Miles O'Brien

I got a new laptop last year, and now the old one is sitting next to my laser engraver, probably hoping I will never open it again but it’s going to be my dedicated laser laptop now.

At least the programs I’m using on it are all 5ish years old, so it’s not straining to keep up with new software.

I can still feel it heat up a lot just being idle, and I’d like to clean it up to improve it’s response time.

This comic has made me feel bad for my old laptop…

The only celebrating I do is eating slightly more unhealthy, take the day off work unless it’s going to be a short day, and maybe look to see if any games in my “maybe if it’s on steep sale” list are on sale.

That’s it.

I don’t remind people, I dont expect anyone to remember, but it’s nice when they do.

My excuse for missing people’s birthdays is I DO know the date… I just don’t know what the date today is. Sure I know my sister was born on the 12th, but that doesn’t matter if I think today is the 10th and it’s actually the 15th…

So if I have that much problem, it wouldn’t be very chill to be upset with others for missing mine.

Indeed.

I had put so many hours into trying to sort my bases for NG that I didn’t even want to try and start over for NG+.

If I ever DO decide to pick it up again, assuming the save is still compatible I made a separate save file before finishing the game just to be sure.

Who knows, maybe someone will make mods to make it the game we all wanted it to be and I’ll give it another go.

Star field couple have been a lot of things if people who haven’t picked up a controller in decades hadn’t decided to try and make it as generic and casual as possible.

And maybe it’s just me, but the second I

, I lost all interest in playing the game itself.

They made the content of individual plays not matter to me, so once I did a few speed runs to the finish line I just deleted the game and haven’t played it since.

Also i could never figure out their base management system. I was hoping for something like “fallout 4 settlements in space” but all I got was “way less complicated Satisfactory”.

I stopped playing about a month after it came out, so there’s a chance they fixed some issues that I didn’t know were issues, but I still haven’t had the desire to try playing it again.

I have “all time fave” which are games I keep reinstalling every so often, then I have “installed” vs “not installed”

The category for favorites is just so when I inevitably go to look for a game to install because I’m bored with what I have, it’s at the top when I un-check the “installed” button.

There’s also one where the child is intersex and collapses during their basketball game.

A balrog? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Located entirely within the confines of the walkway leading from the crack of doom?

As someone who paid enough attention in highschool chemistry to get a B, and occasionally watches Nile(red/blue) and E&I videos… I know some of these words/symbols!

Which is insane, how do you pillage most of the planet looking for spices to sell people and then have the blandest food in the world…

I’m sure that would have looked great to all the gathered men who were still alive.

“oh yeah, the elves showed up and one of them went up to the crack of doom with Isildur after his father died, and the elf came back alone and wouldn’t tell us what happened inside. Something’s fucky. We better prepare for an attack from the elves.”

Whether anyone actually threw hands immediately or not, men and elves would have a far shittier relationship after that.

The question is, did more suffering occur because Elrond didnt do this? We can’t know.

(but probably)

My wife isn’t quite nerdy enough to get this yet, and my parents haven’t watched TNG in so long they don’t remember the phrase.

I have nobody who gets this in my life…

News flash!

This, just in: “Leaders of capitalist meat grinders prepared to lie to keep money flowing and try to pull in more”

I’m shocked.

Hey, I’ve seen this one.

A prehistoric virus is gonna infect someone with coldness until a plucky US-Marshall-turned-sherrif saves the day with his science-mined friends and colleagues.

I follow the proud American tradition my grandfather had of fighting fascism.

If the government of the states decides to be fascist, well…

But stabbing your neighbor isn’t exactly something most people are willing to do.

And any sort of attempt at organization leads to Alphabet Squad raids and whatever bullshit charges they feel like throwing at you after deciding you’re guilty of being a dirty commie/socialist/librul/not them.

I used to work at a sporting goods store, primarily bicycles but I occasionally ran the gun counter.

It was interesting over the last decade I worked, to see how the paperwork wording changed.

The only ones that stand out in memory was asking about “illegal substance use”

First it was “are you addicted to any illegal drugs” and if you checked “yes” then you got denied the sale.

Then it changed to “addicted or USER OF any illegal drugs”

Then “user of any federally illegal substances” or something like that. I’m not sure what it is now since I haven’t run a counter in years and haven’t bought a gun in almost as long.

They clearly were trying to keep the wording so it didn’t matter what the legal status was in your area, or whether the substance you use is addictive or not.

As far as I’m concerned, Marijuana use is just as valid around firearms as alcohol use. It’s fine if you drink and it’s fine if you shoot, just don’t ever do them together.

There are a lot of people who are extremely insistent that Marijuana stays as illegal as possible, and that nobody who smokes is allowed to own a gun.

And a surprising few of them can actually articulate why for either of those.

I’m not looking forward to the inevitable board-flipping, but who knows, maybe the rest of the players will tell Kevin to sit down and shut up because even regular monopoly sucks ass.

https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/CP250002EN.pdf

“data gathering” basically.

But their reasoning for gathering the data wasn’t good enough for the court to allow it, as they basically said “it’s so we know how to talk to passengers”, but as the court says, they can use less gender-specific wording.

It’s a piece of media that’s critical of a fascist regime, and the person who says it’s fake is a .ml

if they ever answer, it’ll be dismissive about how all western media is biased against china/nk/Russia. That’s as close to an explanation of “why it’s fake” as you’ll get.

You should always be critical of any media that doesn’t have a concrete source though. I don’t personally know anything about radiofreeasia, so fuck if I know how reliable they are to begin with.