If I knew how to attach pictures to comments there would be a picture here of my shelf that has one if these games sitting on it.
Just say no to keyboards that need to phone home.
Fucking national treasure.
Sounds like you had fucking awful parents. Instead of letting them drag you down excise them from your life. You'll hear, family this and family that. Fuck that. Horrible human beings are horrible humsn beings and the fact that they were sperm or egg donors doesn't make them any less so.
Hang in there, and use those parents to motivate yourself to be better.
I have espoused views in my life I'm not proud of, but I think the same can be said of anyone.
Part of my journey was a search for intellectual consistency. Their are people of faith who are able to do that, I am not one of them. When it comes to politics, there are two contemporary thinkers (Ken White and Radley Balko) who forced me to re-evaluate my beliefs.
I believe there are many Conservative thinkers who hold their positions in good faith. Sometimes they are even correct! I believe there are also many Liberal thinkers who hold their positions in good faith, sometimes they are right also.
So to answer your question, I don't think my values were bad, some of my thinking about how to implement those values definitely was though.
As with most people we morph over time.
I'm an old guy. I started my life as a right-wing Conservative Christian. I'm now. Both an atheist and an anarchist. So yes people change. My journey has been six decades long.
Political affiliation has nothing to do with hate. We as humans are capable of hate no matter our beliefs.
That said the converse is also true.
That is an absolutely hilarious bit. Great application for The Hardly Boys.
For those not in the US, and those Americans that are not remembering their civics classes...
The DOJ is not independent, it is part of the Executive Branch, and as such, it's employees report to the President.
Here ya go...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-student-debt-forgiveness-supreme-court-0c5204fe
In addition AOC encouraged the administration to ignore a court here...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/aoc-renews-calls-biden-administration-165503598.html
Odd, I don't remember headlines like this when Biden was actually defying the courts. Why is that I wonder?
The entirety of MLB needs to do this.
Based on their theology, no, they should be using portons of their salaries to take care of those individuals.
I'm reasonably certain the command is for the believer to care for the poor and those less fortunate, not for them to abdicate responsibility to the government.
2025 BAH rates are posted!
Hopefully it's good news for you.
A fascinating bit of baseball history
A polka is always better when shared by friendly strangers.
I'm trying to learn to be a fan of baseball. This sort of history helps shape that burgeoning fandom.
I'm Writing a new Substack about baseball
For as long as I can remember, and that's quite a long time, I have thought I should be a baseball fan, but I have never ever been a baseball fan. Soccer? I've been #RCTID since 1976. Football? I've been a Seahawks fan since I learned to understand football. Basketball? I can vividly remember celebr...
I've long thought I should be a baseball fan, join me on a quest to become one.
Trying to find a song based on a very tiny fragment of memory
There's a song, I think I only heard one time likely on KGON in Portland, OR and likely in the late 70s. This song has haunted me over the years but I have never been able to locate it again.
The one thing I really remember is that there is a spoken-word portion where the vocalist talks about the Boogie Woogie, but pronounces it more like Boozhi Woozhi.
I'm laying in bed quarantined with Covid and once again its memory and my inability to determine what song it was is haunting me.
Favorites Broken on Series X
My favorites broke. They were working great but now they don't work at all. I can't favorite anything there icon sits in the middle of the plus sign and I can't move it to any open slot. Things I had already favorites continue to work, but I can't add new things or swap things out.
I've tried dropping my entire inventory and then picking things back up but that is not resolving there issue. It's not game-breaking but it is frustrating.
Holy shit USL officials are awful
Playing Oakland in injury time we score an ugly goal (likely an own goal).
Ref indicates a goal.
Oakland's keeper who is a complete wimp rolls around on the ground.
Stadium replay guy plays the goal.
Ref watches the replay and reversed himself.
Appalling.
gloves for large hands
I've never shot with a glove before and think it's time. I have pretty big hands XL motorcycle gloves are typically too small but not always.
So who recommends what?
XBox Summer Sale has XCom 2 at $9.99
If you've been waiting to buy on console, now is the time to pull the trigger
XCOM 2 on the Series X
I own XCOM 2 on PC. Is it worth getting it on the Series X so I can play while sitting on the couch?
XCOM 2 on Series X
How does XCOM 2 play on the Series X? Is it worth getting even though I already own it on PC?
Love the game and would love to be able to play sitting on my couch!
Weather Delay in Denver
Anyone have any insight into Rapids v. Timbers? Should I stay up later than I was planning (I'm on the East Coast). Or should I go to bed?
BTA 3062
Shortly after my previous post about BEX, my merc company folded due to a lack of funds.
I took the opportunity to install BTA and give it a try. I love the depth, I love the details, but I'm really struggling with the lack of a cohesive art style. I'm finding it pulling me out of my suspension of disbelief.
Has anyone else had that difficulty? Will I outgrow it with time?
Is the video game fair game here? or is it table top only?
If the video game is fair game...
I've been playing BEX, and I suck at it mostly. I always play Ironman, so that entails lots of restarts. I finally have a merc company that has lasted a bit. I've moved up to 2 and 2.5 skull missions.
Needed some money quickly and took a 1.5 skull mission. Comstar showed up, wiped my lance it was the last mission in my current system, I didn't know what I was going to do to not go bankrupt.
Discovered I had Shadowhawk in cold storage sold it, started taking out my "starter" mechs on half-skull and one-skull missions, I'm starting to become a bit more financially solid again and may have survived afterall.