Mormon theology also pretty much just cuts the Gordian knot proposed in this post by saying, "Fuck yeah he's got a dick. Uses it ALL THE TIME." I believe that a "perfected body" was the verbiage I was taught in Sunday School. Tritheistic heresy, Shmitheistic Shmeresy....
Never mind. That game doo doo.
TCU at Baylor
The Revivalry is a good game this year.
This is realistically the best that could be hoped for after Lagway got hurt, but this is the insidious hold that college football has over a soul. Why should I have hoped at all? Hell, I don't even really like Billy Napier, LOL.
Kind of? We have a "GameChanger coordinator" who is the idiotic title of the off-field ST assistant. This year we also have a GameChanger Senior analyst who I guess was well regarded as an assistant for the Patriots, and I understand he is there to have an adult in the room, but it's still weird.
Lean in! You know you love orange team! 🤣
You know, you're probably right, but Carson is trying his best to prove you wrong.
Was out and about a lot in the first half, but between audio and streaming, I have been able to keep up to date more or less, and I've been all over the place. This would be a job-saving win for Billy, maybe even more so with Lagway out. Sounds like a bad hamstring, which makes me suspect we've seen either all of Lagway this year, or at least the best we're going to.
Fair, and maybe I'm stepping in it a bit, but thought a post about a 4-switch Vader 2600 might attract a lively crowd.
I wouldn't presume to have even 20% of the 2600 games that bring something different and good to the table, it's just (to misquote Samuel Johnson), for so many of them the good parts are not different and the different parts are not good.
And again, that's completely apart from a personal nostalgia (god knows I indulge in that) or to propose that they're simply not fun in a binary sense. If I'm 12 and I get 2600 Venture I enjoy the hell out of it, but if I'm a middle aged man in 2024, at the bare minimum I'm going for this.
So, real talk? Most 2600 games are rough, and barring personal nostalgia, there's little reason to play most of them in the age of emulation, especially arcade conversions, which sometimes nail the gameplay (but often don't), and generally have to perform acts of violence on the visuals to make them work with the system and the business realities around their development (i.e. staffing, timeline, budget for ROM chips, etc.).
Some worthwhile ones that come to mind:
- Combat (multiplayer only)
- Warlords (multiplayer only)
- Pitfall
- River Raid
- Pitfall II
- Space Invaders
- The Empire Strikes Back
It's not that so many more weren't fun, or even still aren't in isolation, but it's like we're all the rich fat kid from Pee-Wee's big adventure and have access to every single game on every single system, at least up until the end of the 90s. There's no reason to play the nice port of Berzerk that looks like it does, or play the flickery Pac-Man mess, or even (I'll say it) fight with the groundbreaking but still primitive and abstracted gameplay of Adventure.
Also, pretty much everyone I’ve known into model railroads is into HO scale, so who is even going to buy this?
Sounds like some of them nerds need to go big or fuckin' go home!
Looks like it's built to model railroading "O" scale.
EDIT: Oh, duh. It says so right in your picture. I guess if you want the sweet authenticity that only product placement can buy, this is your set.
Just FYI, this is what I did. Maybe I'll change it later, but it fit the vibe for a big dumb button on a computer keyboard perfectly.
As someone with an all-southern (US) education, this one evokes some eye-rolling memories.
Why do they only modulate the frequencies? They should try modulating the amplitude! The Borg or Dominion don't stand a chance against Tradio, conservative talk radio, and Spanish-language evangelical sermons!
If that $200 is for the barebones kit, then the QK100 would be right up your alley. It's an1800/96% style but leaves a full-size numpad zero. It also has a ton of options, including a wired hotswap PCB and choice of FR4 or PC plates, among others.
Budget and preferred layout will play into this a lot, but generally these days it's not too hard to find wired-only and hot-swap. Anything else you can tell us?
Top-two primary and/or ranked choice voting to start. I'd also like to see the popular vote compact come into play for the presidential election. Eventually, for Congress I'd like a hybrid system that accepts the existence of parties so it can manage their worst impulses and give representation to smaller constituencies.
For the remaining geographic regions, set a certain standard for mathematical compactness; this doesn't have to be too aggressive, as a long thin district can be completely sensible, but we don't need the devil's fractals many places have now. Also/or require districting committees to try to draw districts that would roughly approximate the state's popular vote percentages. We know they're excellent at isolating voters by party, so let them, but force them to play around on the edges to get one seat here, or get out front of some changing demographics here, not the wholesale cracking and packing we see from both parties now.
It also all needs to be legislated at the federal level or even by constitutional amendment, but honestly we're kind of fucked. The people who need to be reined in the most very much live in states where they are overrepresented in voting power, and I don't see them giving it up.
Mom, can we have battleship?
We have battleship at home.
The battleship at home...
Okay, so technically this battleship is still in drydock, but I soldered 117 keys/buttons. I get to put the keycaps on early if I want!
"Reaching?" Not sure I understand.
128/133 in 6:30. In defense of my knowledge, if not my wisdom...
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ODU and Kent State are the only two I truly forgot. I just straight up skimmed past UNC, then I misspelled Sam Houston and I still don't why it didn't take my answer for ULM:::
>The mascot known as Boom ‘is really young and immature and crazy as hell’
They had the Herbstreit stinger in the can, ready for the first time they needed it. I'm sure of it!
No captions this week, best I can tell.
Billy Napier's timid decision after late-game TD comes back to haunt Florida in OT loss to Tennessee
Scared money don't make money, right Billy?
Also, regardless of what happened, going to OT forced the nation to endure more of that mutual shitshow than was necessary.
You've been on this tiny ship in the Delta Quadrant beyond any hope of recrew or resupply for over a year, but you keep seeing ensigns you don't recognise. Everyone tells you that they've always been...
Thought I'd give this one from 7 months ago a bump. Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12634612
> ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Gothic > > > You’ve been on this tiny ship in the Delta Quadrant beyond any hope of recrew or resupply for over a year, but you keep seeing ensigns you don’t recognise. Everyone tells you that they’ve always been here > > > > You go down to Engineering looking for Lt. Carey. B'elanna tells you that he’s just stepped out. He’s been 'just stepped out’ for days. > > > > A shuttle crashes on a desert planet. You speak with Chakotay about the possibility of trading for some new shuttles, but he looks at you funny and says “but we already have a full compliment of shuttles” > > > > You run to the shuttlebay and inspect them personally. There is a full compliment of shuttles. And none of them even have a scratch. > > The next week, a shuttle is torn to pieces in a plasma storm. You’re not even surprised when you find intact it in the shuttlebay an hour later. > > > > You stop mentioning shuttles. > > > > The ship has an encounter with some Kazon, but manages to get away. Their ships are primitive and slow and you shouldn’t run into them again. > > > > Two weeks later, you meet the same Kazon, now somehow in front of you. You begin to suspect that you’re driving in circles > > > > You go to Engineering looking for Lt. Carey. You haven’t seen him in two years. He’s 'not there right now, but should be back in a minute’. > > > > Janeway and Paris travel at warp 10 and turn into salamanders. You’re sure that it happened. You remember it happening! But no one brings it up. When you ask Tom about it, he doesn’t even register the question. > > > > You scream “BUT YOU WERE A SALAMANDER!” into his ear. He doesn’t even hear you. > > > > You see another Ensign you don’t recognise. You finslly just ask the computer for the crew compliment of Voyager. You are told that the answer is: 121. > > > > A month later, the Hirogen conquer the ship, spend weeks brainwashing and surgically altering the crew into believing that they are actually characters in holographic simulations, and then hunt them for sport. This culminates in a pitched battle between the crew and the Hirogen in which the ship is utterly wrecked and dozens of people are killed. > > > > Afterwards, you ask the computer for the ship’s crew compliment. You are told that the answer is: 147 > > > > The next day, you wake up and find Voyager restored to its original state. > > > > You make a discreet inquiry about Lt. Carey. Now everyone acts like he’s dead but can’t tell you precisely when or how. > > > > The Captain takes you aside one day and specifically instructs you not to mention Ensign Jetal to the Doctor. She says that she knows that this will be difficult, given how close we all were to her (and you in particular), but that for the greater good of the crew, you need to act like Ensign Jetal never existed. You solemnly nod your head and consent, and she gives you a comradely pat on the shoulder and leaves the room. > > > > You have absolutely no idea who Ensign Jetal is. > > > > Voyager absorbs the remaining crew of the USS Equinox. Well at least you’ll finally have an explanation for the new crew you see around the ship! You never see any of them ever again. > > > > You’ve now travelled almost 40,000 light years towards home. You check the star charts; somehow, you’re still in the Delta Quadrant. You begin to wonder if the Beta Quadrant even exists. > > > > The Delta Flyer is destroyed by Borg torpedos. You don’t even bother to check the shuttlebay for it, you just instinctively know that it will be back > > > > A few months later, the Captain gives you the sad news: Lt. Carey is dead. > > > > You finally make it back to the Alpha Quadrant, say your tearful farewells, and receive a handshake and a promotion from Admiral Paris. As one last thought before leaving Voyager forever, you pay a visit to the shuttlebay. You find it utterly empty, except for one lowly crewman with a mop and pail, swabbing the deck. “I…guess that Starfleet must have already cleared out the remaining shuttles?” You say uncertainly, your voice echoing in the cavernous, empty room. The crewman breaks off his mopping and looks at you like you’ve lost your mind and says: “Voyager never had any shuttles.”