I’ve seen one in the non capitol or metro area in Canada I live in, though there is money here since it’s nice. So yeah I figured there must be more out there than the post said. First one I’ve seen in person, it look liked it belonged in a B movie, I couldn’t help but laugh. I do think it’s a good thing for people try and pollute less of course, just not want to give more money to the Nazi born having already won the game of life.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Not sure if that counts as a big city, and maybe only one was really wrecked, and maybe one left before the second room. Guess it’s time for a rewatch to refresh my memory.

Whatever bear is in Northern Canada gets tall enough to make muddy bear prints below the second floor of a house according to the mud prints on my friend’s house (one of those houses that go up and down at the entrance height). I was pretty young, so only now the cynical side of me wonders if it was real but we also had a bear trap set up on our road at one point so I assume it was, plus since there was a cutline behind our house we saw them there now and then. It was up on a mountain on a side road with like 10 houses and the town below was pretty small.

I don’t think it matters how big the bear is, it’ll fuck you up if it wants to cause they don’t come in tiny (compared to humans) and single. Oh yeah if you see a tiny one get the hell out of there cause mama isn’t far and she isn’t into socializing her cub.

These days I just assume my memory is shot but I was pretty sure it was EB but all the stores said GameStop when I checked so figured just a memory lapse. I sort of went to an equal amount of each in strip mall or inside versions. I’ve been in a few different areas over the years though.

I keep forgetting that they were different companies from the stories, usually only saw EB games up here. After I typed this I looked and it appears I saw GameStop stores and not EB, oh well guess not much will change since I don’t go to them anymore and mostly play on PC these days. Used to quite enjoy getting used console games back in the day from them though, whichever company it was.

1 2 3 4 5? Sounds like the combination for luggage…oh right it’s not the 80s, maybe l 2 3 4 $ 6 7 8 with those peaky restrictions of letter number and symbol.

When my special ballot hadn’t shown up the local election office said that there is still a process to vote in person, you have to sign a statement saying you have not voted yet. It showed up the next day but according to them there is a process but they don’t mention it unless it’s really needed. It was last Thursday so I was a bit worried I wouldn’t be able to vote at all.

Being able to save the state when you have something come up doesn’t make a game a game though. I can see not allowing save scumming (don’t care for that term but not the point) but you should be able to leave a game at your leisure and be able to return to it without having to have the system turned on and ready to play. People can’t always tell how long or much progress a game requires you to be at it before you have to do a large chunk over again because of other responsibilities.

I do see cutscenes being more difficult to handle this but if they’re putting in unskipable cutscenes then that’s something they should figure out, or allow you to skip if needed.

As long as it took me to really comprehend the rate of change thing and understand how calculus is that, until I read that sentence I didn’t think of all the gravity parts impacting a stellar body and velocity in a direction being impacted by multiple forces. Mean I always knew the story of Newton inventing calculus for that but never clicked exactly how it related. The sad thing is it’s a sort of thing I pondered a bit on but never quite made the connection.

The great part of Canada, just order it online and save that akwardness. I will say the last time I was in a store the sales people were very helpful (our postal service was on strike but apparently got shafted still unfortunately, I was rooting for them) though I had an idea of what I wanted… basically something I could buy and oz of and be alright % of THC (also not sure how accurate those numbers are, but seems to give a relative idea of potency), not really difficult but they were as good as I could hope for, coming from an ex retail person. And no they weren’t like stereotypical stoners, regular retail professionalism, which I know varies but they did their job and probably better than many I’ve come across.

Yeah but sometimes a stoned walk through the woods during the day is nice. Have to remember responsibilities of course and some people’s work better for day smoking. As long as you are mindful of what you need and should do, balance and all that.

Hah I always confused the name with that one with the episode Disaster (had to look it up Picard and kids winning something), no wonder I rarely watched it. Cause I’m pretty sure they go up ladders in turbolifts in that one so just thought that was that episode. But I recall liking the backwards people starting fires. To be fair I don’t watch much TNG these days but still my favorite series by far (also haven’t watch a series since Enterprise so may need to catch up).

Is that the one they start a fire in the area they’re in and then get shown the replicator? If so that general one always stuck though been many years now, but don’t recall the laughing offhand. I’ll have to watch for Stewart laughing, I love those kinds of reactions.

I bought it cheap one sale in the last…oh five years ago or so (time is funny at this age) but I definitely had that experience. Sometime I want to get really into it to check I out but know I’ll need to go invest in some training time to understand the mechanics to make the time seems relevant.

It reminds me of Gothic 1 really, it was brutal but a fun RPG, not as open as this one was(recall it being relatively small to even GTA 3 standards) but open for its era. Think I had to try killing a stupid mob for ages in that one, actually didn’t get fa but it was done so well at the time.

I learned something new, of course there’s a name for everything heh. Thank you!

Few things more satisfying than learning about what you’ve pondered off and on for a few decades heh. To be fair never looked it up just thought it was neat it happens.

After trying to learn how to use a DAW (digital audio workstation) I end up listening to this so I can hear the same sound with slight variations. Eventually it gets to the same point as when you say a word too much and it starts to lose meaning. Seriously say something like 20+ times, it doesn’t click as the word unless you think about it. I’m sure for some people it does, but I’ve gone back to some trials later and thought oh that’s pretty close when I thought it was way off during my workings with it. The human senses aren’t as static as we think, but I probably just need more ear training to overcome it.

I’ve used a PC with Kodi on it for my main tv for over a decade now, think I used it under it’s previous name even. I’ve had few complaints, occasionally there’s a video that won’t play but works in VLC but that’s pretty rare. Sometimes it doesn’t pick up new videos properly but that’s just expected for some file names.

And the couch he rode in on.

Well we can’t assume we know physics completely yet (or within bounds of the question) something down the road may open an idea or ability to generate more power than we know what to do with. If this was a game we may only been on the first or second step of a technology tree. Or we just aren’t able to travel that far realistically, we have to overcome our idea of our species being singular and send out generation ships that go for ages (in human time) to explore more as a species, even if the originators (Earth humans) may never know the outcome.

Of course if we discover that much power we’d likely annihilate ourselves anyways, least with our current society.

I do mostly agree but I try and think of other possibilities since the universe is so vast.

I haven’t played in decades, when we did we never had visual aides it was just describing. Okay some visual aides (usually used some dice) to show how the groups were situated but it was usually just the initial setup and we took it from there. Even that was rare though, I sort of wondered how often that happens these days, everyone seems to be talk about maps and such. I thought some of the great part of RPGs was using your imagination for it and the DM(or whichever term) would work with it. That said I can totally understand for more tactical games and this was in D&D 2nd Ed era when it was hard to come by those things unless you paid. The times we played say WoD I don’t think we used that sort of thing once, so game system makes a difference too.