They order 2 different brands of these gloves for us at work, one brand is black the other is blue. The blue ones must be made from recycled paper machê finely coated in wax because the second you touch them they rip. Half of them have visible thin spots that will rip removing them from the box.

The black gloves are the GOAT, I’ve gotten them caught on metal and they don’t rip.

I horde the black gloves when we get them in

Had a 90s Suburban with almost 300k miles for a while as a hand-me-down from my parents, we owned it for about 10 years between us. The check engine light was always on, no matter what we did. Every sensor changed, code reset, everything we could think of. The truck ran like it was off the factory floor, no issues at all. Eventually the bulb burned out since it was always on.

I recently talked to the guy I sold it to 10 years ago, he still drives it! He loved it when he first drove it and has put a lot of miles on it only needing usual maintenance like brakes and a fuel pump. That old 5.7L Vortec sure is bulletproof but I’m sure he’s not happy about it’s 42 gal gas tank right about now.

I fully agree with most of your list, except Bioshock. I love Bioshock and think it’s a work of art.

Halo overhaul mods are definitely not my vibe, even back on the original PC port. They change too much about the game where they’re just making a new game with Halo assets. My only exception to that is InfernoPlus’s Cursed Halo which are just fun as hell.

I love how they also use Master Chief and Halo music, as if Chief wouldn’t slaughter the orange grunt with his bare hands and tbag him. Trump already tried an insurrection, and the Spartans were made to kill insurrectionists

Plus all the original Xbox games I’ve seen there are raw disk dumps, they have to be converted to xiso and that shaves off several GB per disk when completed.

She lost her Gulag

3 of my 4 desktops are running AM4. My main rig has a 5950x, the home theater PC has a 5500 and my wife’s gaming rig has a 5600. I rebuilt the HTPC several months ago and specifically went with AM4 for price to performance (and because it’s a Linux box)

Marketing and vehicle regulations have made it more profitable for car manufacturers in North America to sell trucks and large SUVs as “family cars”, so over the last 30+ years the industry has been pushing them hard. Trucks and SUVs are classified as light trucks, which have different fuel economy requirements which are more laxed than those for passenger cars. Small cars are being marketed out.

So of course it boils down to corporate greed chasing more money as well as garbage regulations. That’s why the Ford f150 is almost always the best selling vehicle in the US.

Not Just Bikes has a few videos on the topic.

If only one of these disgruntled former FBI agents would just leak the unredacted Epstein files as a final “fuck you” for being fired. Hell, leak anything, leave the country and leak that shit. Take one for the team. They don’t care about you, why keep covering shit up?

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Lego Star Wars The Complete Collection from 2009 has a minimum RAM requirement of 156MB. Yes, megabytes. 512MB if you’re using Vista (God help you)

Just thought I’d point that out.

New Mexico being based once again.

Call of Duty Warzone.

When it first released it was a very fun battle royale, a much better implantation than CoD’s first go at it, Blackout. You could actually buy back your teammates if they die, they added the Gulag as a chance to come back if you’re killed, you can create loadouts and use money you find in game to buy them. The map was big and expansive and you could usually find some interesting places to drop and not get absolutely dumped on immediately.

My friends and I played it for a long time, both on PS4 and later PC. When they moved the map to Black Ops Cold War’s version I’d argue it was a bit of an improvement even though all the Cold War guns outshined the Modern Warfare 2019 guns. That was the start of the decline in my eyes. Making the guns from the new game perform better than from the old one was how they pushed you to buy the new CoD so you could level up the guns and play better in Warzone.

Warzone moved to Vanguard’s Caldera map, which I think was a fantastic map, had some cool limited time modes and events, but at first they had some kind of issue with the light rendering because it wasn’t the easiest to spot enemies or items on the map. They fixed that and it was fine, we had some amazing games and lots of fun on Caldera.

Then they released Warzone 2.0 (which was arguably Warzone 4.0 but that’s an argument for a different day) using the Modern Warfare 2 engine. It was a very bad Warzone. The map was boring, the sound effects like hit markers by default were new and ear piercingly awful, and whatever rendering system they used made it extremely difficult to see enemies. Keep in mind I’m running this game on a 3090 so it’s not a graphics issue, it’s an engine one. Also on that note, the game literally struggled to run on my friends 3070 and 3060 12G cards. It was bad.

We stopped playing for a long time, moved onto other things, then did try again when MW3’s version came out. It was fine, map was better but the engine still had the rendering enemies issue.

Between the bad changes they made, the horrible monetization with the obnoxious skins and shit, at one point there was a gun you could only unlock through the battle pass or buy a skin for later which was an OP gun, and a plague of other issues we stopped playing. The game stopped being a fun shooter with friends and just became a slog to play. If we could go back to the original 2020 Warzone we would, but even when they rereleased Verdansk in MW3 it wasn’t the same.

It felt like half the ads were either fully AI generated, used AI slop or were for an AI slop factory company. It turned the game tonight into “which ads aren’t AI slop” for me.

I cannot fucking wait for this bubble to burst

Yeah some Chevrolet dealer, the guy didn’t get the car however.

link to Medium article about it

Oh sure, they’re allowed to get drunk in public and pass out on the sidewalk, but when I do it it’s a misdemeanor 🫩

Reminds me of my grandfather, these kids kept knocking his mailbox down with baseball bats. After the second time it was hit, he put up a new one filled with concrete. The very next morning there was half a wooden baseball bat on the ground and a dent in the mailbox. They never did it again.

I am Plex Guy, my friend is Plex Guy, between the 2 of us we share our servers to over a dozen people. My mom and grandma use my server in another state, I don’t charge anyone access. In total I have 8 users on my server, my friend has probably the same on his, with both of us giving access to a different friend meaning he has access to double the amount of content.

I got absolutely fed up with subscription services raising prices and removing content (I only ever had Hulu and Netflix) so I just built my own service. My only subscription now is a Tidal family plan for myself, my wife and my mom.

Also it’s interesting how between these 2 servers, they’re built differently. I built mine using TrueNAS and housed it in a dedicated PC case large enough for all the drives, my buddy made his as a Windows server, and has everything wall mounted with custom 3D printed brackets.

Also, when I go to Brazil for vacation, my content isn’t region locked, it’s at home in a box on my living room that I just access with no VPN or any bullshit needed.

Letterboxd is currently the exact opposite, apparently Russians haven’t found it yet

https://imgur.com/a/UTDrKz0