Fingers crossed

I’ve been to homes in foreign countries that had little more than a hole in the ground outside for a bathroom, a cow dung hut for a kitchen, and a rain water collector or a river for a water source, it doesn’t take much to get those amenities and if you really wanted you could probably make it work with this storage shed. Whether or not it’s actually up to code here in the US though is a different question entirely. I think there’s alot of municipalities that have banned tiny homes altogether or have such strict zoning laws/building requirements that this definitely wouldn’t fly as a “home” in any sense of the word.

Calling it a “tiny home” is a bit of a stretch. Wal-mart itself calls it a “storage shed” (https://www.walmart.com/ip/Best-Barns-Arlington-12x20-Wood-Storage-Shed-Kit/1567768995). So I guess if you really wanted to, you could call it a “tiny home”, but by that standard we could just call a cardboard box a tiny home as well. BOOM! Instantly solved the homeless crisis.

It’s getting to the point where a hardworking guy can’t support his family and his mistresses family anymore.

Well, at least we’ve got global climate change and multiple other threats to the survival of humanity, we won’t have to worry for long.

That blows.

I appreciate that she wasn’t as sexualized as Crusher (if at all), it was pretty cringey in the first season.

Just looked up my original receipt from Mojang back in 2010, it was €9.95 ($13.59). The blocks have apparently gotten more expensive since then, though I guess it costs money to add all those cosmetic blocks every year.

According to this article from Feb 11, https://theconversation.com/the-video-game-industry-is-booming-why-are-there-so-many-layoffs-222685, the videogame industry is booming, and thus it seems like it’s more an issue with companies wanting to show profitability for shareholders by reducing labor. I assume it’s being justified with AI being hyped up and/or forcing out older/more expensive workers and bringing in younger/cheaper talent.

It does kind of make me wonder if the videogame market is oversaturated, as I look over my ridiculous Steam Library and see over a thousand games, many of which are unplayed. And there’s another Humble Bundle that just launched with even more games I’ve never heard of that I can buy cheap as shit. And Epic will give me another free game or two on Thursday. And I just purchased two itch.io bundles with hundreds of titles in each of those. And I have shelves full of tabletop boardgames to go through. I have access to more videogames/boardgames than I probably have hours left in my life to play them, even if I were to be able to retire today and just play games non-stop. I rarely if ever buy new games anymore, there’s just too fucking much out there now. Obviously, the industry as a whole is making billions of dollars, so people are still buying them, but it feels like there’s just so much out there and too little time to play any of them.

I could see businesses doing this, only giving you access if you pay for it or through getting a code on a receipt of purchase or something. In other parts of the world this already sort of common, you pay a fee to use a “public” restroom. It’s actually kind of odd that America hasn’t already started charging for restrooms.

Decent 3, where you just try to be a nice person while navigating all the assholes in the world.

Had anybody ever suggested otherwise? I’m assuming if there’s any pressure to not use 2D, it’s from game developers themselves because it’s likely costlier/more labor intensive than just going with 3D. Otherwise, gamers just want to play good games, 2D or 3D doesn’t matter.

My Dad worked for Alcatel-Lucent when they got bought out by Nokia, which is when I found out it’s apparently pronounced “Noy-kia” and not “No-kia” like I thought it was for the longest (or else my Dad was just mispronouncing it). I’m sure there was some big changes he saw, but he pretty much worked from home the entire time, so it wasn’t a big transition that we saw, he just did the same old job, though I think they did move their actual offices from the East side of town to the North-west. He worked with them up until 2019 when he retired.

It’s for organizing… homework.

I haven’t watched any of Star Trek Discovery, so I’m walking in blind and maybe this was already covered or contradicted by that show or others. I’m just commenting based on the post.

If one of the founding member races of the Federation could just leave, it had to have been over some sort of major disagreement. Perhaps something about the nature of the Federation had shifted to such a major degree that Vulcans no longer felt comfortable participating, maybe a turn towards militarism? Or maybe they saw constant disorder within the Federation and thought that their resources were being wasted helping emotional younger races that would never learn.

Maybe there was some sort of “Vulcan First” movement that emphasized the superiority of Vulcans over all others, even Romulans by extension were deemed better allies than the Federation. Or maybe the break from the Federation was orchestrated as part of a covert Romulan psychological warfare operation to try to subvert Vulcan society, a sort of parallel to our modern day Brexit drama and them leaving the EU. Maybe the two efforts (Leaving Federation and accepting Romulan refugees) went hand-in-hand and the break from the Federation occurred at relatively the same time as accepting Romulans back on Vulcan.

I think the Romulans would have less to lose over an invasion of their privacy, rather they’d see themselves as infiltrating Vulcan society as part of a grander goal of eventually assuming power over Ni’Var and subjugating the Vulcans.

Books seem to be somewhat harder to come by, movies are a bit easier. For instance, I was just looking for a collected torrent for a certain Choose your own series from my childhood and I couldn’t find anything. I found one-off/individual books or very limited collections, but nothing for the entire series. Very frustrating.

He told The Guardian that sometimes you just take a project because you need the money, not because you’re super passionate about the script.

So why should it have mattered, if this was the kind of job he took just for the money? I highly doubt he took on Black Widow because it was a movie he truly believed in and was passionate about.

I’m a graphic designer, so I’m used to taking on all kinds of projects just for the money. Sometimes the client wants a change that you know is bad, you can provide feedback and let them know you think it’s a bad decision, but at the end of the day, the client is calling the shots because they’re the one commissioning the work. If he doesn’t want to do reshoots, he should work it into his contract or just not take on projects like that. If it wasn’t a project he was passionate about, why care about reshooting things the way some exec wants, unless it could somehow compromise his reputation as an actor or something.

That’s right, I forgot about that. He just always struck me as a barbarian for some reason, though I guess the animal companion is more a Ranger thing.

It’s Minsc & Boo, originally from the Baldur’s Gate games. He’s a barbarian Ranger with a space hamster, he’s apparently a bit crazy.

Well, Copilot tried I guess. Same prompt, though I had to add “generate a” to get it to make an image and for some reason it cropped out “photo of” in the final result: