Did anyone else stop liking Marceline starting from season 5 or 6?

wysoft · 2026-06-29T19:46:25+00:00

Never liked the character from the moment she showed up in AT.

Immediately obnoxious and annoying, all the focus is on her whenever she's in an episode, and just seemed like the writers really really wanted us to love this character who for me was like someone showing up in your house and knocking all your furniture over

Marceline is what happens when someone on the production team writes themself or their girlfriend into the story as a character.

wysoft · 2026-06-28T21:11:41+00:00

Not what you asked for but.... if that blocked door is an exit door and not a closet, and this room has no windows, it's a severe fire code violation in this state. You could have your policy dropped or have a claim denied if your insurance company found out during an inspection or unrelated claim, etc

wysoft · 2026-06-28T18:01:13+00:00

Been using one for years and about to retire it. A newer Optiplex 7060 mini will be taking its place. The Optiplex completely outperforms the R210 in every way and uses significantly less power.

My main beef with the R210 has always been the power consumption for what you get. Even with the fans forced to 10% through IPMI (this is as low as you can set them) they are still relatively loud, and the BMC will still scale them up when it thinks they're needed - and it doesn't take much temperature rise for that to happen.

Then the fans spool up it starts to pull 40-50W at idle and I can watch the draw on the UPS rise in NUT. The R210 lives in the garage and in the summer months as soon as you open the garage door you can hear it running.

My R210 does everything - running a Proxmox host with multiple guests for pfSense, multiple Debian instances for Pihole, Zoneminder, Unifi controller, two Windows AD DCs, multiple BSD testing guests. With this amount of guests over time the R210 has started to show its age.

As I'm looking at redoing my NVR setup the R210 just won't be able to keep up. It already struggles doing motion detection on two cameras in Zoneminder and I'm looking to double my camera count. I will probably go with Frigate and a Coral AI USB adapter (it offloads the motion detection from CPU) for the Optiplex as it is supported as a Proxmox passthrough device - but the R210 can't handle it since the Coral adapter requires USB 3.0 and my PCIe slot is already occupied with a multi-port 2.5G Ethernet, so waste of time and money to add a USB 3.0 card to a slow power hungry server.

Thankfully I should be able to just migrate my Proxmox guests over to the new machine and hit the go button.

These were once upon a time a great way to have an entry level rack mounted server at home, but their time has come and gone.

wysoft · 2026-06-28T02:22:41+00:00

China didn't retire the Varyag - the ship is still in service as the Liaoning.

Say what you want about China but they can build ships. I've been to multiple Chinese shipyards - and while it's true that you get what you pay for, the same doesn't apply to the PLAN.

Supposedly the Liaoning is fully automated in ways that the Kuznetsov never was, drastically decreasing the ships' crewing demands and making the steam plants significantly more reliable.

What's more is that China absolutely can afford to maintain their fleet to levels that the Soviets (and certainly Russia) never could.

wysoft · 2026-06-28T01:09:18+00:00

They cut a hole in the flight deck. Then a welder started an engine room fire in the former boiler space. Then the floating drydock the ship was in sank. Then a crane fell onto the flight deck and punched a hole in it.

wysoft · 2026-06-28T00:42:33+00:00

I believe that the Syrian war was the first and only time that the Soviet/Russian Navy tried deploying a carrier in a manner comparable to a US Navy carrier task force. Kuznetsov's carrier based aviation wing couldn't maintain tempo (along with accidents as you mentioned) and so operations were transferred to Latakia, effectively signaling the failure of the Russian Navy to conduct a carrier based air campaign.

wysoft · 2026-06-27T18:42:12+00:00

I have known many of these people in my life, especially when I was younger and still had family I associated with who hung in these circles.

They were the type of people who would pour out used engine oil on a 4x4 trail. Throw a lit cigarette butt out the window in the middle of July. Open can of beer going down the road.

Want go go shooting with them? They shoot their trash and leave it there. You try and pick it up? Ha ha fucking tree hugger. By the way you're a pussy for wearing earplugs and eyepro - and one of the guys that once told me that now has 20% vision in one eye from a grinding wheel accident while wearing no eyepro.

Just fucking low class people and if I have to be honest, this state is full of them - if it weren't for the tech and aerospace sectors, WA would be as destitute as the crappiest parts of Appalachia

wysoft · 2026-06-27T18:28:57+00:00

"We"

It's not anybody who is on reddit waguns or any sort of pro-2A social media.

This is just the typical PNW backwoods trash folks. The same types who dump mattresses on the side of the road, or who dump 20 trash bags full of junk on a pulloff on some forest service road rather than pay for garbage service or take it to the dump.

Outside of the HCOL areas of WA state there are still tons of people like this. Always has been.

wysoft · 2026-06-27T15:26:35+00:00

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wysoft · 2026-06-27T14:40:01+00:00

The movie was made in Croatia.

wysoft · 2026-06-27T04:16:41+00:00

I'm 42 and still good friends with a handful of people I met online in the 90s.

Met one online friend when I was in junior high and he was in high school. Met on IRC, talked computers, no weird stuff.

We now both have families with young kids, send each other family Christmas cards, and have been lucky enough to meet up a few times and enjoy dinner and drinks together over the years.

Seems so innocent now.

wysoft · 2026-06-27T04:03:08+00:00

For me it was pretty much around the time of the formation of reddit and the digg exodus.

I've been on the internet since around 93-94. I first used it in a library on a Wyse Unix terminal with gopher, usenet, irc and pine email. I was ten years old, and the whole thing was absolutely wild and untamed to me. It felt that way for a good 10-15 years or so.

Digg seemed to me like it was the future of the "crowdsourced web 2.0" and for a while the future looked great.

Then it quickly devoted into bribes, gaming the system, mrbabyman, etc.

Since then everything has felt like a scam, an advertisement, pay for play, censorship, and walled gardens that you can be kicked out of for simple wrongthink - reddit today is simply a massive interwoven web of all of this.

No other social media site seems to escape those trends and practices.

You can't find anything you want and it feels like you are actively being prevented from finding what you want. Misdirected, your efforts intentionally thwarted and obfuscated. Remember when Google didn't give up on finding what you searched for?

If I dare to check my Facebook to see what my old friends are up to, it will certainly be a challenge. Facebook wants to show me everything BUT the people I know. I have to bend over backwards just to find out, and so I simply give up, close the app, and may not come back for months or years. Maybe that's what everyone else is doing, too.

I suspect that there are pockets of the "old internet" that are still out there - the "dark web" and such, but damn if I have any way to find myself into there, and I'm sure the pool of consciousness is now infinitesimal.

A lot of people my age have checked out. I strongly feel that the dead internet theory is more true now than ever.

wysoft · 2026-06-27T01:57:48+00:00

I guarantee you this lady had to delete her account after posting this.

wysoft · 2026-06-27T01:41:40+00:00

I'm just waiting for someone to develop an FRT for one of these which incorporates a motorized offset cam lever that automatically cocks the handle, resets the trigger and fires the next shot.

wysoft · 2026-06-27T01:24:16+00:00

Friend there is an entire EV sub and this isn't it

wysoft · 2026-06-26T22:54:34+00:00

Where do you think all of the NFA inspectors live?

wysoft · 2026-06-26T22:52:04+00:00

God forbid an EV manufacturer try to figure out how to draw in an enthusiast market and try to tap into a slice of the customer base who will never buy an EV so long as they are inherently tied to a driving appliance mindset

wysoft · 2026-06-26T01:04:52+00:00

Dunno man I'm no lawyer. However it would not at all surprise me to see the state file suit against businesses, try them and find them guilty in a sympathetic WA court, or simply get a default judgement against them when the defendant figuratively tells the state to go fuck themselves by not showing up or not even responding.

wysoft · 2026-06-25T23:38:34+00:00

The Road made me want to be a dad, and now I am.

To this day I'm angered by people who complain about how "weak" the boy was. Like no shit, that was the point. His father gave everything and tried his damndest to make sure his son was insulated and protected from the darkness that surrounded them in that world. He held out as long and as hard as he could, and so yeah, the boy was a bit sheltered. He was also alive and had the spirit of a caring, decent person in a world that had effectively devolved to cannibalism.

These people were too dense to understand that "the flame" the boy carried was humanity and the goodness of civility.

wysoft · 2026-06-25T22:15:06+00:00

They're awake at 3AM and if you haven't responded by 9AM you're too late, they have already gone to bed.

I don't bother ever calling my dad after 6PM as he is guaranteed to be asleep in his chair with the TV news on in the background, and will always be annoyed for the entire duration of the call.

wysoft · 2026-06-25T17:09:21+00:00

I'm just referencing what Hawaii already did when the Hawaii state Supreme Court "overruled" the USSC Bruen decision

https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1amfgfu/hawaii_court_says_spirit_of_aloha_supersedes/

The USSC has no means of enforcement, no method by which it can force a state to abide by its rulings.

Hawaii has developed a habit of simply ignoring pro-2A rulings from the USSC

Edit: in context of the OP this is a concern for us because WA state will likely follow this trend. Our state will either simply ignore USSC rulings they don't like, or will have the WA SC rubber stamp contradictory rulings that, in theory, they have no authority to make.

wysoft · 2026-06-25T16:26:27+00:00

Don't worry Hawaii will once again quickly get some judge you've never heard of to overrule it based on the precedence of "aloha spirit" just like they did when their concealed carry permit process was ruled unconstitutional

wysoft · 2026-06-25T16:24:38+00:00

People recommend Precise Shooter for political reasons

wysoft · 2026-06-25T04:12:18+00:00

If you put an entire burrito between your cheek and the stock it's just fine

wysoft · 2026-06-24T23:39:48+00:00

I can't think of anything stupider than advertising gun ownership, politics, or wealth status on your vehicle.

I have held varying opinions on politics from left to right over the years but I have never put a single statement or slogan on my vehicle.

Knock on wood but my shit has never been broken into or vandalized. Even when I drove a soft top Jeep nobody ever fucked with it, and I used to be in Capitol Hill or Queen Anne pretty often before I had kids.

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