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Alright, 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
Finally got around to watching Mad Max. First thing I noticed was that Anarchie Road was freshly paved. The ending was inconclusive: did the last bad guy take the bait and saw off his own leg to escape of not? Not sure it really lived up to its cult status. It was almost there but was missing just enough not to reach it, in my opinion. Granted, it was campy enough and had enough acting oddities to bring about a few chuckles, it was just missing something
I like how the popular culture section lives on in See Also but without the descriptions. The section doesn’t really detract too much from the articles as one can easily skip it and, often, the references are pretty interesting. I think they’re doing too much to make things more concise and, as a result, making it a bit less useful. To be fair, some of the articles were getting out of hand such as the Wile E Coyote and Acme articles. Especially the latter: people were adding every reference to Acme, even companies that predated the fictional corporation, so they had to do a bit of a purge. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was one of the inspirations behind the xkcd strip. Love xkcd still. Been reading it for close to twenty years now 😛
On November 17, 2024 at 12:46 am DeVaultSetter saidTried a hand at the MSN games Spades, the first thing was the old login is deprecated, now it’s either anonymous or only the MS account to login through FirebaseApp.
Fun, except the game screen won’t maximise in the browser and there’s a bug in the sound volume slider. The chat icons take a bit of getting used to as well.Didn’t know MSN had a dedicated game zone. Looks like it hasn’t been maintained very well. Some of those look like web clients for the desktop versions that weren’t ported very well. Maybe they were the original versions that were brought over to a standalone program later and then forgotten about?
Sadly, we don’t have any native plant nurseries near me so I’m probably just going to go to a nursery and pick something out.
Got plenty of that in fields around here. It’s pretty prolific! Have to be careful, though. The bugs love it!
I may have seen it somewhere recently. Not sure where but I’ll keep an eye out. I know we’ve got plenty of sweet basil, of course. Mom’s got a couple of those. I think I may have seen it at the hardware store a few months back? Can’t say for certain but I’ll be going there in a few days and will keep a look out!
Cool!
Santa would definitely need to find something else to give out to the naughty people. Perhaps pumice instead? 😛
Yep, redirect the ones I can. Had to do that with a school I formerly went to. They messed up something in the email system and they kept spamming me with student newsletters even though I was no longer in their system as an active student. I kept forwarding them to their IT department but never got a response. Took two years for them to stop 🙁
“Never trust anybody taller than you.”
Good advice! 😀
So I saw a keychain yesterday of the Monopoly guy wearing a prison jumpsuit. He finally got caught!
We have some of those trash cans downtown! Don’t know if they have light strips, though. It’s been a while since I’ve been there when it’s dark 😛
Some of the heat generated may be able to be offset by the use of a water sink to absorb the excess energy. Maybe use it to help irrigate the surrounding area? Desert greening could be considered bad, though. The warm water could even be used for other tasks, too.
I really do like the solar plants! We used to have a solar bug in a jar that was pretty cool.
There’s been a lot more development with spray on panels, too. For instance, Mercedes is experimenting with using it to help power cars: https://www.motortrend.com/news/mercedes-benz-solar-paint-tech-demo/
Got a bit of a cold front the other day. Finally! So glad to have the heat gone 🙂
I hate how I had told various online stores not to email me and they respect that until Black Friday sales hit. Then they start spamming me with offers. I had already told them to unsubscribe me!
Yeah, they never did really take off in the stores. Now, you have to find them at online specialty shops (even Amazon only has a few) such as this one. My new Blu-Ray player supports SACD for whatever reason so I may pick one up at some point and give the format a whirl. See if it’s all it’s cracked up to be 🙂
I still have my GameCube even though the Wii is backwards compatible. Haven’t even used it since I got the Wii in 2008 😛
Ouch. That happened to my grandmother’s shed. Carpenter ants got in and ate the floor out and we didn’t find out until I was cleaning it out. We did spray but, alas, it was too late and collapsed the next year.
I had to pack up the Wii and PS2 yesterday to make room for other stuff. Sad but I hadn’t used them in a few years.
To be fair, most of the games I have for them have been getting remastered so it’s not that big of a loss. Just makes me sad.
Fortunately, we have the Urban Dictionary to help fill in the blanks! Honestly, I don’t know what I’d do without it. I use a lot more than I used to 😛
And folks also call long sleeve shirts just, “sleeves,” which is weird. Are they being worn as a scarf, then? 😛
Mentioned this before but we should cover all of the roads, sidewalks, and bus depots with solar panels. Not only would it give pedestrians and drivers shade, it would also help generate electricity from places that are cleared anyways and don’t necessarily need the open sky. We’d need a light sensor underneath them and some low powered strip lights to help keep it from getting too dark in there
Here’s a bit of a mix for today:
Got an old surge protector that’s ten years old. It still works as a power strip but, after ten years, its MOVs are probably suspect so I may disassemble it to see how it’s wired. Haven’t decided yet if I want to keep it as a strip or simply dissect it, though. Leaning towards the latter as I really want to know how it works outside of reading on the web 🙂
Yep! Got it bookmarked! 🙂
Lots of goodies on Amazon, too!
Ugh. Hopefully they get them fixed soon! I know people in my area also have trouble with their cable boxes. I wonder if they outsource to the same software developer?
Been watching the Vice Academy series. It’s absolutely horrendous. Of course, that means I find it very enjoyable! 😀
Really need to switch to holiday mode…. 😛
Oh, cool. Shout Factory has a good assortment of B-movies and other cult films in 4k: https://shoutfactory.com/collections/4k-uhd
The English language is quickly becoming incomprehensible with how quickly slang and definitions are evolving. For instance, someone was talking about their girlfriend’s partner the other day and added no context. Without context, this could mean business partner just as much as it could mean romantic partner. This is why I prefer the term significant other in terms of relationships. It makes things very clear. With how definitions are running together, it’s very hard to parse even when context clues are in place. I’m even having some issues understanding bits and pieces of newer books because of the lack of clarity. Then we have some humorous instances of a similar nature. Someone mentioned that they don’t like wearing pants. They meant long pants but a lot of people are just shortening it to pants now. It makes for some very weird interactions 😛
There is that. I just wish they would add a qualification that they’re just taking statements so that they can keep a closer eye on things or something to that effect. As it is, it sounds like they’re just entertaining the notion that the speculation itself has merit even though there’s no evidence. If there were actual evidence in government labs, it would probably be hard to keep it quiet. More than likely, there’d be pictures all over the place with the way the Internet is these days 😛
The full film has been pulled off YouTube for some reason and a basic search didn’t turn up anything. However! I found a clip! The clip is probably the important segment. Granted, the quality is too poor to make anything out myself. That and I know little about biomechanics. May send it to my mom, she used to do that sort of thing for a living 🙂
Finally started exploring tech upgrades in NMS in the expedition. Going to need to explore them in my main game but they’re pretty handy! Just hard to find good ones since you need to check the merchant at each space station.
Granted, most of the stuff I watch has terrible scores on both IMDB and RT…. 😛
Bad movies are fun!
Haven’t gotten much chance to watch anything really noticeable lately as they were roofing next door. May switch over to holiday mode soon, though. In which case, I absolutely have to watch classics like The Star Wars Holiday Special and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians with a little bit of Christmas Vacation mixed in. Some of those are better films than others…. 😛
Going well so far. Still waiting on the third book to become available but I’m really enjoying it 🙂
I used Thunderbird! The interface for the news reader was pretty basic as I recall but that’s okay! Looks like there are some BBSs still around. As for the state of the content, couldn’t say. Just did a brief search and saw a few online but didn’t look to see what kind of stuff they host. 😛
Been browsing Textfiles.com again, which is always interesting.
😀 I can certainly ask! Tow hitch gets installed today so we can use it to haul the kayaks. 🙂
A few decades ago, the Forrester was the station wagon. The current model looks nothing like it!
Looks like City Car Driving is getting an updated version in May so I may start with Beam.NG drive when it goes on sale and go from there. Or Euro Truck Simulator. Need to look into the latter more but it I think I read that it has good hardware support. It also has a ton of DLC but I may not need much of it, will need to take a closer look. Would also be nice to have something to mess around with outside of learning so I’ll take that into consideration. Will pick up the research again this weekend. 🙂
Always sad to see a service fold. 🙁
Weird that the Wikipedia page is so inaccurate. The issues have already been mentioned on the talk page so hopefully it’ll get changed
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/nx-s1-5189426/ufo-uap-hearing-congress-2024
Sigh. These publicity stunts are only damaging the legitimate search. This is Roswell all over again. The difference is, in this case we don’t even have photos. Just some people making extraordinary claims. It’s all based on hearsay. I could say I’m from the Andromeda galaxy all I want but it doesn’t make it so. And, besides, I have nothing to back it up with. The end result is that it weakens the credibility of actual evidence. Unless there’s something to back it up, the US government really shouldn’t be hosting this stuff. It reminds me of the time when the FBI wasted time and money investigating Bigfoot: https://vault.fbi.gov/bigfoot/bigfoot-part-01-of-01/view
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