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Yesterday, 09:43 PMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterI'm just glad George Lucas had the sense to stop making Star Wars after Return of the Jedi. He was never a good writer in the first place, but an...497 replies | 27217 view(s)
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2024-05-25, 03:52 AMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterHah. I was seeing Disney as The Enemy back in the 90s. Nowadays the edge has gone off their Evil. I think they were taken aback by how much flak they...497 replies | 27217 view(s)
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2024-05-24, 01:24 AMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterThere was no character who made sense. Sense was the spoon. Agent Smith was more than ordinarily annoying because... he... en...unci...ated......497 replies | 27217 view(s)
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2024-05-23, 04:37 PMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterI'm not sure, but I think Electronic Arts (EA) may be the nastiest big company in software. Not necessarily the same as "most evil", and certainly...497 replies | 27217 view(s)
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2024-05-20, 11:48 PMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterOld is when your doctor tells you to stop doing $IT because your $INTERNAL_ORGAN cannae take any more. I had to stop drinking alcohol. Like,...497 replies | 27217 view(s)
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2024-05-20, 07:16 PM"Surprise death turrets" is a pretty good way of describing it, yes. Things would have gone very badly if I hadn't happened to have the pulse gun in...111 replies | 4108 view(s)
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2024-05-20, 02:37 AMWhat's your favourite vault? Not as a place to live. Obviously, even the best of them would suck. But the one that sticks in your mind as having a...111 replies | 4108 view(s)
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2024-05-20, 02:20 AMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterI'm no chemist, but my understanding is that boiling doesn't merely draw vitamins out into the water, but actually destroys them. So - you're not...497 replies | 27217 view(s)
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2024-05-16, 10:30 PMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterI think you need to clarify what you mean by "gravy". There's packets of... stuff you can buy from a supermarket to make something called gravy....497 replies | 27217 view(s)
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2024-05-14, 02:49 PMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterWell, it's more than that. There are (arguably) real, serious critiques of films in there. Then there are "jokes", which either "purposely" miss the...497 replies | 27217 view(s)
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2024-05-13, 03:56 PMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterI haven't played MM (my loss), but to me it seems something depends on whether this frog-talking quest is central, or at least helpful, or just...497 replies | 27217 view(s)
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2024-05-12, 11:00 PMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterOur culture is not good at dealing with death. We spend most of our lives denying or ignoring it. When forced to acknowledge it, nearly everyone will...497 replies | 27217 view(s)
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2024-05-10, 07:06 PMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterPretty hot, but where does it come from? What's your beef with weaving, which must be one of the oldest manufacturing techniques in the world?497 replies | 27217 view(s)
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2024-05-08, 02:50 PMveti replied to a thread Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads in Friendly BanterI am accustomed to being disappointed, if not actually appalled, by the results of votes of that sort. Karate Island would have been a brand new...497 replies | 27217 view(s)
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2024-05-07, 03:22 AMSheer dumb luck puts the courier in a unique position to decide the fate of the Mojave. From that position, you kinda do need to pick a winner from...111 replies | 4108 view(s)
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2024-05-05, 02:59 PMBack when games came on discs, I got Fallout 1&2 in a combo pack for, IIRC, $2.99. So I'd be surprised if you can't get 1 for "basically free". ...111 replies | 4108 view(s)
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2024-05-05, 04:06 AMveti replied to a thread Tech Help Is wireless charging bad for phones? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyWell, that's just not true. Most of the comments above are from reasonable people who have no difficulty conceiving the process damaging things other...21 replies | 1734 view(s)
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2024-05-02, 02:41 AMveti replied to a thread Tech Help Is wireless charging bad for phones? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyChanging screens is quite a common operation, there are like half a dozen repair shops within a five mile radius of me that will do that quite...21 replies | 1734 view(s)
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2024-04-29, 08:57 PMveti replied to a thread Tech Help Is wireless charging bad for phones? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyOK, I finally found out it's an iPhone XR, which came out in 2018 and does indeed advertise wireless chargability as a feature. (Though even so, I'm...21 replies | 1734 view(s)
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2024-04-29, 06:30 PMI started with Fallout 3, which is like New Vegas except worse in every possible way. NV was definitely the high spot of the series for me. But for...111 replies | 4108 view(s)
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2024-04-29, 02:42 PMveti replied to a thread Tech Help Is wireless charging bad for phones? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyI'm sure that phones that are designed for wireless charging are properly tested. But this one wasn't. Wireless charging is a pretty recent thing,...21 replies | 1734 view(s)
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2024-04-29, 04:23 AMveti started a thread Tech Help Is wireless charging bad for phones? in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyBrief aside, before I get on with the actual question: I really hate it when Googling a question gives me 15 authoritative answers, all unanimously...21 replies | 1734 view(s)
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"None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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