I’ve returned from my first cruise, and the girlfriend is already asking about our next one (which may be the total solar eclipse one in 2026). Meanwhile, I’m trying to sell her on a camping trip in central Ohio some time next year, and would love to be able to arrange a big group camping trip. If there’s interest, I’ll start a thread up over in our forums.
But that’s not why you’re here, you want some entertainment, links, and a place to comment.
I was completely unaware of the incestuous political side of this divorce.
Cold beer here!
I’m looking forward to cheering Chubb on come Sunday.
Yeah… when you’re having problems with releasing games on time, getting poor reviews on those games, the right way forward is MOAR GAMES!
Fuck your dress codes. Wearing a shirt is not the same as haranguing people or handing out flyers.
They’re going to make this a… (checks notes) musical? Note, this is not referring to the earlier movie.
Don’t say “Mistake on the Lake”, I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right. Also, don’t pronounce Cuyahoga like he does (Kai-A-Ho-Ga is the correct way).
Commies need to commie apparently. Steam isn’t a fiefdom, they’re a service that has actually earned quite a bit of respect for treating gamers and game creators pretty fairly (I consider this a bit late, but it’s still good).
Then there’s the studios that have burned all their good will and respect. If only someone had pointed out these flaws in exquisite detail many years ago.
For the cocktail, I’ll bring back one from the Mixology 101 class on the ship:
Mediterranean Cobbler
- 6 part vodka [Ciroc Snap Frost was used on the ship] (1.5 ounce)
- 1 part Ouzo (0.25 ounce)
- 3 part Pinot Grigio (0.75 ounce)
- 3 part Lemon Juice (0.75 ounce)
- 3 part Blueberry Syrup (0.75 ounce)
- Raspberries
First, muddle one raspberry in a tin, add the rest of the ingredients, some ice, and shake until mixed. Then this gets strained into a Collins glass (tall thin glass) filled with crushed ice (or for the lazier people, very small ice cubes). Garnish this with a bouquet of bruised mint (put it between your hands and clap, just once) and a couple more raspberries. On ship, they had us build this in the glass (and used raspberry puree instead of trusting a bunch of normies with muddlers), but with syrups and the like, I feel the shake is the appropriate way to go.
Tonight I’m out to go catch a band I’ve been wanting to see for a while, and they’re in town tonight. Now for the real question, will they have CD’s for sale at the show?
Those optimal beer glasses look vaguely martini-shaped.
Also First.
*Thrusts hips
I can feel this through my screen.
I’ve got more than enough glassware that I don’t need ones designed to keep beer colder. But I am enough of a geek that I have all sorts of different shapes and sizes of glassware.
Beer goggles, bro.
“Ohio has strict regulations on conduct and attire at polling locations to maintain neutrality, with the goal of ensuring voters can cast their ballots free from outside influence.”
Interesting to see what would happen if someone wore a Gadsden Flag shirt (or a Che Guevara likeness).
No one has said a word about my Vote Whig (They Can’t Possibly be Worse!) or F*ck the Polis (the shirt is self censored) shirts the times I’ve worn them.
I should look into custom printing for “Vote Whig — There’ll be Hell Toupee!”
“Vote Whig — There’ll be Hell Toupee!”
I think we should just lock you and Shpip in a room together and wager on who comes out alive.
Honestly, I was expecting this (or perhaps this one). Glad the cruise went well for you — just be careful if the girlfriend starts suggesting midnight boat rides to the center of deserted lakes (see the “That’s not where I left it!” clip someone posted a couple of days ago…)
And I’d like to thank both you and Banjos for correctly citing this as All Saints’ Day — it always seems like All Hallows’ Eve outshines today in the modern world.
While I love Halloween, traditions can be important. I mean it is still a holy day of obligation for those who are still a part of the Catholic Church.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sDv6mg799k
midnight boat rides to the center of deserted lakes
Won’t be long now
Or now….
“And I’d like to thank both you and Banjos for correctly citing this as All Saints’ Day”
Dia de Los Muertos gazes at you through empty eyes.
Prior research and a lot of anecdotal evidence suggests that beer consumers prefer their beverage cold—generally as cold as possible.
Only if you’re drinking shit beer and need to suppress the actual aroma and flavor of the beer.
— Cellar temperature in a Belgian tulip.
Depends on the style and the beer. Stouts and most Belgians, I’ll go cellar temp. Light lagers and the like, colder. IPAs reside in the middle ground.
Light lagers
I thought we were talking about beer. 😉
I do understand the appear of light lagers and the reason people drink the ice cold. But they seem pointless to me.
Bedfellows make strange politics?
Bravo.
Carville + Matalin
big group camping trip.
Maybe.
A little guerilla war training?
Wait, guerilla? What are we going to do with the gorillas? We preordered!
An extremists getaway!
STEVE SMITH IN!!!
… AND OUT!!!
…. AND IN!!!
… AND OUT!!!
YOU GET IDEA!!!
I’m gonna pass on the camping, but if there is a group dinner somewhere in there, I’m interested.
“Donner — party of five….”
I have sworn off tent camping, and Ohio is a five day drive for me. So… count me out. But! If someone wanted to rent a ski condo in the Rockies (or somesuch) I could be down.
Poor Sunday — she’s got to deal with that from a chubby… should have just done pole dancing like Destiny or Crystal.
Only in Cleveland can you go to a sports bar on a Sunday and hear a large group of men chanting “Chubb”.
Nah, it’s “Koi Hog”, the As are silent.
I pronounce it coagulate.
That’s just a bloody shame, Zwak.
That gets to the heart of the matter
Ugh… that screams that their management picked up some Agile consultants harping on “regular, frequent release cadence will improve quality through customer feedback!” or some other happy horsecrap.
That you can’t plan features because the window to actually move from “getting feature-1 into release, dealing with integration bugs” to “getting feature into release” becomes more like 2 to 3 weeks (because integration and bug fixing is always the long tail) never gets cited here… It is a beautiful model if you have teams that aren’t required to get a feature into every release — but then those look to management as “not participating” or “not customer driven”… and you get right back here.
Or maybe I’m just reading my own annoyances into that statement… Could be… 😀
Oh, no it’s not about feedback, Ubisoft has actively said that they do not listen to customer feedback.
I don’t get it. Never mind that that is 10 more of them than I would ever play but… even if you liked those games why would you want to play ten of them in five years?!
I do like those games (or maybe did, the last couple have been underwhelming), and I would not like to play 10 in five years.
Yeah, maybe I’m just getting old but five years ain’t what it used to be. It would probably take me five years to finish one of them.
a musical?
“You died of dysentery.” ::sad trombone music plays::
Oregon Trail: Dysenterie à Deux
That drink looks like it’ll sneak up on you and kick your ass
The ouzo helped balance out the sweet ingredients. During the class the instructor said we could adjust up or down any ingredient but the base spirit. In his words, “You paid for the class and I don’t want you to miss out on the expensive stuff. If I see you underpouring it, I’ll top off your drink myself.”
Don’t worry, I’ll be pivoting back to cooler weather drinks next week. We were unseasonably warm here, and this was a very nice drink (the other two we made were a variant on the Martinez and a lemon infused tequila/pineapple drink).
It does sound delicious.
And it reminded me of ouzo. I haven’t had it in ages. When I went to college there was a Greek restaurant that served it (name of the place was Ouzo IIRC). I need to see if I can find it in the booze store.
Well, Lake Erie (or a river or two, wasn’t there?) has been done… so just passe now.
The Cuyahoga river was the famous one. There was a fire in a river down Akron way a couple years back, but that was due to an overturned tanker spilling fuel onto it. But this is the reference I was aiming for.
Mrs. TOK got a new job with her roller derby league, booking their schedule for next year. One of the Ohio leagues they found is called Burning River. Two of their teams are the HazMat Crew and the Pyromaniacs.
https://www.burningriverderby.com/
TOK:
I used to know some of the
girlsladies who were in the Burning River Rollergirls back in the day. There was a fair amount of crossover between the punk girls and the derby scene.I’m disappointed in their merch page.
Seems like she’s staked out a little bigger travel radius for next season so perhaps I will cross paths with you or other Glibs at a game.
It isn’t like comedic spoofs of the Oregon Trail are unheard of….
Was thinking about this one.
He also acknowledges that the true best result is one where the glass is so small that the beer is consumed in one or two quick gulps, but he insists drinking beer in such an ugly fashion misses the point of drinking beer altogether.
Kölsch glasses in Köln and Alt glasses used in Düsseldorf are about that small.
Anyone linked this 2:39 of lefty election hysteria porn, yet? It’s pretty funny.
h/t: NoDakMat
Batshit crazy. But the best production values that I’ve see out of the left so far.
I literally LOL’d at “… and eliminated the minimum wage”
😂
Oh noes! Can’t get the government out of manipulating the job markets! People might actually have to negotiate a fair trade for their labor! The horror! … the horror…..!
Someone should change the voiceover to tell how Kamala appointed Liz Cheney as Sec. of State and 3 months later we got in a nuclear war with Russia.
Elections ARE rigged.
Some of the comments are gold:
God forbid we give the homeless somewhere to live
The best part about this awesome future is when JD Vance becomes Rush Limbaugh
Yes, you would have to be some sort of right-wing theocracy to create camps for homeless people
Depends on why they’re homeless?
I bet they don’t get into details like that. They are just “the homeless” – like they were born that way.
Wow – that’s some great stuff.
Geez, what a fanwank…. I couldn’t make it through. Love how they admit all the “yeah — you might be upset with the censorship… and the government telling you you have to inject experimental shit… and possibly losing your job… BUT BUT HOW’S THIS MADE UP SCENARIO!!” Holy hell guys… maybe stick with the “This is what your side actually did” versus the fever dreams in your overmedicated 2 am shroom festivals?
That’s the beauty of it. Like Otter’s speech in Animal House.
“The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests—we did…”
Judging by the who’s who of the org that put that together, I’d say overmedicated 2 am shroom festival is about right.
“Overmedicated 2 am shroom festival”
Greatest hits album.
“overmedicated 2 am shroom festivals”
OK, now I’m intrigued.
I just want some of that FNPUP CRʁALD CVD PUNANGER.
Yeah, that’s one fun thing about AI, how it gets ancillary signage totally wrong.
I’m guessing they wanted Russian letters but AI messed it up more than it otherwise would.
Goddamn RINO squishes.
The lesson I’m taking away is that the libertarians who stocked up on food and ammo will rule the wasteland and get their pick of the hot ex-celebrities.
My favorite bit might be that Musk and Thiel have achieved post-Singularity consciousness and, uh, bodily ascended. Or something.
Yeah, they don’t age, but Dictator JD apparently decides he’s gonna just get old and die.
She doesn’t even know where they are after achieving immortality. They’re out there roaming the cosmos like Dr. Manhattan.
Its JDictator, shitloard!
I didn’t realize that the Supreme Court can just grant dictatorial powers, either. I learned something new.
It’s right there in the 88th Amendment.
Pro Tip: You can also get rich by taking out a loan with an overestimate of your property’s value, because they have to loan you that amount.
I think you committed a dozen felonies just by suggesting such a thing.
I gotta admit, I didn’t see the plot twist coming about who the dictator would be.
True, and they should have had a NSFW warning for the lefties seeing Trump sick and dying.
So the admit that the censorship, scamdemic, etc. is evil. That’s a good start.
Wow, that really is some fever dream shit right there. TDS indeed.
I remember suggesting that description when Peter Suderman in the TOS days claimed Trump would unleash cannibal rape gangs (he literally said that) on the public. Hey Pete…you promised me cannibal rape gangs. Where are my cannibal rape gangs?
You only have a chance to see them if you’re hanging around outside restaurants at dinner time.
They’re always eating out.
Wow. That had everything. And the progjection was next level.
Yup… after ME3 somewhat — but most certainly after Inquisition, I’m definitely never going to be a preorder… and will wait long enough for the non-shill press and Steam Forum Freedom Fighters to settle down on any Bioware game.
But really, since EA bought them (and Codemasters… and probably every other damned studio they ever bought), they’ve just obviously moved in a way I don’t care to play… so I stopped worrying about it years back. I’ve seen some videos lately that a lot of game time for the last few years has been on “older” games — and I’m certainly part of that.
I’ve still never bothered to finish Inquisition, and still haven’t picked up Andromeda. ME2’s final mission was one of the top gaming memories for me. I loved how they didn’t hold your hand, people could be killed, and you could wind up with a total party wipe while being successful on the mission (although it’s hard to get that accidentally). I lost most of my crew (but all my companions made it) on my first play through and was shocked at first, and then appreciated that it fit with the story and choices I made.
I don’t even remember where I stopped playing Inquisition.
I did a review of Andromeda for this site a few years back.
I’m the type to do all sidequests as soon as they are available before going on with the main mission — so I actually never lost a party member on my own playthrough.
And yeah — never picked up Andromeda either, but that was more because I never felt any desire to. Inquisition I played once — hated the “fetch quest” feel of it, which is probably why I didn’t have any expectations (or interest) in Veilguard… moving more towards “MMO style even if single player” just doesn’t interest me. Leave the stupid politics to the side…
Rereading my review, a line jumps out at me.
From today’s perspective, my thought is “did the DEI team get the main quest?”
I started playing Andromeda and quickly stopped playing it, but I don’t remember specifically what I didn’t like about it.
“6 part vodka [Ciroc Snap Frost was used on the ship] (1.5 ounce)
1 part Ouzo (0.25 ounce)”
If you don’t have Ouzo, what can you use in its Absinthe?
Oh, Pernod you didn’t!
Why would you these days, seriously? I would think just have cards / contactless phone app updates (that was a thing, right? “Put your phone near mine and update contacts?” No security holes there…. :eyeroll:) with a Patreon account address. Become a Patron for only XXX / month and you can download the album! Locks in more of a subscription model, gives you a good fan base contact set, etc….
Hell, if they even had an option to give them cash for digital downloads at the show I’d be happy. Instead I keep seeing vinyl and shirts only (if even that). There’s also a large number of bands that seem to have just gone to social media for updates and the like, forgoing e-mail newsletters and the like.
Or just download it from Amazon.
One of my co-workers said their kid got back from trick-or-treating and they found a Harris/Walz campaign card in the candy bag.
Imagine how miserable your life is that you think that’s a good idea.
SHould’ve paid closer attention to which house so you can plan the appropriate response next Halloween
Still a couple days available to get a garbage truck parked by their driveway….
I’m sure the house is plastered with campaign sings.
Still better than candy corn. Maybe.
Better than a Chick Tract style miniversion of “Tommy is Really Tomi and this 40 year old teacher helped show him the ropes!” or some crap, I suppose.
But yeah — especially with the inundation by social media making political identity a 24/7 thing with so many of the younger set… let the kids be kids away from all this crap while they can, ya jerks.
Hmmm….
Libertarian Jack Chick tracts. There’s an idea!
“TANSTAAFL! Freedom isn’t Free!”
“Beware the Leviathan!”
“this 40 year old teacher helped show him the ropes”
Anybody heard from Creosote Achilles lately?
I thought it was “the mistake BY the lake”.
Welcome back, Neph!
Glad y’all had fun!
“Would You Be Impressed?”
I am! As a matter of fact, color me impressed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz8enpJjBMc&ab_channel=TheReplacements-Topic
Still feeling the boat motion. Still recovering from the ick I picked up. Moving to a new site tomorrow and need to get my energy up. Post-vacation sucks. I feel like I worked 5 days this week when I only worked 2.
The show must go on!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Still feeling the boat motion
These euphemisms, etc. etc.
It’s not about the size of the boat, it’s about the motion of the ocean.
She likes big boats and she cannot lie….
Goddamnit. See, I said the zombie apocalypse would start on a cruise ship and I was right.
Have you not watched Zomboat!?
Entertaining and fun.
Don’t have Zulu and it’s not on Prime. *sigh*
Racist?
Ich is a fish disease.
I am also going to see a band tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx9DdzaSYjo
MASSIVELY JEALOUS!!
I’ve seen them once before. They throw a pretty good party.
Venue?
Tundra — They’re at the Ogden Theatre.
@B.P. Awesome! Have a great time!
Oofa that was a rough read.
Of course you do. Now STFU.
I love that all of the current anti-Steam articles just act like Steam’s forcing people onto the platform and taking a cut for nothing. While the amount of the cut can be argued if it’s fair or not, Steam offers quite a lot of stuff for their cut, such as patching services, network access, matchmaking, friends, DLC management, mod support, and more. I remember the outcry when it was first required for Half Life and hated, but at this point I think of them as the bastion of PC gaming.
Same story with Apple Store and the like.
The cut is probably ridiculous but yeah I don’t see anyone writing their own stores. Come up with your own money-printing operation.
rhywun:
Well EA, Ubi, Bethesda, MS, GOG, Epic, and a couple of others have tried. Of those, GOG is the only one that I’ve given money to directly. Nearly all of them started out by removing their games from Steam and came back after a while.
Oh yeah, I use GOG too.
Only because they have games that Steam does not. I mostly play indie games so I would probably not have missed anything from any of those other outfits.
GOG has Redneck Rampage! YEEHAW!
They’re doing it with Bandcamp too. A group decided that they’re going to build a “collective” to replace the hegemony of Bandcamp (which actually is quite fair).
Finished the Vance interview. Repeats the lie that Reagan screwed up mental health.
Poacher
Donald Trump is traveling to New Mexico and Virginia in the campaign’s final days, taking a risky detour from the seven battleground states to spend time in places where Republican presidential candidates have not won in decades.
The former president campaigned in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday and was scheduled to visit Salem, Virginia, on Saturday.
The Trump team is projecting optimism based in part on early voting numbers and thinks he can be competitive against Democrat Kamala Harris in both states — New Mexico in particular, if he sweeps swing states Nevada and Arizona. That hope comes even though neither New Mexico nor Virginia has been carried by a GOP nominee for the White House since George W. Bush in 2004.
He’s stealing Kamala’s rightful sewn-up votes!
She hasn’t hasn’t wasted her time coming to Idaho or Montana looking for garbage votes.
She knows people would throw dirty diapers at her.
How to survive a Kamala Presidency:
https://youtu.be/8dlP4vITCu4?si=kMUkyd3klhw93MVf
I don’t know if I could survive a four-year bender.
I’m willing to give it my best effort.
You won’t be able to afford it.
*breaks out pruno recipe*
Do I need to start publishing moonshine wine and cordial recipes again?
*breaks out pruno recipe* – we’re gonna need a bigger toilet.
I forgot, we have a friend who’s in Milwaukee tonight for the Trump rally. We told him to pick up MAHA shirts if he sees them.
Back in the (937)
“I just want some of that FNPUP CRʁALD CVD PUNANGER.”
Current Punanger status: Calm
Right…
BREAKING: Arizona AG investigates Trump’s comments about Liz Cheney as a possible death threat.
Sure. Let’s run with that. Trump could use a few more bullshit indictments on the eve of the election.
Good Lord.
I do agree that if she wants war, she should stand on the front lines.
We are ruled by unserious people.
The investigation will go through Tuesday and then it will quietly go away.
They really are terrified of Nov 5. If they don’t get their way, I’m unsure of what the response would be. Hence, pre-boarded DC+ buildings. I’m not sure what the response to a Harris victory will be. More polite, assuredly, kinda sadly.
It’s officially come to the point where My Politics are not to be brought up. I’ve always been mostly mum, but Dad is rampaging about Trump being a racist blah blah blah [insert statements with no thought here] blah blah. I gave Mom a brief reason why I decided not to vote. Enough to make the message but I didn’t get into detail. I’ve known not to bring up anything with my True Blue Bro and SiL.
Best back and forth: “[Dad going on about a neighbor with a Trump sign] She couldn’t possibly have *empathy.*”
Me: “You haven’t talked to her or know why she’s voting the way she is. It seems like you’re being the one without empathy. You’re convinced they’re Bad. And Case-Closed. Seems rather unfair.”
[Pregnant silence in the car, but Mom knew I made a damn valid point. Nothing new enters Dad’s ears.]
“It seems all the nastiness, ALL the hatred and polarization you described, is only coming from the Democrats.’ <– Fun ending point. And Indiana will naturally swing Red and the Nation.. Oh, dear. It is fun being the (politically) ostracized family member, who if they actually believe their sentiment, means I'm an evil whatever who does whatever to kill someone else's something. It's good we don't talk politics, but Nov 5.. I live with them and I'll see it all. It'll be fascinating. The coming peril and promise they fantasize of will surely come true.
The adults are in charge!
Harris is out there saying he’s disqualified.
This is getting really fucking tedious.
Desperation is repetitive: “Please?…Please?!..PLEAAASE!!!
I’m not sure it’s fun to watch.
Perhaps, DEG mentioned it already. News from New Hampshire.
Libertarian Party leaders back MAGA movement and Trump — against their own nominee
The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire has pelted the party’s presidential nominee, Chase Oliver, with homophobic slurs as a far-right faction lashes out at those who push for inclusivity.
For Neph. Proof ghosts like beer too:
https://secondglancehistory.com/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-ghosts/
Another one. Insects like alcohol.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/30/alcohol-consumption-abundant-in-the-natural-world-study-finds
No paywall:
https://archive.fo/wnamn
Chase is terrible and has been invisible for months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVrEwCa8nSA&ab_channel=kevinjetton
Thanks and appreciated.
Love the implication that MAGA hates fags and wants to murder Harris.
You don’t hate the MSM enough.
For what it’s worth, if anyone gives a shit, I’ve reconsidered my earlier decision to vote for Oliver. Some of his bad positions I was willing to overlook, but I dug more after prodding from the Glibertariat and found more I don’t like and so yeah…fuck this guy. Bring back Gary Johnson. Hell, Bill Weld would be a vast improvement.
@MikeS
I give a shit. Chase is yet another candidate that sets the LP back a mile. I’m not saying we abandon and join the other fuckwits, but despite some nice work by Angela and others we still end up as the party of libertines with fucking boots on their heads.
Meanwhile, the rest of the political world makes mincemeat of our desire to be left alone to (somehow) prosper. I think staying active in libertarian politics has more efficacy as an “earn my vote, motherfucker” movement. All the important people showed up this year for the convention. What would happen if the libertarians actually became an important bloc?
Good.
Good Lord.
The Democrats’ Insanity Defense:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/democrats-insanity-defense
Cannot wait for the death rattle of the corporate media. We’ll have a nice party.
Dems/leftists say what Trump/MAGA are doing and it’s insane lies.
Trump/MAGA say what Dems/leftists are doing and it’s insane truths.
Perfect.
Despite your candy corn insanity.
Candy corn is Satan’s jizz.
Trump wrote project 2025 in his blood!
Jobs’ reality distortion field had nothing on the one the Dems have. It’s unbelievable.
I am reading through the excerpt thinking…uh…what is he talking about? He is talking about her saying that in an interview on video. I just saw the clip today.
Also, what Rebel Scum says.
Speaking of Mass Effect….since I’m working with an upgraded laptop now…what are the thoughts about the remastered version of the ME trilogy? I saw some weird graphical comparisons…but as far as I’ve heard it is still pretty accurate to the originals?