Also yeah this is “cool” but like, I’m relatively sure you can buy for a fraction of the time and effort a wireless little box that has a flip switch with a button under it. And, you know, not destroy something that’s only ever going to increase in rarity. Hell, get a commercial receiver and 3D print a case and stick…

Yeah, especially getting a tight stick...I have no issues with gutting a system or controller for parts or the casing when it’s broken in a manner that you can’t easily fix, but even then I’d rather see 2-3 devices cannibalized to create another working piece. A guy I know wants to make a portable N64 and found plans…

While you’re in there destroying an increasingly-rare controller, you might as well gut out the stick if yours isn’t loose and sell it. A tight stick from an OEM N64 controller is 90% of the value of that controller.

Right. Plus it LOOKED awesome, and used a surprising amount of physical sets. And I will never be mad at a movie that has Daft Punk music.

I may or may not have purchased both a Camo Black Ice and Rap Snacks from a gas station I hiked to in 5 feet of snow (yes, they were open for some reason) when I lived in Columbia MO a few years back. And a 12 pack of Steel Reserve. And cans of Spaghettios, which somehow cost like 4 bucks at a gas station. And lottery…

I drafted Murray in the 3rd last season. I also had Rodgers and Nelson and sadly lost my championship. My friend that beat me drafted him in the second this year. I feel like it’s karma. Though I do feel pity that he went out and picked up Bradford and started him the last two weeks...though only a little, because…

If I could afford to have one of the phones it works with, I could afford this. It looks like something out of Mirror’s Edge or Portal, and would be much more fun to wear, I imagine. But it’s still very much a status symbol kind of thing - not that being a status symbol stops a lot of people from buying “deluxe”…

Lived on a sloped street a few years back, watched my roommate’s partner start to jack up his car to change the tire without chocking the wheels or loosening the lugnuts first. Ran out to stop him from getting maimed.

Nearly every day I see someone approach what would seem difficult in a way I never would have thought…

I was just talking to a friend today about how I carry a knife and lighter on me, in my backpack, and in my car. And I have additional things in my backpack and car, but at bare minimum I always have fire and blade. And I’m no expert but there’s a good amount of basic first aid/shelter-building/signalling for help…

I think you’re right on the scale and odds. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t keep looking, because even just finding someone else’s Voyager or a signal would change how so many people think about humanity. The odds of transiting to another planet/system or establishing realistic communications are minuscule,…

Yeah, just like how someone in the neighborhood might be catching some early TV broadcasts. It’s an issue of light speed and then interpreting signals received, if you’re even looking at that spectrum - SETI only looks in what we assume the spectrum for intelligent life would be, but without having more examples,…

Stoplights around me are all programmed to a box on one of the corners, which allows them to manually manipulate them if they go out/there’s some parade for some reason/the power grid is down/whatever. There doesn’t seem to be any connection to ANY grid besides the power lines, like there’s no central stoplight…

Hammerspace.

Seriously, boob-area. I see women in my area all the time in summer wearing short-shorts and camis and they manage to pack an entire purse of stuff in their bras (note that short-shorts often have non-functional pockets).

It’s much easier to write little bits about a universe you’ve developed than to write a narrative that includes that information. Like, look at how long it takes GRRM to write his books compared to the total output of universe lore Tolkien wrote. It’s like an artist’s sketchbook versus a framed painting - sometimes…

Understanding the causes and warning signs of natural disasters helps increase survival odds. I live in the midwest and you’ve probably seen Twister - when you get that big storm rolling in and your instinct is to go outside and look at it because it feels like a tornado-producing storm, you should probably be doing…

psychology. It’s not about the act of murder, it’s about some mental issue/projecting a fantasy on your target/relative ease. There are female serial killers too, and they choose the same targets but for different reasons than men...you don’t see male-on-male serial killers except for reasons like race or religion,…

Yeah I burned out without finishing the season about 3 episodes after...the other dude showed up. I enjoyed the concept of the title more than what it started to turn in to. And they could have even subverted the sitcom tropes, but really the only subversion was “he’s a horrible person as our main character!”

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Consider the source of water that was likely added to the can. I know my entire family doesn’t buy Green Giant veggies because apparently they’re canned with Mexican tap water? And I’ve had bottles of soda that are only barely out-of-date with molds growing inside them from being bottled with tap water. If you’re…

Pandemic is fun because even if she doesn’t like it, you can reasonably play it solo with as many characters as you want, by the rules, without breaking the game in any way. Or you could both play multiple characters. One of the few coop games I can think of where there’s no secrecy involved - when we play it we…