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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
Где все?
Aqui.
Romani ite domum
Римляне идут дом
Should be домой.
Not if I am reproducing the errors.
Wiktionary suggests domum is an adverb meaning “homeward”. This Reddit thread suggests it should be domum too, although since I didn’t get the reference, I didn’t realize that the correct verb is actually идите.
I was translating the original erroneous phrase “Romanes eunt domus” with matching errors in Russian.
Я здесь.
медведь ест все
Oh no, they can be quite picky.
I always marvel how the Friday afternoon links are a look into worlds I know nothing much about.
Same. Plus I usually learn about something Japanese I had no idea about.
Did you know Japanese bitches are totes judgemental?
I am going to patent the name “Grifter Snifter.”
All developers, meet me on the forum to discuss product development. This could be the big one!
This is the height of “bitches ain’t loyal” smh.
Same — I’m just much more verbose about saying so apparently.
I’m here to help 😛
There are definitely times when, regardless of my PC gaming all my adult life (and prior — typing in BASIC on a TRS-80 Model III out of a magazine and then tweaking it), I have no idea what any of this is talking about and find myself not just okay with that, but kind of glad. 😉
But you do you, Riven.
My ringtone (if it starts at the right place): https://youtu.be/mkJ3–2K7yo?t=168
#metoo
🙂
And an Atari 400!
TI99-4A or GTFO
Started on a VIC-20 and got to reuse once I got a tape drive.
Same but Commodore 64.
This has been my ringtone for the past two years.
Lyrics very NSFW.
Previous to that it was this.
Radio Shack Color Computer.
Complete with subscription to “Hot CoCo” magazine.
Then the Atari 800XL.
XL for eXtra Large memory – 64k.
My ringtone is Vincent Price cackling at the end of Thriller.
My husband: “One night in Bangkok,” which is not as kinky as it sounds
My son: “5150”
My daughter doesn’t call me. She wants to have deep philosophical discussions over text while I am in the doctor’s office.
Everyone else: https://youtu.be/lN-DEqf5dJQ
The queens your husband uses would not excite you.
I need to change it to something else, but that is one of my standard ringtones (“Walk Like an Egyptian” is one and “Allentown” is the other) and I didn’t think about it too hard, and I didn’t want his to be “Go away, boy. You bother me.” I’m thinking “Immigrant Song.”
My ringtone for my wife: https://youtu.be/Zcvdc8yP4QA
Okay, I bothered to change my husband’s to “Kiss on My List.”
Mine for my wife: https://youtu.be/6wlxmlRrd-U?t=70
Everyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtpYOnKEgm4
The last time I had a custom ringtone was on my modded Moto Razr V3 some time around 2008. Didn’t have cell service or a cell phone from 2009 to 2013. Finally had to get a smart phone for some reason I don’t even remember. I use a phone so little I don’t customize anything anymore.
My ringtone
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P51cMstawuc
Right from the start of the piece.
For roughly 6 months in my sophomore year, my ringtone was a recording of me screaming.
Someone called me in class once…everyone turned around with this look of horror until I sheepishly pulled out my phone and turned off the ringer.
The teacher laughed, so I wasn’t in trouble.
No Wilhelm scream?
It’s all good. How boring life would be if we all had the same interests.
My ringtone is a loop of the first 11 seconds of this song.
And this is my text message notification
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is mine. Describes my day’s calls pretty well.
Today’s lunch: chocolate ice cream with cashews.
Why you gotta ruin cashews like that?
As good as that sounds, one of my obsessions in the moment is dark chocolate covered cashews. I throw them at anything resembling dessert.
Chocolate covered cashews: pure decadence–and I’m here for it
Who?
The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics, or medicine—the special pleading of selfish interests.
Well, that ship has certainly sailed.
My ringtone
My ringtone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p530Stpz11U
Sorry Canadian glibs, Castro junior says no more handguns for you!
He just unilaterally did this?
I remember when this passed, but didn’t know it was just his say so that decided this.
Now let’s see how those uppity truckers get their money back out of the banks!
Gaming question:
I like long action role-playing games:
All the GTA’s after III, The Witcher Wild hunt, Ghost of Tsushima type.
What would be a new game I should try?
I never got into the Fallout series and I used to ove the Modern Warfare games, but vertigo put an end to that.
Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elder Scrolls Skyrim are both very good!
Fallout New Vegas (if you can handle an older game) is my favorite of the “modern” Fallouts (Fallout 2 was the favorite of the isometric ones).
Divinity Original Sin (both of them) may be up your alley, but those are turn based combat and overhead view.
I was pleasantly surprised by GreedFall.
Assuming you’ve already tried Skyrim, that sounds in your wheelhouse.
God of War IV
Control is an odd game, but the aesthetics are fantastic.
And the Dishonored games are great, if a little linear.
Do you mostly dig on JRPGs or western styles?
I’ve never played a Japanese one, I’m thinking Final Fantasy or similar.
Borderlands 2. Perfect mix of RGP and FPS.
Also check out Mount and Blade 2.
If you like exploding zombie noggins, 7Days to Die is habit forming.
I like long action role-playing games
Maybe you can dress up as a DMV worker and your wife can dress up as the naughty girl who needs to renew her driver’s license?
You can get things extra hot when you put up a “Gone to Lunch” sign just as she gets to the front of the line.
If you never played the Mass Effect games they remastered them a couple years ago.
I’m assuming you’ve done all the Souls games? Sekiro, Elden Ring, Bloodborne, etc etc?
Cyberpunk! Then we’d be playing it together <3
It’s a Friday, and while Cleveland Beer Week is still going on, the girlfriend’s aunt came into town so I lost my driver (and it may be nice to stay in for a night), so I’ll be hosting the Zoom/Happy Hour/Weekly check in at 20:00 Eastern.
As it looks like the rain has passed, and the temperatures are dropping, I may be sitting out by the fire pit when hosting.
I love firepit zoom nights.
he frequently made disarming comments like, “There is certainly much to be said on both sides of this question.”
Sounds like something that got ORANGEMANBAD in trouble.
Completely stolen from the bee
https://babylonbee.com/news/9-arguments-to-instantly-destroy-a-libertarian
Debating a Libertarian can be tough because they do their research and the smell of bong water can be very distracting. We want to arm you with the knowledge you need so next time you happen upon a Libertarian, you can DESTROY him. We’re assuming it’s a “him.” Female libertarians are entirely fictional.
Here are 9 arguments guaranteed to totally CRUSH anyone who thinks Libertarianism is a good idea:
Ask who will build the roads: No Libertarian has ever been able to answer this question.
Remind him all the hard-working people at the Federal Reserve and special needs workers in the White House would lose their jobs: What kind of heartless person would want that?
Ask him to please put on deodorant and some pants: This will distract them long enough for you to sneak away undetected.
Make the point that if we aren’t involved in foreign wars, we won’t have any inspiration for those cool patriotic war movies starring Mark Wahlberg: Think of the priceless art our culture would miss!
List all the thousands of government programs that people love: Like Social Security, Obamacare, free crack pipes…
Say “a sphincter says what” really fast: Then wait for the poor sap to totally embarrass himself. Owned!
Talk about the need for a social safety net for defense contractors: What does it say about society when we can’t even care for a struggling Raytheon exec?
Talk about all the amazing things the government has done for us, like handling COVID: Private industry could never shut down kids’ schools that fast!
Just call the FBI to raid him on the spot: Joe Biden’s go-to tactic for dealing with Libertarians.
Now go forth, and own the Libertarians!
Yeah, well… I GOT PANTS ON!
Check. And mate.
Really? You’re the loser with pants on.
Hey, I can at least go outside to meet my girlfriend (she’s in college, you don’t know her)
Sure you do, buddy.
I hate pants.
Speaking of video game OSTs,
LA Noire
Chronotrigger
Mind you, the only video games I play are solitaire and basic-bitch Jewel Quest. I happened upon these OSTs by accident and found out video games are great for my ears.
The Wave Race 64 OST is unironically one of the most relaxing things I’ve ever heard. I used to listen to it to get to sleep.
The Quake OST is my favorite. Trent Reznor did it.
Much love for Chronotrigger OST, as well. Also never played it xD Maybe one day. (Probably not)
Ask who will build the roads: No Libertarian has ever been able to answer this question.
Slaves.
duh
It’s orphans, d00d.
What’s the matter with you?
Hah hah. The hateful dyke running for governor is trashing her fellow party current governor. And claiming she’s going to get people the help they need to get off the streets (because junkies and bums just want help and they’ll leave voluntarily) and then spend even more money that we don’t have for cleanup crews. Dipshit should run for mayor if that’s what she thinks matters instead of governor. Never mind that she championed legislation to force cities to remove anti-illegal camping ordinances. DIAF Tina! and move back to PA. You are not an Oregonian.
I saw that PTSD article about her, and the only thing I can think of is that the long knives are coming out for her, she is so disliked outside of downtown Portland.
Yeah, explain away why she’s a loser with less charisma than Hillary instead of the fact that Democrats have effectively controlled the state for thirty years and their policies are the problem. Or maybe to ramp up their base voters to fortify the phony elections that Keisling bestowed.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Shemale Fagan was trying to clear the decks for her own run next cycle. There’s another one that needs to go away.
and move back to PA
NOOOOOooooooooooo, we’re getting rid of Wolf, finally.
I’m not convinced we’re going to find Shapiro is any better as Gauleiter.
You’ve all been fired. You should be turning off your avatars, and submitting your credentials to me so I can find your replacements.
The performance level around here has just become unacceptable. This isn’t a government job.
Then why are there so many Feds here?
He’s got a certain glow emanating, doesn’t he?
Because we see what the fed can (or can’t) do.
Do you really want me to give you a performance appraisal? Your stated job is firsting, correct? Your stats are miserable.
I’ve been playing that game since I was about 5. It’s fun.
Long hagiography about Paul Wellstone on/near the anniversary of his death. I’m only linking it here because of this comment:
That is some genuine frontier gibberish.
* I always am amazed at the legendary status of Paul Wellstone. He upset an incumbent, but really did nothing in his one term. He was neck and neck in his race with a complete shyster RHINO Norm Coleman. It wasn’t like he was loved by all before he died.
How dare they go back to Pocatello*!
*Richard Neuberger’s observation from close to a hundred years ago that DC politicians never moved back to the podunk town they came from before they made it.
Nature’s Jezebel writers: Why do black widow spiders bite so many men in the junk?
No pull quotes for you! You want to learn, read the damn article!
Here’s your pull quote
Outhouses likely presented the most peril.
And that’s why smart bears shit in the woods!
Yanks have Black Widows, Aussies have redbacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnEqmnOfV6Q
We used to just blast a can of Raid down the shitter hole and wait a couple minutes.
Harder to do when you really, really had to bend a fresh biscuit.
Mandatory standards for dressers to prevent tip-overs introduced
Maybe BioNTech will develop an anti-tipping vaccine that can be added to the childhood vaccination schedule.
Wait staff and other service workers hardest hit.
Are they going to test it on cows?
NoDaks hardest hit.
Excuse me?
Sneaking past Minni to tip Wisc. cows.
Maybe if they were better dressers.
What constitutes a better dresser?
I think the Feds should create a bureau to issue guidelines.
Start with drawers.
Whats the difference between a (insert disparaged group here) and a canoe?
The canoe can tip.
And Tyler too!
234 people? That is a regular death camp compared to the 3 deaths in 20 years from carbon monoxide poisoning in a boat. Luckily we have award winning politicians here who really care!
Do I even want to know more about the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators?
Also, so happy that the pols made sure that the law insists on “marine grade” detectors. Imagine the continued horror if they just let you use any old $10 detector from Home Depot.
I’m sure the National Association of Municipal Boating Law Administrators have a much harder time booking convention centers than their counterparts in the NASBLA.
Less than one a month in a country of over 300MM people. Not even close to needing a government intervention.
I’m pretty sure I’ve tossed every anti-tipping piece that’s come with furniture. If you climb on the furniture, expect it to fall on you.
#metoo, and I agree with the sentiment, but try getting that thorough the thick skull of a 2 year old.
/looks around at the glass and metal tables all through my house
I think I’ve got enough heavy things to get through the skull of a 2 year old.
Bidenomics
The U.S. budget deficit was sliced in half for fiscal 2022, the biggest drop in history following two years of huge Covid-related spending.
Though still large in historical terms, the budget shortfall declined to $1.375 trillion, compared to the 2021 deficit of $2.776 trillion.
The decline would have been steeper had it not been for the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program. Education spending totaled $639.4 billion for the fiscal year, $408 billion higher than estimated.
“Still large in historical terms” you say?
Records were made to be broken.
Yes. And gas prices fell…. to a figure that would’ve been astoundingly high two years ago.
What matters is the spending baseline has been raised.
Daily Quordle 270
7️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
late to the game, but a good score
Americans find a way to make soccer interesting.
The real answer is to hybridize in some element of American sports.
So – play soccer in the ordinary way, except that everybody wears football uniforms (full pads and helmet) and gets a baseball bat.
Hmm. Maybe martinis and burgers tonight?
Friday is cheeseburger day at chez Pat, but mine are eaten with a Cuba Libre.
Excellent. I am having martinis and a charcuterie tray.
Maybe. Either that or Keystone Light and summer sausage sandwiches.
No pull quotes for you! You want to learn, read the damn article!
Like I’m going to click on a Jezebel link. Pffffft!
lol. The spiders are the jezebel writers, always going after men. The link was to a SCIENCE site.
You’ve been warned.
I appreciate the links. But I cannot deal with that either. No clicks for them.
In fiscal 2021, legislators passed the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion spending package that the White House said helped get the nation through a severe health and economic crisis, but which critics say was unnecessary and helped fuel the highest inflation rate in more than 40 years.
President Joe Biden, however, placed the deficit blame on Republicans for approving the 2017 tax cut bill.
“The federal deficit went up every single year in the Trump administration — every single year he was president,” he said. “It went up before the pandemic. It went up during the pandemic. It went up every single year on his watch, Republican’s watch.”
Biden called the GOP fiscal approach “mega-MAGA trickle down” that he defined as “the kind of policies that have failed the country before and it’ll fail it again.”
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the budget statement released Friday “provides further evidence of our historic economic recovery, driven by our vaccination effort and the American Rescue Plan.”
Yellen added that the results also showed Biden’s “commitment to strengthening our nation’s fiscal health.”
Wheeeeeee!
Man, those gas lanterns put out a surprising amount of light.
If the media wanted to gain back some credibility with the public, they could start by shouting out “Are you fucking kidding me?” when these assholes say shit like that. Followed up with a hearty chorus of laughter and “Go fuck yourself”‘s if they act outraged that they were not believed.
Since the tax cut was approved in 2017 tax revenue to feds has increased every year, at least in nominal dollars. It’s a fair point that the Republicans haven’t cut spending enough, though I don’t think that’s what Biden is getting at.
A vote for R.J. Is a vote for sanity. If elected, I promise to cut spending by eliminating everything in the government with a name ending in “agency.”
Can you throw some bureaus in there?
Yes
Also departments?
Certainly. And the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shall be disbanded first, and the name sold so that a business so names can spring up in its place.
Don’t forget “and Explosives”.
I anticipate the checkout impulse lane would have a baggie with two cigars, bourbon sample bottles and a Walther PK380 or similar.
Stop! stop! I can only get so hard!
If the media wanted to gain back some credibility with the public, they could start by shouting out “Are you fucking kidding me?” when these assholes say shit like that. Followed up with a hearty chorus of laughter and “Go fuck yourself”‘s if they act outraged that they were not believed.
Seriously. How can they not just be laughing their asses off every time that idiot child press secretary comes to the podium?
I think it’s that for some reason reporters (and the public) treat government employees as wiser, deeper, more competent people than Joe Sixpack and because they can’t imagine this belief to be misplaced they’ll readily ignore all evidence that suggests otherwise. Deep down, they want there to be a wise king that will bring forward milk and honey.
That’s why the presidential election is so important to them. They really believe that there is a person, who of course is of greater moral character and fiber than us degenerates, who will singlehandedly bring about utopia. The fact that all of them fail is only more evidence that we must search even harder for the savior.
What’s even dumber than that Arby’s smoked bourbon? How about (non-alcoholic) bourbon flavored pop from Dr. Pepper?
My vomit cannot be contained.
By the thought of the pop, or the phrase “A movement towards mindful drinking”?
I’ll take vomitous sodas for $200, Alex.
By somebody referring to ‘soda’ as ‘pop’?
Yes. I am from the South.
It’s pop. I can’t even with you anymore.
Soda is unflavored carbonated water. Pop is overly sweetened carbonated flavored beverage.
Unless you expect cola in your Scotch and Soda.
So what’s the classification of La Croix Key Lime? Other than divine.
Overpriced toilet flushing water.
Seltzer/sparkling water.
Coke substitute.
I love La Croix water after i have been working in the heat. Very refreshing.
I’m very mindful when drinking, gotta make sure I don’t run out.
Puddles
Come on people.
War Pigs. Covered by Puddles. It’s a worthy cover.
I remain annoyed by that song rhyming “masses” with “masses”
I fucking hate clowns. Not clicking.
Even Cokie the Clown?
Wow. What a prick. Yes, especially Cokie the Clown.
Reality is interfering with elections.
“ But Russia is influencing the 2022 midterms more overtly, through its war in Ukraine and the corresponding disruptions to global food and energy markets. As Americans finalize their voting decisions, inflation has become a top concern, and for good reason: Prices are increasing at an average pace of 8.2% per year, considerably more than incomes are rising. A surge in the cost of staples such as food and rent leaves many Americans with no way to offset their declining purchasing power.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-russia-is-disrupting-the-us-election-again-140239565.html
You gotta be kidding me. Self absorbed fappers thinking Russia gives a shit about our elections? Sure. Russia started a war because Biden scares him. Piss on you.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lNIT_CWUXcg
A surge in the cost of staples such as food and rent leaves many Americans with no way to offset their declining purchasing power.
It’s just a temporary adjustment caused by Putin and trump.
I’m glad I have simple tastes.
[cue circus music]
Boris Johnson is one of the leading contenders vying for the job as U.K. prime minister despite having been ousted from office just three months ago upon losing the support of his own party, reports said Friday.
Revenge!
Tan, rested, and ready.
Except for FYTW, how can the courts turn down requests to restrain Dr. Jill’s husband from cancelling $10K of student debt without congressional approval? Brandon is running around bragging that “the courts approve of the Biden plan.” Didn’t some plaintiff already achieve standing?
They threw out the one filed by Republican As/G. Cato filed this week. Here’s a list: https://www.highereddive.com/news/a-running-list-of-lawsuits-against-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-plan/634707/
You think your job is hard?
Hardcore. That pilot is no slouch either.
Yeah. That is teamwork to the Nth degree.
Ha, I had to watch that every time I did power pole safety classes.
This is more my speed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecFmJGs8jCU
Ugh. My vertigo flared up watching that shit.
Oh, come on, he didn’t even have to do a transition on that top cross.
You don’t want to watch this one, then
https://youtu.be/9b9LahaBJIk
Follow up video: burning a 90ft pole
Bonding is your friend.
My ringtone, by the way, is the one from Austin Powers/Our Man Flint:
our man flint ringtone for iphone
Or, if you want more sugar in your link:
https://www.ringophone.com/Our%20Man%20Flint-ringtones_102018.html
Capt’n the compensators are failing, she cant take much more of this…
(and you tube wont let me post the scene i was thinking of….)
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/10/21/scary-scene-as-biden-appears-to-have-a-physical-issue-during-an-msnbc-interview-n646847
someone needs a hard reboot.