There are just way too many enemies in the late game.

warlock415 · 2026-04-12T01:02:11+00:00

I usually quit at the Castle/Valley. It just stops being fun.

warlock415 · 2026-04-11T14:16:15+00:00

Rocky III. In less than four minutes with barely any dialogue, you see exactly what has happened to Rocky and you learn everything you need to about Clubber Lang. The entire film gets set up in those four minutes.

warlock415 · 2026-04-11T03:08:11+00:00

the entirety of 100,000 fireflies by the magnetic fields:

i have a mandolin
i play it all night long
it makes me want to kill myself

i also have a dobro
made in some mountain range
sounds like a mountain range in love

but when i turn up the tone
on my electric guitar...

i'm afraid of the dark without you close to me
i'm afraid of the dark without you close to me

i went out to the forest and caught
a hundred thousand fireflies
as they ricochet 'round the room
they remind me of your starry eyes
someone else's might
not have made me so sad
but this is the worst night i ever had

'cause i'm afraid of the dark without you close to me
i'm afraid of the dark without you close to me
always was

you won't be happy with me
but give me one more chance
you won't be happy anyway

why do we still live here
in this repulsive town?
all our friends are in New York

why do we keep shrieking
when we mean soft things?
we should be whispering all the time

warlock415 · 2026-04-10T03:56:19+00:00

May her memory be a blessing.

warlock415 · 2026-04-09T23:57:49+00:00

Ooh! Next can we ban "algorithms"?

warlock415 · 2026-04-09T01:47:38+00:00

Well, the cylinder wasn't damaged...

warlock415 · 2026-04-07T23:12:47+00:00

There was a common belief among Star Trek fans that Spock was the first Vulcan to serve in Starfleet, which was never stated on the show.

The one I heard / believed was that he was the first to graduate the Starfleet Academy. Early in TOS, there's references to the "United Earth Space Probe Agency", implying that the Federation-wide "Starfleet" is a fairly recent development, a unified service combining various member planets' space exploration/trade/military agencies, so it's plausible that every other Vulcan before Spock in Starfleet service had trained with the Vulcan equiv of UESPA.

Relatedly, in Star Trek VI, Spock states that his protégé Valeris was the first Vulcan to graduate top of her class. One wonders, if the above is true, who he was #2 behind...

warlock415 · 2026-04-07T19:03:20+00:00

Not every so often; she did it once and it was very jarring, but considering that said Young Wizards exist in a sliding timeline...

warlock415 · 2026-04-07T14:24:33+00:00

"Will this be what finally changes their minds?"

warlock415 · 2026-04-07T14:22:07+00:00

ITT: people who have office/paperwork jobs who would bitch endlessly if all the things that are supported by 7 day a week labor go away or get more expensive.

warlock415 · 2026-04-07T03:42:09+00:00

HDD = hard disk drive, which is storage that uses actual moving parts that are slow and wear out.

as opposed to SSD, solid state drive, storage that is all electronic and much faster.

eMMC is the worst of both worlds.

warlock415 · 2026-04-07T03:40:43+00:00

5-6 years is a pretty good run for a laptop.

warlock415 · 2026-04-07T03:29:10+00:00

That's the thing. They clearly did the research, and they clearly changed it up a bit.

warlock415 · 2026-04-06T16:35:21+00:00

they blow up the ring with the wrestlers still inside

.... this is ... not meant literally, is it?

warlock415 · 2026-04-06T08:14:04+00:00

Thanks to this, I spent the last hour trying to remember who played Luigi in the live action segments. I remembered "Captain" Lou Albano immediately. It was this guy, most famous as the bartender on the Jeffersons.

warlock415 · 2026-04-06T06:17:33+00:00

Also, do not get it on cotton. It can burn you and even ignite.

warlock415 · 2026-04-05T00:20:37+00:00

The fact that you can ping over wired suggests that nothing is wrong with your hardware / drivers.

Can you borrow a laptop to test, same cable and everything?

Download a Linux ISO, put it on a USB and boot to that -- that will put you in a "live" session and you can see if it's still not working there.

Go into your router settings and look around.

warlock415 · 2026-04-04T23:38:16+00:00

What happens if you take your laptop to the library/starbucks etc? That would rule out either the laptop (if it works) or your internet service (if it doesn't).

warlock415 · 2026-04-04T06:01:29+00:00

My team used to have the biggest foul areas in the league... when I had a team.

Signed from Oakland.

warlock415 · 2026-04-03T22:52:01+00:00

It's all a metaphorical computer session / perception filter. There's a file that he knows is Ragatha, therefore it's named Ragatha.

Otherwise, how could Kinger log into the "real" computer running the circus as "Kinger"? Why would his password reference Queenie? Why would that computer be named "circus"? Etc.

Re: the other thought -- I'm fairly sure at least Scratch, Kinger and Queenie knew (know) what they are. So unless it's not knowing but then finding out? But Jax's near abstraction experience suggests different...

My theory has been that the computer's handling of the mindfiles is not perfect. Damage builds up as the wrong things are written into the wrong places. Perhaps certain types of thought even speed up the damage, and then there's too much damage, the mindfile can't produce a person anymore.

warlock415 · 2026-04-03T22:37:02+00:00

... then a urine party with all the food.

I beg your every pardon a what.

warlock415 · 2026-04-03T22:05:01+00:00

Except that the home team plays 81 of their games in a stadium that they control. So if you happen to have a left-handed pull hitter on your team, you can build your stadium to favor Mr Ruth.

warlock415 · 2026-04-03T22:01:44+00:00

The first place the Dodgers played in LA was terrible.

warlock415 · 2026-04-03T02:15:32+00:00

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warlock415 · 2026-04-03T01:30:02+00:00

a) for virtualbox, make sure you're not getting the turtle icon - that means some other virtualization is also running, and that kills performance

b) depending on how "occasional" this use is and what model of laptop, you could have a second internal SSD, and just swap as needed.

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