“It only goes on one way.”
“Microsoft Escalates War Against PlayStation, Nintendo Emulation On Xbox Series X/S”
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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.
Still waiting for the Nashville shooter’s manifesto to be released.
I’m sure that’s what Kamala is heading there to talk about, right…..
Right?
“A woman, who said she was a man, did some women doing man things.”
I guess Kamala’s not doing phrasing, either.
They’re going to have one big press conference where they release it and also explain the motivation of the Vegas shooter.
The Vegas shooter motivations were released recently. It was due to him being a high roller gambler who felt he wasn’t treated well by a casino, which caused him to start shooting at fans of country music.
It’s pretty clear once you think about it…
The most implausible part of the story is that one would need some secondary motivation to shoot fans of country music.
Yeah, that was so transparently BS they should be ashamed it took them so long to come up with it.
There was a Vegas shooting?
They’re going to have one big press conference where they release it and also explain the motivation of the Vegas shooter.
“And then Chi-Chi said to Paul and Arnold…”
OT cuz I just thought y’all like to see this
Gilmore’s avatar was Wayne Cochran, and a friend here in Memphis posted a great picture of Wayne I’d never seen.
Gilmore remains my most missed Glib
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Wayne-Cochran.jpg
LOL Georgetown. Buncha douchebags.
Won’t they feel silly when the lore comes to life and they have to explain to the real autobots why why removed their statues.
It is DC after all — anything that stands for “Freedom is the right of all sentient beings” can’t be tolerated in the Imperial City.
That’s a doctor who I am willing to say harnessed his superpower of assholishness for good.
Douchington, D.C.
Apropos of very little, my maternal grandfather was a professional accordionist.
Apropos of even less — the video made me think of the Piano Guys, which made me think of this.
Due to the new job, I’ll have to (once again) miss Dyngus Day and the Amateur Accordion Contest Hosted by DJ Kishka that will be a part of it.
New job? Share the good news.
Got the written offer several weeks back and accepted a new position at a different company. Same type of work, just on new systems, in a new environment, supporting different people that will have brand new repetitive issues that I’ll need to deal with. My start date was this week, but I’ve got about a month of training on the new systems (which seems a bit… excessive to me so far) before I really get to start working on things.
Congratulations! I hope this means more $$$ for you.
Excellent
Re, the Transformers statues:
“[I]n April of 2021 the dispute came before the Old Georgetown Board, a small federal entity that can rule on such matters in the district.”
I was suspicious as to whether the reporter got the federal part right, but they did. While this sounds weird, ultimately DC is satrapy of the federal government.
Cool word there. I’d never seen it used before and thought it might have been a misspelling. I feel smarter now.
I regularly have to remind my daughter attending college there.
P.S. I saw we are light for content. I’m seeing Steel Panther on Saturday night. I can write it up if there’s interest.
https://youtu.be/E1JsG9iBThQ
Yes, please! We’ve missed you, also them.
Will do. I got the Friends With Benefits package so I’m hoping for stories and a photo beyond the show.
Also, cool video. Looks like they put GoPro (or similar) cameras on the guitar heads for some interesting POV shots.
Exactly right.
“ultimately DC is satrapy of the federal government”
What isn’t, these days?
I really don’t get the hostility to emulators, Nintendo especially. Being able to sell your classic back catalogue by virtue of putting some time in to keep up emulators for your best selling past hardware, especially now that everything is just a focused x84 environment with unified memory tricks is just throwing money away. I mean, ok — it might cut down on remake sales — but I don’t think it will much (because people seem to buy remasters / remakes anyway for better graphics, add ons, etc.) and I think you’d make it up in the long run anyway.
Oh well… not a CEO, what do I know and all. Have a good good Friday (friday) folks.
Nintendo sells a subscription service to play those old titles. So letting people emulate is competing with their own service.
Playstation does the same.
Nintendo always has been strict with their IP, at least after the some of the most critically panned movies, cartoons, and games ever. It always seems somewhat counterproductive to me.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I personally deleted all of my vintage game console emulators and the accompanying ROMs 20 years ago as soon as I found out that I was violating the intellectual property of Nintento et al., because piracy is illegal and immoral.
probably smart.
Glad you documented this.
*listens for sound of distant lightning strike
I certainly wouldn’t play games I’ve already paid for just on my computer instead since that’s more convenient
Or a portable Linux device that works better than the original hardware.
Midge, Barbie, and Ken spent all their time together. Is Midge a third wheel, or is the relationship a threesome? Who can tell?
Ken has no balls. How can there be a threesome?
He watches?
Right. Ken sits in the chair while some other guy has fun with Barbie and Midge.
It’s dunce cap time for me.
KEN IS SMOOTH, LIKE BABY!
Ken used to be straight, right? My wife once told me she found our 8 or 9 yr. old daughter playing with naked Ken and Barbie. She was thrusting Ken, on top, into Barbie. Asked “what are you doing,” the kid said something like “that’s what I saw you and Daddy doing in front of the fireplace last night.” A lot more caution began to be exerted around the creech household.
This sounds like a humble brag.
Good News:
The second predicted pandemic is here…..
Just in time for your new vaccine.
I was tired of going back into the office anyway.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11949375/CDC-says-doctors-lookout-Ebola-like-symptoms.html
If the CDC is recommending I avoid butt sex in the middle of Africa, then I’m on board. If they want me to take a shot, they can fuck off.
So I didn’t have a condom with me, but then I figured when was the next time I was gonna be in Equatorial Guinea?
John Holmes took a vacation in the Dominican Republic and ended up with the shitty end of the stick.
Nah, Ebola is no biggie.
CDC wants to know if their new virus is working?
Just like Covid. 🙄
Remind me again who seems to think they are living in a video game?
I was tired of going back into the office anyway.
Your company needs to upgrade their cubicle game
(repost from this morning, but I am still laughing at it)
I showed this to the missus when she got home.
“Turn it off, that’s gross!” she told me.
I swear, women just don’t get sophisticated humor.
I larfed.
The weekend is upon us once again, for most of us, it is a holiday weekend, so I give you the Open, Unmoderated, Holiday Zoom link. Please feel free to copy the link in later threads as I may or may not be around to do so.
Oooo! Fun! I have just enough for a vodka martini and a cigar too.
We’ve gone through Parts A, B, C, and D. Now it’s time for Part E.
Does part E involve telling dirty jokes on a Zoom?
I thought that involved waving my junk around.
I WHIP MY
HAIRJUNK BACK AND FORTHWill not be able to join tonight. Lots of work to be done.
Noooooooooo! Hope to see you tomorrow.
Yeup!
Well out of town so if Mrs OBE is cool with me jumping on I’ll be there
Some of work all night while the rest of you are measuring your dicks on cam.
We still allow last place to join in buddy
I measure mine like a cat’s tail- start at the butthole
Standard method is in use – center of the anus, twice around the scrotum, to just past the tip.
It’s just good science.
We still allow last place to join in buddy
You’re referring to Brochettaward, aren’t you?
Sounds like a velvet smoking jacket night
Hoodie, run down hotel room and questionable blood stains on the bed for me.
God I hope it’s urine…
I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebration.
-Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods
Bryson has a way with words. I love his stuff.
“It only goes on one way.”
This is why there are no female libertarians….
The best female libertarians are transwomyn libertarians. Just like the best swimmers, Woman of the Year, Nike sports models, etc.
Twitter restricts links to Substack newsletter platform
And here I was so convinced that based Elon was going to redeem social media…
Report links climate change to increase in Major League Baseball home runs
Old news. We’ve known that here in Minnesoda since at least 2017. Also, drying concrete at the new field is also a culprit.
Of course, they checked their work by comparing the number of home runs hit on hot days throughout the study period, and confirmed that yes, if it is over 90 degrees, the same number of home runs were hit in days of yore as today.
Right?
Come on, you expect baseball geeks to keep statistics to that level of detail? That’s insane…
Oh no. They said the air was thinner. That’s the reason. Clearly this makes a difference. God I hate stupid science journalists.
Except there is no “hotter air”. The data claiming there is has been faked.
500 runs over 25000 games, so statistically insignificant even if true.
Well didn’t see you put that up here Pat. Still funny every time I see it. Babylon Bee really missed this one.
Something you dont read about every day:
Highway 60 closed after helicopter and semitrailer crash
Time to send in the AC-130?
Only if John Malkovich and Nicholas Cage were on board
Riven!
I’ve noticed that there have been no car updates lately.
So you cleaned it out and sold it? 😉
Inquiring minds want to know.
One week down in training. Good is I am the only student. Supposed to be 4 of us. So I get to just tear through the system at my own pace and play a lot of “what if”. Me being a sysadmin on a much more important system I have identified a huge security risk on this new one and they just said “why would anyone want to do that? ”
In which I pointed to the NOTAM fiasco and other incidents.
They will make the changes. See I want to be a good FedGov
It’s never why anyone would *want* to do it, it’s because it’s a hole that could be exploited by both idiocy and malice. Good on you for shooting down their balloon, as it were.
They were not getting it. All the processors except for a certain type have access to USB ports. One of those processors are located in an unsecured room and after testing user permissions of various types, I found out that they all mount a USB with no interaction of going to root AND have access to the full file system. A secured room with limited access I wouldn’t make as much a stink. This is anyone dropping a USB in that has some auto script kiddie bullshit and that’s it.
Is the FedGov still insisting that Solaris is a secure OS and Linux is not?
At one time I was being threatened with having to support a system that was under the umbrella of the VA and there was a huge chunk that was running on some old Sun servers. Was told that that couldn’t be upgraded because Linus wasn’t certified, but Solaris was.
Most are moving to RHEL. CentOS is still about and our last to move off of Solaris is going to cost us tax payers a ton of money as we migrate.
Bizarre rant
A Florida sheriff went on a rant against gun restrictions Friday while announcing the arrests of two minors in connection with a string of shootings that left three teenagers dead.
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“There are individuals out there viewing, and includes some of you media, that want to blame the one thing that has no ability or the capacity to commit the crime itself, and that’s the gun. These individuals committed the crime,” Woods told reporters.
The sheriff said the suspects obtained the guns used in the shootings through car burglaries.
“All the gun laws we got in place didn’t prevent it, did it? Neither will any new ones. Because here’s the fact: The bad guy is going to get a gun no matter what law you put in place. These juveniles shouldn’t even possess a handgun but they did,” Woods added.
That won’t stop anybody from climbing on top of the nearest dead teenager and shrieking for more gun control.
Speaking of bizarre rant, reposting so you don’t miss the cray-cray:
https://rebekahjonesmanifesto.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/image_orders-2-1.pdf
Aww, hell no.
I remember seeing this back when she was claiming the DeSantis administration was fudging Lil Rona numbers.
2017-2020 any leaks were good and noble FedGovs stopping Trumo.
2021-present any leaks are obviously MAGA insiders and need to be prosecuted!
The fact that there was no leak of the fact that the FBI was actually investigating Hunter Biden’s dealings in the Ukraine at the same time that Trump was being impeached for his call to the Ukranian president speaks volumes.
Those guys can really clamp down when they want to.
Of course you don’t leak that you are covering up crimes by Someone Who Matters. Kinda defeats the purpose.
https://apnews.com/article/baseball-home-runs-climate-change-2f05bcb73155ae63b8b6344b42dba33b
“Climate change is making major league sluggers into even hotter hitters, sending an extra 50 or so home runs a year over the fences, a new study found.”
Ahahahahahahahaha
50/2500= no big deal.
Thinner air. Thinner air. Oh, fuck off.
Roll Call! Who is missing?
“Saunders also admitted to placing a dead deer inside the bus and was attempting to drive it to his home to use as fertilizer for his garden.”
Seems reasonable.
He might get some leniency if he fesses up to the judge.
“Your Honor, the buck stops here!”
Rebekah Jones- would be tempted
After securing all the sharp objects.
Those transformers statues are pretty cool, but I can see why the neighbors don’t like them as they don’t match the vibe. Although if I was a rich neighbor I’d be tempted to protest by setting up some decepticons taking aim at them.
I get it. But the neighbors should try on a little Stoicism, no?
Lol, yeah that would help, but most people have a problem taking it chill.
The looky-loos they draw are probably the bigger problem.
The KKK is alive in Italy.
She went away per le vacanze
Said she’s going to Italy
But she never got there
She never got there
She never got there, they say
The KKK took il mio bambino lontano
They took her away
Away from me
The KKK took il mio bambino lontano
They took her away
Away from me
I love The Romans.
Are you Greek?
The guineas got nothin’ on Cartagena, Spain.
Scroll down about halfway to see the colorful pointy hat crowd.
You won’t Passover these Good Friday Funbags.
https://archive.ph/cMxo8
I tried the Zoom about 4:30. There was this fat, old bearded motherf*cker with glasses on there, staring at me. He was sweating, like he just ate BBQ in the sun. He didn’t say a thing.
Then I realized I was the only one on the Zoom.
Ha! Tell me when people actually get on there.
Fantastic Zoom! Thanks all!