klitoris: Permission denied

A small glass of a 120 euro wine. It was very good but not worth that price.

Hm, I did not enjoy Tenet because of the sound mixing but felt like these problems were mostly gone with Oppenheimer and Odyssey. Yes the Sound in Odyssey was too loud at times, especially in the cave scenes. It pushed the cinemas speaker system and my ears to its limits (it was no Imax). But never in a way that I could not understand what anyone was saying.

In hindsight it was kinda funny. She was a bitch who‘s life revolved around acting like she’s upperclass. She was a saleswoman at a Mercedes dealership and got to drive one herself. The place I chose was not nice enough for her, which she constantly complained about and she laughed at me for taking the train and not owning a car at the time (this is Germany btw). When we left the restaurant and said goodbye, she asked me if I could help her build a website for free. I was like „Ummm no?“ and she just said „Typical men“.

Jesus would use Arch Linux

I’ve been trying many things over time but the ones that really became hobbies are the ones that just happened to me. And those are hiking, cooking and photography.

I think one problem these days is that we try too hard from the start. We hear about this interesting thing and then watch videos about it by some influencer and then we feel we need to learn this or buy that first but in the end none of that is necessary. If hiking is for you then you will enjoy it even in sandals and jeans. If not then it might not be a hobby for you. Eventually you will learn what you personally need to enjoy it even more and go to the next level. And then invest into it knowing exactly what you want.

Same with photography. You can take some serious photos with modern phones already and develop your skills with that. I took some back then with an iPhone 4 that I still love (although they look bad when zoomed in). The limitation is what makes you creative and you always have it with you.

Of course some things do have a steep learning curve and do need some initial investment. I just personally never got into any of those and I’m pretty satisfied.

Everyone knows it was Cap‘n Crunch

All they were thinking was „Why is he so nervous about it? Probably socially anxious.“ and then they forgot about the whole situation (it wasn’t even a situation to begin with) a few seconds later to talk about the movie they just watched.

Edit: by the way I’m saying this as someone who also suffers from this overthinking behavior. This gets easier with age and experience.

“Money can’t buy happiness, but it’s better to cry in a taxi than on a bus.” - Marcel Reich-Ranicki (German literary critic)

I changed the last word in the translation to bus for the US readers. It should be tram or streetcar but I assumed bus is more common and widely known.

I did the same. I wanted to watch a TV series of which I own the box set but I was too lazy to get the box, put the disc in and go through the menu for every three episodes or so. So I pirated it.

About 24 Euro for a lottery ticket

Those cushions wear out after a while, you can buy replacements. Make sure to buy the exact same type and thickness or the sound might be much worse.

Yes. It’s too expensive for sure, but it is exactly what I want. I have no interest in doing any manual work to get a functioning Non-Windows gaming PC into my living room. I just want plug and play and that’s what Valve offers.

Personal and work laptops are Macs. I’m also playing around with a Linux Mini PC as a potential future homelab but I’m already thinking why not get a used Mac mini that will be less of a bother.

Planning to get a small gaming PC with a ready to use Linux on it though, like the Steam Machine. Windows can suck my ass.

The only acceptable response for a woman with brain cells is „Wtf were you thinking?“

This is like those small restaurants that claim to do everything from Mexican over Indian to Italian. It means everything is shit.

Damn you’re right, I read 1990 somehow.

I’m a little earlier, mid 80s. Can’t recollect exact years so the order will probably be wrong but here are a few things I remember:

I grew up when vinyls were on the way out but we still had some and I was listening to old children’s stories on it. Newer ones on cassette.

I used to record songs on cassette from the radio. Annoying hosts kept talking over it.

I also secretly recorded the movie Halloween over a bought VHS of The Little Mermaid, which my parents were furious about.

I didn’t have my own stationary gaming console until the N64 because we didn’t have a lot of money. So I visited friends to play. But I did have a game boy. With a transparent case, it was awesome. Kids with money had a bunch of attachments for it, like a magnifier, light, better speakers. One friend (who had everything) owned a Sega Game Gear. It was huge and had a color screen but it ate batteries like crazy, so it was always attached to the outlet. Sega was always weird to me.

Console games often didn’t have any way to save progress, so some of them showed you a code after each level, which you would write down so next time you could begin at that point. Some games didn’t have that either so you had to play through it in one sitting. But they were also much shorter. Later we also had memory cards.

My second Gameboy was the Color and I also got the Gameboy Camera attachment. It had such a bad quality but somehow it was fun. It had little games on it as well. I still have both in a drawer somewhere.

Computers were much larger in the beginning and software would come on multiple (!) floppy discs. The installation would take FOREVER and make make loud noises. Later it was on CDs.

People used to buy gaming magazines with CDs included to play the hottest new game demos and sometimes full versions. Games also came bundled with computers.

Games also had huge instruction manuals which were fun to read on their own.

In dial-up internet times we could only either be online OR use the landline phone (which was just „the phone“ because there was no mobile). It was also extremely expensive, billed by the minute. To get the cheapest we used a list of dial up numbers with prices on it which would get updated weekly or so. I think it was in the newspaper or TV guide magazine? So internet time was rare.

Before everyone started to be glued to computers 24/7 we used to roam around town and in the woods a lot.

Personally I was big into Lego. I had a huge box full of it and just emptied it on the floor to build whatever came to my mind. I could get lost in it and I was so much more creative back then. I also had some action figures, mostly He-Man and Ninja Turtles.

I had my own first computer when I was around 18 or so. That was Windows XP time (or was it Vista already?). Before that I always used my parent’s to play games or go online. And I was one of the first to own an LCD screen then. This was not ideal for Counterstrike because refresh rates were low, but it was a good trade off in my opinion. I had less weight to carry around to LAN parties, which was a thing back then. Just us friends in the basement or big events with hundreds of people. We all connected our computers together and it usually took an hour or so to even get it working and then everyone needed special patches and software to be compatible with each other.

Game patches… that was a crazy time. Nowadays games update automatically and frequently. Back then you would get instructions on what files you need to open in a hex editor to fix some bug. The patches would need to be implemented one by one in the right order, or everything was fucked. Or you just got complete new files from somewhere to replace existing ones. Then later patch programs would do that for you but they only worked half the time.

Ok I should stop now, new memories keep popping up.

I don’t know if it’s actually discussed but how much longer do we have to endure Colbert leaving?

• Make it dairy free
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