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More stuff that is unavailable over here. 😛
I love British films and shows and find them of much better quality than the drivel we’ve been churning out since the 70s (granted, some of our older sitcoms are pretty good). The problem? Not even BBC America shows them! Will definitely need to check out BritBox when I can
I’ve got my own small list of stuff I’m not allowed to do in TCGs:
1. I’m not allowed to play with the cards upside down
2. I’m not allowed to make designs out of everything that’s in play
3. The playmat does not count as a card
4. I’m not allowed to blow everything up by turn four (even if it’s funny as hell)
5. I’m not allowed to balance dice on my head
6. I’m not allowed to balance the cards on my head😀
Yep! Calvin ball shows up all over the place! I do think the section on politics is a bit of a stretch, though.
Newgrounds was an interesting place back in its heyday. Fun animation section, too.
Fun fact: Adobe Flash was used to make Friendship is Magic
Here’s the original. Looks like it was last online in 2025. A shame that the page is no longer available!
142. “Calvin-Ball” is not authorized PT.
Nothing wrong with Calvin Ball! It’s good exercise and the rules change constantly!
Lots of good stuff in all three lists! Makes for a fun browse when there’s not much else to do 🙂
Really miss the days when that kind of thing was more common on the Web.
Haven’t read that one but I’ll check the library. There’s also an alternative theory that viruses caused it all with rogue infections. Fascinating stuff!
Fond memories of The Evil Overlord List. Glad to see that some of the versions are still online after all of this time 🙂
And then there’s also Skippy’s List
Yeah, HN has been in the habit of calling most things AI lately even if the articles still have valid points or aren’t AI. I may take another break from there for a couple of years. Too little productive discussion these days 😛
Yep. Venus flytraps are cool!
Tried growing them at one point and they didn’t survive even though I followed the instructions. 😛
They may do better if I put them in the ground instead of using a planter.
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Yeah, it was a big loss losing Leonardo’s work!
xkcd recently did a piece on Messi as well: https://xkcd.com/3260/
This American Life does sound like a fun listen, will need to give it a whirl 🙂
Had this come in the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599776
Not getting much attention over there but the linked post does have some valid observations.
Da Vinci’s notebook is getting some much needed preservation: https://www.discovermagazine.com/leonardo-da-vinci-s-notebooks-are-whole-again-400-years-after-a-collector-cut-them-apart-49241
It’s really hit or miss after the first few seasons. I’d much rather be watching Futurama but I no longer have access to it. It does have its moments, though. I’m mostly watching it to give me something mindless to watch when I’m not in the mood to read a book. I’ve been thinking about going back to watching old movies and anime, though.
Yep! The Giant Claw is a wonderful film! Also try Night of the Lepus. Highly recommended!
Here’s the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RedHorizonUSA
Looks like it could be a fun viewing reading through some of the comments (laughs regarding AI blunders). Going to need to take a closer look 🙂
Awesome video!
There’s also the dung beetle!
In some districts, it’s actually illegal to leave your pets’ waste lying around even though the local critters do it all the time. And they don’t want it flushed or in the landfill. So…where do we put it?
Ugh. I have some very old accounts that are simply inaccessible due to the email domains being shut down decades ago. Never fun, that 🙁
Bigfoot is getting attention again.
And had this come in. Cool project but I do wonder how well the plastic would hold up over time due to the micro-spaces between layers. Good way for algae to grow and things.
Remember this gem?
Hasn’t been updated in thirteen years, though, but the forums are still pretty active. It’s actually where I’ve gotten ideas for what to watch over the last fifteen years or so
And speaking of bees, apparently they’re good problem solvers!
Important question: how old is Spongebob anyways? Everyone acts like he’s a kid and he clearly acts like one but is also old enough to be able to drive and is heavily implied that he and Patrick are roughly the same age. Patrick went to community college and doesn’t seem to work, which raises questions about how he can afford anyways but that’s a different question. Too many things don’t make sense in Spongebob land!
Feeling much better after taking a break so I’ll try to pick things back up again in a couple of days 🙂
Elementary has been on the list for a while, just haven’t gotten to it yet. I’m not sure where I can catch it, will definitely need to find out.
O Brother, Where Art Thou has come up from time to time over here, just haven’t gotten in the mood for it. It always looked a bit silly for me 😛
Been watching TCM a lot more recently and I’ve really missed all of the old films! They were even running a monster movie marathon a few weeks back, which was a blast. Don’t know the occasion but I’m not going to complain!
I’m actually thinking beyond just farming. Take ancient Rome, for instance. They had computers, even if rudimentary, and even indoor plumbing with hot and cold running water. The technology was lost for a thousand years before being rediscovered.
As for storage medium, digital isn’t a good option as not only does it break down faster than analog but it is also highly susceptible to magnets and electrical impulses. The ideal medium would be to print everything on stone tablets but those wouldn’t be exactly practical 😛
I’m not seeing half a TB from the storage requirements for ARK, only about 80 GB or so (they don’t list the space taken up by each pack for whatever reason but the season pass takes up 20000 MB (why they don’t use GB is beyond me….)). Anyways! Games are taking up more and more space. If I had known at the time, I would have opted for two 2 TB SSDs instead of 2 1 TB SSDs when I ordered this system. Not that I’ve run out of space yet…. 😛
And, similarly, crustaceans do as well. I thought I had read that plants also feel pain but couldn’t find the study. They, do however, respond to the stimuli even though some folks say it’s not a pain response due to the lack of a nervous system. I would argue otherwise, however: if they’re responding, even without a nervous system, then I would say they most certainly do feel pain, even if it’s not pain in the same sense as animal pain.
https://videocardz.com/newz/samsung-reportedly-developing-250tb-to-1pb-nearline-ssds-enough-for-up-to-8000-gta-v-installs
That’s a lot of storage!However, there is a trade-off:
The flash is not standard QLC. Girard says endurance is lower, at around 0.1 drive writes per day, compared with around 0.5 DWPD for current QLC drives.
I’m just more comfortable without them when working at the computer 😛
Progressing at a fairly good clip, all things considered. 🙂
Some of the UI quirks may be due to how they’re using Qt. Could be worth sending them a feature request 🙂
Yay! Been playing some minesweeper off and on lately myself. Of course, when you get to the end game, it winds up being mostly luck as you sometimes have multiple squares that could be either a number or a bomb and no amount of logic can save you 😛
Could possibly cannibalize a few robot vacuums for parts to get the Labubu heads to suck up dirt 😛
🙁 Good choice on site. I like to keep my dogs’ ashes in the living room so that they’re always nearby 🙂
We’re getting some rain as expected, finally. Not a whole lot but it is better than nothing.
Got to thinking recently, we need a knowledge vault in addition to the seed vault. What’s the use of storing all of that food supplies if we won’t have the tools to use it to rebuild? Would need to manned around the clock just in case something happens so the various locations would need, ideally, at least three teams each taking eight hour shifts (or less, depending on how many shifts are used). Would also need to have the locations spread around the globe and all contents translated in multiple languages. Getting everyone to cooperate on this endeavor is another matter entirely.
The Labubu bot may need treads before it can adequately roll on various terrain. Not hard to do: gluing rubber mats to it may be the ticket. Will definitely need to look at the project in more detail.
The readme is kind of light on details, though. Definitely needs more fleshing out.
On May 18, 2026 at 5:27 pm DeVaultSetter saidOnly two weeks after his shot, Shem has become almost immobile in a rather speedy downgrade to Stage 4 End-Stage Osteoarthritis. Difficulty with his eat/drink/motions now as well. Oh well, best to keep him comfortable in his basket for a while, looks like time for the needle in any case. 🙁
On a rather cheerier note, a few showers coming in for tomorrow which is nice. Weather behaving your way?🙁 How old is he now?
We’re starting to get more regular rain, which is nice. We’ve already lost a lot of trees with others in desperate need of water. The neighborhood is definitely going to need to do some replanting once the drought ends.
Reinstalled Guild Wars 2 the other day and, while the game runs beautifully, it does have some issues with displaying text on 4k monitors. With my display scaling set to 125% in the OS, text was so tiny that it was unreadable even without my glasses. Had to set it to 150% to get it readable. Since I don’t feel like jumping all over the place with scaling just when I want to play, I’ll probably compromise and keep the global scaling at 150% and simply wear my glasses while playing. Supposedly, you can tweak it via the Wine settings but I don’t feel like installing the full Wine stack just for this one thing.
Pretty good game, though, if you like MMOs. I do! 🙂
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