I, for one, welcome the chaos this will probably bring Dallas and hope McCarthy lands at another team with ownership that is less intrusive. One interesting tidbit (IIRC) is that no one has won a Super Bowl as head coach for two different teams, so it’s always interesting to see when a winning coach moves to a new team.

I haven’t bought any of the new consoles; the only thing I’ve seen come out that’s interested me but I can’t play on the previous generation is Microsoft Flight Simulator. Maybe someday I’ll get a Series X for that, but I think I’d enjoy the experience on PC better anyway (really curious to try it in VR with my Quest) so I think I’d rather spend the money on building a new gaming PC that can handle that.

I’m not consciously cutting off any generation, I just haven’t had the time for as much gaming now and I haven’t had the budget to pursue the latest and greatest, especially if I probably won’t have time to play it anyways.

Unrelated tidbit gleaned from reading the entry:

the name “DirectX” came from one journalist that had mocked the naming scheme of the various libraries. The team opted to continue to use that naming scheme and call the project DirectX.

It’s wild that this room is basically the entire living space. There are two small bedrooms and bathrooms, and then this. They list the kitchen separately but if I’m interpreting the dimensions correctly it’s a 20x24 foot room with a kitchenette, a stripper pole, and a ten-person hot tub. And 8 TVs, 6 of them in the middle of the main window, although I suspect they might be photoshopped in.

I feel like I’d want to just tear this monstrosity down and start again. You could gut it, but there’s nothing to gut! Building houses on the rest of the property and selling them seems to be where the value is, but in western Colorado would you really make enough building and selling the other 11(?) houses to justify $1.5M for 1.6 acres? I’m not sure the price for that much land is that high in my town and we’re a high growth area that keeps being named one of the best places to live in the US!

I mean, that’s just one of many examples of incredibly bad taste

We did the hot tub on our honeymoon and really enjoyed it, but that was our only time. Haven’t gotten back to a place with a private one and just the two of us since then, unfortunately. It significantly increased my desire to buy one but I’d probably have to move someplace without neighbors to enjoy it that way.

The listing says the laundry is in the garage, although I don’t see it pictured

It’s so the “companion” can see the exotic cars while she’s riding the guy in the hot tub and remind herself why she’s suffering through this ordeal, keeping focused on the large cash payout and continuing to pretend enjoying what she’s doing.

I didn’t even notice that!

This becomes even more confusing with the way people commonly talk in English versus Spanish. In English, residents of the United States of America typically refer to themselves as Americans, and in English “American” typically only refers to someone from the USA. In Spanish, it seems residents of the USA are typically called the equivalent of “United Stateser” and “American” refers more generally to someone from the continent, at least in some parts of the Spanish-speaking world. I once had an apparent native Spanish-speaker online argue that was the correct form in English as well and insisted that the official name of the country is United States (Estados Unidos), not United States of America (Estados Unidos de América), and that America never refers to the country in English. They didn’t appreciate when I asked why in international sporting events the Americans’ shirts always say USA and why the supporters chant “U-S-A” all the time.

Languages are weird. If you’re learning a different language and try to insist that the new language behave the same as your native language, you’re going to have a hard time.

The numbers are backwards. Is that part of the joke?

Taking this community’s name quite literally

I still don’t understand Belichick coaching UNC

I’m really impressed at how he drew the elephant to have a sinister expression

Putting the stickers on takes longer than the actual measurement

I enjoyed it, although I’m not sure it really added much. I mainly played Mario Kart 7.

Doesn’t look like it, at least on Drive: https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-product-roadmap

According to the write-up the house was built in 1859 but the Egyptian suite was painted by Mike Lewis, who appears to be an artist based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Looking him up I found this story from CBC when it was on the market in 2020 and it seems it was commissioned by the then-owner, a historian and filmmaker.

Yes, your OpenStreetMap username. Does not need to be something truly related to you, in fact since most of your edits are likely to be near where you live or work I would strongly recommend they not be something related to you or any usernames you would normally use online.