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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. 😀
We do have signs on the road to tell the cars to share the road with cyclists. We need something similar for the sidewalks!
Actually rode in a Crosstrek Wilderness a few weeks ago for a short time. Bit tiny but it’s hard to say how that would work out long term. Also rode in a Forrester a while back. Quite roomy! The Avenger isn’t available in the US, but we do have the Compass and Renegade. Yeah, an SUV would probably be better for offroad to help decrease the chance of getting stuck. Had that happen in my mom’s old sedans. She bought a Jeep Wrangler as a result 😛
I’d love to go electric at some point but our infrastructure for supporting them just isn’t there yet. We hardly have any charge stations here so going exploring would be difficult so, yeah, gas is probably the way to go. The infrastructure will get there, though! I would put Land Rover on the list but they’re now expensive! They didn’t used to be! How is it that a trail icon became a luxury car…?
Ah, forgot they were bought by BMW in 1994 for a few years. That would explain it
Still need to figure out the actual driving thing but there’s no harm in researching vehicles! Wiki’s actually got a pretty extensive list of car brands that I’ve been going through. MotorTrend is also worth a look. I’ve always liked looking up different car models just for fun. 🙂
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. 🙂
Exactly! I’d much rather have the radio going. Background noise actually helps me focus but they wouldn’t let me turn it on for whatever reason. Doesn’t matter what’s playing, just need it as a low murmur to do the trick. Back when my TV was in the same room as my computer, I would leave it on a 24 hour weather station just to have some benign noise. Never really looked at it and it worked like a charm!
Side note: finally got a radio (portable) so I’ll set it up in the office soon, which will hopefully help my concentration 🙂
Our bike infrastructure is hit or miss. Where I am, the bike lane randomly ends in exchange for roadside parking even though there’s plenty of room in the parking lots. It’s also dangerous for us pedestrians: I’ve had several instances where the folks on the bikes think they own the sidewalk and either come close to hitting me or actually forced me into the street so they could pass. 🙁
That’s the goal. Ultimately, I’d like some sort of electric vehicle. Not sure on sedan or SUV, or even a station wagon, but I do know it would need AWD since I like to go places that don’t exactly have good roads (I do a lot of wilderness exploration). Something from Subaru may be the way to go since they’re made for that very thing but haven’t given it too much thought yet. I’d also like it to be rather stylish but that combination is a little bit hard to come by so it may not be as pretty as I would want 😛
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!
So, the driving sim is going well but still don’t have a physical car to test things with. My mom was letting me use an old car a few years ago but she got nervous after just a couple of efforts and stopped letting me practice. Last month, she traded it in when she got the new car (she’s contradicting things now but that’s normal with her these days)
The driving instructors here didn’t work well. Instead of letting me learn at my pace, they wanted me to go at the pace they thought I should go at even though I was hiring them. They also kept yammering the whole time while I was trying to concentrate, saying I had to learn to deal with people talking in the car
Occupational therapy wouldn’t even give me the time of day since I hadn’t lost the ability to drive even though I was recommended to them.
I’ll keep moving forward with the sims but, eventually, I’ll need to get behind the wheel of an actual car. :/
It may not matter anyways if I wind up somewhere with better transportation but I still want to be able to hop in and go on a road trip spontaneously if I want to. Pretty tired of not being able to explore on my own! I want to go to the Grand Canyon, for Pete’s sake!
Other than that, things have been going well. No complaints, just getting frustrated again with my transportation situation (yep, we go over it periodically)
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
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 🙁
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. 😛
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.
