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On our side of the pond, we have WonderWorks
Haven’t been in years and I wish I was able to. It was a lot of fun!
So we have one weather outlet predicting snow for my birthday here. None of the others have gone that far yet but we’ll see. Just supposed to be flurries but I’ll take what I can get!
Thanks, will snag it! 🙂
I’d play it in German but not only am I rusty, I doubt I’d really understand enough for it to make sense. 😛
Handy for engineering, though!
So the US government just gave AT&T the go ahead to start shutting down copper phone lines in favor of wireless. This is a huge mistake as wireless is a lot more susceptible to interference. Indeed, you can’t even use it in certain buildings. Without the copper backup, I see this as creating more issues than it solves.
We do have Festivus! Which is also my dad’s birthday 😛
Yep, waste is a big issue. I’ve been using ecofriendly trimmings myself (reusable bags for gifts, durable decorations that’ll stand the test of time, etc)but I’ve been having a hard time convincing others. 🙁
Yeah, Santa may morph into something else. Not sure what!
Thanks! You, too!
With how accessible information is these days, I suspect the Santa Claus myth will die out soon if it hasn’t already. It’s much easier for children to access information now, especially with the pervasiveness of smartphones, so they’re going to figure it out much sooner than in the past.
Finished Return of the Space Wizard yesterday, also known as Return of the Jedi, so that completes the pre-Disney films. May or may not watch the Disney ones as, canonically, the main story is supposed to end after Episode VI with the GE in disarray. That’s where the EU comes in (which Disney nullified): it’s supposed to fill in the gaps during the rebuilding. Also, what happened to the massive Star Destroyer fleet at the end of the film…? They said they couldn’t destroy it. Yet, they’re celebrating on Endor with that massive fleet still in orbit…?
It’s pretty fun to keep an ear out for the Wilhelm Scream in the series. 😀
Doesn’t sound like a fun experience. I don’t know why I’d want a headache as a recreational activity 😛
Had that happen before a couple of months ago. Was in the middle of cooking a dish and a power outage occurs! Lasted a few minutes so I had to adjust the cooking. Was a bit annoying 😛
Should be doing alright. I’ve got one from my grandmother that is a couple of decades old that is still in pristine condition. 🙂
Public domain day is coming soon! Quite a few goodies coming out this go around! And The Maltese Falcon! 😀
Sin City is a classic. Really need to rewatch it at some point. It’s been too long
As we know, I like films about robots. So I watched Evolver the other day and that was fun. A bit too modern for my tastes, though. The 80s did robot films better in my opinion but de Lancie is always fun
Almost finished with rewatching the pre-Disney Star Wars films, just have Jedi left. The more I watch them, the more inconsistencies I find. For instance, in A New Hope, it is heavily implied that the Stormtroopers are not clones but the prequel trilogy sets them up as clones. In Empire, Kenobi has no knowledge of Leia even though he was part of the plot to hide her in Sith. And Leia even uses the force in Empire but no one says anything. Hello? Your non-wizard suddenly starts doing space wizard stuff, have you noticed? They noticed when Luke started in A New Hope. They thought he was crazy for disabling the targeting computer and now it’s no big deal that Leia can find Luke in a needle stack? Then there’s the famous moment where Lando is wearing Han’s clothes at the end of Empire.
Fun little fact: some of the Walmart brand cake pans are actually rebranded Wilton pans. When I got some pans there, someone had gotten lazy and simply slapped a Mainstays label (their private label) over the Wilton label. 😛
Those were my early baking days back in 2019 or so before I knew more about pans. 🙂
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 😛
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