The Historian

Maybe not the goriest, but Wolfenstein: The New Order and The New Colossus were pretty goddamn brutal. Granted, it used the violence to reinforce the world they're portraying so it was used to good effect.

I use Dayton Audio bookshelf speakers with a Lepai amp with speaker wire.

Based on the symptoms, it sounds like you might have a bad stick of RAM and possibly have a problem with the graphics adapter, display or inverter board.

What laptop make and model do you have?

The last movie I watched was Guardians of the Galaxy with my boyfriend.

I'll let you know how awesome the alien tiddies are.

Why? I'll quote Denis Leary on this one: "Because meat tastes like murder and murder tastes pretty damn good."

Size 13 to 14 men's in US sizing. Finding women's shoes that fit is going to be a goddamn nightmare.........

I have my driver's license, my debit card, my health/dental/vision insurance cards, expired gamestop bullshit, expired vehicle insurance cards and a few bucks. Could've sworn I had my current vehicle insurance in there too but I guess not. Oh well, it's in my car.

My wallet is pretty damn empty usually. I should replace it with a new one...

Pretty much bitch the whole time since it's almost always at night. But on the off chance it's not, I drive somewhere to go for a walk then charge up my devices somewhere.

With as much as some people shit on my people, a little hate in their direction might be a little warranted.

This is, of course, lunacy. Stop being hateful brats, society. Time to get out of mental middle school.

I was chillin' in my Algebra 2 class during my junior year of high school when this happened. I watched the second plane hit live on the news. Suffice to say, it's a moment permanently etched into my memory.

Eighteen years later though, it's another day to me and means little. Tragedy, sure, but I'm not interested in exploiting it for sympathy points. Plenty of other things need our attention, not something that happened nearly two decades prior. It's time to move on. 3000 people a day die and we don't honor any of them at any point. Time to stop living in the past and look forward.

Current ride has ~66k on it. Bought it a bit over 3 years ago and have put over 50k on it. I have a long drive.

My Explorer... uh, I have no idea how many it had when I sold it. The odometer didn't work half the time. I'm gonna guess at least 225k.

The Jeep I had before that got up to 200k before I had to scrap it. Friggin' money pit!

I had a Ford Taurus before that one and I got it past 282k before I sold it.

My Dodge Caravan got past 186k before the transmission died.

And the Mercury Sable I had as my first car ever had over 222k miles on it before the transmission died.

Had a slight handful of vehicles over the years. XD

Provided I don't fuck it up, I'll actually be taken on Valentine's Day for the first time in five years.

5 hours ago, Splashee said:

But I don't think companies like Google has any control in what country to invade next, or what religion to embrace. It is more of a "if we get in trouble, the government will not help us, rather than trying to help our competition".

Google, probably not. But evil entities like Halliburton? You better believe they had a hand in the latest batch of middle eastern wars. Even if it wasn't direct, their influence is pretty well established.

Businesses already do run the world and it's not even hidden. Corporate interests just buy politicians or get shills put in positions of power, or send lobbyists to "make sure everything is done fairly." When monied interests are allowed to interfere with government, the needs of the citizens are ignored for profit. This has happened many times before and will continue to happen because greedy fucks illegally buy their way into maintaining power! When things finally collapse under the weight of their own egos and hubris, the regular people - US - will pay the price.

Looks like the landfall wasn't as bad as predicted, at least here in the US. The islands got buttfucked pretty hard though.

But hey, at least there's days of warning when these things loom overhead. I live where the wind will getcha without warning.

I had a late lunch at Chipotle. Cause I gotta have them burrito bowls, y'all.

I used Firefox faithfully for ~18 years til the Quantum update broke half of my addons. I have slowly moved most of my use to Vivaldi. Not as good as Firefox used to be but with some CSS hacks, I can get multirow tabs. I can on Firefox too (and do actually) but the compatibility issues really pissed me right off. I only ever use Chrome for web testing anymore.

I have to think for a moment since I just bought a little too much over the last few days.

Recently, I've bought Ultima VIII (Windows), Zool (Windows), Malice for Quake (Windows), Jurassic Park (IBM compatibles), Bioforge (Windows), Omega (Atari ST), Auto Duel (Atari ST), Light and Darkness (Windows), KKND XTREME (Windows), Red Alert 1 (Windows 95 edition), SimCity 3000 (Linux), Panzer Dragoon (Windows), Maui Mallard (Windows), Polish language Tiberian Sun and Civilization: Call to Power (Windows), Euro Civ 3 CE (Windows), US Civ 3 CE (Windows), Civ 4 SE (Windows) and Temple of Apshai (C64). All in boxes of course.

Like I said, a bit too much. xD

I use a Cisco Enterprise-ish router. Not something you'd find in a huge business, but not a standard home router either. I don't like the crappy Comcast AP I have so I use that one for WiFi and such.

1 hour ago, ShadOBabe said:

Oh sure there are likely worse companies in the grand scheme of things, but EA has like straight up won a few “Worst Company in America” awards via vote.

I think they reason that they piss people off so much is because they screw with people’s “Happy Places”. People go to video games to unwind from the stress of the world, and then BAM, there’s EA making it suck.

That's because people are morons. Far, far worse companies exist, even in the game industry. EA is nowhere near "the worst." Even when EA was at their worst, the games I played from them were still as enjoyable as anything else I was playing at the time. Calling them the worst is a disservice to the things they do provide.

19 hours ago, TheTaZe said:

Wish there was a record for most hated company because I think they would be up there.

If EA qualifies as the worst company, you're not looking hard enough. There are companies that are worse than EA.

I got my hand slammed in a car door and broke some bones in my hand. That was a really fun time and by fun I mean it sucked.

I am hugely self-conscious. But, being transgender will screw you up big time. And I got bullied hard in school and that fucked me up permanently. While I've undone some of that damage, it's stuck with me and made me weary of what other people think.

Since I became an open transwoman, dudes have been hitting on me left and right. Kinda funny in a lot of ways and it makes me giggle. So I can sympathize with the OP. lol