Rhaedas

In this throwaway, instant satisfaction society? It’s all about the price point. And the marketing.

The profit on torches is the rebuy for more. You don’t need to sink a lot in material, it just has to burn bright enough to sell.

Every vote is important.

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?” - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Nvidia Riva TNT, because the onboard graphics were only going to play EverQuest (beta) and Rogue Squadron like a painful slideshow, if at all.

If you’re doing more than just voting and forgetting, then the message wasn’t about you. I won’t stop asking people what else they’ve done, because how else is awareness of the need of democracy and public involvement supposed to be spread?

If I ever run across an arcade I will first search out for a Galaga to play. Usually is one, which says something. No, I’m not as good as I used to be, but it’s okay. I can lose even a few levels in of brief play and still feel I had fun.

If someone tells me they voted third party, I just tell them that’s great and ask what they’re going to do now. Never get much of an answer.

I still have my poster after seeing the first movie opening week. It worked for that movie since it was a new step for fantasy scifi. Once the characters became known and the franchise took off, realistic artwork made more sense.

Didn’t know about him almost being involved with the animated Lord of the Rings. That would have been a totally different direction than the rotoscoping. Maybe better? Who knows.

Also, gone too young. Still had potential work to create. Not cancer this time, something we ought to have a better handle on, diabetes.

You have to admit he went full in trying to sell it to Vader as a good thing. Probably took a few minutes to work up the confidence.

A quote attributed to a few people, Heinlein and Pournelle for two, “If you can get your ship into orbit, you’re halfway to anywhere.” Both space and planets have shared and their separate problems to solve. In my head I prefer the image of most populations moving into habitats in space, customized to their preferences, with smaller settlements on various bodies for their own purposes. In my realistic view I don’t see us getting that far before we get bogged down with all the problems we’ve created on this planet. The window to a permanent space civilization might have already shut. A sad thing, as a 70s kid I grew up convinced we were full speed into some version of what scifi had sold to me.

Actually…nah, I’m not going there. But if you watched Lost, you know what I’m going to say.

Any questionable acts would happen after the movie’s end. My thoughts have always been what the effects were to Susan once she saw he was telling the truth. We don’t even really get that short of the look of amazement, and maybe shock on her face.

Just because “mainland USA” wasn’t used doesn’t mean it’s racist. Would it have been perceived the same way if Hawaii was substituted?

The only issue I have is the last part. Don’t wait four years to talk about whatever the issues are, you have representatives even in the outgoing administration and congress right now to contact. By all means vote for the right people to make sure you can still do that after the election without fear of retaliation, but don’t vote and then complain fours years later nothing was done if you haven’t reached out during that time frame.

And the human deaths weren’t even the fault of the bees. They don’t know about allergies, and most bees aren’t aggressive at all and will just buzz around you unless you really provoke them to kill themselves with their one sting.

Wasps are questionable though. Hornets are demons.

That implies they had the talent in the beginning, like the first panel of this comic. To better illustrate D&D and the GoT travesty, you’d have the first panels be equally artistic (because it’s another artist) and then the last like the last panel here, also partially burnt at the corners and water-stained, with less of a complete sentence in the bubble.

“Companions”

With the advent of LLMs and access to anyone, there’s been repeated posts about instructors putting some oddball directions in white within the text of a question. Not perfect as a copy/paste into Notepad will show it, but it gets the laziest ones, especially the ones that don’t even review what the LLM gave them.

I’m one who does all the basic maintenance on my car, so if I had someone push a filter at me saying it needed replacing my response would be I didn’t ask for them to remove it and I change my own filters. Then I’d demand they put it back in with me watching, because it’s probably not out of my car and it’s going to be very awkward when there’s a filter still in there.

Got to always find a shop that you can trust, random ones will eventually screw you even in small ways. I’ve caught missing lugnuts and 50 psi on a tire, and from a dealership for recall work they forgot to reconnect something and it was running terribly. On the flip side the guy I know has called me on the phone and explained exactly what he found and a range of options and prices and recommendations. It’s no wonder I return for his business when I need it, I don’t have to worry about being ripped off. (I do still check behind, can’t help the OCD when it comes to the car lol)

When WordPerfect was great. Reveal Codes was incredible. That and a HP Laserjet 5P was a solid combo.