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Ideally, we’d have something like fusion power for vehicles but, relatively speaking, cars are still pretty young even if they did come out a hundred years ago. That and fusion reactors are still massive pieces of equipment and only work for less than a second at the moment. Not exactly practical but we’re getting closer! 😛
Nice thing about using olive oil? If you get hungry, you just need to drain the tank to flavor your salad. 😛
Been reading up on random Wiki articles again and came across this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morristown_UFO_hoax
Sounds very familiar! And actual balloons!
Still need to research brownouts more. Got distracted and haven’t gotten back to it even though the tab has been up for a while. Once I have a good understanding of that, of to reading up on cosmic radiation!
On November 28, 2024 at 6:27 pm Spastic Hamburger saidAlright, picked up BeamNG.drive as it was on sale. The physics are good. Really good. And the UI is a lot more intuitive than in Rigs. As expected from being the same team, there are a lot of things that are similar. The controls are also pretty fluid. Not yet sure how well the AI controlled cars work out but we’ll get there 🙂
Passed on Euro Truck Sim 2 for now as I had a hard time finding ways to turn it into a car sim
Update time!
Been spending the last few weeks getting acquainted with the realism and different vehicles in short bursts so today I gave it a longer session. It went rather well. They’re still working on the AI traffic so that it’s not basic but I did a decent job of driving in it and got some highway driving in. Also tried out some of the scenarios and they’re pretty fun. One of them has you driving a police car with your objective being to drive a semi of the road. Others are more basic, having you simply crash your vehicle. Still need to keep practicing, though 🙂
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Still don’t have a real car to practice on, though. More on that in the private thread later 🙁
It also needs to have water filtration! Must keep the water clean! And does it need a water feature? Why not! Add in a fountain, a rock garden, and even an arboretum!
Could be carrying my bag of game stuff to the comic shop. That’s about all I can think of. Hopefully it’s better by the next time. It’s really annoying!
The cargo ship Volgoneft-212 snapped in half on Sunday after being hit by a large wave
Something tells me that shouldn’t happen….Sounds like it had some bad stress fractures before it left port. The dolphin statistics at the end of the article are heartbreaking 🙁
We really need to move away from petroleum oil and to more eco-friendly versions. The world was using olive oil for thousands of years before petrol. It’s a much cleaner fuel but may be more difficult to work with on a large scale. Isn’t that worth more research, though?
Time for something a little more traditional!
Don’t know the names of most of the traditional ones. I’m more of an oddball kind of person 😛
The buckle does look like a nicely attractive option! Would also look good in your travel bag! 🙂
The trick I’ve found with suction cups is to wet them first and they tend to stick better. Otherwise, yeah, I’ve always found them to be a pain! In a word, they can’t suck (but do!) 😛
Sucks about the login issues over there 🙁
No character squeezers? Those would be fun! A snake one would be hilarious!
“Eggsiting Things Inc” 😀
And, while we’re talking chickens, saw this item on Amazon a while back. What I want to know is, does it keep them in luxury too? They may want a hot bath (well, the heater takes care of that) or even a massage!
Screwed my shoulder yesterday somehow. Not fun but I’ll survive!
Fortunately, BBC sells a lot of their series on their online store so I may be able to get caught up at some point. Definitely love British dramas. They’re so much better than what we turn out!
Finally got around to watching Revenge of the Sith. Without reading the reviews first (no idea how it’s regarded), in my personal opinion it wasn’t bad but felt too congested. It should have been split into at least two films. It tried to cover too many remaining threads that hadn’t been covered yet but that needed to be explained for the original three films to make more sense. They also messed up the penultimate scene in the volcano: they kept jumping back and forth between the transformation into Vader and the fight between Yoda and Palpatine. They should have focused on one or the other, not both. As a result, it was pretty jarring.
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Just read the reception on Wiki and the critics pretty much agreed. 😛
No but we can have rocket-side chats!
Haven’t really shopped but I’ve definitely explored before. Also, art museums. Really enjoy them but they’re often hard for me to get to. For some reason, they also put them on the opposite side of town from me! Poor planning on their part!
Definitely may pick up some decor items from the MoMA store. 🙂
Should be able to get them in if you order by, say, Wednesday and depending on the store. We definitely need more toothpaste tube squeezers, though. Getting the last bit out is annoying!
Yeah, I’ll definitely be checking out the manufacturers’ websites since Amazon’s search function is so bad. The plan is to find the models I like and then find them on either Amazon or another reputable shop 🙂
Haven’t tried Ali Express yet but I’ll take a look. They do have a wide variety of goodies!
You mean this one? They used to carry a Star Destroyer, too, that I always wanted. And, speaking of Star Wars, off to the film thread!
Oh, and crazy dream last night: I was a cop in the station and decided that the best weapon for holding off the invading criminals was a stapler. Not a staple gun but a standard Swingline stapler. Thought it was a hilarious dream 😛
So Bing is a little better. The first page is still filled with toys but I got a few diecast models on the second page. Speaking of, perhaps I should browse the diecast collections instead if searching figurines tends to give me toys.
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Bingo. Now we’re in business. The spaceships are hidden under diecast planes.
Blarg. Amazon is such a pain to find stuff on. I want to get some spaceship figurines to help inspire me so I plug that in the search bar. It gives me nothing but cheap space shuttle and astronaut toys. No rockets or fictional starships (or even figurines), just children’s toys. 🙁
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Same situation on Google. I can’t find figurines at all! Stupid algorithms. And people wonder why I prefer in-store shopping! I wouldn’t have this issue at the Nasa gift shop!
I’ll try Duck Duck Go next. Maybe their watered down algorithm will work better. Or maybe even Bing.
DDG is even worse. It gives me nothing but toy listings from Amazon, Target, and Etsy instead of grouping them together like Google does so I see a ton of the same results. Stupid Internet. Give me what I’m searching for! If I wanted toys, I’d type in toys!
Still want to catch the other early Mad Max films. Not a fan of Mel Gibson’s later acting but his early stuff is pretty fun.
As I recall, Das Boot had limited subtitles and the original German version is considered superior to the English version. Really need to watch it. There’s just one problem: it’s 3.5 hours long! Going to need to take some time to schedule it 😛
Yep, definitely going to require some combing but we’ll get it filled up! We’ve also got some good tips in the Computer Setup thread from our various adventures through computer space-time that are worth transferring over. 🙂
So, sort of like a Hitchhiker’s Guide? Could be fun!
I think that’s honestly the future of the dispersal of information over the Internet. Everyone anywhere just adding tidbits in and then it’s all distilled into a general index to find and search. That is, after the editors take a sledgehammer to it. We’ll just be classified as Mostly Harmless then 😛
Finished the expedition! It comes with a sweet ship, multi-tool (it’s a sceptre with a combined mining and cloaking unit), and other goodies. 🙂
Hate to say it but I may start a new game yet again and do things properly so I’m not trying to complete everything at the same time. The sprawling mess of quest stuff is beginning to make my inventory a bit unwieldy and I think I can greatly improve things in a much shorter timeframe now that I’ve got a lot more experience in the game. 🙂
One of these days I need to stick with a save!
Yeah, I’ll be on standby to fix the drivers. I usually wait until it’s automatically installed just in case. 🙂
Yep, the big vendors are pretty good about sharing with Microsoft so things go more smoothly 🙂
Good catch! Also, there are known issues with Ubisoft games so definitely something to keep in mind
So I’ve found that paprika actually goes well in coffee. Pretty tasty! 🙂
Looks like Windows 11 24H2 is being pushed out. The changes don’t look too significant. The biggest change is support for AI compute cores. Another notable one is support for WiFi 7. Other than that, it looks like it’s mostly minor tweaks to the UI in addition to other bug fixes under the hood.
Yuck, yuck, yuck. Boeing is still recovering from that fiasco. They’re now talking about splitting the company up to try and recover much needed funds. And let’s not forget all of the worker strikes!
I think it involves the destruction of Tokyo but, honestly, I didn’t look closely at the box. I figured that, either way, it would be awesome enough for it to be a surprise. 😛 Everyone at the shop thought it was amazing when they saw it, though 😀
Awesome! Doesn’t look like it has a lot of articles but it does feature some of the most pressing 🙂
And NASA released an awesome virtual fireplace the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cgTVTwu4nw
So it looks like MoMA has an online store! They’ve got some pretty cool stuff in there!
Oh, NMS is currently running this year’s expeditions again, with a new one every two weeks, for the next ten weeks or so
And I picked up a copy of Godzilla-themed Monopoly the other day. Should be a blast!
Yeah, Wikipedia’s plot summaries are an interesting thing. Sometimes, they’re little more than a short blurb, other times a blow-by-blow account, and then you have the cases where they’re well done. This one looks like the latter. 🙂 Interestingly, while we discussed the book in school, we never actually read it. It’s definitely on the list, though. 🙂
Crime and Punishment had a similar ending. As soon as Rodion realizes he loves Sonya, everything changes and even goes to turn himself in to serve his sentence in the labor camp with Sonya following him to keep him company. Really good book and highly recommended 🙂
They really don’t write books like they used to!
The issue with cattle trucks is part of why lax regulations only make the issues worse. Unless told otherwise, folks don’t usually go above and beyond. Another literary example? Why not! This was discussed extensively in Airframe. I fear it’ll only get worse over here as we’ve been rolling back regulations in general for a good decade or so. And then we have the criticisms of the FDA. We actually use quite a few food products that are banned in the rest of the world, such as bromated flour. Personally, I only buy unbleached flour. There are other cases where bad substances were banned after the fact but claim that the current production was grandfathered in. Bit of a mess. 😛
Excellent idea. Folks definitely need to be more aware of this stuff. Only was able to view the first few images without a Facebook account but definitely a good idea. It’s been a while since The Jungle came out and it should definitely be remembered today. Still quite a few tweaks to make to the industry 🙂
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