Hey, that means a lot. Thanks! :)

I also learned a ton about different instruments by playing that interactive game where you match them to their countries. Thanks to Encarta I was probably in the privileged minority of American 8 year olds that knew what the heck a digerido, pan flute, or sitar was! :D

Ah look at the cute little Viewsonic birds on the upper left. :D

“Scary how hackers are always using DOS prompts isn’t it?”

–Confused Windows Viewers

Rocking Tumbleweed too!

• On Nvidia!
• With multiple displays at different refresh rates.
• On Wayland!

Right now they only update to the “stable” Nvidia drivers branch in the repos, so I had to install the 565.71 drivers manually via the run file from Nvidia’s website to fix an issue with variable sync. (Windows without Wayland support would strobe solid black randomly. Yikes!)

The only annoyance is having to reinstall the driver from terminal any time the kernel updates. (Protip: just make a drivers folder in your /home folder to easily get to it from the terminal.)

This is referred to as “the hard way”, but once you get it set up once it’s really just ls /drivers/nvidia, run it, and then enter -> enter -> enter -> enter -> reboot -> enjoy.

Otherwise, between Steam, Heroic Launcher (for GoG), Lutris (for EA), and Bottles (everything else / standalone games, disc games, etc), I can play pretty much anything I want! and it runs gloriously! (Be sure to get ProtonUp-Qt to get better Proton versions)

I primarily spend most of my time in Blender, but games work beautifully. Plasma 6 is just awesome as well. My win10 install is getting so dusty right now, and I actually made the jump because it kept Bluescreening on Vermintide 2, and refused to “refresh this system” because “Can’t. Sorry.”

My only thing on the wishlist is for my WMR-baser VR kit to work in Linux… maybe that’ll happen and maybe it won’t. Otherwise, I LOVE Tumbleweed.

Automatic rollbacks with Snapper and BTRFS have been wonderful too.

(If any of this sounds like rambling lingo please feel free to ask and I can clarify. ❤️)

Honestly? I often ponder this. It’s amusing when you consider how enamored we are with bosoms.

I’ve heard it described that “Woman is the most beautiful shape in the human consciousness.” And that stuck with me.

My wife often catches me gawking and thinks it’s weird but I’m just like “You’re just amazing. All of you. Everything about you.” I feel like an idiot because I can’t explain what the heck I actually mean.

It’s just hard to fathom how a single being can be so… naturally aesthetic!

Women are just awesome. As a visual artist myself, I totally understand the compulsion to depict cute/pretty/happy/sexy ladies all the time. Heck, some artists do this exclusively. Variety is the spice of life, artists, but I get it. 😂

I think we’re coded to enjoy rounded elegant shapes, but there’s something enchanting about femininity as a whole, and boobs and butts signal “feminine!!” to our brains.

Also I’d say size and such really doesn’t matter. I think the really fascinating thing is the sheer variety, to the point they’re unique to the woman as an individual person. And it has nothing to do with biological essentialism! (Tiny boobs are just as good at feeding young as ginormous ones)

It’s also a bit cultural, I think. They’re so obvious, yet hidden in polite company. So seeing them exposed feels like you have an intimate window into this person’s world, and you feel special for the privilege, I suppose.

Lol now I feel like a weirdo, typing this all out. Does that help? LOL

Edited: Made my reply at root level instead of piggybacking yours with a ton of paragraphs. :p

Too right about the bed bugs. At the library they’ve had to start screening every returned book for them. Yeesh!!

We once took a gamble on a fancy tempurpedic mattress that was on local auction where my wife’s grandma worked. “Nah nothing seems wrong with it!” She said. Cool! Won it for cheap!

We muscle it into the house and only in the enclosed space did we realize it REEEEEKED of cigarettes. It was NAUSEATING. We eventually had to pay more to have it hauled away. Learned our lesson.

The plastic base for it was nice though, and was cleaned pretty well by applying elbow grease and strong cleaning chemicals and sunlight and fresh air.

Excellent list!

Man, how often needle nose pliers come in handy is INSANE.

Even quicker if you help!

Post-apocalyptic economics be like:

Similar story! I teach Capoeira, am not Beasilian. Part of the tradition is coming up with students’ “apelido”, like an alias for them as a martial artist. We try to pick things that are cool, or ironically amusing (but kind).

Well there’s this bigger teenage boy in my class who’s getting REALLY strong. Great kid. Sings real strong too. Has been hitting the weights I think.

“Cannon”. I thought. “That’s badass and not too elaborate. He’s loud and he hits hard. Perfect!” So I look up the translation and submit my suggestions.

“That’s gonna need a change…” my Professor says with a chuckle.

“…Canhão means ‘lesbian’.”

Where does this slang come from?!? My research gave zero indication of this possibility lmao. SO glad he double checked me.

Similarly confusing, a lot of Capoeira songs feature the lyrics “vamo vadia” which I’m told is like, “Let’s go hang out / loiter / chill.” According to google translate…vadia directly means “bitch.”

This beautiful language intimidates me. 😂

Monado is making impressive strides, but VR is a really tough nut to crack, given how ridiculously proprietary most units are. :(

The controllers especially seem to be giving them a lot of trouble.

I know M$ always extinguishes things it embraces, but they should really just release the WMR code if they’re done with ir. An open source WMR implementation would save SO MUCH headache of trying to engineer custom drivers and everything from scratch!

Upset about both of those too.

The WMR thing is bugging me so much. Like release whatever is needed to open the hardware if you’re done with it, jerks!

I have a Samsung Odyssey+ that’s a fantastic unit that of course I can’t run when I mainline Linux these days. Monado is making impressive gains but the fact that they basically need to hack and reverse engineer the thing out of being e-waste is just messed up.

I really like VR and want to make things for it. But I can’t swing a Steam set and there’s no way I’m giving a single rotten cent to Facebook if I can help it!

Like others said there’s still ways to keep it working but it feels iffy enough that it could just break at any moment =\

This is SO tragic. I remember being so fond of both those games, they were so great! All the ways different equipment actually affected gameplay, and the really unique sound effects and world building will always stick in my head.

The Flutter was like my dream fantasy vehicle as a kid, those dogs in the bad part of town freaked me out, the reaverbot designs were so cool, and I kicked cans around way more than I should’ve.

And the little Tron-bots taught us the folly of making judgements based on profiling. XD

Kid me didn’t understand the ultimate plots though, and the final bosses were punishing… Perhaps it’s time for a revisit.

I didn’t know Legends 3 was so close to actually being a thing!

Geeze while we’re at it, even though it was basically a typical cop procedural, I really enjoyed “Almost Human” for a while. It just disappeared.

👑(crown emoji in case it doesn’t show) here, you dropped this.

LOL had me rolling. XD

Those features were so cool! I loved my Wii U also because of the underutilized potential it had. I wish we had a lot more simulative type experiences where the console as a “dashboard” could have made more sense.

Oh man are you me?! I used to love Jones! They had really interesting flavors and I liked the featured photographs. :D I kicked soda a while back, otherwise I’d still be all over it. I’m glad they’re still around and I’m happy seeing them on the shelves.

Batman Beyond, totally shway! Cyberpunk Batman was such a ridiculously cool concept I’d love to see come back. That intro was so freaking cool. :D My wife and I just watched through the whole thing not too long ago.

I’m torn though: A reboot would be so excellent, but that “2’000’s cool” aesthetic was essential to the unique feel of the universe it set up. Like, man can you imagine if we got an Arkham type game with some Deus Ex mixed in!?

I was once running a Savage Worlds pirate game (50 Fathoms) where one of my more dramatic players found a beached shipwreck and started poking through it. He rolls Notice and gets “snake eyes”, which is a critical failure.

He looks up at me excitedly. “Ohhh no, WHAT HAPPENS TO ME? This is gonna be BAD! :D” so clearly “Uh you don’t notice anything?” isn’t going to be satisfactory here.

So I tell him he fails to notice so hard he takes bumps and bruises from banging his head on some supports because of the ship’s awkward angle or something. He wants to try again and fails the roll again. “Okay uh…roll Spirit?”

Cackling like mad, he rolls and fails again. “What happens? What happens?”

“Well, you swear you saw SOMETHING in the dark depths of the ship where the sunlight can’t shine through. You’re so unnerved you need to roll on the fear table.”

The table was captivated at this point, and quite frankly I was caught by surprise that this was generating such a fuss lol.

He ended up gaining a “superstitious” hinderance and a white streak in his hair from sheer fright. He played it up like crazy too. “G-G-G-G-GHOOOST!!!” It was hilariously unexpected character development and I loved how he welcomed letting things happen to his character.

…I was just using random tables for the shipwreck, there wasn’t anything special even planned in there. There’s no way I could’ve seen that coming LOL.