What movie is that from again?

Spellcheck is awful now, I can only assume because of vibe-coding.

The top right panel always bothered me because it looks like the guy chose to slap the right cheek with the palm of his left hand from behind him, which is absolutely crazy.

Great comic though.

It snowed pretty hard once in Alabama, and the roads got icy so they cancelled work. Management told us that we would all have to use a day of PTO for this unplanned vacation. I told my boss “Fuck that, I’ll walk to work. You’re not getting my PTO.” and he said “You can’t do that, the building’s locked.”

I was prepared to become an Issue, but the next day they must have realized how illegal that paper trail was because they retracted the PTO thing.

A similar, much more severe storm happened a few years later, and I told my boss that I was absolutely not driving to work in my little sedan. He told me he would come pick me up and that I was a big baby, then shows up sliding around in his Prius with no chains or anything. After barely making it in, no one else was at the office and everything was dark. He made me work the full shift anyway before letting me go home, and HR said they wouldn’t give me any consideration for working a day more than everyone else.

There are some gifts that are good for a lot of people regardless of their interests, but these guides never seem to know any of them and it’s annoying.

For instance everywhere cold that I’ve lived, people would love another heated blanket, even if they already have one. Or really just any blanket, can’t have too many. Also a good evaporative humidifier is something everyone needs and no one has. It took me 15 years to buy a real carpet cleaner for myself, just check their house while you’re over to see if there’s one lying around. Consumable stuff is great because even if they already have it they can use more soon.

Guides ignore this kind of thing and pretty much exclusively recommend stuff that most people wouldn’t like due to tastes. “Get them this clip-on book light!” but they only read on tablets, or they already have a light because that problem needed immediate solving, or they simply don’t like the kind you bought because there are so many.

Anyway the guides are terrible, but they don’t have to be.

Playthru 1 is for stealth sniping and 100%’ing every area.

Playthru 2 is for getting that slow-down-time implant and killing everything that moves with a sword while never stopping a full on sprint.

I felt a genuine lack when it was over.

Better that then “Avenge-? Yeah man I don’t know what you’re on about.”

Turns out I needed to open some ports for SteamVR to work! Main text updated.

Glad they’re working on it.

The Legend of DDumbledore is choice

Yesterday I was standing in the baggage claim customer service desk at the airport, and the woman in front of me was asking about a missing bag. The guy asked to see the bag she had with her and asked her what was inside. She said “Why would you need to see my bag? It has nothing to do with you. The tags on it are clearly from a different airline, and it wasn’t involved in this flight in any way.” She was just holding it for a friend who stepped away.

He just kept insisting “I need to see your bag.” “Why?” “I need to see your bag.” “I’m not showing you my bag, it’s none of your business.” He kept reaching for it.

I thought it was absolutely insane and couldn’t wrap my head around it. Eventually I realized it was because she was a woman that he was being such an obstinate prick. She eventually capitulated, and in my male privilege I thought “Uh uh, make a scene! What’s he going to do? He isn’t a cop!”

Life can be bullshit sometimes.

The poor person about to spend $100k+ on a truck, tearfully signing the papers at the dealership: sniffle And could you do that thing where you raise the truck up a few more feet and put monster truck wheels on it? I can’t believe you are making me do this.

That’s a good point. I start SteamVR but it doesn’t seem to recognize the Frame and just waits for a connection from my long gone Vive. I’ll look into that.

I was sad I had missed the head straps and wrist straps, since I was sure I would need both. Turns out it comes with Wii-style wrist straps already, and I was able to just move the back part higher on my head and it was fine. I don’t think I’ll order them even if they stock up again.

I finally figured out my two big issues why my Wireless Adapter wouldn’t pair between my Headset and PC:

• I needed to enable my wireless in Mint
• I needed to switch my headset and PC client to the Beta releases for the most recent fixes.

Now, does anyone know why some games allow the remote play down arrow on the “play” button, but for some reason Beat Saber does not?

Edit: I needed to open the ports on my PC firewall for the headset to actually connect. www.reddit.com/r/SteamFrame/comments/1wwnasm/

People keep telling me that acktually Tesla headlights have hi-tech sensors that avoid blinding people. And I’m like “I’m people, and they blind me all the time!”

With you 100%. Basically everything makes me angry for one reason or another recently. You have to draw a line somewhere of how much grey you are willing to accept. If CFA is too much for you, you pretty much can’t eat fast food.

I just wish more people would boycott something. Talked to my dad recently about how much we both hate all the invasions of privacy by various companies, ten feet from his Alexa.

Last Christmas a friend of the family I was visiting bragged about her son who had an LLM spit out fantasy books that he was selling on amazon. As far as I can tell, he just prompted it “Write a fantasy book like The Witcher” and sold it without reading it. She excitedly told me “I looked into it, it isn’t plagiarism!”

Sometimes I absently daydream about ruining the day for everyone and insisting on driving home the point that it very much is plagiarism.

I would put it all into getting money out of politics. With enough of a donation, surely politicians would be willing to pull the ladder up after them and make future politicians honest.