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- Comment on Flooring Pop 1 day ago:
Hmm, that does explain why it’d need mortar, too. The tongue and groove stuff works like puzzle pieces and if you follow a lot of the other advice, it’s not a terribly hard diy project. There’s cheaper stuff out there, too, though you definitely notice the difference.
- Comment on Flooring Pop 1 day ago:
I have similar, I believe it’s a type of laminate (they call it that, it can be inflexible but has a fake wood look). Does it have a tongue and groove edge where two pieces meet? Either way, new floor needed. If you can’t afford it, a temp solution is to make a transition since it’s by a door, you can kind of get away with a slightly different floor and a cover over the gap.
Having done a little work on mine, good flooring can get costly. Just a pack of 18 sq ft here was $50, though it was very good, textured laminate. Waterproof stuff, too, doesn’t require mortar.
- Comment on Flooring Pop 1 day ago:
An alternative, you can install a temporary landing, since it’s by a door. Transitions are a solution I use when I needed a patch of floor done. Whole floors get expensive even if you diy.
- Comment on Happy Birthday! 3 days ago:
Given their lawsuits, emulation is 100% the right way to piss them off. Lol
- Comment on Port-O-John Art 4 days ago:
Is that a Banksy?!
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Not good enough! Need a compressed phone photograph of a screen with bad cropping, bare minimum.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
So… Indie scene saw how shit 2025, so we got E33 and Silksong, we’re even getting Hades 2? What a year.
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 4 days ago:
I think what I’m getting is there more than one way to skin the bark of that boss. There’s a lot of ways to play the game, even as early as Splinter, but I stay a Hunter with the starting pins (admittedly with poison). My friend loves his needle traps, though. There is better, I think, though all tools remain viable for a long time. I wonder if anyone is going full beast mode, that looks fun.
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 4 days ago:
Lol, of course this is after I did the parts they nerfed but honestly nbd. Splinter was only a problem until you realize you can nuke both adds and damage the boss with you special circular AOE move. I actually took no damage on my win.
I also got Moorwing late, cause of fleas. Those 2 damage environmental hazards did seem pretty awful though. I’m great at platforming so it wasn’t much of an issue but I imagine it giving some people a lot of grief. I didn’t even know the gears caused 2 points it damage until my friend told me, lol.
- Comment on Albania appoints an AI bot named Diella as the minister responsible for managing and awarding all public procurement tenders to combat corruption 4 days ago:
Funny, a decade ago I would have suggested an AI do exactly this as impartial, but we don’t have that kind of AI, we have LLMs. Ugh, clearly they just want more corruption.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 4 days ago:
Also… why now? BL games always get 90% off eventually, lol.
- Comment on Guy's, it turns it it was a Jojo's reference 4 days ago:
From what Grok has been saying, it was definitely a Jojo reference. Haha, Charlie is so good at getting roasted. Nice try!
- Comment on Guy's, it turns it it was a Jojo's reference 4 days ago:
You had me in the first half, hehe.
- Comment on Tragedy can bring out the Worst in people, but also the Best 4 days ago:
I had my moment accidentally in teaching class today when I accidentally said “turning point.” This alone would be fine if I didn’t then giggle to myself after noticing.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 6 days ago:
Can confirm, DQ5 (1992) had monster catching. Not sure if I’d call it summoning, but Pokemon took clear inspiration from that game in particular.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
Not in defense of the imperial system, but if you’re curious why it’s so arbitrary, it’s a crazy story about untangling a ton of proprietary guild measurements. The mile itself isn’t quite proprietary (it was defined as 8 furlongs, and you can blame the English for ruining a perfectly good roman measurement) but they needed to make it a certain number of chains, rods, yards, and feet, plus a few other obscure measurements I forget about. Naturally that results in a stupid conversation rate (mostly vs yards and feet since it was basically a different system).
Why we still use it, dunno. I can see an argument for keeping feet and inches for things like carpentry (in the similar way I like hexadecimal in programming) but miles is not that. It’s about as logical as this point as fahrenheit, which is to say it’s outdated nonsense.
- Comment on jic anybody needed a monday reminder 1 week ago:
That’s a pretty valid point, although the rear view usually also blinds me at the same time. Usually I get the full three mirror flash, one from behind and two on the wings, lol. I really like my mirrors, though, they have a lovely convex mini-mirror on them so I get a little extra glance. I still look over my shoulder, but it’s nice to detect someone hovering there before I even make my decision to lane change.
- Comment on jic anybody needed a monday reminder 1 week ago:
This bothers me because the car door is like 2/3 of the mirror. I get it’s probably the angle of the camera but I swear there’s so many people out there with side mirrors misaligned.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m glad most indie games don’t do that. My wife was surprised I wanted to preorder a game with no bonuses, I think she has worked for corporate a little too long.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
Oh. So this might actually be a legit reason to do preorders, lol. I too got caught in payment progressing hell but I finally got it.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
Cali: West Siiiide
Florida: East S— cough cough weeze - Comment on Just a little bit more 1 week ago:
I’ve never had a car tire pop but I have had a bike tire pop and it is alarming to say the least.
- Comment on hello 2 weeks ago:
Huh, it really is always on his mind.
- Comment on The Bog 2 weeks ago:
How’d I miss that slam dunk! Edited it in, haha.
- Comment on The Bog 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had the song Zombie by The Cranberries stuck in my head and because of this post about cranberries I’ve changed the line stuck in my head to this:
*But you see, they’re on me, they are not my family
On my head, on my head, they are fleeing
With their fangs and their bogs, and their bogs, and their legs
On your head, on your head, they are crawling~On your head, on your he-eaya-ed,
Spi-der, spi-der, spiiiders,
What’s on your head, on your head,
Spi-der, spi-der, spi-ehya-ehya-ehya-ehya-eyoh- * - Comment on I can see the confusion tbh 3 weeks ago:
What a weird max score… as someone who grades, you generally want it in a way that gives a clean percentage, mostly for transparency and tracking for students. My class does 500 total points (thus a 5 point quiz is 1%, 100 point exam is 20%, etc.), which is what previous instructors did and helps students figure out what is needed for an A.
But 59/59? Thats confusing af. Bet it’s out of some arbitrary total, too.
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 3 weeks ago:
Interestingly enough, I only got my PhD because the job market sucked after Bushes recession and I was promised 5 years of funding. I did get some great data analytic skills out of it, but academic positions are indeed far and few between.
One of the main factors after my graduation a few years ago was that professors just refused to retire, leaving very new faculty positions; that changed slightly right after my kid was born but by that point I was and am ok with an adjunct part time and homemaker full time situation.
Now it’ll mostly be a lack of funding, though, unless I leave the US. Meh.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
People giving you trouble cause he’s only 42 haven’t seen how miserably useless some grown men are when it comes to household stuff. I did similar for a while to save up for a house, but in my case he was also an alcoholic so it’s doubly difficult. Having moved out, he’s struggling to feed himself though.
I think caretaker is the right term, though. House-anything is weird sounding, though (housewife for instance is out of favor for more gender neutral terms).
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 weeks ago:
I usually liken it to video games, ya. Is it worse that nothing? Sure, but that flight or road trip, etc, is a bigger concern. Not to mention even before AI we’ve had industrial usage of energy and water usage that isn’t sustainable… almonds in CA alone are a bigger problem than AI, for instance.
Not that I’m pro-AI cause it’s a huge headache from so many other perspectives, but the environmental argument isn’t enough. Corpo greed is probably the biggest argument against it, imo.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 3 weeks ago:
I thought it was gonna be a shadowdrop to, but yeah that makes sense. Two weeks might as well be today given how long we’ve all waited!