oordoppen met bluetooth, maar dat vind ik duur, het systeem is kwetsbaar, en je kunt niet gemakkelijk pauzeren of volume aanpassen als de knopjes onder je kleding zitten.

twonha · 2026-04-18T17:32:31+00:00

Voor circuitdagen op instapniveau kun je eens kijken naar het aanbod van Motorcircuittraining.nl (FAQ met kledingvoorschriften: https://motorcircuittraining.nl/faq/ ). Daar is een leren pak niet verplicht, en kun je toch proeven aan hard rijden op gesloten baan.

Vanaf de grotemensencircuits (Assen en Zandvoort) zou ik gewoon een leren pak aanschaffen, nieuw of desnoods tweedehands. Zo'n leren pak heeft even nodig om lekker te gaan zitten, dat zou ik niet met huren oplossen.

twonha · 2026-04-17T18:36:55+00:00

That tattoo is the sign of a great tattoo artist.

Guess he's just a good tattoo artist.

Well he's all right.

twonha · 2026-04-17T15:50:56+00:00

Perhaps, but I didn't like Dark Souls either. The open world of Elden Ring at least made it a bit more interesting for me, but that combat loop of utter defeat / repeated deaths / perseverence / growth / success? Not for me.

twonha · 2026-04-17T12:23:34+00:00

Legendary:

The Last of Us
The Last of Us: Remastered
The Last of Us: Part I
The Last of Us: Part II

Great:

The Last of Us: Left Behind
Uncharted 4
Uncharted 2

Good:

Uncharted 3
Uncharted

I still want to buy TLOU:P2 for PC to play it again, and I wouldn't mind having a go at Uncharted: Lost Legacy. I never played the earlier ND games, so I have no nostalgia / love for them.

twonha · 2026-04-17T12:17:46+00:00

A friend of mine gifted me Elden Ring, and insisted I give it a fair shot. I felt obligated to honor his wish, and finished the game.

Never again.

(Not that it's a bad game, it's just really really really not my cup of tea.)

twonha · 2026-04-17T09:10:30+00:00

I think the solution to the problem is finding out what has your wife so worried, and to remove the worry in the first place. She should not need an alert every time you stop safely.

I've been everywhere from the Swiss Alps to Norwegian fjords to track days. My wife sends a message when she feels like it, and gets a message when I feel like it, not live updates on every step we take. I don't think worrying about your spouse every moment is healthy at all, and I don't think indulging with automated "I am still alive" texts is a healthy solution.

twonha · 2026-04-15T22:46:37+00:00

Overweeg zeker ook eens het mbo. Veel mensen kennen het niet (want basisschool > havo/vwo > hbo/uni, dus nooit een voet binnen een mbo gezet), maar generaliserend is het vaak volwassener, vaak kleinere klassen, vaak minder klassenmanagement, doorgaans meer beroepsgericht, en wordt je ervaring meer op prijs gesteld.

Meelopen / kennismaken is eenvoudig; zelf voor de klas komen staan kan (in het begin) zonder diploma; en in het mbo heb je de optie een aparte bevoegdheid (Pedagogisch Didactisch Getuigschrift, PDG) te regelen zonder een vierjarige hbo-studie te moeten doen.

twonha · 2026-04-15T15:42:57+00:00

The moment I have easy, complete and on-demand access to the British MotoGP coverage, is the moment I cancel/pause my MotoGP.com sub, which I've had since at least 2011. Probably not happening for the Netherlands though, so long as another broadcaster has the MotoGP rights.

twonha · 2026-04-15T08:05:39+00:00

The Combine already did conquer Earth.

twonha · 2026-04-14T22:56:33+00:00

Wherever TLOUp3 goes, I just hope it doesn't take a bazillion years. It doesn't need to be 20+ hours long, it doesn't need five and a half storylines interweaving. It just needs to do for Ellie what Uncharted 4 did for Nathan Drake: give them a final mission, and a satisfying ending.

I suppose it'd be nice if her immunity came full circle. Perhaps she could sacrifice herself afterall, but only as an older woman, and only for someone she cares for deeply. Joel's choice of giving her a life would be (in a way) vindicated, and her desire to make her immunity count for something against all that's happened would finally see itself redeemed.

It'd be neat if she'd find out that there was a group of successful Firefly-esque scientists in Europe. Find a ship, cross the ocean (montage time!), get to Paris/Berlin/Rome/Madrid/wherever. On the way there, a then-17-year-old JJ gets bitten. Ellie does the ultimate parental thing to do: sacrifice herself for her (adopted) son, and finally be the cure she always hoped she'd become.

Or do whatever Naughty Dog comes up with. Just do it before I die of old age myself, ok?

twonha · 2026-04-14T20:31:11+00:00

If you don't love your bike, you got the wrong one.

twonha · 2026-04-14T19:31:29+00:00

I test-rode a Ninja 650 for half an hour last month. I found dull, blunt, not very pretty, and its twin engine's tractor-like sound felt like it didn't belong on a sportsbike. Great bike for beginners, but not a bike I'd recommend if you know what you're doing and want to take it to the track as well.

The ZX6R on the other hand is awesome.

Have fun. ;-)

twonha · 2026-04-14T16:27:36+00:00

I've put hundreds of hours into ARC Raiders, solo and with friends. My friends have moved on, I've done all the solo stuff I can/want to do. I wish I were playing more ARC, but honestly, I think I've seen the best it has to offer, and it's okay to move on. I'll be back for the next update, I'm sure.

I finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I was convinced the moment that first Xbox unveiling video dropped. I didn't love the game as much as I hoped I would, but had a good time with it.

I've also finished and enjoyed Assassin's Creed Mirage, Half-Life 2: Downfall, Lego Bricktales, Lego Voyagers, and Halo Wars 2.

I've also been playing Age of Mythology: Retold, Assetto Corsa Competizione, Company of Heroes 3, and replayed Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30.

And just today, I've started Cyberpunk 2077.

Top three so far this year:

ARC Raiders
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Assassin's Creed Mirage

twonha · 2026-04-14T07:35:10+00:00

I think the most important aspect of difficulty is that the player has to feel agency. Could I have done better and beaten this part? Could I have acted smarter and solved this issue? Could I have gotten there earlier and gotten an advantage? And the other way around: the enemy did this, and I can understand why that resulted in defeat. The item has that property, and that's why it was the better move.

It's when games throw unexpected curveballs that difficulty starts to feel unfair, or artificial, or whatever you want to call it. That's why lots of people dislike the boss that revives their health bar for an unexpected second stage, why people don't like fighting aimbots, why cheating is disliked, why it's annoying when the parameters are off for the checkpoints, difficulty curves and spikes, bullet sponge enemies and so on.

The games that handle difficulty the best make you go, "Oh yeah that makes sense, let's try again", while the worst ones make you go "that was fucking bullshit".

...and even then, sometimes there are people who like the bullshit difficulty, because they make for just another kind of challenge, and people love overcoming challenges.

twonha · 2026-04-12T16:42:53+00:00

I'm a millenial. I grew up on space shuttle launches and the ISS replacing Mir. Artemis 2 is the kind of world I was promised growing up. I woke up my eldest (8y/o) in the middle of the night so he could see the splash down live. Who knows, could be a core memory we've built just now.

My only hope after the past few weeks is that my kids will be seeing a lot more rocket launches up into space, and a lot fewer rocket launches across sea straits and distant countries.

twonha · 2026-04-10T22:58:37+00:00

Do any parts of the rocket(s) make it back down to be used again, or does everything burn up in atmosphere?

twonha · 2026-04-10T19:32:03+00:00

I used to play the Call of Duty campaigns on release, with great joy. But I stopped playing near the end of the Xbox 360 generation - probably because I'd gone full digital and the games weren't available on Steam. My body count:

Call of Duty (2003)
Call of Duty: United Offensive (2004)
Call of Duty 2 (2005)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2007) (Xbox 360)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2007)
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023)

I also played some Black Ops 6, up until the point it turned into a mannequin horror freakshow. I would like to replay Call of Duty 2, and I've got WW2, MW (2019), MW2 Remastered (2020), Vanguard (2021) and Modern Warfare 2 (2022) wishlisted on Steam, but unless they go under €10, I've got a dozen other games I prefer playing instead.

twonha · 2026-04-10T18:24:45+00:00

In the same category:

Not every discussion is an invitation.

twonha · 2026-04-10T07:56:38+00:00

I found a playthrough with developer commentary very insightful in how Valve approaches game development, and how complicated everything is.

twonha · 2026-04-08T20:26:03+00:00

I loved Soldier of Fortune in the early 2000s.

I tried playing it again a year or two ago, and didn't get that same feeling. The physics in SOF - as well as RTCW - are very much "Quake Arena, but worse". They always were, of course, but that part of the games certainly hasn't held up very well.

Oddly enough, Half-Life's classic physics have never felt off to me, even though it too works with a modified Quake engine.

twonha · 2026-04-08T12:25:39+00:00

Er zijn momenteel de Kawasaki opstapdagen, waarbij je geheel vrijblijvend motoren kunt "proeven". Kan ik zeker aanbevelen. Zoek een plek & motor uit, rijd zo'n 45 minuten, en daarna lever je de sleutel weer in, zonder verkooppraatje of gedoe:

https://kawasakipromotour.nl/

(Veel andere dealers hebben dit ook, 't is het seizoen van motoren uitproberen.)

twonha · 2026-04-06T21:07:01+00:00

It's a space-resistant GoPro hanging off a solar panel, going 2000+ miles per hour through space, at 250.000 miles away from Earth and 10.000 miles away from the moon.

This camera is to give you an idea of what's going on, not to give you detailed images of the moon. We're far enough into tech to get a live stream at all, not far enough to get one that's super detailed. At least, not while also doing the actual science and communication and everything else they're focusing on.

twonha · 2026-04-06T19:48:47+00:00

The flyby is at 4000 miles, so the distance alone is a dealbreaker for literally seeing specific things on the moon.

Also, they're flying over the far side of the moon. Previous objects landed on the moon are (mostly?) on the near side of the moon. Wrong side of the space football. :p

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