Underwaterbob

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Underwaterbob,

I used to, but I don’t often find the time these days. Trig for days. Especially given most game input is in (x,y) format from analog sticks or WASD. Gotta turn that into angles! (Not that you need much trig to turn WASD into angles.)

Underwaterbob,

I was searching how to cast the screen on an Android phone through USB yesterday, and I had to go through pages of “free” Play Store apps and their shitty tutorials, some of which I downloaded, (one had 50 million downloads) two of which were identical skins of each other that wanted payment information and charged $20 a month after a week long trial, to eventually find out it’s a default included option on any Samsung phone and can be found in some settings. Google search has completely gone to shit.

Underwaterbob,

While you cook up some boxed mac and cheese on the stove, cut up some broccoli and onions or whatever appropriate veggies you have lying around, and open a can of tuna (any kind of cooked protein is fine, so fry and shred some chicken breast or ground beef if you’re feeling ambitious.) When that’s done, mix it together in a casserole dish, throw some cheese on top and chuck it in the oven until it turns a bit brown.

Underwaterbob,

Sooo… Millennials talk like lolcats?

Underwaterbob,

I agree with this to a point. It depends on your set up at home, vs whether or not you get decent seats at a theater and how crowded it is. I saw “Dune” from great seats in a mostly empty theater, and I don’t think any home set up could compare. I also watched “It Follows” at home late at night on a decent TV while my family was away, and I can’t imagine a better way to experience that one.

Underwaterbob, (edited )

Because it’s the only really good Star Wars film. All the rest have either cringe-inducing acting, nonsensical plotting, or are inundated with inane family friendly elements like Ewoks, Anikin and Jarjar.

Underwaterbob,

We adopted a crazy guy who lived in the sewers. We’d check up on him whenever we were back in town. Ended up giving him a neat magical item that let him cast prestidigitation a few times a day or something, and some other amenities hoping he’d clean up his act. We never finished the campaign, but I like to think he got it together.

Underwaterbob,

Hey! Exactly like Skyrim on PS3 at release. Nostalgia!

Underwaterbob,

Your sample is biased given a specifically-sized subset of the population tends towards such work.

Underwaterbob,

Yeah, as far as child stars go, he turned out more well adjusted than the vast majority it seems.

Underwaterbob, (edited )

I’m too lazy to make images, but also:
Spock on a dock
Kirk on a clerk
Pavel on a gavel
Uhura’s got me stumped though.

Underwaterbob,

Hey, we’re all nerds here. It’s totally viable.

Underwaterbob,

Nyota on a Toyota

Underwaterbob,

1999 was 24 years ago. 24 years before 1999 was 1975, when Wish You Were Here, Physical Graffiti, and Toys in the Attic all came out. Those were definitely classic rock then.

Underwaterbob,

I love the Delgados. They broke up a long time ago and cited being dissatisfied with not obtaining much success. The most exposure they saw was one of their songs being used for an anime opening. Alun Woodward released one pretty neat solo album as “Lord Cut Glass”, and Emma Pollack made (is still making?) a few solo albums afterwards that are all pretty good, too. I think their drummer was one of the most unrecognized musicians working in popular music ever. The drums on the Delgados albums go hard.

Underwaterbob,

I never realized they were the same person before. I went to Wikipedia and found:

Schultz has also written for Breitbart where he likened liberalism to mental illness, and has similarly suggested that President Barack Obama’s administration may intend to force sex reassignment surgery onto him and others.

Sigh… Turns out he’s a raging conservative.

Underwaterbob,

Treasure! Dynamite Headdy, Gunstar Heroes. Bangai O. Not to mention the shmups. Damn they made some amazing games with super cool mechanics. Last I checked, they made a few anime tie-in games or something in the 2010s, but nothing since then.

Underwaterbob,

It depends on whether I displace the wall, or the wall displaces me.

Underwaterbob,

I love caffeine, but it messes me up bad. Absolutely debilitating headaches. I’ll go six months or something without, and then relapse until I get woken up by a jackhammer in my skull and give it up again. Sigh. I don’t understand the studies that actually suggest it’s good for you.

Underwaterbob,

I thought that too. It doesn’t seem to help. At least not quick enough.

Underwaterbob,

Funny how caffeine for me causes headaches, and for you prevents them. I used to get bad migraines (the throwing-up-painful kind) when I was young. I wonder if that has something to do with it.

Underwaterbob,

It’s weird to ask, but are you young? I’ve seen it suggested that migraines tend to recede in those 35+. I was very, very grateful for them going away as I got older. As long as I stay away from the caffeine, the worst headaches I get these days are just a mild annoyance. Especially compared to the I-wanna-kill-myself ones I got when I was in high school.

Underwaterbob,

Oh crud, your case sounds far worse than mine. Glad you have them somewhat under control.

If I suggested my migraines were worse than childbirth to my wife, she’d kill me. Our child was, uhh, very reluctant to joint the world.

Underwaterbob,

Then, in your forties you drink a single beer, feel nothing, and have the mother of all hangovers. I’ve more-or-less given up drinking at this point.

Underwaterbob,

30 here

Get back to me when you’re creeping up on fifty.

Truthfully, I have mixed results when it comes to drinking these days. Sometimes, it’s fine. I drink a few beer, get a nice buzz and wake up totally fine. It’s really only once or twice I had the situation I mentioned above where I hardly drank anything and woke up hungover anyway. In those cases, I didn’t chug a bunch of water because I assumed since I wasn’t feeling the effects at all, I’d be fine. If I am buzzed or verging on drunk, then I will chug a liter or something. Though for me, it’s 50/50 on whether that prevents a hangover. I don’t like those odds. It just seems more and more like the short buzz and euphoria it brings more and more often isn’t worth the chance of ruining the next day. Especially given how much shittier your system gets at handling this stuff as you get older.

I am not out of shape either.

Underwaterbob,

They’re expensive because a good one lasts forever. We’ve had our Gaggia Classic for over ten years now and it daily chugs out coffee like the day we bought it.

Underwaterbob,

Not for everyone obviously, but I developed a synthesizer habit some years ago, and right now is probably the best time ever for a beginner to get into it. Korg’s Volca series, Roland’s Aira compact, teenage engineering’s Pocket Operators, Arturia’s Microfreak, and Elektron’s Model series are all affordable and a great way for a beginner to start making some cool-ass music. Beware developing a habit though. It only stays affordable so long.

Underwaterbob,

Yes, but not that often. The only thing actually going through the machine is water, so it takes a long time to get dirty at all unless you’re dumping bad water in it or not wiping off the group head after use. We did have to replace the group gasket once, which was a $2 piece of rubber I could easily put on myself.

Underwaterbob,

I GASed hard for a M8 for a while, but importing one to Korea ended up being hard to justify the cost. Glad TE released the EP-133 recently. I jumped on that and got one just before they sold out.

Underwaterbob,

Well, do they believe the crazy bullshit, or are they just an opportunist looking to make connections? Church is lucrative.

Underwaterbob,

The funny thing is, I grew up with a bunch of Mormons for friends and one teacher I know of, and I never found out about most of the stuff they believe until much later. At least they (the ones I grew up with anyway) have the decency to not go around spreading their dogma to non-believers until they’ve already thoroughly roped them into their cult.

Underwaterbob,

I’m a fairly prolific poster. At least commenter. I started a community here for a subreddit I miss. I’ve even got 97 subscribers. Three of us post anything, and I am by-far the most active of those three. I highly suspect that’s an expected ratio of lurkers to posters. Meaning, if I want a reasonable number of engagement, I need to get like thirty times as many subscribers. I can’t see that happening any time soon unless Reddit actually collapses.

What item have you been using on a daily basis for the longest amount of time?

Sometimes I will use something and realize I’ve owned it forever. It’s a nice change in our throwaway reality. I think my personal record is a bicycle multi-tool I got for one of my first bikes, ~25 years ago. Still have it, still use it. When it comes to electronic devices I have a Panasonic mini Hi-Fi from ~2005. Never...

Underwaterbob,

I recently retired a shaving brush I had been using for twenty-five-ish years. It really did need to be replaced, though.

Underwaterbob,

Yeah, and it’s people arguing about cars, Trump, rich people, work, Linux distros, not pooping, and communism.

Underwaterbob,

Haha! Some DS9 writer read The Player of Games and decided they wanted to make that, and bunged it up horribly.

Underwaterbob,

Never mind the ~500 year age gap between Dax and Bashir.

Underwaterbob,

In my hometown, we had “Mr. Noshirt”. He’d walk everywhere in any weather either without a shirt on, or with a flimsy dress shirt unbuttoned the whole way. In Canada, so it got cold. Rumors were “couldn’t feel cold” or the more likely “mental health problems.”

Underwaterbob,

As I get older, the cold bothers me more. Used to be, I could go outside and throw snowballs with my bare hands no problem. Nowadays, the temperature drops below 10, and suddenly my hands physically hurt if they get cold. It’s not even related to how physically fit I am given I started a five-day-a-week gym habit eight years ago and am in some of the best shape of my life. It’s just stupid aging as far as I can tell.

Underwaterbob,

I’m re-watching DS9 for the third time or something, but I’ve never seen anything released after Voyager except for the Abrams movie travesties. Am I still a Trekkie?

Underwaterbob,

Well, I gotta say cartoon Kira and Quark have me very curious.

Underwaterbob,

I am so ready for a Space Harrier movie.

Underwaterbob, (edited )

I was thinking something more like a sci-fi, existential horror film where Harrier is the only force preventing the utter ruination of the universe by an endless horde of Lovecraftian monsters, and his loneliness and indestructibility drives him to extremes, but the Iron Man-esque angle could work, too.

Underwaterbob,

The game writes itself! Sega needs to do this.

Underwaterbob,

Which may be the case, but being immediately dismissive like you are isn’t exactly going to get them on your side now, is it?

Underwaterbob,

Well, the guy you are responding to is maybe only thinking of people whose hearing is diminished in some manner. Not people whose hearing is otherwise incapacitated through something like tinnitus or like the other poster in here who has auditory dyslexia. Both of whom may be inconvenienced by headphones or earbuds and have an easier time with speaker phone than those options. Maybe try to explain how you think they are being insensitive or lacking empathy rather than just accusing them of such without explanation.

Underwaterbob,

All occurrences of “au”? Audience? Cautious? Daughter? Or is there some kind of restraint like only if the proceeding consonant is hard or soft?

Underwaterbob,

I’ve also heard giraffe pronounced “girarffe” by a Brit. (Or at least implied since it was rhymed with “scarf” in a Julie Donaldson book.) Maybe there’s some rule regarding “R” sounds on the ends of certain vowel sounds.

Underwaterbob,

Aww, you silly Brits.

My buddy (we’re from Canada) went to Australia for some time. He was a smoker, and lived with a bunch of other smokers. In Canada, if you want to ask someone for a smoke, you say “Can I bum a smoke?”. In Australia, it’s “Can I get a fag?” In the spirit of international cooperation, the expression soon became: “Can I bum a fag?” Much maturity.

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